#fossilfriday

Happy #FossilFriday!

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Wintonotitan

In 1974, Keith Watts found a left shoulder blade, much of the forelimbs, a number of back, hip, and tail vertebrae, part of the right hip, ribs, chevrons, and unidentifiable fragments.

These fossils were given the name Austrosaurus sp, Austrosaurus being the only named sauropod from Australia at the time.

In 2009, Hocknull et al. found these fossils differed enough from Austrosaurus to give them a new name, Wintonotitan wattsi.

#LostBones #FossilFriday In the summer of 2012, students from the Geology Department at Gustavus Adolphus College collected over 800 bones on the Des Moines River near Jackson, Minnesota.

This crunchy but beautiful left horse femur was part of the project and is now housed at the Jackson County Historical Society in Lakefield.

Jackson County: http://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40

#pleistocene #equus #femur #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Roger Thomas.

This fossil is USNM 617253cp; showing the Early Cambrian stem-gastropod Pelagiella exigua from the Kinzers Formation in Pennsylvania, USA

Hoy, para celebrar #FossilFriday visita al Museo de Molina (Molina de Aragón - Guadalajara) Una colección de fósiles muy interesante, destacando la historia geológica del Geoparque.
https://museosdemolina.es/

Great collaboration with @etschopp (FU Berlin), Andre Saleiro (University NOVA, Lisbon) & partners from LIB Hamburg! Niche partitioning in 3 Jurassic sauropod faunas revealed using dental microwear texture analysis.
We find hints of migratory behaviour for camarasaurids, and a distinct habitat effect for sauropods from Tendaguru - likely due to sand from a nearby desert that settled on forage plants.
https://rdcu.be/ewN7L
#DinoScience #FossilFriday ‪@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ‪@uni-kiel.de

July 18, 1950, died #OTD American geologist Mignon Talbot, the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur species in 1910 - Podokesaurus holyokensis - now the official State #Dinosaur of #Massachusetts #FossilFriday

https://facebook.com/909295202471803/photos/a.909300642471259.1073741829.909295202471803/1048997028501619?type=3&theater&fbclid=IwY2xjawLm6HRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA4a2JmTTBaUkdJbHlPc2FRAR4L3PP5FGIyCkRK7DtFLL0Hpy7_KDJHm6QEIuWfRwS7UbXtFCJ4GRUlR6d1Sw_aem_eW-L2McRhKR6wUwWXtRQMQ

New blog post!

Ribs don’t need barbecue sauce to be interesting!

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/a-celebration-of-ribs/

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#museum #scicomm #FossilFriday #ribs #osteology

Dino teeth tell stories: Microscopic wear marks reveal what sauropods ate—and that Camarasaurus likely migrated seasonally! New study uses dental wear to uncover Jurassic behavior: https://t1p.de/zkyb3 #DinoScience #FossilFriday
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/07/18/was-dinozaehne-ueber-das-leben-vor-150-millionen-jahren-verraten

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as easy. This Australian sauropod is named after where it was found.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Panlos Bricks

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Aegirosaurus

In the mid 1800s, a marine reptile fossil was found in Bavaria, Germany by Dr. Oberndorfer.

In 1853, Dr. Johann Andreas Wagner named the "the Oberndorfer specimen", Ichthyosaurus leptospondylus

During WW2 the holotype was destroyed during a bombing raid.

In 2000, Nathalie Bardet and Marta Fernandez named a neotype from a private collection. They renamed the species Aegirosaurus leptospondylus

Fossiliferous chalcedony flake, Site 8HI473, Hillsborough Co., FL. #FossilFriday

Gyracanthus fish spines from the Carboniferous Period on display in the #NottNatHist Museum.

#FossilFriday #fossil #fish #paleontology #museum #WollatonHall

A special back-to-our-roots #Minnesota #FossilFriday Terminonaris robusta (originally classified as Teleorhinus). A partial snout of Terminonaris was excavated in 1969 at the Hill Annex Mine - the same site where the claw of a dromaeosaur was found in 2015.

The excerpt here was published in a 1983 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. Vintage paleoart by Ken Sander.

#Cretaceous #Crocodile #Terminonarusrobusta #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

More #LostBones https://medium.com/@dbrake40

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the environment illustration for the Stegosaurus coin, from the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES series. I designed them (also Tyrannosaurus & Diplodocus) for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #DigitalArt #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaur #Tyrannosaurus #TyrannosaurusRex #TRex #Stegosaurus #Diplodocus #JurassicWorld #Coins #CoinCollector #CoinCollecting #FossilFriday

New blog post!

The museum's alligator lizard is settling into their new home, and we take a look at fossil lizard teeth.

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https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/more-alligator-lizards-this-time-with-teeth-2/

#FossilFriday #museum #paleontology #lizard #fossil

Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ancient-bone-worms-ate-mosasaur.html #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFriday

I recently visited Lyme Regis with a number of friends for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival and had a blast! You can find out more about what I got up to and my thoughts here: https://stevenallain.co.uk/Blog/scifri-lyme-regis-fossil-festival-2025/ Hopefully, I'll see you there next year! #SciFri #FossilFriday #Fossils #LymeRegis

@clive

I searched for "Stegosaurus" and got _Osteology of the Armored Dinosauria_ by Charles Whitney Gilmore , 1914

A link to the internet archive copy, bc reasons:
https://archive.org/details/osteologyofarmor00gilm/page/n6/mode/2up

I think this volume is still referenced by paleontologists working on stegosaurs today; see for example the description of Miragaia

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2674496/pdf/rspb20081909.pdf

and search for Gilmore

#dinosaurs
#stegosaurs
#fossils
#armoredDinosaurs
#fossilFriday

Another piece of Cotswold limestone loaded with Jurassic life
#FossilFriday #fossils #cotswolds