Wrapping up 2020, the Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution lab had a strong presence at the Virtual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association organized by our colleagues at the University of Oxford! Contributions included Sarah Losso's first talk at Pal Ass, addressing a fascinating case of limb specialization in the Burgess Shale trilobite Olenoides serratus, an impressive overview of ongoing work on the paleobiology of the early Cambrian Rosella Formation in British Columbia by Rudy Lerosey-Aubril (supported by the William F. Milton Fund), an elegant quantitative paleoecological study on the hydrodynamics of Isoxys and other small bivalved euarthropods by Stephen Pates (Alexander Agassiz Fellow at the Museum of Comparative Zoology), and a deep dive into the head segmentation of great appendage euarthropods by Javier Ortega-Hernández and visiting professor Yu Liu (supported by the Harvard China Fund).
Finally, congratulations are in order for Sarah Losso for securing funding from the Palaeontological Association Small Grant Scheme, which will support her work on the taphonomy of the exceptionally preserved trilobites from the Walcott-Rust in New York!