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Burpee Museum Of Natural HistoryCeratopsiansConferencesIntegumentMuseumsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

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Today should be a day of rejoicing, as it brings us a new sauropod: Arackar licanantay Rubilar-Rogers et al. 2021., a small titanosaur from Chile. It’s not, though. Because not only is this paper behind a paywall in Elsevier’s journal Cretaceous Research , but the paywalled paper is what they term a “pre-proof” — a fact advertised in a tiny font half way down the page rather than in a giant red letters at the top.

CamarasaursCervicalGoofyIt Came From The Surface Of MarsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

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AlamosaurusBarosaurusCervicalCredit Where It's DueDiplodocidsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

Have you been reading Justin Tweet’s series, “Your Friends the Titanosaurs“, at his awesomely-named blog, Equatorial Minnesota? If not, get on it. He’s been running the series since June, 2018, so this notice is only somewhat grotesquely overdue. The latest installment, on Alamosaurus from Texas and Mexico, is phenomenal.

BrontosaurusCaudalHelp SV-POW!Papers By SV-POW!sketeersPeer ReviewScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Today marks the one-month anniversary of my and Matt’s paper in Qeios about why vertebral pneumaticity in sauropods is so variable. (Taylor and Wedel 2021). We were intrigued to publish on this new platform that supports post-publication peer-review, partly just to see what happened.

ApatosaurusBrontosaurusCaudalDiplodocidsPneumaticityScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

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Airing My IgnoranceCaudalCervicalCollectionsGiraffatitanScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

Here are cervicals 4 and 8 from MB.R.2180, the big mounted Giraffatitan in Berlin. Even though this is one of the better sauropod necks in the world, the vertebrae have enough taphonomic distortion that trying to determine what neutral, uncrushed shape they started from is not easy.

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Bonaparte’s (1999) description of the Early Cretaceous sauropod Agustinia ligabuie was notable for its identification of nine bony fragments as representing dermal armour, which he classified into Types 1–4. Here are some examples: {.size-full .wp-image-18481 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-18481” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“18481”