It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🍃🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟 Back up 95 million years from last Friday’s #lostBones #bison skull cap - here are some Cretaceous leaf fossils found along the Cottonwood River while working with staff from the Science Museum of Minnesota.

These fossils were found within a patchy broken stratum of Cretaceous-age sandstone and clay.

#Cretaceous #leaf #fossils #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn

It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦥🐃 🐘 🐴🐪🐟🍃There are no documented Pleistocene-age horse specimens in Minnesota. The small size of this m3 tooth has me hopeful. It's about 25mm in length across the crown.

Found by a friend on a river gravel bar it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.

#pleistocene #equus #molar #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn

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It's National Museum Day!

Want to find a Minnesota Museum?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Minnesota

https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=List_of_museums_in_Minnesota

Try not to hit them all at once.

#lostbones #nationalmuseumday #paleontology #iceage #fossil #amateurfossilhunters #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn

Missing #Mammoth! 🦣🐪🦣🦥🦬🍂🦫 The New Ulm, MN mammoth tusk is missing! If you are wondering where it went – it’s back at the Science Museum of Minnesota where it is being fitted for a new display case!

The Brown County Historical Society is working with the museum’s exhibit services team to create a case that will keep the tusk safe and stable for generations to come.

browncountyhistorymn.org

#Pleistocene #columbianmammoth #shareyourdiscovery #sciencemuseumofmn #proboscidean #paleontology

IT'S #MINNESOTA #FOSSILFRIDAY! 🐟🐪🦣 XIPHACTINUS OR ICHTHYODECTES, THAT IS THE QUESTION. THIS VERTEBRA WAS FOUND ON A GRAVEL BAR IN SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BY A FRIEND. XIPHACTINUS AND THE SMALLER ICHTHYODECTES WERE 3-6 METER FISH THAT SWAM THE CRETACEOUS WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY WHICH COVERED THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES FOR OVER 40 MILLION YEARS. 🦫🦬🍃NOW DONATED TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA.@darwin #SHAREYOURDISCOVERY #SCIENCEMUSEUMOFMN #PLEISTOCENE #VERTEBRA #PALEONTOLOGY #CITIZENSCIENCE

It's #Minnesota #FossilFriday!🐟🐪🦣 Xiphactinus or Ichthyodectes, that is the question. This vertebra was found on a gravel bar in Southern Minnesota by a friend.

Xiphactinus and the smaller Ichthyodectes were 3-6 meter fish that swam the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway which covered the central United States for over 40 million years. 🦫🦬🍃

Now donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota.

#shareyourdiscovery #sciencemuseumofmn #pleistocene #vertebra #amateurfossilhunters #citizenscience

Its #Minnesota #FossilFriday!🐪🦣🦥🦬🍂🦫 Xiphactinus or Ichthyodectes - that is the question. The vertebra below was found on a river gravel bar by a friend. Xiphactinus and the smaller Ichthyodectes were 3-6 meter fish that swam the late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway which covered southern Minnesota 100 million years ago.

Now donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further research.

#shareyourdiscovery #sciencemuseumofmn #pleistocene # vertebra #amateurfossilhunters #citizenscience

Happy #Minnesota #FossilFriday!🦬🍃🦣🐪🦣 Here is a beefy Bison bison humerus found last fall by a friend of mine in Southern Minnesota. It was found eroding out of the side of a small tributary about 4 feet below the soil surface – just downhill from a tee box on a local golf course. ⛳

It has since been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.

#shareyourdiscovery #sciencemuseumofmn #holocene #pleistocene #iceage #bison #bison #humerus #amateurfossilhunters #citizenscience

It's #Minnesota #MammothMonday. 🦣🦷 More Southern Minnesota proboscideans! - see my previous #MammothMonday posts. Here's a partial tooth found in 2019. It was found stuck in the muddy river bottom along a river cut bank. Surprisingly not fully tumbled apart. The rest of the animal could be close! Donated to the #sciencemuseumofmn. 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🍃

#proboscidean #iceage #tooth #columbianmammoth #shareyourdiscovery #pleistocene #paleontology #amateurfossilhunters #citizenscience #mammoth :tusky_scientist: