Happy #FossilFriday!

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Homo #neanderthalensis aka #Neanderthal

In 1829, Philippe-Charles Schmerling, found a partial skull in the Grottes d'Engis, Belgium. He thought it was a "poorly developed" human

In 1856, schoolteacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott recognised bones from Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in Neander Valley as distinct from humans. They were given to anthropologist Hermann Schaaffhausen to study

In 1863, "Neanderthal Man" was proposed as a new species. This was formalised in 1864

#AzhdarchidApril #11- aerotitan sudamericanus, an azhdarchid from the late cretaceous of argentina

An Oxford Clay display of fossils in two parts. From Jurassic Sea Floor...To Wollaton Hall Store. #FossilFriday #Fossil #paleontology #NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall

For #FossilFriday, we have dinosaur footprints from the Jurassic of Queensland.

Detailed in a recent Historical Biology paper that has received enormous press coverage. Congrats to Anthony Romilio et al. on your work & press campaign!

Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2472153

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as easy. This is one of our closest relatives.

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 zengogobrick,

#FossilFriday de #Asmithwoodardia ? #Litopterna

Close up views of the heat-treated fossiliferous chalcedony core debitages. A lot of small fossils & fragments, with some small crinoid sections.

The Wetherington Island site was primarily an Archaic period lithic quarry where natives mined & partially reduced chert, chalcedony & agatized coral so they could transport the blanks elsewhere. Thermally altered lithic material probably represented <2% of the recovered artifacts. 2/ #Archaeology #fossils #FossilFriday #lithics

Blocky debitage from a thermally altered fossiliferous chalcedony core, 8HI473, the Wetherington Island site, Hillsborough Co., FL. The heat treating turned the chalcedony shades of pink & red.

We recovered approximately 6.35 metric tons of lithic artifacts from the site (Probably 4 tons in my feature alone), so we did have an adequate sample to say heat treating was not part of the normal quarry process at the site. 1/ #Archaeology #FossilFriday #lithics

#FossilFriday Molluscs 3 consecutive weeks! Ammonite Parahoplites stantoni, Cretaceous, Shasta Co., California. Many ammonites were geographically widespread, without tariffs. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social @calacademy https://flic.kr/p/Yx4f34

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Protemnodon

In the early-mid 1800s, fossil remains of several different species were found in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. They were sent to English biologist Richard Owen.

In 1874, he would name a newly found kangaroo relative Protemnodon anak.

Protemnodon is thought to be physically similar to the far smaller Wallaby. But the largest ones grew almost to the size of Procoptodon, the giant short fact kangaroo.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... and it's FossilFriday!

Here's a 2022 painting of Sacabambaspis, a jawless fish from the Ordovician Period. I can't yet say anything about the project is was created for (big news soon).

Happy #FossilFriday, check out some tiny tracks from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site! These darling little traces were likely made by very young coelophysid theropods, perhaps making their first romp around the ancient lake they called home. (1/2)
#paleontology #ichnology

#FossilFriday The Late Cretaceous ammonoid Plesiacanthoceras wyomingense at the old displays of National Museum of Natural History

The rear end of a T. rex for #FossilFriday. This replica skeleton is the centrepiece to the new Discovering Dinosaurs gallery, which opened this week at Wollaton Hall @GeorgeTheGorilla
#NottNatHist #museum #dinosaur #museum #paleontology

#LostBones #FossilFriday! In June 1921 at Sagamore Iron Mine near Riverton, MN, workers uncovered a bed of bison bones in a peat deposit. Skulls, vertebrae, ribs, and limb bones were collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study.

Today, the skull shown here remains in Minnesota, displayed at the Crow Wing County Historical Society in Brainerd.

www.crowwinghistory.org

#bisonoccidentalis #palaeontology #CitizenScience

Ref: O. P. Hay, Proc. U.S. National Mus. v. 63 1923

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as medium. This marsupial is known from Australia.

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).

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