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 levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon (Nature Communications)
- Carbon sequestration in an expanded lake systemduring the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Nature Geoscience)
- A new glimpse on Mesozoic zooplankton—150 million-year-old lobster larvae (PeerJ)
- Exceptionally preserved Cambrian loriciferans and the early animal invasion of the meiobenthos (Nature Ecology and Evolution)
- Cambrian suspension-feeding lobopodians and the early radiation of panarthropods (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
- Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea (RSOS)
- Evidence of preserved collagen in an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur revealed by synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy (Nature Communications)
- Selection towards larger body size in both herbivorous and carnivorous synapsids during the Carboniferous (Facets)
- An early geikiid dicynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (late Permian) of South Africa (PeerJ)
- Bias in phylogenetic measurements of extinction and a case study of end-Permian tetrapods (Palaeontology)
News:
- Picture a paleontologist. What do they look like? (Link)
- How birds of a feather evolved together (Link)
- Bite Marks On Bones Reveal The Tastes Of The Largest Shark Ever (Link)
Community Events and Society Updates:
Around the Blogosphere:
- Liaodactylus primus and the ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea (Letters from Gondwana)
- DinoFest 2017 talks are free online! (SV-POW)
- Early Early Early Relatives of Both Humans and Sea Stars – #365papers – 2017 – 32 (Paleopix)
- Weird and Wonderful: Reconstructing Synthetoceras (Chasing Sabretooths)
- This Mesozoic Month (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- The Dinosaur Lady (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- From Dinosaurs to Human Ancestors to Climate Change; 5 Science Books to Read Right Now (Paige Fossil History)
- Shonisaurus: Beast of the Week (Prehistoric Beast of the Week)
- The Most Amazing Fossil Fish Ever Discovered* (UCL Blogs)
- The Strange Case of the Crocodile’s Snout. Part 2: Exonerating the Hopeless (Extinct)
- Speaker Series 2017: How Did Birds Get Their Wings? Feathered Ornithomimids from Alberta Shed Light on the Origin of Wings (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
- Trilobite Eggs (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- Kirchner Marsh and the use of lake sediments (Equatorial Minnesota)
- Confessions of a palaeobiologist learning to code (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
- Many Happy Returns Gideon Mantell (Everything Dinosaur)
- Research is for sharing: Stories from a Palaeobiologist (FutureLearn)
- Enigmatic Pterosaur Was a Terrestrial Stalker (Laelaps)
- Paleo Profile: Mighty Traveler from Egg Mountain (Laelaps)
- Turtle Was Ancient Shark’s Last Meal (Laelaps)
- Hot Fossil Mammals May Offer a Glimpse of Nature’s Future (Laelaps)
- Paleo Profile: Keilhau’s Ichthyosaur (Laelaps)
- Animal Species Named from Photos (Tetrapod Zoology)
- The First American Interchange, part I.V: Xenungulata, biologica incognita (Sympan)
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