Ashley Morhardt, M.S.
PhD. Student
Dept. of Biological Science

141 Life Sciences Building
309-333-2701, am159410@ohio.edu
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Oral Presentations:

Spring 2011                 Morhardt, A.C., Ridgely, R.C., and Witmer, L. M. 2011. A brain the size of a walnut: new studies of brain and inner ear structure in Stegosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) based on CT scanning and 3D visualization.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 43 (1): 119. 

Spring 2010                 Morhardt, A.C. 2010.  “Did dinosaurs flash crocodile smiles?” Paleofest, Burpee Museum of Natural History. Rockford, Illinois. March 6, 2010.

                                                                                                                                                                                      

Fall 2009                     Morhardt, Ashley C., Matthew F. Bonnan, Tyler Keillor.  “Dinosaur smiles: Correlating premaxilla, maxilla, and dentary foramina counts with extra-oral structures in amniotes and its implications for dinosaurs.”  69th Annual Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.  Bristol, England.  September 23-26, 2009.

 

Spring 2009                 Morhardt, Ashley C.  “Dinosaur smiles: Do the texture and morphology of the premaxilla, maxilla, and dentary bones of sauropsids provide osteological correlates for inferring extra-oral structures reliably in dinosaurs?”  7th Annual  WIU Department of Biological Sciences Student Research Symposium, Macomb, Illinois, April 10, 2009. 

 

Morhardt, Ashley C. and Matthew F. Bonnan. “Dinosaur smiles: Do the texture and morphology of the premaxilla, maxilla, and dentary bones of sauropsids provide osteological correlates for inferring extra-oral structures reliably in dinosaurs?”  43rd Annual Meeting of the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Rockford, Illinois, April 2-3, 2009.

 

Spring 2008                 Morhardt, Ashley C.  “Dinosaur smiles: Do the texture and morphology of the premaxilla, maxilla, and dentary bones of archosaurs provide osteological correlates for inferring extra-oral structures reliably in dinosaurs?”  6th Annual  WIU Department of Biological Sciences Student Research Symposium,

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Spring 2006                 Stice, Andrew, Jessica Rubino, Ashley Kort (Morhardt) (Primary Presenter), Christopher Blanford, Christie Buckingham, Ashley Dwyer, and Rebecca Cobb. “Preparation of whole. mammalian skeletons (Canis latrans, Odocoileus virginianus, Procyon lotor) for a biology museum.” 67th annual conference of Southeastern Biologists. Gatlinburg, Tennessee. March 29-April 1, 2006. 

                                                                                                                                                                   

 
 
 
 

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