Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs
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📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details:

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Linked to this: we will be hiring soon a three-year research assistant. PhD not necessary but needs fossil CT segmentation skills and willing to work in the lab and field. Send me a message if of interest!

Delighted to have been awarded a project grant from @leverhulme.bsky.social to work on amazing Middle Jurassic mammal specimens collected from our Isle of Skye field sites! Grant with @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social @lukeemeade.bsky.social Roger Benson & Stig Walsh.

New #paleoart and new species for #FossilFriday! Meet Threordatoth chasmatos, a small Triassic procolophonid named today by @lukeemeade.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social, @marcehjones.bsky.social and Nicholas C. Fraser. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/spp2... #sciart #paleontology

These features of the jaw and teeth may indicate feeding or food processing in quite a different way to other procolophonids, perhaps a range of foods including plants and insects 🌱🐛🌲 🐜 4/4
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Many of the lower jaw bones have a weird toothless tip and featureless symphysis. Perhaps the halves of the jaw were connected flexibly to help jaw movements and aid close tooth-on-tooth contact during chewing or providing shock-absorption💀 3/4

This is based on tiny partial remains from Carnian-Norian age fissure fills from Cromhall Quarry, SW England. The upper jaw has a highly reduced tooth count of large 3-cusped teeth, distinct and more complex than many other procolophonids🦷 2/4

🦎Threordatoth chasmatos🦎 a new Late Triassic procolophonid in Papers in Palaeontology with @richardjbutler.bsky.social @marcehjones.bsky.social and Nick Fraser showing unique features of the jaw and teeth 🦷🦷https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1605 Reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social 1/4 #fossilfriday

A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...