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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Oct 18

Abdellah Milhi´s 1992 Thesis about the Geology of the Moroccan High Atlas is now Aviable online on the Internet Archive
archive.org/details/milh...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 5d

Franscinella riograndensis (Salvi et al.) gen. nov. et comb. nov.: The first record of a lycopsid with in situ spores for the Permian strata of the Paraná Basin, Brazil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 6d

The first leech body fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years

peerj.com/articles/199...

[new taxon Macromyzon siluricus]

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 6d

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate

Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 7d

Insights into reef evolution: the first sphinctozoan-dominated reef facies from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of the Tarim Basin, China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

Artist's reconstruction of the Ordovician sphinctozoan–Archaeolithoporella reef community in Well ZG31, Tarim Basin, China. Box diagram shows the various types of organism in life position on the seafloor as well as a cross section into the sediment below showing buried specimens in section as they might appear in the fossil record.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 8d

I am no longer involved in The Sanctum or any projects involving Omar Lagarda González, aka The Darknix.

September 30, 2025
Letter of Disaffiliation

To whom it may concern,

I am ending all involvement with The Sanctum, an art project that has produced models and artwork of mesozoic vertebrates, and was in the planning stages of making a documentary about mesozoic vertebrates.

I have learned that the project’s leader Omar Lagarda González (aka Darknix) made inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances online to a person whom he knew to be 16 years old.

I will no longer be involved in any collaborative art, science communication, or research projects with Omar Lagarda González. Any further use of my name in relation to such projects is without my permission.

Skye McDavid

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 9d

Renanalysis of Alwalkeria maleriensis restricts hypodigm to femora and reinterprets as pterosauromorph. Authors establish new genus Alickmeron with no justification - same holotype and type species as Alwalkeria. Alickmeron is therefore an objective synonym of Alwalkeria.

femora of Alwalkeria maleriensis ("labeled "Alickmeron maleriensis")

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 9d

LARGE THEROPOD TRACKS FROM LISOWICIA BEDS

An ornithischian-theropod ichnoassemblage from the Norian-Rhaetian transition of Poland

"The length of these tracks indicates that it was an animal about 7-8 m long or larger"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12d

The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

[new taxon Galgadraco zephyrius]

Artwork by Matheus Gadelha.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12d

Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs

Camurocondylus lufengensis gen. and sp. nov.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12d

A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany)

fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
New ichthyosaur Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12d

A new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany

(new taxon Makrodactylus oligodontus)

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 14d

THE OLDEST WINGED INSECTS

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Xenoptera latigra sp. nov.

Reconstruction of the relative Sylvohymen sibiricusby A. G. Ponomarenko

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 15d

Art: Andrew McAfee

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 15d

NEW MEGARAPTORAN WITH PREY ON JAWS

Latest Cretaceous megaraptorid theropod dinosaur sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology

Joaquinraptor casali gen. et sp. nov.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 19d

Branched Setae or Attached Macroalgae: A Case Study of an Exceptionally Preserved Brachiopod from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte

doi.org/10.3390/biol...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

More focus should be done in the Inmense (+800 m) Terrestial Toarcian-Aalenian sequences in the inner High Atlas.

I´ve seen what the redbeds near Azilal, Demnat and Zahouiat Ahansal have...just a decent team and at least a large +1 month fieldwork is needed

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

The Outcrop sequence was found in 1990, maybe pre-reported in 1954 but the field notes of Lapparent aren´t the best.

In 1992, with asistance from locals, Charroud & Fedan excavated sauropod bones.

It was planned to excavate more in the Atlasaurus project, in 1998-2000, never happened

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

Goodbye "Protathlitis cinctorrensis" (Invalidated)

Hello Spinosaur Camarillasaurus

Revision of the theropod dinosaur Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Teruel province, Spain

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Triassic sauropterygian: implications from a new juvenile specimen of Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis (Reptilia: Diapsida)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

The oldest diverse jellyfish fauna reinterpreted as sessile polypoid dinomischids (stem-group Ctenophora)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Calathites macrocalyx sp. nov., Theiokylixia cartwrightae gen. et sp. nov., and Dinomischus nudus sp. nov.

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21d

THE OLDEST PACHYCEPHALOSAUR

A domed pachycephalosaur from the EARLY CRETACEOUS of Mongolia

Zavacephale rinpoche gen. et sp. nov.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 24d

Re-assessment of a large archosaur dentary from the Late Triassic of South Wales, United Kingdom
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Newtonsaurus nov. gen.
Art by cisiopurple

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 24d

UNRAVELLING ORNITHOPOD DIVERSITY IN THE LATE JURASSIC COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS OF EASTERN IBERIA (SPAIN)
riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RI...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28d

TOARCIAN THYLACOCEPHANS

New Early Jurassic thylacocephalan assemblage from the Western Carpathians in Slovakia

Dollocaris toarcica sp. nov. and Zazrivacaris jodorowskyi gen. et sp. nov.

www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28d

THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4

Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus

Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov.

academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

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