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”
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Fossil Friday Roundup: September 2, 2016
Featured image: A new pterosaur was the size of a housecat, published this week in Royal Society Open Science. Image courtesy Mark Witton. Papers (all Open Access): Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) (PeerJ) Cranial Morphology of the Carboniferous-Permian Tetrapod Brachydectes newberryi (Lepospondyli, Lysorophia): New Data from µCT (PLOS ONE) AContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 2, 2016”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 6, 2016
Papers: Fossil clitellate annelid cocoons and their microbiological inclusions from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Open Access at Palaeontologia Electronica. The oldest species of the relic extant genus Mesochria from Eocene Fushun amber of China (Diptera: Anisopodidae: Mycetobiinae (Lead Image above). Open Access at Palaeontolgia Electronica. Neandertal versus modern human dietary responses to climaticContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 6, 2016”
