#LostBones #FossilFriday #RadioCarbonDating 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪In June 1921, workers removing the overburden at the Sagamore Mine near Riverton, Minnesota uncovered a peat layer ~eight feet below the surface that held a rich Pleistocene bone bed. Among the material recovered from this layer were a horse molar (specimen #6) and an horse incisor, found alongside other late‑Quaternary remains within the same sedimentary zone.

https://www.crowwinghistory.org

#pleistocene #palaeontology #CitizenScience #Equus

The weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Baryonyx

In January 1983, plumber and amateur fossil collector William J. Walker found a rock with a large claw in it. After taking it home he realized the tip was gone

A few weeks later he returned to the same place and found the tip, a phalanx bone and part of a rib.

In February 1983, palaeontologists Alan J. Charig and Angela C. Milner, after seeing the find, went to the pit and found more fragments.

In 1986, Charig and Milner named it Baryonyx walkeri.

Marine reptile fun! @WitcherClo led an outreach event at Wollaton Hall #NottNatHist Museum a few weeks ago. We challenged visitors to ID the fossil bones of an ichthyosaur and work out where they fit in the skeleton.

#WollatonHall #Fossils #Ichthyosaur #reptile #palaeontology #museum #FossilFriday

#NewSpecies!
New mantispoidea from mid-cretaceous kachin amber #myanmar just came in:

Dicranoberotha zhangzhiqiae

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/326C5E5F-9A58-E95E-FF0F-FED8FBC7F7E8
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.6.1
#Palaeoentomology #DicranoberothaZhangzhiqiae

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #neuroptera #mantispoidea #amber #fossils #fossilfriday #paleo #paleontology