Isotopes
This type of isotope is defined as compounds with the same amount of protons but different amounts of neutrons
What are isotopologues?
The name of the equation that determines eveness and equal abundances
What is the shannon weinner index?
Morphometrics
What is spatial information about Biological shapes
It took this amount of time from when the earth was created to the first complex life
What is 2.5 billion years
The time period is the mammal chalicotherium is from
What is the miocene?
Name 3 out of the 6 specific isotopes that are useful for paleoecology
What are carbon: 12,13,14, calcium, oxygen: 18,16, magnesium, Nitrogen: 15, 14, iron, strontium?
The simpson equation
What is M/S?
Name 2 of the 6 problems with linear morphometrics
What are
Only angles and straight-line distances can be measured– the shape of curves, for instance, cannot be captured.
Many measurements are non-independent, if parallel or originating from a common point
Such measurements will give less real shape information for the amount of measurement work, and can be statistically problematic
There will often be a degree of arbitrariness around what aspects of the shape are captured
Much of the variation in raw linear data will often reflect absolute size rather than proportions (shape)
Sometimes a few measurements just does not capture enough nuances of shape to provide useful results
The first vertebrae first show up in the fossil record this many million years ago
What is 530-520 Mya?
The time period the whale perucetus collosus is from
What is Eocene?
Name 2 out of the 5 causes of fractionation
What is paleoclimatology, reaction pathways, tracers, Biology, Forensics
The jaccard equation
M/(M+N)
the morphometric type where there are discrete points or loci of correspondence or equivalency among organisms
What is landmark based morphometrics
Name the time period that occurred from 23.03mya - 5.33 mya
What is the Miocene?
The time period dunkeleostes is from
What is the late devonian?
This notation is reported as as per million variations from a standard
What is delta notation?
The DICE equation
M/((2M+N)/2)
Points with a designated system of spacing across a surface without discrete points to use for landmarks
What are semilandmarks
Name the time period that occurred from 251.9mya - 201.3mya
What is the triassic?
The time period the saurasuchian Herrerasaurus is from
What is the late triassic?
The single isotopic system equation to make a 1D equation
What is delta C13meas = delta C413X + C313(1-X)?
What M, N, and S mean in the similarity metric equations
M=total number of shared species
N= total number of all remaining species
S= the total number of species in the smaller sample
Procrustes distance
What is the sum of squared differences between x and z?
Name the time period that occurred from 541mya - 485.4 mya
What is the Cambrian
The time period that the millipede kampecaris is from
What is the Silurian?