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New publication: Retention of fish-like odontode overgrowth in Permian tetrapod dentition supports outside-in theory of tooth origins (Haridy et al., Biology Letters)

9/11/2019

Title: Retention of fish-like odontode overgrowth in Permian tetrapod dentition supports outside-in theory of tooth origins
Authors: Y. Haridy, B.M. Gee, F. Witzmann, J.J. Bevitt, R.R. Reisz
Journal: Biology Letters 15(10): 20190514
DOI to paper: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0514

New publication: The amphibamiform Nanobamus macrorhinus from the early Permian of Texas (Gee & Reisz, Journal of Paleontology)

9/10/2019

Title: The amphibamiform Nanobamus macrorhinus from the early Permian of Texas
Authors: B.M. Gee, R.R. Reisz
Journal: Journal of Paleontology
Link to paper and DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2019.72

Holotype skull of Nanobamus macrorhinus in dorsal view (figure 1 in our paper).

Back to school: temno superlatives

9/3/2019

To kick off the back to school season, this week's post is a random assemblage of temnospondyl superlatives, some more informative than others!

Photograph and illustration of the holotype of Balanerpeton woodi by Milner & Sequeira (1994).

Oldest temnospondyl
The oldest fossil of a temnospondyl that's referred to a particular genus is Balanerpeton woodi, from the Mississippean of Scotland (Milner & Sequeira, 1994). Balanerpeton is within the temnospondyl family Dendrerpetidae, which includes the slightly younger Dendrerpeton and Dendrysekos from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia. Werneburg et al. (2019) recently reported some fragmentary temnospondyl bits from the same time interval in Germany. This material could only be tentatively identified as a possible dvinosaur.

Illustrations of the cast made from a negative impression of a cranial fragment from the Early Carboniferous of Germany by Werneburg et al. (2019).

Temno Talk: a blog about all things temnospondyl

New publication: Retention of fish-like odontode overgrowth in Permian tetrapod dentition supports outside-in theory of tooth origins (Haridy et al., Biology Letters)

New publication: The amphibamiform Nanobamus macrorhinus from the early Permian of Texas (Gee & Reisz, Journal of Paleontology)

Back to school: temno superlatives

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