Fossil Friday Roundup: April 26, 2019

Featured Image: Photograph of the original sedimentary structure attributed to a human footprint that was excavated at the Pilauco site. From Moreno et al. (2019).

Papers (All Open Access):

• Coupling of palaeontological and neontological reef coral data improves forecasts of biodiversity responses under global climatic change (RSOS)
• The Plio–Pleistocene Demise of the East Carpathian Foreland Fluvial System and Arrival of the Paleo-Danube To The Black Sea (Geologica Carpathica)
• Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene (SciRep)
• Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018 (PNAS)
• Diatom identification including life cycle stages through morphological and texture descriptors (PeerJ)
• Brachiopod faunas from the basinal facies of southeastern Thuringia (Germany) before and after the Hangenberg Crisis (Devonian–Carboniferous boundary) (PalaeoE)
• Lower jaw of Spathites (Ammonoidea, Acanthoceratoidea) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of New Mexico. (American Museum novitates)
• East African cichlid lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae) might be older than their ancient host lakes: new divergence estimates for the east African cichlid radiation (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• First report of Eocene gadiform fishes from the Trans-Urals (Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions, Russia) (Journal of Paleontology)
• A coelacanth fish from the anisian (middle triassic) of the Dolomites (RIPS)
• Sauropod diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia—a possible new specimen of Nemegtosaurus (APP)
• The oldest titanosaurian sauropod of the northern hemisphere (Bio Comm)
• Ultraviolet light illuminates the avian nature of the Berlin Archaeopteryx skeleton (SciRep)
• Ancient amino acids from fossil feathers in amber (SciRep)
• A new caudipterid from the Lower Cretaceous of China with information on the evolution of the manus of Oviraptorosauria (SciRep)
• Metatarsal II osteohistology of Xixianykus zhangi (Theropoda: Alvarezsauria) and its implications for the development of the arctometatarsalian pes (Vertebrata PalAsiatica)
• Evolution of digestive enzymes and dietary diversification in birds (PeerJ)
• New Paleocene bird fossils from the North Sea Basin in Belgium and France (Geologica Belgica)
• Palaeoproteomics of bird bones for taxonomic classification (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Soceity)
• Description of bird tracks from the Kitadani Formation (Aptian), Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan with three-dimensional imaging techniques (Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum)
• The platypus: evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future (Journal of Mammalogy)
• Ontogenetic changes in the long bone microstructure in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) (PLOS ONE)
• Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears (Ecology and Evolution)
• Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, ‘Creodonta,’ Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya (JVP)
• Insights into the timing, intensity and natural setting of Neanderthal occupation from the geoarchaeological study of combustion structures: A micromorphological and biomarker investigation of El Salt, unit Xb, Alcoy, Spain (PLOS ONE)
• A late Pleistocene human footprint from the Pilauco archaeological site, northern Patagonia, Chile (PLOS ONE)
• Mobility and social identity in the Mid Upper Paleolithic: New personal ornaments from Poiana Cireșului (Piatra Neamț, Romania) (PLOS ONE)
• Compensatory responses can alter the form of the biodiversity–function relation curve (ProcB)
• Extinction and the U.S. Endangered Species Act (PeerJ)

Preprints/PostPrints:

• Surveying death roll behavior across Crocodylia (PaleorXiv)
• The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary biology and public education (PeerJ)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

 Meetings:

• Mosasaur & Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Meeting (Tyrrell), May 3–6, 2019
• Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Wembley, Alberta, May 10–13, 2019 (Link)
• 11th Conference on Fossil Resources, Casper, Wyoming, May 30–June 2, 2019 (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
• Judith River Symposium (Great Plains Dinosaur Museum), Malta, Montana, June 28–30 (Link)
• Cretaceous & Beyond: Paleo of Western Interior (Dickinson Museum), Dickinson, North Dakota, September 14–17 (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 11: Drusilasaura, Elaltitan, and Epachthosaurus (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Ancient amino acids from 100 million year old dinosaur feathers in amber (PLOS Paleo)
• Fossil Friday – Mistaken Identity (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Episode 59 – Bats (Common Descent)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• Join us in congratulating Anna K. Behrensmeyer! (PaleoSociety)
• Chris Lowery, Research Associate & Paleoceanographer (Time Scavengers)

Methods and Musings:

• Information Sciences: What are they? (Time Scavengers)
• Elsevier and Norway enter into a new €9 million deal. Great. (GTV)
• Dear eLife: please give us eLife ONE (SVPOW)
• All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Peer-Reviewed Papers (Part 1) (PLOS Ecology)
• Who Owns The Dinosaurs? It All Depends On Where You Find Them (Link)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Book Review – Anti-Science And The Assault On Democracy: Defending Reason In A Free Society (The Inquisitive Biologist)
• Usborne’s All About Monsters (TetZoo)

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