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This #FossilFriday reinvestigating #Paleozoic #MazonCreek #fossilplants from the Field Museum using μCT, Raman spectroscopy, SEM, & Airyscan confocal microscope. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… UMich Paleobotany @aineander Philipp Heck Mike D'Antonio

🌿 Join the botanical adventure of a lifetime! 🕰️🌱 Unraveling the secrets of ancient plant fossils 🦕🌾 Let's explore the early evolution of angiosperms and the fascinating world of Arthmiocarpus hesperus! 🍇🌿 #Botany2023 #AncientPlantFossils #BotanicalAdventure 🌏🔬

Congrats to Jerónimo Morales Toledo who won the Paleobotanical Section Cookson Award for best student talk!! Well deserved!

ICYMI, we're searching for a new colleague at UM Paleontology & Michigan EARTH! Application review for the faculty curator position begins in just over a month. Invertebrates & mammals are our top curatorial priorities.

Robert Kooyman and I present our cover article New Phytologist, a case study for combining paleobotany, ecology, and conservation with geochemistry, hydrology, and paleoclimatology to improve understanding of the Earth system. College of EMS Macquarie University doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

📢 Excited to share that my latest paper has just been published! 📚🌿 I explored the intriguing world of Middle Jurassic conifers from Mexico. 🌍🌲 Check out the paper here:doi.org/10.1016/j.revp… #MasterThesis #Paleobotany

Our investigation of plant morphological disparity is out Nature Plants This is a really special paper for me as it’s the project that got me completely hooked on plant evolution and really influenced my subsequent research. Huge thanks to Phil Donoghue James Clark + all involved!

Application deadline is this Friday for Fall Preview!

⏱️Now less than a week until the deadline for symposium, workshop, and field trip proposals for North American Paleontological Convention 2024. We have great submissions already, but can accommodate more. There will be a fantastic range of topics here in Ann Arbor next summer!

Look at the wonders of seeds and their shapes! 🌱🔍 Take a look at this micro CT scan of Cyrtosperma senegalese seeds – they're campylotropous (bending), with intricate cristate seed coats. The stylar region is full of oxalate crystals! #Seeds #Botany #MicroCT

Strongly recommend this new book, opened my eyes to the deep connections between the slave trade and natural history collections/knowledge. uncpress.org/book/978146967…

Just wrapped up an incredible week at Michigan EARTH helping Fabiany Herrera, @moccada and Patrick Blomenkemper. We've been hard at work scanning cretaceous fossil plants. 🌿💡 Set batch scans, made amazing discoveries, and had a blast doing it! #FossilPlants #CTScan

I am currently exploring the Lasioids in Araceae. Trying to assemble how traits change across the subfamily. I'm using CT scans to dissect fruits and seeds of Pycnospatha – each part tells a unique story! This time, I added some labels so everyone can enjoy 😊 #botany #phdlife

New job opportunity: the Field Museum in Chicago is searching for an Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. The IP collection is amazing and particularly strong for the Paleozoic! 🪼🐙🦀🦠🦟🐌🪸🐚 Deadline: 03/31/2024 Link: linkedin.com/jobs/view/assi…

🚨 Attention students 🚨 Free spatial methods workshop at Oxford Earth Sciences & Oxford University Museum of Natural History, led by me, @PalaeoTom, Rob Whittaker, & BensonLabOxford. Apply by Feb 1st!

Bomfleur & al. 2023 | Fossil #mosses from the Early #Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil #flora, #Portugal – a window into the #Mesozoic history of #Bryophytes | Fossil Imprint 79(2): fi.nm.cz/en/clanek/foss… #Palaeobotany #Paleontology

ICYMI, how about a new fossil Lagerstätte for #FossillFriday? Exciting work including incoming UM Paleontology curator Anshuman Swain reports a remarkable Pennsylvanian-age biota from Massachusetts with abundant vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants #OpenAccess nature.com/articles/s4146…

Yay! Congrats to lab member Abby for winning best poster presentation at GSA this fall about her work on woods from Antarctica!