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RE: SVP Papers
Ehem...
Me: TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY, MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY, AND GUILD STRUCTURE IN
THEROPOD CARNIVORE COMMUNITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOECOLOGY AND LIFE
HISTORY STRATEGIES IN TYRANT DINOSAURS
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland College Park Scholars
College Park, MD 20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone: 301-405-4084 Email: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Nick Gardner
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 4:02 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu; Danvarner@aol.com
> Subject: Re: SVP Papers
>
>
> --- Dan Varner wrote:
> >I was just looking over a partial list of papers
> > for this year's SVP in
> >Denver and I was surprised by the amount of
> > Tyrannosaurus items. Should be a good
> >one:
> > http://www.vertpaleo.org/abstracts/submitted.cfm
> >
> > DV
> >
>
> I was surprised by the number of presentations related to
> Tyrannosaurus, as well! There's a lot (at least 6 so far!). I'm
> also excited about the papers that could stem from these presentations.
>
> Richard Hengst: "Gravity and the T. rex backbone"
> John Horner: "Age and longevity of Tyrannosaurus rex"
> James Kirkland: "A new, basal-most therizinosauroid (Theropoda:
> Maniraptora) from Utah demonstrates a Pan-Laurasian distribution
> for Early Cretaceous (Barremian) therizinosauroids"
> (More therizinosauroids from Utah?)
> David Krauss: "The biomechanics of a plausible hunting strategy
> for Tyrannosaurus rex"
> Jun Liu: "Phylogeny of Ornithischia"
> (I await with great anticipation)
> Peter Makovicky: "Basal ceratopsians from China and Mongolia with
> a reappraisal of basal ceratopsian relationships"
> (I've been hoping for a paper on this for awhile with all of
> these recently described forms- Lamaceratops, Magnirostris,
> Hongshanosaurus, etc., etc.)
> Christopher Ott: "New ceratopsid dinosaur material from the Hell
> Creek Formation of South Dakota"
> (Were ceratopsids previously known from Hell Creek?)
> William Parsons: "Postcranial ontogeny of Deinonychus antirrhopus
> (Saurischia, Theropoda)"
> (I hope that all these recent presentations on Deinonychus
> eventually result in a nice big monograph on it)
> Gregory Paul: "Speed in giant tyrannosaurs: anatomical and
> scaling comparison of running potential with living animals"
> (But... I thought there already was a paper on this last year by
> a similiar name by Bakker)
> David Peters: "Viviparity and maternal care in pterosaurs and
> other higher prolacertiforms"
> (Ara? 0.o)
> Karin Peyer: "The phylogenetic relationship of the French
> Compsognathus within the Compsognathidae and coelurosaurs"
> (I wonder if this means the other specimen of Compsognathus isn't
> the same species?)
> Larry Rinehart: "Vision characteristics of Coelophysis bauri
> based on sclerotic ring, orbit, and skull morphology"
> (See Coelophysis see small animals to snarf down)
> José Ruiz-Omentildeaca: "Ornithopod dinosaurs in the Early
> Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)"
> (Perhaps these are the spanish 'hypsilophodonts' mentioned previously)
> Mary Schweitzer: "A novel dinosaurian tissue exhibiting unusual
> preservation"
> (Unusually novel!)
> William Sellers: "Speed in giant tyrannosaurs: evolutionary
> computer simulation"
> David Smith: "A comparison of North American therizinosaur
> (Theropoda: Dinosauria) braincases"
> Eric Snively: "Nasal fusion reinforced the rostrum of tyrannosaurids"
> Hans-Dieter Sues: "Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian)
> of Dzharakuduk, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan"
> (Perhaps these will be more complete than specimens previously
> recovered in this part of the planet...)
> Robert Sullivan: "The Kirtlandian land-vertebrate "age" and the
> end of Late Cretaceous dinosaur provincialism in the North
> American Western Interior as we know it"
> (Not as easy to try and sing...)
> Ronald Tykoski: "Ontogenetic stage assessment and the position of
> Coelophysoidea within basal Theropoda"
> (Always glad to see work on ontogeny in theropods!)
> David Warren: "A large nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Cedar
> Mountain Formation of Utah"
> (ANOTHER ANKYLOSAUR FROM UTAH?!)
> Lawrence Witmer: "The ear region, cerebral endocast, and cephalic
> sinuses of the abelisaurid theropod dinosaur Majungatholus"
> Chong-xi Yuan: "New anatomical observation of Shenzhouraptor
> sinensis (Avialae) of Jehol Biota from China and cursorial origin
> of avian flight"
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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