🫎It’s a #Bisonbison #Alcesalces #FossilFriday! 🐂🐴🐘🦥🐪 These #LostBones skulls come from Kittson County, Minnesota—the northeastern most county in the state, known as “where Minnesota begins.” Many other species and elements are also displayed.

If any of these great specimens are your donations and you have more details, please reach out through the link in my profile.

https://www.facebook.com/KittsonCountyHistoryCenter/

#Pleistocene #Skulls #Palaeontology #Fossils #Shareyourdiscovery #Citizenscience

🐴 #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

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

🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday
These two skulls were discovered along with 52 additional bones—ribs, femurs, tibiae, vertebrae, and various fragments near a peat bog in Wabasha County, #Minnesota.

Peat is anoxic, preserving ancient remains very well. It's often speculated that bison were driven into bogs while being hunted, but in many cases, no signs of butchery or human activity are found.

rchistory.org

#Pleistocene #Bison #WabashaCounty #Paleontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience

#LostBones #FossilFriday 🐂 Five bison species are said to have roamed North America: The Eurasian Bison priscus adapted into Bison latifrons, which downsized into Bison antiquus. Later, Bison occidentalis emerged in the Late Pleistocene, leading to today’s Bison bison. Are they all distinct, or was it a gradual shift?

#pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #skull

🦌#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃Remnants of deer and bison are common along many Minnesota rivers. Teeth, metacarpals, metatarsals, and some long bones withstand the erosive forces of rivers particularly well.

These specimens were all found during a single kayak trip this field season, along just a two-mile stretch of river in southern Minnesota.

#pleistocene #holocene #bisonbison #whitetail #odocoileusvirginianus #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

#LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Brown bear in Minnesota?! This specimen, discovered during a visit to Crow Wing County, was subsequently transferred to the Science Museum of Minnesota. identified as a left patella (kneecap) from a modern brown bear (Ursus arctos).

Tags include the notation “Maryland and Mississippi” – referencing construction in St. Paul from the 1960s.

www.crowwinghistory.org

#ursusarctos #palaeontology #brownbear #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #patella #minnesota

It's #LostBones #FossilFriday!🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Bison hyoid bones are quite rare in the collections I have reviewed. This pair is part of a larger assemblage donated in 2022, including elements from both juvenile and adults.

The bones were all recovered in Wolcott Township by an independent researcher and are currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault Minnesota.

www.rchistory.org @ricecohs
#pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #hyoid #skull

🐌It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 Believe it or not, these snail, clam, fish and ammonite fossils from the Cretaceous period are from Minnesota!

Minnesota’s Iron Range lies below what is know as the Coleraine Formation, the 85 to 95-million-year-old shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway, which crossed the North American for nearly 100 million years.

https://www.mndiscoverycenter.com/visit/paleo/

#hillannexpaleontologyproject #massabirange #cretaceous #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

🐘#LostBones #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 This Mastodon tooth, from an unknown donor, arrived at the History Center of Olmsted County in 2012. It is displayed alongside a Mastodon tusk from a quarry in High Forest Township, also of Olmsted County.

So far, this tooth is one of only two found in Southern Minnesota county collections that I have come across during my #LostBones research.

www.olmstedhistory.com

#pleistocene #mastodon # proboscidean #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience