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On my last day of school this year, I saw the
abstracts of the Sixth International Congress of
Vertebrate Morphology. This was in the Journal of Morphology, volume
248(3) from June, 2001. The symposium was held in Jena, Germany on July
21-26. There are tons of cool abstracts in here, many applicable to
dinosaurs, but I only had time to write the dinosaurian ones.
Carrano, 2001. The evolution of dinosaur
locomotion, 214.
Chapman, Johnson and Stevens, 2001. The posture of
Triceratops: Insight from three-dimensional modeling, scanning and prototyping,
215.
Chiappe, Coria and Dingus, 2001. Sauropod
reproductive behavior: Evidence from the Auca Mahuevo nesting site (Upper
Cretaceous, Patagonia, Argentina), 216.
Chinsamy, 2001. Growth patterns of dinosaurs,
216.
Dodson and Harris, 2001. Necks of sauropod
dinosaurs: Support for a nuchal ligament? 224.
Elzanowski, 2001. A novel reconstruction of the
Archaeopteryx skull, 227.
This is about possible kinesis in the seventh
specimen. She suggests there was flexion in front of the braincase, a
sliding lacrimal-jugal joint and a quadrate-pterygoid propulsion joint.
However, there does not appear to be a prokinetic flexion zone. Thus,
Archaeopteryx may have had a unique type of cranial kinesis.
Holliday, Sedlmayr, Ridgely and Witmer, 2001. The
articular cartilage of extent archosaur long bones: Implications for dinosaur
functional morphology and allometry, 241-242.
Hou, 2001. Chinese Mesozoic birds and the early
evolution of birds, 243.
Nothing new, lots of dated ideas like Sauriurae and
a couple obvious misspellings- Changhengornis and Tibeinia. Suggests birds
may have been polyphyletic *smirk* :-) .
Hurum, 2001. Tarbosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus,
243.
Actually a misnomer, this has nothing to do
whatsoever with the Tarbosaurus-Tyrannosaurus debate. It is simply a
shorter version of the JVP short paper discussing how the fused supradentary and
coronoid(?) made the mandible of tyrannosaurids rigid.
Kundrat, Cruickshank, Manning and Joysey, 2001.
Structure of the embryonic parabasisphenoid in a therizinosauroid dinosaur,
251-252.
Discusses the pneumatized basispenoid of a
therizinosauroid embryo found in a dendroolithid egg (75-90 mm) from the Nanchao
Formation, Henan, China. Most is on details of the internal structure too
technical for me to find useful.
Kundrat and Currie, 2001. On the embryonic neural
endocranium of lambeosaurid hadrosaurs, 252.
Marshall and Barreto, 2001. A healed Torosaurus
skull injury and the implications for developmental morphology of the
ceratopsian frill, 259.
Parrish and Stevens, 2001. Neck mobility in
long-necked vertebrates: From modern mammals to sauropods, 270.
Rayfield, 2001. Functional morphology of the skull
of Allosaurus fragilis: A study using the finite element method,
274.
Rega and Brochu, 2001. Evidence of thoracic
breathing in Tyrannosaurus rex, based upon recent anatomical and pathological
evidence from "Sue".
Suggests that Tyrannosaurus rex may have lacked a
sternum and that a previously identified sternum was actually fused
gastralia.
Ruben and Jones, 2001. Feathered dinosaurs and
other myths: A cold hard look at reality, 278.
So...... horrible....... difficult to read without
laughing. Remember everyone- Sinosauropteryx's and Sinornithosaurus'
"filaments and feathers" are simply collagen fibers, Pelecanimimus has scales
(bwah?!), Protarchaeopteryx is a volant bird and Caudipteryx is also
avian. It's all so obvious that I feel like screaming and doing violent
things when I realize people can still support this type of crap. But I
digress.....
Sander and Klein, 2001. Heterochrony in
sauropodomorph dinosaur evolution as deduced from bone histology,
279.
Signore and Raja, 2001. The use of rigid tails and
grasping claws in Dromaeosauridae and Troodontidae (Theropoda, Dinosauria),
284.
Signore, 2001. Predatory strike in some predatory
dinosaurs, 285.
Snively and Russell, 2001. Integrated bone and
ligament function of the metatarsus of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs,
286.
Vickayous and Russell, 2001. The osseous secondary
palate of ankylosaurs: variation in confugurations of the nasal pathways,
295.
Mickey Mortimer
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