megwhit.bsky.social
Vertebrate paleontologist and paleohistologist | Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago
👤 Joined on 12 November 2024
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@megwhit.bsky.socialFinally, this project was started by first author Valerie Trinidad when she was a summer undergrad intern at the Yale Peabody Museum. Valerie is now an NSF GRFP fellow, and is finishing up her M.S. with @megwhit.bsky.social before joining us at Princeton as a PhD student this August!
Show PostThis is the second paper to come from our ongoing collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe on this faunal assemblage--lots more to come!
Show PostThe presumably higher-metabolism taxa (cynodont and dinosaurs) all exhibited relatively rapid growth and unlike their South American/Indian counterparts, grew continuously throughout the year, depositing no annual growth lines
Show PostNew paper! We conducted a preliminary histological survey of the vertebrates from the Late Triassic Pebbly Arkose Formation of Zimbabwe. This assemblage (230 Ma) contains the oldest-known definitive dinosaurs from Africa! doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Show PostThings happening in the Permian reptile world!
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