#FossilFriday #MnMuseum highlight: Carver County Historical Society. Carver County’s past is on display, anchored by a mammoth molar amid exhibits on Indigenous history, agriculture, and military service.

The molar was found in 2000 at the W. Mueller & Sons gravel pit in Chaska, when Mori Willemsen’s clamshell dredge—dropping through 100 feet of water—hauled up a proboscidean tooth.

https://www.carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org/

#pleistocene #palaeontology #CitizenScience
Source: Chaska Herald, April 5, 2001, p. 1.

Here one of my favorite fossil #cephalopods for #FossilFriday:

Pentameroceras mirum from the #Silurian of #Gotland! Those narrow slits of the shell were likely where arms or eyes would stick out!

Watching Netflix's The Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs will never not be cool!

🦕 #FossilFriday #TheDinosaurs #Dinosaurs

The weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Vagaceratops

In the early 21st century a number of odd looking ceratopsian were found in the Dinosaur Park Formation.

In 2001, some of these fossils were named Chasmosaurus irvinensis.

In 2010, they were reexamined and renamed Vagaceratops irvinensis.

Vagaceratops was a medium sized ceratopsian. The frill has ten epoccipitals, eight of which were flattened and curved forwards, causing a jagged margin along the back of the frill.