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BC's interior is home to thousands of red ochre pictographs that symbolize the connection of the landscape and the spiritual world. This beautiful and mystical red ochre pictograph is from the... fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2019/07/southe…


Fossil Field Trip to the Canadian Rockies


Spectacular pterosaur track slab. This cast showing several trackways of two different sizes of pterosaurs was discovered on State Land in the San Rafael Swell near the town of Ferron, Utah. #fossilfriday #fossil #paleontology #utahgeology... facebook.com/story.php?stor…


A beautiful sand dollar in situ. Aquitanian, Mesohellenic Basin, Greece. facebook.com/story.php?stor…


This crab, Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobatus, is a mud crab variant with large front claws and a hardened carapace. This crab was meticulously prepared and is currently on display at the Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi. facebook.com/story.php?stor…


Looking for Fossil Field Work opportunities for Summer 2019? A few folk have asked about getting involved with fieldwork. This would make an exceptionally good start. Fieldwork is essential to... facebook.com/story.php?stor…


Check out Dino Girl & the World's Smallest Rock Museum's fun & informative YouTube Channels. These two future paleontologists have loads to share about their favourite fossils, cool museums, fossil field trips and... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


Calamopleurus fossil fish skull from the Santana formation, Brazil. Collection of David Murphy.


This work is authored by Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746-1825), who is recognized as a father of malacology. It is illustrated with 114 copper-engraved plates by Scarpati, Ottaviani, Zaballi, Brun,... facebook.com/story.php?stor…


An exceptional 23 cm Metophioceras ammonite from Monmouth beach, Lyme Regis, collected & beautifully prepped by Lizzie Hingley of Stonebarrow Fossils. Many of the larger ammonites from this area are missing their... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


This stunning specimen with her regal ridges (and small anomaly) is an Apoderoceras ammonite. Apoderoceras are an extinct genus of cephalopod, an active predatory mollusk belonging to the subclass... fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2019/01/apoder…


Blue Lias Ichthyosaur


Four legs, webbed feet and hooves on its toes: this new fossil discovery from Peru doesn't sound like your typical whale. But scientists believe that... nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…


The shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) is a small North American species sometimes mistaken for juveniles of their Atlantic cousins. Sturgeons of the family Acipenseridae comprise 25 extant species, making it the most... doi.org/10.3158/2158-5…


Horseshoe crabs are classic living fossils. These marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura are slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Water Striders (Aquarius remigis), (pretty... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


Four complete platysiagid fish specimens are described from the Luoping Biota, Anisian (Middle Triassic), Yunnan Province, southwest China. They are small fishes with bones and scales covered with ganoine. All... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


In 2017, a team around Sven Sachs from the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld studied the find from Wattendorf. It became clear that the specimen represents a species of Cricosaurus, a marine crocodyliform of the family Metriorhynchidae that... sachspal.de/cricosaurus/

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Cricosaurus bambergensis, a marine crocodile from Germany

Cricosaurus bambergensis is a Late Jurassic metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from Wattendorf in Germany. The fossil and its history are introduced.


This fellow is Eekaulostomus cuevasae, an ancient Armored Trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Paleocene (Danian, ≈ 63Ma) marine strata of the Tenejapa-Lacandón, Belisario Domínguez quarry, Salto de Agua Municipality,... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


This fellow is Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, a fuxinhuiid arthropod. While he looks like he could be from the inside of the Lascaux Caves and their glorious Palaeolithic paintings, albeit by a very ancient... facebook.com/PaleoHuntress/…


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