Julien Kimmig

(PDF) Mazon Creek bromalites evidence a specialized, xiphosurid-rich diet for Pennsylvanian predators PDF | The Mazon Creek Konservat-Lagerstätte is a globally significant Pennsylvanian (late Carboniferous) fossil assemblage characterized by exceptional... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Researchgate:
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Our paper on som xiphosurid-rich bromalites from Mazon Creek has been published in Palaios. Thanks to Russell Bicknell for leading the paper and to Andrew Young, Bruce Lauer, René Lauer, and Victoria E. McCoy for all the work that went into this.

Palaios:
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/palaios...

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Hi, does anyone have an idea what museum might have had labels like the one on this specimen. We're trying to return a bunch of old loans, and this specimen has no information. It's a receptaculite, maybe that helps.

Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity. The NSF-funded project “Energetic Controls on Marine Benthic Community Structure in Space and Time” aims to (1) evaluate how productivity affects the energetic and trophic structure of marine benthic communities on either side of the modern Isthmus of Panama, where there is now a strong contrast between the high productivity, upwelling-dominated regime of the eastern Pacific and the low-productivity, low-seasonality regime of the Caribbean (2) use this knowledge to evaluate the fossil record of Caribbean benthic ecosystems before, during, and after the uplift of the isthmus during which planktonic productivity decreased in the Caribbean and (3) relate ecosystem changes driven by productivity shifts to the well documented Caribbean extinction event ~2 Ma. This is a project in collaboration with Ohio State U, UC Berkeley, and STRI. One key component of this project is to assess biotic interactions such as predation and possibly parasitism using fossil and modern molluscan assemblages from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. I am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow with a background in paleontology and/or biology/ecology with strong quantitative skills, attention to detail and organization, and someone who can effectively supervise students. Conference support is provided. The postdoc will work with Dr. Adiel Klompmaker (aaklompmaker@ua.edu) within the University of Alabama Museums’ Department of Museum Research and Collections (https://collections.museums.ua.edu/). Initial appointment will be for 1 year, with renewal contingent upon funding. The deadline to apply is 5 September 2025 at 22:55 US Central Day Time. The salary will be $56,000 per year. Please upload a cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications, a CV, and contact details of at least two references. To apply and for more information see: https://careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232bd-b82e-49d3-90ea-06601c242dab

Job Alert‼️ Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums:
careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b... Aim: assess biotic interactions using mollusks from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely! @paleosoc.bsky.social @almnh.bsky.social

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Thanks to Roy Plotnick for taking the lead, and Brendan Anderson, Sandy Carlson, Advait Jukar, and Elizabeth Petsios for all the work that went into this.

Our paper on 'Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States' has been published in Paleobiology. We wrote it last year, so it's not considering the current cuts. Open Access:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

(PDF) Kleine Schnauze, viel dahinter: Fragment eines Meereskrokodils aus der Oberpfalz / Fragmentary snout of a marine crocodile from the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria PDF | A snout fragment is described as the first tetrapod from the Kimmeridgian «Plattendolomit» (finely layered dolomite, Pottenstein Formation) near... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

New paper out today: Fragmentary snout of a marine crocodile
from the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New paper: The past, present and future of Megalosaurus bucklandii in paleoart. I review the #paleoart history of this oft-depicted #dinosaur, consider its fluctuating status as a subject of artistic interest, and review what we know of its anatomy. #sciart
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Novel information on Caryosyntrips based on new appendages from China and the USA Caryosyntrips is a relatively rare but long-lived and geographically widespread radiodont genus with specimens reported from Cambrian Stage 4 to the D…

New paper out today, we looked at new Caryosyntrips appendages and discuss Caryosyntrips taxonomy and ecology

Paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

50 free copies here:
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A modern definition of Fossil-Lagerstätten Fossil-Lagerstätten are amongst the most important windows onto the paleobiology of ancient ecosystems. Inconsistencies surrounding what constitutes a…

We actually wrote a paper on that last year www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... happy to send it if you don't have access

A similar session will also be offered at GSA in San Antonio if you can't make it to Göttingen.

Cheers,
Julien Kimmig & Jannik Weidtke

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case of any questions. Please forward the invitation to other colleagues and your students that might be interested. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Göttingen!

Abstract submission is already open – deadline is 6 May.
www.geo4goettingen2025.de/call-for-abs...

More information is available and will be further updated here:
www.geo4goettingen2025.de/index.html

For further information on all sessions see here:
www.geo4goettingen2025.de/assets/sessi...

We are therefore especially motivated to have researchers from different backgrounds from across all aspects of paleobiology present during this session, such that an integrated examination of the imaging frontier of paleobiology can be explored.

This is especially important as researchers from different parts of paleobiology seldom find themselves in the same sessions.

This will present an important opportunity to bring this distinguished group of thinkers together, and allow researchers across these fields to interact, developing connections that would likely not otherwise be possible.

This session aims to span topics in vertebrate, invertebrate, botanical, and trace fossil research and examine how imaging methods can be used to understand these sub-fields, producing a unique, cross-disciplinary environment.

This is especially pertinent as there has been exceptional development in how we consider and explore fossils in 2D and 3D over the last 10 years and the number of researchers and methods tackling this topic has increased significantly.

This session will bring together an array of scientists who are tackling the application of imaging fossils with modern techniques. Methods covered include elemental imaging, synchrotron data, CT data and other imaging techniques.

Hi all, if you are planing to go to the Geo4Göttingen Meeting we are offering a session on Fossil Imaging (A similar one should also be offered at GSA if you can't make it to Germany):
We are pleased to announce a thematic session on Recent Advances in Fossil Imaging (session 06.02, ID 143).

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A screen shot of a paper from 1888 in a serif font that reads: "The few observations that I have made are necessarily imperfect, but I send them, as they afford a method which might lead a naturalist to notice habits otherwise difficult to observe, and so to arrive at conclusions which I in my ignorance of natural history must leave to others. C. V. Bovs Physical Laboratory, South Kensington "

I wish we still concluded papers like this.

🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

(Source: www.nature.com/articles/023... - "The Influence of a Tuning-Fork on the Garden Spider" also, Nature papers have changed a lot since 1888 )

‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood A fossil found in South Africa 100 years ago provides insights into the emergence of a crucial — and unusual — life stage.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper on Deep water vetulicolians from the lower Cambrian of China peerj.com/articles/18864

Sampling and collector biases as taphonomic filters: an overview Abstract Sampling (or sample) bias is a widespread concern in scientific research, across...

www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/rbf...

Interested in palaeontology or evolutionary biology? During COVID I made my teaching available online, and have continued since:

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Highlighting, as I just posted a new site on the history of palaeontology:

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⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

At least they have reasoning.

“Punk: fancied resemblance of the spicule array to the spiked hairstyles associated with the punk rock movement”

“Emo: …exponents canonically bear long bangs or fringes, of which the scleritome is reminiscent, as well as studded clothing recalling the anterior valves”