The Pembina Gorge dig was awesome - just... not a lot of cell coverage to upload awesome photos.

Great fish, our first plesiosaur, a bunch of birds, and some fun (modern) insects!

#notadinosaur #fossil #paleontology #cretaceous

It may surprise you to learn that we can find swimming trace fossils! Bottom feeding fish, like this Notogoneus from Fossil Butte National Monument, created sinusoidal waves on the mud from the natural flexing of their tails.
#TracksWeek #Paleontology

After a highly successful Science Under the Stars fundraiser for @westernsciencecenter on Saturday, today Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 is at Canyon Crest Elementary School in Fontana, California.

#scicomm #museum #paleontology #fossil #education

Behavior like locomotion is rarely preserved in the fossil record. However, every now and then, we find stellar tracks of animals walking, running, crawling, and even swimming. This week we'll look at great examples of these trace fossils.
#TracksWeek #Paleontology

#NewPaper #Paleontology #MassExtinctions

Thomas J Algeo, Jun Shen, Theory and classification of mass extinction causation, National Science Review, 2023;, nwad237, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad237

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Bivalves #brachiopod

Guo, Z., Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Benton, M.J. et al. Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Nat Commun 14, 5566 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41358-8

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilReptiles

Annabel K. Hunt, David P. Ford, Vincent Fernandez, Jonah N. Choiniere & Roger B. J. Benson (2023)

A description of the palate and mandible of Youngina capensis (Sauropsida, Diapsida) based on synchrotron tomography, and the phylogenetic implications

Palaeontology 9(5): e1521

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1521

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1521

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleoecology

Christopher F Brooke, Curtis W Marean, Colin D Wren, Sean Bergin, B Patrick Fahey & Jan A Venter (2023)

Drivers of large mammal distribution: an overview and modelling approach for palaeoecological reconstructions of extinct ecosystems

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blad100

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad100

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blad100/7260565

#NewPaper #Paleontology #MegafaunalExtinctions

Rhys Taylor Lemoine, Robert Buitenwerf & Jens-Christian Svenning (2023)

Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change

Anthropocene 100403

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100403

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221330542300036X

Revueltosaurus callenderi from the Chinle Formation in Arizona, US.
#ChinleWeek #Paleontology
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.24757

This is only the beginning....
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #ginkgo #botany #sciart #botany #evolution #fieldguide

I mentioned I'd upload my shitty amateur Dickinsonia reconstruction a while back but never did, so here it is. #paleontology #ediacaran #Dickinsonia #paleoart

Only 11 days left to back the new issue (#4) of PALEOCENE! Find out how our tiny primate ancestors survived after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book #paleoart #paleofiction #comic #comics #comicbooks #comicbook #paleontology #evolution #evolutionarybiology

New on the Dinosaur Toy Blog. A plush Quetzalcoatlus (Field Museum, Wild Republic): https://dinotoyblog.com/quetzalcoatlus-field-museum-plush-wild-republic/

"...most of the toy features a very short coat of polyester fuzz, which is actually quite fitting for a pterosaur that was likely covered in hairlike pycnofibres in life."

#DinoToyBlog #pterosaur #plushie #wildlife #toy #paleontology #FieldMuseum

Today Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 from @westernsciencecenter is participating in after school programming at Hyatt Elementary School.

#museum #scicomm #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil

Been a long week so let’s have a good #FossilFriday. Today some shots from my trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. The dinosaur wing is amazing and generally a great meshed I wish I could have spent more time at.

#dinosaur #paleontology #fossil #synapsids #MegaFauna

This is an impression of the bony armor surrounding Stegosaurus' throat for this #FossilFriday! These small, bony ossicles would have served as valuable protection. This specimen is housed at the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah. (1/2)
#paleontology #stegosaurus #dinosaur

New on the Dinosaur Toy Blog. More upcoming releases announced from Mattel: https://dinotoyblog.com/upcoming-releases-from-mattel-new-for-2024pt-2/

#DinoToyBlog #dinosaurs #paleontology #FossilFriday #Mattel #toys

Lophionotus sanjuanensis, an ancient semionotiform fish from the Chinle Fm in Utah. Article by @gombessagirl
#ChinleWeek #Paleontology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2013.758125?casa_token=BkUW9DpNrP8AAAAA%3AKB_DY8AnSMLDOyB5AwJY9XepIskhPUAOnHl6yKK9fI9N391tawU5GsIpyLuE0psozJ8YlMC2-wgd8-EGYA

An organism from the Waukesha Biota once thought to be a leech is now recognized as a worm which sheds its skin. The fossil is identified as a molt which accounts for the lack of preserved internal organs.
#Paleontology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/not-the-first-leech-an-unusual-worm-from-the-early-silurian-of-wisconsin/2AB9EDAF214C38A8EE93C260BAC9878D