Alessio Capobianco

Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at @LMU_Muenchen. Lost among fishes, phylogenies and drifting continents

[Zuzana Musilova - FISHEVO 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @zuzmus]

Our #mormyrid paper is finally out in Eco&Evo!😍 We show that trophic ecology of African elephant fishes differs within the species community, incl. three species (two undescribed!:-) of the Mormyrus genus from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. Thks, Gina!
https://t.co/2OnxGBYLIv

[Donald Davesne @DonaldDavesne]

Possibly the weirdest fossil teleost🐟you'll see today?

Check it out in our new preprint out in @biorxivpreprint, with Giorgio Carnevale

https://t.co/ybCnZjP83j

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[Michigan EARTH @MichiganEarth]

🎓Join us for James Andrews’ dissertation defense!

🗓️ Monday, August 26
⌚️11 AM
📍 NUB 2540

Let's support James as he presents his research on evolutionary insights into early acanthomorphs!

More info: https://t.co/1cKfiklQWM

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

This paper is the evolution of the last chapter of my PhD thesis, and it took several research years, from morphological data collection to many rounds of analyses and writing. I am deeply grateful to my coauthor and former advisor @Friedman_Lab for helping and guiding me! (6/6)

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

New paper alert (open access)! Thanks to a new tip-dated phylogeny of bonytongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) with a large sample of fossils, we find that today's freshwater arapaimas and arowanas were ancestrally marine! (1/n) https://t.co/0wD1sCl8d6

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

We show that the exclusion of fossils drastically changes our conclusions! Without fossils, we would infer a western Gondwanan origin and a continental vicariance process for the biogeographic history of arowanas and arapaimas! (5/n)

[Kory Evans Ph.D. @Sternarchella]

Finished the parrotfish skull, pretty on the inside and outside. These guys are basically just wrasses that dialed their bones up to 10 so that they can crunch hard stuff... I respect it #backdatwrasseup

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

If you're at #Evol2024 #evolution2024 and you're interested in morphological phylogenetics, please join me this afternoon when I'll be presenting on a new way to model among-character rate variation in morphological datasets for Bayesian phylogenetics!

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

Exceptional review on some of the best marine fossil deposits in the world!

[Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab]

Michigan paleontology past, present, and future at #NAPC2024. 📸@rodrigoichthys

[Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab]

Outstanding set of presentations in today's session at #NAPC2024 celebrating the contributions of Lance Grande of @FieldMuseum!

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

@Rodrigoichthys @CurrentBiology Huge congrats Ro!!!

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

Very excited to be back in Ann Arbor next week! 😄

[Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab]

🗓️ One week to go! #NAPC2024

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

#FossilFriday bonus track on our new marine fossil bonytongue Macroprosopon. You can check out photogrammetric 3D models of the holotype in the @umichUMORF website! https://t.co/v9WPytpk3H (anterior piece) and https://t.co/sKdIbpwf0d (posterior piece)

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

@reallyoldfish @HBivittatus @Friedman_Lab Thank you!

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

Say hello to Macroprosopon hiltoni, "[Eric J.] Hilton's long face". This long-snouted fossil bonytongue was a relative of today's freshwater arapaima, but it lived in Moroccan seas 50 million years ago! Magnificent artwork by Sky Jung @HBivittatus Link: https://t.co/UHx2dIbUht

[Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic]

@EmuLarge @HBivittatus @Friedman_Lab Thank you!