
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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02-12-2021 09:28:28
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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




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)

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


Hot off the press! Very excited to announce that our epic review of the evolution of tree-kangaroos is out today 🤩 With Prof Gav Prideaux Flinders Palaeontology #WildOz The Australian Mammal Society Western Australian Museum Trish Fleming Murdoch University mapress.com/zt/article/vie…





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


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!


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…



