Fossil Friday Roundup: June 14, 2019

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

Papers (All Open Access):

• Lunar cycles and rainy seasons drive growth and reproduction in nummulitid foraminifera, important producers of carbonate buildups (SciRep)
• Quantifying spatial variability in shell midden formation in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (PLOS ONE)
• Trilobite compound eyes with crystalline cones and rhabdoms show mandibulate affinities (SciRep)
• New genus and species of Lamprosomatinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Eocene Baltic amber (PalaeoE)
• A proposed terminology for the dentition of gomphodont cynodonts and dental morphology in Diademodontidae and Trirachodontidae (PeerJ)
• On trends and patterns in macroevolution: Williston’s law and the branchiostegal series of extant and extinct osteichthyans (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• First partial skeleton of Delphinornis larseni Wiman, 1905, a slender-footed penguin from the Eocene of Antarctic Peninsula (PalaeoE)
• Digital dissection of the head of the rock dove (Columba livia) using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (Zoological Letters)
• History Repeats: Large Scale Synchronous Biological Turnover in Avifauna From the Plio-Pleistocene and Late Holocene of New Zealand (Frontiers In Ecology and Evolution)
• Updated synthesis of South American Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) with emphasis on west-central Argentina (Link)
• Bone diagenesis in a Mycenaean secondary burial (Kastrouli, Greece) (Archaeological and Anthropological Science)
• Philosophy of Macroevolution (Link)
• Conserving evolutionary history does not result in greater diversity over geological time scales (ProcB)

Preprints and Postprints:

• First report of paired ventral endites in a hurdiid radiodont (PaleorXiv)
• First Report of Cretaceous Calcareous Nanofossils from the Ophiolite Associated Pelagic Sediments of Middle Andaman (Link)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources: 

 Meetings:

• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
• Judith River Symposium (Great Plains Dinosaur Museum), Malta, Montana, June 28–30 (Link)
• Dino Fest at the Science Museum of Minnesota, July 13, 10 am–4 pm (Link)
• Cretaceous & Beyond: Paleo of Western Interior (Dickinson Museum), Dickinson, North Dakota, September 14–17 (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy, Fossils and Fossilization:

• Why Crocodiles Are Not Just Living Fossils (NY Times)
• Dawn of the Crunch (Laelaps)
• Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019, part 1: what we know now (SVPOW)
• Rare Dinosaur Fossils Reveal New Details of Prosaurolophus Display Features (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
• Miocene (Pt 14): Sabre-toothed Sea Otters (Synapsida)
• Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia (Link)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• Highlands Ranch Fossil Site Just One Project For Dino Diggers This Summer (Link)
• ProgPal 2019 (Raptormaniacs)
• What I Did While I Was Out (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Brazil wins legal fight over 100-million-year-old fossil bounty (Link)

Methods and Musings:

• Dinosaur fossils are available for sale on eBay. so why did it take America’s national museum so long to get a Tyrannosaurus rex? (Link)
• Reforming scholarly publishing (GTV)
• Meetings and Management (Time Scavengers)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (St Michael) – Part 2 (LITC)

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