Hello from Stuttgart! Never been to the SMNS before but it's a lovely museum with amazing collections. Right now they have a temporary exhibit on Triassic life, featuring Mirasaura. @stephanspiekman.bsky.social showed me round.. Amazing fossils!

Also I did prepare the only Metoposaurus skull with teeth. Which is from the same site.

The yearly round-up of #temnospondyl research from the past year for the first #FossilFriday post of the year: once again, a lot of stuff on European taxa but also a great mix of researchers involved in all sorts of interesting work! 🧵👇 (1/25ish?) #temnospondyls #fossils #histology #anatomy

Schoch et al. (CC: @stereospondyl.bsky.social) revised the Late Tr plagiosaurid Plagiosternum from Germany, the collection of which has been much expanded recently. They also provide an overview of plagiosaurid ecology, noting Plagiosternum only occurs in brackish settings: doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Schoch et al. (CC: @stereospondyl.bsky.social) revised the Late Tr capitosaur Cyclotosaurus from Germany, with updated osteologies and diagnoses for several species, some phylo analysis, and discussion of its ecology (likely an apex predator in freshwater streams): doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Placodontiformes – Placodonts

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️ For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST! It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!

Yesterday we opened “Triassic Life — Dawn of the age of reptiles” at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart. The show tracks life’s rebound after the end Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago. 📷: Maximilian Schwarz

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

New paper out today in @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social for #FossilFriday AKA here's-Bryan's-one-paleo-paper-this-year-to-remind-people-I-still-do-paleo-sometimes: a revision of the #Permian #dissorophid #temnospondyl Aspidosaurus chiton based on a new specimen: doi.org/10.1093/zool... (1/n)

Paleoartist @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social works live on the illustrations for our upcoming exhibition! Take a look over his shoulder today (11.07., 11 pm) and Sunday (13.07., 9 pm) on twitch: www.twitch.tv/paleostream

On tonight stream we do things a little different... Starting 1 hour sooner and covering a very particular creature.

On thursday I successfully defended my PhD thesis on the diversity and ecology of Triassic temnospondyls at the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social and @unihohenheim.bsky.social On to more temnospondyl fun coming in the future. Thanks to everyone who helped make this moment possible :D #temnospondone ✔️

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

Two years ago I returned the loan of this amazing Vancleavea skull to Ghost Ranch. It had been in Austin for CT scanning, and needed a courier to bring it home. #paleontology

After 4.5 years of work, I officially submitted my PhD thesis :) 372 pages on the diversity and ecology of Triassic temnospondyls. Stay tuned for more temno fun hopefully soon :D

New publication! My first dissertation chapter is now published in @plosone.org with @paleobadger.bsky.social, @calamanderso.bsky.social, Hannah Miller, Max Deckman, and Brandon Price. Any images not credited below are from this paper. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @uwmadscience.bsky.social 1/16

Our #Triassic #Reaserch Team* published a review of all terrestrial #tetrapod occurrences from the Triassic period in the Central European Basin (nowadays Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, NE France, SE England). doi.org/10.1016/j.ea... (1/3) #science #forschungsmuseum

#Press Research team @smnstuttgart.bsky.social presents comprehensive study on #Triassic terrestrial tetrapods in the Central European Basin in ‘Earth-Science Reviews’. www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/footer-menu/... #SaveTheDate: Special exhibition ‘Triassic Life’ in Stuttgart from 17 October 2025!

Poster for an exhibition that will open in April. Had a lot of fun with this and the exhibition itself will have lots more ;) #paleoart #sciart

#ScienceNews 238 bis 234 Millionen Jahre alte Fossilien liefern neue Erkenntnisse über die Anpassungsfähigkeit und Evolution der Urlurche. Ein Team am @SMNStuttgart fand eine unerwartete Vielfalt von Urlurchen trotz lebensfeindlicher Bedingun... weiterlesen

🎂 Recently, we celebrated the 25th birthday of Fossil Record: one of @mfnberlin.bsky.social's flagship #journals! On the occasion, Fossil Record published a Special Issue on #vertebrate #evolution & "the conquest of land". 👇 Read more on our blog: #scholarlypublishing #openaccess

#Job #PhD position (m/f/d) in vertebrate #Paleontology E 13 TV-L, 65%, 3 years in the project “Bone Microanatomy, Ichnology and Paleoenvironment” of Dr Eudald Mujal Grané and @eliamson.bsky.social at State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart All information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out! tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

Baby gar burps! The alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) can gulp air into its vascularized swim bladder which functions like a low-efficiency lung. This permits them to thrive in low-oxygen water (hypoxic) that might suffocate other fish.

Schoch et al. (CC: @stereospondyl.bsky.social) provided a thorough description of ontogeny in the Middle Triassic capitosaur Mastodonsaurus giganteus from Germany, which reveals preferences for certain environments at different life stages based on size-frequency comparisons. doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

@stereospondyl.bsky.social et al. (CC @emmadnn.bsky.social) modeled distribution of European temnos over the Middle-Late Triassic transition, proposing that the Central European Basin was the nexus for diversification/radiation and highlighting different interclade patterns. doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Schoch & @stereospondyl.bsky.social reviewed the Triassic temnospondyls from Germany, harmonizing diagnoses of the 29 valid species, summarizing stratigraphic ranges, naming a new species of Parotosuchus, and reducing Kupferzellia to a junior synonym of Tatrasuchus. doi.org/10.18476/pal...

@stereospondyl.bsky.social et al. described fraggy material from the Middle-Late Triassic Grabfeld Fm of Germany, identifying the oldest known #metoposaurid remains, proposing biogeographic scenarios for the clade, & reviving the hypothesis of osmotic tolerance. doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

For the first #FossilFriday of 2025, here's my annual thread looking back on the #temnospondyl research that came out last year! In general, papers were skewed towards anatomical descriptions of specifically European taxa that were predominantly from Triassic deposits. 🧵👇 (1/30ish)

What better way to end the year on the last #metopomonday then with the next chapter of my PhD being out today in the new Fossil Record special issue. Here we reveal an unexpected diversity of temnospondyls in the hostile arid and brackisch environment of the early Carnian Grabfeld Fm of Germany.

A nice figure of another junior synonym of Anaschisma browni, "Koskinonodon princeps" from the Popo Agie Fm of Wyoming for #FossilFriday. For some reason, a chunk that could be reattached on the margin of the left orbit was left out and substituted with some filler @akufner.bsky.social & Gee, 2021

For the first chapter of my PhD thesis I applied species distribution modelling to explore the ecological resilience of Triassic temnospondyls through changing climate conditions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #paleontology #temnospondyl

Vancleavea campi, a Late Triassic archosauriform preserved with some of the most incredible osteoderms I’ve ever seen. Cast on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. #FossilFriday

From 2021, #paleoart of the giant temnospondyl Mastodonsaurus preying on the wee archosauriform Jaxtasuchus. Mastodonsaurus were huge - 5-6 m long - making them some of the largest amphibians of all time, and presumably lived crocodile-like lifestyles. #sciart #fossils #paleontology