We find that the Brightseat snails are indicative of overlapping influence from both northern and southern Danian zoogeographic provinces, though its composition appears more closely allied with faunas from Greenland and northwestern Europe.

The Brightseat gastropod fauna is well suited for transatlantic comparison, and is intermediate in geographic position between other well-studied assemblages including those from the Gulf Coastal Plain, western Greenland, and northwestern Europe.

This monograph describes 52 gastropods, including 25 new species/subspecies, from the Brightseat Formation of Maryland, which represents the earliest Paleocene sediments which crop out in this region of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵

⚒️ New paper out in Paleobiology with Aaron Goodman, W. Allmon, @crowleyk.bsky.social, A. Farnsworth, M. Hopkins, D. Lunt, and Cori Myers:
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
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Another day in the field with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History team on Anticosti Island. Here, Lena and I are joined by OU Geosciences grad students Kiera Crowley (Wright lab) and Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab)

This new exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth lives up to its name, with an amazing spread of modern and fossil specimens.

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf… but what about John Oliver on a PRI Tully Monster?

Day 1 of photoshopping John Oliver onto/into fossils in the hopes that he saves my old museum, the Paleontological Research Institution

I think he makes a great snail!

Fossil is the Murex shilhoensis type, a junior synonym of Favartia shilohensis, comedian is H. sapiens

#savepri #Museumofthearth

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️

In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability

ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect and preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever.

Every donation, no matter the size, helps in the short-medium term as we work to save the Institution: www.priweb.org/donate

More info on PRI's website here: www.priweb.org/press-releas...

New article by @science.org on the financial crisis at PRI.

PRI has played an invaluable role in my personal growth as an academic paleontologist and Earth science educator. We *must* preserve organizations with such long-standing commitments to science education and wise stewardship of the planet.

Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US).
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Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...

I do not… I just stumbled across it. Can’t seem to find a definitive answer online either. But if some critical mass of gastropod enthusiasts have decided to endorse such an annual holiday, who am I to argue?!