Next up on the list of Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates, as voted by the paleontology community, is Spiclypeus shipporum, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that was described earlier this year and published in PLOS ONE. The holotype specimen, nicknamed "Judith" after the Judith River Formation from which it was discovered, is about 76 million years old. ItContinue reading "PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #9: Spiclypeus shipporum"
PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #10: Microleo attenboroughi
As we approach the end of 2016, PLOS Paleo wants to recognize the winners of our recent Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates contest that were announced at the recent Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Salt Lake City. So for the next month, we will highlight the winners from #10 to #1. In some cases, if we haveContinue reading "PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #10: Microleo attenboroughi"
Fossil Friday Roundup: November 25, 2016
Papers (All Open Access): Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming. (American Museum Novitates) Draft genome of the living fossil Ginkgo biloba (GigaScience) New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China (PLOS ONE)Continue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: November 25, 2016"
Fossil Friday Roundup: November 18, 2016
Papers (all Open Access): Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system (RSOS) The giant, spike-toothed salmon, Oncorhynchus rastrosus and the "Proto-Tuolumne River" (early Pliocene) of Central California (PaleoBios) The plumage and colouration of an enantiornithine bird from the early cretaceous of china (Palaeontology) Palaeoenvironmental drivers of vertebrate community composition in the Belly River GroupContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: November 18, 2016"
Fossil Friday Roundup: November 11, 2016
Papers (all Open Access): New palynological evidence for the age of the Beda Formation, Sirte Basin, Libya (PalaeoE) Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction (Nature Ecology Evolution) Three new species of the genus Tanidromites (Decapoda: Brachyura: Tanidromitidae) from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of Poland (PalaeoE) Cranial bone histology of Metoposaurus krasiejowensisContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: November 11, 2016"
Fossil Friday Roundup: November 4, 2016
Papers (all Open Access): Comparative cranial myology and biomechanics of Plateosaurus and Camarasaurus and evolution of the sauropod feeding apparatus (Palaeontology) Tetrapod limb and sarcopterygian fin regeneration share a core genetic programme (Nature Communications) Three-dimensional paleohistology of the scale and median fin spine of Lophosteus superbus (Pander 1856) (PeerJ) Timing and causes of North AfricanContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: November 4, 2016"
Fossil Friday Roundup: October 28, 2016
We have been busy at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! Be sure to swing by Booth 30! And thank you to all who come to the PLOS Social last night! Congratulations to the winners of the Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates contest! Papers (all Open Access): The first oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda)Continue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: October 28, 2016"
Top Ten Vertebrate Paleontology Finds of 2016 | PLOS
Last night at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, brought many of us together to celebrate open access in our field, and PLOS in particular. A special highlight: the announcement of the Top 10 Open Access Vertebrate Fossils of 2016, as decided by a community vote. There is some great varietyContinue reading "Top Ten Vertebrate Paleontology Finds of 2016 | PLOS"
Fossil Friday Roundup: October 21, 2016
Featured image: Reconstruction of a 100 million-year-old fish "with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth", unearthed in Queensland. Image courtesy Patrick Smith. Papers (all Open Access): Freshwater Fossil Pearls from the Nihewan Basin, Early Early Pleistocene (PLOS ONE) The first fossil salmonfly (Insecta: Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae), back to the Middle Jurassic (BMC Evolutionary Biology) A reappraisal of TheroteinusContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: October 21, 2016"
PLOS Paleo at SVP: Winners of our Top 10 Contest to be Announced at Social
In less than a week, the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology will be in full swing. I, for one, am very excited to visit my home state, share my research, see my old friends, and meet new friends and future colleagues. I am also excited to meet and visit with members of the PLOSContinue reading "PLOS Paleo at SVP: Winners of our Top 10 Contest to be Announced at Social"
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