Sullivan Lab

The collective voice of Corwin Sullivan’s palaeontology lab at the University of Alberta. We mostly study archosaur structure, function and evolution.

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

Our very own Yan-yin Wang is presenting his research on Archosaur uncinates as a virtual presenter at the Currie Museum this Friday.

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

Our Virtual Speaker Series continues this FRIDAY with our guest speaker, Yan-yin Wang! He will be presenting his talk , ‘Uncinate in a Archosaurs, A Tale of Captain Hook in the Fossil Record’ at 3pm (MT)!

https://t.co/QKwMjjs81W

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

#FossilFriday A presacral rib from the tyrannosaur, Gorgosaurus libratus is our featured fossil. This particular rib is special because it preserves an uncinate scar. To find out what this means, and it’s significance to palaeontologists, Yan-yin Wang on Oct. 30 at 3 PM

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

#ThrowbackThursday

Last week, Michael Hudgins, ( @M_N_Hudgins ), a Palaeontology grad student at the University of Alberta in the Sullivan Lab, virtually presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, #2020SVP.

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

#ThrowbackThursday Last week, our museum Curator and University of Alberta Professor, Dr. Corwin Sullivan, was able to virtually present at the Annual Meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology #2020SVP. Founded in the 1940s, the society has over 2,300 members

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

Our newest edition to the Sullivan Lab, the PhD student @Taia_Henzler, is presenting her Masters thesis on late Cretaceous Dinosaur communities of North America. The talk can be found in Macroecology and Macroevolution.

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

Our Masters student @M_N_Hudgins is presenting a poster that is part of his masters thesis on the new thescelosaurid material from the Wapiti Formation. The poster can be found in Dinosaur Systematics, Diversity & Ecology.

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

While you're enjoying this year’s #2020SVP, check out the poster by Sullivan lab PhD candidate Yan-yin Wong on the homology of uncinate processes in #Archosauria. The poster can be found in Dinosaur Systematics, Diversity & Ecology.

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

The Sullivan Lab is presenting research at #2020SVP first virtual meeting. Our Heroic leader Dr. Corwin Sullivan is presenting a poster on new Caenagnathid material from the Wapiti Formation. The poster can be found in Dinosaur Systematics, Diversity & Ecology.

[Mark James Powers @MarkPowersJ]

Anyone for #ThyreophoraThursday? A few weeks ago #PALEO419 was doing an overview of Thyreophora and Sauropodomorpha. Unfortunately sauropodomorpha doesn't alliterate as well with a day of the week ... SO enjoy Pinacosaurus in all of its ornate glory! #paleontology #UAlberta

[Michael Naylor Hudgins @M_N_Hudgins]

I am entirely late on this, but I recently published a paper on my undergraduate thesis when I was at George Mason university titled the evolution of respiratory systems in Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha, the end-Triassic extinction. https://t.co/AHI1lzT5Oz

[Michael Naylor Hudgins @M_N_Hudgins]

A cast of Acrocanthosaurus atokensis skull, a theropod dinosaur, from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for #FossilFriday
#paleontology #theropod #dinosaurs #acrocanthosaurus

[Sullivan Lab @AncientAnatomy]

Here is a cast of the Tyrannosaurus rex "jane" specimen at the North Carolina museum of natural sciences for #FossilFriday.
#tyrannosaurus

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

Turtles were common during the late Cretaceous in Alberta, and their fossilized shell fragments like this one have been found not only in the southern badlands but up here in the northwestern Wapiti Formation! #FossilFriday

[Mark James Powers @MarkPowersJ]

#FossilFriday from last weeks #PALEO419! Progressive protrusion of pachycephalosaur progeny! While all these specimens are different species, they do highlight the progressive stages of "doming" pachycephalosaurs go through as they mature. #ontogeny #paleontology #ualberta

[Rebekah Vice @BekahVice]

Been lacking in #FossilFriday posts lately. So here's a couple happy dimetrodons for ya! Although often found partying it up with your favourite dinos in kid's toys, these non-mammalian synapsids are not dinosaurs at all. In fact, they roamed the earth BEFORE any dinosaur did!

[Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum @CurrieMuseum]

Want to learn about what we've been up to in the field? Check out #DinoTrails Season 2 - Episode 4 and see what #dinosaurs we've been finding in northern Alberta! https://t.co/oaimjZN4z8

[Rebekah Vice @BekahVice]

Fun #FossilFriday Fact: Did you know that the first ceratopsian ever named didn't even have a skull? Agathaumas was described by Cope in 1872 before we knew horned dinos ever existed. It's now thought to be a Triceratops like the one at the @ROMtoronto