Gaëtan Potin
gaetanptn.bsky.social
Gaëtan Potin
@gaetanptn.bsky.social
PhD student in palaeontology 🦐
University of Lausanne 🇨🇭 / ANOM Lab
From Brest - Bretagne 🇨🇵
https://wp.unil.ch/paleo/
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New published paper 🗞️🦐
Led with the help of @gaetanptn.bsky.social, this project gives insight into the fossilization process of arthropod appendages and the decay resistance of setae 🫨

Want to know more? 🤨
➡️ www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...

@sineadlynch.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social
www.openpalaeo.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It's finally out! 200 years since the description of Eurypterus remipes, the first eurypterid named in the scientific literature, I present a summary of the history of eurypterid research and an updated taxonomy of every known species.🧪⚒️

doi.org/10.1206/0003...
Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses
Eurypterids, also known as sea scorpions, were aquatic chelicerate arthropods that were important components of Paleozoic marine and freshwater ecosystems from the Ordovician to the Permian. The group...
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The abstract submission deadline is in one week, do not hesitate anymore to join 😉

Find the 2nd circular here: rocksnrol.wordpress.com/meetings/
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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🌎 D'où venons-nous? Venez explorer la question fascinante de l'origine de la vie en compagnie de 3 scientifiques (paléontologue, chimiste et astrophysicien) Jeudi 28 mars/18h30-19h30/UNIL Amphimax 410, Gratuit et ouvert au public✨infos👇
www.unil.ch/events/17413... @unibe.ch @unil.bsky.social @
Table Ronde sur les Origines de la Vie
La professeure Allison Daley, paléontologue à l’Université de Lausanne, le professeur Nicolas Wissinger, chimiste à l’Université de Genève et le professeur Brice-Olivier Demory, astrophysicien de l’U...
www.unil.ch
March 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
(1/4) Upcoming workshop! This September, from the 21st to the 23rd, an Ordovician workshop in tribute to Claude Babin will be held on the Crozon Peninsula, Brittany, France. Don’t hesitate to sign up and explore one of France's most beautiful places (probably the world) within the Armorique Geopark.
March 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Having so much fun in Morocco and making some mind-blowing fossil discoveries. Ordovician rocks still have a lot to tell us. 🔨👀✨🧪
@gaetanptn.bsky.social @noracc.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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In a recently published paper, we describe a new Ordovician polar ecosystem from the Montagne Noire in France 🇫🇷. A huge effort led by ECRs and locals 🤩 This is how polar ecosystems looked like 470 million years ago 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 9, 2024 at 10:19 AM