It’s no secret to most of my colleagues that I’m a big fan of measurements in papers. Some of this stems from…
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Open Data Best Practices for Bone Measurements
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: December 16, 2016
Featured Image: A new species of armored trumpetfish from Mexico, from Cantalice and Alvarado-Ortega (2016), first paper. Papers (All Open Access): Eekaulostomus cuevasae…
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Mammals PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #6: Xenokeryx amidalae
Next in the countdown of the winners of the PLOS Paleo Open Access Fossil Vertebrates of the past year is Xenyokeryx amidalae…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: December 9, 2016
Feature Image: A rendering of the early marsupial relative, Didelphodon vorax. (First Paper) Credit: Misaki Ouchida Papers (All Open Access): A large carnivorous mammal…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: December 2, 2016
Featured image: Composite Photograph of the original fossil specimen of “Lucy” From Ruff et al. 2016 Papers (All Open Access): Large Scale…
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Fossil Friday Roundup 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…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: November 18, 2016
Papers (all Open Access): Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system (RSOS) The giant, spike-toothed salmon, Oncorhynchus rastrosus and the “Proto-Tuolumne…
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Open Access Top Ten Vertebrate Paleontology Finds of 2016 | PLOS
Last night at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, brought many of us together to celebrate open…
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Open Research SVP Conference Workshop: Calculating Disparity and Rates from Discrete Phenotypic Data
The 2016 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference officially starts on Wednesday, but was already well underway with a series of field trips and…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: October 14, 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…
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Interview Veggievore Fish of the Triassic
Fish have a bit of a boring reputation among many vertebrate paleontologists–too many bones, too hard to identify, not as charismatic as…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: September 9, 2016
Featured image: A reconstruction of the Storr Lochs Monster, the most complete ichthyosaur from Scotland. Art by Todd Marshall. Papers (all Open…