Can you help to shape future fossil heritage research in Leicestershire? Take this anonymous 5–10 minute survey to help improve outreach, education, and conservation (open to anyone 18+, regardless of your connection to Leicestershire): app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leicester/...

Community Custodians: Establishing Baseline Knowledge for Local Fossil Heritage - Online Surveys | Online surveys

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, Online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

This week on #MonographMonday, we have this plate depicting nautilus, ammonites and belemnites from A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with Descriptions of Shells From the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Vol. II. Bivalves by Searles V. Wood (Volume 4, Issue 8, 1850).

It's #MonographMonday and this week's example is pretty distinctive. This is a plate from A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals by H. Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, depicting corals from the London Clay by J Delarue at Day & Sons lithographers to the queen. Volume 3, Issue 7 (1850).

It's #MonographMonday! Today we have an illustration depicting Crocodilus hastingsiae (now Diplocynodon). This species was named after Lady Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, to honour "the accomplished lady by whom the singularly perfect example of the species had been recovered and restored".

Next up on #MonographMonday is this plate of the bryozoan Synocladia virgulacea from A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England by William King (Volume 3: Issue 5, 1850).

Huge thank you to our #INHi3D sponsors for helping us build our stand, print amazing 3D models, develop an augmented reality experience and make the public's creations immortal! - @thepalass.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social @artec3d.bsky.social @anatsoc.bsky.social

We thank the @palaeontosoc.bsky.social for contributions to 3D printouts! (2/7)

This week's #MonographMonday is from A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England by T. Rupert Jones. This plate (by Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen) illustrates fossil entomostracans (tiny crustaceans, now distributed across multiple classes), published in 1849.

📢 Now available: The Nature and Affinities of the Enigmatic Silurian–Devonian Genus Pachytheca from Britain. This study examines the anatomy, development & palaeoecology of Pachytheca, while providing new evidence for its probable algal affinities. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Nature and Affinities of the Enigmatic Silurian–Devonian Genus Pachytheca from Britain

Millimetre-sized coalified spheres named Pachytheca are among the commonest fossils in Upper Silurian and basal Devonian rocks in the Welsh Borderland and, although first recorded in 1839, their af...

tandfonline.com

This week's #MonographMonday is an illustration of Nautilus imperialis (now Cimomia imperialis) by J Sowerby. This is from Monograph on The Eocene Mollusca or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England by Frederic E. Edwards (Volume 2: Issue 2, 1849)

This week's #MonographMonday is from Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay: and of the Bracklesham and other Tertiary Beds by Profs. Owen and Bell. This is the skull of Chelone (now Argillochelys) cuneiceps (by Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen) from Volume 2: Issue 2 (1849).

Introducing #MonographMondays! 🎉 We’re taking a stroll through the archives, one issue at a time. Every Monday, we'll share a figure from one of our monographs, working our way through nearly two centuries of scholarship, discovery and illustration. First stop: Volume 1: Issue 1 (1848).

📢 📢 The journal Geobios are inviting applications for their Young Researcher Award, which supports emerging researchers in the field of palaeontology. The award offers a €500 to two winners to cover expenses related to their ongoing PhD or postdoc projects. DEADLINE SOON: 31/05

A wonderful artwork, well done Julianne!! You're an inspiration ⭐

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿@palaeojules.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

⚠️Honouring Andy Currant: A 40 Year Legacy in Science and Curation 🔸Join the Natural History Museum, London in celebrating the life and work of Andy Currant (1952–2026), their long-serving Curator of Fossil Mammals ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honouring-...

Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online for our 179th AGM and annual lectures!! It was held in Southampton, and was a bumper year for prizes and research awards. Dr Jerry Hooker was awarded our Palaeontographical Society Medal for his distinguished career in mammal #paleontology...

Just a reminder that our AGM is next week. It is free to attend for both in person and online attendees, so do sign up :). The link is below www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

The Palaeontographical Society 179th Annual General Meeting

Come join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society - a gathering of fossil enthusiasts and experts alike!

eventbrite.com

The Palaeontographical Society@palaeontosoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society 🦴 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 A day of palaeontology, awards, annual lectures, and society updates. Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

Don't forget to register for our (free) 179th Annual General Meeting! 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

The Palaeontographical Society 179th Annual General Meeting

Come join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society - a gathering of fossil enthusiasts and experts alike!

eventbrite.com

Join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society 🦴 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 A day of palaeontology, awards, annual lectures, and society updates. Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

Don't forget to get your tickets to the Palaeontographical Society AGM! www.eventbrite.com/e/1985572174...

The Palaeontographical Society 179th Annual General Meeting

Come join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society - a gathering of fossil enthusiasts and experts alike!

eventbrite.com

The Palaeontographical Society@palaeontosoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society 🦴 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 A day of palaeontology, awards, annual lectures, and society updates. Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Very excited to be leading one of this year's exhibits 'Immortalising Natural History in 3D' with @laurabporro.bsky.social! #SummerScience @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum have an appeal to raise funds for an exceptionally rare, partial handwritten letter by pioneering fossil collector Mary Anning. Artist Lee Brown has generously donated an original piece of art work to help with fundraising Here's the link if you want to bid on it!

Friends of Lyme Regis Museum's Silent Auction

Ammonite Original Illustration - Mary Anning letter appeal - Lyme Regis MuseumThe Friends of Lyme Regis Museum are co-ordinating an appeal to raise funds for  an exceptionally rare partial handwritten...

zeffy.com

Join us for the 179th Annual General Meeting of The Palaeontographical Society 🦴 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 A day of palaeontology, awards, annual lectures, and society updates. Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

For #FossilFriday, here is Neovenator the fierce Cretaceous theropod that roamed and hunted on the Isle of Wight (IoW). It is a relatively complete dinosaur (especially for the IoW) and we have a monograph on it :) www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmps20/1...

2 March 1811, Reighton, Yorkshire: birth of geologist and naturalist Hugh Strickland. In 1841 #MaryAnning drew his attention to a feature of ammonite shells which she thought were ink sacs but were in fact aptychi, plates used for closing off the aperture of the shell. #MolluscMonday

For #FossilFriday, here are some images of #Scelidosaurus from the Jurassic of Charmouth, Dorset, UK. They were published in one of our monographs from 1861 as part of a description by Sir Richard Owen. ia600501.us.archive.org/17/items/mon...

In February 1850 a William Wailes stained glass window of the Six Acts of Mercy from St Matthew's Gospel was installed in St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis in memory of #MaryAnning by the vicar and her friends at the Geological Society. It recognises both her contribution to geology and her charity.

Nominations are now OPEN for the Edward Forbes Prize! 🏆 We’re celebrating outstanding contributions by early career researchers in taxonomic and systematic palaeontology 🦴🌍 Know someone shaping the future of the field? Nominate them today! #Palaeontology #EarlyCareerResearch #Taxonomy

Early Career Researchers... 👀

The Palaeontographical Society@palaeontosoc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Nominations are now OPEN for the Edward Forbes Prize! 🏆 We’re celebrating outstanding contributions by early career researchers in taxonomic and systematic palaeontology 🦴🌍 Know someone shaping the future of the field? Nominate them today! #Palaeontology #EarlyCareerResearch #Taxonomy