Worm palaeobiologist & fossil enthusiast. Associate Prof and NERC independent fellow. If I had any views they would be my own.
Luke Parry
I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans.
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Dr Luke Parry (University of Oxford, UK) and all co-authors!
The Editorial Team selected this study due to its originality and significance, as well as its wider implications.
#PaleoSky @cambriannelids.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...
True for my Palaeo and Geo folks too.
It’s a fight on all fronts for field science, made easier to dismiss after COVID.
Luke Parry
More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
OMG a student found a #trilobite pygidum here in a pebble laid down in the #Triassic! really amazing to confirm these as Ord-Dev clasts. #Dorset24 @eesaupe.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Nico Mongiardino Koch
Bob Hilton
Time-scaled phylogenies underpin the interrogation of evolutionary processes across deep timescales, as well as attempts to link these to Earth's history. By inferring the placement of fossils and us...
