
Erich Fitzgerald
@emgfitzgerald
Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology @ Museums Victoria. Whales & other marine megafauna, past to present. Uncovering fossils in SE Australia. Tweets are mine.
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Introducing the updated look of Genyornis newtoni, a giant, extinct bird from Australia, based on new fossil discoveries published today. Incredible artwork by Jacob C. Blokland 1/2 🧵 url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/T2HpC1WLVOuO…




New paper with @gustavoburin and Travis Park We use morphometric methods to quantitatively test the validity of the "ecomorphotype hypothesis" used in fossil true seal taxonomy, finding it to be an invalid method to expand the hypodigm of fossil phocids. peerj.com/articles/17592/


When in Belgium, it’s Belgian fossil Cetacea! The periotic (ear bone) of Eurhinodelphis cocheteuxi Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium @secad2024





They’ve only waited 120Ma. A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians. Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Artwork by Jonathan Metzger. 1/10


It’s a flood of new Aussie theropod #dinosaurs by Monash Science and Museums Victoria PhD student Jake Kotevski!!!! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


Jake Kotevski Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Congratulations Jake and team! What missing clades will Australia surprise us with next?! It's a very exciting time to be involved in Gondwanan palaeo!

Who knows, it could be ceratopsians next?! Jake Kotevski

Jake Kotevski Museums Victoria Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus 🍥 Ruairidh Duncan Dr Joseph Bevitt Alistair Evans Hugely important in fleshing out our knowledge, wow! Massive congrats on this :)


Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Margot 🐢🏳️🌈 Nelson PhD #FossilFriday MorphoBank @[email protected] Wiley Earth and Space Science


Taxonomic revision of the family Squalodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti): emptying the wastebasket of fragmentary holotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… Wiley Earth and Space Science #FossilFriday


Happy to join #日本古生物学会2025年年会 and share our new progress on fossil sea turtle with colleagues. Thanks CH TSAI 蔡政修 for the support and guidance, researchers and institutes worldwide for the assistance, and friends for the feedback and encouragement!
