Tag: fauna
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ESCONI January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – January 18, 2025 via Zoom – “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”
The January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on January 18, 2025 via Zoom. Our presenter is John Catalani and his topic is “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”. The name refers to where the fossil assemblage was first discovered – Greenland and Baffin Island, although they are now known from many localities including the Stewartville Bed…
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Phys.org: Giant fossil flightless bird had an enormous body but was still ‘bird-brained’
Phys.org has a story about a giant flghtless bird from Australia. The animal, Dromornis stirtoni, lived in Australia about 50,000 years ago. It stood about 3 meters high and had a weighed up to 600 kg. The description of this species was recently published in the journal Diversity. The largest flightless bird ever to live…
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SciTechDaily: Five-Eyed 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Arthropod Origin
SciTechDaily has a story about arthropod origins. Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) have revealed a new shrimp-like fossil with five eyes. The animal, called Kylinxia, lived about 520 million years ago in what is now China’s Yunnan Province. The paper describing this discovery appeared…
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ESCONI May Paleontology Study Group Meeting – “The Gonioceras Fauna: Inhabitants of the Mohawkian Sea” on May 16th, 2020
On course, this depends on how everything is going with the gobal Covid-19 pandemic… here hoping! This exciting presentation will be given by ESCONI member John Catalani. The “Gonioceras Fauna”: Inhabitants of the Mohawkian Sea The Upper Ordovician “Gonioceras Fauna” of the Mohawkian Sea is remarkably abundant, diverse, and often well-preserved. I will start with…
