This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This large theropod is known from Argentina.
Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by DrakeAphios.
For a slightly late #FossilFriday - meet an absolute unit of a fossil. This is a ~75 cm chunk of Arthropleura - an animal closely related to millipedes, and found in ~325 million yeat old rocks in the UK. The whole animal was probably a little over 2.5 m in length.
Happy #fossilfriday! Here's a couple of drawings of both Cera and Little Foot from #thelandbeforetime! I updated them to fit what we now know about these animals anatomy.
today for #fossilFriday , I think I will read about the hand of Diplodocus ... or maybe it's not.
the hands (and forelimbs) of fossil tetrapods are often not preserved, and the situation seems to be especially bad for the mysterious, giant, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs. And today I'm reading about the hand of WDC-FS0001A , a specimen at the Wymoning Dinosaur Center.
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Procoptodon
In the early 1800s, as Australia was being explored by white colonists, Sir Thomas L. Mitchell found fossil fragments of a maxilla from the Darling downs and sent them to England.
In 1846, Sir Richard Owen published on several large marsupials. One of those was Procoptodon, a very large short faced Kangaroo.
A recent trackway found in South Australia attributed to Procoptodon showed it didn't hop but walked bipedally
In 1914, British paleontologist Albert Charles Seward described the fossil plants collected by Scott’s party as Glossopteris and Vertebraria.
#FossilFriday clam. Venericardia merriami holotype, Oregon, USA. From the Eocene, shortly before the planet changed, transitioning from a Warm House to the Cool/Ice House planet that we currently have (for now). #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social @calacademy https://flic.kr/p/pUwnwu
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A closer look at the animals in my 2023 illustration of #HellCreek, featuring ichthyornithean #Birds, #Triceratops, #Tyrannosaurus, two #Acheroraptors, a dead #Pachycephalosaurs, #Brachychampsa (croc), #Meniscoessus (mammal), and #Chamops (lizard); from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Trex #TyrannosaurusRex #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday
Genus: Petraster sp
Location: M' Ssici, Morocco
Geological Formation: Kataoua Formation
Geological Period: Ordovician
“…I soon found many fragments and a number of entire bones, not of man, but of horses, diminutive indeed, but true equine ancestors...
“But the horse was not alone. Other fragments told of his contemporaries—a camel, a pig, and a turtle at least.”
O. C. Marsh
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O.C. Marsh
#FossilFriday The Permian pareiasaur Scutosaurus karpinskii at the American Museum of Natural History
#FossilFriday Found across the street. “During the excavation of a sewer-line, rocks containing fish fossils were discovered, along with some poorly preserved tracks. The fish fossils were found in a dark gray shale that is younger than the track-bearing layer at the park.”
New blog post: the Bayou Manchac mastodon.
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Our T. rex skeleton is posed striding through a mock up of its own excavation. The bones in the dig are exact replicas of the bones mounted in the skeleton. Take the eroding long metatarsal bone in the centre of this picture, for example. The exact same bone is mounted in the foot (the bone on the top right of the picture).
Have you visited Wollaton Hall recently!? There's lots of new things to discover.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2023 illustration of the #HellCreek Formation, featuring ichthyornithean #Birds, #Triceratops, #Tyrannosaurus, two #Acheroraptors, a dead #Pachycephalosaurs, #Brachychampsa (croc), #Meniscoessus (mammal), and #Chamops (lizard); from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Trex #TyrannosaurusRex #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This marsupial is know from Australia.
Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.
Leptolepis coryphaenoides
Jurassic, Toarcian
Mende, Aveyron, France
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Bochianites neocomiensis
Cretaceous, Valanginian
Provenance: Bellecombe, DrĂ´me, France
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