Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD

Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex | CNN Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

Duck-billed dinosaurs are often found with gruesome, shattered, deformed tails.

Did the injuries happen during mating?

Maybe! A provocative new study from @fbertpaleo.bsky.social & team. My thoughts for @cnn.com

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Our controversial paper is finally out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social !
As part of my PhD dissertation at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in 2021, the last chapter was dedicated to a specific pathological pattern in hadrosaurid tails!

Jesus..😂 the tyrannosaur fan boy in me is so upset

When is it going to be out ? I am dying to read it ! 😂

Guys, gimme time to come back home and I’ll make a series of explanatory post for our NEW DINOSAUR 😍😍

Reconstruction of a large-sized ankylopollexian iguanodontian dinosaur interacting with a juvenile in the Late Jurassic of Europe 🦖

Artwork by Victor Carvalho
CC BY-NC 4.0 licence

📝 Rotatori et al:
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Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Congrats! Amazing work

Nice animal! Very happy to see new iguanodontian species being unveiled! Congrats to Jeremy and all the authors!

Here we looked a little into Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient of mammals, across the fossil record!

Here a very nice contribution I took part in, shedding light on the early eavolution of stem-mammals!

Evidence of large-sized ankylopollexian dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal The Upper Jurassic beds of the Lusitanian Basin in central Portugal yield diverse dinosaurian fauna, dated to the Kimmeridgian–Tithonian interval. Saurischian dinosaurs are, overall, more abundant ...

Since I am new here, now I will re post some of my previously published contribution on this social media :)) 🦖

Here the latest chapter of my PhD dissertation published a couple of months ago on iguanodontian dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal.

A new Maastrichtian hyposaurine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha) from Namibe province, Angola Abstract. Dyrosauridae are one of the few clades of large marine vertebrates that survived the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K–Pg) extinction event. The early div

🦴 New fossil croc from Angola!
A ~70-million-year-old marine crocodylomorph has just been described from the Late Cretaceous of Bentiaba 🇦🇴.
Proud to be 2nd author on this new paper! @eduardopuertolas.bsky.social
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