Alton Dooley

Alton Dooley

Apr 19, 2016

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Abstract submitted to SVP

This October the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology will hold its annual meeting in Salt Lake City. Yesterday I submitted an abstract to the meeting, to present our preliminary results from the data we'll be collecting this summer. So in just a few months we'll be getting some of the results of this project out to the larger scientific community!

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  • Jason P Schein
    Jason P ScheinBacker
    Congrats! Working feaverishly on ours as well and had it done . . . just in time . . . for them to push back the deadline 3 more days. Oh well!
    Apr 19, 2016

About This Project

American mastodons lived all across North America during the Ice Age. Paleontologists long suspected that western mastodons differed in subtle ways from eastern ones, and our initial data suggest they may have been distinctive in size and tooth proportions. We plan to examine various museum collections to build a robust database of mastodon measurements, allowing us to document regional population differences and helping us understand ecosystem variation and animal dispersal during the Ice Age.

Blast off!

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