Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution
Stephanie E. Pierce Laboratory
Top: Eva, Sophie, Mark, Phil, Blake, Sarah. Bottom: Brianna, Zach, Stephanie
Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine (see Jones et al. 2018)
Flesh reconstruction of the stem tetrapod Ichthyostega with 3D skeleton visible beneath (see Pierce et al. 2012)
Stephanie preparing a fire salamander to walk through the x-ray fluoroscope gantlet (collaborator J.R. Hutchinson)
Petrified Forest Arizona class fossil dig - part of OEB 126 Vertebrate Evolution
Finite element analysis of metriorhynchid (crocodylomorph) skull shape (see Pierce et al. 2009)
Ex vivo experimental determination of intervertebral joint stiffness (see Molnar et al. 2014)
Data comparison between traditional µCT and PPC-SRµCT of a dense stem tetrapod fossil (see Sanchez et al. 2013)
In vitro experimental determination of muscle physiological properties (collaborator J.R. Hutchinson)
Morphological and biomechanical disparity of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs (see Stubbs et al. 2013)
3D reconstruction of the axial skeleton in the stem tetrapod Ichthyostega (see Pierce et al. 2013)
