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Ninon Robin

@ninonrobin.bsky.social
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Paleontologist at @cnrs.fr Animal fossil associations - helminth & arthropod parasites Taphonomy of vertebrate hosts' soft-tissues (integument & intestines) Phosphate contexts of fossilisation

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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Evidence for aquatic precursor anatomy among Hexapoda ! "Chosha" from the 320 Ma Tesnus US formation 🐜🐛🐞🐝🦗 #fossil #arthropoda #insects Contemporary to the earliest known Remipedia Tesnucocaris. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land - Nature
Restudy of a challenging fossil using cross-polarized light imaging and phylogenetic reconstruction identifies Chosha praecursor, a probable early-diverging insect, helping to bridge the longstanding ...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Huge discovery: resin production in plants almost 70 Ma earlier than ever known (or thought?).🌲🪴🎍 Truely fascinating! The earliest amber from the Middle Devonian of China | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The earliest amber from the Middle Devonian of China
Devonian amber pushes plant resin origin back 65 million years.
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🐞 There is amber in Belgium; it is 50 myo and only yielded a handful of animal inclusions: a termite, a true bug, a mite. This new belgian report is a ladybird🐞- a coccidulini ! @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @osurennes.bsky.social #belgium #entomology #fossils #ladybird mapress.com/pe/article/v...
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More from the Eocene Belgian amber: a new ladybird fossil of the genus Rhyzobius Kugelann (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) | Palaeoentomology
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Crinoid tube feet recovered from the Ordovican of Canada ! Their organisation reveals these crinoids fed in a wider ranger of postures than most modern stalked crinoids, in a way convenient for feeding in low-energy environments. #echinoderms #softtissues royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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Exceptional soft-tissue preservation reveals the oldest evidence for tube feet and their ecological significance in crinoids
Abstract. Tube feet are extensions of the echinoderm water vascular system that play essential roles in feeding and ecology in living crinoids. However, on
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A marine stem-myriapod from the Silurian Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin, USA. Where we learn about the features commonly lost/modified in euthycarcinoids+myriapods. #mandibulates #millipedes #fossils royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Implications of trematod (flatworms) parasitic infestation on bivalve shells 🦪 🦠, traced in the fossil record of Florida (through observable pits and scars). In paleobiology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Out! We wondered what information is retained in the elemental chemistry of an animal poop 💩 that has fossilized - could it be a proxy? 🐊🦖🐢 Answer here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @amgc-vub.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @oseren.bsky.social @umons.bsky.social @belspo.be
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How Do Vertebrate Droppings Fossilise? Biogenic Versus Diagenetic Signals in Coprolites Evidenced by Elemental Mappings
μXRF was applied to sections of 140 Ma fossil vertebrate droppings of different morphologies. The results reveal homogeneity of the carbonate-fluorapatite matrix and elemental compositions driven by ...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Out: new Carboniferous true bugs from Belgium and Northern France - from old collections at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with @belspo.be; by @isyebsp.mnhn.fr from @mnhn.fr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in papers in pal by @thepalass.bsky.social #paleoentomology #truebugs #hemiptera
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Herbivorous terrestrial microsaurs from the late Carboniferous reveal this diet was ancestral to the divergence of amniotes 🌱🌿🌱(article with the late Hans Dieter Sues from the Smithsonian, how sad) #carboniferous #earlyherbivory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A new species of pantylid microsaur from the Late Carboniferous of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has teeth with dental occlusion consistent with herbivory, indicating an early transition to this co...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🔹 New semicolonial stem-medusozoan Paleocanna (deriving later than conulariids) from the Upper Ordovician of Quebec 🔹 #paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alexandra Delbot @alexandradelbot.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Il s'appelle Haolong dongi. Ce dinosaure herbivore découvert au Nord-Est de la Chine porte une structure cutanée inédite : ni plumes ni simples filaments mais de petits piquants rigides. A quoi ressemblent ces épines ? (et oui, j'ai galéré à dire ornithischiens 😅
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Le tout premier dinosaure à piquants a été découvert en Chine
Il s'appelle Haolong dongi. Ce dinosaure herbivore d’environ 2,5 mètres portait des piquants a été découvert au Nord-Est de la Chine. Une nouvelle étude révèle une structure cutanée inédite chez les d...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Paper on Early Permian scale impressions (of bolosaurian reptiles). It is difficult ard to interpret a tissue origin from imprints but it is most likely dermal indeed 🦎 #paleontology #fossilskin #softtissues #ichnology #footprints #scales www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin
Marchetti et al. describe Cabarzichnus, the first definite body impression of stem reptiles, specifically bolosaurians. Cabarzichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epidermal scales and a clo...
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our report of original cutaneous spikes over integument of an iguanodontian from China (Yxian, Barremian) in @natecoevo.nature.com 🐉🦔 ! @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @rennesuniv.bsky.social @oseren.bsky.social and Anhui Geological Museum. #paleontology #ornithopod #fossilskin #jeholbiota
Halong dongi reconstruction by Fabio Manucci
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Ninon Robin @ninonrobin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Down to the Eocene-Oligocene Quercy karsts with colleagues from @isemevol.bsky.social and @GET_Toulouse for our Meduse-P project 🦇 @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social #fossils #phosphate #bats #speleology
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