Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
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Publishing research that uses systematics to advance palaeontology ๐Our papers: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjsp20 ๐๏ธWe're based at the Natural History Museum, London: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-services/publishing/Journals
A birdโs eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics by Benito & Steell. Read here: buff.ly/fJattSx This is the latest article in our collection of agenda-setting reviews in the systematics of major fossil groups - with many more articles coming soon! #FossilFriday
The evolution of a morphological novelty: exceptional skeleton of an early Eocene trogon (Aves: Trogoniformes) elucidates the origin of a unique foot morphology, by Gerald Mayr: buff.ly/f9YbUJM ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ gen. et sp. nov., based on a nearly complete skeleton #PaleoSky #fossilbirds #Ypresian
For #FossilFriday.. the teeth and gill filaments of ๐๐๐ช๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐๐จ ๐ก๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐. Redescription of ๐๐๐ช๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐๐จ ๐ก๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ Agassiz, 1843 from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago (Tithonian, Germany) and the taxonomic diversity of ๐๐๐ช๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐๐จ Agassiz, 1832. Cooper & Maxwell (2026): buff.ly/BcryfRQ #PalaeoSky
Next in our series of specialist perspectives on the systematics of fossil organisms: Cox & Hennekam discuss the systematics of the insular giant fossil dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae) of the Mediterranean. Read here: buff.ly/kt1ra6E #PaleoSky #Gliridae #insulargigantism #islandrule #skullmorphology
New study out - Fabbrini ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ. used biometry, optical microscopy and SEM, to investigate morphological variability in ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ง๐ค๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ก๐ and ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ง๐ค๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ก๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐๐จ from the late Miocene to Pleistocene, sampling IODP Sites in the West Pacific warm pool and NW Australian margin: buff.ly/qh8jK8A #PaleoSky
Take a look at the latest articles in our collection of specialist reviews - Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities. Read the full collection here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs... www.researchgate.net/journal/Jour...
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology - Editor Pick by Esme Purdie
Take a look at the latest articles in our collection of specialist reviews - Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities. Read the full collection here: https://w...
researchgate.net
Liao ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ. report a new therizinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and ecomorphological patterns among early therizinosaurians ๐ buff.ly/AhVUhYk The nearly complete juvenile specimen from western Liaoning has been named ๐๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐ช๐ง๐ช๐จ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ #FossilFriday #PaleoSky #maniraptoran
Transforming turtle systematics: challenges, opportunities and the path ahead by Evers and Joyce ๐ buff.ly/9dnDRTc #PaleoSky #turtles #systematics #phylogeny #morphology View the full series here: Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities: buff.ly/qiJ0XUO
The next in our series of Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ช๐ง๐๐: ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ ๐. ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐จ Tuatara, lizards and snakes all trace back to a division in Lepidosaurs lineages ~240 million years ago. Read here: buff.ly/OXONAk5 #PalaeoSky #fossil
For #FossilFriday - the spectacular fibular osteohistology of ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐ค ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ, a new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe, by Barrett et al. (2026). Read here: buff.ly/eGGZESA #PaleoSky #Dinosauria #Sauropodomorpha
New study out in JSP! Dating the origin age of earwigs: impact of the earliest record of stem-group Dermaptera (Insecta: Protelytroptera) based on Bayesian inferences from the fossil record by Peng et al. Read here: buff.ly/SnX92HQ #Bayesian #Insecta #Polyneoptera #Protelytroptera #PaleoSky
For #FossilFriday take a look at the palate and pterygoid crests of the Notoungulata (Mammalia), the richest order of South American endemic placentals by Billet (2011). Read the full study here: doi.org/10.1080/1477... #PaleoSky #systematics #skull #Toxodontia #Typotheria #Pyrotheria #anatomy
New paper out in JSP! Makhlouf et al. reassess all species historically lumped into ๐พ๐๐ก๐๐ญ โ many based only on aboral surfaces โ using highโresolution morphology and multivariate analyses across 62 specimens. Read the full study here: buff.ly/AODQ4pH #PaleoSky #Echinodermata #Calix #Ordovician
For #FossilFriday ... The premaxillary teeth (1-5) of ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ช๐ง๐ช๐จ ๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐จ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany from Schaeffer (2024). Read the full study here: buff.ly/oMJwb3E #PaleoSky #Dinosauria #osteology #Plateosaurus #Sauropodomorpha
New study out in JSP! Andy Gale reports the taxonomy and phylogeny of stalked crinoids (Comatulida: Bourgueticrinina) from the Upper Cretaceous of France, southern England, UK and northern Germany. Read the full study here: buff.ly/TOLKdXk #PaleoSky #cretaceous #stalkedcrinoids #phylogeny
New research out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology ๐ Solis-Aรฑorve et al. report a new chaeomysticete from the Late Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico: expanding the diversity of early baleen whales. Read the full study here: buff.ly/KT4ztzY #PaleoSky #baleen #taxonomy #Mysticeti
#FossilFriday Take a look at the holotype of ๐ผ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ก๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ข๐๐จ๐ from the landmark paper: Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs by Arbour and Currie (2015). Read the full study here: buff.ly/zMmryyP #PalaeoSky #Landmarkpaper
New paper out! Astrop reports a new pygocephalomorph crustacean from the Brymbo Fossil Forest (Moscovian), North Wales, UK with a reassessment of the genus ๐๐ฎ๐๐ค๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ช๐จ: buff.ly/mKNWzUJ This study describes ๐๐ฎ๐๐ค๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ช๐จ ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ค๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ sp. nov. and reviews the taxonomic history of the genera #PaleoSky
For #FossilFriday - the skull of ๐๐ค๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐ฅ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ From the phylogeny of the carnivora: Basal relationships among the carnivoramorphans, and assessment of the position of โmiacoideaโ relative to carnivora by WesleyโHunt & Flynn (2005). Read the full study here: buff.ly/JiHMkNQ #PaleoSky #skull
๐ฌ Lambert ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ. report a new species of ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ช๐จ from the Middle Miocene of Peru: buff.ly/qeky7Pc A beautifully preserved skull from the Pisco Formation reveals a new large delphinidan: ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ช๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐๐, with a similar cranium to the modern beluga- ๐ฟ๐๐ก๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ช๐จ ๐ก๐๐ช๐๐๐จ #PaleoSky
New paper out in JSP! Barrett ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ. report a new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe: ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐ค ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ buff.ly/1jFjasf ๐ฆ A partial skeleton with distinctive features to ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ. #PaleoSky #Dinosaur #Musango
New paper out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Weiss ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ. present a revised anatomical and osteohistological study of the early crocodyliform โ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ค๐๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐โ ๐ก๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐จ, one of South Africaโs first described crocodyliform taxa: buff.ly/qrcPQ05 #PaleoSky #Crocodylomorpha #Jurassic
Holotype of ๐พ๐๐๐ค๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ from: A redescription of ๐พ๐๐๐ค๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐จ (Aves) and a comprehensive phylogeny of Mesozoic birds by OโConnor & Zhou (2013) buff.ly/tb8BOJe #Paleosky #PaleobirdNerd buff.ly/2S8vjc0 #FossilFriday
