Martin R. Smith
palaeosmith.bsky.social
Martin R. Smith
@palaeosmith.bsky.social
Palaeontologist studying the origins of life's rich diversity
There were at least five independent origins of lichens – and at least one had occurred by the Devonian
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Fossil mushrooms from the Cretaceous – almost fresh enough to top a pizza with!
doi.org/10.1093/botl...
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What was burning? Evidence of Ediacaran wildfires doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
June 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
An early "mollusc" reconsidered: Is Shishana, in fact, a chancelloriid?
Read our new paper @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
StratoBayes: our quantitative tool for automated stratigraphic correlation.

Read the preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
April 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Derived Cirratuliform annelids in Cambrian SCF deposits – possible relatives of Iotuba? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM