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12 minutes ago, Tate Museum said:

And now it tells me I am only allowed to upload 3.95mb, so I can't finish the tale.  : (

 

Try replying again just like you did on your second post you should be able to add pictures then.

 

Thanks for posting, great stuff @Tate Museum

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17 minutes ago, Tate Museum said:

And now it tells me I am only allowed to upload 3.95mb, so I can't finish the tale.  : (

 

Just add additional photos in the reply they are great pictures 

 

@jpc  finally working?:)

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After we flipped it and rolled it into its own lab,we had to take the cage apart, take the plaster off, and start looking for the bones and/or bottom of the concretion.5a4fc66aa6eef_Picture002b.jpg.3afbf022f196aaa6391b611915351828.jpg

 

Here is the bottom of the concretion.  Two tail verts were protruding form said concretion.  These helped us ID it as a rex.  (In foreground).

 

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The prep work took these two volunteers three years at 4 hours each per day.  They, Dwaine and Helen, are the heroes of this tale.  (The skull in the foreground is a cast of Stan).  

 

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Ribs exposed...

 

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This is a shot from 2015 when we moved it into a new home.  It is pretty much done here. 

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Once again... a new home, this time permanent.  Lee being pushed in with a forklift, using Egytian style rollers.  

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At the 2017 Tate Conference, Jesse Pruitt of the Idaho Virtual Museum scanned it using some high tech gear.  Took 2 hours or so.

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And came out with this great 3D scan.  

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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).    

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Thank you @Troodon @Tate Museum Fantastic post .

A great story about Lee rex , the 3D scan is beautiful too. 

 

I was  very happy to see some of my all time favourite animals in this creatures feature the big man himself Bigfoot an Dimetrodon borealis. 

Really enjoy this week fossil friday as always.

 

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On 1/5/2018 at 1:16 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

@Troodon, @Tate Museum Thanks for giving us the best Dinosaur Fossil Friday yet. 

Awesome stuff. 

 

Glad you liked it.  There are more to show off, but that is by far the most impressive.  

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Tetraphoneus skull at NHMU , most complete tyrannosaur from Utah.  Prep folks seem to like to add eyes.

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Dr Tom Carr from Carthage College studying the Tyrannosaurid holotype of Daspletosaurus horneri at MOR.

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An undescribed new pliosaur named Chomper for Carlton University

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Here is ROM Toronto’s fantastic skull of Leidyosuchus collected by Gord Edmond & Levi Sternberg, Dinosaur Prov Park, Alberta. It’s 76 million years old, but looks pretty much like that of a living crocodile.

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The awesome skull of the ceratopsian Kosmoceratops richardsoni from the Kaiparowits Fm of Utah’s shrinking Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

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Theropod dinosaur tooth, Isle of Skye, Scotland, from paper by SteveBrusatte.  I knew there was something better than Scotch in Scotland.:D

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Hadrosaurs were the most plentiful herbivores in Alberta during the Late Cretaceous. Their broad, flat snouts give them their common name, duck-billed dinosaurs. At birth, baby hadrosaurs were about the size of a domestic cat.  

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Left and right upper tusks of the double-tusked walrus Dusignathus santacruzensis, Purisima Fm., CA. Top: right canine coll. 1991 by R Guruswami-Naidu; Bottom: left canine, from same locality, collected by me in March 2008. Mirror images! Associated?  Courtsey of our own Boesse, Robert Boessenecker

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At the MOR is a beautifully preserved, small (3m long), right dentary (lower jaw) to the omnivorous, metatherian Alphadon halleyi.  It was found at the famous Egg Mountain Site within the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation in Montana.

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the Tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus at the ROM in Toronto

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Published in 2014, this young Mosasaurus missouriensis was uncovered with the sternum, visible in the first image below skull, and the trachea, in the second and third images along the tail. It's last meal: a metre-long Ursichthys fish (mosasaur skull=~60cm long)

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Archaeopteryx is a transitional reptile-like bird that helps bridge the gap between birds and dinosaurs. This specimen was on loan by the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.

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Almost complete manus of Tenontosaurus from Manchester University, UK and I added a complete one from my collection.

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One of the best ways to age a dinosaur is to take a cross section of a limb, a section of this hadrosaur tibia was removed to make a mold of it, and cast a copy.  Then glued the cast back into the limb so the specimen retains its shape. Based on changes in the bone texture, researchers determined that this hadrosaur was three years old when it died.

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Hoplophoneus is working on that daily push-ups goal, too.  Tate Museum, Wyoming

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If you missed this post pretty cool dig

 

This 2,600 lb. sandstone from Wisconsin contains 500-million-year-old animal tracks - dating it back to the Cambrian period. The surface contains ripples & a fossil track named Diplichnites. The footprints are of a euthycarcinoid - an extinct, primitive arthropod.  Now thats very old and cool

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Here is a fossil megalodon tooth embedded (or drifted into?) a fossil walrus rib, from the famed Shark Tooth Hill of Bakersfield, California. Really nice association piece.

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Oh, goody! 

It's Friday again! 

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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As awesome as giant dinosaurs are, original fossil material of the little the little heterodontosaur Manidens are very cool from Argentina

Skeleton and Jaw

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The permian shark Helicopiron  2 ft.  Now thats a mouthful

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Fragment of a fossil jaw, showing three replacement teeth. Dinosaurs replaced their teeth throughout their life. This fossil belongs to Patagosaurus fariasi, a Sauropod dinosaur found in Argentina

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Fossil Friday thank you @Troodon for posting some more wonderful  Natural History treasures . The crocodile scull Leidyosuchus  is so recognisable it is hard to believe it is 76 million years old.

 

Even Mrs Rico has started casting her eyes over this post, every week and enjoying it. 

 

Have a nice weekend all of TFF

 

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I'll join in the fun and share some dinosaur images as well by highlighting a single species. So here is Amurosaurus riabinini, a medium sized Hadrosaur from the Maastrichian in far eastern Russia. For the longest time the crest of the animal was unknown. But a few years ago the crest was published as well.

 

Skeleton cast in Brussels

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Previously known skull elements.

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Composite with the new known elements.

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Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

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7 hours ago, Troodon said:

Hoplophoneus is working on that daily push-ups goal, too.  Tate Museum, Wyoming

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Did you take this photo?  This guy collapsed a few weeks/months ago and is in sick bay right now being remounted.  It is Fossil Friday, I am sure that TFF member Tate Museum will put something up today after i eat lunch.   

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14 minutes ago, jpc said:

Did you take this photo?  This guy collapsed a few weeks/months ago and is in sick bay right now being remounted.  It is Fossil Friday, I am sure that TFF member Tate Museum will put something up today after i eat lunch.   

Oh that's bad, too many push-ups:ighappy:?  I wish him a speedy recovery.  Its a post by the Tate Museum that I grabbed.

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  • Here is the same Hoplophoneus specimen that troodon just posted, in sick bay.  That blob to the left of his lower jaws is part of the mount, and his front foot protruding form behind it.  This is a cast of a specimen from the White River Fm at  Douglas, Wyoming.
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  • It was badly mounted to begin with... in an unnatural pose.  It would have to dislocate its shoulder blades to be in the  crouch position in troodon's photo.  
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I'm sure he is in good hands and will soon will rejoin the rest of the his sketal buddies.  Thanks for sharing sickbay

 

BTW next week I will have proof that cretaceous dinosaurs are still among us, no not birds....

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1 hour ago, Troodon said:

I'm sure he is in good hands and will soon will rejoin the rest of the his sketal buddies.  Thanks for sharing sickbay

 

BTW next week I will have proof that cretaceous dinosaurs are still among us, no not birds....

Ooohh, a cliff hanger....  

 

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Here is my Dinosaur Fossil Friday contributon for the week.  And I want you all to think about how this came to be... yes, this one comes with a homework assignment. 

 

This is from a Barosaurus specimen we are collecting and slowly prepping from south of Casper.  It is from the Morrison Fm, late Jurassic.  This bone is a cervical rib.  It is supposed to be straight.  Yes, this is the way we found it.  How did it get this crooked.  That is your essay question.   There are others form this quarry that are even crookeder. (Is that a word?)

 

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The second photo here shows the bone in the field starting to be exposed.  

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The cervical vertebrae on this thing are scary... full of delicate features and a mere 3 1/2 feet long.  

 

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15 minutes ago, Tate Museum said:

Here is my Dinosaur Fossil Friday contributon for the week.  And I want you all to think about how this came to be... yes, this one comes with a homework assignment. 

 

This is from a Barosaurus specimen we are collecting and slowly prepping from south of Casper.  It is from the Morrison Fm, late Jurassic.  This bone is a cervical rib.  It is supposed to be straight.  Yes, this is the way we found it.  How did it get this crooked.  That is your essay question.   There are others form this quarry that are even crookeder. (Is that a word?)

 

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The second photo here shows the bone in the field starting to be exposed.  

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The cervical vertebrae on this thing are scary... full of delicate features and a mere 3 1/2 feet long.  

 

Boshed by another dinosaur and then the rib healed? 

Life's Good!

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Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

Boshed by another dinosaur and then the rib healed? 

That is some serious amount of boshing . :megalodon_broken01: painfully 

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