February 2014 Posts

Hey guys this is Big Al. I want to apologize of rate big delay in my monthly article and some other plans for the blog. I had so much college work to do plus there wasn't really much going on in the world of vertebrate paleontology in February in my opinion. In any case, here's some links to papers that occurred in the last month:

Eodortoka, new turtle

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667113001985

Body Size Reductions in Nonmammalian Eutheriodont Therapsids (Synapsida) during the End-Permian Mass Extinction

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0087553

Jehol biota being preserved under pyroclastic flows

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140204/ncomms4151/full/ncomms4151.html

Dimetrodon tooth morphology

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140207/ncomms4269/full/ncomms4269.html

Polesinesuchus, new aetosaur from Brazil

http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.1

Very detailed paper into the evolution of melanosomes (colored pigments) in avian and non-avian 
dinosaurs

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12973.html

Big news on terrestrial origin of live birth in the Late Triassic seas indicated by pregnant icthytosaur 

Chaohusaurus fossils

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088640

Cranial ontological in look into Centrosaurus

https://peerj.com/articles/252/

Older specimen of Polacanthus described

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787814000042

Lourinhasaurus reassessed as a camarasaur (not to be confused with the theropod Lourinhanosaurus)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12113/abstract

Aenigmastropheus, croc-lizard thing? from the Permian


http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0089165

Sexual dimorphism in seals, Enaliarctos


http://www.livescience.com/43663-why-male-female-seals-different.html

Massive whale graveyard in Chile due to massive algal blooms and first fossil evidence of repeated 
mass strandings


http://www.livescience.com/43676-ancient-mass-die-off-discovered.html


Woolly mammoths and rhinos ate flowers


http://www.livescience.com/43131-woolly-mammoths-ate-flowers.html

New fish significantly shows origin of the face


http://www.livescience.com/43385-hello-fish-face-a-fossil-fish-reveals-the-origins-of-the-face.html

New whale Balaenoptera bertae 


http://www.bioone.org/doi/ref/10.5252/g2013n4a5

New species of sucker-footed bats in Eocene Period discovered in Egypt away from Madagascar


http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086712

Number #1 in my opinion: Gastornis is now officially a herbivore


http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-014-1158-2

Hopefully I'll get on with the latest dinosaur and vertebrate news and hopefully post an article by the end of this month