Happy #FossilFriday !
It's a little more on the extant side but I'm very happy to share this amazing turtle study I got to be a part of.
Great work by Gabriel focusing on the hyoid bone in different 🐢 families at different stages of life.
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Beautiful little #Ordovician #trilobite from Churchill, freshly unpacked for #FossilFriday

Stylish additions to your #NAPC2024 wardrobe 😎

Always amazes me to think about how recent this revolution was.

Check out this amazing new paper with some crazy implications!!

• This is now the oldest and possibly the most basal catfish fossil.

• Loricariidae, which lives exclusively in South America today, seems to have originated in Africa!

Aaand…

Crinoid in an #Ordovician chert nodule from Lake Winnipeg, MB. So many things to discover in the collections.
#FossilFriday

Here is a fragment of the posterior margin of the median dorsal plate of #Amazichthys (pointed out in the second image). The dorsal fin inserts itself in the notch. This feature is unique among arthrodiran placoderms! #FossilFriday

Article here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Filter-feeding on muddy substrates: the wide gape of Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… MorphoSource Dryad Wiley Earth and Space Science

The 2024 Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology Meeting is next month! Still filled with excitement from a new partnership with CSVP, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences and FACETS Journal are proud sponsors of this annual event.

Read the #CSVP2024 Second Circular: ow.ly/PFkw50RfhfZ

Meeting logo by Maria Hussain

Cute sea urchins from Morocco found by one of our field collaborators for this #FossilFriday

Spent some time today unpacking some loan returns from previous expeditions in Churchill. Loads of gorgeous trilobite bits, brachiopods, etc. Looking forward to visiting for myself...
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Trilobite tracks from the Filon 12 Quarry of the #Devonian of Morocco. Found by Melina Jobbins. Happy #FossilFriday !

For this #FossilFriday , a nice chamber of a cephalopod (Treptoceras?) from the Humber River in Toronto ! With extra little fossils in there including some beloved crinoids.

Happy Geologist day with one of my favourite sites in Morocco!
Belated #FossilFriday

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: Now accepting applications for our two student research grants, J. Thomas Dutro Jr. Award and John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program.

Learn more and apply at priweb.org/research-and-c…

Only a few days left to register to #CSVP2024 🐟🦎
Don't miss your chance to come talk about vertebrate fossils with other researchers! And visit lil' old Winnipeg in the process 🙂
Link to the circular and registration instructions: csvp.ca/meetings/

Exciting job opportunity! Do you love palaeontology? Have you completed your Ph.D. within the last five years? We are seeking applicants for our Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls Postdoctoral Fellowship. Learn more and apply by April 30: tyrrellmuseum.com/about/jobs

To keep track of the snacks they stash throughout the forest, black-capped chickadees rely on barcode-like patterns in their hippocampus to store information about when and where a seed was hidden.

My latest for Scientific American: scientificamerican.com/article/chicka…

Some reminiscences about field work at the #BurgessShale . Looking forward to continuing field ventures exploring early animal evolution - northern Manitoba is on the list for this summer!