Very cool! Congrats @tweetisaurus.bsky.social et al.!

Skeleton of the Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris holotype specimen. Collection of the Naturkundemuseum Berlin

🚨 New plesiosaur paper 🚨
After 12 years of work, our paper about Seeleyosaurus was published today. Seeleyosaurus was the first complete plesiosaur found in Germany. The holotype at the NHM Berlin is almost complete, articulated and even has fossilised skin. 1/6
#FossilFriday #Science #Germany

Huge thanks to Sven for inviting me to contribute to this study, and to all coauthors for another great collaboration!

New paper out! 🎉

64 pages of #osteology, with some #taxonomy and a scent of #phylogenetics! The monstrosity called #Seeleyosaurus is finally off our desks!

The paper was published in The Anatomical Record and can be accessed here:
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Reconstruction: Joschua Knüppe

New specimens of rare Pliensbachian plesiosaurs from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. peerj.com/articles/184...
#geologia #paleontologia #paleontology #paleobiologia #paleobiology

New pre-print from recent Slater lab graduate Dr David Černý and me, from David's dissertation work - a bayesian least squares supertree method for inference of time-calibrated phylogenies. Feedback much appreciated but here's the motivation.... 🧵

Special thanks to @dinosven.bsky.social and Jahn Hornung for the excellent cooperation!

🚨 New paper on #Jurassic #plesiosaurs! 🚨

In our new study, we describe two new Pliensbachian occurrences from Germany. The more intriguing of the two represents the only reliably identified early Pliensbachian #pliosaurid described to date.

👉 peerj.com/articles/184...

🖌️ @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Franconiasaurus brevispinus main slab

Franconiasaurus life reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe

This is my first post at Bluesky and a great opportunity to introduce our new plesiosaur Franconiasaurus brevispinus that was published this morning:

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Many thanks to my co-author @danielmadzia.bsky.social & Stefan Eggmaier. Artwork by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social.