This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This large megafauna originated in Africa in the early Pleistocene.
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 iceagemuseum, and modified by me into a lego build.
For todays #FossilFriday I present, an unidentified Cambrian trilobite from my collection. I promise I am slowly working through cataloging all the rocks I've got, this one I have not yet labelled
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This megafauna went extinct relatively recently.
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 iceagemuseum, and modified by me into a lego build.
Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments in a dark sedimentary stone. Looking like the scattered pieces of some long forgotten machine.
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
#Spinosaurus living up to its name - elongate neural spine on a distal caudal vertebra.
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This megafauna went extinct relatively recently.
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 iceagemuseum, and modified by me into a lego build.
This new study turns over a new leaf in the #fossil record of the #Cretaceous of Northern Asia! Explore the morphological diversity and distribution of the #Menispermites, a genus of fossil leaves comprised of many short-lived species with limited ranges.
Image: Figure 5 from the paper. Several species of the genus Menispermites from Northern Asia
Authors: Anastasia A Zolina, Lina B Golovneva, and Alexander A Grabovskiy
Full #OpenAccess Paper:
https://doi.org/10.26879/1441
Pangupterus liui was a mysterious #pterosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous of China!
The holotype #fossil only has the long and thin bottom jaw along with most of the teeth!
I’ve reconstructed it here as a gallodactylid pterosaur because from what I can tell, the jaw and teeth look most similar to #pterosaurs like these! 
I'm sure I read about a legless rhynchocephalian. I even think I saw a picture of a fossil. But I can't recall what it is named. Anyone know anything about it?
#Rhynchocephalia
#tuatara
#Sphenodon
#lizard
#notLizard
#legLess
#reptile
#fossil
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as hard. This marine reptile is known from California.
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This was designed by infiniteCreativity, and modified by me into a lego build.
Fossil Crinoid stems and segments with a few fossilized Corals scattered throughout.
County Donegal, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This small sauropod is known from South America.
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Comment your guesses This was designed by me
The lives of extinct limbed animals are preserved within their footprints. #Fossil #trackways inform many scientific fields, creating distinct, sometimes conflicting, terminologies. This new glossary defines a consistent, unambiguous terminology usable in all relevant fields.
Image: Figure 8 from the paper. Examples of the wide variety of tetrapod trackways
Authors: Jens N Lallensack (@JensLallensack), Giuseppe Leonardi, and Peter L Falkingham (@PeterFalkingham)
@animalculum Hoooo boy, I am SO tired of "… rewrites history of XYZ evolution" every time someone describes a fossil XYZ.
When are we going to get a headline "Jurassic #fossil incrementally improves our understanding of the history of bird evolution"?
Jurassic #fossil rewrites history of bird evolution https://www.reuters.com/science/jurassic-fossil-china-rewrites-history-bird-evolution-2025-02-12/
Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late #Jurassic of China https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08410-z
"The newly identified bird, called #Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged #Archaeopteryx as the oldest-known #birds. But Baminornis, about 15 cm long, was far more advanced anatomically and a better flier than crow-sized Archaeopteryx, a creature seemingly half #bird and half reptile."
Ein in Süddeutschland entdecktes Plesiosaurier-Fossil wirft neues Licht auf die Haut dieser urzeitlichen Meeresreptilien – sie war offenbar schuppenbedeckt und glatt zugleich. #Plesiosaurier #Saurier #Fossil #Meeresreptil #Palaeontologie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/deutschland-plesiosaurier-samt-hautzellen-gefunden/
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
"A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has found."
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/fossil-of-oldest-known-modern-bird-discovered-in-antarctica/
And now for something a little bit different - its not always easy to identify fossils - so I present to you a little bit of Eocene 'something'. Potentially a seed pod? I am open to opinions!
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This large theropod is known from North America.
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 Ambrosino
