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D Inosaur Paleobiology
Topics in Paleobiology The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientifi c understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million-year-old dinosaurs than many species of living organisms. This book provides a contemporary review of dinosaur science intended for students, researchers, and dinosaur enthusiasts. It reviews the latest knowledge on dinosaur anatomy and phylogeny, Brusatte how dinosaurs functioned as living animals, and the grand narrative of dinosaur evolution across the Mesozoic. A particular focus is on the fossil evidence and explicit methods that allow paleontologists to study dinosaurs in rigorous detail. Scientifi c knowledge of dinosaur biology and evolution is shifting fast, Dinosaur and this book aims to summarize current understanding of dinosaur science in a technical, but accessible, style, supplemented with vivid photographs and illustrations. Paleobiology Dinosaur The Topics in Paleobiology Series is published in collaboration with the Palaeontological Association, Paleobiology and is edited by Professor Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Stephen Brusatte is a vertebrate paleontologist and PhD student at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on the anatomy, systematics, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, especially theropod dinosaurs. He is particularly interested in the origin of major groups such Stephen L. Brusatte as dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. Steve is the author of over 40 research papers and three books, and his work has been profi led in The New York Times, on BBC Television and NPR, and in many other press outlets. -
Tetrapod Biostratigraphy and Biochronology of the Triassic–Jurassic Transition on the Southern Colorado Plateau, USA
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244 (2007) 242–256 www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo Tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Triassic–Jurassic transition on the southern Colorado Plateau, USA Spencer G. Lucas a,⁎, Lawrence H. Tanner b a New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd. N.W., Albuquerque, NM 87104-1375, USA b Department of Biology, Le Moyne College, 1419 Salt Springs Road, Syracuse, NY 13214, USA Received 15 March 2006; accepted 20 June 2006 Abstract Nonmarine fluvial, eolian and lacustrine strata of the Chinle and Glen Canyon groups on the southern Colorado Plateau preserve tetrapod body fossils and footprints that are one of the world's most extensive tetrapod fossil records across the Triassic– Jurassic boundary. We organize these tetrapod fossils into five, time-successive biostratigraphic assemblages (in ascending order, Owl Rock, Rock Point, Dinosaur Canyon, Whitmore Point and Kayenta) that we assign to the (ascending order) Revueltian, Apachean, Wassonian and Dawan land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVF). In doing so, we redefine the Wassonian and the Dawan LVFs. The Apachean–Wassonian boundary approximates the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. This tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Triassic–Jurassic transition on the southern Colorado Plateau confirms that crurotarsan extinction closely corresponds to the end of the Triassic, and that a dramatic increase in dinosaur diversity, abundance and body size preceded the end of the Triassic. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Triassic–Jurassic boundary; Colorado Plateau; Chinle Group; Glen Canyon Group; Tetrapod 1. Introduction 190 Ma. On the southern Colorado Plateau, the Triassic– Jurassic transition was a time of significant changes in the The Four Corners (common boundary of Utah, composition of the terrestrial vertebrate (tetrapod) fauna. -
Interactive Effects of Shifting Body Size and Feeding Adaptation Drive
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/101675; this version posted January 20, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Interactive effects of shifting body size and feeding 2 adaptation drive interaction strengths of protist 3 predators under warming 4 Temperature adaptation of feeding 5 K.E.Fussmann 1,2, B. Rosenbaum 2, 3, U.Brose 2, 3, B.C.Rall 2, 3 6 1 J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Berliner 7 Str. 28, 37073 Göttingen, Germany 8 2 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher 9 Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 10 3 Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743 Jena, 11 Germany 12 Corresponding author: Katarina E. Fussmann 13 telephone: +49 341 9733195 14 email: [email protected] 15 Keywords: climate change, functional response, body size, temperature adaptation, activation 16 energies, microcosm experiments, predator-prey, interaction strength, Bayesian statistics 17 Paper type: Primary Research 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/101675; this version posted January 20, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 18 Abstract 19 Global change is heating up ecosystems fuelling biodiversity loss and species extinctions. -
Dr. Michael L. Rosenzweig the Man the Scientist the Legend
BIOL 7083 Community Ecologist Presentation Dr. Michael L. Rosenzweig The Man The Scientist The Legend Michael Rosenzweigs Biographical Information Born in 1941 Jewish Parents wanted him to be a physician Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1966 Advisor: Robert H. MacArthur, Ph.D. Married for over 40 years to Carole Ruth Citron Together they have three children, and several grandchildren Biographical Information Known to be an innovator Founded the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1975, and was its first head In 1987 he founded the scientific journal Evolutionary Ecology In 1998, when prices for journals began to rise, he founded a competitor, Evolutionary Ecology Research Honor and Awards Ecological Society of America Eminent Ecologist Award for 2008 Faculty of Sci, Univ Arizona, Career Teaching Award, 2001 Ninth Lukacs Symp: Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award, 1999 International Ecological Soc: Distinguished Statistical Ecologist, 1998 Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Univ Arizona: Fellow, 1997±8 Mountain Research Center, Montana State Univ: Distinguished Lecturer, 1997 Univ Umeå, Sweden: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 1997 Univ Miami: Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1996±7 Univ British Columbia: Dennis Chitty Lecturer, 1995±6 Iowa State Univ: 30th Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecturer, 1994 Michigan State Univ, Kellogg Biological Station: Eminent Ecologist, 1992 Honor and Awards Ben-Gurion Univ of the Negev, Israel: Jacob Blaustein Scholar, 1992 -
Selection on Stability Across Ecological Scales
Published in 7UHQGVLQ(FRORJ\ (YROXWLRQ ± which should be cited to refer to this work. Selection on stability across ecological scales 1 2 3 4 Jonathan J. Borrelli , Stefano Allesina , Priyanga Amarasekare , Roger Arditi , 1 5 6 7 8 Ivan Chase , John Damuth , Robert D. Holt , Dmitrii O. Logofet , Mark Novak , 4 9 10 11 Rudolf P. Rohr , Axel G. Rossberg , Matthew Spencer , J. Khai Tran , and 1 Lev R. Ginzburg 1 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA 2 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3 University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4 Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland 5 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 6 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 7 Laboratory of Mathematical Ecology, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 8 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA 9 Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, UK 10 University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 11 Syngenta, Greensboro, NC, USA Much of the focus in evolutionary biology has been on nature with a higher frequency than configurations that the adaptive differentiation among organisms. It is are strongly intrinsically unstable. equally important to understand the processes that If there is no way for a given set of species to coexist (not result in similarities of structure among systems. Here, feasible), then the configuration is doomed to extinction. we discuss examples of similarities occurring at different For example, in the well-studied intraguild predation ecological scales, from predator–prey relations (attack module, an intraguild predator and its prey (both of whom rates and handling times) through communities (food- share a third resource) are unlikely to coexist if both web structures) to ecosystem properties. -
Ninety-Third Annual Saturday Morning the Seventeenth of May Two Thousand and Eight at Half Past Nine
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY Ninety-Third Annual COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION Saturday Morning The Seventeenth of May Two Thousand and Eight at Half Past Nine MOODY COLISEUM THIS IS FLY SHEET - CURIOUS TRANSLUCENTS IRREDECENTS SILVER #27 TEXT DOES NOT PRINT GRAY THIS IS FLY SHEET - CURIOUS TRANSLUCENTS IRREDECENTS SILVER #27 TEXT DOES NOT PRINT GRAY SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY In 1911, a Methodist education commission made a commitment to establish a major Methodist university in Texas. More than 600 acres of open prairie and $300,000 pledged by a group of Dallas citizens secured the university for Dallas, and it was chartered as Southern Methodist University. In appreciation of the city’s support, the first building to be constructed on the campus was named Dallas Hall. It remains the centerpiece and symbol of SMU. When the University opened in 1915, it consisted of two buildings, 706 students, a 35-member faculty, and total assets of $636,540. The original schools of SMU were the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Theology, and the School of Music. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. The first charge of its founders, however, was that it become a great university, not necessarily a great Methodist university. From its founding, SMU has been nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to the values of academic freedom and open inquiry. Today, Southern Methodist University offers a comprehensive curriculum through Dedman College – the college of humanities and sciences – and six schools: Meadows School of the Arts, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, School of Engineering, Perkins School of Theology, Dedman School of Law, and Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development. -
Prehistoric Animals, in Living Color Paleontologists Are Looking Beyond Bones to Reveal the Hues of Prehistoric Animals That Vanished Millions of Years Ago
NEWS FEATURE NEWS FEATURE Prehistoric animals, in living color Paleontologists are looking beyond bones to reveal the hues of prehistoric animals that vanished millions of years ago. But the young field has its share of disagreements. Amber Dance, Science Writer Michael Benton used to tell his paleontology students that Most of these colorful revelations have emerged from they would never know the true color of a dinosaur. After fossils that contain evidence of melanin pigments— all, even fossils that sport light or dark patches may not responsible for earth tones, such as red, black, brown, ’ indicate the creature s original hue. But in recent years, the and buff—or the tiny cellular bags, called melano- vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the somes, which produce and store melanins. But some United Kingdom has had to revise those lectures. scientists are already identifying the brighter hues of In 2010, Benton and colleagues found evidence ancient snakes and insects. “Probably all of the colors that the feathered dinosaur Sinosauropteryx prima can eventually be identified,” predicts Benton. had reddish-brown stripes on its tail (1). The same year, The work is not only helping to repaint the colorful another group claimed that birdlike Anchiornis huxleyi pictures of dinosaurs that charm schoolchildren and bore a red crest on its head (2). Since then, others have discovered that a marine ichthyosaur was dark-colored, museum-goers. Color can provide clues about how and that the early bird Confuciusornis sanctus possessed animals lived, mated, or died. Bright feathers suggest dark feathers with light wing tips (3, 4) (Table 1). -
An Early Late Triassic Long-Necked Reptile with a Bony Pectoral Shield and Gracile Appendages
An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages JERZY DZIK and TOMASZ SULEJ Dzik, J. and Sulej, T. 2016. An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (4): 805–823. Several partially articulated specimens and numerous isolated bones of Ozimek volans gen. et sp. nov., from the late Carnian lacustrine deposits exposed at Krasiejów in southern Poland, enable a reconstruction of most of the skeleton. The unique character of the animal is its enlarged plate-like coracoids presumably fused with sterna. Other aspects of the skeleton seem to be comparable to those of the only known specimen of Sharovipteryx mirabilis from the latest Middle Triassic of Kyrgyzstan, which supports interpretation of both forms as protorosaurians. One may expect that the pectoral girdle of S. mirabilis, probably covered by the rock matrix in its only specimen, was similar to that of O. volans gen. et sp. nov. The Krasiejów material shows sharp teeth, low crescent scapula, three sacrals in a generalized pelvis (two of the sacrals being in contact with the ilium) and curved robust metatarsal of the fifth digit in the pes, which are unknown in Sharovipteryx. Other traits are plesiomorphic and, except for the pelvic girdle and extreme elongation of appendages, do not allow to identify any close connection of the sharovipterygids within the Triassic protorosaurians. Key words: Archosauromorpha, Sharovipteryx, protorosaurs, gliding, evolution, Carnian, Poland. Jerzy Dzik [[email protected]], Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland and Wydział Biologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Centrum Nauk Biologiczno-Chemicznych, ul. -
Paleontology and the History of Life
36954_u01.qxd 7/11/08 2:01 PM Page 80 Paleontology and the History of Life Michael Benton And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Genesis 2:19 People have always been astounded by the diversity of life, although perhaps in different ways. In prescientific times farmers saw how their crops and live- stock were merely part of a much larger richness of life, and people have al- ways striven to understand the complexity and arrangement of living things. From Aristotle to Linnaeus, scientists attempted to catalog life and to under- stand where it had come from. During the eighteenth century it became clear to all savants that the earth had been populated formerly by strange and mar- velous creatures that had since become extinct. By 1820 some rough picture of the succession of floras and faunas through geological time was beginning to emerge. Charles Darwin, during the voyage of HMS Beagle in the early 1830s, became increasingly convinced that life was more diverse than he had imagined—every island he visited sported a new crop of plants and animals. He saw the lateral (geographic) and vertical (historic) links between species and realized by 1837 that species were all linked by a great tree. The tree con- cept made it clear why species that in his time were geographically close should also be genealogically close. -
Decoding the Fossil Record of Early Lophophorates
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1284 Decoding the fossil record of early lophophorates Systematics and phylogeny of problematic Cambrian Lophotrochozoa AODHÁN D. BUTLER ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS ISSN 1651-6214 ISBN 978-91-554-9327-1 UPPSALA urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-261907 2015 Dissertation presented at Uppsala University to be publicly examined in Hambergsalen, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, Friday, 23 October 2015 at 13:15 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The examination will be conducted in English. Faculty examiner: Professor Maggie Cusack (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow). Abstract Butler, A. D. 2015. Decoding the fossil record of early lophophorates. Systematics and phylogeny of problematic Cambrian Lophotrochozoa. (De tidigaste fossila lofoforaterna. Problematiska kambriska lofotrochozoers systematik och fylogeni). Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1284. 65 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9327-1. The evolutionary origins of animal phyla are intimately linked with the Cambrian explosion, a period of radical ecological and evolutionary innovation that begins approximately 540 Mya and continues for some 20 million years, during which most major animal groups appear. Lophotrochozoa, a major group of protostome animals that includes molluscs, annelids and brachiopods, represent a significant component of the oldest known fossil records of biomineralised animals, as disclosed by the enigmatic ‘small shelly fossil’ faunas of the early Cambrian. Determining the affinities of these scleritome taxa is highly informative for examining Cambrian evolutionary patterns, since many are supposed stem- group Lophotrochozoa. The main focus of this thesis pertained to the stem-group of the Brachiopoda, a highly diverse and important clade of suspension feeding animals in the Palaeozoic era, which are still extant but with only with a fraction of past diversity. -
A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Allee Effects
W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2003 A theoretical and experimental study of Allee effects Joanna Gascoigne College of William and Mary - Virginia Institute of Marine Science Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Fresh Water Studies Commons, and the Oceanography Commons Recommended Citation Gascoigne, Joanna, "A theoretical and experimental study of Allee effects" (2003). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539616659. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.25773/v5-qwvk-b742 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ALLEE EFFECTS A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the School of Marine Science The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Joanna Gascoigne 2003 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. APPROVAL SHEET This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Joanna/Gascoigne Approved August 2003 Romuald N. Lipcius"Ph.D. Committee Chairman/Advisor L Rogar Mann, Ph.D. Mark R. Patterson, Ph.D. 1 Shandelle M. Henson, Ph.D Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI Callum Roberts, Ph.D. University of York, UK Craig Dahlgren, Ph.D. -
Sedimentology and Palaeontology of the Withycombe Farm Borehole, Oxfordshire, UK
Sedimentology and Palaeontology of the Withycombe Farm Borehole, Oxfordshire, England By © Kendra Morgan Power, B.Sc. (Hons.) A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Department of Earth Sciences Memorial University of Newfoundland May 2020 St. John’s Newfoundland Abstract The pre-trilobitic lower Cambrian of the Withycombe Formation is a 194 m thick siliciclastic succession dominated by interbedded offshore red to purple and green pyritic mudstone with minor sandstone. The mudstone contains a hyolith-dominated small shelly fauna including: orthothecid hyoliths, hyolithid hyoliths, the rostroconch Watsonella crosbyi, early brachiopods, the foraminiferan Platysolenites antiquissimus, the coiled gastropod-like Aldanella attleborensis, halkieriids, gastropods and a low diversity ichnofauna including evidence of predation by a vagile infaunal predator. The assemblage contains a number of important index fossils (Watsonella, Platysolenites, Aldanella and the trace fossil Teichichnus) that enable correlation of strata around the base of Cambrian Stage 2 from Avalonia to Baltica, as well as the assessment of the stratigraphy within the context of the lower Cambrian stratigraphic standards of southeastern Newfoundland. The pyritized nature of the assemblage has enabled the study of some of the biota using micro-CT, augmented with petrographic studies, revealing pyritized microbial filaments of probable giant sulfur bacteria. We aim to produce the first complete description of the core and the abundant small pyritized fossils preserved in it, and develop a taphonomic model for the pyritization of the “small” shelly fossils. i Acknowledgements It is important to acknowledge and thank the many people who supported me and contributed to the successful completion of this thesis.