Matthew Inabinett

Vertebrate palaeontologist studying mastodons. It's mostly natural history around here (or U2). he/him

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@DrPardi @ChrisWidga She’s got her 1st molars in moderate wear, incompletely-reabsorbed alveoli for her dp4s, and 3rd molars only partially erupted, plus the humeral proximal epiphysis is fused but with obvious sutures… so a young adult, probably ~20-22 or so?

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@ChrisWidga @captainfossil @PRECISETHF @goodchild_owen @HJ_arts02 @Dr_Mastodonna @AltonDooley Warren’s single tusk is natural to my knowledge. Cited in Loomis 1918 (I think) as having the other alveolus incompletely developed “partly filled with bone”. There’s a mandible at Wheaton College (I think) that’s also got only a single tiny tusk, and surely others as well…

[Matthew Bushell @Megafauna_Matt]

Finally will be presenting my thesis research next wednesday! Very excited to defend! Will likely have a zoom link for those interested!

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@Dr_Mastodonna @JanFreedman That lower tooth looks like Cuvieronius to me… exciting stuff!!

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@Dr_Mastodonna Looks like a partial mastodon tooth root with a little bit of the broken-off crown to me

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@DrPardi @ChrisWidga @amjukar @Megafauna_Matt and I would be happy to provide a run through the best watering holes and best Plio-Pleistocene conversations in JC

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

Bunny butt (or rabbit sacral vert, if you prefer) from Bat Cave

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

RIP to the brown marmorated stinkbug (“the state bird of Tennessee”) who got inside the price display on the gas pump and died

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

For the bun lovers in the audience, here are the tooth roots of a rabbit from the Bat Cave Pleistocene assemblage. Never realized how funky they are!

And yes, I realize I’m tweeting about…… small mammals. What’s the world coming to…?

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@NS_Museum #MastodonMonday

What’s the difference between a person shopping at a bakery and a foraging mastodon?

One chooses loaves, the other chews with lophs.

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@NS_Museum #MastodonMonday
Here’s a really bad one: what do you call an elephant with its first postgraduate degree?

A masterdon.

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

@NS_Museum #MastodonMonday what do you call a high-ranking mafia elephant?

A mastodon.

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

I can safely say that after ~4 hours of rehousing Bat Cave fossil material, I have now both seen and written “Marmota monax” more than in than in the entire preceding 26 years combined

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

Bad news for skunk appreciators: the Tri-Cities’ annual beginning-of-the-year skunk apocalypse has begun. Today I passed at least fifteen pancaked mephitids driving to and from Gray.

[Matthew Inabinett @CMIPalaeo]

This is how I felt doing lab quizzes in my mineralogy class

[Ken Feder @fiftysitesbook]

Busted.
Molly has a rock collection and was asking me to identify the rocks one at a time.

Me: That’s quartz.
Me: Ooo. That’s obsidian.
Me: Nice. Jasper.
Molly: How about this one?
Me: Oh. Mmmm. Um. That’s, uh, a rock rock.
Molly: Oh. So you don’t know.

Damn!

[Shyla Davison @Shylasaurus]

Didn't you know that here & there is a technical locality term? Very informative.......