Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿
@palaeojules.bsky.social
British Palaeobotanist, palaeobotanical illustrator and consultant, currently researching Mesozoic plants. 🌿Commissions and consulting open!🌿 BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU (she/her)🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 patreon.com/JulianneKiely https://palaeoflora.blogspot.com/
In preparation for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social's Family Fun Day next week, I've made a large poster of Middle Jurassic Chinese plants for an activity I'm running. But what will I be doing with it? Perhaps it involves a few hidden beasties. #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany
Just submitted a review of the Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants. Short version: a book heavy on plant reconstructions is a great idea (and potential #paleoart reference), but it's let down by formatting issues and problematic plant recons. Thanks to @palaeojules.bsky.social for discussion.
When growth form fossilizes: a new liverwort species from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas site onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @davidhorcajada.bsky.social #FossilFriday
I haven't drawn anything in a while (outside of some comms), so here's an Archaeopteryx wip from this evening! #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #bird
I'm in the @rbgkew.bsky.social Herbarium again today photographing leaves!!!!! Eeeee, it's so exciting to see it finally all set up!!!! #Kew #Botany #PhD #SpecimenPhotography #science
Wenwei Guo, Li Tian, Daoliang Chu, Wenchao Shu, Michael J Benton, Jun Liu, Jinnan Tong (2026) Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction eLife 14:RP104205 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction
In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.
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Hi all, Just a reminder that we're still accepting talk and poster abstracts for our Symposium Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and Promises, and the deadline is in two weeks, on the 31st May! I'm really looking forward to seeing some of you there!!! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
Mario Coiro@lepidodendron.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...
Happy #FossilFriday, So, some fun news: I won a Highly Commended Prize for this year's Marsh Palaeoart Award, run by the @palaeontosoc.bsky.social, for My submission 'Life Restorations of the Rhizotaxy and Growth Architecture of Oxroadia'! #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #botany
No collections day for me tomorrow since I'll be somewhere over the Atlantic in an aluminum tube. So to make up for that, I spent some time in the gallery of the lovely Lapworth Museum at the University of Birmingham.
So you've heard about trilobites, but do you know Naraoids? These trilobite cousins shared similar bodies but differed in details. Most importantly, they lacked hard exoskeleton and had only soft cuticle. That's why they are known only from sites with exceptional preservation, such as Burgess Shale.
📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany
European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference
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📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿@aldpaleo.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany
We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...
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Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany
Mario Coiro@lepidodendron.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...
Fossil flower from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River formation. About 40-50 million years old. #fossilfriday
What’s also wild about these Eocene belemnites is their Late Lutetian early Bartonian age, about 41-42 million years old, so younger than Green River fish. Wild
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 5mo agoWill be interested in seeing what the paleo-cephalopod community in general thinks about this! Eocene belemnites from Hungary - Galácz - 2026 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan. This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia. #paleoart #sciart #botany
I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime: Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart! Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm
For #FossilFriday a panoply of the basal #ankylosaurid Liaoningosaurus, known by literally dozens of juvenile specimens. The largest specimens are around 50 cm #thyreophora #ornithischia
So, just a last-minute reminder to everyone that I'll be giving a free online talk for the University of Birmingham LapSoc tomorrow evening ( #FossilFriday 13th) at 6pm UK time! You can book tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/guest-spea... #paleobotany #paleoart #botany #scicomm
So, just a last-minute reminder to everyone that I'll be giving a free online talk for the University of Birmingham LapSoc tomorrow evening ( #FossilFriday 13th) at 6pm UK time! You can book tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/guest-spea... #paleobotany #paleoart #botany #scicomm
Hymenaea resin traps EVERYTHING, while Agathis resin says ‘no thanks’ to bugs. Me too. Agathis, me too. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BMCBiology #FossilFriday
Agathis vs. Hymenaea—trapping biases to interpret arthropod assemblages in ambers - BMC Biology
Background The genera Agathis (Coniferales: Araucariaceae) and Hymenaea (Fabales: Fabaceae) contain resin-producing tree species that are crucial for actuotaphonomic studies. While certain Cretaceous ...
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I just realised that I never finished colouring this little goober.... I might have to come back to him soon....#paleoart
A few people asked for scale on this fossil. It's about 2.5 cm or an inch long. #FossilFriday
David Clark@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 6mo agoI usually stick to echinoderms, but this insect was so stunning. This is a Cretaceous aged Neuropterid insect, Hemerobidae sp. #FossilFriday
I don't think I've shared this in a while, so here are some Middle Jurassic British pterosaurs for y'all! #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #Jurassic #sciart
It's amazing how the Cambrian fossil record can overturn our understanding on the disparity, ontogeny and evolution of key groups! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
J Pardo@jdpardo.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew paper presenting rather compelling evidence that the stem-vertebrate Haikouichthys had paired lateral and supranumerary medial eyes (!!!), and proposing that the medial eyes may have deep homology with the pineal and parapineal organs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ahh!!! It's published its published, it's finally officially published!!!
Laura Cooper@transitionalform.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
