Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
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THIS MESOZOIC MONTH: JULY 2020
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Algoasaurus
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"Archaeopteryx 2020" celebrated as "Fossil of the Year" at Jura Museum in EichstÃtt, Germany, and in new issue of Archaeopteryx journal put out by Friends of the Jurassic Museum EichstÃttÂ(in German)
W. M. Rauhut, Christian Foth & Helmut Tischlinger (2020)
Archaeopteryx und andere UrvÃgel aus dem Solnhofener Archipel
[Archaeopteryx and other "UrvÃgel" from the Solnhofen Archipelago]
Archaeopteryx 36: 4-15 (in German)
Christian Foth & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2020)
Eine kurze Betrachtung der Evolution des VogelschÃdels.
[A brief review of the evolution of bird skulls]
Jahresbericht 2019 und Mitteilungen 48 (in German)
Freunden der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fÃr PalÃontologie und Geologie MÃnchenÂ
Dromaeosaurid size disparity
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THE MIGHTY MARINE REPTILES
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Rare letter from Mary Anning expected to reach Â12,000 at auction
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Non-dino:
Were 'Cave Lions' Really Lions?
Paper link (free pdf):
David W. G. Stanton, Federica Alberti, Valery Plotnikov, Semyon Androsov, Semyon Grigoriev, Sergey Fedorov, Pavel Kosintsev, Doris Nagel, Sergey Vartanyan, Ian Barnes, Ross Barnett, Erik Ersmark, Doris DÃppes, Mietje GermonprÃ, Michael Hofreiter, Wilfried Rosendahl, Pontus Skoglund & Love DalÃn (2020)
Early Pleistocene origin and extensive intra-species diversity of the extinct cave lion.
Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 12621
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69474-1https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69474-1
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Ankylorhiza tiedemani, a giant dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina: bringing clarity to 170 years of confusion
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MESOZOIC MONTHLY: ASPIDORHYNCHUS
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Amber from Myanmar
Society for Vertebrate Paleontology statements opposing use of the amber in research
Now a response from:Â
Joachim T. Haug, Dany Azar, Andrew Ross, Jacek Szwedo, Bo Wang, Antonio Arillo, Viktor Baranov, Julia Bechteler, Rolf Beutel, Vladimir Blagoderov, Xavier DelclÃs, Jason Dunlop, Kathrin Feldberg, Rodney Feldmann, Christian Foth, Renà H. B. Fraaije, Alexander Gehler, Danilo Harms, Lars HedenÃs, MatÃÅ HyÅnÃ, John W. M. Jagt, Elena A. Jagt-Yazykova, Ed Jarzembowski, Hans Kerp, Phyo Kay Khine, Alexander G. Kirejtshuk, Christian Klug, Dmitry S. Kopylov, Ulrich Kotthoff, JÃrgen Kriwet, Ryan C. McKellar, Andrà Nel, Christian Neumann, Alexander NÃtzel, Enrique PeÃalver, Vincent Perrichot, Anna Pint, Eugenio Ragazzi, Ledis Regalado, Mike Reich, Jouko Rikkinen, Eva-Maria Sadowski, Alexander R. Schmidt, Harald Schneider, Frederick R. Schram, GÃnter Schweigert, Paul Selden, Leyla J. Seyfullah, MÃnica M. SolÃrzano-Kraemer, Jeffrey D. Stilwell, Barry W. M. van Bakel, Francisco J. Vega, Yongdong Wang, Lida Xing & Carolin Haug -Show (2020)
Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding âFossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific dataâ: Myanmar amber
PalZ (advance online publication)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00524-9https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-020-00524-9