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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

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British Palaeobotanist, palaeobotanical illustrator and consultant, currently researching Mesozoic plants. 🌿Commissions and consulting open!🌿 BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 patreon.com/JulianneKiely https://palaeoflora.blogspot.com/

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · Dec 29

Art vs Artist!
2024 has been a great art year for me, but has been incredibly important for other reasons too! I started HRT, got my name changed, worked as a fulltime artist for the first time, had art published in multiple papers and I've probably been happier than ever before! #ArtvsArtist2024

a square image broken up into 9 squares divided by thin black lines. From top left to bottom right. a watercolour pencil drawing of two red confuciusornis feathers in amongst the leaves and branches of a ginkgo tree. A cockroack with dark spots on its back crawling across some moss. The fiddlehead of a fern, with glosssy shiny pinnules enclosing the centre. A sinosauropteryx holding the transfem flag, with a trans coloured striped tail. A photo of me, smiling slightly and looking upwards while leaning my chin on my hand, which is in a fluffy fingerless mitten. A small bird mid-flapping, its wings outsretched up. A conical yellw tree with some close ups of the branches and its cone. the light dragon from tears of the kingdom flying up through a sunset sky. clusters of long serrated leaves growing from several curved stems.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 4h

Some good news from me; I've just started a PhD on plant evolution at @openuniversity.bsky.social!!! I'll be posting a lot more soon, but for now here're some of photos from my first week! I can't believe I'm finally here!
#phd #paleobotany #paleontology #research #botany #plants #leaves #evolution

Me standing in front of a poster by Dr Emily Swaby, which my artwork of an ancient dragonfly figured.

Me smiling with a pathway in the ou campus in the background

My desk!!!! Aaahhhhhhh!!!!!! With a fan and computer screen set up on it

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 5d

A large theropod (probably tyrannosaur) track from Nose Mountain, Alberta shows the fourth digit twisted such that half of the toe was folded underneath the rest.

They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine. #FossilFriday

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Left-Natural-cast-of-a-large-theropod-track-from-the-Late-Cretaceous_fig27_278667086

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 5d

Just a 300 million year old fossil leaf from France to wish everyone a happy #FossilFriday ! 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a busy week, and I have a LOT of photos to post, so I'll be catching up over the weekend. But in the meantime, here's a Palaeobotanical Bouquet, which I drew earlier this week during an icebreaker event!!!!!!
#FossilFriday #paleobotany #plants #paleontology

A black pen drawings of a bouquet of prehistoric plants. There are lots of leaves and stems and it's kind of a mess. On the front of the wrapping of the bouquet is a cross section through sediments with some fossil blocks in it, and in the top right of the wrapping is a pencil, a magnifying glass and a fossil plant.

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 5d

A frond of Phlebopteris, a 230 million year old fern from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.

#FossilFriday #FernFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿

Phlebopteris frond on a grey mudstone, Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 14d

Happy #BiVisibilityday everyone!!!
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #bisexual #bi

A cartoon sinosauropteryx holding a ginkgonstick with a bi flag attached to it. The background is also coloured like the bi flag.

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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 16d

Let's go #BehindTheScenes and back in time--with #JSE!

Click the📽️🔗⬇️to join a team of #paleobotanists as they travel to the Miocene rainforests of #China and encounter the first known #fossil Parrotia flower.

jse.ac.cn/attached/med...

#evolution #FossilFriday (oops on a Monday!) #PlantScience

Screenshot from a video summary of the JSE paper "Parrotia flower blooming in Miocene rainforest" by Wu et al.

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ESCONI @esconi.bsky.social · 16d

Mazon Monday #288: Callipteridium neuropteroides

This is Mazon Monday post #288. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:[email protected]. Callipteridium neuropteroides is one of the rarer seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) found in the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. Although,…

Mazon Monday #288: Callipteridium neuropteroides

This is Mazon Monday post #288. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:[email protected]. Callipteridium neuropteroides is one of the rarer seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) found in the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. Although, it is much more common in the Herrin Coal flora, if the Danville locality is truly representative of that deposit. Callipteridium jongmansi is a European species that appears to be identical.

esconiinfo-ehnsm.wpcomstaging.com

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 15d

AHHHHH!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!!! It's so precious.🥰
#paleobotany

Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 15d

Alderblattina simmsi riding a Baeria gracilis leaf through the air, cowboy style, in Toarcian Europe. A quick doodle of a fun concept, heavily based on beautiful illustrated diagrams made by @palaeojules.bsky.social. #paleoart #inverts #sciart #jurassic

Colored pencil drawing of a tiny cockroach from the Jurassic, Alderblattina simmsi, holding on to the center of a Baeria gracilis leaf (a cousin of Ginkgos) as it falls through the air. The leaf is yellow, fading to yellowish-green at the tips of its lobes. The roach is overall brown with two dark dots on each forewing. All of its wings are slightly extended.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 17d

Yis, it do a bounce!

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 18d

Eeeeee! Haha, yeah, I only noticed once I was near finished! It's very mousie.

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19d

Must be a mirror.
😉

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19d

Ooooohhhhhhh!!!! Leafs!!!

Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 19d

Prepping for the start of this year's teaching this #FossilFriday, starting with a story about Ginkgo leaves which fell in an Autumn 160 million years ago, and how the microscopic details of those fossil leaves can tell us about climate change.

⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌲💚

A slab covered in Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, inside a red plastic tray lined with bubble wrap

A close-up of one of the Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, about 3cm across

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19d

Yeeee!!! Omg yes, it turned out soo fluffy!!!!

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19d

Hehehe, yis, go zoom!

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19d

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a little goober I haven't shared here yet: a Tianyulong jumping of a broken branch of Yimaia capituliformis (a relative of ginkgo). This is based on an unpublished specimen which did the rounds online a few years ago. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #dinosaur

a small brown dinosaur with a very fluffy round body and a long skinny tail with a tuft at the end jumping off a broken off ginkgo branch, splinters of wood fly through the air behind it.

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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 23d

🌱 BRs are well-known plant hormones, but plants also make other steroids like 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 & 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬, whose roles are unknown

Körber et al show they reshape roots in angiosperms, independently of BRs—opening new research paths.

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70459

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 21d

Ahhh!!!! Oh my gosh!!!! That's sooooo coooolllllll!!!!!! Yeah, dismissing it is probably why it hasn't been noticed before in mammals. That and it being more subtle than birds. But it's incredible to see it on some little rattie bois!!!🥰

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 23d

Oh yeah, while Anchiornis couldn't fold its wings as tightly as modern birds, we know they could fold them more than this. I've depicted the wings in a semi extended posture so that the wings aren't obscured as much.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 23d

Oooohhhhh!!!!! I'll definitely be attending these!!!!!

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 23d

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 23d

Ahhh!! It absolutely is!!!!

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 24d

Ooooohhhh, a REALLY nice specimen!!!

Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 24d

Tiny feathered dinosaur, Microraptor gui, (BMNHC PH 001084). Look at its short, boxy snout and well preserved feathers.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah, basically ALL jurassic and older supposed angiosperms are easily precluded from actually being angiosperms. They're not always formally reidentified, but luckily, supposed pre-Cretaceous angiosperms don't often make it into mainstream science.

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah!!! And I feel like a lot of modern biologists aren't as concerned with the 'why' of colour in the same way as palaeoartist are, because we're having to kinda think about it from the other direction of knowing more about what the animal was doing and trying to suggest colours based on ecology.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 26d

So, we finally have more iridescent mammals!!!

This is really useful for paleoart as it helps to show what #iridescence on monofilaments looks like, which is difficult to tell from just birds.

Now I just need to try and access the paper.
share.google/jWVQz8BtmVmY...

#paleoart #mammals

The back of a brown rat with streaks of iridescent blue and green on some hairs

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