New articles will be coming soon. I've spent the week and a half since I've been back in Montana recuperating from a moderate case of poison oak, writing major revisions for an article about Pliocene pelagornithids from California (for JVP, with N. Adam Smith), and completing revisions for an article on nonmammal vertebrates from the Purisima Formation (for PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology).
Anyway, sometime in the next week or two, the February issue of Palaios will be published, which includes one of my first published articles: Mammalian bite marks on juvenile fur seal bones from the late Neogene Purisima Formation of Central California, by myself and Frank Perry of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
To view the abstract of the forthcoming article, go here. Once the article comes out, I'll have a less technical summary of it posted here at coastal paleo.
perspectives on marine vertebrate paleontology
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! I read the abstract and i can't wait for it to come out.
ReplyDeleteInteresting list of candidates. Too bad the Buena Vista museum got plundered though. They had an Allodesmus skull with similar bite marks on it. Despite your disdain for the nature of the collection, perhaps the specimen could have been of use. I have a photo. If you look hard enough you can make them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jobaria/2871172401/in/photostream/
Nice to hear from you. Unfortunately, even if the museum had not been plundered, the material is untouchable anyway - and it's very unfortunate that any vertebrate paleontologists published on that material. Tom Stidham's paper on Osteodontornis orri is now untestable, because that material's being sold off at Tuscon this week.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Sold? kill! Kill! MURDER! KILL!
ReplyDeleteSorry, under pressure lately. Very sad to hear. If i can ever get my plans in motion and go search the Round Mountain Silt, maybe i can find some new stuff for you and other marine mammal paleontologists...