# fossilfriday palevol

My first Back for a day at in Paris to 3D scan patellas of the chalicothere Anisodon from the Miocene site of Sansan. Upcoming study on the shape variation of patella in perissodactyls within the project with 🦏🐘🦕🦖

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2022-05-13

We have a new paper out today in CR How to retrodeform asymmetrical fossils (such as limb bones) using 3D geometric morphometrics and thin plate splines (TPS), accounting for intraspecific morphological variation. https://t.co/w8AhcSbobe

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2022-03-08

Today at Cyril Etienne starts his PhD co-supervised with M. Fagan about the biomechanical adaptations to support high body weight, with an investigation in limb long bones of Rhinocerotoidea. Very pleased to have him at the lab!

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2019-10-01