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dactylioceras.bsky.social
The first turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from East Asia

IS NOT A TURIASAUR
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Feeding the ‘fire beasts’: mesowear angles in bilophodont South American herbivores
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reconstruction by Carlos Andrés Espinosa Bustos
February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Foskeia pelendonum, a new rhabdodontomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos Province, Spain), and a new phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs

Art Martina Charnell
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Earliest Australian dinosaur: ichnofossils from the Carnian Aspley Formation of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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albertonykus.bsky.social
New vegaviids Vegavis geitononesos and Vegavis notopothousa (the latter based on the skull described last year): www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18... 🪶🧪 (📷Irazoqui et al.)
Digital model of the fossilized partial skull of an extinct bird, along with a map of Antarctica showing where the fossil was found.
January 30, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
Caenogastropods & heterobranch gastropods from the Hettangian deposits of Luxembourg: palaeobiogeography & Early Jurassic faunal recovery in the western Tethys onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday
Top right: a simplified geological map of Gutland (central and southern Luxembourg). Main image: photograph of a sample of the Luxembourg Sandstone Formation from the Schlotheimia angulata Zone of Brouch (Mersch, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg) showing the surface of the upper coquina bed; scale bar is 50 mm.
January 30, 2026 at 5:39 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
“HERE, SIZE IS NO ACCIDENT”: A NOVEL FOOD WEB ANALYSIS OF THE DRY MESA DINOSAUR QUARRY AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACT OF MORRISON FORMATION SAUROPOD FAUNA
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Art: Sergey Krasovskiy +Pedro Salas
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour

Art: Sophie Fernandez

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
The smallest tetrapod from the Middle Triassic of South America: a new procolophonoid parareptile from the Ladinian of Southern Brazil
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
Three panel comic. Panel 1: the stage of the Jerry Springer show with an audience watching. A peeved looking person sits in a chair. Jerry Springer stands next to him and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the incensed audience boos loudly. Panel 3: security attempts to break out a fistfight between the onstage guest and a prehistoric fish, the Tiktaalik.
January 27, 2026 at 3:44 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
A new rhinocerotoid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the early Oligocene of Ningdong, China, and its phylogenetic implications

Allacerops ningdongica sp. nov.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Dental evolution in non-coelurosaur theropods
www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-...
January 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
The origin of the tympanic fossa in reptiles revealed by a late Permian neodiapsid [new taxon Scyllacerta creanae]

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Art @literallymiguel.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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paleogalli.bsky.social
Taxonomia de Ostrácodes das Bacias Rifte Gonduânicas do Jurássico Tardio-Cretáceo Inicial do Nordeste do Brasil www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Taxonomy of Ostracods from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Gondwanan Rift Basins of Northeastern Brazil
Ostracods are microfossils of fundamental importance, serving as key proxies for paleoenvironmental, biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and other geoscientific interpretations. Accurate high-res...
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF TURIASAURIA (SAUROPODA) IN THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
January 23, 2026 at 4:49 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
HISTORY, AGE, AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE TYPE LOCALITY OF *DYSTROPHAEUS VIAEMALAE* (SAUROPODA) IN THE LOWER MORRISON FORMATION OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Cranial biomechanics of ceratosaurs: www.nature.com/articles/s41... [Southern hemisphere ceratosaurs evolved feeding mechanics paralleling those of Northern hemisphere tyrannosaurids]
January 23, 2026 at 2:15 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Art: Xiangtong Lei & Sihang Zhang
January 23, 2026 at 2:12 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 23, 2026 at 2:08 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Cretaceous crocodyliform reconciles conflicting evidence on the Mesozoic paleogeography of Europe during the Gondwana-Laurasia split

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
The Early Jurassic Bony fish of osteno, revisited:

Ostenolepis marianii gen et. sp. nov.,
Peripeltopleurus jurassicus sp. nov. (THE ONLY JURASSIC MEMBER OF THE GROUP)
Pholidolepis teruzzii sp. nov.

riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RI...
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
New remains of the armored dinosaur Patagopelta cristata Riguetti et al. 2022 (Ornithischia, Parankylosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
The microsporangiate cone Classostrobus amealensis sp. nov. with in situ pollen from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Hauterivian) of Portugal: pollen ultrastructure and implications for frenelopsid species diversity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM