Amypteride🏳️⚧️🔻🕷🦂
@amypteride.bsky.social
Médiatrice scientifique à Paléopolis
Paleontology MSc graduate, now science educator
Chelicerates lover🕷🦂❤ and inverts>verts , all living things are beautiful <3
Spec evo enjoyer
Superman stan
Elle/She🏳️⚧️ - Fr/En
Paleontology MSc graduate, now science educator
Chelicerates lover🕷🦂❤ and inverts>verts , all living things are beautiful <3
Spec evo enjoyer
Superman stan
Elle/She🏳️⚧️ - Fr/En
Was bored on the train, redrew chelicerata phylogeny mostly from memory🕷🦂
And yup there's 3 made-up names (Opistholamellifera, Aflagellarachnida & Neophtalmarachnida), don't take them into account it was just for me😅
And yup there's 3 made-up names (Opistholamellifera, Aflagellarachnida & Neophtalmarachnida), don't take them into account it was just for me😅
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Was bored on the train, redrew chelicerata phylogeny mostly from memory🕷🦂
And yup there's 3 made-up names (Opistholamellifera, Aflagellarachnida & Neophtalmarachnida), don't take them into account it was just for me😅
And yup there's 3 made-up names (Opistholamellifera, Aflagellarachnida & Neophtalmarachnida), don't take them into account it was just for me😅
How could I have not watched Powerless before🤣🤣🤣
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How could I have not watched Powerless before🤣🤣🤣
Me 5 minutes ago: oh, I want to do some paleoart of extinct chelicerates, let's look at this one, Ecchosis pulchribothrium !
Me right now : How the fuck only this few was enough to raise a genus
Me right now : How the fuck only this few was enough to raise a genus
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Me 5 minutes ago: oh, I want to do some paleoart of extinct chelicerates, let's look at this one, Ecchosis pulchribothrium !
Me right now : How the fuck only this few was enough to raise a genus
Me right now : How the fuck only this few was enough to raise a genus
And I like these 2 a lot too^^
Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊
Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
And I like these 2 a lot too^^
Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊
Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊
My own supersuit for my birthday, always knew I was a Supergirl
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever."
-Superman
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever."
-Superman
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My own supersuit for my birthday, always knew I was a Supergirl
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever."
-Superman
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever."
-Superman
And to end this, this #paleoctober2025 's novelty : non-animal & non-plant organisms !!🦠 We welcomed to the list the mushroom Archaeomarasmius, the (maybe) ameba Melanocyrillium and the "dunno what this is" Diskagma, an organism that could be one of the first non-aquatic lifeforms in Earth history !
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
And to end this, this #paleoctober2025 's novelty : non-animal & non-plant organisms !!🦠 We welcomed to the list the mushroom Archaeomarasmius, the (maybe) ameba Melanocyrillium and the "dunno what this is" Diskagma, an organism that could be one of the first non-aquatic lifeforms in Earth history !
You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿
Arthropods were a big chunk with whatever is Cambropachycope, the early scorpion Eramoscorpius🦂, and of course insects with the stickbug wannabe grasshoper Eoproscopia🦗, the ancient mosquito relative Libanoculex🦟, and the nonetheless largest fossil beetle from Dynastinae, Oryctoantiquus !🐞
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Arthropods were a big chunk with whatever is Cambropachycope, the early scorpion Eramoscorpius🦂, and of course insects with the stickbug wannabe grasshoper Eoproscopia🦗, the ancient mosquito relative Libanoculex🦟, and the nonetheless largest fossil beetle from Dynastinae, Oryctoantiquus !🐞
Always good to have some molluscs, and we did in the old ones this year with only paleozoic species : An early relative of chitons in Protobalanus, a possible really really old gastropod with Bellerophon🐚, and we even drew Plectronoceras, the oldest cephalopod to date !🐙
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Always good to have some molluscs, and we did in the old ones this year with only paleozoic species : An early relative of chitons in Protobalanus, a possible really really old gastropod with Bellerophon🐚, and we even drew Plectronoceras, the oldest cephalopod to date !🐙
Aquatic animals aren't that much talked about but the fossil record is full of such species (especially invertebrates my beloved), like the freshwater coelacanth relative Allenypterus🐟, the spiraling graptolite Cyrtograptus and one of the most frequent fossil corals of the mesozoic, Isastrea !
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Aquatic animals aren't that much talked about but the fossil record is full of such species (especially invertebrates my beloved), like the freshwater coelacanth relative Allenypterus🐟, the spiraling graptolite Cyrtograptus and one of the most frequent fossil corals of the mesozoic, Isastrea !
Our own synapsid lineage wasn't left out, from the depth of the early permian with Eothyris and Sphenacodon to much more recent periods during which lived the bone-crushing dog Epicyon🐕 or Cainotherium (the perfect mix between an ungulate🦙 and a rabbit🐇)
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our own synapsid lineage wasn't left out, from the depth of the early permian with Eothyris and Sphenacodon to much more recent periods during which lived the bone-crushing dog Epicyon🐕 or Cainotherium (the perfect mix between an ungulate🦙 and a rabbit🐇)
Reptiles aren't just dinosaurs and crocs tho : we had this years Varanus sivalensis (a komodo dragon lookalike from India🦎), the giant ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan, one of the largest turtle to have ever lived with Meiolania🐢, and the iconic high-crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus !
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reptiles aren't just dinosaurs and crocs tho : we had this years Varanus sivalensis (a komodo dragon lookalike from India🦎), the giant ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan, one of the largest turtle to have ever lived with Meiolania🐢, and the iconic high-crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus !
Crocodile lineage is often overlooked but produced sick species through time, like the efficient runner Sebecus, or the giant flat-headed caiman Mourasuchus
Really, if you think dinosaurs are cool, I beg you to look at extinct crocs, they may not fly but some of them are really something !🐊
Really, if you think dinosaurs are cool, I beg you to look at extinct crocs, they may not fly but some of them are really something !🐊
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Crocodile lineage is often overlooked but produced sick species through time, like the efficient runner Sebecus, or the giant flat-headed caiman Mourasuchus
Really, if you think dinosaurs are cool, I beg you to look at extinct crocs, they may not fly but some of them are really something !🐊
Really, if you think dinosaurs are cool, I beg you to look at extinct crocs, they may not fly but some of them are really something !🐊
Obviously, there had to be dinosaurs🦖🦕 (but only 4 because dinosaurs aren't the center of the world), with herbivorous behemoths like Einiosaurus and Miragaia to theropods ranging from the small derived ceratosaurian Masiakasaurus to the extinct lovebird Agapornis longipes🦜
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Obviously, there had to be dinosaurs🦖🦕 (but only 4 because dinosaurs aren't the center of the world), with herbivorous behemoths like Einiosaurus and Miragaia to theropods ranging from the small derived ceratosaurian Masiakasaurus to the extinct lovebird Agapornis longipes🦜
A month of #paleoctober2025 has ended, and what a month ! For 31 days we discovered so many incredible extinct organisms, all of them belonging to the tree of life started on our planet 4-ish billion years ago, so let's go for a little recap through the tree formed during this year's paleoctober !⬇️
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A month of #paleoctober2025 has ended, and what a month ! For 31 days we discovered so many incredible extinct organisms, all of them belonging to the tree of life started on our planet 4-ish billion years ago, so let's go for a little recap through the tree formed during this year's paleoctober !⬇️
#paleoctober2025 day 31, the last entry of the month : Diskagma buttonii !
We end the challenge with the oldest of the list ! This enigmatic eukaryote may be the oldest terrestrial life known, throwing the first water-land transitions way back into the precambrian, way before plants and animals !
We end the challenge with the oldest of the list ! This enigmatic eukaryote may be the oldest terrestrial life known, throwing the first water-land transitions way back into the precambrian, way before plants and animals !
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 31, the last entry of the month : Diskagma buttonii !
We end the challenge with the oldest of the list ! This enigmatic eukaryote may be the oldest terrestrial life known, throwing the first water-land transitions way back into the precambrian, way before plants and animals !
We end the challenge with the oldest of the list ! This enigmatic eukaryote may be the oldest terrestrial life known, throwing the first water-land transitions way back into the precambrian, way before plants and animals !
#paleoctober2025 day 30 : Miragaia longicollum !
Yes, it's a stegosaurian, not a sauropod. Miragaia is kinda special in its group for having at least 17 vertebrae in its neck, making it a really long-necked animal, even for stegosaurians.
it's a close relative of Dacentrurus & Alcovasaurus.
Yes, it's a stegosaurian, not a sauropod. Miragaia is kinda special in its group for having at least 17 vertebrae in its neck, making it a really long-necked animal, even for stegosaurians.
it's a close relative of Dacentrurus & Alcovasaurus.
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 30 : Miragaia longicollum !
Yes, it's a stegosaurian, not a sauropod. Miragaia is kinda special in its group for having at least 17 vertebrae in its neck, making it a really long-necked animal, even for stegosaurians.
it's a close relative of Dacentrurus & Alcovasaurus.
Yes, it's a stegosaurian, not a sauropod. Miragaia is kinda special in its group for having at least 17 vertebrae in its neck, making it a really long-necked animal, even for stegosaurians.
it's a close relative of Dacentrurus & Alcovasaurus.
#paleoctober2025 day 29 : Bellerophon !
Named after an ancient greek hero, this mollusk is a possible close relative of gastropods such as snails, slugs, nudibranchs and limpets. Numerous fossils of this animal have been found across paleozoic rocks but it's sometimes kind of a wastebasket taxon.
Named after an ancient greek hero, this mollusk is a possible close relative of gastropods such as snails, slugs, nudibranchs and limpets. Numerous fossils of this animal have been found across paleozoic rocks but it's sometimes kind of a wastebasket taxon.
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 29 : Bellerophon !
Named after an ancient greek hero, this mollusk is a possible close relative of gastropods such as snails, slugs, nudibranchs and limpets. Numerous fossils of this animal have been found across paleozoic rocks but it's sometimes kind of a wastebasket taxon.
Named after an ancient greek hero, this mollusk is a possible close relative of gastropods such as snails, slugs, nudibranchs and limpets. Numerous fossils of this animal have been found across paleozoic rocks but it's sometimes kind of a wastebasket taxon.
#paleoctober2025 day 28 : Agapornis longipes !
Lovebirds are little parrots native from Africa well known for their strong pairbonding, and here's an extinct one ! This cutie lived in the Cradle of Humankind in the north of South Africa during the early pleistocene.
Lovebirds are little parrots native from Africa well known for their strong pairbonding, and here's an extinct one ! This cutie lived in the Cradle of Humankind in the north of South Africa during the early pleistocene.
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 28 : Agapornis longipes !
Lovebirds are little parrots native from Africa well known for their strong pairbonding, and here's an extinct one ! This cutie lived in the Cradle of Humankind in the north of South Africa during the early pleistocene.
Lovebirds are little parrots native from Africa well known for their strong pairbonding, and here's an extinct one ! This cutie lived in the Cradle of Humankind in the north of South Africa during the early pleistocene.
#paleoctober2025 day 27 : Cyrtograptus !
Graptolites were marine colonial worms related to echinoderms (yes it's not one animal but many), and species such as these were major components of paleozoic food webs. They are especially abundant during the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
Graptolites were marine colonial worms related to echinoderms (yes it's not one animal but many), and species such as these were major components of paleozoic food webs. They are especially abundant during the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 27 : Cyrtograptus !
Graptolites were marine colonial worms related to echinoderms (yes it's not one animal but many), and species such as these were major components of paleozoic food webs. They are especially abundant during the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
Graptolites were marine colonial worms related to echinoderms (yes it's not one animal but many), and species such as these were major components of paleozoic food webs. They are especially abundant during the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
#paleoctober2025 day 26 : Sphenacodon ferox !
This pelycosaur is a close relative of Dimetrodon (minus the sail), but interestingly it seems they never crossed paths and lived each on one side of an ancient sea, allowing these two to exist at the same time while occupying the same ecological niche.
This pelycosaur is a close relative of Dimetrodon (minus the sail), but interestingly it seems they never crossed paths and lived each on one side of an ancient sea, allowing these two to exist at the same time while occupying the same ecological niche.
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 26 : Sphenacodon ferox !
This pelycosaur is a close relative of Dimetrodon (minus the sail), but interestingly it seems they never crossed paths and lived each on one side of an ancient sea, allowing these two to exist at the same time while occupying the same ecological niche.
This pelycosaur is a close relative of Dimetrodon (minus the sail), but interestingly it seems they never crossed paths and lived each on one side of an ancient sea, allowing these two to exist at the same time while occupying the same ecological niche.
#paleoctober2025 day 25 : Cambropachycope clarksoni !
Yes, it's from the cambrian, you were expecting something else? This improbable but tiny (4 mm) arthropod had a giant single eye at its front, the rest of the "head" comprising the 4 first pairs of appendages, and then swimming legs.
Yes, it's from the cambrian, you were expecting something else? This improbable but tiny (4 mm) arthropod had a giant single eye at its front, the rest of the "head" comprising the 4 first pairs of appendages, and then swimming legs.
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 25 : Cambropachycope clarksoni !
Yes, it's from the cambrian, you were expecting something else? This improbable but tiny (4 mm) arthropod had a giant single eye at its front, the rest of the "head" comprising the 4 first pairs of appendages, and then swimming legs.
Yes, it's from the cambrian, you were expecting something else? This improbable but tiny (4 mm) arthropod had a giant single eye at its front, the rest of the "head" comprising the 4 first pairs of appendages, and then swimming legs.
#paleoctober2025 day 24 : Varanus sivalensis !
Monitor lizards used to have a lot of large species in asia and oceania until the end of the pleistocene, like this komodo dragon lookalike (same size and general anatomy) that lived in india during the pliocene alongside animals like Sivatherium.
Monitor lizards used to have a lot of large species in asia and oceania until the end of the pleistocene, like this komodo dragon lookalike (same size and general anatomy) that lived in india during the pliocene alongside animals like Sivatherium.
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 24 : Varanus sivalensis !
Monitor lizards used to have a lot of large species in asia and oceania until the end of the pleistocene, like this komodo dragon lookalike (same size and general anatomy) that lived in india during the pliocene alongside animals like Sivatherium.
Monitor lizards used to have a lot of large species in asia and oceania until the end of the pleistocene, like this komodo dragon lookalike (same size and general anatomy) that lived in india during the pliocene alongside animals like Sivatherium.
#paleoctober2025 day 23 : Oryctoantiquus borealis !
Rhinoceros beetles not only include some of the largest beetles today, but also the largest fossil one ! This (maybe) fossorial behemoth reached around 5cm in length
Thanks to the dynaste queen @djigr.bsky.social for the tips on beetle anatomy <3
Rhinoceros beetles not only include some of the largest beetles today, but also the largest fossil one ! This (maybe) fossorial behemoth reached around 5cm in length
Thanks to the dynaste queen @djigr.bsky.social for the tips on beetle anatomy <3
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 23 : Oryctoantiquus borealis !
Rhinoceros beetles not only include some of the largest beetles today, but also the largest fossil one ! This (maybe) fossorial behemoth reached around 5cm in length
Thanks to the dynaste queen @djigr.bsky.social for the tips on beetle anatomy <3
Rhinoceros beetles not only include some of the largest beetles today, but also the largest fossil one ! This (maybe) fossorial behemoth reached around 5cm in length
Thanks to the dynaste queen @djigr.bsky.social for the tips on beetle anatomy <3
#paleoctober2025 day 22 : Epicyon haydeni !
Canids were super diverse in the past, especially in north america's miocene where they occupied numerous ecological niches before the arrival of other carnivorans. Epicyon for example is the biggest canid of all time and was durophagous, like a hyena.
Canids were super diverse in the past, especially in north america's miocene where they occupied numerous ecological niches before the arrival of other carnivorans. Epicyon for example is the biggest canid of all time and was durophagous, like a hyena.
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#paleoctober2025 day 22 : Epicyon haydeni !
Canids were super diverse in the past, especially in north america's miocene where they occupied numerous ecological niches before the arrival of other carnivorans. Epicyon for example is the biggest canid of all time and was durophagous, like a hyena.
Canids were super diverse in the past, especially in north america's miocene where they occupied numerous ecological niches before the arrival of other carnivorans. Epicyon for example is the biggest canid of all time and was durophagous, like a hyena.