Taphonomic analysis of <i>Thanatosdrakon amaru</i> (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin), Mendoza, Argenti... Abstract The fossil remains of Thanatosdrakon from the Plottier Formation (PS-3 quarry, Mendoza,...

Every day in December, I'll share an article from the volume we edited @ Annals of the @abciencias.bsky.social
on pterosaurs. #pterosauradvent

Leonardo Ortiz-David and colleagues analyzed the taphonomy of the azhdarchid Thanatosdrakon from Argentina

doi.org/10.1590/0001...

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Gaining Ground On Pterosaur Biomechanics: A General Overview Abstract The Pterosauria comprises the Mesozoic flying reptiles whose unique anatomy imposes...

Every day in December, I'll share an article from the volume we edited @ Annals of the @abciencias.bsky.social on pterosaurs. Could #pterosauradvent be a thing?

Fresh from the (virtual) press: a review on pterosaur biomechanics by Fabiana Costa and colleagues

www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/GGd...

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My article has been published today in @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/20388 #Paleontology

Enter the dragons: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs Azhdarchidae is a clade of pterosaurs which includes the largest-ever flying animals. The evolutionary history of this clade and its closest relatives remains incompletely understood and highly deb...

JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi with level

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi in dorsal view

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi in ventral view

While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk

Great job!!!

A look into the gender demographics of Brazilian Paleontology In 2020, a group of Brazilian female paleontologists from various universities and public institutions conducted the study “Brazilian Paleontology Gender Profile,” whose main objective was to assess t...

🧪🚨New paper alert🚨⚒️
Já está disponível o resumo do nosso artigo sobre uma análise de gênero na Paleontologia brasileira no site da RBP. Em breve o artigo completo:
sbpbrasil.org/publications...

Hi Bluesky, I need your help. Please share broadly:

We have an EXCELLENT job opening. We are looking for a non-Brazilian visiting scholar who specializes in Genomics applied to animal evolution, biogeography, and/or biodiversity. This is a one-year contract that can be extended for up to 4 years.

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Payment is consistent with a full professor position.

Further info at progep.ufes.br/conteudo/edi...

I am available for contact at taissa.silva (at) ufes.br

Hi Bluesky, I need your help. Please share broadly:

We have an EXCELLENT job opening. We are looking for a non-Brazilian visiting scholar who specializes in Genomics applied to animal evolution, biogeography, and/or biodiversity. This is a one-year contract that can be extended for up to 4 years.

Now, for a complaint: this is, quite obviously, a paleontology paper. It deals with taphonomy.

We had desk-rejections from two paleontology journals because of the actualistic experiments.

An editor told me the paper "had no fossils". We analyzed 306 fossils. So disappointing.

3 sets of comparative pictures. On top there's a winged mayfly in lateral view, with the wing margins withered. Next to it, a fossilized winged mayfly also with withered wings. In the middle there is a mayfly nymph that lost its head, next to a fossil showing the exact same disarticulation. On the bottom, a dragonfly nymph with an extended mouthpiece, and next to it, a fossil (but in ventral view) also with the extended mouthpiece.

Here are some modern x fossil comparisons:
- winged mayflies with withered wing margins
- unlucky mayfly nymphs with disarticulated heads
- dragonfly nymphs with extended mouth apparatus

They are the *exceptions*. Most Crato Formation aquatic insects fossilized quickly and are well-preserved.

Taphonomy of aquatic insects from the Crato Formation Lagerstätte (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) under an actualistic look The Crato Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) is a fossiliferous deposit of global significance, representing a lacustrine palaeoenvironment which offers insights into aquatic insect taphonomy. Despi...

New paper alert! In our new paper @plosone.org, lead author Arianny Storari collected, reared, and analyzed decay and disarticulation of hundreds of aquatic insects, and compared them to Crato Formation fossils to figure out what happened to them before they fossilized.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Are you sure about that? The paper says it is in the museum in Marrakesh.

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

Loved the Yixian one!!

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Um mundo sem David Lynch é um mundo infinitamente menos interessante

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

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