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We know amphibians are still successful today - there are >8,200 species of them! But we need to combat climate change & habitat loss to keep them going. Climate change wasn't kind to temnospondyls, and it isn't kind to the froggy friends we still have today [end]
In other tetrapods, the openings are either very small or totally absent (the palate is formed entirely by bone; 📷: Witzmann & Werneburg 2017)...but modern frogs and salamanders have these giant palatal openings as well (📷: Eocene frog Thaumastosaurus; Laloy et al. 2013)!
My #TemnospondylTuesday blog is resuming weekly activity! For August, I'll discuss amphibamiforms, the smol dissorophoids related to living amphibians!
This week's overview: https://t.co/qYcNQ1mnZq
📷: Schoch/Rubidge 2005, Sigurdsen/Bolt 2010, Gee/Reisz 2020, Maddin et al. 2013
Gimme that #plaguedoctor title or whatever they're giving out these days! #PhDone
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#TemnospondylTuesday
Two sides of the same coin for #FossilFriday!
Side A: skull of the new #varanopid Mesenosaurus efremovi
Side B: postcrania of a mystery #dissorophid
Varanopid paper @RSocPublishing : https://t.co/MIMSCuYeCG
Dissorophid paper @fossil_record : https://t.co/pXBvY3l00Z
#OpenAccess https://t.co/ofQLgjakO1
Didn't know it was coming out today, but here's a new paper for #TemnospondylTuesday: redescription (first full description) of the amphibamiform Nanobamus in Journal of Paleontology!
Paper: https://t.co/5wCW4vGN7j
Blog: https://t.co/NCmDKi5KC6
It's #TemnospondylTuesday! Up this week on the blog is an overview of Cope's "batrachian armadillo": Dissorophus!
Link: https://t.co/NCmDKhO9Ky
📷: armoured carapaces of Dissorophus from DeMar 1966 and Gee et al. 2019
It's been pretty frosty lately, so this week's #TemnospondylTuesday #scicomm post is on (southern) polar temnospondyls! Based largely on historic work by Hammer, Cosgriff, Colbert and recent work by @ChristianSidor https://t.co/NCmDKhO9Ky Pic: Antarctosuchus; Sidor et al. (2014)
I don't do resolutions, but I'd like to do more #scicomm in 2019, so for the first #TemnospondylTuesday of the year, I'm kicking off a blog on my personal website: https://t.co/NCmDKi5KC6 talking about...#temnospondyls! Temnospondyls are cool! They deserve more attention! (1/2)