Scott Hartman

Scott Hartman

Nov 17, 2017

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Fall 2017 Lori update

Hello supporters of the Lori project! We wanted to update you on the progress made with the Lori project since summer:

In August we previewed our findings on Lori for other professionals in Calgary, in a platform presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. One thing that was revealed during the SVP presentation was an updated skeletal reconstruction of Lori, which you can see here:

Lori skeletal (copyright Scott Hartman)

The talk was well-received , so we've moved on to finalizing our manuscript for publication. This involves last checks on characters in our phylogenetic data matrix, expanding and refining descriptions of elements, and formatting images to make them suitable for publication.  At this point we anticipate submitting the Lori manuscript for publication in December, and we will be sure to provide another Lab Note when we do. Until then, a huge "thank you" to everyone for their support!

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Big Horn Basin Foundation

We intend to describe the skeletal anatomy and phylogeny of one of the earliest maniraptoran dinosaurs of North America. Maniraptoran theropods (including the famous Velociraptor) were the group of dinosaurs that includes the ancestors of birds. The new specimen lived in Wyoming during the Late Jurassic Period (~150 mya). Only three feet long, this new species is one of the smallest dinosaurs from the Morrison; it's considered a missing link between small, meat–eating dinosaurs and modern birds.

Blast off!

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