Oxytropidoceras Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) 20 million-year-old whale fossils found The New Zealand Herald, Nov 19, 2014 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11361084 Ancient toothless whale skull discovered in Otago Wilma Mckay, Stuff.co.nz, Novmeber 19, 2014 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63351935/Ancient-toothless-whale-skull-discovered-in-Otago Ancient New Zealand 'Dawn Whale' identified University of Otago, Phys.Org, Novmeber 19, 2014 http://phys.org/news/2014-11-ancient-zealand-dawn-whale.html Tohoraata: primitive baleen whales (Eomysticetidae) from the Oligocene of New Zealand, Department of Geology, Univ. of Otago http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/research/paleontology/tohoraata.html Ancient New Zealand 'Dawn Whale' identified by Otago researchers, University of Otago http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago082931.html The open access paper is: Boessenecker, R.W., and R. E. Fordyce, 2014, A new Eomysticetid (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and a re-evaluation of ‘Mauicetus’ waitakiensis". Papers in Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1002/spp2.1005. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1005/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/spp2.1005/asset/spp21005.pdf?v=1&t=i2opps76&s=a21e7405803e743cdf376a0c21a3a2d80735635a Yours, Paul H. Edited November 19, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Hey... isn't that our very own Bobby in the NZ news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Hey... isn't that our very own Bobby in the NZ news? Yup! This paper is a pretty big deal in his field, too "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triceratops Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Interesting finds. And great to hear a tff member played a big part in it! -Lyall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Gracias folks! This is just the first out of five pubs from my thesis. I'd like to point out that more info can be found here, including freely downloadable 3D models of the earbones: http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/research/paleontology/tohoraata.html In fact, if you want to make a 3D print (to scale) of the earbone, you can! We've got those file types on the web as well. Also, I'll reiterate: the actual publication is currently free - anyone can download it! Lastly - if anyone's got any questions, now's the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Well done on the paper and media coverage. Also - very nice life reconstruction. 3D models for printing - now that's cool. Would love to be able to print out scaled down versions of the C. Angustidens specimen one day too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Also 5 publications from a PhD is pretty darn good too. You'll be in a pretty good place for whatever you want to do next. Postdoc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 That's awesome Bobby! Congrats on a job well done. You're living my dream sir. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Well done Bobby, congrats! Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 wow.. printable bones in a paper. The future is here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Salut, Great job! Et maintenant, je sais que votre visage! Noix de coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Well done on the paper and media coverage. Also - very nice life reconstruction. 3D models for printing - now that's cool. Would love to be able to print out scaled down versions of the C. Angustidens specimen one day too! Actually that C. angustidens specimen would be pretty easy to do - since it's in a slab, you could probably do it from under 100 photos. Ewan wants to do Waipatia in the future. We'll be putting up 3D models of all the earbones and some of the skulls from my dissertation as the other chapters get published. I'm hoping for a postdoc in the future, or a job, whatever comes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carcharodontosaurus Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Bobby told me about this at a talk with Dr. Thomas Holtz about tyrannosaurs. Great to see a new species described by a forum member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 And Carcharodontosaurus - you're welcome to swing by the department and see the original any time you're back in Dunedin! (and that of course goes for anyone else from NZ, or who happens to come through town) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MgTattooer86 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Huge Congrats Bobby!! I don't know a whole lot about cetaceans, I'm curious about that reconstruction. Was it based from examples that share some relation to the new species? Thank you. Mike If you show them a transitional, they'll ask for two more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Yup! the rest of the head shape in that reconstruction is based on other eomysticetids from New Zealand (also part of my thesis), as well as the already described Eomysticetus and Yamatocetus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MgTattooer86 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Thanks, I'll be reading after work! If you show them a transitional, they'll ask for two more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) Bobby, congrats on this paper, and I look forward to seeing the following 4 papers. I just finished reading Hans' new book, which I found quite well written, and it should be appropriate for most members of this Forum. (Hans Thewissen, 2014, The Walking Whales.) Maybe you'll write the equivalent about the evolution of mysticete cetaceans? Rich Edited November 23, 2014 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 congratulations! "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Way to go Bobby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I'm interested in the modelling process. Guess it takes advantage of the focal length of the camera? I see there is freeware that the average person can try this at home: Google 123D catch. Not sure if this software can make full 3D models ,I.e. underside included. Looks fun to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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