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Joep Schaeffer
@joepschaeffer.bsky.social
PhD Candidate State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart working on non-sauropod sauropodomorphs
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I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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On tonight stream we do things a little different...
Starting 1 hour sooner and covering a very particular creature.
July 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🚨New paper alert! 🚨

We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm!

Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)
Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The sauropodomorph Plateosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs from Europe due to the large numbers of articulated skeletons discovered from bonebed horizons in Switzerland and Germany. Plateosaur...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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#Press
Research team @smnstuttgart.bsky.social presents comprehensive study on #Triassic terrestrial tetrapods in the Central European Basin in ‘Earth-Science Reviews’.
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#SaveTheDate: Special exhibition ‘Triassic Life’ in Stuttgart from 17 October 2025!
March 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out!
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January 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last Friday I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Evaluation of Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic (upper Norian) of Central Europe” at the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social .

Huge thanks to my committee, supervisors, colleagues and family.
#PhDone
December 2, 2024 at 3:18 PM