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This is stunning piece and probably one of my favourite creatures of all. Ever since I saw a painting in a book by Zdenek Burian when I was a child.

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On 12/15/2017 at 9:09 AM, doushantuo said:

any minute now Fruitbat might point to the PLOS article in his library on Fruitadens

Denver Fowler revised Raptorex(prolly PLOS,and thusforth* in Fruitbat's Library

*a neologism never hurt anybody

I just saw one of those today: Interstitium

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On 1/5/2018 at 12:17 PM, Tate Museum said:

And last but not least, a few pix of Lee rex as it sits now.

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If any of you are coming through Casper, Wyoming, let me know and I can give you a tour.  It is in a separate building so you have to have an escort to see Lee.  (Named after the rancher who let us collect it).    

A massive effort with a massive reward!

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4 hours ago, Malone said:
On 1/5/2018 at 2:17 PM, Tate Museum said:

If any of you are coming through Casper, Wyoming, let me know and I can give you a tour.  It is in a separate building so you have to have an escort to see Lee.  (Named after the rancher who let us collect it).    

A massive effort with a massive reward!

Indeed!

 

I've seen Lee-rex in the flesh (so to speak). I do recommend to anybody passing through Casper to build some time into your schedule to properly take in the Tate Museum. We kinda buzzed through it quickly taking in a few of the highlights before heading off into the field with @jpc.

 

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78217-wyoming-fossil-hunting-adventure-september-2017/&do=findComment&comment=825207

 

The Rex Annex where Lee is stored (and prepped) was a highlight of a trip that had many highlights. You can see more pics of Lee and the rest of the trip at the link above.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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1 hour ago, digit said:

Indeed!

 

I've seen Lee-rex in the flesh (so to speak). I do recommend to anybody passing through Casper to build some time into your schedule to properly take in the Tate Museum. We kinda buzzed through it quickly taking in a few of the highlights before heading off into the field with @jpc.

 

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78217-wyoming-fossil-hunting-adventure-september-2017/&do=findComment&comment=825207

 

The Rex Annex where Lee is stored (and prepped) was a highlight of a trip that had many highlights. You can see more pics of Lee and the rest of the trip at the link above.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

This post says Malone said is there a different malone?

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Something got mixed up with this post.me sorry I read incorrectly.

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I would like to thank everyone that participated in last weeks Dinosaur Friday.   I also welcome all input, so feel free to add your spin on this topic.

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The Whiteside Museum in the Permian basin of Seymour Texas declared yesterday as International Dimetrodon Day and it got quite a lot of action on Twitter.  Here are some of the better posts

 

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Dimetrodon borealis, formerly known as Bathygnathus borealis - 

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Different species of Dimetrodon can be identified based on the presence or absence of denticles on their teeth

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:doh!:

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Google earth at work

The stratigraphic position of the classic Judith River dinosaur specimens described by Leidy, Cope & Marsh for a few projects.

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This Mantellisaurus is one of the most complete dinosaurs ever found in the UK. Formerly known as Iguanodon, it was renamed to honor the paleonotologist Gideon Mantell at NHM London

 

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From the Triassic the Cricodon holotype at the Zoology Museum

 

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Holotype of Cynognathus at NHM London. An genus of large-bodied cynodont therapsids that lived in the Middle Triassic

 

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The skull of a beautifully preserved Neusticosaurus pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic

 

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A hadrosaur forelimb, with beautiful skin impressions, from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell

 

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Calamites, a common Carboniferous horsetail, could grow 18 meters tall. The stem here came from Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

 

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One of the scarce ammonites which survived the K/T boundary. Hoploscaphites constrictus, Lower Paleocene. Stevns Klint, Denmark.

 

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Brontothere mandible from the Chadron Fm in western Nebraska . One of three collected in 1894 by EH Barbour & field party; possibly prepared by his sister Carrie, the first female Preparator at an US natural history museum

 

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Behind the scenes at NMNH. Fossilized giant sloth POO!!!!! looks like they couldn't digest the stems too well. About 10K yeads old

 

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An ant in amber – preserved from the Paleogene of Russia

 

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The Dentary of tte Nanotyrannus ‘Jane’ from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.

 

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How about some TRex bones from the feet! These metatarsals are in Museum of Nature’s fossil collections. 

 

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The genus Mastodonsaurus was an amphibian that lived in the middle Triassic. Its name means "nipple tooth lizard", go on laugh

 

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The earliest primates first appear in the fossil record soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. These are the teeth of Plesiadapis and Phenacolemur, two of the more common early primates that lived in Alberta 66 – 55 million years ago

 

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From Japan huge humerus of marine turtle (broken into two pieces) from the Upper Cretaceous.

 

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Haootia quadriformis, a 560 million year old (!!!!) complex organism from Trinity Bay, NL

 

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The Diamond Valley Lake assemblage Western Center contains mastodons of various ages! Here's a juvenile tooth, reminding us that even big things start little.

 

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CmNH Vert Paleo Centrosaurus rostral bone (beak)! The pits are from blood vessels

 

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Here 2 oysters attached themselves to either side of a dead ammonite’s shell, and almost encompassed it

 

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Cryptolithus tesselatus - the "Lace Collar" trilobite, so named for its delicately 'pitted' cephalic fringe! This one is enrolled, with the tiny triangular pygidium tucked beneath. ROM toronto,  Upper Ordovician, Kentucky, USA

 

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MINDBLOWING!! This is a FOSSIL BEETLE. Around 40 million years old from the Messel Pits, Germany. (Image Smithsonian)

 

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This is also CT Friday

 

Seeing inside the Yarnton pliosaur skull with a CT scanner built for horses courtsey of museum of Natural History

 

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Champsosaurus from the Museum of Nature

 

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An awesome Parasaurolophus tubicen skull

 

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Hell Creek material - Rex Femur, Trike Horn

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Preparing the Lambeosaurus skeleton in the Museum’s laboratory prepared free from enclosing matrix shows the natural death pose of the animal. Collected in 1921, Late Cretaceous. Shown in Geology prep area, third floor with radiators, coffee pot and office supplies. Order: Ornithischia, Family: Hadrosauridae

 

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The Triassic crocodylomorph Saltoposuchus, housed in Stuttgart

 

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Info on label from Mexico

 

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These awesome arachnids date back about 24 million years and come from Germany. They are part of our Statz fossil insect collection, which was collected prior to WWII and survived the war.

 

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MOR 548 is the remains of several nestling Hypacrosaurus stebingeri! Collected from the Two Medicine Frm of MT

 

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On the Lighter Side

 

Introducing Sadie to our members in Victoria BC a amazing driftwood Mammoth sculpture at Esquimalt lagoon

 

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Need an egg mold :o  these teeth will be very hard to ID 

 

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Some crazy stuff here...did I see bugs and plants too...

 

I guess I've been asleep again...

 

Thanks for the great thread!

 

Regards, Chris 

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Some incredible fossils today Frank thank you. That Beatle has really beautiful colouring and the Nanotyrannus  jane is wow.

I like to add a photo I took in the Field Museum it is a Terror bird: Ferocious flightless predator from South America about 60 million years ago.

 

And a mineralised dinosaurs bone

from a sedimentary rock formation found in Wyoming.

 

Dilophosaurus on display at the Royal Ontario Museum

 

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The colors of the beetle and the bone are beautiful!  makes you wonder what there colors would have been when the dinosaurs were living, even though those colors came about post mortum. Seeing the colors of creatures today I imagine there was some pretty amazing colors then as well.

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The Beatle I really not no how that colour has been persevered unbelievable. The dinosaurs bone is in filled with Agate. I think it is sometimes called gem bone.

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51 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

But the boiled dinosaurs eggs do look very wrong. :wacko:

I wonder how many times they had to cook an egg to get the yoke positioned to be the brains.

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Adding a specimen collected last summer two days before the eclipse.... a baby hadrosaur jaw from the Lance Fm.  Found by a young lady from Australia.   Two pix.. one in inches , one in cm.  This guy had already doubled its size since it hatched.  It would have grown a whole lot more to reach adult size.  But  sadly, it died.  This was found in a bone bed, under a long piece of ossified tendon and near a croc skull (that we haven't collected yet as it was discovered at the last hour of our dig).

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Wonderful as always! :)

Lots of creepy crawlies this week, so here is one of the oldest - Alalcomenaeous from Chengjiang in China, 520 milllion years old and with parts of it's nervous system still preserved. 

Seen under a CT scan. 

This is a close-up of the head region of the Alalcomenaeus fossil

And I can't match the frill on the trilobite pictured earlier. Yet. 

I'm still prepping this Upper Ordovician Tretaspis ? you can see the frill is starting to be exposed. 

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And for the Dinosaur Friday :

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Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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14 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Wonderful as always! :)

Lots of creepy crawlies this week, so here is one of the oldest - Alalcomenaeous from Chengjiang in China, 520 milllion years old and with parts of it's nervous system still preserved. 

Seen under a CT scan. 

This is a close-up of the head region of the Alalcomenaeus fossil

CT scan?  I suspect you mean uv light...

 

edit: I googled this one, and sure enough, the site I found says this is from a CT scan.  

(http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-alalcomenaeus-cambrian-arthropod-01471.html)

 

second edit:  the actual paper in Nature says this is derived from Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF), not CT

 

Lesson, it is always good to go to the actual paper than to trust even respected science writers.

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