Womp-womp: azhdarchid material is not azhdarchid material

[Halichoeres]

In this note, the authors detail their realization that a supposed pelvis from a Campanian azhdarchid pterosaur was instead the squamosal of a tyrannosaur (part of the side of the head; in humans it's fused with the temporal). Science is like this sometimes.

Open access: http://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2018-0006

[DinoToyForum]

Oops! It happens.

[Halichoeres]

Oops! It happens.

My whole PhD pretty much.

[Lanthanotus]

Oops! It happens.

My whole PhD pretty much.

As you said yourself... science is like that sometimes.... but I guess noone likes to see his/her work being torn apart no matter how right that demolition is. What was you PhD about if I may ask.... some ancient would be my wild guess

[Halichoeres]

As you said yourself... science is like that sometimes.... but I guess noone likes to see his/her work being torn apart no matter how right that demolition is. What was you PhD about if I may ask.... some ancient would be my wild guess

Actually, although my thesis committee was 3/5 paleontologists, my dissertation dealt very little with fossils. It was on the historical biogeography, morphological evolution, and environmental tolerances of characoid fishes. Basically I tried to identify (in consultation with the Neogene fossil record) when and how often South American characoids colonized North America once the Ishthmus of Panama had formed. It wasn't what I set out to do, but again...science is like that.