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Jennifer Botha

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Vertebrate palaeontologist focusing on mass extinctions and life history responses to these events

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Enele Twala and I have just returned from a trip to the ESRF in France. Enele is studying squamate bone histology and Roger Benson and Zoe Kulik from the AMNH and I are studying the osteohistology of basal amniotes. We obtained almost 250 scans for this project, and we can't wait to study the scans!

14.07.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s some photos from our latest field trip – with Adam Huttenlocker, Ken Angielczyk, Pia Viglietti, Claire Browning and Roger Smith. This is our second field season collecting rock samples for radiometrically dating the Permo-Triassic boundary in South Africa and so far, we have great results.

14.07.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi! I've just presented at the International Symposium on Palaeohistology on sauropodomorph growth strategies across the end-Triassic mass extinction. Our first observation is that all sauropodomorphs and sauropodiformes exhibit growth marks from early ontogeny, contrary to Sauropoda. #sauropods

18.06.2025 08:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The osteohistology of gorgonopsian therapsids and implications for Permo‐Triassic theriodont growth Permian gorgonopsian therapists had rapid, annually interrupted growth and show longer lifespans than early Triassic therapists.

Hi! I'm a palaeontologist who has just joined Bluesky. My lab recently published a paper on gorgonopsian osteohistology.

doi.org/10.1111/joa....

05.02.2025 09:58 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1