Introducing Herugavialis cairensis. A new genus of fossil gavialoid crocodylian from the Middle Eocene of Egypt. Recovered from the Mokattam Formation, Herugavialis was found from the same rocks used to build the Great Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt. Read here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Introducing Herugavialis cairensis, a newly recognised Eocene gavialoid crocodylian from Egypt from the same geological formation as the rocks used to build the Sphinx, led by @palaeoburke.bsky.social (with @stephanspiekman.bsky.social + @hesham-sallam.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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4/4 Most importantly, perhaps: invite outside expertise in. Turtles have much more to contribute to evolutionary biology than turtle specialists alone can extract from them. Thanks @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @imranrahman.bsky.social for review invitation & @stephanspiekman.bsky.social for editing.

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Check out this awesome fossil of a Triassic marine reptile! Found in Luoping County, China.

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