Fossil Friday Roundup: April 5, 2019

Featured Image: From Zitouni et al. (2019).

Papers (All Open Access):

• Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey — Multiple articles! (Link)
• Tracking voluminous Permian volcanism of the Choiyoi Province into central Antarctica (Lithosphere)
• Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal (ScienceAdvances)
• A stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian of China and the origins of Ambulacraria (Nature Communications)
• Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions (PNAS)
• Palaeoecology of Voulteryon parvulus (Eucrustacea, Polychelida) from the Middle Jurassic of La Voulte-sur-Rhône Fossil-Lagerstätte (France) (SciRep)
• The Neogene fossil record of Aetomylaeus (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae) from the south-eastern Pacific (JVP)
• Revision of the Late Jurassic deep-water teleosauroid crocodylomorph Teleosaurus megarhinus Hulke, 1871 and evidence of pelagic adaptations in Teleosauroidea (PeerJ)
• A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany (APP)
• Convergence and functional evolution of longirostry in crocodylomorphs (Palaeontology)
• The First Definite Lambeosaurine Bone From the Liscomb Bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, United States (SciRep)
• An abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) ilium from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Kem Kem beds, Morocco (PLOS ONE)
• A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota (PNAS)
• Scaling of statically derived osteocyte lacunae in extant birds: implications for palaeophysiological reconstruction (Biology Letters)
• Antiquity of forelimb ecomorphological diversity in the mammalian stem lineage (Synapsida) (PNAS)
• Mechanical significance of morphological variation in diprotodont incisors (RSOS)
• Whole genome sequencing of canids reveals genomic regions under selection and variants influencing morphology (Nature Comm)
• An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans (Current Biology)
• Rocks, teeth, and tools: New insights into early Neanderthal mobility strategies in South-Eastern France from lithic reconstructions and strontium isotope analysis (PLOS ONE)
• Illustrating phylogenetic placement of fossils using RoguePlots: An example from ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and an extensive morphological matrix (PLOS ONE)

Preprints/PostPrints:

• Review and test of reproducibility of sub-decadal resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from microfossil assemblages (PaleorXiv)
• Active Galactic Nuclei: Boon or Bane for Biota? (arXiv)
• A comprehensive approach towards the systematics of Cervidae (PeerJ)
• Growth Patterns of birds, dinosaurs and reptiles: Are differences real or apparent? (bioRXiv)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

 Meetings:

• 11th Conference on Fossil Resources, Casper, Wyoming, May 30-June 2, 2019 (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)

National Fossil Day Updates:

• National Fossil Day 2019: Call for Partners, Art Contest (PLOS Paleo)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas (PBS Eons)
• Out of Africa: A new hypothesis for the world’s biggest ever dinosaurs (PLOS Paleo)
• In search for ‘mikan,’ man finds tooth fossil of spinosaurus (Link)
• Is “Scotty” the Biggest T. rex? Maybe Not (Laelaps)
• On the Origin of Ducks (Synapsida)
• Fossil Friday – Mammut pacificus (Valley of the Mastodon)
• The Pacific Mastodon (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Mastodons to the Max (Laelaps)
• The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave (Link)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• Drumheller Channels (Time Scavengers)
• Looking down on the mounted skeletons of Diplodocus and Apatosaurus at the Carnegie Museum (SVPOW)
• Aly Baumgartner, Paleobotanist (Time Scavengers)
• Countries demand their fossils back, forcing natural history museums to confront their past (Link)
• Fossil record: Dippy the dinosaur proves huge attraction in Scotland (Link)

Methods and Musings:

• Not in My Boneyard (Extinct)
• This Mesozoic Month (LITC)
• Publishing Scientific Research (Time Scavengers)
• Astonishment, skepticism greet fossils claimed to record dinosaur-killing asteroid impact (Link)
• It’s Time for the Heroic Male Paleontologist Trope to Go Extinct (Link)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Paleos on Patreon (LITC)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: A natural history of Dinosaurs – Part 1 (LITC)
• The Walking with Beasts Evolution Game (Raptormaniacs)
• Books on the Loch Ness Monster 2: Gareth Williams’s A Monstrous Commotion (TetZoo)

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