User:Koskinonodon
Background
[edit]Hi there! I am an independent paleontological researcher (associated with the University of Washington's Burke Museum as a research associate) whose day job is as a research data librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and my B.A. at Pomona College in the Department of Geology. I also completed several years of postdoctoral work at the University of Washington before pursuing a non-research career. My paleontological research interests are fairly broad (but do not include dinosaurs) and are primarily focused on Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods and Mesozoic temnospondyls.
You can find out more information on my personal website, read my (mostly) weekly blog, or follow me on Twitter!
Objectives on Wikipedia
[edit]Most early tetrapod and temnospondyl pages are not well-curated, either being single-sentence stubs or poorly-cited blurbs that draw from popular science websites on the internet. As an active researcher (and blogger) in these areas with relatively easy access to primary academic sources, I am slowly beginning to review and update many of these pages to provide more accurate and cited information on these fascinating animals in this large public forum.
Contributions
[edit]Pages created
Major edits (usually stub expansion)
- Acheloma
- Actiobates
- Anconastes
- Amphibamidae
- Anakamacops
- Broiliellus
- Carrolla
- Conjunctio
- Dictyocephalus
- Dissorophidae
- Dutuitosaurus
- Elfridia
- Hapsidopareion
- Iratusaurus
- Kamacops
- Llistrofus
- Nanobamus
- Ostodolepis
- Pariotichus
- Phonerpeton
- Rileymillerus
- Rubeostratilia
- Stegotretus
- Tersomius
- Trematopidae
- Zygosaurus
Minor edits