A Fast Devonian Swimmer from Morocco
Channel: Genuine Rockstars
Date: 2022-12-01

Melina Jobbins is a PhD student at the University of Zurich where she studies early Vertebrates. She specializes in placoderms from Morocco. Recently she published a paper in which she described a new placoderm from Morocco and she got to name the specimen! Listen to Melina tell you all about it!

Credits: 

University of Zurich - By Tony Badwy –wikimedia
Reconstruction of Amazichthys trinajsticae – Jobbins et al., 2022
Reconstruction of various Late Devonian placoderms: The arthrodire Dunkleosteus telleri prepares to seize the smaller, Gorgonichthys clarki, while a school of Ctenurella gladbachensis ptyctodonts swim by. The ptyctodonts Rhynchodus major (above D. telleri) and Ptyctodus compressus (below) linger around for scraps and a pair of antiarch's, Asterolepis ornata, scatter - Apokryltaros – Wikipedia
Early vertebrates - Petter Bøckman – Wikipedia
Kid with rock - Ann -- please donate – Pixabay
Fossil bivalve - Dimitris Vetsikas – Pixabay
Dig your own dinosaur kit - https://youtu.be/Wc9drhaA_HE
Earth Sciences - Frank Winkler – Pixabay
Placoderms - DiBgd – Wikimedia
Reconstruction of Concavicaris submarinus – M. Jobbins https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61770-0
The Geological time scale - Ray Troll
Placoderms -  Apokryltaros – Wikimedia
Dunkleosteus – Casliber – Wikimedia
Dunkleosteus terrelli - Entelognathus – Wikimedia
Coccosteus – Entelognathus – Wikimedia
Dunkleosteus skull - Ghedoghedo – Wikimedia
Dunkleosteus - Prehistorica – Wikimedia
Two main specimens of Amazichthys trinajsticae – Jobbins et al., 2022 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.969158
Lateral lines of a threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) - Abigail Wark – Wikimedia
Lateral line canals of a goldfish - Art of Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff – Wikimedia
Kate Trinijastic – Curtin University
Just do it - Gerd Altmann – Pixabay
Museum of Natural History Paris - Gabriella Grifò – Pixabay
Rubik’s cube - Dx21 – Pixabay
Mind blown – @Incrediville - Giphy