{"id":1940,"date":"2011-11-10T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:53:20","slug":"morphing-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/2011\/11\/10\/morphing-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphing Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost a bit of time this morning catching up on correspondence\u2014but it needed to be done. Then on to the morphospace: finished off the rest of the &#8220;difficult&#8221; taxa to be added in the Cretaceous. I found out that\u00a0<em>Pyxidicula <\/em>was a synonym of <em>Stephanopyxis, <\/em>making life easier. And <em>Epithelion, Longinata, <\/em>and <em>Tubularia <\/em>just didn&#8217;t have images or descriptions anywhere that were good enough to make a valid entry in the matrix. I gave them the axe. It&#8217;s too bad, because the two latter ones are \u00a0&#8220;intermediate&#8221; sternum-less but pennate-like genera that Sims et al. specifically mention in their paper about diatom evolution. But there are no images, and no descriptions, so it&#8217;s all to no avail. God knows how Sims et al. know those two taxa don&#8217;t have sterna\u2014it sure isn&#8217;t from the shitty-shitty images published in the Hajos paper (DSDP site 275), and they also don&#8217;t offer a reference in their 2006 paper. So, without further tears, it&#8217;s time to move ever forward.<\/p>\n<p>The next job is to tidy up the matrix. Yech. There&#8217;s some messiness introduced with character #61, the one dealing with &#8216;robust linking processes&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost a bit of time this morning catching up on correspondence\u2014but it needed to be done. Then on to the morphospace: finished off the rest of the &#8220;difficult&#8221; taxa to be added in the Cretaceous. I found out that\u00a0Pyxidicula was a synonym of Stephanopyxis, making life easier. And Epithelion, Longinata, and Tubularia just didn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14607,13584],"tags":[16233],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-journal","category-timekeeping","tag-morphospace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}