Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at @LMU_Muenchen. Lost among fishes, phylogenies and drifting continents
Munich, Bavaria
Joined October 2018
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Alessio Capobianco retweeted
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/ece3.70173
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
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/10.1101/…
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Alessio Capobianco retweeted
🎓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…
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/d…
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)
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)
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
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!
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Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Michigan paleontology past, present, and future at #NAPC2024. 📸@rodrigoichthys
ALT Generations of Michigan paleontologists on the steps of the U-M Museum of Art.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Outstanding set of presentations in today's session at #NAPC2024 celebrating the contributions of Lance Grande of @FieldMuseum!
ALT Presenters for the Grande Symposium at the North American Paleontological Convention standing on steps.
#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/… (anterior piece) and umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/… (posterior piece)
You can find high-resolution photographs and weighted-line drawings of the Macroprosopon holotype by the amazing Carol Abraczinskas (UMMP scientific illustrator) in this Deep Blue Data repository, open access: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/…
Bone labelings in the original paper.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Welcome to the world, Macroprosopon! Huge thanks go out to @acapomorphic and @Friedman_Lab for giving me the opportunity to work on both the skeletal and life reconstructions of this crazy fish.
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/…
