UCMP well represented by grad students at SVP |
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UCMP was well-represented by its graduate students at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting this past October. Ten students gave or co-authored talks, or presented posters:
Talks: Marc Carrascoco-author (with Tony Barnosky) on Assessment of mammalian species richness in the northern Great Plains, northern Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Northwest during the early Arikareean. Ed DavisThe nearest-living-relative method of paleoclimate reconstruction: Testing the assumptions with species of the rodent Marmota. Bob FeranecSabertooth growth rate in Smilodon estimated from analysis of stable isotopes. Tom Stidhamco-author on Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary avifaunas in North America; also co-author (with Caroline Strömberg) on Dung beetle brood balls and notoungulate diet. |
Caroline StrömbergDung beetle brood balls and notoungulate diet. Matt WedelThe evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in the sauropoda. Greg WilsonBiogeographic implications of a new primitive tribosphenic mammal from the intertrappean beds of Rangapur, Andra Pradesh, India.
Posters: Jim ParhamOsteopygis Cope 1868, problematic or simply misunderstood?
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