#branchiopoda — Public Fediverse posts

I'd like to highlight a niche paper by Hans Pellmann (2021) that documents branchiopod crustacean aktuo-paläontologie--documenting what happens in the modern world BEFORE fossilization. First, a dried out community of the clam shrimp Limnadia lenticularis (photo b J. Venzlaff). #arthropoda #crustacea #branchiopoda #spinicaudata #conchostraca #taphonomy #fossilization
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A new paper by Poschmann & Schindler 2023 describes specimens of the fossil clam shrimp, Palaeolimnadiopsis obenaueri (Guthörl, 1931) with the impressions of eggs. #arthropoda #crustacea #branchiopoda #paleontology #Palaeontology #fossil #Permian #Germany #spinicaudata
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This seems like an easy case for uniformitarianism. Modern clam shrimp live in ephemeral freshwater bodies, ergo fossil clam shrimp indicate ephemeral bodies of freshwater. Simple! #branchiopoda #paleoecology #paleontology #palaeontology #spinicaudata
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How can we understand the evolution of the group with so few characters? Do we just pass over it in silence? 4/4
#arthropoda #crustacea #branchiopoda #spinicaudata #fossils #paleontology #palaeontology

I'm going to make #FridayFushunograptids a thing. This week's fushunograptid is Ordestheria multicostata (Chen in Zhang et al., 1976), from the lower Cretaceous of Jilin Province, China.
#branchiopoda #conchostraca #crustacea #arthropoda #clamshrimp

#branchiopoda, #clamshrimp, #spinicaudata, #nauplii
These hashtags scratch an itch that is hard to scratch on Mastodon . . .