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Record W2070076888 · doi:10.1179/pan.2010.021

Folk Art on the Northern Plains: The Case of the Prairie Dinosaurs

2010· article· en· W2070076888 on OpenAlex
W. Raymond Wood

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePlains Anthropologist · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWildlife Ecology and Conservation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAncestorGeographyArchaeologyCretaceousPopulationEcologySteppePrehistoryPaleontologyGeologyDemographyBiologySociology

Abstract

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A relictual population of Threshersaurus dakotaensis is still to be found in the northern Plains, ignored by zoologists and, even more remarkably, by evolutionary biologists. The ancestor of this quadrupedal vegetarian saurid once was common in the Jurassic, but that became rare in the Late Cretaceous, have adapted their behavior and adjusted to an environment highly modified from that of their pre-Tertiary ancestors. These solitary animals today are found in a patchy distribution across landscapes dominated by the great expanse of mixed-grass prairie or steppe soils lying between Minnesota and Montana, and Nebraska and the Canadian provinces. Here we provide a preliminary study of their little-known ethology, including speculations on reproductive activities and nocturnal behavior. These beasts deserve serious study by scholars as a visible representation of folk (or public) art, as do other equally visible manifestations of public art in this dominantly rural area.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.241
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it