For those working on #tracks / #footprints / #ichnology, I've made a neat little addon for #blender that aligns a mesh to the horizontal at z=0 based on a few points. Open and up on github:
https://github.com/pfalkingham/FlatTrack/

Happy #FossilFriday, check out some tiny tracks from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site! These darling little traces were likely made by very young coelophysid theropods, perhaps making their first romp around the ancient lake they called home. (1/2)
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Happy #FossilFriday, check out some darling crocodylomorph tracks! 200 million years ago, small and snappy distant-croc-relatives, like Protosuchus, darted and splashed along a ripple-marked lakeshore and through silty riverbeds, leaving behind their traces. (1/2)
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Happy #FossilFriday, check out these theropod tracks with scale scratch lines! As these animals either swam or waded through rivers, their tracks were pressed into the fine sediment at the bottom. These lines show the pattern of their scales cutting through the mud. (1/2)
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Track studies, from November 2023
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I've got my days all sorts of mixed up and didn't even realize it was #FossilFriday! Here's a couple theropod tracks from Early Jurassic rocks in southern Utah as consolidation!
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Join me for a bit of a longer #FossilFriday! Last week, I visited the Las Vegas Natural History Museum and had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful Dilophosaurus reconstruction by Brian Engh. Let's take a closer look! (1/5)
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Happy #FossilFriday, check out these Brachycheirotherium tracks! These were made by aetosaurs--heavily armored, typically herbivorous animals that lived with other weird critters during the Late Triassic. As they waddled over floodplains, they left behind their traces. (1/2)
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On 08/20/2023 (last year) During a 2nd dry summer at BBSP an alligator was moving through mud in a drying 40 Acre Lake. It would move a bit, then rest. Why did the alligator move in this direction? Did it see water? Did it remember water? Birds moved easily on the mud. This gator met 2 others chased out of a deeper spot by *another* gator. Gators talked later. 90 minutes condensed into 10 minute video: http://www.rickubis.com/rick/gators_mud082023.mp4 #Ichnology #Alligators #Archosaur

For this #FossilFriday, check out these theropod tracks from southern Utah! Almost 200 million years ago, #dinosaurs like Dilophosaurus, Coelophysis, and their relatives called this area home, roaming across floodplains that would gradually dry into a grand desert. (1/3)
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