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Record W4415081519 · doi:10.22621/cfn.v138i4.3451

A <i>Spinops sternbergorum</i> (Ornithsichia: Ceratopsia) parietal from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Muddy Lake, Saskatchewan

2025· article· en· W4415081519 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Jordan C. Mallon, Michael J. Ryan, Tim T. Tokaryk

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Field-Naturalist · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology
Canadian institutionsCanadian Museum of Nature
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJuvenileEcological successionTaphonomyNatural (archaeology)

Abstract

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The upper Campanian deposits of the Dinosaur Park Formation at Muddy Lake, Saskatchewan, are known to contain thebones of one or more horned dinosaur species, but definitive diagnostic material has remained elusive. Here, we describe a newly recognized partial parietal from these deposits, bearing a single spike-like epiossification that projects posterolaterally from the frill margin. The element is most plausibly attributable to the centrosaurine Spinops sternbergorum, a species otherwise known only from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Juvenile ceratopsids appear to be relatively abundant at the Muddy Lake locality, which was proximal to the Western Interior Seaway. We suggest that such lowland coastal settings might have been important breeding grounds for horned dinosaurs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.857
Threshold uncertainty score0.283

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.190 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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