# fossilfriday paleontology alabama paleoart palaeontology rosalindfranklin thisismymv stafftour microct µct osteology science rsos

T. rex holotype WIP skeletal reference by Franoys

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2019-09-19

The holotype of the primitive hadrosaurid (Eotrachodon orientalis) from the Santonian of Montgomery Co., AL.

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2019-09-06

Tritonychus was an aquatic, Onychophoran-branch Lobopodian that lived in the tropical sea of Cambrian China. It had three claws on each leg. The holotype of Tritonychus is exceptionally well preserved in 3D, usually something only possible in the Orsten

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2019-09-02

Today is birthday. This is a fossil cone snail 🐚🐌 that I named in her honor - Conus franklinae. Color pattern of the holotype is revealed by UV light. From Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

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2019-07-25

June 12, 1870, birthday of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach. Famous for the discovery of the holotype of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus 🦖 https://t.co/WS6p1E61aH 🦖🖌 https://t.co/lwAEnPuCZJ

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2019-06-12

Checking out what's behind the closed doors across from my office. Invertebrate palaeontology collection 1/ Fossil barnacle holotype studied by Charles Darwin 2/Ammonites 3/Pretty sea lily holotype that isn't allowed to be a species anymore

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2019-01-11

Here is a (transparent) rotational gif of the skeleton of the holotype of Rhombophryne vaventy, the first species I ever described, with Zoosphaerium sp. in its gut. I just added this to as CC-BY-SA 4.0 and to https://t.co/Cohb0Ivo68

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2018-09-09

authors et al. are investigating the evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians through the reinterpretation of the holotype specimen of Thililua longicollis, and clarify its cranial anatomy https://t.co/v8pjNZQXKx

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2018-03-30

Composite skeletal reconstruction of Saurophaganax maximus based on holotype and paratype.
Scale bar is 1m.

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2016-11-13