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Mosasaur Researcher | Director of The Vancouver Paleontological Society | British Columbia Fossils | Indigenous Cree | Burgess Shale | Jurassic Park | Named a New Species | Support Paleo Artists |
The Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists Conference was a fantastic experience and I met so many wonderful and kind hearted people in the field! It was an incredibly welcoming environment and I am very much looking forward to presenting my work at next year’s event!
MASSIVE thank you to Matt at @fossilera for this MASSIVE gift!!! Aegirocassis is a relative of Anomalocaris that evolved into a large whale like filter feeder! I am beyond happy to have this incredible fossil in my collection to use for education at my fossil shows and events!
A new paper covering all mosasaurs of the Moroccan Phosphates was published by Bardet et al and it is fantastic! They state that T. atrox, P. currii, M. beaugei and H. boubker are the apex predators of the phosphates! This publication is a great read! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Quetzalcoatlus is massive!
I had no clue Diabloceratops was so chill!
Xenodens calminechari lower jaw showing tightly packed, paired tooth crowns on a pedicle! This figure is from my Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology conference poster! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Xenodens calminechari frontoparietal figure from my WAVP conference poster! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Xenodens calminechari skull material from my poster presented at WAVP www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Mosasaur spotted!!! @bkbones.bsky.social
Geology of the Pierre Shale in southern South Dakota and surrounding areas from our WAVP poster on Latoplatecarpus willistoni
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Mosasaur Dream Team’s trip to Arizona! Attending the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference was an incredibly fun experience! Everyone was super nice and the environment was very welcoming! I can’t wait to share more of our mosasaur work together with @bkbones.bsky.social
Frontal and Parietal of Latoplatecarpus willistoni from our WAVP poster www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Quadrate figure from our WAVP poster on Latoplatecarpus willistoni www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Coronoid from our WAVP poster on Latoplatecarpus willistoni www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Frontoparietal morphology of Xenodens calminechari revealed by a new specimen from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco
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A new specimen of Latoplatecarpus willistoni www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Posterior Dentary of Latoplatecarpus willistoni figure from our WAVP poster www.researchgate.net/publication/...
WAVP Field Trip to Chalk Canyon Formation deposits. We visited Agua Fria National Monument, where oreodont remains have been found. The Early Miocene Chalk Canyon Formation represents one of the earliest mammal-bearing rock units in Arizona, and it is the locus of ongoing research by AZMNH.
Xenodens calminechari jaws showing tightly packed, paired tooth crowns on a pedicle and the unique Squaliform like dentition! These figures are from my Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology conference poster! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Xenodens calminechari tooth crown pair on shed pedicle figure from my Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology conference poster! Isolated teeth are typically found in pairs as adjacent crowns are shed with a section of the tooth pedicle. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Presented my poster on the Frontoparietal morphology of Xenodens calminechari revealed by a new specimen from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco at the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology Conference! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Big Boy the Bistahieversor by @benj-art-min.bsky.social !!! This incredible statue alone is worth the whole museum visit!!!
Camarasaurus and Zuniceratops at the Arizona Museum of Natural History
If you are in the southwestern USA, the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference is (mostly) Feb. 15, w/abstracts due Friday (Jan. 31). It is a WONDERFUL meeting w/a nice cross-section of folks. www.wavp.us/wavp-2025/
Paleo folks in the western US: The Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology's 2025 conference will be held Feb 14-16 in Mesa AZ w/Arizona Mus. of Nat. History: wavp.us/wavp-2025/
WAVP is fun, low-key, and great for early career researchers. Hope to see you there! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving the keynote address at the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference this weekend. Stop by to hear about North American Late Cretaceous turtles, especially an exciting new marine turtle from the Neylandville Fm. (Maastrichtian), Texas.
This is officially my horizontally longest image to date, depicting some of the earliest complex animals on the planet from 565 to 505 million years ago and how they changed over time.
Thank you to @egmitchell.bsky.social and Steve Pates for trusting me with this gargantuan task! #Art #SciArt
Massive thank you to the talented @nathandehaut.bsky.social for their work reconstructing Globidens alabamaensis and the Ozan Formation which represented an inner to outer shelf depositional environment. Inoceramus, Hamites, and Baculites are abundant throughout the Ozan Formation.
Globidens possessed tribodont teeth and massive jaws for a specialized durophagous diet. www.researchgate.net/publication/... Globidens is known to occur between subtropical paleolatitudes showing an equatorial geographic range that tracked bivalve populations along reefs of the Late Cretaceous.
They would have to be renamed… I vote Gigatardigrada alabamaensis