The PalAss

@ThePalAss

Official Twitter account of the Palaeontological Association: palass.org. Re-posts of jobs and other events do not mean endorsement

palass.org Joined March 2013

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The PalAss @ThePalAss 1d

⚠️ A few PhD opportunities are available!
More details below ⬇️
palass.org/phd-opportunit…
#PhD #opportunity #palaeontology #project

The PalAss @ThePalAss 2d

New cranial material & interpretation of Torvosaurus (Theropoda) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… #PapersinPalaeontology @CincyMuseum

Top left: photograph of the left maxilla of Torvosaurus tanneri (CMC VP15575) in lateral view (scale bar on right is 10 cm). Underneath, to the right is a line diagram of the same specimen. At the bottom is a composite reconstruction of the whole skull, coloured to show which elements came from different specimens (pink bones have not been recovered in any specimen).
Red rectangle at top right is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

The PalAss @ThePalAss 3d

Fossil Castanopsis leaves from the Late Pliocene of SW China & their palaeoenvironmental significance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… #PapersinPalaeontology

Top right: Photograph of a fossil leaf, Castanopsis cf. delavayi (KUN-PC2015034) from the Late Pliocene Heqing Basin, SW China. Underneath is a pink leaf, an extant cleared specimen of Castanopsis delavayi. Both images have a 10 mm scale bar in the lower left corner.
On the right: plot showing the results of a PCA analysis of Castanopsis leaf shape based on 844 specimens (both fossil and extant).
At lower right of plot is another fossil leaf with red and yellow circles indicating the landmark and semilandmark points used for the analysis.
Red rectangle in the bottom right corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

The PalAss @ThePalAss 6d

Dear participants of the 70th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association,
A friendly reminder of two important upcoming deadlines:
🎓 Carer's Bursary – Apply by 8 November !
✈️ Student Travel Grant – Apply by 22 November (new deadline) !
#PalAss26
#grant

The PalAss @ThePalAss Nov 4

Muscle attachment structures on multifunctional armour of Cambrian lobopodians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… #PapersinPalaeontology

On the left, a sketch reconstruction of Cambrian lobopodian Microdictyon, showing the position of trunk and limb muscles in red, and grey armour plates along the sides. On the right is an SEM image of an armour plate, with false colour highlighting the variety of configurations of holes and nodes (scale bar at lower right is 500 microns).
Red rectangle in top right corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.