Three presentations today at MTE14, and the papers that go with them

BIG day today. The 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota (MTE14) is taking place in Salt Lake City this week. Normally I’d be there in a heartbeat, but my son is graduating from high school next week and I’m far too busy to get away. Still, I’m an author on one poster and two talks that are running today, along with the three associated short papers that are published in the conference volume in The Anatomical Record. 

I will be blogging about these things, and shortly, but for now here are Wedel-related presentations and links to the papers, in chronological order. (The whole conference volume is available here, I just extracted the papers I’m on as separate PDFs to post in the links below.)

1. Wedel and Atterholt on expanded neurocentral joints in sauropods — Jessie is presenting our poster, which should be up for most of the day. Citation and link to paper:

Wedel, M.J., and Atterholt, J. 2023. Expanded neurocentral joints in the vertebrae of sauropod dinosaurs. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A. (eds), 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record 306(S1):256-257.

2. Curtice et al. on the first material of Haplocanthosaurus from Dry Mesa — I believe Brian Curtice and Colin Boisvert are tag-teaming this talk at 2:00 pm MDT. 

Curtice, B., Wedel, M.J., Wilhite, D.R., and Boisvert, C. 2023. New material of Haplocanthosaurus (Hatcher 1903) from the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry and a comment on sauropod diversity. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A. (eds), 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record 306(S1):79-81.

3. Weil et al. on Morrison microvertebrates from the Oklahoma panhandle — Anne Weil is giving this talk at 2:15 pm MDT.

Weil, A., Hall, L., and Wedel, M.J. 2023. Microvertebrate expansion of known fauna of the Morrison Formation of Oklahoma will enable more meaningful comparisons with other regions. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A. (eds), 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record 306(S1):257-258.

Stand by for more info on all this stuff. And if you’re attending MTE14, go catch these presentations and say hi to all these excellent human beings!