Museum Collections 🐚 Invertebrate Paleontology Galleries
From bivalves to scaphopods, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection, with photos: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/...
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Species: Planorbella scalare
Specimen: # UF 10408
Locality: Hillsborough Co., FL
And the paper is now available online (open access) 🌿⛏️🎉
A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia | Palaeontologia Electronica
doi.org/10.26879/1640
#paleobotany
This week we’re spotlighting Dr. B.P. Singh, whose research focuses on the Cambrian biostratigraphy and fossil record of the Lesser Himalaya, India ⛰️🦠
To support researchers like Dr. Singh, please consider donating to the Paleontological Society.
#Cambrian #Biostratigraphy #Himalaya #Paleontology
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I love crinoids and there is a genus named Clarkeocrinus troosti, but it's not named after me.
John Clarke was the Director of the New York State Museum and first President of the @paleosoc.bsky.social
I found a Clarkeocrinus troosti for my collection after researching locations.
Drop in to watch select matches on the big screens throughout the Museum! Watch parties are free with any admission. During evening matches, we'll be open for extended hours, including exhibitions and shows. Check out the schedule: amnh.link/441z613
Thank you so much to @paleosoc.bsky.social for awarding me a Arthur Boucot research grant🥳🥳 I feel very fortunate to be able to start work to hopefully shed some light on Mesozoic marine reptile origins!🧪
⏰ IPC7 abstract submissions close in just 15 days!
Submit your abstract before June 30th 🚀
Check their website for more information: www.ipc7.site/index.html
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#IPC7 #Paleontology #PaleoResearch
📷 Thank you to Sally Hurst for capturing this fantastic moment in the field! @sally-foundafossil.bsky.social
If you have a fossil specimen or fieldwork photo to share, we welcome new submissions through the form below:
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This week we’re at Mongolia’s legendary #FlamingCliffs
Pictured here are two very excited students, Zach and Tian from the University of New England (Australia), jumping for joy as they take in this world-famous Cretaceous landscape
Their enthusiasm is exactly what Fossil Friday is all about! 🔥
The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants.
Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other.
Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia
Drop in to watch select World Cup matches on the big screen. Free with Museum admission.
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Using extensive fossil occurrence data and Bayesian Brownian Bridge modelling, this study derives data-driven calibration densities for molecular clocks and suggests a Late Jurassic origin of flowerin...
The paper is not online yet but it's too pretty not to show for this #FossilFriday: a new species of Keraphyton from the Late Devonian of Australia, part of the work of
@toinechampreux.bsky.social. Keraphyton is an iridopteridale, an extinct group related to ferns & horsetails. #paleobotany 🌿⛏️
They’re doing World Cup watch parties at the American Museum of Natural History!
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Name of my blog, started in '07.
Layers:
1) not everyone knows what trilobites are & if they flew
2) not everyone knows "flying" trilobites are fossils in a particular pose
3) I'm fascinated by the idea of mythical chimaeras based on fossils we know today
🐡 #GlendonMellowArt
The Jurassic Gap shrinks dramatically.
Rather than fossils and molecular clocks being in fundamental conflict, they may have been talking past each other.
When fossil evidence is incorporated more comprehensively, the two records tell a much more consistent story of flowering plant evolution.
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Chris Towers is Overreacting To Small Sample Sizes
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Instead of relying on a handful of fossil calibrations, we analysed >25,000 fossil occurrences across flowering plant history and used them to inform molecular dating analyses.
The result surprised us. Our analyses place the origin of crown-group angiosperms at ~151–153 million years ago.
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I am Jen, a laboratory scientist who was always most at home in the blood bank, and a sucker for wordplay and puns.
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Did flowering plants really spend 100 million years hiding from the fossil record?
For decades, fossils and molecular clocks seemed to tell completely different stories.
This became known as the "Jurassic Gap".
What if the problem wasn't the fossil record?
