Flinders Palaeontology
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Flinders University Palaeontology research group 🦴🐀🦘🐍🐟🦩 🔬on Kaurna land. 💥Tweets do not imply endorsement💥
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined July 2020
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New paper drop! Kiana Cliff: a new fossil vertebrate site of probable last interglacial age from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia: https://t.co/ANAqqA6JEh
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New research by Samuel Arman, Grant Gully and Gavin Prideaux out today! What can dental microwear tell us about the extinction of short-faced kangaroos? @MAG_NT @Flinders #extinction #pleistocene
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth. Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos. Learn more in this week's issue: https://t.co/IGO23K9Mcx
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You can find out more about the @Flinders University Vertebrate Collection here: https://t.co/F5c5EB0TTG And learn more about the #CommunityHeritageGrants program here: https://t.co/PS8HuKsTvJ
#CollectionsAreImportant
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CAVEPS 2025 logo competition! * $500 prize! * must feature South Australian vertebrate fossils * no use of generative AI permitted * incorporate text "CAVEPS 2025" into your design Submissions due: email them by 5pm ACST on Friday 31st January 2025.
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We are SO excited to be hosting #CAVEPS2025! Can't wait to see Australia's vertebrate #palaeontology community back together again and see the amazing array of research being undertaken.
SAVE THE DATE! Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists! The 19th @CAVEPS_Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November 24th - 30th, 2025. More info soon... @FlindersPalaeo
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Flinders palaeontology researchers and others abroad have discovered a new #coelacanth fossil, called Ngamugawi wirngarri, discovered in the Gogo Formation in Gooniyandi Country. This has revealed new exciting insights into its evolution 🔗 https://t.co/CZCnuy1ccV
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Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? Read our @ConversationEDU article here: https://t.co/A2bSZpeqIG 🐟 🌏 #Ngamugawi @FlindersPalaeo
theconversation.com
A new Australian coelacanth find has revealed a surprising force behind the slow evolution of these ‘living fossils’.
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It's #FISH #FOSSIL #FRIDAY! Introducing the latest described fossil #coelacanth fish *Ngamugawi wirngarri* from the #Devonian #GogoFormation on #Gooniyandi Country in #Australia, published today in @NatureComms @FlindersPalaeo 🐟 https://t.co/0ehl5Tejbb
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Exploring the Frasnian and Famennian reef around Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge), WA @FlindersPalaeo #geology #palaeontology #Devonian
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Visiting Minyirr (Gantheaume Point) Broome, Western Australia, to see the dinosaur trackway fossils revealed at low tide 🦖🦕👣 @FlindersPalaeo @LongJohnfossil @DGarciaBellido @conservbytes @GamblersRuin6
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Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.
Palaeontologists working near Alice Springs uncover for the first time a set of articulated bones and partial skeleton of Ilbandornis woodburnei, a massive bird that once roamed an evolving continent 8 million years ago.
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Check out this @abcnews article about @Flinders PhD student and #palaeoartist @Blokoweka's reconstruction of the giant extinct bird 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪. https://t.co/18npUtbR2c
#paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #art #ornithology #bird #fossil @FlindersUniNews
abc.net.au
Ever wondered how artists create images of dinosaurs and other extinct animals? We go behind the scenes with a palaeoartist to find out how he brought an ancient "giga-goose" to life from a pile of...
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Introducing the updated look of Genyornis newtoni, a giant, extinct bird from Australia, based on new fossil discoveries published today. Incredible artwork by @Blokoweka 1/2 🧵 https://t.co/fywvF4Unns
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Skull morphology of the giant flightless fowl Genyornis: https://t.co/5eApLzmPOI Lots of interesting details to digest here, notably renewed support for a close relationship to the weird South American screamers. Congrats to @Phoebyornis and @Blokoweka! #birds #dinosaurs
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@Phoebyornis @Blokoweka @FlindersUniNews @FlindersPalaeo @newscientist .@ScienceMagazine unpicks the dig itself⛏️ @rpocisv interviews Blokland, who explains how they trekked back to where G. newtoni was first found in fragments, in 1913, on a mission to uncover more. Luckily, they discovered an almost complete skull☠️ https://t.co/sQbslLAgKt
science.org
Newton’s thunder bird was heavy, aquatic, and flightless
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@Phoebyornis @Blokoweka @FlindersUniNews @FlindersPalaeo Great coverage of this study which has just gone live. Check out this fab piece in @newscientist, who state that the paper shows strong evidence that the Dromornithidae, an extinct group of Australian flightless birds, were related to geese and ducks🦆 https://t.co/GfKk3b63R2
newscientist.com
A rare fossil skull provides strong evidence that the Dromornithidae, an extinct group of Australian flightless birds, were related to geese and ducks
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45,000-year-old Aussie 'giga-goose' detailed in new study by @Phoebyornis @Blokoweka🦴 Its giant skull fossil reveals it: ⚖Weighed 230kg 🌱Ate soft plants & fruits 🦜Had jaws similar to parrots but shaped like geese https://t.co/bs8GkRJTbA
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He’s finally here (and straight into μCT scanning a juvenile #Gogo #lungfish!) Big welcome to new @FlindersPalaeo PhD candidate M. Ramon Fritzen & partner Carol who arrived from Brazil just last week…
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Had a #podcast chat with the illustrious Michael Mills of @Heapsgood and talked #fossil #kangaroos, have a listen here!
The first episode of Season 3 the Palaeo Jam podcast is out, and features a fascinating conversation with @Heapsgood and @IsaacARKerr of @FlindersPalaeo about recently published research on the giant kangaroos know as Protemnodon. https://t.co/Pe01tUU5Op
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As a #kangaroo #palaeontologist and comic artist it is very cool and fun to see our research and @zieglertn 's beaut new Sthen skeleton show up in a comic by @firstdogonmoon . What a frickin great day. https://t.co/WpONy0LHrP
theguardian.com
Omg it is an almost complete fossil specimen of a juvenile sthenurine!
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