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For example, a fossil formation in Mid-Late Jurassic Mongolia or central/western China may not have a good number of references, but the Tiaojishan Formation in eastern China is 1 of the best fossil floras anywhere tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

BIG CAVEAT - when finding analogues/comparisons ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND YOUR FORMATION'S GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY/DEPOSITIONAL FEATURES, CLIMATE ETC!!!!!! Arid ecosystems are prolly not the best comparison for jungles on the other side of the continent/country

Also - strata can preserve millions of years, and biodiversity is not static. Consider how the climate/landscape was changing, and how you can reflect that in your art. Was it becoming more or less arid? Were there periodic droughts or floods?

Nobody takes this into account better than the GOAT Doug Henderson. His depictions of the Chinle Formation are iconic, but note the details are not random. For example look at the large, flood-deposited logs in this stream channel

... Or how his freshwater #paleoart is not sterile - fish swim amongst huge rotten logs, mats of ferns, horsetails, algae & other crushed vegetation. This gives his work so much texture, character & depth douglashendersonehi.com/Artist.asp?Art…

Note how in his iconic black & white compositions, the plants frame the scene & establish a sense of scale. Huge trees dwarf dinosaurs & you can practically here smaller animals rustling through the leaf litter

To me the #1 thing that sells #paleoart as "lived in" is plants, foliage etc that look MESSY. When looking at living plants, keep in mind many are curated specimens at botanic gardens that are trimmed/pruned to look "neat". A real forest floor is much more messy, uneven & chaotic

Got the 2nd image from this goldmine of a reference site, the World List of Cycads. THOUSANDS of photos of all kinds of cycads growing in the wild in all shapes & levels of "shaggy" cycadlist.org/images

I'm honoured to have won this year's Marsh Palaeoart Award with my reconstruction of the #RhynieChert. Commissioned by Sandy Hetherington and Corentin Loron, it accompanies a brilliant new research paper currently in review. Palaeontographical Society Marsh Charitable Trust #b3d

For those interested in #polar #dinosaurs I recommend this new paper our on the Early #Cretaceous of #Australia; and how these forest changed from the Barremian to the Albian. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

[Al CONICET] no lo cierran, lo dejan morir... elpais.com/argentina/2025…

📢Looking for a plant #anatomist interested in comparative functional anatomy! We’re offering support for the preparation of #MSCA #proposal 1url.cz/yJJVD. Would you like to join us to explore storage and conductive functions during #rhizome development? Let's talk!

Practical guide to running simulations with tidyverse tools. Ideal for hypothesis testing and reproducibility mmmdata.io/posts/2025/04/…

Check on this amazing #Paleobotany finding from our group! 🧐🌺⛏️💪🇦🇷 Stellula meridionalis gen. et sp. nov., the oldest fossil flower from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Authors: Griselda Puebla and Mercedes Prámparo IANIGLA - CONICET Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Do I (or do you!) know any website design (including costs) folks out there? Not re: personal websites, but some more sophisticated community ones. Thanks all!

Duke University is eliminating its herbarium, the second largest private collection in the western hemisphere. reddit.com/r/botany/comme…

Conca is waiting for it's color! #Paleostream! twitch.tv/paleostream

Problems in palaeo include severe funding cuts despite increased workloads, publish or perish culture in for profit publishing, prevalent sexism, lack of diversity, taxonomic skill crisis. Social media discourse: they did my boy dirty, the transversospinalis is wrong

Lecturer in Ecology and Global Change (University of Leeds): jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Evolution of CYP71D drives the diversification of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Gentianales #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communic…