Danny Barta
@danny_oolithus
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Asst. Prof. of #Anatomy, #Paleontologist @OSUVertPaleo @OSUMedicine | #Dinosaurs 🦖🦕#Histology 🦴🔬 #Ontogeny #FossilEggs 🥚🐣🐥 | He/him | Opinions my own.
Tahlequah, OK
Joined August 2019
NEW PAPER: Our large-scale osteohistological analysis of a population of the Late Triassic theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from the famous Ghost Ranch, New Mexico quarry is now published in @SciReports! Gorgeous new artwork by @ChrisDPiazza. 🧵/20 https://t.co/gCu7Y4qOiY
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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
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OSU-CHS Student Abdullah Gohar’s study of 43-million-year-old whale fossils reveals these ancient creatures had large brains and keen smell - before they were fully aquatic. Full story here: https://t.co/YzmSaQ699a
#Paleontology #Research
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OSU-CHS anatomy and vertebrate paleontology Ph.D. student Abdullah Gohar co-authors study looking at two ancient whale skull fossils found in Egypt.
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🩺 Today, #OSUMedicineCN #Classof2029 received their #WhiteCoat—marking the start of their journey to serve, heal & uplift communities across #Oklahoma Our mission is clear: train doctors who stay & serve where they’re needed most🧡 #RuralHealth #TribalHealth
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How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size https://t.co/zu5QkymCB7
@RomainPintore @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace
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Go Erika! I’m looking forward to this, I’ve learned so much from serving on your PhD committee. Almost there!
Soooooo it’s happening! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation next week, April 23rd @ 9:30am EST- if you would like to attend (in person or via zoom) to learn about #phytosaurs and some #crocodylians please send a DM for more details
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Congratulations to RGGS Comp Bio PhD alum Eugenia Gold for her tenure promotion to Associate Professor at Suffolk University, Boston!
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Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our @GeosciencesEd student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Turns out, arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled! https://t.co/3XzONcpQ5r
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Theropod forelimbs exhibit wide morphological disparity, from the elongated wings of birds to the diminutive arms of T. rex. A wealth of work has sought to understand the evolution of bird flight via...
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Happy to see that our description of two beautiful specimens of the enigmatic oviraptorid dinosaur, Conchoraptor, was just published in AMNH Novitates: https://t.co/ZjLqAZf87J (We're aware of the formatting issue in some figures, and are working on amending)
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Finishing off my Zimbabwe themed posts with this model of Syntarsus on display in the NHMZ 🇿🇼🦖
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For #FossilFriday here’s part of the type specimen of the Zimbabwean dinosaur Syntarsus, housed in the NHMZ, one of the most abundantly and well preserved early theropods known currently 🦖🇿🇼
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In January 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting at the 200 years of dinosaurs meeting at the @NHM_London. Today, our invited review in the @RSocPublishing Biology Letters was published! https://t.co/LXDnUHUmXm
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Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future. https://t.co/kcR5vFMx6I
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Newly out in VAMP: Danison, Andy D., Wedel, Mathew J., Barta, Daniel E., Woodward, Holly N., Flora, Holley M., Lee, Andrew H., and Snively, Eric. 2024. Chimerism of specimens referred to Saurophaga…
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Osteohistological signal from the smallest known phytosaur femur reveals slow growth and new insights into the evolution of growth in Archosauria - Goldsmith - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library
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The paucity of small, skeletally immature individuals representing the earliest ontogenetic stages of extinct archosaurs complicates our understanding of the growth dynamics within and between...
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So excited to be able to publish this work in the @JournalofAnat special issue on #paleohistology with awesome editors @PolishPaleo and @funstonpaleo
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Congratulations Erika!! And thanks for inviting me to contribute to this study! If you’re interested in seeing the smallest phytosaur femora yet discovered and some histological surprises, be sure to check out this open access paper!
It’s here and it’s real 🤩 the 4th chapter of my dissertation is out! https://t.co/10xTpkBzOw Do you want to know how the tiniest phytosaurs grow? Check out the histology of the tiniest phytosaur femur! @VTechmeetsPaleo @NotThatMarsh @chinleana @danny_oolithus
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Since we just passed the centenary of the Osborn 1924 paper naming Velociraptor mongoliensis, Oviraptor philoceratops, and Saurornithoides mongoliensis, here are the holotype skulls for a bonus #FossilFriday
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If you’re at #2024SVP (I’m not this year), check out @ErkasaurusR presenting some of her dissertation research on Saturday—I’m biased as a member of the research team, but it promises to be spectacular given that session title! :)
At #SVP2024 in Minneapolis!! If you are interested in #phytosaurs and #osteohistology come to my talk on Saturday at 2pm in the SVP SATURDAY SPECTACULAR!
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Happy Halloween from @LaurenH_paleo of @OSUVertPaleo and me at #2024SVP with a #Velociraptor puppet of TRX Dinosaurs. #dinosaurs #paleontology
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