It’s finally out! Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

Huge thanks to Michel Laurin for his recommendation of my work on reptile origins in PCI Paleontology! First of many works to come (: Also thanks to Valentin Buffa, David Majanović, and others for their reviews (: paleo.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

And I named one of them!!! Meet Aulacephalodon kapoliwacela - the Iron Hog - the first and so far only geikiid known from the Luangwa Basin! I worked on this taxon for my Master's thesis, and it's been lovely

Now introducing Amenoyengi mpunduensis ('many-tooth from Mpundu'), a small moradisaurine captorhinid from the late Permian of Zambia with multiple rows of teeth! #Permian #Paleontology 😄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other new species from Permian Zambia described in the JVP memoir include the temnospondyl Rhineceps karibaensis, the gorgonopsid Arctops umulunshi, and the captorhinid Amenoyengi mpunduensis

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

Happy to announce that this fall I’ll be a Kalbfleisch and Frick Postdoctoral Research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org I’ll work with Dr. Roger Benson on more early reptile evolution, sensory anatomy, and more. Super excited!

Successfully passed my dissertation defense here at ISU! These past five years have been amazing. Fell in love with research, started my family with @thezoiejenkins.bsky.social , and couldn’t have asked for a better advisor in @gondwannabe.bsky.social #Dissertation #PhD

Gemini is using Pterosaur Heresies as one of it's sources now. Extremely concerning...

Extremely detailed paper on the anatomy Thadeosaurus, with increased phylogenetic support for Tangasauridae 🦎 🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is looking for help with funding and crews to excavate an ~1/2 acre of bone beds in the Early #Jurassic (~200 million). We need big excavation equipment. Check out fossils and how you can help in the images attached.

Postdoc on stegosaurs with Roger Benson at the AMNH careers.amnh.org/postings/4384

Here is my reconstruction of Millereta rubidgei, an early #reptile from Late Permian South Africa. It has osteoderms on its head. I was commissioned to do this recon for a redescription published yesterday! Congrats to @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues for such a cool paper! #paleoart

Gabriel is one of the best! 📌

And our amazing artwork of Milleretta, brought to life by @serpenillus.bsky.social 😀 #Permian #Fossil #Reptile #Paleontology

Our description of Milleretta rubidgei, a 252 million-year old reptile, is out! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... #Permian #Reptile #South Africa

Hi! I'm a palaeontologist who has just joined Bluesky. My lab recently published a paper on gorgonopsian osteohistology. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

We're looking for help with the excavation of bone beds at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in SW Utah. We need heavy excavation equipment to move a large fossil-rich rock pile and in place rock above the bone beds. The City will break ground for an electrical substation in early April.

Important #fossilfriday for me, as one of my new papers has finally been published in PlosOne! Thanks to all my coauthors Pascal Godefroit, Kecheng and Nathan Vallée Gillette 🤩 We described a new skull of the early ornithopod Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis from China…

A detailed thread on a new study of recumbirostran Hapsidopareion. Well done @semifossorial.bsky.social !

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

A pretty solid couple of days for publishing some of my dissertation work! 🦎Our description of Milleropsis pricei, a late Permian reptile from South Africa, is out! 🚨Rethink what you know about 'parareptiles'🚨 Link here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

This is Milleropsis pricei, a lizard-like stem reptile that lived during the Permian of Africa. A new paper published yesterday by @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues described the cranial osteology and neuroanatomy of this species. I did the illustration #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

I am also proud to say we've commissioned @serpenillus.bsky.social to give Milleropsis its most modern reconstruction to date! Couldn't be happier 😊 What other secrets to 'lizard-like' reptiles from #Permian keep? Let's find out 🧐🦎

A pretty solid couple of days for publishing some of my dissertation work! 🦎Our description of Milleropsis pricei, a late Permian reptile from South Africa, is out! 🚨Rethink what you know about 'parareptiles'🚨 Link here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

Boron isotopes place the end of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age at the Asselian-Sakmarian boundary. Raises questions what, if anything, the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse actually is. Lots to think about. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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For this #FossilFriday, my favorite specimen of Milleretta from the National Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa. This was a late #Permian #reptile with cranial osteoderms and broad, overlapping ribs

For this #FossilFriday we have the varanopid Varanodon agilis from the early? Permian of #Oklahoma. Now it’s safely at the Field Museum as FMNH UR 986. I always find this skull very unsettling… Probably the teeth going posterior to the orbit 🦷 👀

For #FossilFriday check out this beautifully preserved fossil millipede! Meet Pleurojulus, a 305 million year old animal from the USA. The fossil preserves details including the head (marked h, in the top image), with chewing mouthparts (marked m). ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

For this #FossilFriday, the early #Triassic owenettid Saurodektes kitchingorum from South Africa. This taxon (and other procolophonoids) were some of the only reptilian survivors of the End Permian #Extinction. Was it because they were burrowing? Bonus: There are fossil millipedes (:

Coming in a little late to this #FossilFriday but here is the holotype of Youngina capensis, AMNH FARB 5561. This is a close relative of modern reptiles that lived in the late Permian of South Africa around 252 million years ago Expect some fun revisions to Neodiapsida in the near future…. 👀

I live for awesome fossils. I mean, just look at this beautiful 'opposite bird' skull! That story and more of the best in Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Finally made it over here. I’m never very active on these things, but follow me for the occasional post about Permian #reptiles or #paleontology