Darren Withers
@outfossiling.bsky.social
Supporting amateur Palaeontology + Citizen science More about me 👇
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Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant @bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
More details from the publisher:
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Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
More details from the publisher:
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sec...
April 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant @bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
More details from the publisher:
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sec...
Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
More details from the publisher:
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sec...
Collected the #bivalve Bositra buchii for #molluscmonday only a few millimetres across I find them really fascinating. It was proposed that they were bysally attached to floating organic matter the so-called "pendant" life habit. An abundant species found at many horizons within the Oxford Clay.
April 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Collected the #bivalve Bositra buchii for #molluscmonday only a few millimetres across I find them really fascinating. It was proposed that they were bysally attached to floating organic matter the so-called "pendant" life habit. An abundant species found at many horizons within the Oxford Clay.
A video brilliantly produced by Palaeocast. I recorded at the Cerney Wick #excavation in 2024. I filmed my friend Richard using my drone, digging a stratigraphic test pit. I filmed many hours of #fieldwork from the dig site.Will be taking to the air quite a bit this year.
youtu.be/NcgSBmqP0lA?...
youtu.be/NcgSBmqP0lA?...
Jurassic context
YouTube video by Palaeo cast
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April 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A video brilliantly produced by Palaeocast. I recorded at the Cerney Wick #excavation in 2024. I filmed my friend Richard using my drone, digging a stratigraphic test pit. I filmed many hours of #fieldwork from the dig site.Will be taking to the air quite a bit this year.
youtu.be/NcgSBmqP0lA?...
youtu.be/NcgSBmqP0lA?...
Picked up another aesthetic crushed shell in shale Kosmo eras #ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic ) for #molluscmonday with bositra buchi #bivalves nestled beside it.
March 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Picked up another aesthetic crushed shell in shale Kosmo eras #ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic ) for #molluscmonday with bositra buchi #bivalves nestled beside it.
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Here's @deanrlomax.bsky.social with the 10m giant...
February 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Here's @deanrlomax.bsky.social with the 10m giant...
Have Your Say outfossiling.com/2025/03/23/h... please help in homing Rutlands Ichthyosaur in a nationally significant exhibition.
#rutlandseadragon
#rutlandseadragon
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March 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Have Your Say outfossiling.com/2025/03/23/h... please help in homing Rutlands Ichthyosaur in a nationally significant exhibition.
#rutlandseadragon
#rutlandseadragon
On January 20th 2021, Joe Davis discovered something unusual at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Bringing in #palaeontologist Mark Evans #OTD 2021 who photographed the first photos of what we now know as the #rutlandseadragon must have been an incredible moment.
February 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
On January 20th 2021, Joe Davis discovered something unusual at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Bringing in #palaeontologist Mark Evans #OTD 2021 who photographed the first photos of what we now know as the #rutlandseadragon must have been an incredible moment.
For #fossilfriday #otd 2022 the #RutlandSeaDragon was announced to the🌍
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Digging up the Rutland Sea Dragon | Anglian Water Services
Digging up the Rutland Sea Dragon
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January 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
For #fossilfriday #otd 2022 the #RutlandSeaDragon was announced to the🌍
www.anglianwater.co.uk/your-local-a...
www.anglianwater.co.uk/your-local-a...
#fossils and fresh air, picking up crushed flat pyritised #Kosmoceras #ammonites - an extinct marine #mollusc that has now been replaced by iron pyrite.
December 31, 2024 at 7:56 AM
#fossils and fresh air, picking up crushed flat pyritised #Kosmoceras #ammonites - an extinct marine #mollusc that has now been replaced by iron pyrite.
Historical fossil collections are fascinating,I'll be researching additional provenance in 2025 on this one. As those labeled N B Co pit (Northam Brickworks) are of particular interest. As Alfred Leeds one of history's greatest #palaeontologists discovered many #fossils from this pit #fossilfriday
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Historical fossil collections are fascinating,I'll be researching additional provenance in 2025 on this one. As those labeled N B Co pit (Northam Brickworks) are of particular interest. As Alfred Leeds one of history's greatest #palaeontologists discovered many #fossils from this pit #fossilfriday
#fossil #ThrowbackThursday with some stunning on display in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery's #jurassic #marinereptile gallery. Associated #ichthyosaur vertebrae found and donated by a fellow #museumvolunteer rescuing / supporting local #Palaeontological heritage.
Good work Ivor ⚒️
Good work Ivor ⚒️
December 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
#fossil #ThrowbackThursday with some stunning on display in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery's #jurassic #marinereptile gallery. Associated #ichthyosaur vertebrae found and donated by a fellow #museumvolunteer rescuing / supporting local #Palaeontological heritage.
Good work Ivor ⚒️
Good work Ivor ⚒️
Kosmoceras for #molluscmonday the most abundant Peterborough Formation #ammonite Each species shows dimorphism (probably male/female) This tiny specimen is adorned with lappets at its aperture, and is thought to be male. Crushed flat in fissile shales dried nicely in my shed 🙂
December 16, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Kosmoceras for #molluscmonday the most abundant Peterborough Formation #ammonite Each species shows dimorphism (probably male/female) This tiny specimen is adorned with lappets at its aperture, and is thought to be male. Crushed flat in fissile shales dried nicely in my shed 🙂
Show your #fossil worm tubes for #serpulidsaturday always picking up these calcerous tubes from the Jurassic marine worm Genicularia vertebralis to give away.
December 7, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Show your #fossil worm tubes for #serpulidsaturday always picking up these calcerous tubes from the Jurassic marine worm Genicularia vertebralis to give away.
#Gryphaea (Bilobissa) dilobotes #fossils huddled up after a fresh split on some Oxford Clay shales for #molluscmonday
December 2, 2024 at 12:23 PM
#Gryphaea (Bilobissa) dilobotes #fossils huddled up after a fresh split on some Oxford Clay shales for #molluscmonday
Yes, very cool. I often find Bison teeth from gravel quarries. Prepped this tooth from the Ipswichian stage. I believe the blue color is leeched into the tooth from mineralisation and associated with Vivianite and dentin.
November 23, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Yes, very cool. I often find Bison teeth from gravel quarries. Prepped this tooth from the Ipswichian stage. I believe the blue color is leeched into the tooth from mineralisation and associated with Vivianite and dentin.
A great photo thank you for sharing. It's a #plesiosaur known as #cryptoclidus eurymerus . My good friend conservator Nigel Larkin was asked to adjust the old mount to make it self-supporting from underneath 🔗 👇
natural-history-conservation.com/HunterianPle...
natural-history-conservation.com/HunterianPle...
November 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
A great photo thank you for sharing. It's a #plesiosaur known as #cryptoclidus eurymerus . My good friend conservator Nigel Larkin was asked to adjust the old mount to make it self-supporting from underneath 🔗 👇
natural-history-conservation.com/HunterianPle...
natural-history-conservation.com/HunterianPle...
Dr Michael Oates retired #geologist fellow @geolsoc.bsky.social lifelong enthusiasm for ammonites would say while we excavated the #scunthorpepliosaur "rescue these ammonites they're a really good indicator for biostratigrahy."Tricky when surrounded by #pliosaur verts.We rescued many #fossilfriday
November 22, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Dr Michael Oates retired #geologist fellow @geolsoc.bsky.social lifelong enthusiasm for ammonites would say while we excavated the #scunthorpepliosaur "rescue these ammonites they're a really good indicator for biostratigrahy."Tricky when surrounded by #pliosaur verts.We rescued many #fossilfriday
That's interesting to know, I wonder what a #paleoartist could establish from an incomplete but large hollow bone identified as #pterosaurian I helped rediscover.
Hey there! Im Dean though you probably know me as Sassy. Im a student paleoartist from Germany working on reconstructions of primarily pterosaurs and late Jurassic Europe.
November 21, 2024 at 7:19 AM
That's interesting to know, I wonder what a #paleoartist could establish from an incomplete but large hollow bone identified as #pterosaurian I helped rediscover.
My first #molluscmonday post, peeling away Oxford Clay fissil shales to reveal Kosmoceras #ammonites #molluskmonday
November 18, 2024 at 3:41 AM
My first #molluscmonday post, peeling away Oxford Clay fissil shales to reveal Kosmoceras #ammonites #molluskmonday
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I'm going to post some marine Mesozoic palaeoart, starting with the giant filter-feeding fish Leedsichthys, from the Late Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation. I have given it an entourage of smaller fish, as often seen with big marine animals today. A cryptoclidid plesiosaur passes in the foreground.
September 3, 2023 at 2:24 PM
I'm going to post some marine Mesozoic palaeoart, starting with the giant filter-feeding fish Leedsichthys, from the Late Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation. I have given it an entourage of smaller fish, as often seen with big marine animals today. A cryptoclidid plesiosaur passes in the foreground.
An incredible achievement for #fossilfriday, over a year's worth of planning from start to finish. And now all the surrounding communities and of course the people of Rutland County can come and see this exciting #pterosaur bone discovery.
rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/flying-repti...
rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/flying-repti...
November 15, 2024 at 9:58 AM
An incredible achievement for #fossilfriday, over a year's worth of planning from start to finish. And now all the surrounding communities and of course the people of Rutland County can come and see this exciting #pterosaur bone discovery.
rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/flying-repti...
rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/flying-repti...