Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small.
Andrej Spiridonov
@AndrejPaleobio@ecoevo.social
ecoevo.social
Glad to share our new study at "Nature Communications" which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75655-9
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
Andrej Spiridonov
@AndrejPaleobio@ecoevo.social
Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small.
ecoevo.social
"appearance of the new apex predator cf. Saurosphargidae relatively soon after the [P\Tr] extinction event coincides with the reappearance of predatory cephalopods and precedes the full ecological and taxonomic recovery of benthic groups in the Dolomites"
https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2685335
🧪⚒️ #Paleobio
Andrej Spiridonov
@AndrejPaleobio@ecoevo.social
Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small.
ecoevo.social
"...results contrast with the common view that the geo-logically stable Proterozoic Era experienced little eukaryotic evolutionary innovation and indicate that all current supergroups were already established in the Mesoproterozoic."
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2600283123
Andrej Spiridonov
@AndrejPaleobio@ecoevo.social
Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small.
ecoevo.social
"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia"
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abf3289
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
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