Sentences with phrase «paleobiology of»

The presence of a complete skeleton with soft - tissue body contours and contents of the digestive tract brings us close to the paleobiology of the animal's life and death (the living individual is reconstructed in Fig.

Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Primates: Systematics and Paleobiology of Primitive Plesiadapiforms.

Gregory Erickson, a Florida State University researcher who specializes in the use of bone and tooth histology to interpret the paleobiology of dinosaurs, was also part of the discovery team.

Key to assessing the health of today's rapidly changing ecosystems is understanding their history, which can only be read from the fossil record, or the paleobiology of the region, the scientists argue.

Whether dealing with historically intact or novel ecosystems — the 47 percent of Earth's ice - free land that has been altered by humans — scientists need to look at the paleobiology of the region, that is, what the ecosystem looked like before humans altered it, and seek to rebuild it to some degree toward that natural balance, Barnosky said.

«To reconstruct the paleobiology of long - extinct species we need to have an idea of their body mass,» explains Mark Grabowski.

«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.

Not exact matches

Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, started the company in 2011.

Currently a professor at the University of Alberta and research chair in dinosaur paleobiology, he spoke with Canadian Business online editor Josephine Lim.

Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

At Ames, Farmer turned back to his grad - school interests in paleobiology and sedimentology and, combining them with his interest in microbial communities, found his research niche: the study of microbial biosediments and their relation to early biosphere evolution.

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Lead author, Kenshu Shimada, professor of paleobiology at DePaul University, said the findings are based on newly collected tiny fossil teeth, as well as a reinterpretation of previously reported specimens from Cretaceous rocks in the U.S. and Russia.

With more than 40 million specimens in the museum's Department of Paleobiology, «We are always learning new things about the vast legacy built by our predecessors at the museum,» Pyenson said.

Kevin Hatala of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, recently analyzed one set of prints at Laetoli using photogrammetry.

Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

Department of Paleobiology, MRC 121, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20013 — 7012, USA.

A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at different rates for different species, especially during the evolution of Homo, the genus that includes humans, chewing teeth tended to evolve at more similar rates.

In 2002, Motani estimated that Stenopterygius, a 180 - million - year - old ichthyosaur from Europe, had a cruising speed comparable with tuna, which are among the fastest of all living fish (Paleobiology, vol 28, p 251).

Drawing on archival material and interviews with principal participants, Sepkoski examines the rise of paleobiology — as a discipline and as an approach to understanding the history and processes of evolution on Earth.

The atlas opens new pathways for the investigation of the paleobiology and evolution of what may arguably be one of the most famous, yet surprisingly poorly known animals that went extinct in recent human history.

In 2011 Meredith Perry, then a senior paleobiology student at the University of Pennsylvania, reached for her laptop charger and found herself wondering whether that cumbersome cord might someday become obsolete.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China; and Hou's colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Arthropods (evolution and phylogeny) Bear Gulch, Heath Sahle Formation, Montana Burgess Shale Cambrian Explosion (metazoa, balaterans) Chengjiang Doushantuo Formation Eurypterids Exceptional Fossil Preservation Fossil Record Fossilization House Range of Utah Insects Jawless Fish Kaili Biota Krukowski Quarry Lebanon Lithographic Limestone McAbee Fossil Beds Paleobiology: Fossils through Time Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics Pioche Formation Stromatolites Taxonomy and Systematics Trilobites Vendian Fossils

The fossils were particularly important at the time to understand Cambrian paleobiology because of their often exquisite preservation that included soft body parts.

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

After drawing from the Paleobiology Database to measure diversity — or the number of species — for fossil mammals, Grossnickle and Newham turned to teeth to see how different they were from each other.

Laura Soul is a Peter Buck Deep - Time postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.

Cheryl D. Stimpson — Senior Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University

Chet C. Sherwood — Professor of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology; Director of GW Mind - Brain Institute, The George Washington University

The standing diversity of fossil primate species throughout the Cenozoic was estimated with a database for crown primates that combined temporal ranges for species from the Paleobiology Database (http://paleodb.org; data downloaded on 16 October 2011) with additional taxon ranges from Hartwig [149] for species that were missing from the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Museum Navigation: Fossils Home Geological Time Paleobiology Geological History Tree of Life Fossil Sites Fossils Evolution Fossil Record Museum Fossils

Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil - record quality Paleobiology Cambridge Core

Citation: Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J, Hurum JH, von Koenigswald W, Smith BH (2009) Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology.

Grades: 6 - 8, 9 - 12 The Paleobiology Department at The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History developed this site to provide an interactive timeline of geological history.

Katja Schulz a déplacé les classifications par World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), OBIS depth range resource, BOLDS resource for species - level taxa, EOL Group on Flickr, NMNH Invertebrate Zoology resource, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, BOLDS resource for higher - level taxa, Paleobiology Database, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Commons, Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL - China 2012, and Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: April 2013 de Dichapetalum vers Leucosia.

Howard J. Falcon - Lang (2005) «Global climate analysis of growth rings in woods, and its implications for deep - time paleoclimate studies» Paleobiology: Vol.

Papers were published in Syllogeus, edited by Dr C.R.Harington of the Paleobiology Division.