The paper
With this paper, which will eventually be Wedel et al. in PeerJ if all goes well, we’re trying a new publication path. The work first appeared as an abstract in the SVPCA 2015 programme, then as a talk in that conference (given by Mike, who is therefore lead author of the abstract). We then published the abstract as a preprint, part of PeerJ’s SVPCA 2015 Collection. We plan to upgrade that abstract to a full-manuscript preprint, and then to a peer-reviewed paper, but we’re going through that process in the open.
So there are multiple references:
- Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish and Brian Engh. 2015a. Were the necks of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus adapted for combat?. p. 71 in Mark Young (ed.), Abstracts, 63rd Symposium for Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Southampton. 115 pp.
- Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish and Brian Engh. 2015b. Were the necks of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus adapted for combat?. PeerJ Preprints 1347, version 1. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1347v1
- Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish and Brian Engh. 2015b. Slide deck for “Were the necks of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus adapted for combat?”. PeerJ Preprints 1347, version 1, supplemental information 1. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1347v1/supp-1
SV-POW! posts
- Sauropods were toblerones, not smarties tubes
- A “special issue” for SVPCA 2015 proceedings
- So what were apatosaurs doing with their crazy necks?
- Fighting apatosaur art #1: Brian Engh
- Fighting apatosaur art #2: Brian Engh again
- Fighting apatosaur art #3: Bob Nicholls
- Fighting apatosaur art #4: #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt
- Fighting apatosaur art #5: Mark Witton
- Fighting apatosaur art #6: the ones that got away
- Fighting apatosaur art #7: the world speaks!
- Brontosmash: The Field Trip (the teaser)
- BRONTOSMASH! in a kids’ book
- Steve White’s impressionist BRONTOSMASH!
Elsewhere on the Web
- New sauropodoramas: Stormy brachiosaurs! Apatosaurine brontosmash!, by Mark Witton
- Hot News From Planet Archosaur, by co-author Darren Naish
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 