Early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs by Michael Daniel DʼEmic instant download

Early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs by Michael Daniel DʼEmic instant download

Baumiller, D. Fisher, R. van der Voo, and J. A. Wilson for advice and guidance

during the project. Special thanks to J. A. Wilson for constant support, guidance,

and research opportunities over the years.

Thanks for field assistance and support from P. Christenson, T. Churchill,

B. Dauksewicz, B. Foreman, P. Gingerich, A. Hayden, D. Klein, S. Macone, C.

Manz, K. Melstrom, D. Raisanen, A. Tillett, and C. Youngs. Thanks to M. Fox

(YPM), D. Nixon (SMU), C. Manz, K. Melstrom, and B. Sanders (UM) for

preparation. Special thanks to A. Pan, L. Ballinger (FWMSH) and D. Colodner

(ASDM) for permission to destructively sample limb bones for histology, and M.

Sander and K. Stein for helpful technical information about drilling sauropod

bones. Thanks to D. C. Fisher for use of thin-sectioning equipment and K. M.

Smith for assistance. J. A. Wilson, M. Wedel and R. Barnes kindly provided parts

of figures 4.1, 4.6 and 4.7, respectively. Thanks to the administrative staff of the

UM Geological Sciences Department, especially N. Kingsbury and A. Hudon for

much help over the years.

Collections managers and curators at the following institutions are thanked

for their help and hospitality, without which this dissertation certainly would not

have been possible: C. Mehling and M. Norell (American Museum of Natural

History, New York City), W. Joyce and D. Brinkman (Yale Peabody Museum,

New Haven), M. Carrano, C. Ito, and M. Brett-Surman (United States National

Museum, Washington, D.C.), R. Sullivan (State Museum of Pennslyvania,

Harrisburg), M. Lamanna and A. Henrici (Carnegie Museum of Natural History,

Pittsburgh), B. Simpson (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago), P. Sereno,

B. Masek, and T. Keillor (University of Chicago Paleontology Laboratory,

Chicago), K. Curry Rogers (Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul), P. M.

Sander, N. Klein, K. Remes, and N. Klein (Universitat Bonn, Bonn), R. Cifelli, J.

Person, and K. Davies (Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman), T. Rowe

and L. Murray (Texas Memorial Museum, Austin), D. Winkler and L. Jacobs

(Southern Methodist University, Dallas), A. Pan and L. Ballinger (Ft. Worth

Museum of Science and Nature, Ft. Worth), T. Williamson and S. Lucas (New

Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque), D. Colodner (Arizona-Sonora

Desert Museum, Tucson), M. Getty (Utah Museum of Natural History), B. Brooks

and R. Sheetz (Brigham Young University, Provo), K. Carpenter and L. Ivy

(Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver), D. Schwarz-Wings (Museum

für Naturkunde, Berlin), R. Allain (Muséum national dʼHistorire naturelle, Paris),

A. Kramarz (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires), J. Powell

(Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán), B. González Riga (IANIGLA, Mendoza), R.