Paper/Material share & request thread

[theropod]

This is a place to exchange and request material one doesn't find by oneself.

This includes papers that are not openly accessible on the web but some may have gained access to through an institution (or even by making one of those ridiculously high payments), or just ones that are very difficult to find.

If you are searching for a publication, first try the following
1) Try using Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), which should usually find you a publication if it's where it belongs. If insuccessful, use regular Google-search adding "filetype:pdf" (sometimes Scholar overlooks stuff)
2) Add "researchgate" or "academia.edu", many otherwise paywalled papers are available on those sites

3) Ask here or ask the author in case none of that help you find the whole file you are searching


Do NOT use this thread to recommend papers, I have made a seperate one for that exact purpose. And no, I don’t think that’s exagerated, source material is a very important matter that deserves several specialized threads imo.

[creature386]

Couldn't they post that in one of your two existing threads?

[theropod]

Those are for recommending papers and listing good sources of papers respectively, but I could incorporate this one into one of them.

[creature386]

As for searching literature, the opening post of this thread already includes the ways to find literature:
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/53/zoological-sources-links?page=1

[theropod]

sure, so let's confine this one to paper requests.

[theropod]

I have downloaded a number of currently inaccessible papers from JSTOR, back when we had access via public login data, so ask if you think I could have the paper you are searching for. Examples:

The osteological description of FMNH PR 2081 (Brochu 2003),
Giganotosaurus’-braincase description (Coria & Currie 2002)
The description of Kelenken (Bertelli et al. 2007)

There's a number of publications I got mailed from other members, eg:
Giganotosaurus' description (Coria & Salgado 1995)
Chure 1995 and 2000 on Saurophaganax and Allosaurus
McGowan 1995 on the giant Liassic Temnodontosaurs,
Novas et al. 2005 on Tyrannotitan chubutensis,
Stromer 1915 on Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (but it is now acessible via the biodiversity heritage library^{(pdf; starting on page 93)}→, with a translation on paleoglot^(doc)→)

There’s also a scanned manuscript of Stromer 1931 on Carcharodontosaurus (in German) that I can share.

I’ve got a JSTOR-account, so I can access and download some of the papers (those labeled "read online free") as image files; I”d be happy to help in that regard. Same for academia.edu.

[Deleted]

I request the Tapinocephalus description paper.

[creature386]

It is very hard to find a paper which is that old.
I will search for it. For now, this is the best I could find (it is basically just a description of some animals it coexisted with, sorry):
cluster.biodiversitylibrary.org/a/annalsofsouth48131965sout/annalsofsouth48131965sout.pdf

[blaze]

Owen, R. 1876. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor and Francis, London. 1-86.

If you search the name of the paper in google, this is the second result, so it wasn't hard, thanks Richard Owen for being famous and people still citing your papers 100 years after they were published haha, the problem is finding the correct citation, Owen published lots of papers in 1876 and both paleocritti and the paleobiology database cite the wrong papers. The part of Tapinocephalus starts in page 1 (aka screen 13 of 186, the first 12 pages are numbered with roman numbers) and I recommend this two other papers if you want info on Tapinocephalus.

Boonstra 1956. The skull of Tapinocephalus and its near relatives

Boonstra 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort beds of the Karoo)

edit: my link leads you to the correct page, I thought it wouldn't do that.

[Runic]

Any paper on lamniform feeding tactics and hunting strategies would be beneficial.

[theropod]

sharkmans-world.eu/research/carcharodon2.pdf
Great white shark predation on Turtles

www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2t8325zp
on page 84 there's "Feeding Ethology of the White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias"

[creature386]

The great white profile is quite helpful there.

[Runic]

^ thanks guys !

[creature386]

I would request the full text of this:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0891296021000050755#.Uj37-uAoJXI

[theropod]

does anyone know where to find this paper (or part of it): www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/322224063.pdf