Baylor Geosciences PhD Candidate | Eastern African Paleobotany and Ape evolution
Venanzio Munyaka
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Our new paper is out in @science.org #ScienceResearch
Our understanding of the dinosaurs at the very end of the Cretaceous is limited by few localities. What dinosaur biogeographic patterns were present leading up the K/Pg boundary? What can these tell us about end Cretaceous dinosaur communities
We hired a local artist to paint a mural of what the Early Miocene on Rusinga Island may have looked like. Here he is at work! This will be just inside of the entrance at the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization's Interpretive Centre!
Here we show that during the MCO, at Nyakach Fm there were humid conditions supporting a tropical forest with grassy openings as evidenced by the phytolith assemblages and paleosol geochemical proxies. The ecosystem was predominatly C3 with limited C4 biomass!
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Shout out to colleagues @danpeppe.bsky.social @paleosol.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @mcnultylab.bsky.social Alan Deino and Samuel Muteti!
Excited to share the results of collaborative research in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico published today in @science.org that provides new age constraints for the Naashobito dinosaurs from New Mexico, like the giant sauropod, Alamosaurus: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Invert Paleontology🚨
Milwaukee Public Museum is searching for a postdoc to assist with a research project focused on Plio-Pleistocene to Recent mollusks from the southeastern United States. Details available at: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Another great summary of our recently published work on the climate, ecology, and environment of the early Miocene in western Kenya @munyaka.bsky.social @mcnultylab.bsky.social urls.grow.me/7Gl5Oyr91N