Alessio Capobianco

Our #mormyrid paper is finally out in Eco&Evo!😍 We show that trophic ecology of African elephant fishes differs within the species community, incl. three species (two undescribed!:-) of the Mormyrus genus from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. Thks, Gina! doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

Possibly the weirdest fossil teleost🐟you'll see today? Check it out in our new preprint out in @biorxivpreprint, with Giorgio Carnevale biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread 1/4

🎓Join us for James Andrews’ dissertation defense! 🗓️ Monday, August 26 ⌚️11 AM 📍 NUB 2540 Let's support James as he presents his research on evolutionary insights into early acanthomorphs! More info: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us…

This paper is the evolution of the last chapter of my PhD thesis, and it took several research years, from morphological data collection to many rounds of analyses and writing. I am deeply grateful to my coauthor and former advisor @Friedman_Lab for helping and guiding me! (6/6)

We show that the exclusion of fossils drastically changes our conclusions! Without fossils, we would infer a western Gondwanan origin and a continental vicariance process for the biogeographic history of arowanas and arapaimas! (5/n)

New paper alert (open access)! Thanks to a new tip-dated phylogeny of bonytongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) with a large sample of fossils, we find that today's freshwater arapaimas and arowanas were ancestrally marine! (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Finished the parrotfish skull, pretty on the inside and outside. These guys are basically just wrasses that dialed their bones up to 10 so that they can crunch hard stuff... I respect it #backdatwrasseup

If you're at #Evol2024 #evolution2024 and you're interested in morphological phylogenetics, please join me this afternoon when I'll be presenting on a new way to model among-character rate variation in morphological datasets for Bayesian phylogenetics!

Exceptional review on some of the best marine fossil deposits in the world!

Michigan paleontology past, present, and future at #NAPC2024. 📸@rodrigoichthys

Outstanding set of presentations in today's session at #NAPC2024 celebrating the contributions of Lance Grande of @FieldMuseum!

@Rodrigoichthys @CurrentBiology Huge congrats Ro!!!

Very excited to be back in Ann Arbor next week! 😄

#FossilFriday bonus track on our new marine fossil bonytongue Macroprosopon. You can check out photogrammetric 3D models of the holotype in the @umichUMORF website! umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-da… (anterior piece) and umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-da… (posterior piece)

@reallyoldfish @HBivittatus @Friedman_Lab Thank you!

Say hello to Macroprosopon hiltoni, "[Eric J.] Hilton's long face". This long-snouted fossil bonytongue was a relative of today's freshwater arapaima, but it lived in Moroccan seas 50 million years ago! Magnificent artwork by Sky Jung @HBivittatus Link: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

@EmuLarge @HBivittatus @Friedman_Lab Thank you!

@acapomorphic @HBivittatus @Friedman_Lab Congratulations, what an awesome species!