AP member @theropods_down_under prospecting the new Cretaceous locality on the Victorian Bass Coast, Twin Reefs, Bunurong Country. This is the locality where he and his colleagues described two new megaraptorid fossils, suggesting the presence of an animal around 6-7m in length. Thanks Jake for sharing your photo!! #fossilphoto #australasianpalaeontologists #cretaceous #palaeontology #prospecting ***DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR PICS IN FOR THE FOSSIL PHOTO COMP!***
Archaeocyaths in the lower Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone at Wirrealpa Mine, Flinders Ranges, Adnyamathanha Country. #fossilphoto #australasianpalaeontologists @bettslab_une
***DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR PICS IN FOR THE FOSSIL PHOTO COMP!***
We are running the first AP Fossil Photo Competition! Submit your fossil photos, SEM scans, CT/3D renderings or other imaging techniques that capture the 2025 theme: THRILL OF DISCOVERY. #fossilphoto #photocompetition #australasianpalaeontologists #celebrateaustralasianpalaeo
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Fine print: Images must be shareable on social media and accompanied with a 50 word summary (including location [+ First Nations Country], age, stratigraphic unit). Send your images to Marissa.betts@une.edu.au by 3rd August, 2025. Winner will be announced at the mid August AGM.
Ediacaran frond Swartpuntia germsi from Swartpunt farm, southern Namibia. This beautiful fossil made the cover of the Journal of Paleontology Memoir S94 (Volume 98, October 2024). Scale bar equals 5 cm. Thank you to AP member Bruce Runnegar for sharing this fossil pic! #australasianpalaeontologists #fossilphoto #ediacaran #swartpuntia
The Western Australian Sate Fossil emblem is Mcnamaraspis kaprios, (Long 1995) discovered by J.Long in 1986 from the Gogo Formation sites in the Kimberley on Gooniyandi Country. It is an arthrodire placoderm, and became Australia's first official state fossil emblem in 1995 after a long campaign involving public submissions across the state. Thanks to John Long for sharing this fossil photo with us! #australasianpalaeontologists #palaeontology #gogofish #fossil #statefossil #fossilphoto
Cluster of spiriferids in the Lower Permian Nura Nura Member of the Poole Sandstone, southern St George Ranges, Canning Basin, Walmatjarri Country. Thanks to AP member Arthur Mory for sharing this fossil photo! #australasianpalaeontologists #palaeontology #earthscience #brachiopod #fossil #fossilphoto
Another palaeo Superstar! Congratulations to Liz Reed from @uniofadelaide for being selected as a 2025-2026 STA Superstar of STEM. Great to see palaeo - and Earth science more broadly - well represented in this cohort. Looking forward to seeing and hearing more from our palaeo Superstars! #superstarsofstem #palaeontologist #womeninstem #vertebratepalaeontology #earthscience #sciencecommunication @science_aus
Don't forget to get your Nomen Nudum submission in! NN is Australasian Palaeontologists' annual newsletter that keeps track of all the great things our community gets up to. This year we are soliciting submissions a bit differently - via an online form that you can access via the link in our bio or via this QR code. You don't have to be an AP member to contribute. Final submission date is 28th Feb, 2025! More details are up on our website.
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#australasianpalaeontologists #nomennudum #palaeontology #newsletter
This is AP member Bennie Robertson @itsbennie_ busy excavating a partial mammoth scapula in Orce (Granada, Spain) from an ancient palaeolake in the Baza Basin. Bennie was volunteering on an excavation in Orce before undertaking their own field work. Bennie is a 2nd year PhD student based at the University of Adelaide Earth Science Department, focusing on Neanderthal extinction and migration in the Southern Iberian Peninsula. Key techniques for this will be using OSL (optically stimulated luminescence) dating coupled with geochem (XRF/XRD) and POSL (portable optically stimulated luminescence).
Thanks so much for sharing your photo Bennie and all the best with your research!
#australasianpalaeontologists #fossilphoto #mammoth #bazabasin #palaeontology #fossil #phdresearcher
Cretaceous-sized congratulations to Adele Pentland for being recently selected as a @science_aus Superstar of STEM!!! Superstars of STEM is a program that equips women and non-binary folks with high-level media and communication skills so they can share how awesome their work is and build their visibility as experts to encourage others into STEM. Can't wait to see what the program brings for you Adele!
#superstarsofstem #australasianpalaeontologists #pterosaurs #womeninstem #palaeontologist
