<i>Terminonatator ponteixensis</i>, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Saskatchewan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new elasmosaur, Terminonatator ponteixensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Campanian Bearpaw Formation of southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, is one of the youngest plesiosaurs from the Western Interior, and one of the few plesiosaurs for which detailed osteology of both skull and postcrania is available. The skull includes the upper side of the inner ear cavity and a median portion of the roof of the braincase. This taxon is distinguished from other elasmosaurs by a combination of several osteological characters variable among elasmosaurs, as well as the unique feature of a high and pointed coronoid process. Anomalous ossification is seen in the fused or pronged gastralia, development of tubercules in metacarpale, and healed fracture of the limb. The dorsal portion of the braincase is compared with other plesiosaurs, showing a variation in plesiosaur braincase morphology. Identity of carpal and tarsal elements is examined based on recent debates on the homology of mesopodials.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".