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The Dinosaur Dave<p>This weeks <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lego</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> is <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Aegirosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aegirosaurus</span></a> </p><p>In the mid 1800s, a marine reptile fossil was found in Bavaria, Germany by Dr. Oberndorfer.</p><p>In 1853, Dr. Johann Andreas Wagner named the "the Oberndorfer specimen", Ichthyosaurus leptospondylus</p><p>During WW2 the holotype was destroyed during a bombing raid.</p><p>In 2000, Nathalie Bardet and Marta Fernandez named a neotype from a private collection. They renamed the species Aegirosaurus leptospondylus</p>
James Green<p>Fossiliferous chalcedony flake, Site 8HI473, Hillsborough Co., FL. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
George the Gorilla<p>Gyracanthus fish spines from the Carboniferous Period on display in the <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/NottNatHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NottNatHist</span></a> Museum.</p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/WollatonHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WollatonHall</span></a></p>
Marcus Brandel<p>🐊 A special back-to-our-roots <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> 🐴🐟🐘🦥🐪Terminonaris robusta (originally classified as Teleorhinus). A partial snout of Terminonaris was excavated in 1969 at the Hill Annex Mine - the same site where the claw of a dromaeosaur was found in 2015.</p><p>The excerpt here was published in a 1983 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. Vintage paleoart by Ken Sander.</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cretaceous</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Crocodile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crocodile</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Terminonarusrobusta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terminonarusrobusta</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a></p><p>More <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/LostBones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LostBones</span></a> <a href="https://medium.com/@dbrake40" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">medium.com/@dbrake40</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Here's the environment illustration for the Stegosaurus coin, from the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES series. I designed them (also Tyrannosaurus &amp; Diplodocus) for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Tyrannosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tyrannosaurus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/TyrannosaurusRex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TyrannosaurusRex</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/TRex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRex</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Stegosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stegosaurus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Diplodocus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diplodocus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Coins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coins</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/CoinCollector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoinCollector</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/CoinCollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoinCollecting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
AltonDooley<p>New blog post! </p><p>The museum's alligator lizard is settling into their new home, and we take a look at fossil lizard teeth. </p><p>If you like what you read, please leave a tip or subscribe. All proceeds support research and outreach at the Western Science Center. </p><p><a href="https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/more-alligator-lizards-this-time-with-teeth-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">life-from-a-certain-point-of-v</span><span class="invisible">iew.ghost.io/more-alligator-lizards-this-time-with-teeth-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lizard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lizard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a></p>

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as medium. This marine reptile is known from Europe.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Dunkleosteus_11

🐂🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 An in-person, eye-to-orbit visit is always best! This is the Scheirel bison skeleton, currently on display at the Paynesville Area Historical Society. It was reconstructed by William Scheirel after a dredging operation on his property in October 1975.

Originally displayed at Zapf's Leather Shop in Paynesville, the skeleton was donated to the historical society in the mid-1990s.

paynesvillehistorical.org

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Arambourgiania

In 1943, a railway worker found several fossil fragments, including a cervical vertebra that was 61cm long.

Amin Kawar brough the fossils to Dr. T. Harding, Director of Antiquities at the British Residence in Amman.

In 1953, it was sent to National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.

In 1954, Camille Arambourg interpreted it as a wing metacarpal

In 1959, he named it Titanopteryx philadelphiae.

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Jack Cooper.

This fossil is MUSM 1964; an upper anterior tooth from Otodus megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, from the Late Miocene Pisco formation of Peru. The shark may have reached over 20 m long; and was at the very top of the marine food web before its extinction in the Pliocene 🦈