Today under the microscope aged ~155.000.000 years old: The foraminifera Epistomina ornata (I think) from the Kimmeridgian, Dorset coast, UK. See more at https://foraminifera.eu/single.php?no=1025377&aktion=suche
#foraminifera #microfossil #micropalaeontology #Jurassic #microscopy
Dr Erica Barlow picked up a rock by chance 10 years ago. It might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-ago-it-might-hold-the-oldest-form-of-complex-life-on-earth
Distinctive #microfossil supports early #Paleoproterozoic rise in complex cellular organisation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gbi.12576
"the age estimate coincides with the #GreatOxidationEvent... The sharp rise of oxygen has been linked to the development of complex life on Earth, but we haven’t had the fossil record to demonstrate this – until now."
Many people think the history of the Earth is hard to decipher. The geological record jumbles everything up. We set out to fact-check this in my ERC Starting Grant MindTheGap. Focusing on the mode of evolution, because that is something that we can only glean from long records, longer than anything accessible to observation or experimentation today.
Thanks to collaboration with Peter Burgess we used forward models to simulate formation of carbonate rocks and see how completeness and stratigraphic resolution affect the reconstructions. Guess what! The geological record is 👌🏻 With a bit of understanding of #sedimentology and #physics we can test is with computer experiments and it turns out even very patchy rock strata will let us reconstruct the correct mode of evolution. This opens a lot of possibilities, especially for the #microfossil community: your data is priceless to understand #microevolution.
Check out the results at https://lnkd.in/eeiSuRwP
Also a big shoutout to an excellent review process at PCI Paleo, the thoughtful editors and reviewers, and to the lead author Niklas Hohmann for #code #reproducibility effort that meets the most stringent standards. Check out our software at https://lnkd.in/eJkwhhuh
A collection of miscellaneous bone fragments for #fossilfriday! These were found during a microfossil sorting session organized by the Alberta Palaeontological Society. I also found a bunch of teeth, but didn’t manage to get a good picture. The matrix is from the Eocene of #saskatchewan, I believe.
#fossil #alberta #eocene #yyc #microfossil
Meet me at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes) in Jena, Germany. Sept. 18-22, 2023 #foraminifera #microfossil #fossil #paleontology #micropaleontology #Jurassic #Paleogene #Cretaceous
#Plankton evidence reveals a seasonally ice-free ocean during the Last Interglacial https://phys.org/news/2023-08-plankton-evidence-reveals-seasonally-ice-free.html #protists #forams
A seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean during the Last #Interglacial: Flor Vermassen et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01227-x
"A subpolar species associated with #Atlantic water expanded far into the #Arctic Ocean during the #LastInterglacial, analysis of #microfossil content of #SedimentCores reveals. This implies that summers in the #Arctic were ice free during this period."
Applications are now open for the Leanne Armand Travel Award. The award honours the late Prof. Leanne Armand, and aims to facilitate Australia-based ECRs and MCRs to become microfossil experts. Applications are due COB September 15, more details at the link below.
https://aqua.org.au/sample-page/the-leanne-armand-travel-award/
#AusQuaternary #palaeontology #microfossil #diatom #palaeoclimate #ECR #MCR #PhDChat
Big worm tooth 😳
Silurian, Pridoli
Europe, Lithuania, Milaičiai
From around 1 kilometer deep
Scolecodont
Scale - 1 gap is 1 mm
#paleo #paleontogy #geo #geology #micro #microscopy #fossil #fossils #microfossil #microfossils #worm #tooth #teeth #scolecodonts #silurian #Pridoli
Pretty view from the eye of the microscope ❤️
Silurian - Pridoli
Lithuania (EU), Milaičiai borehole ~1km deep
Pyrite, broken shells and etc...
#geo #geology #fossil #fossils #micro #microfossil #microfossils #paleo #paleontology #silurian #Pridoli #shell #shells #broken #microscopy #microscope
Fossils from Lithuania. Silurian period, Pridoli.
Still searching for acanthods in the samples for my Master's thesis.
#lithuania #geo #geology #fossil #fossils #paleo #paleontology #silurian #Pridoli #microfossils #microfossil
#FossilFriday, a good moment to highlight the curious #microfossil Eohalothece lacustrina, a lacustrine cyanobacterium from the Meso-Neoproterozoic discovered in two different sites of same geological age: Torridon Group (Scotland, UK) and Nonesuch Formation (Michigan, USA). 1/2
The Foraminifera.eu Newsletter 2023 is out. You may get the PDF by contacting me. Michael
#foraminifera #ocean #deepsea #marinescience #benthic #micropaleontology #microfossil #paleontology
The epiphytic #foraminifera Rosalina having settled on seagras in the Late #Pliocene Early #Pleistocene at Kritika on #Rhodes, Greece. Today in my samples. #microfossil #fossil #paleontology #micropalentology
I found these hats quite often in a Chattian (Upper Oligocene) sediment sample from Doberg, Germany. Which genus / species could it be ? ... #microfossil #fossil #ForamFriday #micropaleontology #Oligocene
When was the first time life began to prey on each other? https://phys.org/news/2022-12-life-began-prey.html
A case for an active #eukaryotic marine #biosphere during the #Proterozoic era: Lisa Eckford-Soper et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2122042119
"We use a size- & trait-based ecosystem model to show that the #microfossil record is most compatible with an active #eukaryote #ecosystem conducting #osmotrophy, #photosynthesis, #phagotrophy. Marine #ecosystems 1,700-780 Ma were far more active, diverse than generally thought."
@miekeroth Fascinating! Have you ever been interested in marine #microfossil structure, namely #foraminifera and #pteropods? I'm am a #paleoclimatologist and there are a lot of climate related questions that may be tackled with ability to print 3-D structures of those organisms.
🗓🔬🐚Happy #ForamFriday!
Check out this winning entry to The Micropaleontologist Society calendar competition! #TMSocCalendar23
🎨🖌️illustration of different microscopic techniques of the benthic #foraminifera, Cibicides aknerianus, by María Yolanda. This Southeast Pacific #foram is very important in #paleoceanography!
Calendars are still available 👉https://www.tmsoc.org/tms-calendars-2023/
Proceeds go to help the support #research, #travelgrants & #conferences.
#microscopes #illustration #microfossil
Oligocene foraminifera from the "Sternberger Gestein". Our work on this glacial erratic from Northern Germany is finished with 70+ species on the record. They indicate an Eochattian age. Find all at https://foraminifera.eu/locdebe.php?locality=Kobrow
#foraminifera #ocean #fossil #micropaleontology #marine #plankton #shell #sand #beach #microfossil #microscopy #science #nature #naturephotography
Foraminifera live in huge numbers in the oceans. You may find their precious shells on beaches, in marine sediments of today and as fossils. Check them out at https://foraminifera.eu #foraminifera #ocean #fossil #micropaleontology #marine #plankton #shell #sand #beach #microfossil #microscopy #science #nature #naturephotography
