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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 23/09/2026

There was a paper published earlier this year that has nothing to do with alligators (but one author affiliated with CAS) which was dedicated to Claude the Alligator. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank M. Day (NHMUK) for access to NHMUK PV OR
2353, M. Riley (CAMSM), E. Forey (CAMSM), and P. Shepherd
(British Geological Survey) for access to comparative material
from the Cambridge Greensand, and C. Mehling (AMNH),
R. Benson (AMNH), M. Miller (USNM), and A. Millhouse
(USNM) for access to additional comparative material. We
thank R. Pêgas (University of São Paulo) for productive ptero-
saur discussion and T. Greenfield (University of Wyoming) for
bringing the correct authorship of Pterosauria to our attention.
We thank a reviewer who signed only with the given name
David and an additional anonymous reviewer. This work is dedi-
cated in loving memory to Claude the alligator.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 16/09/2026

I got the scheduling info for my talk at #2026SVP! Quetzalcoatlus is not what you think it is. Come see my talk in 26 ABC at 3:30 PM on Friday, Nov 12. See you in Cleveland!

Dear Skye McDavid,

We are writing to let you know that your oral presentation at the SVP 2026 Annual Meeting has been scheduled as follows:

Original Submission ID: 134
Abstract Title: Reappraisal of the genus Quetzalcoatlus Lawson, 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) and the status of "Quetzalcoatlus" lawsoni
Presenting Author: Skye McDavid

Session Title: Technical Session IX: Archosaur paleobiology & pterosaurs
Session Date and Time: November 12, 2026 1:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Location: Room 26 ABC
Scheduled time for your presentation: 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 16/09/2026

The best part about living in a neighborhood with so many good bakeries is that I can just get a croissant when I feel like it. When I lived on the Sound Shore the nearest bakery was a 15 minute drive.

Skye's left hand holding a partially wrapped croissant

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 12/09/2026

BAND, in the year of the common era twenty twenty six??

The text "works cited:" followed by a photo of a crack pipe

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 03/09/2026

Anyway, I'm a real human bean and you can hire me to draw stuff. All of these are figures published in respected peer reviewed journals.

Ontogenetic series of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri skulls - Published in PeerJ

Five skeletal diagrams of different pterosaurs showing the change in bauplan between 'Rhamphorhynchoid' grade and Pterodactyloid pterosaurs - Published in Current Biology

Humerus of Rexarthuria cliftii - published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Skeletal diagram of Petrodactyle wellnhoferi - Published in Palaeo Electronica

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 30/08/2026

MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED! I'm very excited about this one. Years of work. My first 'gen. et sp. nov' @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social @justinandell.bsky.social

Skye in the Lauer Foundation laboratory carefully holding a slab of limestone with a fossil in it. The fossil is blurred and has the words 'new pterosaur species' over it. Skye is a woman with blue and brown hair, glasses, and is wearing a vertically striped denim jumpsuit. Even though she looks completely dead inside, she is actually very excited although slightly concerned about holding a fossil for a publicity photo.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 26/08/2026

Confirmed for a talk this November. Quetzalcoatlus is not what you think it is.... See you in Cleveland, Ohio! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @rv-pegas.bsky.social

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 23/08/2026

I love this model of Tylosaurus biting Terminonatator in the @amnh.org K-Pg temporary exhibit.

Model of Tylosaurus biting Terminonatator in the AMNH temporary exhibit on the K-Pg extinction

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 19/08/2026

Latest JVP volume arrived!

JVP paper volume open to Thomas & McDavid (2026) article on Rexarthuria cliftii

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 12/08/2026

I finally framed and hung my print of gay raptors by @anavoltzart.bsky.social that I got at PaleoFest.

Framed art print of gay raptor dinosaurs lovingly nuzzling each other

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 26/07/2026

The new Microraptor model @amnh.org is quite nice. There is also a cast of the M. gui holotype.

Microraptor gui model at the American Museum of Natural History

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 12/07/2026

Saw it a few days ago when it was being ferried into NY

Blurry photo of a DC-6 against a cloudy sky

FR24 screenshot of OE-LDM flying bulls DC-6 being ferried from YVR to HPN

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 09/07/2026

They really expect us to celebrate our semiquincentennial with cheese imported from the former colonizer?

"1776 250 years" themed cheddar cheese in a star shaped wax pack

the back of the pack with the text "Product of the UK"

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 11/06/2026

So even with the latest Windows updates the taskbar is just broken i guess... microslop just completely abandoning the concept of QA now?

Windows 11 taskbar with missing icons even those apps are pinned

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 01/06/2026

The @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social sample abstract never fails to make me laugh

SAMPLE ABSTRACT:

Title
Life history inferred from stable isotopes in Taxonotherium inexpectus teeth during the Wasatchian and Bridgerian of North America

Abstract Body
Taxonotherium inexpectus lived during the Wasatchian and Bridgerian and ranged across western North America. Fossil remains of T. inexpectus were historically known from the early Eocene and shockingly have recently from Upper Cretaceous sediments of Canada.
Taxonotherium was known to have consumed water (H2O). Measurements of δ18O and δ13C from various upper and lower teeth (i1, c1, p1–2, dp2, I1, C1, P1, and dP2) indicate that Taxonotherium also ate food.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 26/05/2026

LIVE MISTUKURINA FOOTAGE, and it's not a plastic toy this time!

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 26/05/2026

Say hello to Rexarthuria cliftii - a new name for an overlooked historical taxon that represents the oldest azhdarchoid material in Europe. @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photogrammetry renderings and line drawings of the holotype of Rexarthuria cliftii NHMUK PV OR 2535/2353a

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 22/05/2026

Despite the dumpster fire things have been recently, America can still create great things.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 19/05/2026

As a French New Yorker, I am unreasonably excited that one of my local haunts now has Everything Croissants

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 11/05/2026

don't worry there's more coming

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 11/05/2026

Hello Laueropterus vitriolis, a new non-pterodactyloid Monofenestratan from the Mörnsheim formation in Bavaria. Phylogenetic analysis forthcoming. peerj.com/articles/212... @davehone.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 07/05/2026

worse than that they literally added text that we didn't write into our manuscript

very smol tiny orange kitten sitting on a blanket looking angrily at the camera with the text 'angy' superimposed

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 06/05/2026

Could've just asked us to write alt text.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

To improve accessibility, all images we publish now require descriptive text. AI-generated image descriptions have been created for all Figures. Please review for accuracy and relevance, making corrections as necessary.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 05/05/2026

depressing packaged food consisting of depressing pastry filled with sweet usually fruit-flavored filling. some variants have icing.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 15/04/2026

I said this yesterday but today we get Ptychotherates bucculentus, a new Herrerasaurian from GRCQ, and a formal name Morphoraptota for the North American Herrerasaurian Clade! Ghost Ranch Coelophysis Quarry is so much more than just Coelophysis!

Skull reconstruction of Ptychotherates bucculentus

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 15/04/2026

The Ghost Ranch Coelophysis Quarry really is a gift that keeps on giving! Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, a new short snouted sphenosuchian-grade crocodylomorph described today!

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 10/04/2026

At this point I'd recommend looking up the histology of actual fish gills....

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 06/04/2026

Surprised it took until April to get ANYTHING

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 06/04/2026

North East Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 06/04/2026

THIS FRIDAY I am presenting at NERVES 2026 about my work with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social about Cretaceous toothed pterosaurs and specifically "Lonchodectidae", the most disastrously polyphyletic taxonomic concept that refuses to die.

excerpt from the NERVES conference schedule:
3:45 SKYE MCDAVID | LFPSE
Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea:) What exactly are they and do they exist?
Skye N. McDavid, Emily M. R. Thomas

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 02/04/2026

APRIL FOOLS! It's a human skeleton spliced onto a zebra skeleton! Centaurs aren't real. "Poisson d'Avril" means April Fools and Nullepart-le-Trou means "Nowhere-the-Hole"

closeup of where the human and zebra skeletons are spliced together

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 01/04/2026

New Holocene subfossils from the Poissons d'Avril cave in France show conclusive proof of the Cave Centaur ("Centaurus spelaeus"). Authors argue late surviving cave centaurs were origin of centaur myth. Skeleton on display in nearby village of Nullepart-le-Trou. preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06826

"Centaur skeleton" - actually a composite of zebra (Equus sp.) and human (Homo sapiens) bones assembled to resemble a centaur. If you look carefully you can see the point where the human lumbar spine is connected to the cervical spine of a zebra. Photo actually from a temporary exhibit on hoaxes photographed at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT) in 2023.

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