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SVP 2017
Topic Started: Jul 20 2017, 04:46 PM (1,187 Views)
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The program book of the 2017 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting has been released, and can be viewed here.

I haven't looked through the full list of abstracts yet (I'll post what I find in a bit), but if last year's SVP abstracts are anything to go by, there's apt to be a bounty of material in these. So far I've heard of a new species of Parasaurolophus from Upper Cretaceous Utah, some research into gliding and roosting behavior in eleutheriodontids from Jurassic China, and embryonic Deinonychus remains.

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Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Lori is finally getting described.
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Can't wait to read it XD

EDIT: Reading through this, I managed to find two interesting things:
- "A large Archosauriform (Erthyosuchidae?) maxilla from the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation." (Page 27)
- "A long-necked Tanystropheid from the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation." (Page 27)
Edited by Dapper Man, Jul 20 2017, 05:55 PM.
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Haven't gotten time to go through many abstracts yet, so here's some titles that caught my eye (completely non-exhaustive list, this is just the stuff I posted over in the Saurian discord nobody else had posted about - most of the really big stuff isn't here):

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Your sauropodomorph matrix has how many characters?!
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Any on non-therian mammals? I see the Kayentatherium aquatic habits proposal, but otherwise...
Lemuria:
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Any jawless fish sections? Pdfs are annoying in that you can't ctrl+f a word you want.
Edited by IIGSY, Jul 20 2017, 07:43 PM.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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I wouldn't really have the eye to have payed titles about those much attention (fish or non-crown mammals), I'd recommend you look through it yourself since you know what to look for.

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Any jawless fish sections? Pdfs are annoying in that you can't ctrl+v a word you want.

ctrl+f is working for me in the SVP booklet pdf.
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THE POLYPHYLY OF MOSASAURS: RESULTS FROM AN EXPANSIVE PYTHONOMORPH PHYLOGENY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MULTIPLE MARINE RADIATIONS AMONG CRETACEOUS SQUAMATES


May I just say that this is a really interesting thing? Also lizards are best reptiles. FITE ME.
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All of the sauropod abstracts have been compiled here. If a pdf is not displaying, try a different browser.
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I wouldn't really have the eye to have payed titles about those much attention (fish or non-crown mammals), I'd recommend you look through it yourself since you know what to look for.

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Any jawless fish sections? Pdfs are annoying in that you can't ctrl+v a word you want.

ctrl+f is working for me in the SVP booklet pdf.
Yeah, I meant control f
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Any on non-therian mammals? I see the Kayentatherium aquatic habits proposal, but otherwise...

So far I've found:

-Various studies into chewing and teeth; in the field of non-therians, there was a study on symmetrodont chewing mechanisms, another one finding similarities between the molars of docodonts and didelphids in terms of crushing and grinding efficiency, one about Ptilodus' feeding ecology, and another one about possible diphyodonty in haramiyidans (referenced as a possible supporting factor of the group being true mammals).

-The first known metatherian remains recovered from Japan

-First recovered postcranial material from Gondwanan multituberculates

-New early Paleocene (Puertan) multituberculates from Wyoming's Fort Butte Formation

Most of the non-therian discussion seems to be concentrated around page 30 of the PDF; there may be more, but this is what I've seen thus far.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Anything from Dinosaur park formation? or Yixian formation? or Santana formation? or Ischigualasto formation?
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Interesting abstracts observed thus far:

A Rather Long List

That's it for tonight - more to come tomorrow. Stay tuned!
Edited by Sphenodon, Jul 21 2017, 10:17 AM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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