More Silurian and Devonian fishes to come!

Beijing, China
Joined January 2021
IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
A new analysis of Dunkleosteus terrelli reveals massive jaws were far more cartilage-rich than once thought, reshaping ideas about its muscle layout, bite mechanics & feeding style. Time to rethink this Devonian apex predator Engelman et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi… #FossilFriday
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Wherein Martin Brazeau and colleagues (incl. @zerinajohanson and me) ponder the evolution of the vertebrate pectoral girdle. Open access: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
Happy #Halloween! Your treats this year are two new Jurassic predatory #lampreys! Or what I like to call #Jaws without jaws. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
Finally added to my office's parade of fossil fish models 🤩
If you guessed "awesome antiarch model," you win!
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Hope you like it Matt! There will be quite some antiarch papers from our team, with good life reconstructions coming out soon!
If you guessed "awesome antiarch model," you win!
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
🚨#FossilFriday job alert!🚨 @NERCscience-funded PDRA focusing on the origin of pectoral fins and girdles led by Martin Brazeau at @imperialcollege & feat. @zerinajohanson at @NHM_London and me. Application deadline April 20th: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript…
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
TIL why Diptera and Dipterus have such similar names - sometimes a "wing" doesn't have to technically be a wing... #etymology
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Get a wiggle on this Monday with our sand dollars!
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Not to be missed! Join us online or in person this Thursday to hear amazing things about fish and tetrapods from @RichardClouti20 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 – at Adelaide, South Australia
Our 2023 speaker program is back with a BANG! ‼️ Our first speaker for the year will be Prof Richard Cloutier @RichardClouti20 from Uni Quebec @UQAR 🇨🇦 on early vertebrate #palaeontology, #evolution and the origin of #tetrapods. Join us this Thursday (March 9th) 6:30pm ACST.
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
New paper! We describe the upper jaw of a new placoderm from Mongolia and implications for jaw evolution, led by Martin Brazeau with colleagues from Imperial, Manchester, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the Ulaanbaatar Natural History History Museum royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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These are our Devonian fish type under water gliders for kids. Drepanaspis design can be converted to Pycnosteus, as teaching materials for our science communication events. When actually placed in the water, they can swim as underwater gliders. Children paint their own colors.
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Just back from a field trip in Yunnan, revisited some old sites and found two new Early Devonian site, with some stunning fossils. Landscape is great as many of you have visited, but this winter is very dry and dusty , hope the rain come back soon to save the agriculture!
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remarkable model though!
Mantis shrimp 🤝 Pteraspis
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
This is Coccocephalus, a 319 million year old fossil found in a Lancashire coal mine in the 1800s. Inside its skull is a fossilised brain - the actual brain! - preserved in 3D. New paper led by @Rodrigoichthys revises the story of brain evolution in fish🤯 rdcu.be/c4Eyj
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デボン紀の魚類、ドレパナスピスに学んだ水中グライダー 教材、 作って、泳がせてみよう!と言うショート動画です。
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Beautiful and rare finding, congrats to you and team!
Out today: @Rodrigoichthys reports an exquisitely preserved brain of an ancient fossil fish. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… (image credit: Márcio L. Castro)
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
Fish Heads are the best! Here is another fish skull model, this one showing the dynamic levers and linkage systems in the feeding mechanisms of wrasses. #FourBarLinkage #Biomechanics #WrasseWednesday
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IVPP Early Vertebrates retweeted
Been working on the UGS paleowebsite, The l-m Devonian Water Canyon Formation in northern Utah has a wonderfully diverse fish assemblage much like that of the Old Red Sandstone. Denison & more recently, Elliott did a lot of work there. But no art of the fish assemblage: sad..
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