A new Jurassic pliosaur from Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A partial skeleton of a plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Hiccles Cove Formation (Middle Jurassic: Callovian) of Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is the first marine reptile fossil with well-preserved skull from the Canadian Arctic and represents a new genus and species of Rhomaleosauridae ( Borealonectes russelli ). The Rhomaleosauridae are a problematic group, and a review of the current status of included taxa is given prior to the description of the Canadian material. The holotype and only known specimen of the new species consists of the skull, anterior cervicals, and right forelimb. The new taxon is characterized by the large prefrontal and the configuration of the postorbital bar in which the postfrontal is excluded from the supratemporal fenestra; these are potentially unique features among rhomaleosaurids. It exhibits a combination of primitive and derived characteristics that are variable among rhomaleosaurids, such as the absence of the dorsomedian foramen and anterior pterygoid vacuity on the palate, and the presence of straight shaft of humerus. The occurrence of this specimen suggests a global distribution of rhomaleosaurids, and it is also significant as one of the few Jurassic plesiosaurs known from North America.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".