Nico Mongiardino Koch

nmkphylo.bsky.social

29 September 2026 08:30

I think that most people would agree that Paleognathae emerges from a basal node, but that doesn’t make it a basal clade. Basal as in “close to the base/root” of a tree doesn’t describe correctly any clade that reaches the present, and thus has members that are as far away from the root as possible

Thomas Farrell

thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social

24 September 2026 20:18

I'm happy to share Avannaascolex, our new palaeoscolecid(omorph) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland 🪱 Written up with @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @cambriannelids.bsky.social and other colleagues from KOPRI, Bristol and the NHM not on bsky www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Dr Stephan Lautenschlager

palaeostephan.bsky.social

18 September 2026 11:51

Second new paper this week: Reconstructing the oral apparatus of the Silurian heterostracan Athenaegis. Led by @lisaschnetz.bsky.social and in collaboration with many colleagues, including @euphanerops.bsky.social (who rendered the animation) and @nitroshutter.bsky.social

Martin R. Smith

palaeosmith.bsky.social

14 September 2026 19:52

Ever wondered which characters support individual clades in a tree? My new method maps phylogenetic support across a dataset. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Try it in R: pak::pkg_install("ms609/TreeSearch@cpp-search") ?TreeSearch::ClusteringConcordance

The Palaeontological Association

thepalass.bsky.social

07 September 2026 17:26

The taxonomy and phylogeny of British ‘cephalaspids’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social @aminff.bsky.social @fossilrob.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social