🌊Ripple marks🌊reveal shallow water environments influenced by currents, waves, or wind. Fossil ripples can indicate water depth, flow direction, + more.. Below are modern (L) and #fossil ripples (R)...Can you tell what animals tracked over the fresh ripples? #Sedimentology

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🔥 New article peer-reviewed by PCI Paleontology 🔥 Pallas et al. (2024) Postcranial anatomy of the long bones of colobines (Mammalia, Primates) from the Plio-Pleistocene Omo Group deposits [...] doi.org/10.31233/osf.i… PALEVOPRIM

A glimpse into @davitvasilyan0 & team's work: They found ~12 Myr Pachyacanthus from Kazakhstan's Eastern Paratethys. Materials after loving preparation by Roch Renaud! 🐬🔍Thanks to Swiss National Science Foundation for supporting #Paleontology (grant 200021_197323). #FossilFriday

And now published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology based on the reviews provided by PCI Paleontology 👍 Quick, efficient, transparent doi.org/10.1186/s13358…

🎉📚 We're excited to have Spicher Gaël joining us to start his #PhD with our turtle specialist Jérémy Anquetin - focusing on Thalassochelydian turtles, an extinct clade of marine turtles 🐢

For #FossilFriday, a sneak peek at our dinosaur track collection, new Data Portal, and more by a photographer of L'Est Républicain, feat. Dr. Lara Sciscio and Jérémy Anquetin 🦖🦕estrepublicain.fr/culture-loisir…

Welcome to our two new Swiss National Science Foundation PhD students Chloé Mazier (Chloe Mazier) and Gaël Spicher (Spicher Gaël)! Chloé and Gaël will work on the diversity and paleoecology of Late Jurassic coastal #turtles 🐢 with Jérémy Anquetin and Prof. Walter Joyce (UnifrEarthSciences) #FossilFriday

🚨Our Rémi Lefebvre, now at the Royal Veterinary College (UK), will be discussing dinosaurs on TV tonight📺 Rémi Lefebvre parlera des dinosaures ce soir à 21h00🦕 Ne le manquez pas! Watch here: france.tv/france-5/scien… #FossilFriday

🔥 New article peer-reviewed by PCI Paleontology 🔥 Evers et al. (2024) Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017) 🐢 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Serjoscha Evers Guilherme Hermanson bioRxiv UnifrEarthSciences

Great fieldwork experience for advanced geo- and paleoscience students (application deadline: June 30th) 🤠🔨👇👇👇

🔥 New article peer-reviewed by PCI Paleontology 🔥 Bochaton et al. (2025) Archaeological Bone Assemblages Trace Changes in Turtle and Tortoise Diversity in Continental Southeast Asia 🐢 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… bioRxiv Corentin Bochaton CNRS 🌍 isem

Recommended by PCI Paleo and now published in Peer Community Journal 😎

#FossilFriday news: JURASSICA's PhD student Spicher Gaël lead discovery of a new #ichthyosaur species in Bavaria, with a striking swordfish-like snout▶️ doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.… Art: Eurhinosaurus on “battlefield” of belemnites ©Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken. By Andrey Atuchin, 2025

Fieldwork in the stunning Dilijan 🇦🇲 where the Neogene world comes alive. Students from the Jurassica Museum’s #PalaeontologicalFieldSchool are tracing lake sediments that once hosted fish, plants, and the ecosystems that linked them🌿Dr. Lara Sciscio @davitvasilyan0

Fresh from the rock library: beautifully preserved fossil fern found during our field school here in Dilijan🇦🇲! 🌿#fieldschool #palaeo More to come... watch this space as our student team excavate!

🔥 New article peer-reviewed by PCI Paleontology 🔥 Bibi & Boisserie (2025) A new fossil buffalo from the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) reveals the role of heterochrony in the evolution of Syncerus 🐃 doi.org/10.31233/osf.i…

Fieldschool 2025 = success! 🇦🇲🤠From learning fossil excavation techniques, to logging sediments, to collaborating with the IGS Armenian NAS (geology.am), we learned + explored! Field science never gets old! #palaeontology #geoscience

The Swiss natural history collections portal resulting from the #SwissCollNet initiative is now online: swissnatcoll.ch Watch the cool introductory video here (look for Dr. Lara Sciscio and I): youtu.be/KgHyJqWjLvo?si… 🦖🦕 JURASSICA

🔥 New article peer-reviewed by PCI Paleontology 🔥 🦕 Saleiro et al. (2025) Acquisition of and quality assessment in a dataset for dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) of sauropod teeth 🦕🦷 doi.org/10.31233/osf.i… Dr Daniela E Winkler