[dinosaur] Southern Africa 2018 abstracts + raptor packs + Haplocanthosaurus + French dinosaurs + Litovoi + becoming a paleontologist + more

Ben Creisler

(Again, sorry for the mess-up with the recent triple post of free non-dino papers. Usually, if a post doesn't show up in a half hourÂ in one of my email accounts, I assume it's been blocked for some reason. It happens...)

Some recent items:

2018 20th Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa Biennial Meeting Abstracts Book

https://palaeosocietyza.weebly.com/uploads/4/5/2/1/45213539/pssa-2018-book-of-abstracts.pdf

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Help fund open access Eotyrannus monograph in PeerJ:

https://www.gofundme.com/the-eotyrannus-monograph

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Raptors of a Feather

Trackways from China throw further support to the idea that Velociraptor-like dinosaurs were sometimes social

Âhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/raptors-of-a-feather/

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Haplocanthosaurus goes digital

https://svpow.com/2018/07/04/haplocanthosaurus-goes-digital/

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France, land of dinosaurs (in French)

https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/france-terre-de-dinosaures

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Hadrosaurid tracks (82 million years old) found near Cochabamba in Bolivia (in Spanish)

http://www.lostiempos.com/oh/actualidad/20180702/hallazgo-huellas-dinosaurio-cochabamba

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Aragosaurus lived in a tropical climate (in Spanish)

https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/aragon/2018/07/02/los-dinosaurios-galve-vivieron-ambiente-humedo-con-influencia-marina-1252291-300.html

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The only Australian tyrannosauroid (Timimus) (in Czech)

Âhttps://dinosaurusblog.com/2018/07/04/jediny-australsky-tyranosauroid/

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Liaoningtitan sauropod skeleton cast on display at Frankfurt airport in Germany (in German)

http://www.fr.de/frankfurt/flughafen-frankfurt-ein-dino-im-flughafen-a-1537376

http://www.frankfurt-live.com/liaoningotitan--ndash-ein-riesen-geschenk-f-uumlr-senckenberg-104666.html

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Beijing fossil exhibition prompts rethink of mammal evolution

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/04/beijing-fossil-exhibition-prompts-rethink-of-mammal-evolution

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The Surprising Importance of Litovoiâs Tiny Brain

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-surprising-importance-of-litovois-tiny-brain/

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Why Don't Birds Have Teeth?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/06/30/why-dont-birds-have-teeth/#3d75bf9f74ae

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Amber fossils -- Chasing dinosaurs in Myanmar's conflict-ridden north

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-dinosaurs-myanmar-conflict-ridden-north.html

http://www.thejakartapost.com/seasia/2018/07/01/chasing-dinosaurs-in-myanmars-conflict-ridden-north.html

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T. rex couldnÂt stick out its tongue (in Czech)

Âhttps://dinosaurusblog.com/2018/07/02/tyranosaurus-nemohl-vyplaznout-jazyk/

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Dinosaur tongues (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-11-8766-1.html

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Plesiosaur patrol in Montana

https://www.ekalakaeagle.com/story/2018/06/22/local/plesiosaur-patrol/971.html

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Megaraptor (in Spanish)

http://www.infoblancosobrenegro.com/noticias/21029-presentaron-el-esqueleto-de-un-dinosaurio-carnivoro-que-habito-la-patagonia

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Concavenator, the dinosaur of Cuenca, cameoÂin Jurassic World (in Spanish)

https://theconversation.com/el-cameo-de-concavenator-el-dinosaurio-de-cuenca-en-jurassic-world-98256

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Jurassic World (negative) review...

http://waxing-paleontological.blogspot.com/2018/07/we-cant-have-nice-things.html

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Fossil of the Month (June) for the Bayerische Staatssammlung fÃr PalÃontologie und Geologie (in German)

Rauisuchus, skeleton of a pseudosuchian

Skelettreste eines Scheinkrokodiles Rauisuchus tiradentes von Huene, 1938

http://www.palmuc.de/bspg/images/pdf/fos2018/flyer_juni.pdf

Also, older free pdf in English:

Stephan LautenschlagerÂ Â& Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2015)

Osteology of Rauisuchus tiradentes from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Santa Maria Formation of Brazil, and its implications for rauisuchid anatomy and phylogeny.Â

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(1):55-91

doi:Â https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12196

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/173/1/55/2453081

The species nameÂ tiradentes means "tooth puller" (tirar + dentes "extract teeth")Â in Portuguese. IÂ don't have access to the original descriptionÂ by von Huene but the fossil came from "Sanga Tiradentes,"Âor "Zahn Sanga" "tooth sanga [stream]" in German, the nickname for the site with fossil quarries.Â

[Note as well that "Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, also known as Tiradentes (Tooth Puller), was the leader of the first organized movement against Portuguese rule in Brazil in 1789."

http://brazil.com/home/culture/festivals/tiradentes-inconfidencia-separatist/ ]

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How do I become a palaeontologist?

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/how-do-i-become-a-palaeontologist/

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videos

Africa's Forgotten Dinosaurs | Nizar Ibrahim | TEDxUofIChicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_Y_DInNZWi8

FAQs From Our First Year

PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yisFbVok4I

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