Fossil Friday Roundup: July 12, 2019

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

Papers (All Open Access):

• Revisiting metazoan phylogeny with genomic sampling of all phyla (Link)
• First cycad seedling foliage from the fossil record and inferences for the Cenozoic evolution of cycads (Biology Letters)
• An Evolutionarily Ancient Immune System Governs the Interactions between Pseudomonas syringae and an Early-Diverging Land Plant Lineage (Current Biology)
• Conserved Biochemical Defenses Underpin Host Responses to Oomycete Infection in an Early-Divergent Land Plant Lineage (Current Biology)
• Evolution of the Chordate Telencephalon (Current Biology)
• New information on the feeding habits of the percomorph Rhenanoperca minuta, together with a short look at other fish species from the Eocene Messel Formation of Germany (Link)
• Correction: Dynamic Similarity in Titanosaur Sauropods: Ichnological Evidence from the Fumanya Dinosaur Tracksite (Southern Pyrenees) (PLOS ONE)
• Microraptor with Ingested Lizard Suggests Non-specialized Digestive Function (Current Biology)
• A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight (PeerJ)
• An avian femur from the Late Cretaceous of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: removing the record of cursorial landbirds from the Mesozoic of Antarctica (PeerJ)
• A New Enantiornithine Bird with Unusual Pedal Proportions Found in Amber (Current Biology)
• Phylogenetic Signal of Indels and the Neoavian Radiation (Diversity)
• Demography of avian scavengers after Pleistocene megafaunal extinction (SciRep)
• New Material of Paleocene-Eocene Pellornis (Aves: Gruiformes) Clarifies the Pattern and Timing of the Extant Gruiform Radiation (Diversity)
• A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds (Diversity)
• Los restos de Sus scrofa (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) del yacimiento Pleistoceno de Pinilla del Valle (Madrid, España) (Link)
• Rare dental trait provides morphological evidence of archaic introgression in Asian fossil record (PNAS)
• The bulb retouchers in the Levant: New insights into Middle Palaeolithic retouching techniques and mobile tool-kit composition (PLOS ONE)

Pre-Prints and Post-Prints:

• Permian Aquatic Reptiles (PaleorXiv)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources: 

 Meetings:

• 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)
• Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society (Paläontologische Gesellschaft), September 15–18, 2019, Munich (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy, Fossils and Fossilization:

• Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019, part 7: at last, Dystylosaurus has its day! (SVPOW)
• Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019, part 8: we finally get to Ultrasauros! (SVPOW)
• Bonus post: Supersaurus before Ultrasaurus! (SVPOW)
• Discovery of Raptor-Like Dinosaur Adds a New Wrinkle to the Origin of Birds (Smithsonian)
• Hesperornithoides miessleriis and the evolution of flight (Letters from Gondwana)
• Meet Lori, a tiny dinosaur that may help explain how birds evolved flight (Nat Geo)
• Down, Down, Deeper and Down (Synapsida)
• Sloths Climb a New Evolutionary Tree (Laelaps)
• When we met other human species (PBS Eons)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• Richard Howard, PeerJ Award winner at ProgPal, discusses his research on Ecdysozoans, evolution and biodiversity (PeerJ)
• Queer voices in palaeontology (Nature)

Methods and Musings:

• Talk to Your Elected Officials! Communication and Public Policy for Paleontologists (Paleo Society)
• What I Did While I Was Out, part 2 (Equatorial Minnesota)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Big Mike’s Mosasaur (Dave’s Dinosaurs)
• Cabinet of curiosities: Jessie Atterholt’s office (SVPOW)
• James Herrmann’s dinosaur sculptures for the Cincinnati Museum Center (SVPOW)

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