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| 06/07/2011 |
I'm heading off to the 35th American Arachnologists' Association meeting in Portland, Oregon at the end of the week, and I have updated the about me section with the abstract for the poster I will be presenting there. My time has largely been spent working on corrections for various manuscripts, and I intend to put a few more information pages up when I get back. |
| 22/05/2011 |
Today the about me section has been updated, as two papers have just been sent off for review. I hope to have a few new new pages up here shortly.
In the meantime, a paper has been published that includes potential pterygotid predation marks on a Devonian jawless fish. |
| 28/02/2011 |
Quite a bit has happened in eurypterid research since this was last updated; there were two news stories about fossil preservation involving eurypterids, and these have been added to the media section. Also, several papers have been published - a pterygotid chelicerae was described from Wyoming, the possible function of the chelicerae of Acutiramus was analysed, and molecular signatures were retrieved from Silurian eurypterid cuticle. |
| 30/10/2010 |
Settling
into Kansas is going well, however I am keeping myself
very busy which is why work on the website has slowed
for the moment. Today a number of pages have been updated.
Also, a paper has been published describing new
stylonurine eurypterids from the Canadian arctic. |
| 09/07/2010 |
Updating
has been slow with attending IPC3 and the impending
move to America, however today a number of pages have
made it onto the site, showcasing the new genus information
pages. I intend to put more up in the near future, but
for now we have pages for Brachyopterus, Drepanopterus and Megarachne,
all available through the taxonomic encyclopedia. Also
a list of fossil chelicerates has been compiled by Jason
Dunlop, David Penney and Denise Jekel and is available here.
Finally, the about me section has been updated to include
the abstract for the talk I gave at IPC3. |
| 21/05/2010 |
About
me section updated. |
| 21/04/2010 |
Media
section updated with the story that the large trackway
from Fife is being moulded
in silicon. |
| 26/03/2010 |
About
me section updated. |
| 12/03/2010 |
A
busy day for publications! As well as the Biology
Letters paper making it into print, new eurypterid
trackways from the Rhenish Massif are described in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, and a new phylogeny of the Stylonurina is published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
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| 12/03/2010 |
The
analysis of Cope's rule and Romer's theory in eurypterids,
first published online for Biology Letters in october, has finally
made it into print form. |
| 09/03/2010 |
Abstracts
of my posters and papers have now been uploaded to the
site, and can be accessed through the 'about me' link,
where I have also listed the details of a new paper
in review.
Also,
the synziphosurine Pasternakevia has been redescribed in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. |
| 30/01/2010 |
The
taxonomic encyclopedia has been updated to account for
a few synonymy issues. Over the next week or so I hope
to update my research page and fill in some of the resources
and services sections, along with expanding some of
the localities and genus data. |
| 16/01/2010 |
The
International Palaeontological Congress is a major international
meeting held once every four years under the auspices
of the International Palaeontological Association.
This
year is the third congress, and is taking place in London.
As part of the proceedings there is going to be a workshop
on chelicerates, dealing with everything from the potential
stem-group to derived arachnids, including eurypterids.
Details
can be found on the website here; http://www.ipc3.org/ |
| 31/10/2009 |
The
resources section is now up and running, including links
to eurypterids in the media and a number of images. Further
links and images shall be added in the future. |
| 14/10/2009 |
A
new paper is published online in Biology Letters today, reevaluating Romer's
theory and looking at patterns of evolution in eurypterids. |
| 01/10/2009 |
The
eurypterids newsletter, originally run by Simon Braddy,
has now moved to this site. A link to the current issue
and, hopefully, future issues has been added to the menu
bar. If you have anything you wish to appear in a future
issue of the newsletter please do email it to me. If future
issues attract enough interest I may consider formatting
them as a small pdf booklet. |
| 30/09/2009 |
The
site goes live! There is much still to do, but for the
bare bones are up and running.
Also within the last month, the Portishead eurypterid Drepanopterus
abonensis has been redescribed and a new
genus of pterygotid eurypterid described, both in
the journal Palaeontology. |
