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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you are keen to know why some chemically weathered, oxidised rocks can hold well-preserved microfossils, come have a look! The talk will happen at 21 Sept at 4:45 pm local time at Auditorium F2 in the Fürstenberghaus. indico.uni-muenster.de/event/4105/c... See you there!

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European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference 2026

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next week I will be presenting some exciting work that combines palynology, geochemistry, and clay mineralogy at the 12th quadrennial European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Münster, Germany.

Presentation slide showing the title of the talk, the authors, affiliations, and three images. The first image is of an outcrop with red rocks belonging to the Bald Hill Claystone Formation, found in Long Reef, Sydney, Australia. The second image shows a sample retrieved from the same formation from a core named Bunnerong-1. The third image is one pollen grain of Alisporites australis found in the retrieved sample.

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A collaboration between @nhmwien.bsky.social, @ucc.ie, UCC Sustainability Institute, and Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. (5/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

These opportunistic floras likely played an important role in stabilizing terrestrial ecosystems and facilitating the radiation of amphibians and reptiles following Earth’s most severe mass extinction. (4/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The results show increasing plant diversity through the early-middle Olenekian, with stress-tolerant "𝑟-strategist" floras (lycopsids, ferns, and sphenopsids) dominating landscapes before the expansion of 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 vegetation. (3/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We refined the ages of key Early Triassic fossil-rich localities from eastern Australia (Skillion and Turimetta Head) to reveal more about terrestrial ecosystem recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction (~252 Ma). (2/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New paper out led by Chris Mays, with contributions by @mariamcnamara.bsky.social, Holly-Anne Turner, myself, @she-paleo.bsky.social, Aaron Quigley, @vivivajda.bsky.social, and Stephen McLoughlin. Link for free open access to the paper (50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1nAWV3HcE1... (1/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A collaboration between @nhmwien.bsky.social , @ucc.ie , UCC Sustainability Institute, and Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. (5/5)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

What I presented: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... (3/3) @egu.eu iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences @ucc.ie @uconn.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social

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Abstract EGU25-488

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It was a fantastic chance not only to share my research but also to connect with fellow palaeontologists and geochemists interested into palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Inspiring to see the exciting directions our field is heading! (2/3)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to present some preliminary findings on the climatic conditions of the Sydney Basin, Australia, during the Early Triassic. (1/3)

Conference centre in Vienna where EGU25 was hosted.

Preliminary results of the climatic conditions present in the Sydney Basin, Australia, during the Early Triassic ~250 million years ago.

Tour of the Natural History Museum Vienna with fellow EGU participants.

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1130/B380... In my talk, I'll explore the drivers behind said these ecological changes and highlight our multi-proxy approach—combining fossil evidence, elemental geochemistry, and clay mineralogy—to reconstruct past environments. (3/4)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I recently published a high-resolution timeline of floral change, calibrated to the global chronostratigraphy. Our group (Tracy Frank, Christopher Fielding, Michael Hren, Chris Mays) revealed that the most dramatic shifts were driven by two distinct climatic events during the Early Triassic. (2/4)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Next week at EGU25, I'll be presenting new findings from my ongoing PhD research on polar plant communities in the aftermath of Earth's largest mass extinction ~250 million years ago.🌡️💀 (1/4)

EGU 2025 website containing information about upcoming talk.

Example of pollen collected from rocks in the Early Triassic Sydney Basin.

Major floral communities of the Sydney Basin in the Early Triassic.

Clay minerology gathered with HyLogger and rendered with TSG 8.

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I have just published the first paper of my PhD. If you are keen about ancient climates and how plants fared extreme events, please read about it in our piece for @theconversation.com! theconversation.com/plants-strug... Article: doi.org/10.1130/B380...

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Plants struggled for millions of years after Earth’s worst climate catastrophe – new study

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In my case, geochemistry allowed us (Chris Mays, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher Fielding, Michael Hren) to precisely date plant community changes across time following the end-Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago. (2/3) @drtracydfrank.bsky.social

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A week ago I had the chance to present one facet of the fractal that are Earth Sciences at the 10th anniversary of iCRAG. I was happy to share (on stage and in poster format) the power that interdisciplinary has in complementing findings. 🔬🪨 (1/3)

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Marcos Amores @treeamores.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just moved here for exactly this reason.

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