The paper
- Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus.PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078213 [PDF]
SV-POW! posts
- Two SV-POW! papers in the new PLOS Collection!
- Caudal pneumaticity paper in Huffington Post –and– get your PLOS Collection USB drives
- Caudal pneumaticity in sauropods: in praise of actually looking at fossils
- The freakily consistent colour palette of Wedel and Taylor (2013) on caudal pneumaticity
Coverage elsewhere
High-resolution figures
Wedel and Taylor (2013b: Figure 1).
Wedel and Taylor (2013b: Figure 2).
Wedel and Taylor (2013b: Figure 3).
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Wedel Taylor (2013b: Figure 9).
Wedel and Taylor (2013b: Figure 10).
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January 27, 2014 at 9:39 am
[…] tuned! All will be revealed in Matt’s next post (or, if you can’t wait, in our recent PLOS ONE paper, Wedel and Taylor […]
March 7, 2014 at 9:37 am
[…] Reformat for a different journal and send it straight back out. This happens to everyone. It’s just part of the process. My very first paper was rejected; we just sent it back out. The Xenoposeidon paper was rejected without even being reviewed; we just sent it back out. Our neck-posture paper was rejected without review twice; we just sent it back out. As I write this, Matt and I are busy revising two papers that we co-wrote, both of which were rejected. Any day now, we’re going to send them back out. [Update, March 2014: those two papers became Taylor and Wedel (2013a) on sauropod neck anatomy and Wedel and Taylor (2013b) on caudal pneumaticity.] […]
March 7, 2014 at 3:50 pm
[…] (As it happens — and at the risk of leaving the stadium before the fat lady sings — we should be adding to that tally of one Real Soon Now. Further bulletins as events warrant.) […]
November 20, 2014 at 8:00 pm
[…] in 2013, when we were in the last stages of preparing our paper Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus (Wedel and Taylor 2013b), I noticed that, purely by chance, all ten of the illustrations shared […]
March 13, 2015 at 11:54 am
[…] were able to spend a day at the Yale Peabody Museum up in New Haven, Connecticut, to check out the caudal pneumaticity in the mounted Apatosaurus (= “Brontosaurus“) excelsus, YPM 1980, and the bizarrely broad cervicals of the Barosaurus lentus holotype YPM […]