Featured Image: Spinosaurus aegypticus model. From Henderson (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Specifying the External Impact on Fluvial Lowland Evolution: The Last Glacial Tisza (Tisa) Catchment in Hungary and Serbi (Quaternary) Trajectories of the Earth

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 Cretaceous of

Featured Image: Type specimen of Altirhinus in lateral view. Photograph credit: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar. From Gates et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Carnian (Late Triassic) ostracods from the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange (Southern Turkey): Taxonomy, palaeoenvironment,

Featured Image: Reconstruction of Akainacephalus johnsoni in left lateral view. Preserved material in the skeletal reconstructions is highlighted in orange. From Wiersma and Irmis (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Equatorial cold-water tongue in the Late Ordovician

Featured Image: Upper deciduous dentition of Periptychus carinidens (AMNH 3794). From Shelley et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Anoxic ecosystems and early eukaryotes (Emerging Topics in Life Sciences) An epiphytacean-Girvanella (Cyanobacteria) symbiosis from

Featured Image: Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov. Detail of pseudowhorls showing more than 5 leaves per pseudowhorl. Deeply sunken grooves indicating leaf midveins. From Gerrienne et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Improving preservation state

Papers (All Open Access): Evaluation of the estimate bias magnitude of the Rao’s quadratic diversity index (PeerJ) Testing accuracy in 2D and 3D geometric morphometric methods for cut mark identification and classification (PeerJ) Local and

Featured Image: Ceratosaurus, from Delacourt (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation (PLOS Biology) A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape (PeerJ) Extensive marine anoxia during

Editor’s note: Apologies for missing last week’s Fossil Friday Roundup! Below we’ve highlighted papers and blog posts from the past two weeks, so that you’ll remain caught up on all the latest paleo news and

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 student perception