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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 4h

📣Editor spotlight

Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 2d

This article highlight: Taxonomic Note📜

This article allows authors to published on matters related to nomenclature, be it new names, new type specimens or the discovery of lost type specimens.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 5d

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Verónica Vennari.

This is Argentiniceras noduliferum, an Early Cretaceous ammonite & index fossil specimen from the Vaca Muerta Formation in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina.
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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 7d

📣Editor spotlight

Verónica Vennari has a PhD in Geological Sciences by the Buenos Aires University and is an Associate Researcher at CONICET. Her research focus on the systematics and biostratigraphy of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous ammonites from Argentina 🐚

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 9d

This article highlight: Method📜

This article allows authors to describe new methods, or even softwares such as R packages. Data & code may be included but must be submitted to an online repository.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 14d

📣Editor spotlight

Dr Jorgo Ristevski is an early career palaeontologist that studies crocodyliforms. He researches the extinct crocodylian clade Mekosuchinae. He has named and described several extinct crocodyliform genera and species, including Australia's giant gavialoid Gunggamarandu maunala 🐊

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 16d

This article highlight: data notes📜

This article may be used for authors to describe their datasets such as morphometric, CT tomographic or phylogenetic datasets. Queries can be addressed to our Data Editor Dr Brooke Long-Fox

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 19d

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Letita Luci.

This is a very well preserved, trigonioid bivalve Steinmanlla curacoensis (CPBA 20545.5) from the early Valanginian of Argentina. An oyster is cemented on it, a common occurrence in the Early Cretaceous🐚

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 21d

📣Editor spotlight

Dr Letita Luci is a researcher (CONICET) and a part-time university teacher (UBA) from Argentina. Her research focuses on Cretaceous marine hard-substrate communities settled on invertebrate shells and inorganic nodules, analyzing their taxonomy, paleoecology and taphonomy 🐚

Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 23d

This article highlight: book reviews📜

This article may be used to review or analyse books from our field. Reviews will typically be written by our Book Review Editor Darren Naish but may also be written by guest contributors.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 26d

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Steve Brusatte.

This is the holotype of the dromeosaur Zhenyuanlong (JPM-0008). From the Early Cretaceous of China, this specimen is notable for its trails of feathers, short arms, and wings 🦖

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 28d

📣Editor spotlight

Prof Steve Brusatte is a professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in the evolution of dinosaurs, pterosaurs & mammals. He is a keen science communicator who has written best-selling books & is the consultant on the Jurassic World films 🦖

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 28d

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers the holotype of the enigmatic 'Ichthyosaurus' torrei... a specimen that was lost with only photos, CT scans & documentation left to extract data.

Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Sep 8

This article highlight: review articles📜

This article allows authors to undertake a synthesis of their field; gathering all the relevant literature for detailing the history of a methodology, a species or a whole clade.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Sep 5

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Rodrigo Temp Müller.

Macrocollum itaquii was the first complete dinosaur discovered in Brazil. Measuring about 3.5 meters in length and dating back 225 million years, it is the oldest long-necked sauropodomorph known worldwide 🦕

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣Editor spotlight

Dr Rodrigo Temp Müller is a Brazilian vertebrate paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria. His research focuses on the evolution and systematics of Triassic archosaurs, particularly early dinosaurs and their relatives 🦖

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Sep 1

This article highlight: brief reports 📜

This article is intended for preliminary results, new observations of previously described species & isolated material descriptions. Negative results are also welcome.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 29

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Jordan Bestwick.

This is Istiodactylus, a pterosaur that lived 120 million years ago in what is now the Isle of Wight & characterised by densely packed, triangular & serrated teeth that are hypothesised to have helped deflesh dinosaur carcasses.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 27

📣Editor spotlight

Dr Jordan Bestwick is a post doc at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main areas of research include pterosaur–bird competition, reconstructing diets of extinct reptiles via microwear analysis, and the faunal compositions of the Triassic site of Frick, north Switzerland 🐦

Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 25

Article highlight: Research article 📜

The main type of article published in the journal; this is your standard paper that allows authors 5000-15000 words to describe & interpret their research findings 🦖

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 22

For #FossilFriday, we have, from our editor Daniel Field, 2 artist recreations of Asteriornis maastrichtensis (left), & Janavis finalidens (right). Asteriornis is among the earliest known crown bird fossils & Janavis is among the world's youngest known toothed stem birds. Art by Phillip Krzeminski 🐦

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣Editor spotlight

Dr Daniel Field is the Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Strickland Curator of Ornithology at the University of Cambridge. He is passionate about avian evolution and science outreach, and enjoys photographing Earth’s vertebrate biodiversity in the field 📸 🐦

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 15

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Arnau Bolet.

Here, we have IPS60464, the holotype of Blanus mendezi, a Miocene species of worm lizard. It represents the only complete skull of a fossil amphisbaenian from Europe, where the fossil record mainly consists of vertebrae and jaws 🦎

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · Aug 14

@historicalbiology.bsky.social now has online Collections. One where I highlight papers that are thought-provoking or advance a field. The other is edited by our Science Communication Editor (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social) - which brings together his SciComm series.

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections.

Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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