Paleontology postdoc at @nmnh studying the dawn of reptiles. Host of Paleo podcast @PastTimePaleo. Other useful descriptors go here.
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Pics of the AWESOMELY preserved Platecarpus at the @NHMLA for #FossilFriday. This nearly complete specimen even has skin and other soft tissue impressions!
Please excuse the kinda wavy panorama pgoto attempt.
I'm a choristodere fan. From tiny Cteniogenys, to resilient Lazarussuchus, to the croc-like champsosaurs, I celebrate their ENTIRE catalog!
It was kinda selfish of them to go extinct in the Miocene before we could study them in life...
On #FossilFriday, we celebrate the unsung heroes of the reptile world: the choristoderes! From the Triassic to the mid-Cenozoic, these rare aquatic critters prowled the waterways of the northern continents. COERULEODRACO JURASSICUS is a new species from Jurassic China!
Welcome back to the world, Antarctanax. Yet more archosauromorph diversity in the earliest Triassic, right in the wake of the PT Extinction.
Thanks to @_gondwannabe_ and crew for pulling this fellow from its Antarctic tomb! It was fun to review this one.
This cutie-patootie is ANTARCTANAX SHACKLETONI, an iguana-sized reptile from Antarctica. Antarctanax lived in a hothouse world in the Early Triassic, just after the Permian Extinction wiped out 90+% of species. Awesome discovery by @_gondwannabe_ and @burkemuseum!
Acresuchus is a new fossil caiman from the Miocene of Brazil. It's a contemporary and probable sister taxon of Purussaurus, although it's half the size of that behemoth. It's got a weird narrow skull table...whatever that means.
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On this #FossilFriday, PastTime crosses over with @IKnowDino to discuss the latest and greatest in paleontology from the @SVP_vertpaleo 2018 conference! Pachycephalosaurs, American cheetahs, #dinosaur lungs! pasttime.org/podcast/episode…
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Lavocatisaurus is a new rebbachisaurid sauropod from Early Cretaceous Argentina. YOU SHOULD ALL BE TALKING ABOUT IT! It's skull blew Adam's mind. It's got a giant extra hole in its face, ridiculously torqued adductor chambers, and is made of stick and paper-like bones! WHAT?
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Happy #FossilFriday! Celebrating #CROCtober here @sciencemuseummn with Wannaganosuchus, a precursor to alligators from North Dakota, about 60 million years ago. #ShareYourDiscovery
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For the final #FossilFriday of #CROCtober I present Borealosuchus formidabilis from the Paleocene of North Dakota. @sciencemuseummn has a particularly incredible collection of these animals, for all you croc researchers out there.
Adam C. Pritchard retweeted
Now on a dinosaur kick...Check out the very sweet skull of the new sauropod #dinosaur LIAONINGOTITAN from Early Cretaceous China. One of VERY few sauropod skulls from Cretaceous Asia with much of a skeleton to boot! Read all about it at sjdz.jlu.edu.cn/EN/abstract/….
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Big Bird's folks were from Madagascar. livescience.com/63675-worlds…
"Phylogenetic analyses did not do the work, you did."
Awwww...Reviewer 2, you're gonna make me cry!
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Yum. The ancient Malagasy likely chowed down on elephant birds thousands of years ago!
Humans arrived in #Madagascar over 6000 years before people thought, and were hunting the giant elephant birds! Check out my new paper in @ScienceAdvances. A phenomenal story! Thanks @patcwright @tjuthompson @david_errickson et al. #archaeology #megafauna tinyurl.com/y7pydb4e
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*sigh* The Meg was a terrible movie, but darn it if Carcharocles megalodon wasn't an amazing real animal.
Tooth of the world’s biggest shark: #TheMeg! The biggest ones are over 7 inches long. And no, Megalodons no longer swim in the ocean, they went extinct 2.6 MYA. #AskACuratorDay #DeepTime
Phytosaur teeth the size of railroad spikes are highlights of @GhostRanchorg fieldwork this year.
Ghost Ranch update. Lots of isolated limb bones of all size (prob dinosaur) and a nasty stomach ache cap day 1.
Traveling from Albuquerque to Ghost Ranch w @NHMLA curator Nate Smith. Passing the Sandia Mountains...
After a sleepless night, I embark on a week at Ghost Ranch digging Triassic vertebrates! Dream specimen would be a tiny reptile that ISN'T a drepanosaur or tanystropheid...just to shake things up.
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