Morphology and Evolution of Turtles: Proceedings of the Gaffney Turtle Symposium 2009. Edited by Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, and James D. Gardner.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This important compilation of articles (nearly 600 pages) follows from the Gaffney Turtle Symposium held in October 2009 at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The scientific meeting honored the work of Eugene S. Gaffney, paleontologist and pioneer in the application of cladistics to the study of turtle evolution. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles was conceived as a festschrift volume to the congress. As stated in the preface, such a volume “would ideally contain a mix of focused papers that would appeal to specialists, along with papers having a broader scope that would appeal to a more general audience.” The editors have certainly tried to achieve this. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles is organized into six sections. The first section is a brief tribute to Eugene Gaffney (Perspectives on the Life and Accomplishments of Eugene S. Gaffney), including an autobiography by the celebrated scientist. The second section is centered on the hotly debated issue of “The Origin of Turtles,” the third section concerns “The Early Diversification of Turtles,” the fourth section focuses on the “Diversity and Biogeography of Pleurodira,” and the fifth section presents “Diversity, Biogeography, and Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Turtles.” The final section deals with “Pathologies, Anomalies, and Variation in Turtle Skeletons.” The second section starts (Chapter 3) with an interesting review on the ancestry of Chelonia. Chapter 4 discusses hypotheses concerning the ontogenetic origin of the turtle body plan, whereas Chapter 6 presents the case for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of turtle morphological evolution. The chapter on “The Evolution of the Turtle Shell” might seem a little redundant, but it actually has a special focus on the history of science. The last chapter in this section provides a morphometric analysis of internal carotid circulation in turtles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".