Dori Contreras

Palms in southern New Mexico during the Late Cretaceous (~75 million years ago)! Featuring a large Sabalites leaf during field excavation and a palm stump🌴. Fossils located in what is now the Chihuahuan desert 🌵. Life was different 🌴🌴🌴😃🥰 #FossilFriday #PlantFossil #Palm

@BrianEngh_Art But yes, as someone else mentioned already, it resembles a sequoioid (taxodiaceous Cupressaceae).

@BrianEngh_Art I mean, everyone should random containers of cones lying around their desk!

@CGoisMarques Stunning!

Sometimes an extra effort really pays off. This is a new locality in "my" #island with amazing #leaf #fossils, some still with colours. Preservation reminds me of the #Clarkia leaf fossils. #Palaeobotany #Paleobotany #Laurus #Macaronesia #Pliocene #Botany #ecology #fieldwork

@BrianEngh_Art @Paleo_Tykoski @JVP_vertpaleo @PerotMuseum Thanks Brian! It's a little cutie

Paper with @DLContreras and Chris Noto out in @JVP_vertpaleo for #FossilFriday! Say 'hello' to the left dentary of #Ampelognathus, a new, small, 96 million-year-old, plant-eating #dinosaur from north Texas. #paleontology #fossils @PerotMuseum tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Cool new fossil discoveries are just the tip of the iceberg of what modern paleontological research offers. Check out this article to get an idea of how studying the history of life on Earth is relevant to us today! scientificamerican.com/article/paleon… via @sciam

@CGoisMarques @BiologiaUcm @fct_pt @CIBIO_InBIO @U_Madeira Congratulations all around!

News: In the last 3 months I became a proud dad, left my position @BiologiaUcm (😥), but to start a new 6-year Post-Doc (@fct_pt Junior Researcher at @CIBIO_InBIO). I will continue my research about the Macaronesian #Palaeobotany but also bit of #Palaeoentomology @U_Madeira.😎🇵🇹

@aanniitttaa @IEscapa @kk_matsunaga @BotJLinnSoc HUGE congrats! I'm super excited to read this! 🙂🌲

I want to tell you about a recent paper that I co-authored with @IEscapa, L. Aagesen and @kk_matsunaga on the Fossil Record of the #conifer family #Podocarpaceae, published in the @BotJLinnSoc #FossilFriday (?)🌲 doi.org/10.1093/botlin…

@BrianEngh_Art @DoubleBeam @Mosasaurologist @PaleoNate That's s nice looking log! I can't quite tell if that's bark or weird weathering, but either way, it is a good one! I'm also voting for sectioning it 🪚🔬😁

How it started: How it's going: (bad dog...)

Back just in time for #FossilFriday after a dash to New Mexico with @DLContreras to check out #Cretaceous #fossil plant sites. Great prospects for future work. Plus, it's hard to beat the view when you unzip the tent door at sunrise! #paleontology @PerotMuseum

@RadioGondwana @PPaleofloras @mefpatagonia @PSUEMS @Botanical_ Wow those specimens are absolutely stunning! Nice work!!

NEW Spectacular infructescences and leaves of the first Gondwanan #Euphorbiaceae, from early Eocene Laguna del Hunco in Chubut, #Argentina. With Ari Iglesias and Alejandra Gandolfo @PPaleofloras @mefpatagonia @PSUEMS #OpenAccess @Botanical_ doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1…

@paleogabriella @NSF @FabianyHerrera @DiggingDinos @Gussie_Mac Awesome, congratulations!

Major #FossilFriday update! My @NSF #PRFB was recommended for funding! Can’t wait to investigate the floristic composition & fruit/seed morphologies of the anomalous early Paleocene Castle Rock (CO, USA) “rainforest” @FabianyHerrera @DiggingDinos @Gussie_Mac

Conifer cones, a few cone like galls and seedpods of alnus, platycarya and casuarina

After 3 months of careful prep, this side of the new #Tylosaurus jaw is done just in time for #FossilFriday. Gorgeous #teeth and details preserved. On to the next block of this big #lizard ! #paleontology #fossils #mosasaurs @PerotMuseum

A @KU_EEB and @kunhm professor’s discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant extends the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day staple crops like coffee and potatoes. news.ku.edu/2023/02/07/fos…

#Wings. Many woody plants are specialized for wind dispersal and have formed winged #fruits. The #wingnuts of the walnut family, the maples of the sapindaceae or ptelea from the citrus family. #botany #nature

One of the most astounding features of the Clarkia Fossil Beds are its fossilized leaves momentarily retaining their autumn color. Once the leaves are exposed to the surface, the colors oxidize and fade. #ClarkiaWeek #Paleontology

Webinar alert! Join @BioCollNetwork & @USCCN3 for a joint discussion on Feb 7 on the need for a Specimen Management Plan requirement in research proposals that generate living or preserved specimens. Register here: #subheader" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aibs.org/news/2022/2212… (Hosted by @AIBSbiology & @NSCAlliance).

What does it take to find fossils in the wild? Follow along with Perot Museum paleontologists @Paleo_Tykoski and @DLContreras as they set out for Big Bend National Park in hopes of scientific discovery. Full video below!

This #FossilFriday introducing Jarudia: Rethinking the corystosperm concept. @FieldMuseum #Paleobotany doi.org/10.1080/147720…