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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A new megaraptoran dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, UK, and its implications for theropod evolution and biogeography (Let´s see how good it ages) Invictibellatrix amberina gen. et sp. nov. Art: Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro Salas rs.figshare.com/collections/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Omphalosauridae (Ichthyosauriformes): enigmatic marine reptiles in the global recovery from the end-Permian extinction New genus and species, Ammonitritor scientiacivium onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New (Of course Poached!) teleosauroid (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) with a unique dentition from the Middle Jurassic of eastern Morocco Ctenosuchus tenuidens, gen. et sp. nov. Artwork by Nathan Dehaut www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A giant Jurassic hunter: the earliest dipluran and its implications for hexapod body pattern evolution Sinojapyx giganteus gen. et sp. nov. Art: Jie Sun royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Early Ediacaran micro- and macro-fossils from South China provide insights into post-Snowball Earth marine ecosystem www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Congratulations to Travis Stone on the acceptance of his third PhD Manuscript! Early Jurassic Reef 🪸 Recovery patterns following the Pliensbachian-Toarcian crisis in Maroc 🇲🇦 The paper is open access, and you can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some Neocalamites were gigantic, growing like modern Bamboo

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart

A long-necked dinosaur walks along a shallow river surrounded by various Jurassic trees, ferns and shrubs. A small predatory dinosaur watches from the nearest riverbank.

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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

The figures are also wrongly displayed :(

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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

Yes, I understood, it was in referral to the main builders, not the family itself. Ironically other bivalves took (But of course to very low extent) the reefal role after the TOAE in the region, namely the Ctenostreon bioherms [Pending Publication but teased previously in thesis]

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

I fully understand, no worries. Yes, I´ve seen "OZ" section and similar (Ex. Douar Tafraout) intra TOAE bioherms and is factual the extinction.

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

Ahh apologies, my bad then, I was assuming lithiotid=Plicatostylid! Suprising Opisoma doesn´t count since is often associated (Tough I understand not reef developer)

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