#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 show hear 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
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A place worth sitting" shows a Dilophosaurus sitting on a beach in the rain (there's a fossil of this happening!).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "In the wake of colossus" shows some Limusaurus trapped in the muddy track left behind by a Mamenchisaurus, which has attracted a predatory Guanlong.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A stand against the sand" shows a male Citipati protecting a nest from an approaching sandstorm.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Carcass Collector," showing an Archaeotherium with his food cache of body parts.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "A Portrait of Malignance," showing a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma tumour.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "His Best Moves," showing a male Confuciusornis showing off to a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2022, the Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean R Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Formidable Opportunists," an Allosaurus pack tearing apart a rotting Camarasaurus.
To cap off an amazing weekend, Dr. Emily Bamforth and Jackson Sweder from the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum along with Atharva Roy presented on 3D scanning and printing of fossils! We learnt how 3D scans are made and used to advance the field of palaeontology. We saw demonstrations of the structured light scanner and then created our own low-cost, easy photogrammetry scans using an app on our smartphones!
1- The presenters!
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
One last small spot illustration from 2022, for a book not yet published. This is Teraterpeton.
