Featured image: The newly reclassified beardog Angelarctocyon australis (Field Museum specimen no PM 423) had a much smaller jawbone (left) than that of the larger Amphicyon riggsi (right, Field Museum specimen no. P 12029), which lived around 22 million years later. Credit: copyright Susumu Tomiya, The Field Museum Papers (all Open Access): Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to LateContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: October 14, 2016"

Featured image: Restoration of Bonacynodon schultzi in life by Jorge Blanco. From Martinelli et al. (2016) below. Papers (all Open Access): Two New Cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and Comments on South American Probainognathians (PLOS ONE) Variable wing venation in Agathiphaga (Lepidoptera: Agathiphagidae) is key to understanding the evolution of basal moths (RSOS) NewContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: October 7, 2016"

Featured image: Drepanosaurus rips away tree bark with its massive claw and powerful arm. (Painting by Victor Leshyk) Papers (all Open Access): Extreme Modification of the Tetrapod Forelimb in a Triassic Diapsid Reptile (Current Biology) Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time (eLife) Combined Use of Morphological and Molecular Tools to Resolve SpeciesContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: September, 30, 2016"

Featured image: 3-D printing helped recover a lost cynodont holotype, as seen in the hands of the CT scan facility technician K. Jakata (ESI). From Benoit and Jasinoski (2016), listed below. Papers (all Open Access): Picking up the pieces: the digital reconstruction of a destroyed holotype from its serial section drawings (PalaeoE) A Comprehensive Study of CyanobacterialContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: September 23, 2016"