Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile
Arthur Crichton

@palaeossum

PhD candidate in Palaeo at @Flinders studying oligocene marsupials. If it moves then I like it, and if it doesn't then I probably do too.

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Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Article by ABC Alice Springs about the new possum and wombat-relative that we described from 25 million year old fossils! abc.net.au/news/2023-03-2… ABC Australia Flinders Palaeontology

Anna MacDonald (@dr_annam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you’ve ever wondered how a bettong curls its tail to start carrying a new bundle of bedding… wonder no more 🙂 This friendly bettong gave a nice demo for the #CameraTrap #WildOz #MammalWatching #Tasmania #lutruwita

Jonathan Cramb (@crambot_palaeo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper day! Meet Urrayira ("ooh-rah-year-rah"), a tiny dasyuromorphian from the middle Pleistocene of central Queensland. This taxon was first mentioned in the literature in 2005, so I'm chuffed that we've finally given it a proper description.

Flinders Palaeontology (@flinderspalaeo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Behind many of our fossils is a tragedy. Nothing reminds you of this more than finding specimens like this #Thylacoleo carnifex (likely pouch young) from #WellingtonCaves - Persephone (as we call her) waited 80,000 years to see the daylight again. #FossilFriday #megafauna

Behind many of our fossils is a tragedy. Nothing reminds you of this more than finding specimens like this #Thylacoleo carnifex  (likely pouch young) from #WellingtonCaves - Persephone (as we call her) waited 80,000 years to see the daylight again. 
#FossilFriday #megafauna
Laura Wilson (@lwilso9) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our new paper on marsupial skull growth is just out in Nature Communications, with Camilo López Aguirre, Sue Hand Mike Archer, Norberto Giannini and David Flores. We tackle the remarkably contrasting magnitudes of ecomorphological diversity among extant American and Australasian marsupials (1/3)

Jacob van Zoelen (@zoelenotherium) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The paper is finally out! You can read about it here royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Did I also mention that you can access and download the whole specimen here! morphosource.org/projects/00049… It is also one of the specimens featured in VAMP_Palaeo. #Palaeontology #OpenAccess #Megafauna

The paper is finally out! You can read about it here royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 

Did I also mention that you can access and download the whole specimen here! morphosource.org/projects/00049…

It is also one of the specimens featured in <a href="/VAMP_Palaeo/">VAMP_Palaeo</a>.
#Palaeontology #OpenAccess #Megafauna
Aaron Camens (@diprotoron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check this out! The complete front half of the giant #wombat #Phascolonus with all hand and arm bones still in place. Beautiful prep work by Tas and Carey Burke #megafauna #FossilFriday Flinders Palaeontology

Check this out! The complete front half of the giant #wombat #Phascolonus with all hand and arm bones still in place. Beautiful prep work by <a href="/idrawsdinosaurs/">Tas</a> and Carey Burke #megafauna #FossilFriday <a href="/FlindersPalaeo/">Flinders Palaeontology</a>
Dr Kailah Thorn (@kailah_thorn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oh lawd they comin’ Tiliqua frangens is here. The biggest skink that ever existed, lived among the other #Pleistocene #megafauna of eastern Australia until 47,000 years ago. Read the paper in #ProcB here -> doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Oh lawd they comin’

Tiliqua frangens is here. The biggest skink that ever existed, lived among the other #Pleistocene #megafauna of eastern Australia until 47,000 years ago.
Read the paper in #ProcB here -&gt; doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…
Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice Cosmos article about the (best) Oligocene fossil site, Pwerte Marnte Marnte! By Glenn Morrison with Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory palaeos Adam Yates and Sam Arman cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeo… #science via Cosmos

Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on! abc.net.au/news/2023-09-0… via ABC Australia

Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on! 

abc.net.au/news/2023-09-0… via
<a href="/ABCaustralia/">ABC Australia</a>
Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Found this Papadam-shaped thing last week on a Flinders Palaeontology field trip to Lake Pinpa (~25 Ma) It's actually the first-known #turtle carapace from the site The species (unnamed) would've resembled the modern short-neck turtle. Keen as to piece it back together!

Found this Papadam-shaped thing last week on a <a href="/FlindersPalaeo/">Flinders Palaeontology</a> field trip to Lake Pinpa (~25 Ma)

It's actually the first-known #turtle carapace from the site

The species (unnamed) would've resembled the modern short-neck turtle. Keen as to piece it back together!
Dr Jorgo Ristevski (@joristevs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Say hello to Baru iylwenpeny (the species name is pronounced ‘eel-OON-bin-yah’), a large #mekosuchine crocodylian from the Late Miocene of Australia! Paper led by Adam Yates, with Steve Salisbury and me as co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

Say hello to Baru iylwenpeny (the species name is pronounced ‘eel-OON-bin-yah’), a large #mekosuchine crocodylian from the Late Miocene of Australia! Paper led by Adam Yates, with <a href="/implexidens/">Steve Salisbury</a> and me as co-authors.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…
Arthur Crichton (@palaeossum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Update on my prep of the fossil Pinpa turtle carapace! It's 42 cm long in its current state, completely dwarfing this adult eastern long-necked turtle (22 cm)

Update on my prep of the fossil Pinpa turtle carapace!

It's 42 cm long in its current state, completely dwarfing this adult eastern long-necked turtle (22 cm)
Dr. Ellen Mather (@ellenaetus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Did you know that #Australia was once the home of #vultures and giant #eagles? This new paper (with amazing artwork by John Barrie!) can tell you all about it - including our newest #fossil species, Dynatoaetus pachyosteus. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Did you know that #Australia was once the home of #vultures and giant #eagles? This new paper (with amazing artwork by John Barrie!) can tell you all about it - including our newest #fossil species, Dynatoaetus pachyosteus. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Kale Sniderman (@kalesniderman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

in our new nature paper, we draw attention to an aspect of Pleistocene glacial climates that has been largely concealed: because of the effect of low atmospheric CO2 on C3 plant growth, low biological productivity (i.e. suppressed tree growth) may misleadingly suggest aridity