Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Reconstructions of the white matter tracts of the Tasmanian Devil  (left) and Thylacine  (right). Fibers are colored according to their approximate orientation (left-right = red, rostral-caudal = green, dorsal-ventral = blue). From Burns and Ashwell (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Effects of Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations on mangrove population dynamics: a lesson from Sonneratia alba (BMC EvolutionaryContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 20, 2017”

Featured Image: The hyolith “Haplophrentis” could extend the tentacles of its feeding organ, lophophore, from between its shells. The paired spines, or helens, rotated downwards to prop the animal up off the ocean floor (Illustration by Danielle Dufault/ROM). For more information, see first item under News. Papers (All Open Access): The Lower Cretaceous in East-Central Utah—The CedarContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 13, 2017”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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 GroupContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 18, 2016”