🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
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#FossilFriday The final tooth—12 of 12—is SMM P2024.5.1, a lower molar found at Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (Brooklyn Park, MN) in 2023.
Twelve 3D printed reproductions of the molars are also underway and are now receiving their final paint touches. Once complete, the original specimens will be carefully packed and shipped to UC Irvine’s W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility (KCCAMS) for radiocarbon dating.
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🐴 #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 Specimen SMM P2025.8.6 — originally MNH 779 in the Minnesota Historical Society collection — comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota.
Molar #11 of 12 in the statewide Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s KCCAMS Facility for radiocarbon dating this summer.
Follow the full 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and its updates through the link in my bio.
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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 This month I'm back out #CountingBones. At the Winnebago Area Museum a quiet storage room revealed bison and horse remains from two Blue Earth River sites
Shout out: this museum has been entirely volunteer run for half a century — the kind of stewardship that will help keep Ice Age stories alive.
Museum: https://www.winnebagoareamuseum.org
Learn about the Lost Bones project: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/about
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
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#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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Horses vanished from North America ~10,000 years ago. So why are these fossilized teeth turning up across the Midwest
A friend found the infamous “black tooth” back in 2018 — and now we’re waiting for the radiocarbon dates. No dates have previously been documented!
Will they point to the Ice Age, or something pre‑European contact? 💬 Share your thoughts — what do you think the dates will reveal?
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Read More: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones
🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday — Molar (SMM P77.20.1), specimen 8 of 12, was recovered in 1976 — the same year the U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial. This much older story emerged from the landscape in St. Cloud, Minnesota, when P. Lansing collected this beautiful upper horse molar near Highway 23.
Long before modern roads and cities, horses may have roamed Ice Age Minnesota, grazing across open prairie while mammoths and giant bison shared the region.
#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.
Happy #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🦣🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 Was on the road this week with @dr_crocogator to retrieve specimen #4! This beauty of a horse molar (right p2) is from Wright County, Minnesota.
It was found on the shore of Olson’s Point on Buffalo Lake in 1976 and was currently housed at the Wright County Historical Society in Buffalo.
www.wrighthistory.org
📖Notes: https://substack.com/profile/74732696-marcus-brandel/note/c-210629991
#pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience #horse #iceage #mnmuseums
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