Travels and Tales of Discovery in Minnesota's County Museums: Lost Bones #2 (Not Worth Losing an Ear)
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-2-not-worth-losing-an
#lostbones #pleistocene #holocene #proboscidean #mastodon #vertebra #molar #paleontology #iceage #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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 #leaves #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
Try to hit them all in a season :)
#lostbones #nationalmuseumday #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🐪🦥🦫🐴🍃 100 million years older than last Friday’s #bison skull, here are some Cretaceous age leaf fossils found on the same river drainage this week.
Sediments in southern Minnesota include Western Interior Seaway Cenomanian shale, siltstone, and limestone which have been ground over by multiple glacial events 🧊
The specimens have been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota.
#cretaceous #flora #fossil #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 #sciencemuseumofmn #proboscidean #palaeontology @darwin
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
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 by a friend. It was stuck in the muddy river bottom along a 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 
Marcus Brandel
Huxley