Hot off the press! We’re excited to introduce a new plesiadapiform species – Purgatorius mckeeveri – and the earliest dated occurrences of archaic primates 🐒 in the fossil record – as part of our collaborative research published today @RSocPublishing!
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ALT Reconstruction of Purgatorius mckeeveri by the incredible @AndreyAtuchin
Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years here at the Florida Museum. He leaves behind a legacy of deep dedication to science and teaching. 👏👏👏 We have so much gratitude for everything he's done for the Museum!
Story:
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ALT a vintage photo of a man in a suit pointing up at a large dinosaur statue
ALT a man in a tie is standing at an information panel in a museum with fossils behind him on display
ALT a man in a hat and outdoors clothing is waving an arm across an open landscape and pointing to a book in front of him and talking to people just out of view
ALT a man in a sportscoat is standing in an office doorway next to a frosted window with a round logo and the letters TESI
Congratulations to @BrooklynAnthro Professor and senior author Stephen Chester (@ChesterLabCUNY) and Adjunct Lecturer and lead author Jordan Crowell (@CrowellJW) on the incredible work on this research that helped solved a mystery of primate evolution!
ALT Three-dimensional model of the only known picrodontid skull in top (left) and bottom (right) views. CT scan technology revealed previously unknown bones of the skull (colored on the right) that helped demonstrate that picrodontids are not primates as previously believed.
ALT Jordan Crowell, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, worked with modern CT scan technology to analyze a picrodontid skull in Brooklyn College’s Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory.
ALT Three-dimensional model of the only known picrodontid skull in top (left) and bottom (right) views. CT scan technology revealed previously unknown bones of the skull (colored on the right) that helped demonstrate that picrodontids are not primates as previously believed.
ALT Jordan Crowell, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, worked with modern CT scan technology to analyze a picrodontid skull in Brooklyn College’s Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory.
Check out the new website for my research group in the Department of Anthropology @UWMadison! We’re looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students interested in primate socioecology with field and nutrition lab components. bryerlab.anthropology.wisc.e…
Hi paleo/bio anth folks - can anyone help aspiring paleoanthropologist and current undergrad @anita_patane with sources of photos of hominin ankle (talus and calcaneus) fossils for her @UNCO_McNair project honors senior capstone thesis?
Hi friends, I’m a senior from the Univ. of Northern Colorado looking for varied angles of A. afarensis, A. africanus and H. habilis’ foot fossils, particularly the talus and calcaneus for a geometric morphometric project! If anyone has sources, I’d really appreciate it. 1/2
Black and Indigenous Scholars in Mammalogy Award is accepting applications! Awards of up to $1,500 to support research or activities relating to mammals. Apply here! mammalsociety.org/form/black…
NEW in the Contributions of the UMMP: "Phylogeny and Evolution of North American Nothartcinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the early Eocene of Wyoming," in which Philip Gingerich suggests notharctine diversity paralleled warming and cooling during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum.
It was really great talking with Senator Schumer @SenSchumer on Friday! We discussed the @BklynCollege411 Tow Mentoring & Research Program and our @NSF funded research on primate origins, the K/Pg mass extinction, and global warming!
Happy #FossilFriday! We're excited about our recently funded @NSF collaborative research grant on how life recovered following the K/Pg mass extinction! Contact Prof. Chester if you're a @BklynCollege411 undergrad interested in paid research to study fossil mammals!
I'm so proud to introduce Tony Edgington and Manica Nawaz, who are joining the COMPASS Lab at @BCEarthScience as my first PhD mentees! I'm thrilled to welcome them to Boston College and can't wait to get started on lots of exciting new coastal science. 🦅🌊🌍
Happy #FossilFriday! This morning we received notifications that our #SVP2023 abstracts were accepted, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Cincinnati this coming October!
Happy #FossilFriday! We're wrapping up a week at the @DenverMuseumNS studying early Eocene fossils to understand how mammals responded to global warming! You can read more about our @NSF grant with Amy Chew, @ccgilbs, Judy Diamond, and Ross Secord below!
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Big news from @UMichPaleo and @MichiganEarth: we're searching for a new assistant curator/assistant prof! On the museum side, we're particularly interested in candidates with backgrounds in invertebrates or mammals, two of our most significant collections 🦀🦪🐚🐎🐆🐋
🚨Job alert!🚨 The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and @MichiganEarth seek a new assistant curator/assistant professor. Review of applications begins September 1st. Ad and instructions: careers.umich.edu/job_detail…