Serjoscha Eversさんのイラストまとめ

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! Good time to share some sneak previews of different upcoming papers on turtle evolution on which I am lead or senior author 🐢🤩 Wait for evolution, paleontology, and soft tissue anatomy content to drop later this year (or maybe the one after, who knows)

We comment on cranial scute homology of stem turtles. Whereas shell scutes are relatively well understood & intensely used for phylogeny, cranial scutes are more problematic. This work expands pioneering work of others, particularly Juliana Sterli (@yatachelys) 2/3

Support for our hypothesis of evolutionary relationships comes from across the entire skeleton, and also from neuroanatomical information. Lagerpetids were prob. quite active animals, possibly arboreal & their sensory capabilities might have paved the way for pterosaurs 4/9

Finally, Allosaurus jimmadseni has been formalised! Congrats to Mark Loewen and Dan Chure for this paper. Really nice reconstructions (and a bunch of photos of mine).

https://t.co/1qSjlRgM1r

Meet Asfaltovenator! Congrats to @poldiego and @O_Rauhut!

https://t.co/seYglEmcwR

Our paper from earlier this year is now out in it's final version: https://t.co/LsHtRBA1qT

Check it out if you like comparisons between the endosseous inner ear and the actual, underlying organ!