It’s that time of year again, and PLOS Paleontology Community is happy to highlight upcoming events associated with National Fossil Day (October 17, 2018). Many of these events are hosted by U.S. museums, institutions, and Posted by: Sarah Gibson
National Fossil Day 2018: Events, Part 1
It’s that time of year again, and PLOS Paleontology Community is happy to highlight upcoming events associated with National Fossil Day (October 17, 2018). Many of these events are hosted by U.S. museums, institutions, and Posted by in featured, national fossil day, national park service, NFD
Fossil Friday Roundup: August 10, 2018
Featured Image: Triassic pentadactyl tracks from Argentina. From Citton et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Cambrian petalonamid Stromatoveris phylogenetically links Ediacaran biota to later animals (Palaeontology) Salvinialean megaspores in the Late CretaceousPosted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Fossil Friday Roundup: June 8, 2018
Featured Image: Xanthopimpla messelensis, from Spasojevic et al. 2018. Papers (All Open Access): How many landmarks are enough to characterize shape and size variation? (PLOS ONE) How does it feel? The affective domain and undergraduate studentPosted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 11, 2018
Featured Image: View of Grotta La Fabbrica, from Villa et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Binary-state speciation and extinction method is conditionally robust to realistic violations of its assumptions (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Did thePosted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 4, 2018
Featured Image: Citipati osmolskae, IGM 100/1004 in left lateral view. Anterior is to the left. From Norell et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying the living fossil concept (PalaeoE) Getting somewhere with the Red Queen:Posted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 27, 2018
Featured Image: From Nowakowski (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities (PNAS) Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoonPosted by in featuring, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 30, 2018
0000-0002-8715-2896 Featured Image: Isisfordia duncani, QM F36211 (holotype), an articulated and near complete skeleton in dorsal aspect. From Syme and Salisbury (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): A lake classification concept for a more accurate global estimate ofPosted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Stepping Out: New Ornithomimosaur from Arkansas Described
0000-0002-8715-2896Holotype cast of Arkansaurus fridayi, pictured in front of the Broadway Bridge, Little Rock, Arkansas. Image courtesy R. Hunt-Foster, used with permission. Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal ofPosted by in arkansas, arkansaurus, dinosaurs, featured, Interview, Ornithomimosaur, ReBecca Hunt, Trinity Formation
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 16, 2018
0000-0002-8715-2896 Featured Image: Tethydraco regalis FSAC-OB 199 ulna. From Longrich et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Atlantic deep water circulation during the last interglacial (Scientific Reports) Wangshangkia, a new Devonian ostracod genus from Dushan ofPosted by in featured, fossil friday, Fossil Friday Roundup
Shell Shock! Can morphometrics distinguish fossil turtle species?
0000-0002-8715-2896 A big component of paleontological work revolves around identifying morphological characters that diagnose distinct species in the fossil record. But therein lies an unavoidable problem: where is the line between variation among separate species and variation withinPosted by in cowabunga, eastern box turtle, featured, methods, morphology, morphometrics, morphometrix, shell, terrapene, Turtle, Turtles