Ian Wilenzik
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Ian Wilenzik
@ivwilenzik.bsky.social
Father of Snakes, Sower of Chaos, the Elicitor | 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ Paleontologist | PhD candidate at GWU studying squamate systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography
Are you interested in even MORE squamate biogeography? Perhaps ancestral range estimation that accounts for continental drift when analyzing ancient clades? Well read all about it in my second chapter, officially published today!

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March 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Small brag but my first ever paper got cited for the first time! Squamate biogeography is really blowing up. Hopefully someone publishes a new one soon… Like in February…

peerj.com/articles/172...
Fossil-informed biogeographic analysis suggests Eurasian regionalization in crown Squamata during the early Jurassic
Background Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) is a Triassic lineage with an extensive and complex biogeographic history, yet no large-scale study has reconstructed the ancestral range of e...
peerj.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM