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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My first #fossilfriday here in BSkyPaleo! Witness the glorious holotype of Ouranosaurus, discovered in 1965 by Philippe Taquet and exhibited in Niamey since then. We saw it during the #NigerEXP2022 and many stuff are expected to happen in the near future about it 😏 #dinosaur #paleontology #science

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#FossilFriday A large ammonite fossil from Lyme Regis Museum & a small pyritized ammonite I found on Jurassic Coast beach this past summer.

Very large spiral Ammonite fossil from Lyme Regis Museum

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This #FossilFriday morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, features the #mosasaur #Platecarpus...

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart

Two bird-like animals leap at one another. Their chests and wings are orange, their necks orange-brown, and their legs white. Feather fans project from their tail base and tail tips. They are surrounded by the bases of trees and framed against a hazy blue-green backdrop. Leaf-litter occupies the base of the image.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪

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49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday

Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Riley keeps insisting we visit the dinosaurs every few weeks. This guy rocks. Melbourne's most iconic fossil since Andrew Bolt moved down to the Penninsula

A complete Triceratops fossil at Melbourne Museum

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A fossil tree stump Syringodendron (Sigillaria with its outer layer missing) - one of the giant lycophytes from the Carboniferous swamp forests. On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm #FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲

A Syringodendron fossil tree stump from the Carboniferous swamp forests

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My first post: a #FossilFriday of RC 846, a beautiful skull of the Early Triassic archosauriform Proterosuchus from the Karoo. Soon to be on display at the Karoo Origins Centre in Graaff-Reinet! It’s been so heartening to see “paleotwitter” find bluer pastures this last week!

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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/11/2024

For #FossilFriday here is a Titanopteran. Or rather, the wing of one! These were large insects, related to orthopterans (a group incl. e.g. grasshoppers, locusts and crickets). Members of the group reached ~40 cm in wingspan, and are only known from the Triassic Period (251-205 Ma). ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

The wing of Wing of Clatrotitan andersoni, from the Triassic of Australia. This is a fossilised wing in a dull grey bit of rock - the wing itself is redder in colour, and it has darker pigmented patches on it. It looks like a standard insect wing in many ways - it is long and ovalish in shape, but right in the middle there is a weird rounded structure that looks a bit like a seed case or something - it has lots of ridges on it.

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