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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Oct 18

Abdellah Milhi´s 1992 Thesis about the Geology of the Moroccan High Atlas is now Aviable online on the Internet Archive
archive.org/details/milh...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 2h

AND ANOTHER TRIASSIC SA FELLA

A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huayracursor jaguensis gen. et sp. nov.

Art: Jorge Blanco

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 18h

Lower and lower Middle Jurassic foraminiferal assemblages and calcareous algae from the southern margin of the Central High Atlas, Morocco

...and they fully ignored your 2024 work @rowanmartindale.bsky.social (As well Bouchouata´s Thesis Talmest Foranimifera)

carnetsgeol.net/ojs/CG/artic...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 18h

Were there any snow algae on the Cryogenian ‘Snowball Earth’?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 1d

A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation

new taxon Anteavis crurilongus

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Art: Jorge Blanco

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 2d

Honoring one of the most influenctial Comics from SA

Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 2d

Quantitative assessment of community structure of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic periods
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 3d

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 5d

"THAROSAURUS" IS DEAD AND NOT A DICRAEROSAUR
LINGWULONG IS NOT A DICRAEROSAUR
AMPHICOELIAS A REBBACHISAUR???
JOBARIA A HAPLOCANTHOSAUR??

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 5d

A new long and narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval

Xiphodracon goldencapensis gen. et sp. nov.

Art Bob Nicholls

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 5d

New (Informally named in 2024) Campanian-Maastrichtian SAUROPOD FROM USA

Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae

(And even if is not valid, there are for sure more taxa than Alamosaurus)

giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 5d

The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Brontotholus harmoni gen. et sp. nov.

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 12d

Franscinella riograndensis (Salvi et al.) gen. nov. et comb. nov.: The first record of a lycopsid with in situ spores for the Permian strata of the Paraná Basin, Brazil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 13d

The first leech body fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years

peerj.com/articles/199...

[new taxon Macromyzon siluricus]

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 13d

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate

Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 14d

Insights into reef evolution: the first sphinctozoan-dominated reef facies from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of the Tarim Basin, China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

Artist's reconstruction of the Ordovician sphinctozoan–Archaeolithoporella reef community in Well ZG31, Tarim Basin, China. Box diagram shows the various types of organism in life position on the seafloor as well as a cross section into the sediment below showing buried specimens in section as they might appear in the fossil record.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 15d

I am no longer involved in The Sanctum or any projects involving Omar Lagarda González, aka The Darknix.

September 30, 2025
Letter of Disaffiliation

To whom it may concern,

I am ending all involvement with The Sanctum, an art project that has produced models and artwork of mesozoic vertebrates, and was in the planning stages of making a documentary about mesozoic vertebrates.

I have learned that the project’s leader Omar Lagarda González (aka Darknix) made inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances online to a person whom he knew to be 16 years old.

I will no longer be involved in any collaborative art, science communication, or research projects with Omar Lagarda González. Any further use of my name in relation to such projects is without my permission.

Skye McDavid

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 15d

Renanalysis of Alwalkeria maleriensis restricts hypodigm to femora and reinterprets as pterosauromorph. Authors establish new genus Alickmeron with no justification - same holotype and type species as Alwalkeria. Alickmeron is therefore an objective synonym of Alwalkeria.

femora of Alwalkeria maleriensis ("labeled "Alickmeron maleriensis")

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 15d

LARGE THEROPOD TRACKS FROM LISOWICIA BEDS

An ornithischian-theropod ichnoassemblage from the Norian-Rhaetian transition of Poland

"The length of these tracks indicates that it was an animal about 7-8 m long or larger"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 19d

The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

[new taxon Galgadraco zephyrius]

Artwork by Matheus Gadelha.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 19d

Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs

Camurocondylus lufengensis gen. and sp. nov.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 19d

A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany)

fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
New ichthyosaur Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 19d

A new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany

(new taxon Makrodactylus oligodontus)

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 20d

THE OLDEST WINGED INSECTS

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Xenoptera latigra sp. nov.

Reconstruction of the relative Sylvohymen sibiricusby A. G. Ponomarenko

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 22d

Art: Andrew McAfee

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 22d

NEW MEGARAPTORAN WITH PREY ON JAWS

Latest Cretaceous megaraptorid theropod dinosaur sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology

Joaquinraptor casali gen. et sp. nov.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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