Congratulations to Dr Luke Parry (University of Oxford, UK) and all co-authors! The Editorial Team selected this study due to its originality and significance, as well as its wider implications. #PaleoSky @cambriannelids.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans. Published in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms - Nature

An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...

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More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times

Time-scaled phylogenies underpin the interrogation of evolutionary processes across deep timescales, as well as attempts to link these to Earth's history. By inferring the placement of fossils and us...

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True for my Palaeo and Geo folks too. It’s a fight on all fronts for field science, made easier to dismiss after COVID.

PEC Exeter@pec-exeter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

OMG a student found a #trilobite pygidum here in a pebble laid down in the #Triassic! really amazing to confirm these as Ord-Dev clasts. #Dorset24 @eesaupe.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social