Re: [dinosaur] Morrison Formation sauropod consensus (free)

A new updated version of the paper is now available:

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:10 AM Ben Creisler <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Ben Creisler
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> An online "publication" in PaleorXiv. It's in Word format, not a pdf.
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> Emanuel Tschopp, John A. Whitlock, D. Cary Woodruff, John R. Foster,
> Roberto Lei & Simone Giovanardi (2019, July 16).
> The Morrison Formation sauropod consensus: A freely accessible online
> spreadsheet of collected sauropod specimens, their housing institutions,
> contents, references, localities, and other potentially useful information.
> PaleorXiv
> doi: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.31233_osf.io_fy43t&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=dTzZV4jI3HxB6NR9ePwc3WIcTxWyhDRcKIPRIXU8eP8&s=u5iUSw2WIVK497dCw8jbJo8CPDviHanWtAcdp-se4Hk&e= 
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> The Morrison Formation has been explored for dinosaurs for more than 150
> years, in particular for large sauropod skeletons to be mounted in museum
> exhibits around the world. Several long-term campaigns to the Jurassic West
> of the United States produced hundreds of specimens, ranging from isolated,
> fragmentary bones to nearly complete skeletons of these enormous
> herbivorous animals. Given the sheer number of specimens, keeping track of
> what is housed in which institution is paramount to study variability,
> taxonomy, and consequently geographic and temporal distribution of the
> various species and genera recognized from the Morrison Formation. In an
> attempt to facilitate these studies, we have compiled an online spreadsheet
> intended to combine all the available information on sauropod specimens
> from collection databases, published literature, and personal observations.
> These include lists of contents of the specimens, in what institution the
> material is housed, references mentioning, describing, figuring, providing
> measurements and/or 3D scans, locality data and stratigraphy, as well as
> other potentially useful data for research purposes. The spreadsheet is
> openly accessible, but editing is currently restricted to the authors of
> this study, in order to ensure high-quality data curation to keep the file
> as useful as possible.
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> Spreadsheet online link:
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