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Zoie Jenkins 🤎

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Educator | Mom of 2 📚🍎

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Buffa et al.’s paper on the enigmatic Permian reptile 🦎 Galesphyrus and the origin of Neodiapsida is out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Read the thread 👇 for some important takeaways from our study @valentinbuffa.bsky.social #Paleontology #Reptile #Permian doi.org/10.1080/1477...

The holotype of Galesphyrus, an articulated skeleton of a small stem reptile preserved as a mold. It is beautifully preserved, but decided to lose it’s skull prior to discovery

A diagram showing the evolutionary relationships of early reptiles found in this study. Importantly, this study places Galesphyrus as sister to Millerettidae + Neodiapsida, reconciling postcrania and cranial data for support of Parapleurota!

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Successfully passed my dissertation defense here at ISU! These past five years have been amazing. Fell in love with research, started my family with @thezoiejenkins.bsky.social , and couldn’t have asked for a better advisor in @gondwannabe.bsky.social #Dissertation #PhD

Brandon Peecook prepares to introduce Xavier as Xavier nervously drinks a coffee

Xavier presents a slide thanking his kids for being adorable

Xavier and Zoie smile on THE helicoprion couch

Xavier and Brandon smile on that same Helicoprion couch, but this time Xavier doesn’t know what to do with his arms

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A pretty solid couple of days for publishing some of my dissertation work! 🦎Our description of Milleropsis pricei, a late Permian reptile from South Africa, is out! 🚨Rethink what you know about 'parareptiles'🚨 Link here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Coming in a little late to this #FossilFriday but here is the holotype of Youngina capensis, AMNH FARB 5561. This is a close relative of modern reptiles that lived in the late Permian of South Africa around 252 million years ago Expect some fun revisions to Neodiapsida in the near future…. 👀

A small, unassuming skull of a fossil reptile

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