This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This is the largest known of its family.
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).
This was designed by Infinite Creativity.
This week’s Fossil Friday is a tooth of Sandalodus, a Carboniferous shark. This animal was swimming in the tropical seas that covered Alberta roughly 350 million years ago. At that time, much of Alberta lay under a warm, shallow sea - more like the Bahamas today than the prairies we know now!
This specimen was found near Bragg Creek in southern Alberta. It is APS 1985.020 and was collected by Geoffrey Barrett.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossilfriday #fossil #shark #alberta
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Sinoceratops
The holotype was found in 2008 in the Hongtuya Formation of the Wangshi Group in Shandong, China. It consists of a partial skull, including a braincase.
Paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues described and named Sinoceratops, in 2010.
Sinoceratops was the first ceratopsian found in Asia. Its not exactly clear, due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils, how they related to American ceratopsians.
#FotoVorschlag #asymmetrisch & #52wochenfotochallenge #Hände & #fossilfriday
Hier mein wohl liebstes #Fossil - für Führungen im #Museum klasse, denn wer möchte nicht mal einem #Dino die #Hand geben? 🫳🦖 Hier ist es allerdings eigentlich der #Fuß und der #Saurier ist auch nicht so groß: Ein #Psittacosaurus aus der Verwandtschaft von #Triceratops - allerdings nur so groß wie ein mittlerer Hund 🐕 Die Papageischnabel-Echse 🦜 ist einer von wenigen Dinos, dessen #Farben wir kennen!
🐂 Happy #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦥🐴🐘🐪 These large upper bison molars — plus partial maxilla — are part of a 2024 donation to the Melrose Area Museum. The collection, contributed by a museum board member, also includes horn cores, mandibles, individual teeth, and other Ice Age materials.
If you’re into Midwest deep time stories, follow along and explore the full project in my bio.
#MelroseAreaHistoricalSociety #Pleistocene #Bovid #Bones #Palaeontology #Fossils #CitizenScience
More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now become extinct. This evolutionary burst in new forms of life, referred to as the Cambrian explosion, paved the way for the evolution of many major animal groups that still populate our planet today.
Fresh in for #FossilFriday, a new review! In Search of Sea Dragons is an engrossing tale of fossils and obsession.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This ceratopsian is one of the better known ones from outside of North America.
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).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
The Dinosaur Dave
Alberta Palaeo Society
Malte Aurich
Moo Dog Press
Marcus Brandel
Kate 
The Inquisitive Biologist