Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at @LMU_Muenchen. Lost among fishes, phylogenies and drifting continents
Joined October 2018
- Tweets 761
- Following 640
- Followers 713
- Likes 2,569
132 Photos and videos
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Our #mormyrid paper is finally out in Eco&Evo!๐ We show that trophic ecology of African elephant fishes differs within the species community, incl. three species (two undescribed!:-) of the Mormyrus genus from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. Thks, Gina!
doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70173
3
60
238
10,044
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
20 Aug 2024
Possibly the weirdest fossil teleost๐you'll see today?
Check it out in our new preprint out in @biorxivpreprint, with Giorgio Carnevale
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
Thread 1/4
5
58
174
11,496
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
20 Aug 2024
๐Join us for James Andrewsโ dissertation defense!
๐๏ธ Monday, August 26
โ๏ธ11 AM
๐ NUB 2540
Let's support James as he presents his research on evolutionary insights into early acanthomorphs!
More info: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-usโฆ
4
13
4,160
14 Aug 2024
New paper alert (open access)! Thanks to a new tip-dated phylogeny of bonytongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) with a large sample of fossils, we find that today's freshwater arapaimas and arowanas were ancestrally marine! (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/dโฆ
3
87
241
22,294
14 Aug 2024
We show that the exclusion of fossils drastically changes our conclusions! Without fossils, we would infer a western Gondwanan origin and a continental vicariance process for the biogeographic history of arowanas and arapaimas! (5/n)
1
15
443
14 Aug 2024
This paper is the evolution of the last chapter of my PhD thesis, and it took several research years, from morphological data collection to many rounds of analyses and writing. I am deeply grateful to my coauthor and former advisor @Friedman_Lab for helping and guiding me! (6/6)
13
363
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
9 Aug 2024
Finished the parrotfish skull, pretty on the inside and outside. These guys are basically just wrasses that dialed their bones up to 10 so that they can crunch hard stuff... I respect it #backdatwrasseup
3
16
96
2,915
29 Jul 2024
If you're at #Evol2024 #evolution2024 and you're interested in morphological phylogenetics, please join me this afternoon when I'll be presenting on a new way to model among-character rate variation in morphological datasets for Bayesian phylogenetics!
6
32
1,416
19 Jul 2024
Exceptional review on some of the best marine fossil deposits in the world!
1
14
623
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
24 Jun 2024
Michigan paleontology past, present, and future at #NAPC2024. ๐ธ@rodrigoichthys
ALT Generations of Michigan paleontologists on the steps of the U-M Museum of Art.
2
16
78
3,571
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
20 Jun 2024
Outstanding set of presentations in today's session at #NAPC2024 celebrating the contributions of Lance Grande of @FieldMuseum!
ALT Presenters for the Grande Symposium at the North American Paleontological Convention standing on steps.
1
9
64
4,942
10 Jun 2024
Very excited to be back in Ann Arbor next week! ๐
12
546
19 Apr 2024
#FossilFriday bonus track on our new marine fossil bonytongue Macroprosopon. You can check out photogrammetric 3D models of the holotype in the @umichUMORF website! umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/โฆ (anterior piece) and umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/โฆ (posterior piece)
1
9
52
2,440
18 Apr 2024
You can find high-resolution photographs and weighted-line drawings of the Macroprosopon holotype by the amazing Carol Abraczinskas (UMMP scientific illustrator) in this Deep Blue Data repository, open access: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/โฆ
Bone labelings in the original paper.
1
8
42
1,132
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
18 Apr 2024
Welcome to the world, Macroprosopon! Huge thanks go out to @acapomorphic and @Friedman_Lab for giving me the opportunity to work on both the skeletal and life reconstructions of this crazy fish.
18 Apr 2024
Say hello to Macroprosopon hiltoni, "[Eric J.] Hilton's long face". This long-snouted fossil bonytongue was a relative of today's freshwater arapaima, but it lived in Moroccan seas 50 million years ago! Magnificent artwork by Sky Jung @HBivittatus Link: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/โฆ
3
15
72
3,057