@stephanspiekman.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Vertebrate palaeontologist studying Triassic reptile evolution.
@palaeoburke.bsky.socialReposted by @stephanspiekman.bsky.socialIntroducing Herugavialis cairensis.
A new genus of fossil gavialoid crocodylian from the Middle Eocene of Egypt. Recovered from the Mokattam Formation, Herugavialis was found from the same rocks used to build the Great Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt.
Read here:
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
@pdmannion.bsky.socialReposted by @stephanspiekman.bsky.socialIntroducing Herugavialis cairensis, a newly recognised Eocene gavialoid crocodylian from Egypt from the same geological formation as the rocks used to build the Sphinx, led by @palaeoburke.bsky.social (with @stephanspiekman.bsky.social + @hesham-sallam.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
@sirjoscha.bsky.socialReposted by @stephanspiekman.bsky.social1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now?
Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead"
Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
@stephanspiekman.bsky.socialExcited to share our new paper in Science Advances! Led by Dr Wei Wang at #IVPP in Beijing, it presents a complete skeleton of #Austronaga, the most marine of all archosauromorphs. To boot, this fossil preserves the oldest complete digestive tract of any reptile! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stephanspiekman.bsky.socialI 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🪶🦎
