Fossil Friday Roundup: May 31, 2019

Featured Image: Fossilized school of fish. From Mizumoto et al. (2019).

Papers (All Open Access):

• The Effect of Fossil Sampling on the Estimation of Divergence Times With The Fossilised Birth Death Process (Systematic Biology)
• Swapping Birth and Death: Symmetries and Transformations in Phylodynamic Models (Systematic Biology)
• An overview of Open Access publishing in palaeontology (PalaeoE)
• A new species of Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Baltic amber with a key to known species (PalaeoE)
• Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida (Nature Comm)
• A reappraisal of the Silurian galeaspids (stem-Gnathostomata) from Tarim Basin, Xinjiang (Link)
• Inferring collective behaviour from a fossilized fish shoal (ProcB)
• Macroevolution of arboreality in salamanders (Ecology and Evolution)
• Examining the relationship between sexual dimorphism in skin anatomy and body size in the white-lipped treefrog, Litoria infrafrenata (Anura: Hylidae) (ZJLS)
• 3d Casts From Natural Molds: A Case Study In Fossil Frogs (Link)
• Two new basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Sao Khua Formation of Thailand (APP)
• Author Correction: Exquisitely-preserved, high-definition skin traces in diminutive theropod tracks from the Cretaceous of Korea (SciRep)
• Hoatzin nestling locomotion: Acquisition of quadrupedal limb coordination in birds (ScienceAdvances)
• A new record of a giant neoepiblemid rodent from Peruvian Amazonia and an overview of lower tooth dental homologies among chinchilloids (APP)
• Tracing the history of LINE and SINE extinction in sigmodontine rodents (Mobile DNA)
• Evolutionary shifts in extant mustelid (Mustelidae: Carnivora) cranial shape, body size and body shape coincide with the Mid-Miocene Climate Transition (Biology Letters)
• 3D Photogrammetry of Bat Skulls: Perspectives for Macro-evolutionary Analyses (Evolutionary Biology)
• A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene (APP)
• Evolution of Early Equus in Italy, Georgia, the Indian Subcontinent, East Africa, and the Origins of African Zebras (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
• Dinohippus mexicanus (Early-Late, Late, and Latest Hemphillian) and the Transition to Genus Equus, in Central Mexico Faunas (Frontiers in Earth Science)
• Mystacodon selenensis, the earliest known toothed mysticete (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru: anatomy, phylogeny, and feeding adaptations (Geodiversitas)
• Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology (PLOS ONE)
• A comparison of hominin teeth from Lincoln Cave, Sterkfontein L/63, and the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa (SAJS)
• Developmental stress in South African hominins: Comparison of recurrent enamel hypoplasias in Australopithecus africanus and Homo naledi (SAJS)
• Metatarsophalangeal proportions of Homo naledi (SAJS)
• Sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus inferred from 1.5 Ma footprints near Ileret, Kenya (SciRep)
• Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia (PLOS ONE)
• Living on the edge: Was demographic weakness the cause of Neanderthal demise? (PLOS ONE)
• The historical archive of the Palaeontological Collection Of Tübingen, Germany (PalaeoE)

Preprints/PostPrints:

• Primer registro del género Panochthus Burmeister 1886 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) para la provincia de Salta, Argentina (PaleorXiv)

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)
• 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)

Society Updates:

• Paleontological Society Ethics and Inclusion (Paleo Society)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Mega-raptors were top predators in Thailand 100 million years ago (PLOS Paleo)
• Run Like a Dinosaur (Laelaps)
• The science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, part 3: Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus and Iguanodon (Mark Witton)
• A Look at Prosauropods: The Forgotten Dinosaurs (Palaeocast)
• Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 12: Futalognkosaurus, Gondwanatitan, and Hypselosaurus (Equatorial Minnesota)
• The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained (PBS Eons)
• Fossil Jaws Are a Sign of When Mammals Bounced Back (Laelaps)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• The ‘Nation’s T. Rex’ Prepares to Make Its Smithsonian Debut (Smithsonian)
• I’m Making a TV Show!! (Brain Scoop)
• Fossil Collecting at Caesar’s Creek Spillway (Time Scavengers)
• Johanna M. Resig Fellowship: Honoring a Wonderful Foraminiferal Researcher (Time Scavengers)

Methods and Musings:

• Troubled treasure (Link)
• New study: An overview of Open Access publishing in palaeontology (GTV)
• Death by Falling Rocks and Trees (TetZoo)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• This Mesozoic Month: May 2019 (LITC)
• Book review – Origins: How the Earth Made Us (The Inquisitive Biologist)
• Zdeněk Burian at decent resolution (SVPOW)

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