Hard to believe it's been a whole year since Traskasaura was born into the world! The paper is available at the following link, or you can DM me for a copy: https://t.co/uZeAadfAGI. Stay tuned for more plesiosaur goodness on the horizon! π§΅7/7
Happy Traskasaura Day, everyone! Our paper describing this basal elasmosaur, the provincial fossil of #BritishColumbia, was published one year ago today. Read on for details about the visual choices we made to bring its reconstruction to life! π§΅1/7
#FossilFriday#plesiosaur
We did not reconstruct our ammonites with a hood, since a supposed fossil hood turned out to just be a shell fragment (Lehmann et al. 2015), today's neocephalopods lack a hood, and being able to retreat deep into the shell may have made one unnecessary (Monks & Young 1998).π§΅6/7
New research from Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, Robin O'Keefe, and Christopher Brochu: a Polycotylus cervical vertebra with a Xiphactinus tooth embedded in it!
https://t.co/QZXiBTo06x
π¨ New job alert! π¨
If you would like to join our lab as a postdoctoral researcher and work with us on unraveling the evolutionary history of #plesiosaurs, please contact me!
Unktaheela is a very small plesiosaur. Here's the wiki, it's a neat little creature: https://t.co/ZtPIwdtjuQ
Side note, the lore snippets are my favorite part of the cards we've made, and this one might be my favorite.
#paleoart#dinosaur#earthsword#cardgame
It's been a wild 4 weeks since our #Traskasaura publication: covered by ~900 outlets, 2nd-highest Journal of Systematic Palaeontology impact score in the last 3 years, & 10th-highest ever! (Infographic ~2 weeks old) #MarshallUScience#paleontology#FossilFriday