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Bleeee

An older sketch of Incisoscutum ritchiei, an armored fish from the Devonian of Australia. The bottom is a sketch of the body plan done over top of the skeletal from the original paper.

Ammonite

Pics of a nice ammonite in the collections I manage.

Beast of the Bay: Tusked Titan

Not from some museum visit this time. One of the fossils under my direct care. A mammoth skull that is potentially over a million years old.

The first of many.

Photo of me with an Ice Age mammal bone Fragment I found. First fossil of many I ever found, though the rest of my finds were much larger and from dinosaurs in Wyoming.

First external conference.

Got beer?

Found this while I was searching for birds on an unmarked trail.

Red Hamiltonichthys sp. tooth

Here is a red Hamiltonichthys sp. fish tooth I found. This tooth is very small, but rare and 306 million years old. It is a deep red due to being replaced by iron. The vein like structures are actually ridges on the tooth to functionally help crush shelled organisms. I included a diagram of the… read more

Campodus sp. tooth

Here is my 300 million year old fish tooth, Campodus sp. They would be shell crusher fish, specialized in eating invertebrates.

Mucrospirifer Mucronatus from the Mahantango/Centerfield Formation in siltstone matrix

Jurassic Killer

Allosaurus bones from the Morrison Formation in the NHMU research collections. The second pic is from a bone that’s been sliced for histology studies.

Aegirocassis benmoulai endite from the early Ordovician

Obvious in hind sight

Lab. Day 🔬

Have you found your own fossil(s) ? Do you collect any fossil(s) ? (was having this during my break time) #geology #science #books

Best Christmas present ever!! Resin fossil.

Favorite dinosaur?

Share an interesting dinosaur or your absolute favorite dinosaur? Mine is Dilophosaurus!

Sorry kids, it’s ‘parasaurolophus’. 🤓

Take me back to the Cambrian… 😔

Dinosaur trackway

A theropod trackway at Vale de Meios, Portugal. I'm standing far up above the trackway on a higher rock bed, so those are much larger than they appear there. (edited)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Vivacious and Cretaceous

Next opportunity you have, hug a dinosaur. Respect your elders

Better pic of some my fossils

A modern wombat (right), compared to its extinct megafauna counterpart (left). (edited)

Trilobite and Snail

Found this large Ameura missouriensis Trilobite and Amphiscapha gastropod housed in a nice chunk of limestone a year ago. There are also algal fossils called Osagia that have coated some of the smaller broken shell bits. They are seen as round spheres in the rock. You can see some in the glabella… read more

A new closeup of a new fossil

Found this little guy while unpacking some decor

I'd been looking for him for years! Glad to have my little dude back

A recently discovered and newly named marine reptile.

Most complete marine reptile fossil in Australia

Dinosaur 🦕

I collected this here a fragment of a dinosaur bone 🦴 Millions of years old 😁 (edited)

Printed love

Why is #fossils under archeology section?

How can we fix that? In the meantime, have a photo of my foot on a (eroded) dinosaur paw print.

There's no such thing as too many belomnites!

Life-size model of megalania

Preporation progression of diplodocus fossil

Diplodocus fossil from Morrison formation Wyoming.

Best gift EVER!!!!!!!

Petalodus tooth

Here is my largest fossil fish tooth that I have found. it even contains a bit of a crinoid stem in the root possibly suggesting it was this fishes leftovers. Looks like he needed to floss more!

Lego Jurassic world exhibit

Qld museum. Of course, these are the Jurassic franchise designs, but love em or hate em, gotta ad.it this is cool.

Good start of a day

Watching some Isle Legacy gameplay while eating Dino Nuggets 👌🏽

Kunbarrasaurus, the most complete dinosaur fossil in Australia

Muttaburrasaurus

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