Emeritus Professor of Palaeontology, Durham University. Chair, International Commission on Stratigraphy. Views my own.
Coldstream, Scotland
Joined December 2011
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We had a great day and evening celebrating Professor Mike Benton’s achievement. Thanks to everyone who came and made it a wonderful day! #bentonfest
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Scottish isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth' Fantastic news just in. Superbly detailed scientific study leading to a key proposal for Golden Spike status. Well done @theIUGS @geosociety @ThePalAss @GeolSoc bbc.com/news/articles/cj9l2m…
Commemorating the slaughter of the Scots in 1513 at Floden @Walk_Borders @scottishgeology @ColdstreamBand @Lucy_Worsley
Bitter sweet occasion in Oslo to celebrate the life and work the legendary Robin Cocks @GeolSoc @GeolAssoc @DurUniEarthSci @theIUGS @Trond_Torsvik @RichardFortey
Almost 50 years to the day I (we) visited Castellane, my undergraduate mapping area of Mesozoic limestones and ‘Tertiary’ molasse. Thank you @imperialcollege for such a great opportunity @ICS2022 @durham_uni
Super few days in beautiful Drôme celebrating @ICS2022 @theIUGS @DurUniEarthSci achievements. Not one but two Golden Spike dedications…the Albian and Hauterivian stages of the Cretaceous. Thanks to everyone involve especially the communities of Arnayon and La Charce. /2
Wonderful day out in Auld Reekie to present our mentor Euan Clarkson with the Gallagher & Harper monograph on the Pentlands Silurian brachiopds. He inspired us both over many years. Thanks too Yves for support. @ThePalAss @DurUniEarthSci @scottishgeology
SILURIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM THE PENTLAND HILLS, SCOTLAND tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Brilliant to see this published @ThePalAss @DurUniEarthSci @scottishgeology @PaleoSoc great job by @Palaeonto_Soc
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Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm-water faunal province onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @ProfDATHarper @ICS2022 @datadryad @wileyearthspace
ALT Top left: map of Greenland with the fossil outcrops of Upper Ordovician and lower Silurian strata shaded in the north. Bottom, schematic of the stratigraphy of the shallow-water sediments showing the the various localities (numbered) placed according to their approximate geographical position along the ~750km transect line, west to east (left to right). In the upper right quadrant, five examples of significant taxa from this fauna: top row - Tcherskidium tenuicostatum (GGU 254729) and Borealoides balderi (MGUH 34240, holotype); bottom row - Proconchidium schleyi (MGUH 34049), Virgiana hursti (MGUH 34226, holotype) and Kulumbella heimdali (MGUH 34259, holotype). All scale bars represent 10 mm.
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Ikke dårligt, @SiriusPalaeo og @ProfDATHarper - tillykke!👍🏼💪🏼🎉
Whoa, giant chaetognathan from the Cambrian! Timorebestia koprii - Dreadful beast of the koprii's name (Korean Polar Research Institute). The Timorebestia was apparently 30 cm long, and was in the upper tiers of the food web!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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New year, new chaetognath! Introducing Timorebestia koprii! A giant (~30 cm) long chaetognath from the early Cambrian (approx 520 millions of years old) Sirius Passet biota of North Greenland!
Published in @ScienceAdvances here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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On Nov 25, the 31st Annual Conference of the Palaeontological Society of China opened in #Nanjing. Over 20 paleontology experts from 10 countries including the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, and Russia attended the event, promoting the internationalization of Chinese paleontology.
2023-10 - Ancient sea level and climate changes led to major extinctions around South Africa - Wits University. Thanks Cam for some great collaboration @DurUniEarthSci @Stuartsediment @ThePalAss @theIUGS wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/…
Delighted this now is out based on course I directed with help from Ole @uni_copenhagen a ‘few’ years ago: 28 chs, 25 authors, 447 glorious pps. Thanks #Munksgaard for living the dream. @DurUniEarthSci @palass @theIUGS @GeolSoc @geosociety
What a great few days in #Tallinn #isos2023 The Ordovician is alive and well with a wonderful new generation of researchers and some old guys as well. Great presentations and a super social program. @ics2022 @theIUGS @ThePalAss @DurUniEarthSci
Almost there @strati2023. Last few talks at a wonderful congress in Lille where northern France for three days has been the centre of stratigraphic research @ICS2022 @ThePalAss @theIUGS @DurUniEarthSci @GeolSoc
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Last day of @strati2023 : still a good crowd for the morning keynote lecture even after the conference diner !
