Luke Parry

A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms - Nature An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...

I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans.

Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times Time-scaled phylogenies underpin the interrogation of evolutionary processes across deep timescales, as well as attempts to link these to Earth's history. By inferring the placement of fossils and us...

More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Glad to see that I am corrupting you both from afar

True for my Palaeo and Geo folks too.

It’s a fight on all fronts for field science, made easier to dismiss after COVID.

A little bit of a trilobite in a clast

OMG a student found a #trilobite pygidum here in a pebble laid down in the #Triassic! really amazing to confirm these as Ord-Dev clasts. #Dorset24 @eesaupe.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social