Michael Buchwitz

Geologist/palaeontologist, at MfN Magdeburg since 2011.

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

@LaraSciscio ...the series of molds and casts was originally created by Sebastian Voigt & colleagues from Urweltmuseum #Geoskop (+ one from the TU Freiberg collections) for museum education purposes; some are not Bromacker, but from other Thuringian localities (plus Erpetopus from Choza Fm)

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Tracking the Origin and Early Evolution of Reptiles https://t.co/NnSajdApdg ...our new article is now online - with focus on track-trackmaker correlation and the distinction between amniote and non-amniote track types in the Carboniferous as a precondition for other approaches

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

@incisorial ...or could it be a sign of reproducibility crisis in dino palaeontology?

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

@Formorphology ...would probably still have common ancestry in that it is also baryonic life, can be derived from a common set of elementary particles.

[EAVP @EAVPalaeo]

#EAVP2021 Third circular is out! https://t.co/qEYLJ6XtN5
Pre-meeting workshops, symposia and routables begin the 5th July!😎 #2021EAVP
🦈🐳🐠🐍🐢🐊🦧🦏🐕🐅🦖🦕🐾

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Tail Base Deflection but not Tail Curvature Varies with Speed in Lizards: Results from an Automated Tracking Analysis Pipeline https://t.co/BHmtgWf4uU ...interesting contribution about the function of tails in quadruped locomotion

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

https://t.co/XrC5PuaTkx - trying to adapt Raup's model of shell formation for a museum exhibition ...not so easy to explain what "morphospace" or "Raum der Streuung im äußeren Erscheinungsbild" is

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

@Palaeocast @gsciencelady @OxUniEarthSci @BloomsburyBooks one mistake though: gorgonopsians are usually assumed to be closer related to cynodonts than dicynodonts ... order of branching wrong

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

... I wonder that this is a new thing and whether it is in conflict with a falsificationist science praxis.

[Kevin Omland @keomland]

@AFredston @eshank_rose And we published an article in The Conversation talking about the broader issue of publication bias.
https://t.co/l0fTtb4vkr

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Interesting paper about armadillo osteoderms and the "deep homology" of osteoderms in tetrapods... https://t.co/ljUtQYTCoA

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

@MikeTaylor ...to avoid this you can always add an "On..." (plus it gives you more of a whimsical touch)

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

You probably remember Ascendonanus from the Early Permian Petrified Forest of Chemnitz as the earliest climber - here is a contender...

[Dr. Arjan Mann @MannArjan]

New Paper alert with @Tom_Dudgeon !!!! presenting to you the earliest known scansorial (climbing) amniote Anthracodromeus longipes, from the Carboniferous swamps of Linton, Ohio.
Full article here:
https://t.co/F9yCnPY6kA

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) @TomHoltzPaleo]

Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering 'brainy' woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneurology https://t.co/XMD3RvuOCL via @ConversationEDU

[Schloss Friedenstein @Friedenstein]

Unser #Saurierhappen kommt am heutigen #Sauriersonntag als richtiger Appetizer daher. In unserem Kurzfilm geht es um Kängurus, Dinos und thumbs up. Ihr wollt mehr davon? Dann kommt! Wir haben endlich wieder für euch geöffnet: Herzogliches Museum, Di-So, 10 bis 17 Uhr.

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Evolution of the Avian Eggshell Biomineralization Protein Toolkit – New Insights From Multi-Omics https://t.co/BbYbxyn95R ...interesting approach on the origin and nature of eggshells as a bioceramic

[Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina @Leopoldina]

Heute ist #Weltumwelttag. Die menschengemachte #Erderwärmung gefährdet Ökosysteme global. Mit welchen Maßnahmen kann es gelingen, den #Klimawandel zu begrenzen und Lebensräume zu erhalten? Mehr dazu im neuen Factsheet der Leopoldina: https://t.co/MXSGc2cHPv
#WorldEnvironmentDay

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Interesting approach on skull fenestration in tetrapods: Morphology of the temporal skull region in tetrapods: research history, functional explanations, and a new comprehensive classification scheme https://t.co/uwSRawmPzz

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology | Taylor & Francis Group https://t.co/qOmXEu3I6c ...looks like an interesting read (and arguably puts avemetatarsalians in their right place - one out of 40 chapters)

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

3D hindlimb joint mobility of the stem-archosaur Euparkeria capensis with implications for postural evolution… https://t.co/xXuoQUTwRG ...might also be interesting for the interpretation of trackways - because Euparkeria has been considered as a trackmaker for early Chirotherium

[Michael Buchwitz @MichaelBuchwitz]

Locomotory behaviour of early tetrapods from Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, revealed by novel microanatomical analysis | Royal Society Open Science https://t.co/8gH2WB9Q6K