Carthage paleo-track students off to Brisbane, Australia for the annual SVP meeting

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, all six Carthage paleo-track students began their trip to Brisbane, Australia, to attend the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Four of the students — Adam Larson ’20, Douglas Stefanski ’20, Brady Holbach ’20, and Amelia Zietlow ’20 — will present posters at the meeting, and their advisor, Professor Thomas Carr, will give a lecture. Two other paleo-track students, Elizabeth Ziesemer ’21 and Eric Olvera ’21, will also attend.

The presentations will all be about skeletal ontogeny — that is, changes to the bones of an individual as at grows up — across different extinct animals. Douglas, Brady, and Prof. Carr will present about different dinosaurs: the dome-headed Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis; a prosauropod (early long-neck) called Massospondylus carinatus; and, of course, Tyrannosaurus rex. On the other hand, Adam’s presentation will be about the woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius, and Amelia’s will be about the mosasaur (marine lizard) called Tylosaurus proriger.

• Adam Larson ’20, biology major and sociology minor — Ontogenetic Changes in the Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
• Douglas Stefanski ’20, biology major — Craniofacial Ontogeny in Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
• Brady Holbach ’20, biology and geoscience double major — Craniofacial Ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus
• Amelia Zietlow ’20, biology major — Craniofacial Ontogeny in Tylosaurus proriger
• Prof. Thomas Carr — Size and Mass Don’t Covary with Maturity among Adult Specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

tcarr@carthage.edu, azietlow@carthage.edu