Fossil Friday
Fossil Friday
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Celebrating all things fossily on Fridays #FossilFriday
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My first #fossilfriday here in BSkyPaleo! Witness the glorious holotype of Ouranosaurus, discovered in 1965 by Philippe Taquet and exhibited in Niamey since then.
We saw it during the #NigerEXP2022 and many stuff are expected to happen in the near future about it 😏

#dinosaur #paleontology #science
November 22, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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#FossilFriday A large ammonite fossil from Lyme Regis Museum & a small pyritized ammonite I found on Jurassic Coast beach this past summer.
November 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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This #FossilFriday morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, features the #mosasaur #Platecarpus...
November 22, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart
November 22, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
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November 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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Riley keeps insisting we visit the dinosaurs every few weeks. This guy rocks. Melbourne's most iconic fossil since Andrew Bolt moved down to the Penninsula
November 24, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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A fossil tree stump Syringodendron (Sigillaria with its outer layer missing) - one of the giant lycophytes from the Carboniferous swamp forests.

On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm

#FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲
November 15, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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My first post: a #FossilFriday of RC 846, a beautiful skull of the Early Triassic archosauriform Proterosuchus from the Karoo. Soon to be on display at the Karoo Origins Centre in Graaff-Reinet!

It’s been so heartening to see “paleotwitter” find bluer pastures this last week!
November 15, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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For #FossilFriday here is a Titanopteran. Or rather, the wing of one! These were large insects, related to orthopterans (a group incl. e.g. grasshoppers, locusts and crickets). Members of the group reached ~40 cm in wingspan, and are only known from the Triassic Period (251-205 Ma).

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
November 15, 2024 at 5:38 PM