Bruno Becker Kerber
@beckerkerber
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🇧🇷 Paleobiologist interested in Ediacaran and Devonian fossils, and cool advanced techniques
Joined December 2018
Missed #FossilFriday, but here's my late contribution! Meet Cloudina, one of my favorite Ediacaran fossils (for obvious reasons haha). These tubular creatures were among the first to produce mineralized skeletons. The top image is a composite from multispectral imaging.
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RT @PlLife2: #FossilFriday - Not sure Twitter is ready for such a beauty. Look at this gorgeous fossil sponge 😱😍Let me introduce you to Dia…
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RT @99blackbaloons: The result of the American election exemplifies a pattern witnessed multiple times throughout the history of human civi…
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@geology_johnson I've been chemically analysing some organically preserved micro and macrofossils, but I keep running into nanometric inclusions that are impacting my FTIR signals. In my case, calcite and pyrite definitely influenced some spectra and that has been a hassle 😅
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@geology_johnson Nice! Most of the sections I’ve done have been much thinner—typically just below 2-3 microns, even for fossil insects. The mineral inclusions here and elsewhere really get me thinking about interpretations on the chemical composition of organic fossils.
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For #FossilFriday here's my favorite shot of giant fossil microbes from the Itajaí Basin (Brazil), uniquely preserved as casts
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RT @jdschiff: Our new one in JPaleo: Reassessing the diversity, affinity, and construction of terminal Ediacaran tubiform fossils from the…
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RT @ThePalAss: Bioturbative activities of modern priapulids & potential ecosystem engineering impacts during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transit…
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RT @ross_p_anderson: New paper out in Royal Society Open Science! With @SMughal315 and George Wedlake, we revisit the Proterozoic microfo…
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Excited to share our latest work on the South American Ediacaran fossil record! It’s freely available for the next 50 days. Check it out using the links below!
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This is sad
🛑 Writing on our rocky outcrops is wrong, and permanently damages our natural heritage. 🚨 This vandalism risks destroying features like our Precambrian fossils, and at many sites in Charnwood Forest, is illegal. 📷 Take only pictures, leave only footprints
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Playing around with macro photography. This red velvet mite (Parasitengona) is ≤ 1 mm
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