Dinosaur Fossil Friday

[Troodon]

The Twitter Paleontology World post cool images of fossils on Friday so I'm happy to steal from them and share some dinosaur ones with this forum

 

Holotype specimen of the short-faced dromaeosaur Atrociraptor from the Horseshoe Canyon Fm of Alberta - ROM

 

Oviraptorid Skull, Mongolia,  Rinchenia mongoliensis

 

AMNH Protoceratops andrewsi 

 

3 Year old Tarbosaurus, Mongolia

 

Skeleton of Baryonyx 

 

Amargasaurus, from Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Patagonia, Argentina is a Sauropod.

 

Diabloceratops holotype skull natural history museum of Utah

 

Daspletosaurus maxilla -Tyrrell

[Bobby Rico]

Incredible fossils and this post has  also made me realise I need to get myself off to a museum . 

 

Thank for for sharing 

 

cheers Bobby 

[caldigger]

Megh, i have tons of these in my backyard. I let the neighborhood kids play on them and take whatever they want.  

A fantastic array of species, thanks fo the post.

[oldtimer]

Thanks for sharing.  My hope is one day I will find something similar.

[HamptonsDoc]

[Nimravis]

Nice stuff-

[JohnBrewer]

Fantastic!

[Haravex]

8 hours ago, caldigger said:

Megh, i have tons of these in my backyard. I let the neighborhood kids play on them and take whatever they want.  

A fantastic array of species, thanks fo the post.

Can i come live in your backyard please? Anyway nice selection of species my favorite from the lot has to be armargsaurus absolutely spectacular (words of john hammond haha)

[Troodon]

Appreciate everyone's comments and I'm with Haravex need to live in caldiggers backyard.

 

I do plan on continuing this every Friday, well as long as I have something interesting to post

[JohnBrewer]

10 minutes ago, Troodon said:

Appreciate everyone's comments and I'm with Haravex need to live in caldiggers backyard.

 

I do plan on continuing this every Friday, well as long as I have something interesting to post

Can I live in your mates backyard please Frank?

[caldigger]

To be honest, the only thing to be found in my backyard is dirt. Dinos are somewhat of a rarity in Calif.

[Troodon]

6 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

Can I live in your mates backyard please Frank?

here in southern arizona we have lots of rocks, dirt and those prickly plants

[JohnBrewer]

1 minute ago, caldigger said:

 

To be honest, the only thing to be found in my backyard is dirt

 

And a pea crab mine!

[caldigger]

3 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

And a pea crab mine!

Which is currently under water.

There are some advantages to a drought.

[Sagebrush Steve]

1 hour ago, caldigger said:

To be honest, the only thing to be found in my backyard is dirt. Dinos are somewhat of a rarity in Calif.

Or fossils of any kind in my part of California.  But as long as @Troodon keeps up with the Friday posts I can get my thrills vicariously. 

[Troodon]

FOSSIL FRIDAY is Back

 

 

-Microraptorine dromaeosaurid Microraptor, Liaoning, China

 

Holotype of the Nodosaurid Panoplosaurus mirus at Canadian National Museum

 

Velocriaptor in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

 

 

Holotype skull of Zaraapelta nomadis, a beautiful ankylosaur from the Gobi Desert.

 

Crotholus audeti from southern Alberta is possibly the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in the world at the ROM 

 

Tyrannosaurid indet aka:  Raptorex kriegsteini.   Holotype, Tokyo National Museum of Nature & Science

 

Tyrannosaur extracted from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in October. Orbital cavity is top right and look at all those teeth in the lower jaw! Large bone (top left) is a femur and there are tail vertebrae beneath the skull.  Possibly Teratophoneus curriei

Please note the sketal sheet to the left of the jacket.  Looks like paleontologists even need help identifying the bones  oh yea this is where the teeth belong.......

 

Duckbill Skulls at the ROM, Late Cretaceous

 

Amazing skull and postcranium of the Triassic early archosaur Youngosuchus sinensis, at the IVPP, Beijing, China.  Very cool and something you never want to meet in person.

 

Skulls of the iconic South African dinosaur Massospondylus.  Early Jurassic sauropods

 

Skelton of the Tarbosaurus that was sold at auction for $1M that was the center of illegal smuggling trade from Mongolia.  The irony is that this skeleton had little scientific value since it was poorly cobbled together from a number of specimens and isolated bones. 

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

I am loving the feature Fossil Friday . Panoplosaurus  mirus is an amazing specimen and really great to see it from different angles . Some scary creatures indeed.

 

thanks for sharing

 

 

[RJB]

Some really neat stuff here!

 

RB

[Tidgy's Dad]

I particularly love the Microraptor. 

I wonder if i'm really, really good Santa will oblige......................... 

[Troodon]

39 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I particularly love the Microraptor. 

I wonder if i'm really, really good Santa will oblige......................... 

I got a sneak peak at Santa's sled and I wonder who's house that Microraptor will be dropped off at???

 

[oldtimer]

Thanks for sharing.  I really like the microraptor.  The others are fantastic too.  This thread makes my Fridays very happy.

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/15/2017 at 8:30 AM, Troodon said:

I got a sneak peak at Santa's sled and I wonder who's house that Microraptor will be dropped off at???

Me! Me! Me !

i've been good, here's my halo to prove it! 

 

[doushantuo]

 

Raptorex has been revised,I seem to remember.

Lovely Amargosaurus! 

 

arbour(large download,thesis,more or less the above article)

 

 

 

 

[oldtimer]

Here is my submission for today.  I am not sure what these are but saw them in a Museum in Fruita Colorado this past fall.

 

[Sagebrush Steve]

On 12/15/2017 at 10:45 AM, oldtimer said:

Here is my submission for today.  I am not sure what these are but saw them in a Museum in Fruita Colorado this past fall.

Very nice!  Looks like it is their local dinosaur Fruitadens, named after their locality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitadens