tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post7556315645147511837..comments2023-11-05T04:41:29.920-08:00Comments on Dracovenator: My dark secretAdam Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03046084686097124394noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post-11988208030934454832008-06-24T01:00:00.000-07:002008-06-24T01:00:00.000-07:00Hi Randy,'Recovery' may not be a good word as I th...Hi Randy,<BR/><BR/>'Recovery' may not be a good word as I think I may get involved in this research. Hey, if it means research trips back home, then I'm all for it! So far I've just dabbled with alpha taxonomy but want to look at the broadscale evolutiopn of the southern Australian fauna as a whole. There are bunches of questions like: why did so many lineages give up their planktonic larval stages? did they do this simultaneously? Because of high degree of endemism and reasonably rapid speciation we can look at when morphological change occurs, is it when populations invade new basins or is it simultaneous across the region etc. etc.<BR/>Sounds quite fun doesn't it?Adam Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03046084686097124394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post-24017512561382093932008-06-22T17:47:00.000-07:002008-06-22T17:47:00.000-07:00Hey, at least they're not boring bryozoans.All kid...Hey, at least they're not boring bryozoans.<BR/><BR/>All kidding aside; I actually applaud Adam for taking the first step to recovery (admission). Not may people know that I actually once had an abstract on the phylogenetic relationships of the crustacean genus <I>Cancer</I>.<BR/><BR/>What sorts of things are you doing with Miocene snails? I bet its nice to actually have statistically significant sample sizes. Also, there are some pretty cool marine vertebrates from the Cenozoic of Australia.<BR/><BR/>Randy220myahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403919493457640549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post-87866267012629504712008-06-20T09:23:00.000-07:002008-06-20T09:23:00.000-07:00Well, I've been using "eocene clams" as the canoni...Well, I've been using "eocene clams" as the canonical Boring Thing To Work On for many years now -- as in "it would have been great to do a Ph.D with XYZ, but he wanted me to work on Eocene clams". And you did mention that one of your local transgressions was late Eocene, so it seemed altogether too close to be comfortable.<BR/><BR/>No, I never saw the site, but I do remember Darren using an image of a Supersaurus scapula that was presumably nicked from it in a TZv1 post: http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2007/01/biggest-sauropod-ever-part-i.htmlMike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post-74344011355605335632008-06-20T07:06:00.000-07:002008-06-20T07:06:00.000-07:00'Eocene clams!' Hrrmph. My papers deal with Miocen...'Eocene clams!' Hrrmph. My papers deal with Miocene snails. <BR/>I wonder if my traffic would be higher if I did call it Pantydraco? Did you ever see the strange website by a sauropodophile who had photoshopped various scantily-clad maidens into famous sauropod images. The site is no longer extant I'm afraidAdam Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03046084686097124394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618628476414479312.post-61750812509838909132008-06-20T06:50:00.000-07:002008-06-20T06:50:00.000-07:00Blimey, Adam. Frankly, I'm shocked. I thought yo...Blimey, Adam. Frankly, I'm shocked. I thought your dark secret was going to be that you'd worked on an ornithischian or something -- which I was prepared to forgive you. I had no idea you had sunk to this depth of depravity. The proverbial Eocene clams, indeed!<BR/><BR/>(As if naming your blog after a mere theropod were not shameful enough! OK, admittedly it's one that you named yourself, but you could have stayed within the glorious bounds of Sauropodomopha by calling it ... er ... Pantydraco. OK, point taken.)Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com