🚨 New plesiosaur paper 🚨 After 12 years of work, our paper about Seeleyosaurus was published today. Seeleyosaurus was the first complete plesiosaur found in Germany. The holotype at the NHM Berlin is almost complete, articulated and even has fossilised skin. 1/6 #FossilFriday #Science #Germany - ThreadSky

dinosven.bsky.social • 1 day ago

🚨 New plesiosaur paper 🚨
After 12 years of work, our paper about Seeleyosaurus was published today. Seeleyosaurus was the first complete plesiosaur found in Germany. The holotype at the NHM Berlin is almost complete, articulated and even has fossilised skin. 1/6
#FossilFriday #Science #Germany

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dinosven.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wilhelm Dames described the specimen in 1895 as Plesiosaurus guilelmiimperatoris and used it as a model for early palaeoart depicting a plesiosaur with a caudal fin. The fossil was purchased with the support of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, after whom the species is named. 2/6
#Berlin #History

dinosven.bsky.social•1 day ago

A second specimen, also from the Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, is curated in Stuttgart. It was also originally complete and articulated. When it was on display in the old Naturalienkabinett, the skeleton was integrated into a wall together with Meyerasaurus victor. 3/6
#palaeontology #biodiversity

dinosven.bsky.social•1 day ago

During the Second World War, the skeleton could not be removed before the museum was hit by a bomb. A typist kept the fossil wet while the museum burned, but it was eventually destroyed when the celling collapsed. Only some burnt fragments of the postcranium survived. 4/6
#Stuttgart #museum

dinosven.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fortunately, however, there are several casts of the skeleton, and the skull had been replaced by a model and is still there. In our study, we highlight various aspects of the history, anatomy and taxonomy of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris. 5/6
#palaeontology #fossils #research #marine

dinosven.bsky.social•1 day ago

We also discuss previous assignments and show that Plesiopterys wildi is not a juvenile Seeleyosaurus but a distinct genus that inhabited the Posidonia Shale during the Toarcian stage of the Lower #Jurassic.
Link to our study: https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/0/0
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#ocean #life

jshahryar.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Is the disarticulation post-fossilization?

dinosven.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This happened prior to fossilisation

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