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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 8h

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Richie Howard is the Curator of Fossil Arthropods at NHM UK 🦀 specialising in British fossil arthropods, the evolution and diversity of arachnids and early ecdysozoans 🕷️

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#MeettheTeam #NHM

Dr Richie Howard

Curator of Fossil Arthropods at The Natural History Museum

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 2d

It is a fantastically well preserved specimen isn't it!

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 5d

For #FossilFriday meet 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙪𝙨 - A new borioteiioid lizard with large caniniform teeth. The specimen included an incomplete skull and mandible from the Upper Cretaceous Tangbian Formation of Ganzhou Basin, South China.

Read the full study by Wang et al. here: buff.ly/8yZLLbl

#Paleosky #NHM

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 7d

Did you know..

Plant cells are natural time capsules 🌱 their tough cellulose walls locks in microscopic details for millions of years, providing insights into plant evolution.

Shi et al. (2022) studied Mesozoic gymnosperm evolution- possible ancestors of flowering plants buff.ly/VNiRZX9 #PaleoSky

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 12d

#FossilFriday 🌿 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖
A 560 million yr old frond-like fossil - one of the earliest known complex lifeforms, proved that complex multicellular life existed before the Cambrian explosion, solving Darwins Dilemma: How complex animal life originated

Read more: buff.ly/Id6QwCw
#PaleoSky #Evolution

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 14d

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Paul Kenrick is a leading expert on the early evolution of plants 🌿 focussing on soil ecosystem development, plant organ and tissue evolution, and the co-evolution of plants and fungi.

Read about his fascinating work: buff.ly/8gV5BKf
#NHM #PaleoSky

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 16d

A new study shows that the earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs. Results suggest that dwarf gobies achieved ecological success early in gobioid evolution, arising through convergent evolution across different lineages🐟 Read more: buff.ly/GVMpJaF
#Fossilfish #PaleoSky #Evolution

Earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs: New evidence from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy

The earliest skeleton-based gobioid fish, the minute goby †Carlomonnius quasigobius Bannikov and Carnevale, 2016 (13 mm standard length), originates from the Lower Eocene coral reef fish assemblage...

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 20d

New Paper by Parry et al., reinterpreting the oldest diverse #jellyfish fauna as sessile polypoid dinomischids 🪼

These findings significantly expand the temporal and geographical range of dinomischids, elucidating their morphological and taphonomic variation.

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 21d

Did you know..?
Turtle phylogeny implies that land tortoises evolved from an aquatic ancestor, which is rare in amniotes 🐢 The earliest turtles may have been aquatic or terrestrial, we don't know for sure!

Read more by Schoch & Sues (2017): buff.ly/NZFn0gl
@sirjoscha.bsky.social #PaleoSky #Fossils

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 22d

A new 125-million-year-old iguanodon species has been discovered: 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙞 🦖 a new basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal

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Read the full study by Bertozzo et al. in JSP: buff.ly/FMnyy1m

#Dinosaurs #PaleoSky #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP #Fossils

New dinosaur species found in Portugal

A new 125-million-year-old iguanodon species has been revealed by palaeontologists, with the publication of the study on the discovery in the international Journal of Systematic Paleontology.

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 23d

A new paper by Bertozzo et al. describes 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙞, a basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal 🦖 The most complete iguanodontian skull specimen found in Portugal, offers insights into cranial development and anatomy during hadrosauroid evolution: buff.ly/FMnyy1m #PaleoSky

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 26d

They are brilliant aren't they!!

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 26d

It's #FossilFriday
Specimens of †𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙧 in dorsal and ventral views (scale= 20 cm) with isolated teeth (scale= 2.5mm) from a JSP study by Eduardo Villalobos-Segura 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025) on the iconic Mesozoic #shark genus 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘴 🦈

Read the study: buff.ly/xw11JGo

#Fossils #PaleoSky

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 28d

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Serjoscha Evers is a leading specialist in turtle evolution 🐢 focussing on the macroevolution of turtles using digital palaeontology and phylogenetic comparative methods

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 29d

Have a listen to our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susie Maidment's podcast- This episode she talking about how her team found, excavated and studied the amazingly weird and spikey #Spicomellus specimen! 🦴

#Fossils #FossilFiles @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Dinosaur #Nature #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP

Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

The Fossil Files: The Spicomellus Special

Perhaps the weirdest dinosaur ever has just been described in Nature, by The Fossil Files' own Susie Maidment. In a worldwide EXCLUSIVE*, Susie gives as the unvarnshed truth about how this spikey Jura...

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did you know we are one of two journals produced by the Natural History Museum London. We champion the importance of collections-based systematics and our papers cover fossil species from across the tree of life, substantially contributing to the systematics of extinct taxa. So, why publish with us?

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Its #FossilFriday - check out the snout (lateral view) of 𝙋𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙙𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙞, from the Los Colorados Formation (Norian), Argentina. This is the only specimen of one of the best known early non-crocodyliform crocodylomorphs.

Read more: buff.ly/h42ORcw #MindBlown #Fossils

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Didier B. Dutheil @didierdutheil.bsky.social · Aug 27

On savait déjà que le dinosaure ankylosaure 🇲🇦 marocain, Spicomellus afer était doté d'épines puissantes, mais les dernières découvertes sont au-dessus de ce que l'on pouvait imaginer.
via @Nature @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

New dinosaur is unlike anything we've ever found | Unique armoured dinosaur discovered in Morocco

YouTube video by Natural History Museum

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you don't have access to Nature, but would like to read our paper on the new specimen of #Spicomellus, you can read it online at this link with no subscription: rdcu.be/eCJK3

Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur

Nature - The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Did you know.. Molluscs are the second most diverse phylum and possibly the most disparate! 🐚🦪🐌🐙🦑

A recent study by Karapunar et al. (2024) documents the phylogeny of Pleurotomariidae, the longest-living gastropod group, comparing different shell characters: buff.ly/2pEof6e @spissatella.bsky.social

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 🦖 Investigating the phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria) by M. Motta et al. (2025)

Read the full study here: buff.ly/0ytggCG

#Dinosaurs #Fossil #NHM #NaturalHistory #Biodiversity

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 22

#FossilFriday 🦎 The right forelimb of 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙞 - a fossil lizard from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation Brazil.

This specimen replaces the original 𝘊. 𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘪 holotype, which was lost in 2018 when a fire destroyed the National Museum of Brazil collections.

Read more: buff.ly/BCtn152

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Katie Collins is a molluscan palaeobiologist 🐚 specializing in bivalve macroevolution and the morphometrics of conchiferan molluscs.. and is a general measurement nerd!
Read more about her research: buff.ly/GDH0Obv

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 15

For #FossilFriday - the #skull of *Prosqualodon australis*, an #extinct relative of toothed whales like dolphins and porpoises, which was recovered from the Miocene of Argentina 🦴

Read the full article by Gaetán et al. (2025) in JSP: buff.ly/FkwovSK

#Dinosaurs #NaturalHistory #Systematics #NHM

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