Aubrey Jane Roberts

Aubrey Jane Roberts

@aubronectes.bsky.social

Palaeontologist. Likes marine reptiles. Member of the Spitsbergen Mesozoic Research Group. Words = my own

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"New exhibition, #JurassicOceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface & offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems." - www.theguardian.com/environment/... @nhm-london.bsky.social @theguardian.com 🌊

theguardian.comTentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceansA new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface – and offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems today
Aubrey Jane Roberts
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We listened to the critics and completed improved dating on the world’s oldest ichthyosaur locality. New paper out today: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

pubs.geoscienceworld.orgAge constraints confirm antiquity of the earliest Triassic oceanic reptile fossils | Geology | GeoScienceWorldThe geologically oldest sea-going reptile fossils occur in Lower Triassic (Smithian, ca. 250 Ma) strata of the Lusitaniadalen Member ([LM], Vikinghøgda

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This week's paper is by @aubronectes.bsky.social all about complex Triassic seas from the high arctic publisehd in Science DOI: 10.1126/science.adx7390. Episode with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social available on YouTube or whether you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2I...

youtube.com22. The dawn of dangerous seas in the TriassicYouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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Prof Susie Maidment
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Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comA hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - NatureNew results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.
Aubrey Jane Roberts
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Our first follow up from the Science paper: New paper on tooth morphology in the Grippia Bonebed - the oldest and most diverse Mesozoic marine tetrapod ecosystem. Paper open access here: njg.geologi.no/publications...

njg.geologi.noDental and Dietary Disparity Among Marine Vertebrates from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard – Life Bites the Dust, or A New Hope? - Norwegian Journal of GeologyThe Early Triassic saw the recovery of ecosystems after the most severe mass extinction event in Earth’s history. However, the ecosystems of the Early Triassic and their patterns of recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction are poorly known due to a scarce fossil record. This study uses dental material to provide information on the taxonomic […]
Aubrey Jane Roberts
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I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️

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An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI

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