sirjoscha.bsky.social
Director of Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Bayreuth, a regional museum of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History | Pala(e)ontologist with reptilian bias | Associate Editor for Journal of Systematic Palaeotology | turtle evolution
👤 Joined on 05 November 2023
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@sirjoscha.bsky.socialArrived in Buenos Aires. Sitting in a cafe. Portsmouth vs Norwich on the telly.
Show PostI think this is indicative of a wider problem - the urge to stick names on as many things as possible is visible in lots of groups, including people trying to name every last node on their favoured phylogeny. We also have people like Greg Paul committing outright taxonomic vandalism.
Show PostTo be fair, such a project should probably be done both with and excluding mammaliaforms. The identification potential of mammal cheek teeth really don't seem to have parallels in most other vertebrate clades.
Show PostYeah that would be an interesting undergrad project!
Show PostSomeone should do that skeletal completeness stuff for holotypes only and compare across clades
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