Pascal Abel
@abel-paleo.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Mostly working on marine reptiles 🐊 and early tetrapods 🐸. Also doing conservation 🌿, scicomm 💻, aquarium keeping 🦐 and playing distorted guitars 🎸.
Me sitting over my thalattosuchian fragments while there is big fuss about some new dinosaur paper.
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Me sitting over my thalattosuchian fragments while there is big fuss about some new dinosaur paper.
Bzgl riesig hier ein direkter Größenvergleich mit einem wunderschönen Exemplar aus dem @smnstuttgart.bsky.social .
May 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Bzgl riesig hier ein direkter Größenvergleich mit einem wunderschönen Exemplar aus dem @smnstuttgart.bsky.social .
In the 80s, a big landslide near the German town of Mössingen led to the exposure of a profile of Upper Jurassic marine carbonates. It shows the succession from the marl-dominated Impressamergel Formation to the limestone-dominated Wohlgeschichtete Kalke Formation. #geology #Geologie #stratigraphy 🧪
April 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In the 80s, a big landslide near the German town of Mössingen led to the exposure of a profile of Upper Jurassic marine carbonates. It shows the succession from the marl-dominated Impressamergel Formation to the limestone-dominated Wohlgeschichtete Kalke Formation. #geology #Geologie #stratigraphy 🧪
Me on normal days: "I'm a paleontologist."
Me when applying for biology/ecology positions:
Me when applying for biology/ecology positions:
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Me on normal days: "I'm a paleontologist."
Me when applying for biology/ecology positions:
Me when applying for biology/ecology positions:
Friend of mine printed my profile pic. It's the skull of Captorhinus, an early "reptile" from the Permian of Oklahoma. In my thesis, I studied its skull sutures to learn more about the evolution of temporal openings. You can read more about it here:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 🧪 #paleobio
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 🧪 #paleobio
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Friend of mine printed my profile pic. It's the skull of Captorhinus, an early "reptile" from the Permian of Oklahoma. In my thesis, I studied its skull sutures to learn more about the evolution of temporal openings. You can read more about it here:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 🧪 #paleobio
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 🧪 #paleobio
Dr Valentina Rosina, the new director of the Solnhofen museum, is looking for researchers interested in working on the unpublished material in their collection. Especially the rich crustacean fauna really needs some love. In case you're interested, reach out to Dr Rosina! #PalAss24 #paleontology
December 12, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Dr Valentina Rosina, the new director of the Solnhofen museum, is looking for researchers interested in working on the unpublished material in their collection. Especially the rich crustacean fauna really needs some love. In case you're interested, reach out to Dr Rosina! #PalAss24 #paleontology
Visiting alma mater (with her fancy doorknob). It's been a long time, but everything feels immediately very familiar. #PalAss24 #paleontology #geoscience #Erlangen.
December 12, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Visiting alma mater (with her fancy doorknob). It's been a long time, but everything feels immediately very familiar. #PalAss24 #paleontology #geoscience #Erlangen.
Got invited by the German Netzwerk für Kryptozoologie to give a talk on mass extinction events. Other invited speakers were, among others, @markusbuehler.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social. Conference location was the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann. Below some impressions of the museum.
October 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Got invited by the German Netzwerk für Kryptozoologie to give a talk on mass extinction events. Other invited speakers were, among others, @markusbuehler.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social. Conference location was the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann. Below some impressions of the museum.
Always a special feeling seeing someone reconstructing a species co-named by you. Here an illustration of "our" Cricosaurus albersdoerferi by Wikimedia user Jackosaurs (CC-BY SA 4.0 licence)
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cr...
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cr...
September 7, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Always a special feeling seeing someone reconstructing a species co-named by you. Here an illustration of "our" Cricosaurus albersdoerferi by Wikimedia user Jackosaurs (CC-BY SA 4.0 licence)
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cr...
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cr...
Five years ago, I published my very first paper together with @dinosven.bsky.social, @drmarkyoung.bsky.social & @palaeo3d.bsky.social. We described and named Cricosaurus bambergensis, a marine crocodile relative from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria.
#paleobio #thalattosuchia #crocodiles 🐊🧪
#paleobio #thalattosuchia #crocodiles 🐊🧪
April 4, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Five years ago, I published my very first paper together with @dinosven.bsky.social, @drmarkyoung.bsky.social & @palaeo3d.bsky.social. We described and named Cricosaurus bambergensis, a marine crocodile relative from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria.
#paleobio #thalattosuchia #crocodiles 🐊🧪
#paleobio #thalattosuchia #crocodiles 🐊🧪
New post-PhD priorities. I waited more than 20 years for this.
January 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
New post-PhD priorities. I waited more than 20 years for this.
An academic new year's eve recap. First of all, I finished my PhD on the temporal region in tetrapod skulls.
Unrelated, I had the honor to co-author two studies on some (mostly) forgotten plesiosaur finds from Germany.
1) doi.org/10.1080/0272...
2) doi.org/10.1080/0891...
#paleobio #paleontology 🧪
Unrelated, I had the honor to co-author two studies on some (mostly) forgotten plesiosaur finds from Germany.
1) doi.org/10.1080/0272...
2) doi.org/10.1080/0891...
#paleobio #paleontology 🧪
December 31, 2023 at 6:12 PM
An academic new year's eve recap. First of all, I finished my PhD on the temporal region in tetrapod skulls.
Unrelated, I had the honor to co-author two studies on some (mostly) forgotten plesiosaur finds from Germany.
1) doi.org/10.1080/0272...
2) doi.org/10.1080/0891...
#paleobio #paleontology 🧪
Unrelated, I had the honor to co-author two studies on some (mostly) forgotten plesiosaur finds from Germany.
1) doi.org/10.1080/0272...
2) doi.org/10.1080/0891...
#paleobio #paleontology 🧪
My google scholar cloud. Seems like I'm pretty much into skulls and the German Jurassic. 🧪 #paleobio #paleontology
September 29, 2023 at 10:50 AM
My google scholar cloud. Seems like I'm pretty much into skulls and the German Jurassic. 🧪 #paleobio #paleontology
Hi, I'm Pascal, a paleontologist from Germany. I'm mostly interested in extinct marine crocs (they got fins!) and why so many terrestrial vertebrates evolved large openings in the back of their skull.
Marine croc by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🧪
Marine croc by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🧪
September 28, 2023 at 4:48 AM
Hi, I'm Pascal, a paleontologist from Germany. I'm mostly interested in extinct marine crocs (they got fins!) and why so many terrestrial vertebrates evolved large openings in the back of their skull.
Marine croc by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🧪
Marine croc by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🧪
For context. 250 million years ago, members of the mammalian lineage looked like this. I don't think we should use current mammals as model for their potential descendants 250 million years in the future.
Images by Nobu Tamura under CC BY 2.5 and 3.0
tinyurl.com/htc2jd3k
tinyurl.com/yeumcp5b
Images by Nobu Tamura under CC BY 2.5 and 3.0
tinyurl.com/htc2jd3k
tinyurl.com/yeumcp5b
September 26, 2023 at 8:14 AM
For context. 250 million years ago, members of the mammalian lineage looked like this. I don't think we should use current mammals as model for their potential descendants 250 million years in the future.
Images by Nobu Tamura under CC BY 2.5 and 3.0
tinyurl.com/htc2jd3k
tinyurl.com/yeumcp5b
Images by Nobu Tamura under CC BY 2.5 and 3.0
tinyurl.com/htc2jd3k
tinyurl.com/yeumcp5b
Me not knowing shit about bird evolution reading the DML these days.
September 25, 2023 at 6:00 AM
Me not knowing shit about bird evolution reading the DML these days.
Reminds me of Doré's Destruction of Leviathan upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
September 20, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Reminds me of Doré's Destruction of Leviathan upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
One of my favorite photos. A Western Green Lizard (Lacerta bilineata). There is an allochthone population thriving close to Tübingen. Their main distribution is south to the Alpes and W France.
September 8, 2023 at 8:25 AM
One of my favorite photos. A Western Green Lizard (Lacerta bilineata). There is an allochthone population thriving close to Tübingen. Their main distribution is south to the Alpes and W France.
Happy #FossilFriday.
Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia and I published a new paper on "Plesiosaurus" bavaricus, an enigmatic early plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Bavaria.
Original drawings of the lectotype and associated material from Dames (1895).
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2242376
Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia and I published a new paper on "Plesiosaurus" bavaricus, an enigmatic early plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Bavaria.
Original drawings of the lectotype and associated material from Dames (1895).
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2242376
August 18, 2023 at 8:25 AM
Happy #FossilFriday.
Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia and I published a new paper on "Plesiosaurus" bavaricus, an enigmatic early plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Bavaria.
Original drawings of the lectotype and associated material from Dames (1895).
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2242376
Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia and I published a new paper on "Plesiosaurus" bavaricus, an enigmatic early plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Bavaria.
Original drawings of the lectotype and associated material from Dames (1895).
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2242376
Ich bin seit einigen Wochen damit beschäftigt ein populärwissenschaftliches Onlineprojekt zu den Themen Paläontologie 🦖, Geologie 🌋und Umwelt 🏞 aufzubauen.
An der Website wird noch fleißig gebastelt, aber ihr könnt mir bereits auf Insta folgen. Ich freu mich!
An der Website wird noch fleißig gebastelt, aber ihr könnt mir bereits auf Insta folgen. Ich freu mich!
August 17, 2023 at 10:11 AM
Ich bin seit einigen Wochen damit beschäftigt ein populärwissenschaftliches Onlineprojekt zu den Themen Paläontologie 🦖, Geologie 🌋und Umwelt 🏞 aufzubauen.
An der Website wird noch fleißig gebastelt, aber ihr könnt mir bereits auf Insta folgen. Ich freu mich!
An der Website wird noch fleißig gebastelt, aber ihr könnt mir bereits auf Insta folgen. Ich freu mich!