This might be the coolest 🦕 taphonomy paper yet! Hornung et al report on fragmentary probable titanosaur remains (dorsal centrum & manual phalanx) - and other fossils - that weathered & were later fluvially transported & deposited IN A CAVE!
(art by )

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"Subject to Change"
+ bidder edition

In the past tense, home was always changing, fragmentary, becoming hazy & washed out in memory.

read about this piece and how it will change🧵👇

for the :Home drop.

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This doodle is now 2 years old! Paraxenisaurus is a mystery dinosaur found in Mexico. It was described as a deinocheirid based on fragmentary remains. If correct it is the first deinocheirid ever found in North America! Btw that's a prehistoric banana relative on the corner :B

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🕯️It's still my birthday so I wanna thank my 3 amazing collectors on
1. "Something is happening" collected by dear 🤍
2. "Influx" collected by dear 🤍
3. "Fragmentary" collected by dear 🤍

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- bone! It's believed that its hands would've helped it climb trees or catch prey! It's also possible that they were adapted for limited aerial movement, but it's hard to say for sure, as it's only known from the fragmentary remains of one individual! (2/2)

Art by Audrey.m.horn!

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30.9 (A Fragmentary Passage)/31

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“This fragmentary taxon was probably smaller than most imagine, if you estimate based on more complete relatives. It’s still quite a big animal!”

trexfan345: “I disagree because this image I found on google is cooler”

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August 14, 1856, died Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland. He described the 1st as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw 🦖
Artwork by https://t.co/IzyG1tqYvP

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Lil update from the last drawing stream with some fragmentary info.
https://t.co/lGQqUEry1F

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"don't hate me because i'm beautiful... and highly fragmentary"
(but evolutionarily important)

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Artwork of Aqua from Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep ~ A fragmentary passage

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New paper from my labmate and adviser Ewan Fordyce: redescription of the fragmentary whale Kekenodon onamata, a late surviving archaeocete from the Oligocene of New Zealand. https://t.co/rBPyO3DdUx

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Yeah this is traced from the fragmentary fossil. So lazy smh

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Review! Swan Song – Sonja Ahlers’ Graphic Poetry Collection Combines Fragmentary Reflections with a DIY Culture Feel, published by . https://t.co/d9RNzfXpyU

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I have seen this one fragmentary piece personally

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While the crania from Omo Kibish have received more attention than the postcranial skeleton of Omo 1, and coworkers found that the fragmentary left hipbone has low iliac flare and smaller iliac tubercle like hipbones of most living people. https://t.co/miX56yTTpL

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Fragmentary statue of Mercury from the Berthouville Hoard, ca. 2nd Century AD. Clad in a short chlamys and winged petasus, he holds a purse in his right hand.

Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (inv.56.2). Link - https://t.co/hYc8YonHbR

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I found remains of Peltophryne as well in the literature, but while the largest I found were probably up to 2o cm long they all seem to represent living species or are to fragmentary to exclude that they belong to modern species.

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Just a pair of some more Paleoart recons: featuring Spinostropheus and Arganasuchus.

Spinostropheus was a bizarre ceratosaurian, likely an Elaphrosaur, from Mid Jurassic Niger. Arganasuchus on the other hand, a fragmentary terrestrial Loricatan from Late Triassic Morocco.

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However being near the Southern end of the globe, this environment experienced months of 24 hr sun in the Summer and months of Winter darkness. Fragmentary pterosaur fossils have been found in Antartica, possibly from this poor sap with a broken wing. Here is my initial sketch.

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