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10 Apr 2024
Our new paper looks into the strength and function of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur skulls using FEA 🦖🦃🖥️ 🚨Oviraptorid crania were much stronger than those of other beaked herbivorous theropods with distinct stress patterns doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… @CommsBio #OpenAccess
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A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians.
There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary!
Check out our new study, led by Susie Maidment⤵️
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New material of Ajkaceratops cements its identity as a ceratopsian, but adds a new wrinkle. It turns out that many european ornithischians previously classified as iguanodontians may actually be ceratopsians! New paper by Maidment et al., that I provided art for (link in reply).
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Maidment, S.C.R., Butler, R.J., Brusatte, S.L. et al. A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0…
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17 Jan 2025
Would you like to work with me on #MesozoicMammals from #Scotland? We're seeking a Research Assistant for an amazing @LeverhulmeTrust project, based in Birmingham with Prof Richard Butler. You'd join our team gaining new insights into mammal evolution! jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/resear…
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17 Jan 2025
Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, working with @gsciencelady @LukeEMeade and Richard Butler: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/resear…
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6 Dec 2024
🦎Threordatoth chasmatos🦎 a new Late Triassic procolophonid out now in Papers in Palaeontology @ThePalAss with @ButlerLabBham @MarcEHJones @tanytrachelos showing unique features of the jaw and teeth 🦷🦷doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1605 Reconstruction by @MarkWitton 1/4 #FossilFriday
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6 Dec 2024
Many of the lower jaw bones have a weird toothless tip and featureless symphysis. Perhaps the halves of the jaw were connected flexibly to help jaw movements and aid close tooth-on-tooth contact during chewing or providing shock-absorption💀 3/4
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These features of the jaw and teeth may indicate feeding or food processing in quite a different way to other procolophonids, perhaps a range of foods including plants and insects 🌱🐛🌲 🪲 @MorphoSource @ZoologyMuseum @NatSciNMS @NHM_Science
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6 Dec 2024
A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @LukeEMeade @ButlerLabBham @MarcEHJones @tanytrachelos @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
ALT Life reconstruction of the newly described procolophonid Threordatoth chasmatos among the fissures of Carnian–Norian southwest England, based in part upon aspects of the anatomy of the closely related Hwiccewyrm. Artwork by Mark Witton.
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6 Dec 2024
Meet Threordatoth chasmatos! 🦎
It may have been small, but this ancient reptile was a big part of life in the Triassic.
Find out what its life was like 👇
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024…
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6 Dec 2024
📰 | Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, found at Cromhall Quarry, which is notable for its unusual teeth.
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/a…
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ALT Scans of dinosaur teeth
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23 Oct 2024
PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, @NaturalEngland & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by @MarkWitton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through @CENTA_NERC - more info here centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025…
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18 Oct 2024
Great to host old colleagues from @geology_bham today @Museum_Cardiff to work on some fascinating fossil material - outside the norm for the lab! 🤩 @ButlerLabBham @LukeEMeade @CardiffCurator
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24 Jul 2024
New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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18 Jul 2024
Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology.
Link: lyellcollection.org/doi/full…
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16 May 2024
Proud to announce one of my PhD chapter is out in #OpenAccess in @CurrentBiology with @Val_Fisch @DavideTamagnin4 & @MargotMichaud00 🥳 Interested in evolutionary patterns of cat-like carnivorans? 🦁🔪 Here is a thread 🧵1/X doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.0…
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