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Jake Kotevski

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PhD Candidate at Museums Victoria Research Institute and the Evans EvoMorph Lab, Monash University. The undisputed Dinosaur man. I study theropods and theropod accessories. Views are my own.

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Nov 14

Howdy folks!

My name’s Jake, I’m a vertebrate palaeontologist based in Victoria, Australia.

My research is based on non-avian Theropoda from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous of Australia!

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · May 9

New article on Early Cretaceous flora of Victoria, Australia, with detailed plants in these formerly polar environments, including gorgeous artwork by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social. (P.S. Let me know when you see the theropod dinosaur tracks!) #FossilFriday 🧪🌿🪨
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scene of a cool temperate forest during the Early Cretaceous Period (125-105 million years ago) in what is now Victoria, Australia. In the foreground are many ferns and mosses in the understory and two large conifer trees on either side, framing a view in the background of a river and river floodplain with much woody debris. Further in the background is a green forest, which is in front a mountain range with snow caps and an erupting volcano. Original artwork by Robert Nicholls.

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Apr 9

G'day folks

I've got some online talks lined up this coming month for Australian heritage festival

I'll be speaking with Adele Pentland and Sally Hurst in three online talks - where we've dug, palaeontology questions, and why Australovenator is the best thing out of Australia since VB 😉

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · Apr 2

What's that sneaking up behind you? A new dinosaur discovery to be announced later today. Stay tuned...

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

So great to hear, congratulations to you too! Such an exciting group

Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Melissa found the bones too 😂 We'll have a whole animal in no time

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thanks Tony! Happy to give a similarly sized leg bone to your footprint :)

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Finally, if you’d like an alternative runthrough of this research, check out are article at The Conversation here: theconversation.com/carnivorous-...
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Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show

Some of the new finds are the first evidence of these types of dinosaurs from Australia.

theconversation.com

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Big thanks to my coauthors, @inxcetus.bsky.social ky.social, @zieglertn.bsky.social y.social, Joseph Bevitt, Pat Vickers-Rich, Tom Rich, Al Evans and Steve Poropat!
Thanks to the crew at Dinosaur Dreaming; my research couldn't happen without them: www.dinosaurdreaming.net
Art by Andrew Plant
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Home | Dinodreaming

Dinosaur Dreaming is a Monash University and Museums Victoria project focused on fossil sites near Inverloch on the Bass Coast, south-east of Melbourne. It has yielded more than 10,000 fossil bones an...

www.dinosaurdreaming.net

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

The Strzelecki unenlagiine also extends their range in Australia to at least ~10mil years.
These fossils all serve to improve our understanding of theropod diversity in Early Cretaceous Australia; we can now count noasaurids, carcharodontosaurs megaraptorids and unenlagiines.
Art by Zev Landes
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Carcharodontosaurians being present in Australia is a big deal in itself.
Fossils from both the Eumeralla Formation and upper Strzelecki Group demonstrates that they were not only present in Cretaceous Australia, but that they were here for at least 10mil years.
Art by Zev Landes.
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Each specimen tells a compelling story.
The megaraptorid fossils hint at large-bodied forms at their earliest geological appearance, and are among the largest theropod fossils yet found in Australia.
Art by @ppaleoartist.bsky.social
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Going back to Museums Victoria collections, I found one more theropod tibia of note, discovered in 2004. From the younger Eumeralla Formation, this specimen shares the unique morphology of Siamraptor, and the 1987 tibia — the intermalleolar notch.
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Then in May of 2023, Melissa returned to the Eagles Nest locality (upper Strzelecki Group), and found yet another theropod tibia. Our analysis of this small but elongate specimen found it represented an unenlagiine, extending their record back to ~120Ma. 4/10

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

Later that year, fossil hunter Melissa Lowery found two new specimens from the upper Strzelecki Group at a new fossil locality. In two separate (but nearby) boulders were a large tibia, and two associated caudal vertebrae — both belonging to large-bodied megaraptorids.
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

In 2022, I came across a theropod tibia in the collections of Museums Victoria found in 1987! From the upper Strzelecki Group, this specimen had a unique feature — what we've termed the intermalleolar notch — seen only in Siamraptor, a carcharodontosaurian from Thailand.
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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 19

They’ve only waited 120Ma.
A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians.

Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Artwork by Jonathan Metzger.

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · Jan 14

AND HERE IT IS! It was really hard to not tell everyone because I knew for more than 2 years now. Please welcome Tameryraptor, a new name for Stromers carcharodontosaurid. Based on Stromers descriptions, drawings and newly found photographs the authors conclude...

#paleoart #sciart #scicomm

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Dec 22

A. Danison et al. (2024)
Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12(1): 81-114
doi: doi.org/10.18435/vam...
journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p...

doi.org

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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · Dec 16

Very very very quick and dirty sketch. Diamantinasaurus + cf. Wollemia sp.

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Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Dec 10

Good chance of that

Jake Kotevski @dinoman-jake.bsky.social · Dec 10

Manuscript accepted! 👀

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · Dec 4

Lost in the Australian sauce!
#paleostream #paleoart #sciart

Australovenator got lucky and is eating from the carcass of a large sauropod. It has burrowing into ribcage

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Andy | Paleocartoonist @skinkpunch.bsky.social · Dec 3

Did You Know Dino? Meraxes #paleontology #dinosaurs #comics #scicomm

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Jorgo Ristevski @jorgoristevski.bsky.social · Nov 29

New paper alert, just in time for #FossilFriday! A reevaluation of the #crocodylian fossils from the #Pliocene Otibanda Formation in Papua New Guinea. For a quick summary, check out the thread below 🧵👇

You can read the paper here (contact me if you need a PDF):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Figure 5 in the paper, showing one of the ziphodont teeth.

Figure 9 in the paper, showing a map of Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands. Known fossil localities that have yielded fossil remains of ziphodont crocodylians are indicated on the map.

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