This has been much on my mind of late, especially as the majority of talks at SVPCA 2023 and many new papers involve numerical methods. Sometimes I feel that Matt and I are in danger of being left behind by a new wave of palaeontology, and it’s definitely true that we could usefully...
It’s perfectly possible that someone who understands sauropod appendicular anatomy better than we do could isolate some autapomorphies in the holotype scap BYU 9025, and Supersaurus would then be firmly founded on a diagnostic type specimen. Can we find hope for this outcome in the results of...