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  1. FB003

    Peabody Reopens 3/26

    In case anyone is local to Connecticut, Peabody Museum reopens March 26th after their multimillion dollar renovations free for everyone. Just a general FYI. I know I'll be going. Can sign up for a free membership with a few perks on their website.
  2. Milan (northern Italy) is the second largest city in Italy and my hometown. I’ve spent a good deal of my childhood and formative years in the natural history museum, getting to know it very well. I also have had the chance of volunteering for almost two years in the paleontology collections. The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale was founded in 1838. During WWII air raids, the authorities refused to evacuate the scientific collections to a safer area, despite the very high risks. In 1943, fire bombs hit the museum and its entire collection (save for a very limited number of specimens) was forever lost. This is one of the worst loss in the history of Italian science. After WWII the museum acquired new collections, by exchange, purchase or through scientific expeditions. Nowadays, it possibly ranks as first in terms of number of specimens, among the Italian museums. There are five sections open to the public: introduction to paleontology, the animal tree of life and evolution, the geologic time scale, the dinosaurs hall and the ‘treasures hall’. Contrary to other permanent exhibitions (such as the mineralogical and paleoanthropological one), the paleontology section has not been renovated in a long time (save for a handful of displays) and that is one of the major issues: almost every explanatory panel is only in Italian and sometimes not up to date. Despite all of this, the exhibits are highly enjoyable. Starting from the 1970s the museum staff has been involved in field work campaigns in Italy and abroad. Some of the most relevant finds are now exhibited to the public. These include, just to name a few, fossils from the Triassic of Besano (Italy) and Madagascar, from the Jurassic of Osteno (Italy), from the Cretaceous of Lebanon and, last but not least, dinosaurs. Relevant fossils, purchased in the last few years, are displayed in the ‘treasures hall’. Let’s dive into some photos! The next 9 pictures depict specimens from the Middle Triassic of Besano. Note that a few of them are casts, but the originals are kept in the museum’s collections. Neusticosaurus edwardsii, a nothosaur reptile. This is an historical specimen, being the first Besano reptile described in a scientific journal (1854), as well as one of the very few fossils that survived the WWII air raids. Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis, a carnivorous semiacquatic nothosaur Mixosaurus cornalianus, the most abundant ichthyosaur from Besano Saurichthys curionii, one of the top predator fish from in the Triassic seas Macrocnemus bassanii, one the few terrestrial reptiles known from Besano Askeptosaurus italicus, a thalattosaurian sea reptile Besanosaurus leptorhynchus (holotype), one of the most impressive fossils ever found in Italy. An ichthyosaur, it measures 5 m (16.5 ft) in length. It was a pregnant female and 4 embryos have fossilized as well. Preparation took more than 15000 hours. This is a cast, the original being too heavy and delicate to be exhibited. First photo: the complete specimen. Second photo: close up of the skull region. Third photo (taken from Wikimedia commons): close up of the rib cage. Notice the circular structures, they are the vertebrae of the embryos Next are three dinosaur specimens. Unfortunately, all three are casts, but the originals of two of them are kept in the museum. Saltriovenator zanellai, the latest of the Italian dinosaurs to be described (2018), it originates from the lower Jurassic of Lombardy. Few bones have been preserved and they were freed from the rock with acid baths. The species is the oldest ceratosaurian known. In front of the museum there is a full scale reconstruction of the animal. (The first photo is taken from Wikimedia Commons) Scipionyx samniticus, one of the greatest paleontological discoveries ever made. This juvenile dinosaur (24 cm or 9.5 in long), recovered in the Early Cretaceous of Pietraroja (southern Italy) preserves much of the soft body parts (including muscles, cuticles, gut). This is a cast, the original is kept near to place of discovery and is seldom shown to the public Rostrum of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, from the Cretaceous of Morocco. It was bought from a fossil dealer. Spinosaurus’ skull elements are exceedingly rare (except for teeth). (Photo taken from Wikimedia Commons) Now, a fish exhibited in the 'introduction to paleontology' exhibition: Paranguilla tigrina, an eel from the Eocene of Bolca, which preserves the original pigmentation pattern Next, a display of concretions from the Triassic of Madagascar. You can see fish specimens (top left and lower right corner and a close up in the second photo), a shrimp (centre), two ammonites (top right corner) and a thylacocephan (lower left corner) These are sponges from the Cretaceous of France, England and Germany And now it is time for the ‘treasures hall’! A large slab preserving 8 complete trilobites from the Cambrian of Morocco An exceptionally preserved stingray from the Eocene of Bolca, northern Italy Pontosaurus kornhuberi, a pythonomorph reptile from the Late Cretaceous of Lebanon Bovid skulls from the Pleistocene of the Po river, northern Italy And, cherry on top, my absolute favourite fossil in the exhibition: a slab preserving countless sea stars (Astropecten irregularis), from the Early Pleistocene of northern Italy I wish I could show you even more photos, but many fossils (for instance those originating from the Jurassic of Osteno) are too small to show any detail in a photograph! In conclusion, the Natural History Museum of Milan, despite an often out dated exhibition layout, should be an unmissable stop for any paleontology enthusiast! Thank you for the attention, Italo40
  3. Because of this forum I found out about the Burpee Museum . The world’s best assistant and general laborer offered to take me there today. Prepare to be spammed with photos.
  4. Hi all, Fairly new to the forum. As I posted in the welcome forum Hello from Santa Cruz, CA with a tub full of fossils!, I have a tub full of fossils that I only know which a few actually are (see my photo in that post). There are somewhere around 50 fossils that I honestly don't even know where they came from, where they were dug up, etc. I've had a lot of help from other folks to try to identify a couple of them. However, as I've learned, if I truly don't know what part of the world/country the given fossil came from, it's very difficult to find out what the fossil actually is. I still have so many more in this tub that I would like to have identified. I don't want to waste anyone else's time on this forum by posting new threads and photos when I'm asking about fossils of which I don't know the origin. So my current question is: Does anyone know of a museum, a specialist, anyone/any avenue in CA state (preferably near Santa Cruz 95062) that I could physically take all of these 50+ fossils to for identification, in the hope that if they are inspected physically that I may be able to figure out at least what some of them are? My previous specific Fossil ID posts for reference: Unidentified, possibly lower femur bone from a dinosaur? What is this tusk / horn?
  5. Hello everyone and hope you're all having a wonderful day. Recently, I had the brilliant opportunity to volunteer at the Australian Museum in Sydney. It has definitely been a highlight of this year for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! While I was there, I spent a lot of time exploring the museum, and eventually saw and took photographs of every palaeontological item on display I am aware of, and would like to show them all to you now as an early Christmas present. I do know @Notidanodon did get to share some photographs of the museum a while ago. If you're wondering why the opalised shells Notidanodon shared are not in this topic, they are no longer on display as far as I know. I did also get to see some fossil specimens behind-the-scenes, but I did not get to take pictures of them, so these are only the fossils and replicas on public display I do have a lot of photos of other things as well, particularly the Rameses travelling exhibition, as well as labels of the palaeontology items, so if you want anything in particular, please PM me. I also have a lot of similar photographs of the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in Bathurst, and will probably post those next year. This will be a long topic, and I doubt I'll finish it all today, but here goes: Dinosaur Gallery Entrance Replica skeleton of Jobaria tiguidensis and Afrovenator abakensis, originally discovered by Paul Sereno. You'll see that a lot of Sereno's skeletons are on display in this gallery, as he was involved with its creation. The Jobaria mount from behind; note the upper floor of displays no longer accesible which the sauropod's head reaches up into. From talking with the other volunteers I'm pretty sure this upper floor used to be part of the 'More than Dinosaurs' gallery which the current Dinosaurs gallery replaced, but I cannot find any images of the older gallery to confirm this besides a close-up of a Stegosaurus (which is still in the museum). Mesozoic Plants Pretty nicely, there is a decent amount of space in the gallery dedicated to non-dinosaurs. While I would have preferred a simple 'Fossil Gallery' with a variety of extinct organisms on display, this is still a good compromise. Photograph showing how the plants section, labelled 'A Changing World', is presented. Each of the large windows is into a cabinet displaying the real fossil plants, and are accompanied by a reconstruction of terrestrial life at the time at a child's eyeline, so they can get a better idea of how life on land looked in each period. You can look into them through the small rectangles below the large windows. They all appear in '3D'. The orange circles cover up areas where children can smell what certain plants would have been like (the Triassic one is of a conifer, and the Cretaceous one is of a flowering plant). Australian Triassic plants. Top left is Rissikia media, bottom left is Dicroidium zuberi and right is Cladophelbis australis. Here is the reconstruction of the Triassic. Australian Jurassic Plants. Left is Agathis jurassica, right is Osmundacaulis sp. Here is the accompanying Jurassic reconstruction. Early Cretaceous Australian plants. Ginkgoites australis at left and Phullopteroides dentata at right. Fun fact; this is where I first learned that seed ferns survived into the Cretaceous, as most dinosaur books simply seem to forget about them after the Triassic period. I guess you can also see my hand here. That's one of the annoying things about all of these items being behind glass; it's difficult to take nice photos of them without getting yourself into them. Still, it's better than the alternative, as you'll see later... Here is the Early Cretaceous reconstruction. Weird how there is a stegosaur, when stegosaurs easily reached their peak diversity and abundance in the Jurassic. Only one plant is in the Late Cretaceous cabinet, and ironically it is unidentified. The final reconstruction, which is of the Late Cretaceous. Interesting how this is the only one to not have a Theropod or Sauropodomorph. Non-Dinosaur Mesozoic Animals Opposite to the plant display, there is a section dedicated to the animals the dinosaurs shared their world with. Interestingly, this section starts out with an Eoraptor lunensis cast, to highlight certain features unique to dinosaurs, such as their hollow hip sockets. You can see parts of the herbivores and carnivores sections in the background. Over my many trips, I often seem to gravitate to this specimen, as besides the Jobaria, Giganotosaurus and Archaeopteryx it is easily the one I have the most photos of on my phone (obviously more than two, don't want to clutter the page). Properly starting off our journey on non-dinosaurs is a display of terrestrial animals. All fossils are real except stated otherwise: Skull of an unidentified Dicynodont found in Zambia. Cast of Rhamphorynchus muensteri from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. Parotosaurus wadei skull from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Clarotitan andersoni from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. There is another specimen in a different gallery which I took a better picture of. Cleitholepis granulata from Somersby, NSW, Australia. Cavernericthys talbragerensis from Tralbragar, NSW, Australia. It is overlaid on a leaf. You'll notice some other fossils from Tralbragar in the Jurassic plants cabinet, as well as in another gallery. Left is a nymph of Promimara cephalota, found in Koonwarra, Victoria, Australia, and right is an unidentified cockroach from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Aeschnogomphus sp. from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. This specimen was special, but very annoying to get a photograph of. Cast of lower jaw of Teinolophis trusleri, a monotreme mammal found in Inverloch, Victoria, Australia. According to the label it is the oldest known mammal in Australia, even older than Steropodon. I'm going to start a new post now so that I don't run out of space.
  6. Hello everyone! My name is L. I am excited to be here. For a few months now I have been working on building an exhibit showcasing fossils donated to my museum. However, while most of the fossils came with ID cards a sizeable amount have not. I am mostly interested in seeing if any paleontologist or fossil expert out there could help me identify these fossils :). I will make a post separate from this with all the fossil pictures and any information I was given pertaining to them. Otherwise I am just happy I have stumbled across this forum during my research!
  7. Hi everyone! Past summer I visited London for a comic con, but I always try to visit the NHM as well when I am in London. Luckily this time I had an entire day stretched since I also wanted to make some photo's of the collection and I thought, why no share it here. A bit overdue but let's start with my most recent visit to my favorite place on earth: The amazing thing about the NHM is that the entrance is free, but since I like to support the museum and don't like to wait for hours in line I always book a ticket for the current special exhibition which was the Patagotitan skeleton currently on display. I entered from the side entrance were I was greeted by Sophie the Stegosaurus stenops which is the most complete skeleton ever found. Before we headed to the Titanosaur exhibition I came across this cool new Jurassic World Shop with everything JP & JW merchandise. I got myself a 30 year anniversary gilded ticket from Jurassic Park as a souvenir After our quick detour we entered the new temporary exhibition: Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur The actual Patagotitan mayorum femur found in the La Fletcha Ranch, Patagonia, Argentina - Cretaceous, Albian, 101.62 mya Patagotitan scapula, humerus, ulna & radius found in the La Flecha Ranch, Patagonia, Argentina Haestasaurus becklesii skin impression found in Hastings, East Sussex, UK - Cretaceous, Valanginian, 140 - 133 mya Titanosaur coprolite found in Maharashtra, India - Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, 72 - 66 mya Patagotitan mayorum tooth replica
  8. Last month I made a trip to Paris, and ofcourse a visit to the Museum of Natural History had to be included! A gorgeous museum especially due to it's antique style, it's also one of the oldest natural history musea in the world. Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) Short Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus sp.) Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
  9. Hi all. I was planning on a little fossil hunting trip at the weekend, but the heavens opened and, even being an outdoors person, the torrent was too heavy for an enjoyable afternoon. Instead, we went into Derby city centre UK and found a Museum and Gallery. Not having planned ahead, we had no idea what kind of museum it was. Turned out, it had a bit of everything in their own rooms and was quite small. It did have some interesting stuff and I learnt something I never knew, so a good day in the end. To our surprise, we discovered there had been Hippopotamuses living in Derby or where Derby now stands. I've posted some photos from the Fossil room. I love the fossilised nest. Jes.
  10. A few years ago, my husband and I visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History. So, here's a virtual tour of what we saw in May of 2011. I've trimmed our photo set of 685 pictures down to 112, so this will be a long thread! I know everyone wants to see the fossils; there will be some! I'm just posting pictures in the order they were taken, and we saw a lot before we got there. Walking up to the museum, we saw an interesting tower with gargoyles. Here's a couple of photos: The wall mural we saw on the way in: A set of bird's nests on display as we went for the meteorite collection: Next up: the Meteorite collection. This will take a few posts...
  11. Hi. I wanted to let you know under my "Off the Air" topic that I'm back home now from my trip to Vienna, but it seems to have gotten lost during the server exchange problems. But this is no tragedy, since I can just tell you here that I'm back and had a great time visiting the sites and activities in this wonderful city for the first time in my life. We of course took a tour in a horse-drawn coach, which is called a Fiaker here, visited practically all of the castles and palaces from the Habsburgs which are available and, among other things, watched the morning exercises of the Lippizaner horses at the Spanish riding school. We did a lot of walking. Needless to say, we also came to enjoy the exquisit confections which are available in their world-famous cafes. We also visited the Art Museum, but the main attraction for me and us here was the Natural History Museum, which is, to say the least, very impressive. Of course I concentrated on the paleontological section. Everything is up to the latest standards, but all still displayed as things were back 100 years ago. There is a complete room for each geological period, starting with the Precambrain and running through to the Cenozoic with a display room for the larger beasts near the end. It carries on then into the stone age and beyond, but that was enough for my powers of concentration on that day. Here is a picture heavy report for you with a few comments in between. Sorry about the glass reflections, but what can you do? Precambrium and Paleozoic: Mesozoic: Cenozoic: The big ones, etc.: So, I hope I was able to give you a good impression of at least one part of this fascinating world class museum.
  12. Stingray

    Very big fossil hunt FYI.

    Just in case you weren’t aware. Seems in the 1940’s NYC museum dumped a box car full of mammoth and other pliestocene fossils in the east river either ran out of room or just didn’t want them. Divers hunting for lost woolly mammoth bones in New York City's East River have finally made a discovery - uncovering what is believed to be the jawbone of a long-extinct steppe bison. Crews have been scanning the river after records surfaced suggesting the American Museum of Natural History dumped thousands of mammoth bones there in the 1940s when it ran out of storage space. Over the weekend, a team led by Don Gann, 35, and Christopher Ogden emerged from the water with their first discovery - the jawbone of an animal that went extinct some 10,000 years ago.
  13. JBkansas

    Texas Through Time in NYT

    A NYT piece on the Texas Through Time museum: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/science/texas-fossils-museums-paleontology.html
  14. Hello! For the 'erfgoeddag' here in Belgium the Natural History Museum Boekenberg (where I volunteer) organised a talk about whale and dolphin fossils by Mark Bosselaers. I came to listen to the talk and I also bought some small fossils. Here are some pictures from the museum.
  15. Alexthefossilfinder

    Haul from Canadian Museum of Nature

    I recently visited the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa and was able to purchase some fossils from the gift shop. Picture 1 is my personal favorite, it was labeled as a shark tooth, but I haven't been able to identify a species yet, any help is appreciated. Picture 2 is an ammonite, duh Picture 3 is a smoothed Orthoceras Picture 4 is a collection of smaller shark teeth I got together in a box.
  16. I don't think anyone has posted about this museum, but the Tokai University Museum of Natural History is a local museum near my family's hometown in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan. This is a museum that I visited a lot of a kid, but I was told that the museum as well as the aquarium here was going to close to the public sometime around March of this year? Haven't been here in like 15 years, so I figured I should go one last time before it closes down. You can also get a discount for tickets at convenience stores. It's not a huge museum, but there was some oddities. Also, some of the labels here are either outdated, or . . . a bit odd. Cetiosaurus statue Species: Pterichthyodes milleri and Pterichthys milleri Locale: Scotland, United Kingdom These are the same exact thing right? It's clear the labels for these were printed at different times. Species: Pleuracanthus sp. Locale: Germany Species: Scutosaurus karpinskii, Dicynodon amahtyku, Inostrancevia alezandri, Estemmenosuchus uralensis Casts from Russia. Species: Sauropoda indet. (?) Locale: Alberta, Canada (???) They refer to is as possibly being Apatosaurus but . . . You used to be able to touch this fossil, which is what that covered up section in on the information. Not sure if this is pandemic related, or they figured it wasn't a great idea somewhere down the line. Species: Tarbosaurus baatar (Cast) Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Original in Russia, which likely explains all the specimens after this one that aren't casts. Oospecies: Protoceratopsidovum fluxuosum Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Protoceratops sp. Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Gallimimus sp. Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Protoceratops sp. and Psittacosaurus sp. Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Deinodon tidoe (???) Locale: カプサイ (Kapusai?), Russia Good old Deinodon. Age is listed as 97-65 MYA. Not sure where Kapusai, Capsai, Capusai is. Everything about the label looks like a mess, but probably the most interesting piece I saw. I spent the longest time just looking at this specimen. I'm sure as a kid, I just walked right past it to look at all the big skeletons. But coming back here as a collector made me see this place in a new perspective. Species: Tarbosaurus baatar Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Saurolophus angustirostris Locale: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Species: Arcuaeogeryon peruvianus Locale: Uruguay Nothing comes up for this species or genus other than this specific specimen, so it's probably way outdated or was not right from the start. Or it is a spelling mistake. I know a lot of obscure genera don't come up if you mess up even a single letter. Species: Coelacanthus banffensis Locale: Canada Species: Carcharocles Otodus megalodon Locale: Atacama Desert, Chili Species: Carcharodon carcharias (Great White Shark) Locale: Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan
  17. A very exciting and long-awaited news: In mid-2024 the National Geological Museum of Italy (Museo geopaleontologico d'Italia 'Quintino Sella') in Rome will finally open its doors to the visitors. Rome, capital of Italy, is one of the leading centres of research in the field of geology and paleontology, but has lacked in recent years a suitable space to exhibit and promote its collections (more than 150.000 specimens and items). The Geological Museum of Italy, located in the heart of Rome, was closed in 2003 and the entire collection was stored away. In 2021 an agreement between institutions led to birth of a brand new museum, which will be located in the EUR district, south of the city centre, in the 'Museo delle Civiltà' (Civilizations Museum) complex , alongside other museums. Works are currently under way and, in the meantime, a little part of the collections is on display in a temporary exhibition. If you want to learn more: https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/archeologia-arte-antica/2022/12/museo-civilta-roma-nuovo-allestimento-collezioni-geologiche/ ( in italian, with photos). https://news.artnet.com/art-world/romes-reopened-museum-of-civilizations-is-decolonizing-its-collection-2205490 (in english, a general overview of the Museo delle Civiltà). Soon, everybody will be able to see and enjoy one of the most spectacular collections of paleontology in Italy! Thank you for the attention, Italo40
  18. I found some pictures of the Biomuseo in Panama City from when I visited a while back. Please excuse the blurry and unfocused photos, I was not the best with a camera back then! If you are ever traveling to Panama then this is a must-stop; it has plenty of information of both modern and prehistoric life, as well as the largest aquarium in Panama. Since Panama is a relatively new landmass (geologically speaking), its geology is mainly post-Cretaceous. When I eventually return here I will definitely be cataloguing the exhibits better, there are many more than what took pictures of.
  19. I've been to a least a few museums where they would have a part of an exhibit dedicated to the Carboniferous era (of which the Field Museum's section for that in the Evolving Planet is pretty good). But I do wonder what would it be like if a whole A grade small to medium sized museum opened dedicated solely to the fossils found in the Mazon Creek area, including the Essex Fauna. It could be located close to the Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife area and include life sized reconstructions of both the terrestrial and aquatic environments. It could also be a place where fossil hunters could donate there finds to have them displayed so scientists will have an opportunity to study any fossils found (where most of the fossils from the area now I fear end up in private hands). Any thoughts?
  20. Hi I know this is not open yet, but if any are near Denmark next year, I think this looks amazing - Very rare we have anything of this quality around here. Allosauren Big Joe, Torosaurus and Archaeopteryx are some of the stuff going on display. https://knuthenborg.dk/evolutionsmuseet/ And if you are planning to see the museum, they also have a pretty amazing dino forest beside the rest of the safari park. Hope its OK to share something like this that is not open yet, but maybe some people had planned a vacation in Denmark next year, and this should be on your visit list Regards Henrik.
  21. I went today to the museum of natural history Lille Northern France,nice place to visit!
  22. A10Airknight

    Is this an egg?

    Hi everyone, First, thank you very much for your help in identifying fossils! I just discovered this resource, and am grateful it exists. I found this unknown piece in a collections storage closet in the museum I work for. It was mixed in with other fossils and geology samples. Unfortunately, it was unlabeled, and so I do not know where or even when it was found. Again, thank you for your help, and I apologize for not having more information about the piece. If you need any other pictures, I would be happy to take them.
  23. During the Summer, I had the fortune of driving near Seymour, TX and thus the opportunity to pay a visit to the WMNH. The WMNH is a small but unique museum in Northern Texas, specializing in the Early Permian fauna that lived nearby ~ 290 million years ago in the famous Texas "red beds." The land around Seymour was once an equatorial bayou, humid and inundated with rivers and lakes. In the rivers were lungfish like those that live today, various ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fish like the Xenacanth "sharks." Amphibians like Eryops, Seymouria, and Diplocaulus also spent much of their lives in the water, but were capable of venturing onto land. The most famous not-a-dinosaur Dimetrodon was the terrestrial apex predator, living among other stem-mammals like Edaphosaurus and Secodontosaurus. Early Dinosaurs and mammals were still tens of millions of years in the future. Most of these interesting animals are rarely found in museums, so the chance to see so many of them in one building was an uncommon privilege. Outside the building, a larger-than-life Dimetrodon stands watch over the murals. The building is also lined with large Ammonites. an Eryops tries to find some shade Inside, there are several life reconstructions of some of these animals, the first one being Dimetrodon The first of several Dimetrodon individuals, "Bonnie" The red matrix has been coated with a dark grey material to increase contrast with the bones. There is a partial Diplocaulus amphibian skull in its belly Something I hadn't known: Dimetrodon may have been venomous?? I look forward to the publication of the evidence A couple of large Eryops, their skulls were comparable in size to those of large Alligators Various skeletal elements 1. D. grandis femur, 2. Dimetrodon sp. femur, 3. Edaphosaurus pogonius tibia, 4. Dimetrodon sp. tibia, 5. Edaphosaurus pelvis, 6. Dimetrodon sp. pelvis, 7. Secodontosaurus pelvis Diadectes, a herbivorous tetrapod incisorform and molariform teeth indicate it was capable of stripping and masticating vegetation, a novel development among tetrapods of the time. It also had a secondary palate like we do, meaning it could chew and breathe simultaneously. Diplocaulus, the "boomerang-headed" amphibian Dimetrodon elements Neural spine with a pathology, a healed break possibly from the attack of another Dimetrodon Maxilla with a broken canine, proposed to be broken in life Pelvis with bite marks, possible evidence of cannibalism Another Dimetrodon Some plants
  24. Hey all! I am currently helping to identify rocks and minerals for a museum and came across this piece of, what I believe is, petrified wood. I have never seen one that looks like this, however. It is highly solicified and looks rather similar to a zebra mussel. Any thoughts on what kind of petrified with this might be if at all?
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