Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

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 krasiejowensisContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 11, 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 AfricanContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 4, 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)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 28, 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 TheroteinusContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 21, 2016”

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 LateContinueContinue 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) NewContinueContinue 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 SpeciesContinueContinue 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 CyanobacterialContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 23, 2016”