A new Upper Franconian ichthyosaur species has been discovered from Mistelgau. Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog!
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Artwork: @olorotitan.bsky.social
Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis is interesting because it is quite a bit younger than all other known Eurhinosaurus species. It gives us vital information of these ichthyosaurs close to the Middle Jurassic faunal turnover. Art: Andrey Atuchin, used with permission from Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken
A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.
Nearly five-meter-long slab of belemnite battleground with skeleton of Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis – the inspiration for the beautiful artwork by Andrey Atuchin in my previous post. Specimen is from Mistelgau, excavated by and curated at Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken in Bayreuth, Germany
The study was conducted by @spichergael.bsky.social & colleagues (@feikosaur.bsky.social) & published today in @mfnberlin.bsky.social's Open access journal Fossil Record. Congrats to all authors! It's available here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Fossil & artwork to be exhibited at UMO in future.
Freshly deceased Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis on a Jurassic sea floor covered in Belemnite rostra (a "belemnite battleground"). Artwork by Andrey Atuchin.
News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.
Paleoart by @olorotitan.bsky.social (with permission of the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken).
The newly described and well-preserved fossils represent the youngest known occurrence of Eurhinosaurus.
‼️ PAPER ALERT ‼️
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Got to Lyon yesterday! Here to dive into some Late Jurassic turtles. 🐢time to dust off fossils that haven’t been touched since the 1800s!
The JURASSICA museum is organizing a paleontological field school again this year! Come and join us! 🦖🐢⛏️ Learn more here: www.jurassica.ch/en/Practical...
2/2 Then off to Pittsburgh to dive into the Carnegie Museum collections 🏛️ for more work on this stunning specimen!
Spent the whole week working on a beautifully preserved Eurysternum wagleri. 🐢 First stop: Ann Arbor for CT-scanning —huge thanks to @friedmanlab.bsky.social for the warm welcome, taking the time to scan the specimen, and inviting me to give a short talk on my PhD research #FossilFriday
Fossil Friday is the perfect time to introduce the newest member of the JURASSICA Museum family! 🦖
#FossilFriday #Jurassic
Just submitted a huge manuscript (nearly 30,000 words!) with a fantastic team! It’s a detailed descriptive study of a well-known Jurassic ichthyosaur, a deep dive into its anatomy. Can’t wait to share it with you all soon! 🤩
#paleontology #ichthyosaur
My PhD student Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper out today in Ecology & Evolution! 🐢🤩
We think the morphologically conservative body plan of turtles can in part be explained by allometric constraints imposed by the shell. Thread 👇 for some highlights
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Hi Bluesky!
I’am doing a PhD in paleontology at the Jurassica Museum and University of Fribourg. My project focuses on the diversity of thalassochelydian turtles 🐢 (such as this skull of Solnhofia brachyrhyncha). I'm also working on other fossil turtles and marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs.
