Happy Fossil Friday

[Troodon]

And everyone thought the Cubans invented the Conga line

 

Twitter: Shaena Montanari

 

 

Ceratopsid footprints from Utah’s Blackhawk Formation.

Twitter: Riley but spooky @Laelaps

 

Reconstruction of the skull of the horned, bizarre allokotosaur archosauromorph Shringasaurus indicus from the Middle Triassic of India.

Twitter: macn.pv @MacnVp

 

 

 Here’s the type skull of “Tetrabelodon” osborni, a Miocene gomphothere (elephant relative) from Nebraska.

Twitter: Advait M. Jukar, Ph.D. @amjukar

 

 

Super rare locality 

How about some of the coolest fossils from Dinosaur Park (Muirkirk quarry) in Maryland?  Here's an Acrocanthosaurus-like tooth and a really big, rooted nodosaur tooth:

Twitter: Ben Miller

 

Pictured is the skull and jaw of Stegoceras validus, or “horny roof.” This North American pachycephalosaur, a type of thick-skulled dinosaur, was a small plant-eater that lived during the Late Cretaceous some 75 million years ago.

Twitter: AMNH

 

 

The idea of sauropods having a turtle-like beak is intriguing after hearing news about it in 2019svp.

Additional read

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/sauropods-grew-big-munching-superfoods-sturdy-beaks

Twitter: Evan Johnson-Ransom @EJR_Paleo

 

Yanornis a cretaceous bird from China

Twitter: Thomas Holtz

 

It's a pareiasaur, a large, end Permian reptile that ate plants - an absolute Palaeozoic unit. The name means 'cheek lizard'. Making head frills cool long before ceratopsians got in on the action, Smooches

Twitter: Dr Emma Louise Nicholls

 

 

Beer commemorating the 'Monsters of Maastricht', the huge Late Cretaceous mosasaurs found close to this city in the Netherlands

[Misha]

Just finished reading about that line of trilos, it's so interesting how we can see such things about the behavior of animals from them being fossilized.

[Mousehead]

Gotta be careful with the foam-up from the Gorilla Glue™ on that pareiasaur skull.  Had no idea they used that in professional paleontology!

[HamptonsDoc]

Love that coal mine track!

[Troodon]

1 hour ago, HamptonsDoc said:

Love that coal mine track!

Agree my favorite.  About 8 years ago there were 2 of them for sale at Tucson.  They were huge and at that time I was living in the east so I had to pass.   They would not fit in the overhead compartment   Have never seen them again but I do have one in my collection.

[Bobby Rico]

6 minutes ago, Troodon said:

overhead compartment 

You would have had to purchase a ticket for it and ordered it a veggie meal. Beautiful fossil btw do you have a photo of yours.  

[Troodon]

Mine is from a hadrosaur

[HamptonsDoc]

18 hours ago, Troodon said:

Agree my favorite.  About 8 years ago there were 2 of them for sale at Tucson.  They were huge and at that time I was living in the east so I had to pass.   They would not fit in the overhead compartment   Have never seen them again but I do have one in my collection.

There was one last year at Tucson but I passed on it for the same reason. Regret I did. 

[Bob Saunders]

Found yesterday, S.W.Michigan. Does this qualify as a Fossil Crinoids graveyard plate. 150 mm x 101.5 mm. largest face 1 mm back 0.5 mm

Calyx 62 mm long. shown wet. 

[Bob Saunders]

first was cell phone, this front with my camera.