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Volume 27.1
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ISSN: 1094-8074, web version;
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Victor Monnin
Victor Monnin is an historian of science with a focus on paleontology. He began studying the history of paleontology while researching the drawings of Georges Cuvier for his master’s thesis in Art History. Victor received master’s degrees in Philosophy and Art History from the Panthéon Sorbonne University, as well as a master’s degree in History and Theory of the Arts from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He defended a doctoral dissertation in Epistemology and History of Science at the University of Strasbourg addressing the political history of nineteenth-century paleontology. Victor is also researching the history of paleoart and is curating a website featuring interviews on that topic, The Making of Deep Time. He is most passionate about fostering collaborations between historians of science and paleontologists. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Archives Henri-Poincaré and teaches Humanities and French to undergraduates.
Contact: victor.monnin@gmail.com
Robin M. D. Beck, Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, UK. r.m.d.beck@salford.ac.uk
Robin Beck was awarded his PhD from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2008 for his thesis 'Form, function, phylogeny and biogeography of enigmatic Australian metatherians'. From 2009 to 2011, he was an NSF-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, working on the morphology and phylogeny of marsupials. From 2012 to 2014 he was a DECRA postdoctoral fellow at UNSW, studying the only known record of early Palaeogene fossil mammals in Australia, from the early Eocene Tingamarra Fauna. Since 2014, he has been Lecturer in Biology at the University of Salford. His major research interests are the morphology, systematics and biogeography of mammals (particularly marsupials), and combining morphological and molecular data to infer macroevolutionary patterns and processes.
Andrzej S. Wolniewicz. Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland. andrzej.s.wolniewicz@gmail.com
Andrzej Wolniewicz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He received his BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2013 and a DPhil (PhD) in Earth Sciences, also from the University of Oxford, in 2018. His research focuses mainly on the taxonomy, systematics and evolution of ichthyosaurs.
Philip J. Senter
Department of Biological Sciences
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301
U.S.A.
psenter@uncfsu.edu
Philip Senter is a herpetologist and vertebrate paleontologist who teaches zoology and anatomy courses at Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville, North Carolina). He has published over 50 articles on dinosaur paleobiology, the natural history of African snakes, and the creation-evolution debate.
Matthew D. Celeskey. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, 87104 New Mexico, USA. matt.celeskey@hmnh.org
Matthew Celeskey is an artist, exhibition designer and researcher. He received a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 and has created illustrations and designs for museum exhibits for more than 20 years. He has published anatomical studies and reconstructions of animals from the Cambrian through the Quaternary, but is particularly interested in tetrapods from the Permian and Triassic. Matt Celeskey is currently a research associate at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
Alexander K. Hastings
Assistant Curator of Paleontology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
21 Starling Avenue
Martinsville, Virginia 24112 USA
acherontisuchus@gmail.com
Dr. Alex Hastings has been the curator for the paleontology collection at the Virginia Museum of Natural History since 2015 and is currently involved in all aspects of paleontology for the state of Virginia as well as his background in reptilian fossil evolution. Hastings completed his Ph.D. at the University of Florida, with a dissertation on fossil crocodiles from Colombia in South America, dating back to the Paleocene (58–60 million years ago). After this, he taught at Georgia Southern University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany.
Ashley W. Poust, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA. ashley.poust@berkeley.edu
Ashley Poust is pursuing his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation focuses on understanding the growth of Paleogene mammals, primarily using osteohistology. He also works on other taxa, especially dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine mammals, to address similar questions of diversity, ontogeny, and life history across vertebrates.
Mark P. Witton. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL UK
markwitton.com; markwitton-com.blogspot.com, Twitter. @markwitton
mark.witton@port.ac.uk
Mark Witton is a palaeontological artist, author and researcher based at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focuses mostly on pterosaurs, the flying reptiles contemporaneous with non-avian dinosaurs, with particular interest in their lifestyles, palaeoecology and functional morphology. He is the author and artist of the acclaimed Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (2013, Princeton University Press) as well as the palaeoart collection Recreating an Age of Reptiles (2017, Crowood Press). Mark's palaeoartworks have featured in numerous research papers, news reports, books, television shows, museums and art galleries, including London's Southbank and the American Museum of Natural History. His upcoming books, The Palaeoart Handbook (2018, Crowood Press) and Life Through The Ages II (2018, Indiana University Press) focus on the history and scientific theory of palaeoart.
EsperanzaCerdeño. IANIGLA, CCT-CONICET-Mendoza, Avenida Ruiz Leal s/n, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina.espe@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Originally from Spain, Dr. Cerdeño studied Biological Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she obtained her PhD (in Spanish: Doctora en Ciencias Biológicas) and specialized on fossil rhinoceroses. After moving to Argentina, she has focused on native South American ungulates, mainly the different families of Notoungulata. In 2005, she became a researcher of CONICET (Consejo nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) working at IANIGLA (Instituto de Glaciología, Nivología y Ciencias Ambientales) in Mendoza city, central-western Argentina.
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Review: The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
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April 2023