Here’s a link to a 15 min interview i did last week about #Aninoides and a link to the great comets of 1811 and 1819 via the Beothuk woman #Demasduit if you are interested :-)

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Digging up history What do a fossil, a comet and Beothuk history have in common?

Here is a writeup of our work on #Aninoides and how it helped us to uncover a little bit of Beothuk astronomy. Obviously :-)

With huge thanks to @julialaite.bsky.social

gazette.mun.ca/research/dig...

leaf shaped fossils of Charnia brasieri and Trepassia sp.

Mike Simon and Pascal removing the overlying soil (all by hand) the area in front is the size of the site in May 2025

Happy #FossilFriday how does a thread about the Inner Meadow biota and unexpected age for the fossils, and a refocusing of Martin Brasier’s #KotlinCrisis sound?
We’ve been trickling out our findings from Inner Meadow including #Charnia brasieri, #Aninoides and there's even cooler stuff in review. 🧵

photo of the paratype of Aninoides it is leaf shaped with primary branches at an acute angle to the axis made of smaller similar branches

line drawing of to accompany the Aninoides photograph showing branch architecture

Just before Christmas we published a new rangeomorph genus #Aninoides, the first new rangeomorph genus that has been introduced for a while I believe.

I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are!

Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!

three images of a leaf shaped fossil with low angle first order branches and fractal like higher order branches left is photo of a replica (mold of the lower surface) middle is interpretive drawing and right is a plan view of the inferred top of the same fossil

photo of holotype of Aninoides coombsorum super mature specimen with long first order branches. looks a bit like a comet below is interpretive drawing of the same. disk is accidental not associated with the fossil itself

retrodeformed image of Aninoides coombsorum super mature specimen after retrodeformation see ellipse bottom left which was originally a circle

Our final #Ediacaran palaeontology paper of the year! Introducing #Aninoides coombsorum gen et sp nov

Such a beautiful fossil. At the moment only known from our Inner Meadow site, Newfoundland. Paper led by PhD student Simon Rosse-Guillevic

Not OA sadly :-(

www.researchgate.net/publication/...