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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW Cretaceous Australian Bird (Enantiornithes) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... TENUICRURIS PISCANEXUM, gen. et sp. nov. Artwork by Travis Tischler

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dongoconodon platycauda, gen. et sp. nov. (Artist was not credited 😑)

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[PREPRINT] The beak of Camarasaurus: inferring the perioral soft tissues of fossil archosaurs using the rostral neurovascular system preprints.arphahub.com/article/2164...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New seed cones of Araucaria Juss. 1789 (Araucariaceae) in the Aptian Crato Fossil Lagerstätte, NE Brazil and considerations for whole-plant reconstruction Araucaria benignae sp. nov. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A revision of the fossil turtles of the Late Jurassic locality of Canjuers, France, and description of a new thalassochelydian species Caesaria templaria gen. nov. et sp. nov. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY HAVE FOUND A PELAGIC EARLY JURASSIC MESOCHELYDIAN TURTLE GIMME GIMME GIIIIIIIIMEEEEEE

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Majestic Sea Turtle Swimming Underwater

ALT: Majestic Sea Turtle Swimming Underwater

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In case you didn´t know, there was a 2 m long Swampfish in the latest Triassic-Earliest Jurassic Höganas Formation of Sweden, Scanilepis!! YES SWAMPFISH SOURCE: paleoarchive.com/literature/L...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HOLY PALEOART Co-evolution of wildfires and early Sphagnum-peatlands near the Cretaceous South Pole nature.com/articles/s43... ART BY J. McKay

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Buried fragments reveal a “Greater Gondwana” supercontinent www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A permian Rubus-alike Plant, even with woody stems with prickles! Creeping habit of the gigantopterid Pinnagigantonoclea guizhouensis from the mid-Permian Cathaysian flora and its paleogeographic significance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New paper 🧪🪨🦐: We describe the N'kob Biota, a new Middle Ordovician Biota from Morocco that fills a critical gap between the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota. Out now in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G546... Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

THE SOUND OF JURASSIC INSECTS Reconstruction of an extinct soundscape reveals ultrasonic communication in the Jurassic www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

SEMIAQUATIC STEM INSECTS Leverhulmia IS THE OLDEST DEFINITIVE INSECT [Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land] Chosha praecursor gen. et sp. nov. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Art: Chao Tan

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lycostrobus scottii IS A LATE SURVIVING JURASSIC PLEUROMERIAL LYCOPSID PLEUROMERIALES ARE CARBONIFEROUS RELICS [Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests] Art Michael Rothman www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Digging Sauropods: excavation behaviour or evidence for nest building? An example from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation (Maragua, Bolivia) fr.pensoft.net/article/1987... Art: @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes Tametara mirim gen. et sp. nov. Art @serpenillus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New EARLY(?) or MIDDLE(?) Jurassic NEOSAUROPOD from India [A new diminutive Jurassic neosauropod from the Kaladongar Formation (Khadir Uplift) of the Kachchh Basin, western India] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Ceratocaudia antiqua gen. et sp. nov.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

DEVONIAN AMBER DEVONIAN AMBER DEVONIAN AMBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH [The earliest amber from the Middle Devonian of China] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand nature.com/articles/s41... Uragasaurus kalasinensis gen. et sp. nov. Art: Jæsica ßababi

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Spiky Productid Brachiopod #paleoart #brachiopod #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Climate-extreme-driven genesis of a cretaceous dinosaur Lagerstätte Art Davide Bonadonna www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New Titanosaur remains from Antarctica [A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica] www.app.pan.pl/article/item... Art: Andrew McAfee

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Redescription of the osteology and the systematics of Panguraptor lufengensis (Neotheropoda, Coelophysoidea) sjp.pensoft.net/article/1854... Artwork By Jianping Jin

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Funny how members of this genus (Or are they Pseudonerinea?) become enormous at some point. A (P?). norigliensis has specimens up to 10-25 cm

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Early Jurassic Opisoma (Bivalvia: Astartidae) from Argentina: avant-garde of the tropical Lithiotis fauna in the Neuquén Basin new species Opisoma romeroi www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Exploring the limits of wing design in pterosaurs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🦖 Big Al Alert 🚨 Museum of the Rockies has received a $63,075 grant from the David B. Jones Foundation to create "A Dinosaur Makeover: Face to Face with Big Al" Featuring 3D skull reconstruction, interactive scanning, and a life-sized Big Al reconstruction. Coming summer 2026. bit.ly/4eor20z #BigAl

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A new early peirosaurid terrestrial crocodile (Notosuchia) from La Buitrera (Candeleros Formation), Río Negro, Argentina [Antusuchus rionegrinus gen. et sp. nov.] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ART by Jorge A. González

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Late Devonian forests and mass extinction www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm literally a professional crustacean scientist, but in motion this looks more like a @realgdt.bsky.social fantasy creature! Btw it's swimming butt-up. Paddles are back legs, long ones are front legs. Weird branched stuff is its food royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Bathyopsurus nybelini is morphologically adapted to feed on Sargassum using large paddles for a specialized swimming stroke and mouthparts for tearing. (a) Whole body dorsal illustration of collected female specimen with 2 cm scale. (b) Left mandible with 0.5 mm scale. Credit: Johanna Weston. (c) Isopod staged with associated Sargassum. Credit: Daniel Hentz. (d) Micro-CT scan showing lateral morphology at 19.4 µm resolution. Credit: Mackenzie Gerringer. All images are specimen AT50−02−017

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa [Dayingomelission hexaclitia gen. et sp. nov.] Art by Zhifei Zhang www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Early Evolution of Nocturnal Behavior in Cockroaches Documented by a New Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) Amber Fossil from Japan Ovaliblatta iwakiensis gen. et sp. nov. bioone.org/journals/pal... Drawn by Shunichi Kawasaki

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today is a funny day to remember everyone we have Salwater tolerant littoral MYRIAPODS YES, MYRIAPODS Hydroschendyla submarina & Strigamia maritima as examples

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Say hi to Praearcturus gigas. This Devonian arthropod from Britain's identity had been in dispute for ages, but a new study reinterpreted it as a giant scorpion. Though the fossil is fragmentary, the estimated size is about 1 meter long. This is one bug you want to ride into battle. #Art #SciArt

A landscape image showing mostly water with patches of elevated land. A big scorpion sits idly, with pincers close to its face, near some rocks by the water. In the distant foreground are Prototaxites, towering trunk-like structures scattered on the elevated land patches.

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Evolution of tooth reduction and loss in Mesozoic avialans: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Zhou et al.)

Diagram showing evolutionary relationships among Mesozoic bird-like dinosaurs, with toothless groups marked with a star symbol.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

FLESHY "FRUIT" ASSOCIATED WITH TRIASSIC DICRODIUM TREES??! [Palaeobiogeographical links within the Triassic of Gondwana: Umkomasia fleurdelysia, a new cupule (pteridosperm megasporophyll) and a comparison of allied species] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Did they? Gervilleioperna is in Aalenian Chile and in Brame et al. (2019) literally is quoted: "Rare lithiotids can still be found in the Toarcian of Morocco following the T-OAE (Bodin, personal observation)" (Tough @rowanmartindale.bsky.social can confirm if this last one was an error)

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New unenlagiid from the Chorrillo Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian), SW Patagonia, Argentina [Kank australis gen. et sp. nov.] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Art of the relative Neuquenraptor by PaleoGeekSquared)

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

All known and a new dino-age amber classified within seven global forests www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Libanohypselosoma slovacica sp. n.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The phylogenetic origin of turtles www.cell.com/current-biol...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A transitional, early Cambrian species bridges radiodonts and upper stem-group euarthropods Oreinorema bergstroemi gen. et sp. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A bivalved arthropod from the lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale suggests the post Cambrian survival and gigantism of Isoxys (Isoxyda, Isoxyidae) [Isoxys? giganteus sp. nov.] Art of related(?) I. volucris by @Prehistorica_CM www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Exhibit #SciArt 🎨 Florida Miocene Paintings in our Florida Fossils exhibit help to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key, plus shovel-tusker and giant otter fossils: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...

a painting of a watering hole in a sparse forest area with large animals in the water and deer and horses running up the incline away from the water, and a numbered key to the illustration positioned below it reflecting the list in the post

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The earliest European Azhdarchoid: reappraisal of “Palaeornis” cliftii Mantell, 1844 from the Wealden of Cuckfield, U.K. Rexarthuria, nom. nov. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A new shuvosaurid (Archosauria, Poposauroidea) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Hayden Quarry of New Mexico, U.S.A. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Labrujasuchus expectatus, gen. et sp. nov. Art: Jorge Gonzalez

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My first Nat Geo exclusive! Meet Tylosaurus rex: a giant Texas sea lizard that's such an impressive predator its discoverers had to name it T.rex, a very cool name that no other animal has ever had

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Exclusive: There’s a new T. rex in town—and this giant beast ruled the seas

Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As an ichnologist, the first question I ask myself when encountering a potential modern or fossil trace is, "Is this a trace, or something that just looks like a trace?" This question becomes even more important whenever examining Ediacaran rocks from 540+ million years ago. 🧪🪨⚒️

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

An exquisitely preserved young iguanodontian from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania sheds light on skeletal fusion patterns within Archosauria onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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