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Saturday Playtime Found these skulls tucked away in some crates. #Saurophaganax (conjectural) #Torvosaurus “old school” #Allosaurus CLDQ composites Neat directionally-correct size comparison. Look for Scaled loved and Full-size offerings late 2024 :-)! #FossilCrates


Happy Halloween from #FossilCrates! Treat? #Nanotyrannus shown again to NOT be a teenage #Tyrannosaurus! Trick? Two species! “Jane” now N. lethaeus, I didn’t see that coming! Scanning Nano w/ @JGN_Paleo y @WitmerLab. Overheating. Power outage. Camaraderie 🤣🔥! #FossilFriday

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Happy Halloween from #FossilCrates!

Treat? #Nanotyrannus shown again to NOT be a teenage #Tyrannosaurus!

Trick? Two species! “Jane” now N. lethaeus, I didn’t see that coming!

Scanning Nano w/ @JGN_Paleo y @WitmerLab. Overheating. Power outage. Camaraderie 🤣🔥!
#FossilFriday

TWO SPECIES of Nanotyrannus? N. lethaeus, holotype “Jane,” BMRP 2002.4.1, tis the heavier species. “Warhammer” (NCSM 40000, aka 40k), the Dueling Dinosaurs Nano, is assigned to N. lancensis by Zanno y Napoli 2025. No more “Nonotyrannus”… Nano lives! #FossilCrates

Fossilcrates's tweet image. TWO SPECIES of Nanotyrannus?

N. lethaeus, holotype “Jane,” BMRP 2002.4.1, tis the heavier species.

“Warhammer” (NCSM 40000, aka 40k), the Dueling Dinosaurs Nano, is assigned to N. lancensis by Zanno y Napoli 2025.

No more “Nonotyrannus”… Nano lives!

#FossilCrates

Kevin is the best! Tremendous knowledge with nigh infinite patience, and always willing to share. Congrats, Kevin, well deserved!!!! Thanks for sharing, Jim!

Kevin Bylund wins the very deserved Strimple Award for scientific contributions by an amateur from the Paleontological Society at the Annual Geological Society of America meeting. He is Utah's top cephalopod biostratigraphy expert! @BLMUtah @utahgeological @UUtah @NHMU



I made a YT video on the Fossil Crates channel about the new Sereno et al. 2025 mummy paper: youtu.be/ejBCj8SgRcQ?si… Tis a review of the different sections, excluding the geochemistry section :-). I am eager to hear about the Tyrannosaurus mummy! #FossilCrates

Fossilcrates's tweet image. I made a YT video on the Fossil Crates channel about the new Sereno et al. 2025 mummy paper:

youtu.be/ejBCj8SgRcQ?si…

Tis a review of the different sections, excluding the geochemistry section :-).

I am eager to hear about the Tyrannosaurus mummy!

#FossilCrates

#Plateosaurus cast of an articulated Late Triassic Frick Quarry dino, at the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Dr. Dennis Hansen explains the gnarled mass is a terribly damaged shoulder. Survival suggests these animals could exist being bipedal. #FossilCrates


Han Solo in Carbonite! Meet #Ceresiosaurus, a Monte San Georgio, Switzerland nothosaur ~242 mya Triassic cutie dubbed “Han Solo” because of how it is displayed at the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Such a neat way to display a plaque mount! #FossilCrates


Conveying the length of a sauropod! Dr. Dennis Hansen, brilliant tortoise researcher at the U. of Zurich, showed us an exhibit conveying length, and morphological awesomeness, of a diplodocine sauropod. Touchable bronzed casts of vertebrae in life position. Sweet! #FossilCrates


A Beast's Gotta Eat! I knew not Big Al Two's putative last meal was preserved. #Nanosaurus bones bitten y acid etched, gastrolith, y lungfish tooth were between ribs. Was the tooth from guts of another meal? The amazing Natural History Museum at Zurich University! #FossilCrates


Check out my presentation about the Dinosaurs of India at: Oct 16, 2:50 AM PSTx Thank you GSI (Geological Survey of India) for the opportunity to speak at the Geoconservation Workshop!!! Web link on the GSI FB page. @GeologyIndia #Geoconservation #FossilCrates

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Check out my presentation about the Dinosaurs of India at:

Oct 16, 2:50 AM PSTx

Thank you GSI (Geological Survey of India) for the opportunity to speak at the Geoconservation Workshop!!!

Web link on the GSI FB page.

@GeologyIndia 
#Geoconservation 
#FossilCrates

Spikes and Claws = a nice day! The Thagomizer of #Hesperosaurus. They come in four-packs. This exhibit shows an original spike and another wrapped in a modeled keratinous sheath. Exceedingly dangerous weaponry. Big Al Two’s claws, too! #nationalFossilDay #FossilCrates


That #Hesperosaurus plate is enormous! It belongs to Victoria, a fantastic stegosaurid I showed a few videos ago. A cast of it is on the mount at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Definitely a museum worth a visit!!! #FossilCrates


Our book is out! "So you know Tyrannosaurus rex?" is available worldwide from your favorite online booksellers. Colin Boisvert and I had a blast writing it. We hope you have even more fun reading it. Who is it for? Anyone who loves dinosaurs! #FossilCrates #SoYouKnowTrex


Paleo Portals presents Drs. Norris, Wilhite, and Woodruff talking dinosaur behavior with your host, Dr. BC Sat Oct 11, Noon PST/ 3 PM EST Join 30-day free at PaleoPortals.com/join and receive the live Zoom link. Bring your questions! #FossilCrates #PaleoPortals

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Paleo Portals presents Drs. Norris, Wilhite, and Woodruff talking dinosaur behavior with your host, Dr. BC

Sat Oct 11, Noon PST/ 3 PM EST

Join 30-day free at PaleoPortals.com/join and receive the live Zoom link.

Bring your questions!

#FossilCrates #PaleoPortals

“Victoria” #Hesperosaurus mjosi Late Jurassic Wyoming is 20’+ twas found in 1995 at the Howe-Stephens Quarry. The name derives from “victory,” as what would become Big Al Two’s tail ran atop it. After having lost Big Al to the US Gov, this was a big win for them. #FossilCrates


Big Al Two original material! This #Allosaurus jimmadseni is on display at the Zürich Museum of Natural History. The original bones, minus the skull, are for the most part mounted in a plaque-mount style. The skull is at Sauriermuseum Aathal. That tail is sweet! #FossilCrates


Happy 120th Birthday, #Albertosaurus sarcophagus Twas the 3rd theropod dinosaur named in Osborn’s Oct 4th, 1905 paper and felt like an afterthought alongside #Tyrannosaurus rex and Dynamosaurus. Even worse? It was last named and not figured. These are Lambe’s pics. #FossilCrates

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Happy 120th Birthday, #Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Twas the 3rd theropod dinosaur named in Osborn’s Oct 4th, 1905 paper and felt like an afterthought alongside #Tyrannosaurus rex and Dynamosaurus. Even worse? It was last named and not figured. These are Lambe’s pics.
#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Happy 120th Birthday, #Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Twas the 3rd theropod dinosaur named in Osborn’s Oct 4th, 1905 paper and felt like an afterthought alongside #Tyrannosaurus rex and Dynamosaurus. Even worse? It was last named and not figured. These are Lambe’s pics.
#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Happy 120th Birthday, #Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Twas the 3rd theropod dinosaur named in Osborn’s Oct 4th, 1905 paper and felt like an afterthought alongside #Tyrannosaurus rex and Dynamosaurus. Even worse? It was last named and not figured. These are Lambe’s pics.
#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Happy 120th Birthday, #Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Twas the 3rd theropod dinosaur named in Osborn’s Oct 4th, 1905 paper and felt like an afterthought alongside #Tyrannosaurus rex and Dynamosaurus. Even worse? It was last named and not figured. These are Lambe’s pics.
#FossilCrates

Cope 1892 "On the Skull of the Dinosaurian Laelaps incrassatus Cope" wrote "Figures of these remains will be given in the final publication by the Geological Survey of Canada." I suspect these were later moved to Albertosaurus as "from the Laramie formation of the Red Deer river"

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Cope 1892 "On the Skull of the Dinosaurian Laelaps incrassatus Cope" wrote "Figures of these remains will be given in the final publication by the Geological Survey of Canada." I suspect these were later moved to Albertosaurus as "from the Laramie formation of the Red Deer river"

Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears (AMNH 973). Later sold to the Carnegie. Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” is sold to the Field. Oct 4, 2025 Curtice and Boisvert’s “So you know Tyrannosaurus rex?” is sold at bookstores globally. Happy 120th birthday, #Trex! #FossilCrates


Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears on AMNH 973 Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” the aptly named #Trex was sold. Considering most places have The King named on Oct 5th, twas it a coincidence? It was a Sat. after all Happy 120th (66,000,120 ;-)) CM 9380 holotype! #FossilCrates

Fossilcrates's tweet image. Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears on AMNH 973

Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” the aptly named #Trex was sold. Considering most places have The King named on Oct 5th, twas it a coincidence? It was a Sat. after all

Happy 120th (66,000,120 ;-)) CM 9380 holotype!

#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears on AMNH 973

Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” the aptly named #Trex was sold. Considering most places have The King named on Oct 5th, twas it a coincidence? It was a Sat. after all

Happy 120th (66,000,120 ;-)) CM 9380 holotype!

#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears on AMNH 973

Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” the aptly named #Trex was sold. Considering most places have The King named on Oct 5th, twas it a coincidence? It was a Sat. after all

Happy 120th (66,000,120 ;-)) CM 9380 holotype!

#FossilCrates
Fossilcrates's tweet image. Oct 4, 1905 Osborn’s #Tyrannosaurus paper appears on AMNH 973

Oct 4, 1997 “Sue” the aptly named #Trex was sold. Considering most places have The King named on Oct 5th, twas it a coincidence? It was a Sat. after all

Happy 120th (66,000,120 ;-)) CM 9380 holotype!

#FossilCrates

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