林千翔 (Chien-Hsiang Lin)

New paper out today! "Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama"

🔓https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0419

We used fossil fish otoliths to reconstruct community structure and energetics over millennia.

22.01.2026 21:16 — 👍 28    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

1.4 Ma freshwater mollusks from Taiwan — including Sinotaia with babies inside!
The world’s 2nd fossil evidence of brood care in viviparid snails.
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
#Fossil #fossilTaiwan #paleontology #shells #snail

06.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our study @odealab.bsky.social reveals an extraordinary dominance of lanternfish (Myctophidae) otoliths from the Upper Miocene Chagres Fm, Panama.
A glimpse into a dynamic upwelling ecosystem before the Isthmus closed!
peerj.com/articles/201...
#Otolith #fishfossil

23.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marginal Increment Analysis of Fish Otoliths Highlights Early Coastal Sedentarization in the Arabian Neolithic The Neolithic Period (6500–3300 BC) marks a crucial era in the emergence of maritime cultures and the co-development of fishing-based and pastoral economies in Eastern Arabia. A great number of Neo...

Marginal Increment Analysis of Fish Otoliths Highlights Early Coastal Sedentarization in the Arabian Neolithic www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.10.2025 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First fossil frog and snake assemblage from southern Taiwan: a window into Pleistocene herpetofauna and palaeoenvironments in subtropical East Asia fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...

#海洋古生物實驗室 #中研院生物多樣性研究中心 #台灣化石 #taiwanfossil

30.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0