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2 amazing specimens of Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
Messel Pit, Eocene, Darmstadt, Germany
📸 Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt)
I posted these over on the other app (🕊️) back in 2021 but thought they should to be over here too!
#FossilFriday #Bats #Messel
2 amazing specimens of Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
Messel Pit, Eocene, Darmstadt, Germany
📸 Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt)
I posted these over on the other app (🕊️) back in 2021 but thought they should to be over here too!
#FossilFriday #Bats #Messel
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Monsoon-like climate over Europe during the warm and CO2 high Eocene inferred from a bit of modeling and a few years recoded in a shell of a giant sea snail. 🧪⚒️
⏰New paper⏰
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world - Nature Communications
Daily climate 45 million years ago is reconstructed using fossil snail shells, revealing monsoon-like conditions in Europe. The findings help predict how future warming could affect rainfall and seaso...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social on paleoclimate during the middle Eocene: understanding possible scenarios of the future by studying the past; an δ18O dataset from gastropod shell carbonate; seasonal temperatures indicative of a climate with monsoons; and models of temperature
⏰New paper⏰
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world - Nature Communications
Daily climate 45 million years ago is reconstructed using fossil snail shells, revealing monsoon-like conditions in Europe. The findings help predict how future warming could affect rainfall and seaso...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Another great Sunday sorting fossils! It was a spectacular haul with lots of jaw fragments.
Rodent molar: CS Ling
Reptile Jaw: Daegan Kovacs
Phalanx: Labib Chowdhury
Next session is Sunday! albertapaleo.org/events/fossi...
#paleontology #paleontology #fossils #microfossils #alberta #eocene
Rodent molar: CS Ling
Reptile Jaw: Daegan Kovacs
Phalanx: Labib Chowdhury
Next session is Sunday! albertapaleo.org/events/fossi...
#paleontology #paleontology #fossils #microfossils #alberta #eocene
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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(Pinnipeds split from other caniforms 50 million years ago during the Eocene Epoch, but it also means that us calling seals water puppies is scientifically correct!)
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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yep! it was especially active during global warming events such as the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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"the middle Eocene of western Europe featured monsoon-like conditions, with seawater temperatures of ~24 °C during mild and wet winters, >30 °C during hot and dry spring and autumn seasons, and ~28 °C during warm and comparatively wet summers" ⚒️🧪
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A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world - Nature Communications
Daily climate 45 million years ago is reconstructed using fossil snail shells, revealing monsoon-like conditions in Europe. The findings help predict how future warming could affect rainfall and seaso...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Maiacetus inuus
From Middle Eocene Habib Rahi Formation, Pakistan, "mother whale" is an early cetacean known from a mother and her fetus whose head-first orientation suggests giving birth on land. Though others have suggested the "fetus" is a digested meal (geez, mood kill)
From Middle Eocene Habib Rahi Formation, Pakistan, "mother whale" is an early cetacean known from a mother and her fetus whose head-first orientation suggests giving birth on land. Though others have suggested the "fetus" is a digested meal (geez, mood kill)
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Hard to understate how nasty the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum actually was. Generally people discuss it in terms of "crocodiles in the arctic" and not "an insanely brutal tropical and inland belt"
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
Climate Extremes Are a Hallmark of the Age of Animals | Quanta Magazine
New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Fossil endocarps of the East Asian endemic genus Davidia Baill. from the Eocene of India and its palaeoclimatic and biogeographic implications
A Ali, J-M Chen, S Ai, R Patel, RS Rana, Y He, T Su, M Khan
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Fossil endocarps of the East Asian endemic genus Davidia Baill. from the Eocene of India and its palaeoclimatic and biogeographic implications
A Ali, J-M Chen, S Ai, R Patel, RS Rana, Y He, T Su, M Khan
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Garcinia-like reproductive parts from the Early Eocene of India: Systematics, paleoecology, and biogeography
Ashif Ali, Rafael Felipe Almeida, Raman Patel, Rajendra Rana, Tao Su, Mahasin Khan
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Garcinia-like reproductive parts from the Early Eocene of India: Systematics, paleoecology, and biogeography
Ashif Ali, Rafael Felipe Almeida, Raman Patel, Rajendra Rana, Tao Su, Mahasin Khan
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October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014).
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale.
700 nodes, 6444 edges.
https://networks.skewed.de/net/messal_shale
Ridiculogram:
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale.
700 nodes, 6444 edges.
https://networks.skewed.de/net/messal_shale
Ridiculogram:
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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⏰New paper⏰
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very excited to share our more recent paper published today in @nature.com Communications, where we show based on #clumped #isotope measurements in a giant sea #snail 🐚 that Europe experienced a monsoon-like climate during the #Eocene high-CO2 period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world - Nature Communications
Daily climate 45 million years ago is reconstructed using fossil snail shells, revealing monsoon-like conditions in Europe. The findings help predict how future warming could affect rainfall and seaso...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Day 25 of #paleoctober2025
🦈 Xiphiorhynchus (~26 Ma)
A prehistoric swordfish that lived from the Eocene to the Oligocene. Both of its jaws were elongated into sharp, pointed rostra.
🦐 Cambropachycope (~500 Ma)
An enigmatic arthropod with a large compound eye.
#SciArt #Paleoart #fish #art
🦈 Xiphiorhynchus (~26 Ma)
A prehistoric swordfish that lived from the Eocene to the Oligocene. Both of its jaws were elongated into sharp, pointed rostra.
🦐 Cambropachycope (~500 Ma)
An enigmatic arthropod with a large compound eye.
#SciArt #Paleoart #fish #art
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Dinictis
It's crouching behind you, right now. Well, perhaps not unless you have time-traveled to late Eocene or early Oligocene western North America. If you have, you are out of luck. Dinictis has longer, more gracile legs than some other nimravids and it is capable of short-term bursts of…
It's crouching behind you, right now. Well, perhaps not unless you have time-traveled to late Eocene or early Oligocene western North America. If you have, you are out of luck. Dinictis has longer, more gracile legs than some other nimravids and it is capable of short-term bursts of…
Dinictis
It's crouching behind you, right now. Well, perhaps not unless you have time-traveled to late Eocene or early Oligocene western North America. If you have, you are out of luck. Dinictis has longer, more gracile legs than some other nimravids and it is capable of short-term bursts of speed. (Antón, 2013) Don't take comfort in your track shoes and those H.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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With opahs as the theme for this week's #Sundayfishsketch, maybe we'll see some cool art of fossil relatives. Here's the type specimen of the lampriform Turkmene from the earliest Eocene of Turkmenistan, ~56 Ma. Specimen at the Paleontological Institute, Moscow.
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014).
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale.
700 nodes, 6444 edges.
https://networks.skewed.de/net/messal_shale
Ridiculogram:
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale.
700 nodes, 6444 edges.
https://networks.skewed.de/net/messal_shale
Ridiculogram:
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The calcaneum (ankle bone) of a rodent from the Eocence Cypress Hills formation was found by one of our volunteers during a fossil sorting session!
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#palaeontology #paleontology #fossilfriday #fossil #eocene #rodent #saskatchewan #alberta
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October 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Day 23 of #Paleoctober2025
🐜 Titanomyrma (~49 Ma)
The most recently discovered species is a fossilized winged queen comparable in size to a hummingbird.
🐞 Oryctoantiquus (~45 Ma)
A beetle from the middle Eocene. It is known for being the largest scarab beetle discovered so far.
#SciArt #Paleoart
🐜 Titanomyrma (~49 Ma)
The most recently discovered species is a fossilized winged queen comparable in size to a hummingbird.
🐞 Oryctoantiquus (~45 Ma)
A beetle from the middle Eocene. It is known for being the largest scarab beetle discovered so far.
#SciArt #Paleoart
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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the bat fossil record is indeed sad but it suggests that echolocation was already considerably refined as early as the mid-eocene which could imply deeper evolutionary roots
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#Brontotheres were among the first really big mammals to evolve, occupying large browser niches 🍃 in forest environments 🌳 Consequently, they diversified during the #Eocene when very warm climates & forest habitats prevailed ☀️
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October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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One more... here's an Eocene-aged ant trapped in amber, now on display in the Geological Eras Tour!
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#Megacerops likely stood up to 8 ft tall at the shoulders, making it one of the largest herbivores of its time. It lived ~38-33 million years ago during the #Eocene epoch - a time when mammals were really coming into their own and diversifying.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A unique small alligatoroid fossil from the Middle Eocene Clarno Formation in Oregon provides insights into alligatoroid diversity and biogeography, suggesting potential Asian ties.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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