Looking forward to Utah Paleontological License Plates supporting paleo research in Utah. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
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Looking forward to Utah Paleontological License Plates supporting paleo research in Utah. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @nhmu.bsky.social
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In honor of Hans Dieter Sues a #FossilFriday, the big Kayentatherium that Hans built much of his dissertation around. Got to help excavate in July 1981 working for Farrish Jenkins and first met Hans, while he was working on the specimen at Harvard a few years later. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
28.02.2026 02:28 — 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Cropping teeth of Utah's new Kayenta ornithischian, so for #FossilFriday Scutellosaurus lawleri. My pics of the original exhibit & gastondesign.com mount. Not the transition at base of tail from 2 rows of osteoderms across midline to 1 medial row running down the tail. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
28.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0That is the Southern Parkway connecting I-15 south of St George, Utah via a loop east of the city to the main road to Zion National Park. That entire region is being developed on top of a vast paleontology site dominated by tracksites & extensive archaeological sites by Virgin & Santa Clara Rivers.
27.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#FossilFriday A beautiful Cretaceous seastar. This fully articulated specimen of Calliderma was collected in the Chalk of England.
27.02.2026 08:36 — 👍 378 🔁 54 💬 3 📌 6
I’m excited to share a new project that I hope will be a valuable resource for the paleo community!
I'm working on a textbook about plesiosaurs and compiled a comprehensive overview of all currently valid plesiosaur taxa and some nomina dubia. 1/3
www.sachspal.de/plesiosauria/
#FossilFriday
Paleo mitigation is important! The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs). Sadly, the site is under a new highway & hill is gone forever. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
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Well for anyone that thinks mitigation is not important in paleontology. The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs) We are documenting the 4th ornithischian in the E. Jur.
27.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Reporting 2 verts from Quarry 9 as alverezsaurid is a big deal, but I would strongly suggest that Quarry 9 is Kimmeringian in age and not latest Tithonian. Bet older than 150... Still very cool Pete, very cool! Cope's Nipple on west side of Denver Basin is Tithonian, I bet, but anything in Wyoming??
27.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of our younger members of Utah Friends of Paleontology kicking some butt with his artistic skills. cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/dE3... Nice to see! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @thestemvillage.bsky.social
27.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Still looking for a preCloverly (Aptian or older, <118 Ma) ceratopsian. I'm thinking that the terminal Jurassic Morrison megafaunal extinction opened up some ecological niches.
26.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We plan to attend SVP'S town meeting today! Mentor, not molester! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
26.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
Fossilized bones and skeletal diagram of a small dinosaur.
New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 (📷Makovicky et al.)
25.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Woah. Calamosaurus from the Wessex Formation reidentified as an alvarezsauroid... I'm reeling and certainly didn't see that one coming :) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dinosaurs
25.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 100 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
Only $2400. #TrilobiteTuesday
Only $2400.
#TrilobiteTuesday
@brianbrachiopod.bsky.social
Great Basin Chapter in Salt Lake City will be hosting this year’s UFOP Annual Meeting. It will be held the weekend of August 28th – 30th. This will be a fun and rewarding weekend full of paleontology socializing, science talks, a banquet and field trips. Stay tuned...If only for the T-shirt!
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Great Basin March meeting Thurs. March 12th at 7:00 pm MT with Dr. David Smith, Northland Pioneer College. Dr. Smith’s talk is titled: "Uncovering the biology of therizinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah" online meeting can be accessed through this link: meet.google.com/hzr-pkdu-wtp
23.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0UGS's Lunch and Learn talk by Utah Tech's Dr. Natalie Tanski. Mapping of river terraces as they inform you on the geologic history of a region and then how to apply those skills to the incision story of the Colorado River in Utah! drive.google.com/file/d/1b4QS... @agu.org
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A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.
I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime:
Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart!
Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm
The mid-Turonian tyrannosauroid Suskityrannus hazelae. The site of the second more complete specimen discovered by Sterling Nesbitt. #FossilFriday
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Two Rocks Balanced hadrosaur Jeyawati..... #FossilFriday The site and some skull bones...
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North America's first therizinosaurid Nothronychus mckinleyi material from Haystack Butte Bonebed. #FossilFriday
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More Zuniceratops material from Haystack Butte Bonebed. #FossilFriday
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Digging on the Haystack Butte Bonebed! Mid. arkosic fluvial sandstone (Upper Turonian regional unconformity) of Moreno Hill Fm. caps mesa. Separates Lower Ferron from Upper Ferron & Juana Lopez in Utah.
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Thanks to Hazel Wolfe for reminding me it had been 30 years since Doug & discoverer Christopher Wolfe brought the type Zuni horn to Fruita to checkout. I sent them out there hoping they would score a Turonian 92 Ma fauna. Zuniceratops for #FossilFriday Partial isolated type skeleton, then a bonebed
20.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 55 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0Support museums as economic attractors for rural communities. www.facebook.com/share/v/187W...
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James Kuether's 2024 G. lorriemcwhinnyae reproduction study for the Cedar Mt book. @tetzoo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
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