@LukeEMeade

Postdoc researcher @Palaeo_Bham Vertebrate paleontology 🦖 focus on 3D reconstruction, digital methods, and functional morphology

 Birmingham, England
Joined December 2015
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Our new paper looks into the strength and function of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur skulls using FEA 🦖🦃🖥️ 🚨Oviraptorid crania were much stronger than those of other beaked herbivorous theropods with distinct stress patterns doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… @CommsBio #OpenAccess

Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria

Communications Biology - Finite element analysis shows distinctive strengthened cranial biomechanics in Oviraptorosauria compared with other herbivorous theropod dinosaurs, established prior to the...

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A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians. There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary! Check out our new study, led by Susie Maidment⤵️
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New material of Ajkaceratops cements its identity as a ceratopsian, but adds a new wrinkle. It turns out that many european ornithischians previously classified as iguanodontians may actually be ceratopsians! New paper by Maidment et al., that I provided art for (link in reply).
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Maidment, S.C.R., Butler, R.J., Brusatte, S.L. et al. A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0…

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

Nature - New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

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Would you like to work with me on #MesozoicMammals from #Scotland? We're seeking a Research Assistant for an amazing @LeverhulmeTrust project, based in Birmingham with Prof Richard Butler. You'd join our team gaining new insights into mammal evolution! jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/resear…
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Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, working with @gsciencelady @LukeEMeade and Richard Butler: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/resear…
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🦎Threordatoth chasmatos🦎 a new Late Triassic procolophonid out now in Papers in Palaeontology @ThePalAss with @ButlerLabBham @MarcEHJones @tanytrachelos showing unique features of the jaw and teeth 🦷🦷doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1605 Reconstruction by @MarkWitton 1/4 #FossilFriday
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Many of the lower jaw bones have a weird toothless tip and featureless symphysis. Perhaps the halves of the jaw were connected flexibly to help jaw movements and aid close tooth-on-tooth contact during chewing or providing shock-absorption💀 3/4
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These features of the jaw and teeth may indicate feeding or food processing in quite a different way to other procolophonids, perhaps a range of foods including plants and insects 🌱🐛🌲 🪲 @MorphoSource @ZoologyMuseum @NatSciNMS @NHM_Science
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A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @LukeEMeade @ButlerLabBham @MarcEHJones @tanytrachelos @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
Life reconstruction of the newly described procolophonid Threordatoth chasmatos among the fissures of Carnian–Norian southwest England, based in part upon aspects of the anatomy of the closely related Hwiccewyrm. Artwork by Mark Witton.

ALT Life reconstruction of the newly described procolophonid Threordatoth chasmatos among the fissures of Carnian–Norian southwest England, based in part upon aspects of the anatomy of the closely related Hwiccewyrm. Artwork by Mark Witton.

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Meet Threordatoth chasmatos! 🦎 It may have been small, but this ancient reptile was a big part of life in the Triassic. Find out what its life was like 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024…
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📰 | Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, found at Cromhall Quarry, which is notable for its unusual teeth. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/a… @LES_UniBham @unibirmingham
Scans of dinosaur teeth

ALT Scans of dinosaur teeth

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PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, @NaturalEngland & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by @MarkWitton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through @CENTA_NERC - more info here centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025…
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Great to host old colleagues from @geology_bham today @Museum_Cardiff to work on some fascinating fossil material - outside the norm for the lab! 🤩 @ButlerLabBham @LukeEMeade @CardiffCurator
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New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology. Link: lyellcollection.org/doi/full…
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Proud to announce one of my PhD chapter is out in #OpenAccess in @CurrentBiology with @Val_Fisch @DavideTamagnin4 & @MargotMichaud00 🥳 Interested in evolutionary patterns of cat-like carnivorans? 🦁🔪 Here is a thread 🧵1/X doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.0…
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