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Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴

This week we’re travelling to the wide, windswept exposures of Punta Peligro in Patagonia, Argentina, where researchers scour the Paleocene strata for fossil vertebrates.

📷 Thank you to Francisco Barrios for capturing this moment in the field!

#Patagonia #Argentina

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Happy #FossilFriday! from Anticosti Island, Quebec 🌊🪨

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of fieldwork—when someone shouts “Oh! Come look at this!” and the whole team gathers around to see what ancient story the rocks are about to reveal.

#AnticostiIsland #CanadianFossils

Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️🦖
This #fossil is the “Triassic cuddle” discovered in South Africa in 1975 by James Kitching🇿🇦They are 250 million year old skeletons of an amphibian and a protomammal that crawled into a burrow for protection before fossilization. Together forever!
#Paleontology #ValentinesDay

#FossilFriday at the ~2.7 billion-year-old Tumbiana Fm, #PilbaraCraton, W #Australia

🦠 Pictured are lake-deposited #stromatolites, where calm water conditions allowed larger, intricate structures to form.

Fieldtrip led by Curtin Earth & Planetary Sciences professor Dr. Kranendonk
🛑Permit SGR041.

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Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴🦕

This week, we’re travelling to the Gobi Desert in #Mongolia, where an articulated #Oviraptorid foot was uncovered near the Dragon’s Tomb.
The foot was pieced together, bone by bone, revealing features that help us better understand oviraptorid movement 🐾
📷 Sally Hurst

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦷🌊

🦴 This impressive tooth belonged to Kronosaurus queenslandicus, a giant pliosaur that ruled Australia’s ancient inland sea (Eromanga Sea) during the Cretaceous Period

📍 Toolebuc Fm, Queensland, #Australia, on the traditional lands of the people of the Wunumara Nation

Happy #FossilFriday!🦘🦴🐀
Today we’re traveling to Barrow Island (NW 🇦🇺), home to both extant mammals and their Plio-Pleistocene fossil relatives.

📸 Pictured here are @palaeontolucy.bsky.social and Dr. Travouillon documenting one of the island’s ex-cave deposits.
#AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

Happy #FossilFriday!
This week we’re heading down under to the Bass Coast of Victoria🇦🇺, where dinosaur bones are being carefully freed by the recently appointed Dr Jake Kotevski! These were discovered by Melissa Lowery and date to between 120-128 million years ago🦴🦖
#AustralianDinosaurs #Theropods

🦖🐾Dinosaurs Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana by Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho is an incredible book about Brazilian fossils and how paleontologists use trace fossils to study ancient ecosystems🏞️🌿
📚PS book reviews like this are posted on our website paleosoc.org monthly!

Happy holidays from the Paleo Society!🎉
This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner!
#Paleontology #Literature #Ocean

Did you know that PS provided over $250k to support students and early career paleontologists?🦕🌿Help support PS’s mission to advance paleontology through research, education, and advocacy. Include PS in your #GivingTuesday plans and donate at paleosoc.org/donate2 🦖 ✨
#PaleoSociety #Science #Research

Happy #FossilFriday from Kronosaurus Korner!
This specimen is part of the lower and upper jaw of Platypterygius australis from the upper Albion Toolebuc Formation of the Eromanga Basin in Queensland.
Thanks to Kronosaurus Korner for today’s feature!
#Palaeontology #Australia #Ichthyosaur #Fossil

Happy #FossilFriday with these rusophycus, cruziana, and planolites trace fossils from east TN! These were found at a thrust fault in the Great Smoky thrust fault belt on a field trip from UT Knoxville’s field methods course.
#Fossils #Trilobites #Science #Geology #Education

It's clearly common knowledge, no need to get into the weeds with citations!

The winner of Clash of the Clades: a new taxon, Finnegan-ada! Fear not, mollusk lovers, your clade raised the most money! Thank you all who participated in this wild and wacky fundraiser. We appreciate all who donated and cast their vote! 👑

#paleontology #geology #geosciences

Happy #FossilFriday from the Petrified Forest!
The “PEFO” is a field full of Triassic age petrified trees in Arizona. It formed when a river flooded and fallen trees were filled with elements like iron, carbon, and manganese.
#Fossils #PEFO #PublicLands #NationalParkService #Arizona #Paleontology

Spread some Halloween cheer by fighting for your favorite clade.

See Venmo or the link below

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#paleosociety #paleontology #invertebrates #vertebrateevolution #geology #geosciences

Finnegan has taken the lead with the most votes, with mollusks close behind!

Vote today, the competition is tight!
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@Paleo-Society on Venmo

#paleosociety #paleontology #invertebrates #vertebrateevolution #geology #geosciences

In a wild turn of events, mollusks and Seth Finnegan are tied for first place!

Don't forget to cast your vote! Look for the QR code on previous posts or the link below to vote today! 🐝🪱🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🪰🪲🦂🐢🦖🐋🐊🦐🦑🐠🐫

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#paleosociety #paleontology #invertebrates #vertebrateevolution

This visit to the Trendall Geoheritage Reserve (R50149) and Buick Reserve (R44710) was conducted under Permit SGR041. Entry into these reserves requires a permit issued by the Geological Survey of Western Australia.

#FossilFriday from these Tumbiana Formation stromatolites (~2.7 billion years old)!

Stromatolites have a distinct layered structure formed by microbial mats and sediment🦠

Found by Emeritus Professor Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University

#Stromatolites #ArcheanEra #AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

Happy #FossilFriday, here is a gorgeous Squalicorax cf. S. lindstromi tooth found by Zachary Burman from Temple University!🦈 Squalicorax is also an index fossil, used to help tell time!
📸Got a fossil to show? Send it here!
forms.gle/CUCKaogSpqa4...
#Paleontology #Palaeontology #SharkTooth #Ocean

Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter!
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology

Happy #FossilFriday from the Mention Bassins Sédimentaires Évolution Conservation of Université d’Antananarivo, who won a Sepkoski Grant to conduct research on subfossil seeds in Ampiriaka, Madagascar!🇲🇬🌿
#FossilFriday #Palaeontology #Palaeobotany #Palynology #Fossils #Madagascar

Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America is a 3 chaptered book on frog paleoherpetology, now on sale for 30% off with a PS discount! When you add frog to your cauldron this Halloween, appreciate the millions of years of evolution that made them!🐸
#Paleontology #Herpetology #Frogs #PSBookReview

Happy #FossilFriday from under the microscope with this freshwater acritarch!
While we don’t know the full evolutionary tree of this tiny fellow, some people believe they may have descended from algal ancestors. Thanks @paleotrin.bsky.social !
#Paleontology #Palynology #Palynomorph #Microscope

Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts, and Evolves by MJ Benton is a fantastic read on extinctions, great for anyone of any experience in paleo! It also has incredible visuals from paleoart and fossils, springing ancient ecosystems back to life. Pick up your copy today!
#Paleontology #BookReview