Featured Image: Reconstruction of Crocuta spelaea in the vicinity of Los Aprendices Cave, feeding on the carcass of a specimen of Capra pyrenaica (illustration by Gianfranco Mensi). From Sauqué et al (2017) Papers (All Open Access): The blueprint of the Amphiesmenoptera – Tarachoptera, a new order of insects from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera) (Fossil Record) Ecology,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 31, 2017”
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Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017
Featured Image: Jaw of Argyromys cicigei, from López-Guerrero et al. 2017, PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications (PalaeoE) A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia (PeerJ) Accuracy andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017
Featured Image: UCMP 125854, Papio izodi, and UCMP 125856, Papio izodi. From Monson et al. (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Patterns of craniofacial variation and taxonomic diversity in the South African Cercopithecidae fossil record (PalaeoE) Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae (PLOS Biology) 168 million years old “marineContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 10, 2017
Featured Image: Egg Holotype of Suchoolithus portucalensis, oogen. and oosp. nov. Specimen FCT-UNL706 from Cambelas, Assenta Member, Lourinhã Formation, Upper Jurassic. The shape and preservation of the specimen suggests an unhatched clutch. From Russo et al. (2017) first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Two new ootaxa from the late Jurassic: The oldest record of crocodylomorph eggs,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 10, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 3, 2017
Featured Image: Thalassomedon hanningtoni, University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM) 50132, U.S.A From Kear et al. (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Exceptionally prolonged tooth formation in elasmosaurid plesiosaurians (PLOS ONE) Eocene/Oligocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifers (DWAF) assemblages from the Madonie Mountains (Sicily, Southern Italy) (PalaeoE) Neogene paleogeography provides context for understanding the origin andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 3, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: February 24, 2017
Featured Image: The jaw of Eotaria, a Miocene seal from California. From Velez-Juarbe (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California (PeerJ) Earth’s oldest ‘Bobbit worm’ – gigantism in a Devonian eunicidan polychaete (Scientific Reports) The ‘Tully Monster’ isContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: February 24, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: February 17, 2017
Featured Image: A reconstruction of Platychelys oberndorferi. Artwork by P. Röschli. From Anquetin et al (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): A Jurassic stem pleurodire sheds light on the functional origin of neck retraction in turtles (Scientific Reports) Exoskeletons of Bougainvilliidae and other Hydroidolina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): structure and composition (PeerJ) The role of dispersal mode andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: February 17, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: February 10, 2017
Featured Image: Bajaichthys elegans, photograph of the holotype MCSNV T.922 From Davesne et al (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Bajaichthys elegans from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) and the overlooked morphological diversity of Zeiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) (Palaeontology) The internal cranial anatomy of Romundina stellina Ørvig, 1975 (Vertebrata, Placodermi, Acanthothoraci) and the originContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: February 10, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: February 3, 2017
Featured Image: The palaeoniscimorph Lambeia pectinatus. From Mickle (2017), first paper listed. Papers (All Open Access): The lower actinopterygian fauna from the Lower Carboniferous Albert shale formation of New Brunswick, Canada – a review of previously described taxa and a description of a new genus and species (Fossil Record) Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levelsContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: February 3, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: January 27, 2017
Featured Image: Artist’s reconstruction of two individuals of Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. Art by Mauricio Antón. For more information, see first paper. Papers (All Open Access): A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines (Journal of SystematicContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 27, 2017”
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