Flinders Palaeontology

Flinders University Palaeontology research group 🦴🐀🦘🐍🐟🦩 🔬on Kaurna land.
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[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

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

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

@Flinders #palaeontology are excited to announce we're 2024 #CommunityHeritageGrants recipients! Funding will support preservation of our Flinders University Vertebrate Collection 🦴🥳👏

https://t.co/B9cQ5iSEZ1

@AusGovArts @nlagovau @naagovau @nfsaonline @nma @FlindersUniNews

[CAVEPS Palaeo @CAVEPS_Palaeo]

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.

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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.

[CAVEPS Palaeo @CAVEPS_Palaeo]

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

[Flinders University @Flinders]

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 @Flinderspalaeo

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

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

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

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

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

Exploring the Frasnian and Famennian reef around Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge), WA @FlindersPalaeo #geology #palaeontology #Devonian

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

Visiting Minyirr (Gantheaume Point) Broome, Western Australia, to see the dinosaur trackway fossils revealed at low tide 🦖🦕👣 @FlindersPalaeo @LongJohnfossil @DGarciaBellido @conservbytes @GamblersRuin6

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.

[ABC News @abcnews]

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. https://t.co/KKLFrwMjj5

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

@Blokoweka's reconstruction of 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰���𝘯𝘪𝘴 was part of a recent study with lead author @Phoebyornis and co-author Trevor Worthy on new insights into the skull #morphology of this amazing #megafauna species.

You can read the paper here: https://t.co/n1qWFMRsoy

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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

[Flinders Palaeontology @FlindersPalaeo]

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

[Dr Phoebe McInerney @Phoebyornis]

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

[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

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

[Taylor&Francis News @tandfnewsroom]

@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

[Taylor&Francis News @tandfnewsroom]

@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

[Taylor&Francis News @tandfnewsroom]

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
@FlindersUniNews @FlindersPalaeo

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

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…