Historical Biology

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Antonio Pineda. This fossil is the left fragment (ATE7-1) of the face of an individual assigned to our ancestor Homo aff. erectus, recovered from level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos) 🦴 💀

📣Editor spotlight Dr Antonio Pineda is an associate researcher at IPHES (Spain), specialist in Paleolithic Archaeology, Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology & Human Palaeoecology at the Barranc de la Boella, Sierra de Atapuerca & Notarchirico Pleistocene sites.

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Ana Paula Carignano. This fossil is UNC-PMIC 71 (Neuquenocypris calfucurensis), a right valve of the Upper Cretaceous ostracod from Patagonia. It inhabited lacustrine paleoenvironments🐚

📣Editor spotlight Dr Ana Paula Carignano is a micropaleontologist at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Her research focuses on Mesozoic non-marine ostracods as well as marine Upper Cretaceous ostracods from Patagonia 🦐

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Roger Thomas. This fossil is USNM 617253cp; showing the Early Cambrian stem-gastropod Pelagiella exigua from the Kinzers Formation in Pennsylvania, USA 🐚

📣Editor spotlight Prof Roger Thomas grew up in Kent, finding fossils from nearby Chalk. His interests include Early Cambrian fauna & the influence of Leibniz on James Hutton's concept of time 🐚 He serves as Interim-President of the International Palaeontological Association.

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Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers the discovery of the first fossil felid cubs in Uruguay 🐈 🇺🇾 Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/089129… Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/089129…

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Jack Cooper. This fossil is MUSM 1964; an upper anterior tooth from Otodus megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, from the Late Miocene Pisco formation of Peru. The shark reached >20 m long & was a supercarnivore 🦈

📣Editor spotlight Dr Jack Cooper (@CooperPalaeo) is the science communication editor at Historical Biology. A palaeobiologist with a PhD from Swansea University; his research focuses on the ecological diversity of both fossil & living sharks 🦈

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Beniamino Mecozzi. This fossil is the skull of Hippopotamus amphibius, MPUR/V 149, housed in the University Museum of Earth Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome 🦛

📣Editor spotlight Dr Beniamino Mecozzi is a vertebrate paleontologist, specialising in Quaternary mammals. He has focused on investigating ecosystem changes during the Middle & Late Pleistocene & their response to climatic fluctuations documented over the past 800,000 years.

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Hans Sues. This fossil is the holotype of Pappochelys rosinae (SMNS 91360). From the Triassic of Germany, this critter is a stem turtle that may hold a key to understanding the early evolution of turtle shells 🐢

📣Editor spotlight @bonz_r_us is Senior Research Geologist & Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. He received his PhD from Harvard University & did postdoctoral research at McGill University & the Smithsonian.

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Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a fascinating new paper on the collection of Sir John Murray on board the HMS Challenger at @NHM_London. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/089129… Read the original paper by Miller & Jouet-Sarkany: doi.org/10.1080/089129…