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Nora Corthésy

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Biologist | Taphonomist | Paleontologist PhD student at the University of Lausanne ANOM Lab 🦐

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New published paper 🗞️🦐
Led with the help of @gaetanptn.bsky.social, this project gives insight into the fossilization process of arthropod appendages and the decay resistance of setae 🫨

Want to know more? 🤨
➡️ www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...

@sineadlynch.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social

26.08.2025 12:45 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Taxon-specific redox conditions control fossilisation pathways - Nature Communications Redox conditions surrounding different decaying carcasses were investigated. The results reveal that carcass size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex...

New study examining the redox conditions around different decaying carcasses reveals that size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex preservation patterns in the fossil record. @noracc.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

30.04.2025 14:53 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Taxon-specific redox conditions control fossilisation pathways - Nature Communications Redox conditions surrounding different decaying carcasses were investigated. The results reveal that carcass size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex...

🧪 New paper led by @noracc.bsky.social!
We measured redox around decaying organisms. Turns out, the bigger and richer in protein you are, the more easily reducing conditions form around you after death, making you more likely to get mineralized and become a fossil (?).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.04.2025 07:19 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
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Last day of the IRATE workshop in Erlangen. See the happy faces! Looks like everybody had a good time and hopefully fruitful discussions... can't wait to see the outcomes published ^^ (no pressure at all ;))

11.04.2025 10:10 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps - Communications Earth & Environment Instantaneous burial capturing animals alive may not be prerequisite for exceptional marine animal preservation and fossilization, according to experiments on marine and freshwater shrimps and cryogen...

🚨 Nora's second PhD paper is out! I can't be prouder!

We experimentally demonstrate that marine shrimps can be rapidly replicated by clay minerals after death, even without burial, thereby increasing the likelihood of arthropod fossilization over geological time. 🦐 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

03.01.2025 10:22 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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Having so much fun in Morocco and making some mind-blowing fossil discoveries. Ordovician rocks still have a lot to tell us. 🔨👀✨🧪
@gaetanptn.bsky.social @noracc.bsky.social

12.03.2025 07:07 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0