Serjoscha Evers
@sirjoscha.bsky.social
Director of Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Bayreuth, a regional museum of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History | Pala(e)ontologist with reptilian bias | Associate Editor for Journal of Systematic Palaeotology | turtle evolution
Looking forward to seeing the poster in person!
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Looking forward to seeing the poster in person!
Chroust & Szczygielski presented an interesting talk at the conference on a new database they established for fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland. Read their paper introducing the database now:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
TED (Turtle Evolution Database), an online database of fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland with images and 3D models - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The Turtle Evolution Database (TED) is an online database initially dedicated to fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland, featuring images and 3D models. This database aims to provide comprehensive inf...
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Chroust & Szczygielski presented an interesting talk at the conference on a new database they established for fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland. Read their paper introducing the database now:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Onto more pleurodires, Adán Pérez-García and colleagues describe Eocene podocnemidids from Spain, including beautiful Neochelys shells.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The middle Eocene podocnemidid turtles from the eastern Duero Basin (Soria Province, central Spain) - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Several relatively complete and well-preserved shells of podocnemidid turtles from the Bartonian (late middle Eocene) fossil site of La Solana (Mazaterón locality, Soria province, central Spain), as w...
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Onto more pleurodires, Adán Pérez-García and colleagues describe Eocene podocnemidids from Spain, including beautiful Neochelys shells.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Some more Turtle Evolution Symposium papers have dropped recently. Martín-Jiménez and colleagues published a neuroanatomical paper on Taphrosphys! I like the full skull segmentations, making this paper more than the title gives away... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
First neuroanatomical study of the Paleocene bothremydid turtle Taphrosphys (Pleurodira), based on a skull of the Moroccan Taphrosphys ippolitoi, and implications for the marine lifestyle in Taphrosph...
Taphrosphyini is a diverse and geographically widely distributed lineage of bothremydid pleurodiran turtles. The first neuroanatomical reconstruction of the Paleogene genus of Taphrosphyini Taphrosphy...
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Some more Turtle Evolution Symposium papers have dropped recently. Martín-Jiménez and colleagues published a neuroanatomical paper on Taphrosphys! I like the full skull segmentations, making this paper more than the title gives away... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thanks so much! Oliver Wings thought of this exhibit (for the Bamberg museum he is director of) & I liked the idea so much that I’m helping him now and want to feature it after it first ran in Bamberg.
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thanks so much! Oliver Wings thought of this exhibit (for the Bamberg museum he is director of) & I liked the idea so much that I’m helping him now and want to feature it after it first ran in Bamberg.
We’re organizing an exhibit on fake fossils… does this shop have a webpage and does it send to Europe?
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
We’re organizing an exhibit on fake fossils… does this shop have a webpage and does it send to Europe?