Category Archives: Digitization
Author Interview: Kimi Chapelle & Massospondylus Skull Anatomy
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Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 2)
The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur Egg
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in Mongolia during the 1920s, attributed to Protoceratops. A few unlucky “Protoceratops” eggs were fossilized next to the jaws of another dinosaur (Oviraptor, which … Continue reading
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inSharing Paleodata (Part 4): MorphoSource
Today I continue my series highlighting repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here. MORPHOSOURCE (http://morphosource.org/) MorphoSource is a data repository for 3D data – raw CT and microCT data, but … Continue reading
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Posted by Digitization, open data, paleontology, repository
inA digital head for Acanthostega
What has 16 fingers and a digital skull? Acanthostega, that’s what! Acanthostega was one of the first limbed (rather than strictly “finned”) vertebrates, living around 365 million years ago in the shallow waters of modern day Greenland. Imagine something that looked roughly like … Continue reading
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