Featured Image: 3D printout of the Dwykaselachus brain case. Image courtesy University of Chicago. For more info, see first article under News Happy New Year everyone! Papers (All Open Access): The Importance of International Collaborations to Advance Research Endeavors (PLOS ONE) Body size–trophic position relationships among fishes of the lower Mekong basin (RSOS) Dinosaur incubation periods directly determined fromContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 6, 2017”
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Fossil Friday Roundup: December 30, 2016
Featured Image: An artist’s depiction of Limusaurus inextricabilis, which was found to have lost its teeth in adolescence. Art by Yu Chen. First paper. Papers (All Open Access): Extreme Ontogenetic Changes in a Ceratosaurian Theropod (Current Biology) A cryptic record of Burgess Shale-type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica (Palaeontology) News: Obama declares Bears EarsContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 30, 2016”
PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #1: Gualicho shinyae
We’ve made it! Coming in at #1 is an absolutely amazing dinosaur published this summer in PLOS ONE. Congratulations to Gualicho shinyae, the didactyl theropod from Argentina, and named in honor of Akiko Shinya, fossil preparator at The Field Museum. The study, led by authors Sebastián Apesteguía (Universidad Maimónides in Argentina), Nathan D. Smith (the Dinosaur Institute at theContinueContinue reading “PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #1: Gualicho shinyae”
Fossil Friday Roundup: December 23, 2016
Featured Image: Triceratops ornament adorns a Christmas Tree. Ornament was purchased at The Field Museum, Image by Sarah Gibson. Happy Holidays from the PLOS Paleo Community Editors! Papers (All Open Access): Cretaceous origin of dogwoods: an anatomically preserved Cornus (Cornaceae) fruit from the Campanian of Vancouver Island (PeerJ) Floral development and vascularization help to explain merism evolution inContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 23, 2016”
PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #3: Lunaophis aquaticus
We’ve made it to the top 3 winners of the PLOS Paleo Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates of the year. And I am very pleased that one of the top 3 is not a dinosaur, but a snake! And an aquatic snake to boot. Lunaophis aquaticus, from the Cretaceous La Luna Formation of Venezuela, was recentlyContinueContinue reading “PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #3: Lunaophis aquaticus”
PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #5: Atopodentatus unicus
As we continue in our countdown of the winners of the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates of the past year, we get to probably the most unusual of the group. Coming in at #5 is the herbivorous marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus, from the Middle Triassic of China. Atopodentatus was redescribed this year and published open access inContinueContinue reading “PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #5: Atopodentatus unicus”
Fossil Friday Roundup: December 16, 2016
Featured Image: A new species of armored trumpetfish from Mexico, from Cantalice and Alvarado-Ortega (2016), first paper. Papers (All Open Access): Eekaulostomus cuevasae gen. and sp. nov., an ancient armored trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Danian (Paleocene) marine deposits of Belisario Domínguez, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico (Palaeontologia Electronica) Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeusContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 16, 2016”
Fossil Friday Roundup: December 9, 2016
Feature Image: A rendering of the early marsupial relative, Didelphodon vorax. (First Paper) Credit: Misaki Ouchida Papers (All Open Access): A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials (Nature Communications) Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Bovay and Bolden clay pits (early Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Claiborne Group), northern Mississippi, USA (PalaeontologiaContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 9, 2016”
PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #8: Sarmientosaurus musacchioi
The next winner, coming in at #8, in our PLOS Paleontology Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates contest, is Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, which was published in April of this year in PLOS ONE. Sarmientosaurus is no humble creature; rather it belongs to one of the most massive groups of organisms to ever inhabit this planet: the titanosaurs. But beyond its grandeurContinueContinue reading “PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #8: Sarmientosaurus musacchioi”
Fossil Friday Roundup: December 2, 2016
Featured image: Composite Photograph of the original fossil specimen of “Lucy” From Ruff et al. 2016 Papers (All Open Access): Large Scale Anthropogenic Reduction of Forest Cover in Last Glacial Maximum Europe (PLOS ONE) Pteropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (United States Atlantic Coastal Plain) (PalaeoE) Non-destructive analysis of in situ ammonoidContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 2, 2016”
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