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Hi everyone ! This is my first post here so first of all I'll introduce myself : my name is Nathan Dehaut, I'm a herpetology researcher, fossil collector and paleoillustrator living in France. I recently got the chance to create an illustration for a new publication on Globidens remains found in the Ozan formation of Texas (New remains of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis from the North Sulphur River of Texas, Rempert et al., 2024). This reconstruction includes several molluscs species that can be found in the Ozan (notably in the North Sulfur River) such as the ammonites Baculites, Pachydiscus and Scaphites, and the bivalve Exogyra and Inoceramus. The environment was reconstructed as an oyster reef. Let me know if you have any questions/comments ! Nathan

I am looking to learn more about the Kobe, Bellueve and Fairview formations, but the information I am coming across is very limited. I have tried searching Wikipedia with not much luck. If anyone can point me to some publications about these formations?

After three years of research, numerous revisions and rounds of peer review, my (non-fossil) academic book on social capital has been released by the University of Westminster Press' Critical Digital and Social Media Studies. Overall I am happy that it has come to fruition so I can focus on other projects. In one chapter there is a glowing reference to TFF in terms of how we've largely managed to evade the pursuit of "likes", etc., as a community built on substance, not superficial metrics. Just the description and cover image follow. Since it mentions TFF, I wanted to share the final result. "What is 'social capital'? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. "A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new 'network spectacle' of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas - alienation and accumulation - new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today's digital society."

Good news! http://library.tulane.edu/journals/index.php/tsgp Now if Southeastern Geology would just do this... Info courtesy of ESG

I just received the first issue of the new Fossil News, the Journal of Avocational Paleontology. It is a very handsome volume and from just a cursory glance appears to cover a wide range of topics of general interest in the field. I would post an image of the cover art and content page, but there is a fierce anti-copy warning. Here is the an address for info, if anyone is interested. www.FourCatsPress.com/FossilNews Excellent, I just checked the content at the address above and it will give a much better look than my brief description.

Hi everyone, My lab colleagues and I are looking for fossil pictures of: 1 - Cordaitales, specifically showing the 'V'-shaped leaf and 2 - Strobylothyone rogenti, a fossil Holothurian (sea cucumber) We are currently working on a textbook entitled “Biodiversität und Erdgeschichte" ("Biodiversity and Earth History”), The book is written by Prof. Dr. Jens Boenigk and Dr. Sabina Wodniok, scheduled to be published in 2014 by Spektrum in Heidelberg, Germany. In addition we plan to publish an electronic version as part of an e-book package, which will be sold to scientific institutions. It is important that we'd have permission to publish the pictures in our textbook. You would, of course, be credited for the image. All the best, Edvard --- Dr. Edvard Glücksman Postdoctoral Fellow Jens Boenigk lab Allgemeine Botanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen Universitätsstr. 5, D-45117 Essen Germany Tel (office): +49(0)201183-4514 Tel (mobile): +49(0)17699830154 Departmental website: http://www.uni-due.de/allgemeine_botanik/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/glucksman