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Thomas Farrell

@thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social
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Palaeontologist, worm botherer. PhD student at the University of Bristol. Interested in the evolution of Ecdysozoa. Mainly working on fossil scalidophorans from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte.

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are organising an in-person Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop, in partnership with SRUK/CERU and @thepalass.bsky.social. When: Nov 9-11, 2026 Where: University College London There are limited places, so please pre-register by October 8th!!! Find more details here: tinyurl.com/52c9u7dw
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm happy to share Avannaascolex, our new palaeoscolecid(omorph) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland 🪱 Written up with @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @cambriannelids.bsky.social and other colleagues from KOPRI, Bristol and the NHM not on bsky www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
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Amin El Fassi El Fehri | أمين الفاسي الفهري @aminff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🧪So happy this is finally out after almost four years! We try to bring some order to the messy taxonomy of an iconic jawless fish. 🐟 Thanks to @evopalaeo.bsky.social, Madleen, Mike, @fossilrob.bsky.social & to all who contributed to this research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The taxonomy and phylogeny of British ‘cephalaspids’
Osteostracans are considered the sister group of jawed vertebrates and are phylogenetically the earliest branching vertebrate lineage to exhibit true paired fins with endoskeletal support. This means...
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Open Palaeontology has a new-look website!
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Applications for this position close tomorrow!
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Kirsten Emily Flett @kirstenflett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Very excited to share that my first PhD paper is out now in Biology Letters! We studied Megaclonophycus specimens and analysed how they develop, informing on their affinity. Developmental biology of the Ediacaran Megaclonophycus from the Weng’an Biota url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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Developmental biology of the Ediacaran Megaclonophycus from the Weng’an Biota
Abstract. The Ediacaran Weng’an Biota of South China yields embryo-like microfossils preserved with sub-cellular fidelity, previously interpreted as the ol
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
consider this if you have a systematics project you want to fund! I just got back from a LinneSys funded visit to the Field Museum's Mazon Creek collection 🪱
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Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New Research Article published in OPal 🔬 Respiratory structures in cornute stylophorans (Echinodermata) By Christophe Dupichaud, Bertrand Lefebvre, Ninon Allaire, Enzo Birolini, Malo Meyruey, and Martina Nohejlová www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thomas Farrell ‪@thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social‬ Very happy to have the chance to waffle about a brace of new exceptional fossils (not pictured) from Sirius Passet yesterday! Thanks to @thepalass.bsky.social and the organisers at Portsmouth for another excellent meeting 🪱⛵ #palass25
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