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Luke Parry

@cambriannelids.bsky.social
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Worm palaeobiologist & fossil enthusiast. Associate Prof and NERC independent fellow. If I had any views they would be my own.

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Congratulations to Dr Luke Parry (University of Oxford, UK) and all co-authors! The Editorial Team selected this study due to its originality and significance, as well as its wider implications. #PaleoSky @cambriannelids.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
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Luke Parry @cambriannelids.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans. Published in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms - Nature
An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...
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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times
Time-scaled phylogenies underpin the interrogation of evolutionary processes across deep timescales, as well as attempts to link these to Earth's history. By inferring the placement of fossils and us...
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Elizabeth M Dowding @thefairestfowl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
True for my Palaeo and Geo folks too. It’s a fight on all fronts for field science, made easier to dismiss after COVID.
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Bob Hilton @profbobhilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
OMG a student found a #trilobite pygidum here in a pebble laid down in the #Triassic! really amazing to confirm these as Ord-Dev clasts. #Dorset24 @eesaupe.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
A little bit of a trilobite in a clast
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