Science interpreter, palaeontologist, nature lover and music collector.
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Mar 13
It's new publication day this #FossilFriday! My colleague Duncan McIlroy has just published a manuscript outlining lines of evidence used to determine mode of life of the #Ediacaran #Rangeomorpha. Interesting stuff!
doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.17…
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Feb 27
#Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old fossils indicate the Avalon biota persisted longer than previously believed, suggesting a more severe biodiversity loss during the Kotlin Crisis extinction event. @geosociety phys.org/news/2026-02-except…
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Jan 30
Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a thread about the Inner Meadow biota, its unexpected #Ediacaran Date, and a refocusing of Martin Brasier’s #KotlinCrisis.
A link to our just-published paper on the remarkable significance of the Inner Meadow site follows below in this thread.
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Jan 30
The team at Geology were also amazing. Here's a link to the article:
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa…
@GSAPublications @MemorialUSci @MUN_EarthSci @WhereLifeGotBig @discoverygeonl
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19 Sep 2025
1/2 A reconstruction of Lydonia jiggamintia, a newly described #Ediacaran organism from #Newfoundland, lying on the ancient matground-covered seafloor overgrowing a decaying Fractofusus andersoni.
Paper available (for free) here: bit.ly/4gQ1xF7
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19 Sep 2025
2/2 Palaeontology isn't just about counting or describing new organisms, it's also about understanding how they lived and interacted with each other.
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17 Sep 2025
New #Ediacaran paper alert! The sponge-like #Lydonia jiggamintia is named for the spiky-topped punk legend John Lydon [aka Johnny Rotten]. The species name is derived from the word for gooseberry in the language of the Beothuk people of #Newfoundland.
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1 May 2025
The Johnson Geo Centre's 2023 palaeontology lecture series is online! This series looks at the rich palaeontological history of Newfoundland & Labrador, given by the people conducting this research on the oldest known animals on the planet.
mun.ca/geocentre/learn/publi…
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