The End of the ‘Living Fossil’ Triops - Fossil News - The Fossil Forum
Oct 7, 2024 · This undermines the concept of its being a ‘living fossil’. The name Apudites antiquus , under which the first known specimens were described, is available and appropriate for the species. Some of the specimens of Apudites antiquus offer morphological details of a quality that ranks them among the best-preserved fossil non-marine arthropods.
Ardetosaurus: a new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison …
Oct 10, 2024 · Here is something I wanted to share here! The team of the Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel has described a new Diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison formation. The specimen originally called "Brösmeli" was excavated in 1993 in the Howe-Stephens Quarry by a team led by Hans-Jakob “Kirby” Siber. It was sen...
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Huge dinosaur unearthed in US sells for the price of a banana
Nov 23, 2024 · Good Ol’ Lobster on a telephone 🦞 ☎️ (Dali , 1930’s) . My buddy used to say he wanted to be “lobster on a telephone” famous .
A Cretaceous frog with eggs found in northwestern China - Fossil …
Feb 10, 2024 · Ancient frog had a belly full of eggs in oldest fossil discovery of its kind. This unusual frog fossil seems to be an amphibian that died in the process of mating by Matthew Rozsa, Salon February 9, 2024 The open access paper is: Baoxia Du, Jing Zhang, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Liping , Mingzhen Zhang,...
Ptychodus is a lamniform - Fossil News - The Fossil Forum
Apr 25, 2024 · Today a study was published on many exceptional body fossils of the durophagous shark Ptychodus, revealing it to be a lamniform - the same order as the great white, megalodon, etc. For a long time this shark's taxonomic placement was uncertain. The authors also conclude it was a high-speed predat...
The Trace Fossil Bifungites and its Tracemaker: A Rare Find!
Jun 6, 2024 · Although U-shaped burrows are abundant in the geologic record, Bifungites is the first to include a probable maker in situ, and one of very few fossil burrows to include a maker at all. The discovery of Annulitubus sp. within Bifungites confirms speculation that the maker was a “worm,” possibly burrowing for protection against storm or even ...
Interactive Map of Many of the Fossils Found On Earth - The ...
Feb 26, 2017 · Yes, there are mistakes. I noticed a few in Louisiana. Maybe the the people hosting this database could enlist fossil collectors to check the localities in the state that they fossil hunt in for accuracy and get peple interested in in a specific fossil group, e.g. trilobites, to help them keep current with a specific group.
Most complete Stegosaurus "Apex" is about to be sold ... - The …
May 30, 2024 · Hello, I got some sad news... The most complete Stegosaurus specimen named "Apex" is about to be sold at auction at the Sotheby's auction house in New York. This specimen was found in 2022 by so called "commercial paleontologist", Jasoon Cooper, who almost immediatly began working with the auctio...