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Paleontologist at @cnrs.fr Animal fossil associations - helminth & arthropod parasites Taphonomy of vertebrate hosts' soft-tissues (integument & intestines) Phosphate contexts of fossilisation

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Out: new Carboniferous true bugs from Belgium and Northern France - from old collections at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with @belspo.be;
by @isyebsp.mnhn.fr from @mnhn.fr
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

in papers in pal by @thepalass.bsky.social
#paleoentomology #truebugs #hemiptera

03.03.2026 13:51 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory - Nature Ecology & Evolution A new species of pantylid microsaur from the Late Carboniferous of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has teeth with dental occlusion consistent with herbivory, indicating an early transition to this co...

Herbivorous terrestrial microsaurs from the late Carboniferous reveal this diet was ancestral to the divergence of amniotes 🌱🌿🌱(article with the late Hans Dieter Sues from the Smithsonian, how sad)

#carboniferous #earlyherbivory

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25.02.2026 13:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🔹 New semicolonial stem-medusozoan Paleocanna (deriving later than conulariids) from the Upper Ordovician of Quebec 🔹
#paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

19.02.2026 13:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Le tout premier dinosaure à piquants a été découvert en Chine Il s'appelle Haolong dongi. Ce dinosaure herbivore d’environ 2,5 mètres portait des piquants a été découvert au Nord-Est de la Chine. Une nouvelle étude révèle une structure cutanée inédite chez les d...

Il s'appelle Haolong dongi. Ce dinosaure herbivore découvert au Nord-Est de la Chine porte une structure cutanée inédite : ni plumes ni simples filaments mais de petits piquants rigides. A quoi ressemblent ces épines ?

(et oui, j'ai galéré à dire ornithischiens 😅

12.02.2026 06:43 👍 100 🔁 31 💬 6 📌 3
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The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin Marchetti et al. describe Cabarzichnus, the first definite body impression of stem reptiles, specifically bolosaurians. Cabarzichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epidermal scales and a clo...

Paper on Early Permian scale impressions (of bolosaurian reptiles). It is difficult ard to interpret a tissue origin from imprints but it is most likely dermal indeed 🦎 #paleontology #fossilskin #softtissues #ichnology #footprints #scales

www.cell.com/current-biol...

17.02.2026 16:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our report of original cutaneous spikes over integument of an iguanodontian from China (Yxian, Barremian) in @natecoevo.nature.com 🐉🦔 !
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @rennesuniv.bsky.social @oseren.bsky.social and Anhui Geological Museum.
#paleontology #ornithopod #fossilskin #jeholbiota

10.02.2026 10:16 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Down to the Eocene-Oligocene Quercy karsts with colleagues from @isemevol.bsky.social and @GET_Toulouse for our Meduse-P project 🦇 @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social #fossils #phosphate #bats #speleology

26.11.2025 14:36 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0