November 2023 - Paleontology in Review

November 2023 was a big month for paleontology, with a ton of publications coming out and giving us new ideas about fossil organisms.
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00:08 First known frontal bone of a megaraptoran
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
01:14 A look at Opalized Fossils
www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/13/12/...
02:03 The moa footprints from the Pliocene
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
03:16 Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
04:08 Discovery of Wupus agilis in South Korea
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
04:40 The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
05:19 A saurischian from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
06:37 Typothorax got even bigger
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
07:40 New dicynodont -Argodicynodon boreni
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
08:40 A new pseudoscorpion genus- Baltamblyolpium
peerj.com/articles/15989/
09:51 Phylogeny of primate Ekgmowechashala and new Palaeohodites naduensis
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
10:57 New Skeletons of the Ancient Dolphin Xenorophus sloanii and simplicidens
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/11/...
12:06 A new fossil dolphin- Nihoroa reimaea
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
12:51 A look at the weird anatomy of tapirs
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
14:04 The first European woolly rhinoceros mitogenomes
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
14:59 The oldest known rhynchocephalian- Wirtembergia hauboldae
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
15:53 Dental microwear on mosasaur teeth
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
16:36 Limited convergence in the postcranium of aquatic Crocodylomorpha
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
17:17 Osteology of the axial skeleton of Aucasaurus garridoi
peerj.com/articles/16236/
18:16 A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur- Jaculinykus yaruui
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
19:17 The First Dinosaur from the Kingdom of Cambodia
www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/1/1/6
19:32 A new pterosaur with thick bone walls- Cratonopterus huabei
www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext...
20:30 Wapitisaurus problematicus is a problem
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
21:38 How Pharyngeal Gills became our jaws
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
22:15 Soft robotics informs how an early echinoderm moved
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
22:59 A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch- Rotaciurca superbus
www.cell.com/current-biology/...
23:57 Herpetogaster collinsi and fossil larva
peerj.com/articles/16385/
24:36 Rapid growth in Amplectobelua symbrachiata
academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-...
25:28 A new leptoceratopsian -Gremlin slobodorum
26:08 Thescelosaurus brainscan shows it burrowed
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
26:22 Two new pachycephalosaurs- Sphaerotholus lyonsi and buchholtzae
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
26:42 Omnivory in troodontid dinosaurs
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
27:00 Re-analysis of Daspletosaurus wilsoni
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
27:22 Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation
peerj.com/articles/16327/

[@domenicevans9546]

Thanks for providing links to papers and publications in your videos, I have enjoyed diving down various rabbit holes this year

[@nita7703]

You know it's a good month when we get news about crocodiles and dolphins

[@maurissauro]

Great vid! Thanks for including our little herrerasaur in your review. We're constantly visiting the site where it was found in the hope we find a more complete specimen. Happy new year!

[@RaptorChatter]

Awesome! I love the Triassic, and really think a lot of the new fossils coming from South America could be useful for understanding the origins and taxonomy of the ornithodires, so good to hear you're looking for more!

[@adamthespinygiant]

I hope Paleo Analysis and TimTim are okay. I heard they were having technical difficulties with the April video.

[@spartan1986og]

Excellent review. Thanks!

[@JFStandhope]

I know that these monthly wrap ups aren't your bread and butter but I really appreciate you doing them AND linking to the papers so I can go hyperfixate on them!

[@cw7429]

Dinosaurs are incredible.

[@tinyelvenmitten1774]

Thank you for your hard work, I really enjoy these reports, and how diversely you go over stuff from different eras :>

[@RaptorChatter]

Thanks! And I really do try to cover a ton of material, I want people to have a good sense of what is going on across the field.

[@takenname8053]

What a great month it was!

[@1998topornik]

Prehistoric whales are on the roll this year!

[@RaptorChatter]

I actually added a section for them to my year video!

[@jrbaxterstockman548]

Does this strengthen Cau and then Novas's recovery of Tawa as a Herrerasaurian?

[@bipedalcynodont962]

This might be an error in the paper (I at least currently don't want to verify), BUT it's bizarre that you're saying "moa likely appeared 5 million years ago" when there are literally leg bones and eggshells from them (the consensus, when I last checked, was at least 2 genera) from rocks that are 16-19 million years old! BUT I might know where you got that idea from: according to the book Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand's Legendary Bird, when the Australian plate made contact with Zealandia's a few million years ago, the more diverse landscapes it created allowed for moa to become far more diverse, so what you said is kind of true when you mean "the 9 or so genera that were alive during historical times"!

[@RaptorChatter]

I think that was the mistake that happened. I had used the genetic data as their approximate arrival time, my mistake.

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

Having wide side toe tracks in birds is generally linked to their tail reduction, but, if a theropod doesn’t use its tail to counterbalance as much as a standard theropod, and/or its weight might be more distributed like more derived smaller theropods, you should get a similar spread,,,,

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

Wow, November really was a a banner month in 2023, wasn't it?

[@andrewfong894]

Javelina and pigs are artiodactyls and tapirs are perissodactyls so are more closely related to rhinos and horses

[@RaptorChatter]

Did I really make that mistake? Don't know what I was thinking when I was writing, must have just had a massive lapse in concentration and just spaced out. Whoops!

[@andrewfong894]

While mistakes like the do annoy me at least you acknowledge your mistake and even responded anyways have a good new years 👍.

[@hannayoung9657]

And now I have Paleontology on Ice, in my head, like disney but better.

[@you2angel1]

Thank you °~•.☆.•~°

[@JohnSharpe-pu3nz]

I hope they can polish up the opalized plesiosaur without damaging the bones, that'd make one heck of a museum display!

[@Kelpie-sb5bi]

Why polish it at all?

[@JohnSharpe-pu3nz]

@@Kelpie-sb5bi Polishing opal allows it to reflect more light, and thus show off all of its colors. That's why they're so prized as gemstones.

[@Kelpie-sb5bi]

@@JohnSharpe-pu3nz It has far more value as an unaltered opal fossil than it would have as a polished opal, i hope people like you don’t get your hands on fossils like this since you would just destroy them for ”aesthetics”.

[@JohnSharpe-pu3nz]

@@Kelpie-sb5bi I would say the "people like you" remark is uncalled for, and to call polishing "destruction" is a bit of an exaggeration when I clearly expressed a desire that the fossil not be damaged in the process. That's like saying you're "destroying" a fossil by chipping it from the stone you found it in.

[@SimonORorke]

New Zealand is an archipelago, not an island. There are two big islands and a few much smaller ones.

[@RaptorChatter]

During the ice ages there would have been a land bridge connecting the two main islands, so while yes it is more of an archipelago it was mostly one land mass when the moas would have arrived. I could have been more clear on that though.

[@SimonORorke]

@@RaptorChatter Ah yes, I more or less knew this but did not think it through.😔

[@dennismason3740]

No data on Meg yet. My "friends in high places" laugh at my frustration and impatience. "Throw me a bone!" I scream. "Titanium or marrow?" they laugh because I have a few titanium bones. I keep calling them "adamantium bones". I may live long enough to see that data stream. My friends actually have holographic live feed from ROVs. Still it comes down to a beloved rock hammer. We have a deep rift between Long Beach and Catalina Island and yes, it houses...(knock on door, who's there, Men in Black they laugh). Life on Earth. See it out of time. See it in your mind. You have all of the data you need now is time to abandon the rules of time so that you can literally see the ecosystem. Does wonderful mean "fool of wonder"? oops, miss pelling to see me. Full O' Wonder. Dude, you see in ecosystems not just bits. Bits are fine. Paleoz Gotta Dig. Pretentiously hip, I admit to nothing. When your hands are in the dirt you are "feeling their world" - corny and true. Think of time as somebody else's idea and the world that you intuit is in your hands. Physical reality is a representation, like a teleplay. The Dino Story is celebrated throughout the galaxy, mostly by their descendants with their fancy tech...grrr...

[@laurachapple6795]

Anton Petrov takes for granted that his viewers are wonderful people. Zeke is a little more skeptical. 😂

[@ravensrest8824]

Algorithm comment to psyop more people into being into Paleontology.