Serjoscha Evers
@sirjoscha.bsky.social
Director of Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Bayreuth, a regional museum of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History | Pala(e)ontologist with reptilian bias | Associate Editor for Journal of Systematic Palaeotology | turtle evolution
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New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids
Notosuchian systematics have been highly debated in recent decades, particularly the placement of sebecids and closely related species. As the only notosuchian lineage to have survived the Cretaceo...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.
#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all
#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!
I'm at the airport (Munich) – #2025SVP it getting real! I am super excited b/c this is my 1st major conference in 5 yrs due to COVID & then taking it slower since I have kids. Kids are w/ grandparents, so I can talk about how much I care about turtles Few 🐢-talks... don't miss out & come by Fri AM!
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm at the airport (Munich) – #2025SVP it getting real! I am super excited b/c this is my 1st major conference in 5 yrs due to COVID & then taking it slower since I have kids. Kids are w/ grandparents, so I can talk about how much I care about turtles Few 🐢-talks... don't miss out & come by Fri AM!
Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Even though many early stem turtles are known from relatively well-preserved skulls, their neuroanatomy remains poorly understood, limiting insights into key cranial and ecological transitions. Here w...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New study out in JSP! 🐢
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
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Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
New study out in JSP! 🐢
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
Just got minor reviews on my first paper featuring something Permian 🤩
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just got minor reviews on my first paper featuring something Permian 🤩
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Wonder what’s in here? If you’re at #2025SVP and would like to know, drop my by Friday poster in the Turts and Crocs space, board B301.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Wonder what’s in here? If you’re at #2025SVP and would like to know, drop my by Friday poster in the Turts and Crocs space, board B301.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
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Article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology
Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
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In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
This looks so cool! Can’t wait to see it in person :) will the exhibit be traveling afterwards?
After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This looks so cool! Can’t wait to see it in person :) will the exhibit be traveling afterwards?
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New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
First paper accepted with new affiliation - exciting 🐢🤩
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
First paper accepted with new affiliation - exciting 🐢🤩
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Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
October 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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So excited to see our paper on #phylogenetics and #morphometrics integrated with feeding #ecology in the surgeonfishes by @linnealungstrom.bsky.social get posted, her first in a series on their incredibly cool biology. 🐟🦑🧪🌎🌿
No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes
Patterns of evolutionary change in the fin and body shapes of fishes are strongly related to dietary ecology and locomotor mechanisms, and associations between shapes affects ecomorphological relation...
www.biorxiv.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
So excited to see our paper on #phylogenetics and #morphometrics integrated with feeding #ecology in the surgeonfishes by @linnealungstrom.bsky.social get posted, her first in a series on their incredibly cool biology. 🐟🦑🧪🌎🌿
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We have a new paper out! Turtle ancestors evolved a shell—but what else? We found that an unique rostral vasculature was also obtained gradually along the lineage, and that one of the earliest turtles Proganochelys likely retained a mostly ancestral state!🐢 sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We have a new paper out! Turtle ancestors evolved a shell—but what else? We found that an unique rostral vasculature was also obtained gradually along the lineage, and that one of the earliest turtles Proganochelys likely retained a mostly ancestral state!🐢 sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely!
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42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)
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September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely!
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JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology:
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September 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology:
apply.interfolio.com/172502
apply.interfolio.com/172517
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apply.interfolio.com/172517
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Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack
Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack
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‼️ PAPER ALERT ‼️
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
‼️ PAPER ALERT ‼️
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
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Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪
Lectures
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September 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪
For #FossilFriday, here is the holotype of Pistosaurus longaevus (UMO BT-682) from the collections of the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken in Bayreuth. I’ve removed the specimen from exhibits to have it photographed for a research project.
September 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For #FossilFriday, here is the holotype of Pistosaurus longaevus (UMO BT-682) from the collections of the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken in Bayreuth. I’ve removed the specimen from exhibits to have it photographed for a research project.