Joep Schaeffer
@JoepSchaeffer
PhD candidate @SMNStuttgart working on morphological variation in Plateosaurus.
I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @SMNStuttgart will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT-data in perspective. tinyurl.com/msvntnd9
Last Friday I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Evaluation of Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic (upper Norian) of Central Europe” at the @SMNStuttgart. Huge thanks to my committee, supervisors, colleagues and family. #PhDone




Happy to share the second chapter of my PhD about "Paleobiological implications of chevron pathology in the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany" Thanks to all my co-authors for their wonderful work. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Happy to share that the first chapter of my PhD has been published (open access). A redescription of the holotype of Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
🎉 Neuer Beitrag im #ScienceBlog online: “Plateosaurus trossingensis und die Dino Mania in Württemberg” von Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch, SMNS naturkundemuseum-bw.de/digitales/scie… EN Version: naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/discover/sc… #dino #paläontologie #paleontology #plateosaurus
And another week of scanning Plateosaurus bones. This time at the Sauriermuseum Frick.

And now a week of scanning Plateosaurus at the @mfnberlin

📢We are hiring! Our Fossillagerstätten group are looking for a Technical Assistant. @SMNStuttgart Find the full details of the position here 👉 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs/detail…
On #ThrowbackThursday, we meet our pre-2007 #plateosaurs at the Museum am #Löwentor. After extensive modernisation, our native #dinosaurs moved into a beautiful #diorama in 2007 that recreates their former habitat. . . . #plateosaurier #dinosaurier #dino #saurier #stuttgart
Eerste 4 afleveringen van @DinoCastNL luisteren tijdens m'n autoritje terug naar Stuttgart maakt het een stuk leuker. Kijk uit naar volgende week 😉
Nice message to brighten up the afternoon. #TopDownloadedArticle in #Palaeontology. Thanks to my MSc supervisors @DrTLStubbs, @jemilyr and Michael Benton
