Adiel Klompmaker
@paleoadiel.bsky.social
Curator of Paleontology, UA Museums' Department of Museum Research and Collections. Research on predation, crustaceans, paleoecology, parasitism, competition, decapods, mollusks.
Research papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CJITStw
Research papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CJITStw
‼️New paper on Paleocene (early Danian, ~65.3 mya) decapod crustaceans from Alabama. 🙂 Eight species (incl. 2 new) is more diverse than previously known for any early Danian site in North America. Thanks also to the @paleosoc.bsky.social for grant support. Paper:
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
‼️New paper on Paleocene (early Danian, ~65.3 mya) decapod crustaceans from Alabama. 🙂 Eight species (incl. 2 new) is more diverse than previously known for any early Danian site in North America. Thanks also to the @paleosoc.bsky.social for grant support. Paper:
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
🦈 Exquisite Cretaceous shark coprolite (dung) from Harrell Station Paleo Site, Alabama. 😲 Mooreville Chalk, ~82 Ma. Coprolites can tell about the diet of ancient sharks. Specimen: ALMNH:Paleo:2389 @almnh.bsky.social Collector: Brown Hawkins, 1990. #FossilFriday‼️ #fossil #paleontology
April 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🦈 Exquisite Cretaceous shark coprolite (dung) from Harrell Station Paleo Site, Alabama. 😲 Mooreville Chalk, ~82 Ma. Coprolites can tell about the diet of ancient sharks. Specimen: ALMNH:Paleo:2389 @almnh.bsky.social Collector: Brown Hawkins, 1990. #FossilFriday‼️ #fossil #paleontology
‼️early #FossilFriday. Remarkable specimen of the rudist bivalve 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎, found in Pickens County, Alabama. Mooreville Chalk, Cretaceous (~ 82 Ma). 😍 Specimen used by Zimmerman et al. (2023: J Paleo @paleosoc.bsky.social). Specimen @almnh.bsky.social (ALMNH:Paleo:12696). #paleontology #fossil
February 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
‼️early #FossilFriday. Remarkable specimen of the rudist bivalve 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎, found in Pickens County, Alabama. Mooreville Chalk, Cretaceous (~ 82 Ma). 😍 Specimen used by Zimmerman et al. (2023: J Paleo @paleosoc.bsky.social). Specimen @almnh.bsky.social (ALMNH:Paleo:12696). #paleontology #fossil