My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
Lena Cole
@leptaena.bsky.social
Asst. Professor & Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/U. Research on fossil crinoids, echinoderms, extinction, & paleoecology. Always interested in birds, gaming, punk/metal, & nature.
Incredibly proud of my master's student, Nicolas Bell, who successfully defended his thesis today on "Environmental controls on Late Ordovician (Katian) crinoid feeding ecology"! @oupaleobiology.bsky.social
I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!
The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is celebrating our department's collections manager, Lyndsey Farrar! Many thanks for all the awesome work you do behind the scenes in the invertebrate paleontology collections and to the public! #FossilFriday
Excited to share my newest paper with @daveyfwright.bsky.social and colleagues on soft tissue preservation of tube feet in an Ordovician crinoid! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Exceptional soft-tissue preservation reveals the oldest evidence for tube feet and their ecological significance in crinoids
Abstract. Tube feet are extensions of the echinoderm water vascular system that play essential roles in feeding and ecology in living crinoids. However, on
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OU Geosciences undergraduate Macie Menard and Colby Higdon (both advised @leptaena.bsky.social) presented at the department's annual Student Research Symposium and Expo. Both projects were made possible via the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History's Invertebrate Paleontology collections. Great job!
After a long social media break, I'm finally on Bluesky! I'm here for the science community, nature, paleontology, and weird and wonderful fossil echinoderms!
