The Podokesaurus Project

Replica based on photos, but still really cool to see, especially in person!

We’re in Japan for the month, so we’re in Fukui checking out the current goings-on, including their fantastic special exhibition on theropods!

Hey, guys, so it turns out the Spinosaurus holotype wasn’t blown into oblivion, the Germans just sent it to Japan under the shroud of night! #paleosky

Did some quarrying today for the Museum and found a few Devonian fish elements #paleosky

Freya has been busy prepping a Jurassic plant from Massachusetts that we collected a few weeks ago; most of this was covered when we found it. She’ll need the practice for when we find CT Valley bones🤞 #PaleoSky

Spent the day at Yale checking out Connecticut Valley fossils, Coelophysis, and the oldest surviving dinosaur fossil found in the western hemisphere (2nd pic.) We also got Raising Cane’s for the first time. #paleosky

We got to walk on dinosaur tracks today (and also got a lot of real work done.) #paleosky

BEHOLD… Rupert Wild’s temnospondyl, from which tapioca boba are harvested. #PaleoSky

Candlen, Wilhelm, & Gyudon (202X)

Getting help with the analysis

Happy #DinosaurDay to you and yours!

If Mignon Talbot were here to celebrate, she’d probably say: “Where am I? How did I get here?”

Making some interesting breakthroughs in interpreting Podok’s dorsal verts. Thinking we’re seeing them from a different perspective than previously thought, + some internal features not before appreciated

Thanks again to Mount Holyoke for allowing us to present some of our in-progress Podokesaurus revision. The first new science on the species in almost 60 years!

We’ll be giving a short talk at Mount Holyoke this Thursday, in celebration of their new Podokesaurus exhibit. We will be sharing our latest anatomical observations and phylogenetic results that you won’t be able to hear anywhere else!

And likewise for Allosaurus, all I can find is this photocopied picture from Madsen’s monograph. Why are these popular taxa so hard to find pictures of?

This sounds like an insane request, but does anybody know of a publication that figures a Velociraptor humerus in lateral or medial view? Like B or D in the picture, which is of Bambiraptor.

Preliminary phylogenetic analysis recovers Podokesaurus as a… podokesaurid (and I’m not telling what that means)

We’re at the AMNH this week visiting Podok’s cousin, Coelophysis. Featuring Freya with a large slab and me with my favorite bone: the pubis from the original type series of C. longicollis.

Absolutely, we’ve already got some ideas, stay tuned!

Help us look for Podokesaurus-bearing rocks!

Volunteer sign-up for our first exploratory field trip is live, just fill out the form below (or contact us directly if you don’t have a Google account):

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First Podokesaurus Project Exploratory Field Trip to be announced soon, going to be looking for volunteers. Keep your eyes on this space if you’re interested…

2/22 and 2/23 ONLY you can come and see our Podokesaurus model (and us) at the New York State Museum’s Rock and Fossil Fun Fair!

Approved to visit Dinosaur State Park and the American Museum of Natural History next month, to see their Podokesaurus casts, but also all the incredible Coelophysis material at the AMNH!

Pic of the original Mount Holyoke cast for S&G:

Fans of Connecticut Valley dinosaurs are going to be very happy in a few days… watch this space

He’s helping

Distracting myself from everything with deez diapophyses

He’s a 10, but his proximal femur is fragmentary and difficult to interpret (but at least the cats are helping)