While Alberta is better known for its vertebrate fossils, we have plant fossils as well! These are the fossils of the Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia. These plants would have thrived in the Late Cretaceous swamps and deltas that made up the western part of Southern Alberta and provided abundant food for the herds of dinosaurs that made their home in this region. Notably, there's a living species of this genus!
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as hard. This marine reptile is known from the Late Cretaceous.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
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For this Fossil Friday we have the claw bone (ungual phalanx) from a small theropod from the Dinosaur Park Formation in southern Alberta. It’s not clear exactly what species this bone is from but some candidates are Troodon and Saurornitholestes. In life this bone would have been covered in a sheath of keratin, making it much larger!
This specimen was found by Hope Johnson and is APS 2006.071. Photo credit Howard Allen.
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#FossilFriday Antusuchus rionegrinus: a predator in the Kokorkom Desert. (Video credit: Jorge A. González)
@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
#52wochenfotochallenge #perspektivwechsel & #FotoVorschlag #beschirmt & #fossilfriday
Bei der #Hitze und diesen Hashtags tauchen wir zur #Abkühlung mit einem #Fossil ins #Urmeer des frühen Devons vor 410 Millionen Jahren: Dies ist der Kopf der #Seelilie Scyphocrinites elegans. Seelilien sind mit #Seestern u.Co. verwandt, sitzen meist mit einem Stiel am Meeresgrund fest und grabschen mit ihren Armen im Wasser nach Nahrung. Die Bojen-Seelilie trieb stattdessen kopfüber im offenen Ozean! 🤸♀️
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Kosmoceratops
In 2006-07 several specimens were discovered in Utah's Kaiparowits Formation.
In 2010 they were referred to as "Kaiparowits new taxon A" and identified as a chasmosaurine ceratopsid in a book.
Later in 2010, paleontologist Scott D. Sampson and colleagues named the new genus and species Kosmoceratops richardsoni.
Many animals exhibit fascinating collective behaviors, which allow them to move, search for food, reproduce and avoid threats more effectively than they would alone. One of these behaviors is queuing migration, which essentially entails traveling as a group in an organized line or procession.
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