Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social

Curator of Paleontology @uamuseums @UAMNH. Predation, crustaceans, paleoecology, parasitism, paleobiology, decapods, mollusks.

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

I don't intend to post much if anything on this platform anymore from now on. If you enjoyed my #FossilFriday posts and other news, you can find new tweets on @paleoadiel.bsky.social going forward.

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Still time left to apply: ‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study biotic interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS @NSF

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

#FossilFriday‼️ Cretaceous Eldorado for vertebrate fossils. A fish coprolite with vertebrae within it and mosasaur vertebrae were found by Ashton Johnson during trips for the Alabama Paleo Society to Harrell Station! 😃 Specimens @uamuseums @UAMNH. #paleontology #fossil #fish

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Active on Bluesky as are many others: https://t.co/51Ee4MzXyG

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#FossilFriday‼️ 🐟🐟Fishing for fossils in the Cretaceous. A couple of neat predatory fishes were found by the Braswell brothers during an Alabama Paleo Soc trip to Harrell Station on Nov 9! 😃 Specimens @uamuseums @UAMNH collection. #paleontology #fossil #fish

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#FossilFriday‼️ We had a blast at Alabama's dinosaur-themed National Fossil Day celebration this past Saturday. A record number of people showed up for the @WhyDinosaurs documentary & Q&A, the AL avocational paleo award, and the tabling event @uamuseums @UAMNH. See you next year!

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️Just 6 more days to apply for the Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) job in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 📷
@UAMNH
@uamuseums
@UA_AS

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[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️Job Alert‼️ Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 😀 @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS. Please share widely and feel free to get in touch if interested. #fossil #paleontology #museum

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️Job Alert‼️ Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 😀 @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS. Please share widely and feel free to get in touch if interested. #fossil #paleontology #museum

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

True gem of the @UAMNH @uamuseums collection: Dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) foot bone with a Squalicorax kaupi shark tooth stuck in it! 🦈 Scavenging ~82 million years ago in Alabama. Come see in person on Nov 2 during AL National Fossil Day (https://t.co/mHmenXKFNR)! #FossilFriday

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

#FossilFriday! 🦖Two theropod dinosaur finds in Alabama this past summer during @UAMNH @uamuseums trips. Come see these discoveries during the dinosaur-themed Alabama's National Fossil Day Celebration on Sat. Nov 2. Full schedule: https://t.co/mHmenXKFNR #fossil #paleontology

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Alabama's National Fossil Day celebration is on Sat. November 2. 😀 Theme = dinosaurs. Why Dinosaurs documentary, Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award, and Tabling Event with many fossils incl. dinosaurs. Full schedule: https://t.co/mHmenXK7Yj @UAMNH @uamuseums #FossilFriday

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

For #FossilFriday, here is a 2024 find of a mosasaur vertebra embedded in the Campanian-aged Mooreville Chalk of Harrell Station Paleontological Site (https://t.co/CaXwy7h5CL). For next month, a trip for the Alabama Paleontological Society to here is scheduled. @UAMNH @uamuseums.

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@NSF @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS @uageosci @UaDeptBSC

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama as part of a collaborative @NSF-funded project. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

New article alert‼️ A 99-page monograph about Jurassic and Cretaceous sea lilies is out. It includes the stratigraphically youngest record of Millericrinida, found in Alabama by Research Associate George Martin. 😀Summary: https://t.co/ZYDt2euLgF. @uamuseums
@UAMNH #FossilFriday

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️Recipient of the 2024 Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award announced‼️👏👏👏 Presentation of the award will occur during Alabama's National Fossil Day Celebration on Nov 2 @UAMNH @uamuseums. Read full news story: https://t.co/hxj64CJ0D0 #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Article Alert‼️ Eocene decapod crustaceans from a single basin show ecological zonation in shallow to relatively deep environments. 🦀 Open access paper led by Fernando Ferratges: https://t.co/P294NclIOE. #FossilFriday @UAMNH @uamuseums. #paleontology #fossil

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

#FossilFriday!! The 7th Mosasaur Meeting in Maastricht (The Netherlands) is ongoing. 😀 I will talk about the marine tetrapods in the @UAMNH @uamuseums collection. This is a part of one giant, Mosasaurus hoffmannii from the Maastrichtian of Lowndes Co, Alabama. "Sweetie". #fossil

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Article alert‼️ What do fossil decapod crustaceans look like? A new, open access Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology chapter describes and illustrates the morphology of adult decapods. 🦀 Short news story: https://t.co/Tgx3WdhVfM. #FossilFriday @uamuseums @UAMNH #paleontology

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

#FossilFriday‼️ We continue to digitize the @UAMNH @uamuseums paleontology collection (https://t.co/ZMvzx7qYmB) this semester. Here are hundreds of ~50 million-year-old gastropods from Alabama. 😃 Photo: undergraduate student intern Trudie Murphy #fossil #paleontology #snail