For the month of November, Springer is offering open access to articles in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Recent artiles in this journal include the special issue on the "Triassic-Jurassic biodiversity, ecosystems, and climate in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China".
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/journal/12549
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Sterling Nesbitt Online!
My very good friend and colleague Sterling Nesbitt has a new website detailing his work (mainly on Triassic archosauromorphs). Please go check it out and then totally harass him for PDFs of all of his papers.
Much of the renniassance in Triassic archosauromorph taxonomy and phylogeny is in a large part due to Sterling's work over the last decade. His forthcoming, in press, absolutely monstrous (over 500 manuscript pages) monograph on archosauromorph phylogeny (from his doctoral dissertation) promises to be the most comprehensive work ever done on this group (over 50 taxa and 400 characters, almost all scored through first hand observation of the actual specimens) and will be a foundation study for years to come.
Much of the renniassance in Triassic archosauromorph taxonomy and phylogeny is in a large part due to Sterling's work over the last decade. His forthcoming, in press, absolutely monstrous (over 500 manuscript pages) monograph on archosauromorph phylogeny (from his doctoral dissertation) promises to be the most comprehensive work ever done on this group (over 50 taxa and 400 characters, almost all scored through first hand observation of the actual specimens) and will be a foundation study for years to come.
More Free PDFs
Paläontologische Zeitschrift, now published by Springer, is offering open access for the month of November only.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0031-0220?sa_campaign=email/PROM/PSE11800_V1
The New Mexico Museum of New Mexico and Science is also offering free PDFs of many of its published bulletins. Obviously there are lots of free Triassic PDFs here but the one that I highly recommend is Bulletin #4 (Long and Murry, 1995 - Late Triassic Carnian and Norian Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States). Although becoming dated it is still one of the quintessential references for anyone interested in Late Triassic vertebrates of the American southwest (and one of the most cited Triassic references ever). This has been out of print for awhile and those who have copies know that they were poorly bound and thus most existing copies are in tatters. Here is your chance to get the volume in its entirety.
http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/bulletins&CISOPTR=659&REC=6
BTW...you'll have to turn off your pop-up blocker to get the bulletin.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0031-0220?sa_campaign=email/PROM/PSE11800_V1
The New Mexico Museum of New Mexico and Science is also offering free PDFs of many of its published bulletins. Obviously there are lots of free Triassic PDFs here but the one that I highly recommend is Bulletin #4 (Long and Murry, 1995 - Late Triassic Carnian and Norian Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States). Although becoming dated it is still one of the quintessential references for anyone interested in Late Triassic vertebrates of the American southwest (and one of the most cited Triassic references ever). This has been out of print for awhile and those who have copies know that they were poorly bound and thus most existing copies are in tatters. Here is your chance to get the volume in its entirety.
http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/bulletins&CISOPTR=659&REC=6
BTW...you'll have to turn off your pop-up blocker to get the bulletin.
More Free PDF Access - Vertebrata Palasiatica
For those of you not subscribed to the Dinosaur Mailing List or the Vertebrate Paleontology List, note that the Chinese journal Vertebrata Palasiatica is now available freely on-line. I do not know how long it will be open for, but here is the URL:
http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/en/about_ivpp/about_IVPP_vpa.html
http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/en/about_ivpp/about_IVPP_vpa.html
Free PDFs of Paläontologische Zeitschrift
Springer-Link is currently offering free access to PDFs of Paläontologische Zeitschrift from 1957 to the present. This journal features Geology and Paleontology papers in German and English. This series includes many Late Triassic dinosaur and pseudosuchian papers such as this, this, this and this. The PDF quality is not the greatest but is still better than the blacked out figures in my interlibrary loan copies.
Happy downloading.
Free GSA Bulletin and Geology PDFs
Wow, the free PDFs just keep coming. Thanks to Paul Heinrich who posted this information on the Dinosaur Mailing List.
"For an unknown period of time free PDF files of papers published in "Geology" and "Geological Society of America Bulletin" can be downloaded free of charge.
A person can access them using the search page at:
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/search.dtl
and the archive pages at:
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/archive/
and
http://geology.gsapubs.org/archive/"
I checked it out and it works.
Happy Downloading.
"For an unknown period of time free PDF files of papers published in "Geology" and "Geological Society of America Bulletin" can be downloaded free of charge.
A person can access them using the search page at:
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/search.dtl
and the archive pages at:
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/archive/
and
http://geology.gsapubs.org/archive/"
I checked it out and it works.
Happy Downloading.
Relaunch of Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B as the open access journal Palaeodiversity
Thanks to Randy Irmis for bringing this to my attention. The journal Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B has been relaunched as a new open access journal Palaeodiversity. The first issue was released in late 2008 and contains a new paper by Rainer Schoch on the phylogeny of the Capitosauria (the amount of temnospondyl work pubished in 2008 is just amazing!).
Also of great interest is that the journal site is offering free downloads of articles (including some Triassic articles) from back issues of Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie from 1999 with a promise that more will follow (www.palaeodiversity.org/backissues.htm).
Schoch, R. R. 2008. The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy. Palaeodiversity 1:189-226.
Abstract - The phylogeny of the largest amphibians, the Triassic capitosaurs, is still much debated. One key taxon for the understanding of their relationships, Odenwaldia heidelbergensis from the Buntsandstein of Waldkatzenbach, is restudied here. A phylogenetic analysis performed on the basis of 66 characters and 25 taxa gives a new hypothesis of relationships. It rests to a large degree on previous data matrices, but many character codings have been changed with respect to new observations as well as the discovery of new taxa. The present data indicate that all classic capitosaur taxa do form a clade. The Capitosauria (all taxa more closely related to Parotosuchus than to Trematosaurus) excludes Benthosuchus and Edingerella but includes Wetlugasaurus, Sclerothorax, Watsonisuchus, Parotosuchus, and all other capitosaurs. All capitosaurs above Watsonisuchus are referred to as the Capitosauroidea, which includes Parotosuchus, Cherninia + Odenwaldia, Eryosuchus, Xenotosuchus, and a vast capitosaur crown clade. The crown includes two main branches: (1) the “Eucyclotosauria” (Cyclotosaurus, Kupferzellia, Procyclotosaurus, Stanocephalosaurus pronus) and (2) the “Paracyclotosauria” (Stanocephalosaurus birdi, Paracyclotosaurus, Mastodonsaurus, and the heylerosaurids Eocyclotosaurus and Quasicyclotosaurus). Stratigraphically, capitosaur phylogeny still reveals a rather poor match. However, the present phylogenetic hypothesis matches the stratigraphic ranges more precisely than the previous ones. The early branching between the “Eucyclotosauria” and “Paracyclotosauria” is more consistent with the fossil record than an alternative concept, in which Cyclotosaurus and the heylerosaurids form sister taxa (“Pancyclotosauria”). In any case, the otic fenestra and several other probably correlated features in the palate must have evolved two times independently within the crown capitosauroids.
Also of great interest is that the journal site is offering free downloads of articles (including some Triassic articles) from back issues of Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie from 1999 with a promise that more will follow (www.palaeodiversity.org/backissues.htm).
Schoch, R. R. 2008. The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy. Palaeodiversity 1:189-226.
Abstract - The phylogeny of the largest amphibians, the Triassic capitosaurs, is still much debated. One key taxon for the understanding of their relationships, Odenwaldia heidelbergensis from the Buntsandstein of Waldkatzenbach, is restudied here. A phylogenetic analysis performed on the basis of 66 characters and 25 taxa gives a new hypothesis of relationships. It rests to a large degree on previous data matrices, but many character codings have been changed with respect to new observations as well as the discovery of new taxa. The present data indicate that all classic capitosaur taxa do form a clade. The Capitosauria (all taxa more closely related to Parotosuchus than to Trematosaurus) excludes Benthosuchus and Edingerella but includes Wetlugasaurus, Sclerothorax, Watsonisuchus, Parotosuchus, and all other capitosaurs. All capitosaurs above Watsonisuchus are referred to as the Capitosauroidea, which includes Parotosuchus, Cherninia + Odenwaldia, Eryosuchus, Xenotosuchus, and a vast capitosaur crown clade. The crown includes two main branches: (1) the “Eucyclotosauria” (Cyclotosaurus, Kupferzellia, Procyclotosaurus, Stanocephalosaurus pronus) and (2) the “Paracyclotosauria” (Stanocephalosaurus birdi, Paracyclotosaurus, Mastodonsaurus, and the heylerosaurids Eocyclotosaurus and Quasicyclotosaurus). Stratigraphically, capitosaur phylogeny still reveals a rather poor match. However, the present phylogenetic hypothesis matches the stratigraphic ranges more precisely than the previous ones. The early branching between the “Eucyclotosauria” and “Paracyclotosauria” is more consistent with the fossil record than an alternative concept, in which Cyclotosaurus and the heylerosaurids form sister taxa (“Pancyclotosauria”). In any case, the otic fenestra and several other probably correlated features in the palate must have evolved two times independently within the crown capitosauroids.
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