[dinosaur] Alaska dinosaur country + giant pterosaurs + Wendiceratops + Mandschurosaurus + dodo relative + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Dinosaur country in Alaska

http://www.alaskamagazine.com/articles/featured/dinosaur-country/

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Giant pterosaur jaw from Romania is one of many new giant specimens of pterosaurs

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/new-species-pterosaur-fossil-transylvania-paleontology-science/?beta=true

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New Fossils from Thermopolis Dig Yield Interesting Discoveries--Diplodocus with injuries

https://county10.com/new-fossils-from-thermopolis-dig-yield-interesting-discoveries/

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Wendiceratops

http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2018/05/wendiceratops-beast-of-week.html?m=1

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The first Russian dinosaur: Mandschurosaurus (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/594/Pervyy_russkiy_dinozavr

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Teenage T. rex on display in the atrium of the SÃddeutschen Zeitung newspaper building in Munich; public talks by paleontologist Frederik Spindler of the Dinosaurier Museum AltmÃhltal are scheduled over the next few months (in German)

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dinosaurier-in-muenchen-das-echte-skelett-eines-jungen-t-rex-1.3965629

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Pliosaurs from the Volga region and Siberia show different tooth shapes survived into the Cretaceous (in Russian)

https://news.rambler.ru/science/39803227-zuby-rossiyskih-pliozavrid-rasskazali-ob-ih-sozhitelstve/

from this article already posted:

Nikolay G. Zverkov, Valentin Fischer, Daniel Madzia & Roger B.J. Benson (2018)

Increased pliosaurid dental disparity across the JurassicâCretaceous transition.

Palaeontology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12367

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pala.12367

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Lyme Regis Fossil Festival brochure from last weekend

https://www.fossilfestival.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FOSSIL-FESTIVAL-2018-8.6Mb.pdf

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Also may be of interest:

Bird neural canals are weird, part 1: intro and supramedullary diverticula

https://svpow.com/2018/05/08/bird-neural-canals-are-weird-part-1-intro-and-supramedullary-diverticula/

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Newly-discovered pigeon species related to the dodo lived in New Zealand millions of years ago

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/extinct-pigeon-species-related-dodo-found

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/103723368/newlydiscovered-pigeon-species-related-to-the-dodo-lived-in-nz-millions-of-years-ago

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-extinct-pigeon-species-dodo.html

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pdf of the original description as photocopy:

Deliaphaps zealandiensis gen. et. sp. nov.

Vanesa L. De Pietri, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Suzanne J. Hand & Trevor H. Worthy (2017)

The diversity of early Miocene pigeons (Columbidae) in New Zealand.

PaleontologÃa Y EvoluciÃn de las Aves: Contribuciones del MACN 7:49-68

https://www.canterburymuseum.com/assets/Uploads/De-Pietri-et-al2.-2017.-The-diversity-of-Miocene-pigeons-in-New-Zealand.-Pal.-Y-Evol.-de-Aves.pdf

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