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I recently attended the PermianFest event at the Whiteside museum in Seymour Texas. Along with several days of great speakers, they also offered dig workshops at one of their Permian redbed sites. I absolutely couldn't make the trip without getting in on a dig! I only went for a single day in the field, I wish it could have been for 5, it was so great. We were digging in the Craddock bonebed, a location where many museum specimens of Dimetrodon, and many other Permian fauna have been recovered. It was a special treat to be working a quarry site in the footsteps of Cope, Sternberg, Bakker and more. The shear amount of fossil material is staggering. I thought that the PaleoAdventures Hell creek site was dense, this was packed even more. We started with surface collecting. Just plop down on a bit of ground and start looking. Ddon, Eryops, Orthocanthus and more species of bone bits everywhere. Everything I collected on the surface was in an area about 2ft x 2ft. After getting our eyes tuned in on the shapes, sizes, and colors of the fossils, we moved into the quarry to begin working back the quarry face. I am convinced that we were exposing a new Dimetrodon skeleton. I was uncovering ribs, verts and sail-spines, the people to my right were finding cervical verts, and the man to my left was finding verts, spines and an ilium. It was a great dig, I wish it wasn't almost 5 hour drive each way for me.
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There is a tiny town in Texas called Seymour. It has two stoplights. It's tiny. But there is a museum there - the Whiteside Museum of Natural History which is primarily dedicated to Permian Era fossils because there are the famous Red Beds very nearby, of which this museum has access to. So they put together the inaugural Permian Fest held last weekend. Not only did they have digs and auctions and fancy fund-raising dinner, but some of the best paleontologists from around the US gave presentations. I got to meet Carl Mehling, Jimmy Waldron and the infamous Dr Robert Bakker as well as some other amazing people! There were book signings, a bake sale (got a blueberry pie!), paleontological origami and of course...vendors! I had my little set up (8 tables worth!!) of tshirts, artwork, fossil art and more. It was quite the weekend. But of course, I did a little fossil hunting on the way up and back! Permian Fest: Me and Dr. Robert Bakker (my mom worked at the Peabody Museum at Yale when I was in utero and she worked with Dr .Bakkers first wife - so I "sort of" met him a long time ago....hahahah) a few of the displays from the Whiteside: My favorite! The Diplocaulus! My second favorite - Edaphosaurus and of course, a Dimetrodon So I found myself a couple of Permian roadcuts to check out - none are vertebrate sites, all were marine invertebrates, but I had not collected any marine Permian stuff, so I was happy to add it to my collection. An interesting bryozoan cluster corals and crinoids I'm assuming this is Lophophylidium coral. I am not at all familiar with Permian stuff and am assuming that much of this is the same as the Texas Pennsylvanian fauna A few other nice things: Brachiopod Crinoid I'm always happy when I find some Echinoid stuff . another brachiopod One of the roadcuts had amazing hash plates....full of bryozoans and such. But my final stop yielded my best fossil find....not Permian, but back to my familiar Cretaceous stomping grounds! My biggest and best preserved Leptosalenia mexicana from the Walnut Formation.
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Lecture by Dr. Bakker at the Whiteside Museum 2.25.23
hadrosauridae posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
The Whiteside museum in Seymour Texas recently held their first ever "Permian Fest" event, part of which included 3 days of presentations by many guest lecturers. I was fortunate enough to have a seat literally, in front of Dr. Bakker. Since I was about 4 - 5 feet away from Dr. Bakker for the lecture, so I couldn't pass the opportunity to record it. I wish I could have recorded his presentation the day before, but the auditorium was packed with school kids and I didnt have a clear view of the presenters or the screen.-
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The Whiteside Museum of Natural History - August 2022
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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- 7 replies
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