Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017

Featured Image: UCMP 125854, Papio izodi, and UCMP 125856, Papio izodi. From Monson et al. (2017), first paper listed below.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Patterns of craniofacial variation and taxonomic diversity in the South African Cercopithecidae fossil record (PalaeoE)
• Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae (PLOS Biology)
• 168 million years old “marine lice” and the evolution of parasitism within isopods (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• How well does a part represent the whole? A comparison of cranidial shape evolution with exoskeletal character evolution in the trilobite family Pterocephaliidae (Palaeontology)
• Pectoral morphology in Doliodus: bridging the ‘acanthodian’-chondrichthyan divide (American Museum Novitates)
• The oldest record of gnathostome fossils from Greece: Chondrichthyes from the Lopingian of Hydra Island (PalaeoE)
• The first direct evidence of a Late Devonian coelacanth fish feeding on conodont animals (The Science of Nature)
• Three-dimensional visualisation of the internal anatomy of the sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) forelimb using contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography (PeerJ)
• Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada (PNAS)
• Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae (PeerJ)
• Apatemyids (Mammalia, Apatotheria) from the middle Chadronian (late Eocene) of Sioux County, Nebraska, USA (PalaeoE)
• New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal) (PNAS)
• Subsequent biotic crises delayed marine recovery following the late Permian mass extinction event in northern Italy (PLOS ONE)
• MaxEnt’s parameter configuration and small samples: are we paying attention to recommendations? A systematic review (PeerJ)

Community Events and Society Updates:

• Seeking Nominations (March 31 deadline): The Raymond M. Alf Award for Excellence in Paleontological Research and Education (Link)
• Registration and Abstract Submissions Open: Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held at the University of Michigan, 5-6 June 2017 (Link)

New and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Eggshells from the Willow Creek Formation show that dinosaurs were more diverse than previously thought at the end of the Age of the Dinosaurs in southwestern Alberta (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
• Sphaerotholus: Beast of the Week (Prehistoric Beast of the Week)
• Diets and DNA (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Fossil Friday – Bison atlas vertebra, part 2 (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Xingxiulong (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Bush Moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) (Life in the Cenozoic Era)
• A New Look at the Penguin Evolutionary Tree (March of the Fossil Penguins)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

• Canadian paleontologists tell their stories in “Dino Trails” (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• When Calif. builders dig, paleontologists are there to bag the fossils — even whales (Washington Post)
• Mary Anning and the Hunt of Primeval Monsters (Letters from Gondwana)
• Passions of philosophers outside of philosophy — Gregg Caruso (The Philosophers’ Cocoon)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• A cornucopia of pterosaur papers (Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings)
• Parsimony Revisited (Extinct)
• Casting up a storm! (Updates from the VMNH Paleontology Lab)
• 150 things about Canadian palaeo, part 5 – Dinosaur Provincial Park #FossilFriday (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
• Episode 4: Island Evolution (Common Descent)
• Sneak preview: Dinosaur rEvolution embarks in its first tour! (Luis V. Rey Updates Blog)

Arts, Culture, and Fun:

• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Private Lives of Animals: Prehistoric Animals – Part 1 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• The Stomping Grounds: A Dinosaur Art Zine (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)

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