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We are actually working on the new species Tyrannosaurus imperator (Paul et al., 2022)💥 holotype's (FMNH PR 2081) reconstruction!!
🦖#TyrannosaurusImperator 🦖
Happy Groundhog Day!
#Arizona has its own, extinct #marmot, Marmota arizonae (Hay 1921) USNM V 10181 is the specimen number of the holotype.
@hodarinundu drew this neat pic
#FossilCrates #paleontology #geology #museum #fossil #prehistoric #extinct #scicomm #stem #mammal #iceage
something different again 😮💨 #microraptor reconstruction, based on holotype IVPP V 13352
The other specimen I illustrated is an exceptionally large entoplastron that was estimated to yield a carapace size of perhaps 1.2 meters. But since its part of the plastron, which the holotype does not preserve, it cannot be properly assigned to Drazinderetes. (4/10)
Ken Carpenter sent his picture of the Holotype distal tail of Sauropelta; matches up well with Coombs' (fixed) drawing. Still does not jive with the material on exhibit! Did KC shoot his pic before exhibit made?? Got smashed before I shot and a tail was fabricated for exhibit?
#3dmodels of the #holotype vertebra of the large #snake #Palaeopython helveticus - #Eocene of #Switzerland
Collections of Palaeont. Institute and Museum of the @UZH_en
Image from
Georgalis & Scheyer 2019. Swiss J Geosci 112:383–417
https://t.co/cWvL2c7wAn
#reptiles #FossilFriday
#Holotype vertebra of the #snake #Periergophis micros from the #Neogene of #Greece
From the #openaccess paper:
Georgalis, G.L., et al. 2019. Palaeontologia Electronica 22.3.68:1–99
https://t.co/OGRdmf8p64
#reptiles #fossil #anatomy #taxonomy #Squamata
Holotype dentary of the lacertid #lizard Pseudeumeces kyrillomethodicus from the #Oligocene of France
From the #OpenAccess
Georgalis, Čerňanský and Klembara. 2021. Geodiversitas 43(9):219–293
https://t.co/TxLelwVpfB
#Fossil #reptile #3DModel
@walkabouttravel Just triangular knives down the length of its tail. Gastonia lateral caudal plates twice the size of these (E-HH) from the Holotype of Mymoorapelta. Cover these in horn and think chainsaw blade on a handle.
Wanderful little detail for paleo fans that specimen ROM 768 is in the new Dinosauria short.
For those that dont know its the holotype of ParasaurolophusWalkeri thats shows a series of pathologies caused by what was most likely a tree tho they show signs of healing meaning that-
#FossilFriday lithograph of the holotype of Toxodon platensis, a notoungulate from South America, collected by Darwin on the Beagle voyage. The skull is still housed in @NHM_London
Mastodon jaw comparison with photogrammetric #3dmodels. Left, American mastodon from Louisiana, @LSU_MNS collection. Right, Pacific mastodon holotype @MaxMastodon, @WesternCenter collection. #FossilFriday.
Talos
A 2 meter long troodontid known from a fragmentary skeleton, its name is both in reference to the giant automaton of greek mythology and a pun on talon
ALT: The holotype had a damaged sickle claw, it was likely broken while it was hunting for or attacking prey
New paper #2: A new EXTANT species of beaked whale Mesoplodon, Mesoplodon eueu- closely related to M. mirus (True's beaked whale). Native to the southern ocean; holotype is stranded individual from New Zealand. https://t.co/6lvwVUQ1Nl
Amazingly, the scan of the holotype of the new species, which we dubbed Rhombophryne vaventy (vaventy is Malagasy for 'big'), revealed a beautiful pill millipede, Zoosphaerium, in its stomach.
#MadagascarFrogs #BonesDay
The name "Tylosaurus" itself references the rostrum, meaning "knob-lizard," as does the name of the type species (the first one named), T. proriger: "proriger" = "prow-bearing."
📷Cope 1870; T. proriger holotype @MCZpaleo 4374
#MosasaurMonday
Yes I'm still tooting my own horn for naming a new species - who wouldn't?!
Sharing my favorite element for #FossilFriday from the Parocnus dominicanus holotype (MHD 237), this nearly complete pelvis. Sloth pelvii are extremely hard to find whole, so this specimen is special!
Yesterday a new paper came out that describes a new species of Ectenosaurus mosasaur! I'll be spending my afternoon updating the taxonomy in our database as well as the storage location of the holotype FHSM VP-5515.
https://t.co/FblrNHyU4H
Second image is the skeletal restoration of the holotype (UMNH VP 19479), by @skeletaldrawing in 2010, with known parts shown in red.
Titanomyrma
A genus of prehistoric ant, not much is known about them since no workers have been found, it didnt have a stinger so it might have sprayed formic acid
ALT: they are believed to be giant due to the the queen (holotype specimen) which was as large as a hummingbird