Australian Museum interviews Tim Flannery about the origin of monotremes, including a new reconstruction of our vey own Teinolophos trusleri.
Read it here: https://australian.museum/blog/amri-news/creatures-great-and-small-origins-of-monotremes-revealed/
Today, the second specime of Corriebattar marywaltersae was published, which strengthens the evidence for Corriebaatar as the oldest currently known cimolodontan.
Congratulations to Rich et al.
Read the paper here: Second specimen of <em>Corriebaatar marywaltersae</em> from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia confirms its multituberculate affinities - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (pan.pl)
A new review of monotreme evolution including material from our sites was published overnight in Alcheringa.
Read it here: Full article: A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution (tandfonline.com)
Stunningly perfect weather yesterday for a day sampling and prospecting at the site we call Mary Anning near the RACV club. Not a lot of bones found (the ones pictured were all previous finds by Melissa that we removed), but there was rock and ocean and sea air.
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| A large piece of turtle plastron - and yes, we cut through it! |
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| A pretty spongy bone |
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| A small shaft - metatarsal??? |
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| Lesley and Doris confer as Dean breaks rock |
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| Some video-documenters had a new-fangled printing camera |
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| Mary heads offshore past Dean towards Tom |
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| What a view! |
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| Mary and Doris confer |
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| Doris heads offshore |
A beautiful sunny (if slightly windy) day at the Honey Locality, where a handful of Weekend Warrios extracted a few bones and sampled a couple of promising looking rocks.
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| The view from site |
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| Dreamers spread out over the shore platform |
