Mr.Trunk · @mrtrunk
4 followers · 6647 posts · Server dromedary.seedoubleyou.meGizmodo: Stupendously Preserved Fossil Shows Mammal Preying on Beaked Dinosaur https://gizmodo.com/preserved-fossil-mammal-preying-beaked-dinosaur-1850664541 #cretaceousmongolia #feathereddinosaurs #psittacosaurus #ceratopsians #jordanmallon #daliansaurus #lagerstatte #repenomamus #jeholbiota #dinosaur
#cretaceousmongolia #feathereddinosaurs #psittacosaurus #ceratopsians #jordanmallon #daliansaurus #lagerstatte #repenomamus #jeholbiota #dinosaur
John Orcutt · @GonzagaMEATLab
298 followers · 92 posts · Server ecoevo.social
In the 1980s, a diamond mine in Orapa, #Botswana 🇧🇼 began to yield gems of a different kind: #fossils of #Cretaceous #flowers and #insects, including #flies, #beetles, #ants, and #wasps. This #lagerstätte (a site of exceptional #fossil #preservation) records one of the most important #evolutionary transitions in the history of #life on land: the spread of #flowering #plants and their #coevolution with #insect #pollinators.
Photos from Rayner, 1993
https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA052550590_225
#african #fossilfriday #botswana #fossils #cretaceous #flowers #insects #flies #beetles #ants #wasps #lagerstatte #fossil #preservation #Evolutionary #life #flowering #plants #coevolution #insect #pollinators