Thanks Thomas!! 🤩

Thanks Eric!

Thanks Gustavo! It was indeed a lot of work! But it's definitely worth it

As usual, you can find the pdf in our lab's website:
www.macropaleolab.com/_files/ugd/8...

Many thanks to the JVP Senior Editors (Mike, Adriana and Julie) for inviting me to serve as a phylogenetic editor and for the opportunity to write this editorial. And huge shout-out to my colleague and friend Daniel Casali, who was with me throughout this insightful journey!

Our editorial highlights why dedicated roles like phylogenetic editors matter for reproducibility.
We are making progress, but there is still a long road ahead. thanks to the JVP senior editors for the invitation and support.

In about 25% of submissions, rerunning the analyses produced a different consensus topology than the one reported.
These discrepancies likely stem from incomplete methods, matrix issues, or errors in figure preparation; these could easily go unnoticed without editorial checks.

Some things have improved. For example, authors are increasingly complying with the requirement to provide most parsimonious trees (MPTs), with a clear improvement since 2022. In the figure, improvements (decreasing patterns) are marked in green.

But other problems persist.

Over the past few years, we have evaluated nearly 300 manuscripts and systematically recorded common reproducibility issues, as well as how they changed over time.
At JVP we also rerun all parsimony analyses to verify that the reported results match the provided data and files.

About 3.5 years ago, JVP created a new editorial role: Phylogenetic Editors, focused specifically on ensuring the reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses.
I was honored to be appointed the first Phylogenetic Editor, and a few years later Dr. Daniel Casali joined the team.

🚨 Out today: our Editorial in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social on an important issue in science - the reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses.
In it, we analyze several years of editorial data to ask a simple question: are things improving?

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

Decoupled phenotypic constraints framed by respiratory adaptation in the rise of land vertebrates Macroevolutionary models show that rib-based breathing released constraints on body size and cranial evolution in early amniotes.

Decoupled phenotypic constraints framed by respiratory adaptation in the rise of land vertebrates | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship Abstract. The Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction was catastrophic, eliminating much of terrestrial life and entire iconic vertebrate groups, such

Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨
Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher!
paper below:

Novo dinossauro pescoçudo encontrado no Maranhão era parente próximo de espécie europeia <i>Dasosaurus tocantinensis</i> tinha cerca de 20 metros de comprimento e viveu aproximadamente há 120 milhões de anos; espécie mais próxima viveu na atual Espanha

Dasosaurus tocantinensis tinha cerca de 20 metros de comprimento e viveu aproximadamente há 120 milhões de anos. Do ponto de vista evolutivo, a espécie conhecida mais próxima viveu na atual Espanha. agencia.fapesp.br/57516

Historical Biology - Editor Pick by Mark Young Cidade et al. undertook a comprehensive treatment of the phylogenetic nomenclature of Caimaninae (which includes extant caimans). Rey et al. undertook morphometric analyses of Antulsporites spores fro...

Our paper on the phylogenetic nomenclature of Caimaninae is the Editor’s Pick in Historical Biology! 🐊 Glad to see the topic highlighted.

www.researchgate.net/journal/Hist...

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!

Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27...

with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

For the pdf, access our lab's website:
www.macropaleolab.com/publications

New paper out in Historical Biology! 🐊 Led by Giovanne Cidade, we present phylogenetic definitions for several clade names within Caimaninae. Some new clade names were also proposed and defined, including Purussauria and Caimanini.

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

Vcs lembram desse bichão da foto? Encontrado em 2021?
Ele ganhou nome: Dasosaurus tocantinensis!
Mais um dinossauro brasileiro 🇧🇷 pra lista
Veja o artigo: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to all coauthors (including @alinemghilardi.bsky.social, @titoaureliano.bsky.social, @gsferreira.bsky.social, Max Langer, Elver and many more!) and funding agencies (@agenciafapesp.bsky.social, @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social)!
Get the pdf here:
www.macropaleolab.com/_files/ugd/8...

Phylogenetic analyses recover a close relationship with Garumbatitan morellensis (Barremian, Spain). Quantitative biogeography suggests dispersal to South America via northern Africa during the Valanginian–Aptian.

Led by Elver Mayer, the study describes the morphology and uses bone histology to show that the individual was an adult at the time of death.

🦕 New paper out! Dasosaurus tocantinensis, a new Early Cretaceous titanosauriform from Brazil (Grajaú Basin), is now published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FURND...

Check our website for more information!

www.macropaleolab.com

Two new members at the MacroPaleo Lab! Leonardo Aldrin (left) will work on an MSc project on Purussaurus brasiliensis, describing new and known material. Fernanda Serpa (right), an undergrad in Chemistry, is launching a new geochemistry line in the lab.

Paleoart I did a while ago for a paper:

"The role of climate on the emergence of giant caimanines (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Miocene western Amazonian region"
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Paleotemperatures through the Phanerozoic and the variation of measurement densities through time.

I'm glad to share our new study on the nature of distributions of gaps in empirical geochronologies of geological section as a function of time scale. Measurements of proxies are highly uneven if measured through time.
1/5
 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction - Nature The Huayuan biota exhibits extraordinary biodiversity, illuminating the impact of the Phanerozoic mass extinction around 513 million years ago and offering critical insights into the transformation of...

Zeng, H., Liu, Q., Zhao, F. et al. A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Formation, preservation & interpretation of dinosaur tracks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...