Alex Payne

PhD @AnthropoceneBio | Rhododendron evolution 🌸 | Diversification of Pseudosuchia 🐊 | Artist @JFD_001 | Birder (Latest Lifer: Common Firecrest) | He/Him |

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

I have also finally moved over to the other site, if anyone wants to connect over there you can find me at https://t.co/i0gLUQQX6h

[Gustavo Darlim @GDarlim]

Happy to share our new study published today at Proceedings B! 🐊
@RSocPublishing
@SebastianHoehna

📝 “The effects of cryptic diversity
on diversification dynamics analyses in Crocodylia” https://t.co/15t7baPGwC

#crocodylian #species #macroevolution
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[Daniel Martins *tired_academic* @palaeodaniel]

(1/n) 🚨Croc paper alert ! It's finally out!

Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊 the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!

I'd like to thank Joyce for inviting me to collaborate, I had a great time 😀

https://t.co/sjoDxITxCD

[Henry @Randomdinos01]

The monstruous alligatoroid Deinosuchus is famous for fossil evidence of having preyed on hadrosaurs and tyrannosauroids, although it seems to have preferred sea turtles. Compared to modern crocodilians, it had a massive skull, even relative to the enormous rest of the skeleton.

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

Model and integument by @Sim_JFD, patterning by myself and rendered by @Syn_JFD

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

It's been a little while since I last posted any art here, here is the colour scheme I designed for Torvosaurus tanneri - definitely one of my favourite Jurassic theropods!

[Melanie During, PhD. ⛏🦕🦖🦩🍉 @MelanieDuring]

I’m pleased to share the release of the third paper in my thesis, which I successfully defended last Friday. This chapter critically examines the methodology in DePalma et al. (2021) on the seasonality of the End-Cretaceous extinction.
https://t.co/D1IjqnRRmq #EthicalIssues

[Pedro Godoy @PedroLGodoy]

New Peirosauridae from Brazil just dropped! 🚨🐊

Meet Epoidesuchus tavaresae, from the Adamantina Formation (Late Cretaceous), a new pepesuchine peirosaurid, which was long-snouted and semiaquiatic.

The great paleoart below was done by Guilherme Gehr.
https://t.co/3veTnrt0n1

[Jamale Ijouiher @JamaleIjouiher]

I guess we are returning to what is either the most successful, or over-lumped, taxa in all of #Crocodylomorpha. #Araripesuchus, which has just added another new species - A. manzanensis

https://t.co/HSLfdKACUZ

[Pedro Mocho 🏳️‍🌈🦕 @PD_Mocho]

Finally out! S. Sánchez-Fenollosa (@DinopolisTeruel ), F. Escaso (@UNED ) and A. Cobos (@DinopolisTeruel) published in the @ZoolJLinnSoc a new specimens of #Dacentrurus armatus from the Upper Jurassic of #Teruel!
https://t.co/hzLacA4JHN

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Please welcome Ichthyotitan severnensis, a gigantic ichthyosaur from the latest Triassic of the UK!

The key - holotype - specimen was found in 2020 by fossil-hunting father-daughter duo Justin and Ruby Reynolds (Ruby was then 11!), who are co-authors.
https://t.co/kCQ89UyE8C

[Eduardo Puértolas @EduardoSuchus]

It is a pleasure to announce for this #FossilFriday that we have a new friend in the paleocommunity, 𝙊𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙨, a new goniopholidid crocodylomorph from the Jurassic of Portugal.

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

Bone histology supports gregarious behavior and an early ontogenetic stage to Decuriasuchus quartacolonia from the Middle-Late #Triassic of Brazil.
New research by Farias et al.: https://t.co/otD5qWMaMG
Reconstruction by Maurilio Oliveira
#FossilFriday

[Prehistorica (Christian M.) @Prehistorica_CM]

My paper, describing a new genus and species of lobopodian, has just been published.

Mobulavermis adustus is a large relative of Kerygmachela and Utahnax. For those who can't access the paper, I will the findings summarize below.

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[Colin Beale @TZBirder]

Great to see the first paper coming out from Shuyu Deng's PhD today: "Human modification of land cover alters net primary productivity, species richness and their relationship" https://t.co/BEdYtYAepG existing global datasets, she shows how humans are changing #biodiversity. 1/4

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

@ArminReindl All your silhouettes are fantastic, always know they're going to be great quality when I see your name attached!

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

@portraitonfire1 @NatureEcoEvo @drkatiedavis @pdmannion @GraemeTLloyd Thank you for being so supportive throughout! 🥳

[Alex Payne @AlexRDPayne]

Thrilled to be able to share this finally! Our paper is out in @NatureEcoEvo, exploring how biotic and abiotic factors shaped the evolutionary history of crocodile-line archosaurs. Huge thanks to co-authors @drkatiedavis, @pdmannion and @GraemeTLloyd! https://t.co/PfsIzN9aJ3

[Phil Mannion @pdmannion]

New paper @NatureEcoEvo led by @AlexRDPayne & @drkatiedavis, with @GraemeTLloyd, in which we show how the interplay of biotic + abiotic drivers shaped the 250 million year history of crocodiles + their extinct relatives: https://t.co/XglkotKlnQ