Update: I was able to get a copy of the Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis paper, I just need to school myself on allosaurids a little bit before I pot something about it.
So many fossils, so little time. For those of you with Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology subscriptions, there's a new paper out today describing a new species of theropod; Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis from Niger. That's not all, though. In the same issue of new species of glyptodont called Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis is described, so you'll definitely want to have a good look at the December issue. I haven't been able to get my hands on either paper yet, mostly because I haven't yet subscribed to the JVP, but hopefully some capable paleo-bloggers with access will summarize the new papers.
[Note: I've been able to get some JVP papers through Bioone.org in the past, so I'll try that later on. As is the case with many of these announcements, the news seems to break in the morning with the papers showing up later in the afternoon.]
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If it's any consolation, the PDFs aren't up in the members' area and I haven't received my December JVP in the post. So I'm just as in the dark as you! If you're desperate, drop Steve Brusatte a line - I'm sure he'll be delighted to send you a PDF.
Poor guy was subjected to John Humphrys' radio interviewing technique this morning on the radio. JH asked him whether with climate change we'd ever see something this big and nasty again. I'm amazed Steve wasn't rendered utterly speechless by that.
I sent you one of them, the other is not up yet.
Back when I was an undergrad, I always got depressed whenever such papers appeared in JVP, because it was one of those journals which my university did not subscribe to.
And now that I've graduated, it pisses me off even more that paying for a guest membership to my university's libraries does not include access to online journals. Aargh...... Give me open-access, or give me death!
When I just saw the title of the post, I thought you were lamenting the recent lack of comments by Jonathon vos Post and thought that perhaps he figured out the way for us to subscribe to them ;-)
Parapropalaehoplophorus? Seriously? Move over, Parapseudoleptomesochra, we have a new contender for most cumbersome genus name ever!
Just a note: Bioone.org and the vertpaleo.org websites typically don't get the pdfs up and running until the print versions have been out for a few weeks. And the latter are still making their way to the members: I don't have mine yet...