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An opalized plesiosaur vertebra from Australia!

#plesiosaur #museums #fossil #paleontology

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George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries at the La Brea Tar Pits

#La Brea #ice age #pleistocene #fossil #paleontology #museums #exhibits #fossil mounts

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eartharchives

First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber

To scientists' delight, the incredible appendage from 99 million years ago is covered in feathers.

www.eartharchives.org

While individual fossil feathers have been found in amber, this is the first fossil that shows feathers still attached to a dinosaur’s body.

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This specimen teaches us virtually nothing we don't already know, but that doesn't mean it isn't awesome. An amazingly intimate look at an animal from 100 million years ago. Hopefully next time we'll get a preserved head!

#feathered dinosaur #fossil #amber

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A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a Complete Skull: Implications for the Evolution and Paleobiology of Titanosauria

We describe Sarmientosaurus musacchioi gen. et sp. nov., a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian—Turonian) Lower Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation of southern Chubut Province in central Patagonia, Argentina. The holotypic and only known specimen consists of an articulated, virtually complete skull and part of the cranial and middle cervical series. [...]

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A new titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina, Sarmientosaurus musacchioi!

#Sarmietosaurus #anyone who can find a sauropod skull must be a witch #paleontology #dinosaur #fossil

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Fossil Friday Gomphotherium. It had four tusks; two on the upper jaw and two on the elongated lower jaw.

Gomphotherium skull [P14769] and lower jaw [P14770] . Early Pliocene, Valentine Formation.

8x10 Interpositive

2/1/1939

#gomphothere #fossil #skull #fmnh