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Michela Johnson
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
1,325 Points

Contributions by role

Author 270
Reviewer 155
Editor 900

Contributions by subject area

Paleontology
Taxonomy
Biodiversity
Zoology
Evolutionary Studies
Veterinary Medicine
Biogeography
Ecology
Anatomy and Physiology
Biomechanics
Agricultural Science
Conservation Biology

Michela M Johnson

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the State Natural History Museum in Stuttgart. I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. My work focuses on teleosauroids, a group of semi-marine Jurassic crocodylomorphs, and aspects of their morphology, phylogenetics, taxonomy and ecology. For my postdoc I am studying their ontogeny and body size distribution during the Early Jurassic.

Biodiversity Conservation Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Histology Paleontology Taxonomy Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Edinburgh

Work details

Postdoctoral Researcher

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde
December 2021 - December 2024
Paläontologie
I am a current postdoctoral researcher funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. My postdoc work will focus on growth rates and ontogenetic changes in teleosauroids (a group of semi-aquatic Jurassic crocodylomorphs), specifically from the Posidonia Shale Formation in southern Germany. I will be examining the microanatomy (using thin sections and CT data) and growth rates (using statistics) of these crocodylomorphs and will be comparing them to modern crocodylians.

PhD Vertebrate Palaeontology

University of Edinburgh
September 2016 - December 2019
School of GeoSciences

Identities

@michela_johnson

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Edited 8
  • Reviewed 4
  • Answers 1
October 8, 2020
The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution
Michela M. Johnson, Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9808 PubMed 33083104
April 2, 2019
Revision of the Late Jurassic deep-water teleosauroid crocodylomorph Teleosaurus megarhinus Hulke, 1871 and evidence of pelagic adaptations in Teleosauroidea
Davide Foffa, Michela M. Johnson, Mark T. Young, Lorna Steel, Stephen L. Brusatte
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6646 PubMed 30972249

Academic Editor on

August 7, 2025
Silver-spoon effect in agricultural crop consumers: crop consumption enhances skeletal growth in sika deer
Ayaka Hata, Midori Saeki, Chinatsu Kozakai, Rumiko Nakashita, Keita Fukasawa, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Ryodai Murata, Yuki Harada, Mayura B. Takada
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19836 PubMed 40786109
April 2, 2025
A new metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China
Yi Zou, Li Chen, Tao Wang, Guo-Fu Wang, Wei-Gang Zhang, Xiao-Qin Zhang, Zhen-Ji Wang, Xiao-Chun Wu, Hai-Lu You
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19218 PubMed 40191750
December 18, 2024
First discovery of actinopterygian cutting-edged teeth from the middle Norian (Late Triassic) at the Tulong section, southern Tibet, China
Zichen Fang, Long Cheng, Haishui Jiang, Xianlang Wu, Xulong Lai, James G. Ogg
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18728 PubMed 39713153
November 11, 2024
Relationship between tooth macrowear and jaw morphofunctional traits in representative hypercarnivores
Z. Jack Tseng, Larisa R. G. DeSantis
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18435 PubMed 39544419
October 14, 2024
A small venomous reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the southwestern United States
Helen E. Burch, Hannah-Marie S. Eddins, Michelle R. Stocker, Ben T. Kligman, Adam D. Marsh, William G. Parker, Sterling J. Nesbitt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18279 PubMed 39421413
June 10, 2024
A hyaena on stilts: comparison of the limb morphology of Ictitherium ebu (Mammalia: Hyaenidae) from the Late Miocene of Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya with extant Canidae and Hyaenidae
Julien van der Hoek, Lars Werdelin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17405 PubMed 38873642
February 27, 2024
The decline and fall of the mammalian stem
Neil Brocklehurst
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17004 PubMed 38436024
January 13, 2023
A redescription of Palaeogekko risgoviensis (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Middle Miocene of Germany, with new data on its morphology
Andrea Villa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14717 PubMed 36655047

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August 11, 2023
Thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs from European Russia, and new insights into metriorhynchid tooth serration evolution and their palaeolatitudinal distribution
Mark T. Young, Nikolay G. Zverkov, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Alexey P. Ippolitov, Igor A. Meleshin, Georgy V. Mirantsev, Alexey S. Shmakov, Ilya M. Stenshin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15781 PubMed 37583913
August 10, 2018
The palate and choanae structure of the Susisuchus anatoceps (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia): phylogenetic implications
Karla J. Leite, Daniel C. Fortier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5372 PubMed 30128185
June 21, 2017
The biochronology and palaeobiogeography of Baru (Crocodylia: Mekosuchinae) based on new specimens from the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
Adam M. Yates
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3458 PubMed 28649471
March 7, 2017
A new Mourasuchus (Alligatoroidea, Caimaninae) from the late Miocene of Venezuela, the phylogeny of Caimaninae and considerations on the feeding habits of Mourasuchus
Giovanne M. Cidade, Andrés Solórzano, Ascanio Daniel Rincón, Douglas Riff, Annie Schmaltz Hsiou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3056 PubMed 28286712

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Paralectotypes ?