Featured Image: Edmontosaurus reconstruction from Xing et al. 2017, published this past week in PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus reveal older diversification (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Eobowenia gen. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia: indication for an early divergence of Bowenia? (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Stars inContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 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: November 25, 2016
Papers (All Open Access): Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming. (American Museum Novitates) Draft genome of the living fossil Ginkgo biloba (GigaScience) New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China (PLOS ONE)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 25, 2016”
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: August 26, 2016
Featured image: Palaeobatrachus diluvianus (GOLDFUSS, 1831). Holotype (STIPB-Goldfuss-1343) deposited in Goldfuss Museum, Steinmann- Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany. Photograph courtesy Steinmann-Institut. From Rocek (2016) below. Papers (all Open Access): Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria in Dominican and Mexican Amber (American Entomologist) The Fossil Record of Tadpoles (Fossil Imprint) The Hopping Dead: LateContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 26, 2016”
Fossil Friday Roundup: June 17, 2016
Featured image: new species of ichthyosaur, Wahlisaurus massarae. Image by James McKay, copyright James McKay. Papers (all Open Access): A new species of Propalaeotherium (Palaeotheriidae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene locality of Aumelas (Hérault, France). (Link) Dentition of Subengius mengi (Mammalia: Plesiadapoidea) and a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Asian Carpolestidae. (Link) PaleoceneContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 17, 2016”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 27, 2016
Featured image: Black Beauty, the T. rex fossil on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, AB, Canada. Image courtesy Royal Tyrrell Museum. Papers: An enigmatic aquatic snake from the Cenomanian of Northern South America (PeerJ) First record of Acanthuridae (surgeonfish) from the Miocene deposits of the Medvednica Mt. (Geologia Croatica) Causes and consequencesContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 27, 2016”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 29, 2016
Papers: A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a Complete Skull: Implications for the Evolution and Paleobiology of Titanosauria (Lead image above). Open Access in PLOS ONE New Miocene Fossils and the History of Penguins in Australia. Open Access in PLOS ONE. The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 29, 2016”
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