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llewelly<p>today for <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilFriday</span></a> , I think I will read about the hand of Diplodocus ... or maybe it's not.</p><p>the hands (and forelimbs) of fossil tetrapods are often not preserved, and the situation seems to be especially bad for the mysterious, giant, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs. And today I'm reading about the hand of WDC-FS0001A , a specimen at the Wymoning Dinosaur Center. </p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/sauropods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sauropods</span></a></p>
The Dinosaur Dave<p>This weeks <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lego</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> is <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Procoptodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Procoptodon</span></a></p><p>In the early 1800s, as Australia was being explored by white colonists, Sir Thomas L. Mitchell found fossil fragments of a maxilla from the Darling downs and sent them to England.</p><p>In 1846, Sir Richard Owen published on several large marsupials. One of those was Procoptodon, a very large short faced Kangaroo. </p><p>A recent trackway found in South Australia attributed to Procoptodon showed it didn't hop but walked bipedally</p>
History_of_Geology<p>In 1914, British paleontologist Albert Charles Seward described the fossil plants collected by Scott’s party as Glossopteris and Vertebraria.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
Peter Roopnarine<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> clam. Venericardia merriami holotype, Oregon, USA. From the Eocene, shortly before the planet changed, transitioning from a Warm House to the Cool/Ice House planet that we currently have (for now). <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> @calacademy.bsky.social <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.calacademy.org/@calacademy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>calacademy</span></a></span> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/pUwnwu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flic.kr/p/pUwnwu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>A closer look at the animals in my 2023 illustration of <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/HellCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HellCreek</span></a>, featuring ichthyornithean <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a>, <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Triceratops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Triceratops</span></a>, <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Tyrannosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyrannosaurus</span></a>, two <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Acheroraptors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Acheroraptors</span></a>, a dead <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pachycephalosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pachycephalosaurs</span></a>, <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Brachychampsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brachychampsa</span></a> (croc), <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Meniscoessus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meniscoessus</span></a> (mammal), and <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Chamops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chamops</span></a> (lizard); from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Trex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trex</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/TyrannosaurusRex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TyrannosaurusRex</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicWorld</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/WildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
Thomas Holtz<p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> The Permian pareiasaur Scutosaurus karpinskii at the American Museum of Natural History</p>
George the Gorilla<p>Our T. rex skeleton is posed striding through a mock up of its own excavation. The bones in the dig are exact replicas of the bones mounted in the skeleton. Take the eroding long metatarsal bone in the centre of this picture, for example. The exact same bone is mounted in the foot (the bone on the top right of the picture). </p><p>Have you visited Wollaton Hall recently!? There's lots of new things to discover.</p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/NottNatHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NottNatHist</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a></p>
The Dinosaur Dave<p>This week for <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Fossilfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossilfriday</span></a> we have another <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Guess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guess</span></a> that <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lego</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossil</span></a>. </p><p>This one I would rate as easy. This marsupial is know from Australia. </p><p>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).</p><p>This was designed by me.</p>
bse<p>Giant beaver is one signature away from becoming <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> 's state fossil <a href="https://toad.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> (h/t Marcus Brandel)</p><p><a href="https://www.eplocalnews.org/2025/05/21/giant-beaver-is-one-signature-away-from-becoming-minnesotas-state-fossil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eplocalnews.org/2025/05/21/gia</span><span class="invisible">nt-beaver-is-one-signature-away-from-becoming-minnesotas-state-fossil/</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p>Rearing Diplodocus skeleton in the Dubai Mall in the UAE. Thanks to my sister who's on holiday there.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/sauropod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sauropod</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Diplodocus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diplodocus</span></a></p>
Peter Roopnarine<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> foram! Vaginulinopsis verruculosa, Eocene Lodo Fm. of California. The Lodo records the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum when global average temp. rose more than 5 C, lasting ~200,00 years! A time of big biotic change. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.calacademy.org/@calacademy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>calacademy</span></a></span> @calacademy.bsky.social <a href="https://flic.kr/p/rBMU4y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flic.kr/p/rBMU4y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Thomas Holtz<p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> The Thermopolis Archaeopteryx at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center</p>
Fer Castano<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> In 1828, Mary Anning found the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany. W. Buckland made the announcement of Mary’s discovery &amp; named Pterodactylus macronyx in allusion to its large claws <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MaryAnning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnning</span></a><br><a href="https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/mary-anning-and-the-flying-dragon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paleonerdish.wordpress.com/201</span><span class="invisible">6/05/20/mary-anning-and-the-flying-dragon/</span></a></p>
llewelly<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>clive</span></a></span> hey it's <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilFriday</span></a> and prototaxites is a fossil! Famous one, too. : )</p>
Adam S. Smith<p>Under the T. rex at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/NottNatHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NottNatHist</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Trex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trex</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/WollatonHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WollatonHall</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glammr.us/@GeorgeTheGorilla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GeorgeTheGorilla</span></a></span></p>
Kate :verigold:<p>The mystery of this 10,000-dinosaur graveyard may have just been solved <a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/dinosaur-graveyard?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencefocus.com/nature/dinosa</span><span class="invisible">ur-graveyard?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb</span></a> 🦕 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WalkingWithDinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalkingWithDinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Kate :verigold:<p>Ancient Patagonian fossil sperm whale may have been active predator, reanalysis indicates <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-patagonian-fossil-sperm-whale.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-</span><span class="invisible">patagonian-fossil-sperm-whale.html</span></a> 🐋 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cetaceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cetaceans</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MarineMammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineMammals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MarineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whales</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
Marcus Brandel<p>🐂🐴 <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/LostBones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LostBones</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> 🐟🐘🦥🐪 Bison specimens from Martin County, Minnesota. I was short on time, so this museum will need a revisit as I'm certain there are some equine specimens along with the bovine here—can you spot them? 😉<br>Museum: <a href="https://www.mchsmn.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">mchsmn.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Lost Bones: <a href="https://medium.com/@dbrake40" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">medium.com/@dbrake40</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>.<br>.<br>.<br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MartinCountyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MartinCountyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Pleistocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pleistocene</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Bison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bison</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Horse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horse</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a></p>
Thomas Holtz<p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> Newly named Traskasaurua sandrae, and an elasmosaurid and the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia. Specimen at the Courtenay and District Museum</p>
Historical Biology<p>For <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a>, we have a fossil from our editor Huasheng Huang.</p><p>This is Grimmipollis burmanica (IBED-T 40.976/IBED-T 40.974), a sopberry flowering plant from the late Eocene of Central Myanmar. Named in honour of Dr. Eric Grimm (1951-2020) for his palynology contributions.</p>
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