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Andrew Milner

@andrewtracks.bsky.social

Paleontologist at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in SW Utah @stgeorgedino. I'm πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦, love hockey and Rock n' Roll!

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Will you be at the game on Monday Jim?

21.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could be a sauropod track.

06.11.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They might not know much about hockey. But they know what Utah’s NHL team should be called. Utah's NHL team is in the "home stretch" of announcing its official name. Does one option stand above the rest?

ls there be a Utah Mammoths Hockey Team in Salt Lake City? Stay tuned. www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-...

@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @andrewtracks.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

02.05.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much Danny! It looks like a large lungfish tooth plate may have been found in the quarry this week.

12.04.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Neoceratodus-style lungfish 3D print in segments, in "bronze"-color filament, sitting on a couch with a pencil beside for scale

Photo of Neoceratodus-style lungfish 3D print in segments, in "bronze"-color filament, sitting on a couch with a pencil beside for scale

Just got finished printing this life-sized lungfish model as a gift for the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site Museum

It's a surprise 🀫 so don't tell SGDS Curator @andrewtracks.bsky.social

12.04.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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#FossilFriday from the Substation Quarry at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in SW Utah. Two Anomoepus tracks in a trackway, a nice Grallator, and a theropod vertebra found right at the end of the day.

05.04.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Things have changed since my original post.

02.04.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New theropod tooth today and Handy Excavation is moving in big equipment to get the huge rock pile out of the way. Thanks for all of the amazing support!

25.03.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some cool finds today in the Substation Quarry at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site! This quarry is becoming massive! We're having lots of fun though.

13.03.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi everyone! We have a live stream from the Substation Quarry at the St. St George Dinosaur Discovery Site /Washington County, UT (Natural History) provided by the Prehistoric Museum in Price: www.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...

12.03.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have deleted X. I'm tired of this crap!

10.03.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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SGDS Substation Quarry update: met with two contractors today who are going to help out. Jim Poole just uncovered a palaeoniscoid fish. #FossilFriday

07.03.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heavy equipment operators needed during dig for dinosaur bones in St. George The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is known for its collection of fossil tracks and traces made by dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals on the shores of ancient Lake Whitmore

This news story released tonight is already having positive results. Three excavation companies have already contacted me.

www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/heavy-e...

07.03.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Large trackhoe and frontend loaders.

06.02.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for your help and support Rob!

06.02.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing yet but we're looking.

04.02.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is looking for help with funding and crews to excavate an ~1/2 acre of bone beds in the Early #Jurassic (~200 million). We need big excavation equipment. Check out fossils and how you can help in the images attached.

04.02.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

We're looking for help with the excavation of bone beds at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in SW Utah. We need heavy excavation equipment to move a large fossil-rich rock pile and in place rock above the bone beds. The City will break ground for an electrical substation in early April.

02.02.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Dorsal armor of jawless fish in rusty red rock.

Dorsal armor of jawless fish in rusty red rock.

Thursday is my day in the collection. Today's fossil: the Early Devonian jawless fish Cyrtaspidichthys.

05.12.2024 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Presenting the #temnospondyl, #Siderops kehli, on display at the Queensland Museum Kurilpa in Brisbane, Australia for this #FossilFriday. It grew up to 2.7 m long & inhabited the rivers & lakes of Australia during the Early #Jurassic.

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06.12.2024 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Another beautiful phytosaur skull discovered by our SGDS crew in 2020. It's from the lower Church Rock Member of the Chinle Formation from San Juan County, Utah.

03.12.2024 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Two small fossil reptiles coiled together in what used to be a burrow structure. Only one specimen, towards the top of the photo, preserves the skull

Two small fossil reptiles coiled together in what used to be a burrow structure. Only one specimen, towards the top of the photo, preserves the skull

A close up of the fossil reptile skull in lateral view. There’s a tympanic fossa and a large orbit

A close up of the fossil reptile skull in lateral view. There’s a tympanic fossa and a large orbit

For this #FossilFriday, the early #Triassic owenettid Saurodektes kitchingorum from South Africa.

This taxon (and other procolophonoids) were some of the only reptilian survivors of the End Permian #Extinction.

Was it because they were burrowing?

Bonus: There are fossil millipedes (:

22.11.2024 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A number of well-preserved fossil fish and some coprolites (fossil feces).  From the paper: Actinopterygii, Hybodontiformes and coprolites from the Yuzhou Biota. (A), Ginglymodi indet., SSGT JK062. (B), Hybodontiform dorsal fin-spine, SSGT L01-HY224. (C), Ginglymodi indet., SSGT L01-HY892. (D), Hybodontiform tooth, SSGT TX01. (E, F, I, J), Coprolites.

A number of well-preserved fossil fish and some coprolites (fossil feces). From the paper: Actinopterygii, Hybodontiformes and coprolites from the Yuzhou Biota. (A), Ginglymodi indet., SSGT JK062. (B), Hybodontiform dorsal fin-spine, SSGT L01-HY224. (C), Ginglymodi indet., SSGT L01-HY892. (D), Hybodontiform tooth, SSGT TX01. (E, F, I, J), Coprolites.

An exceptionally preserved fossil assemblage from the early Jurassic of Chongqing ( #China ) reveals a complex lacustrine ecosystem

Ting-Cong Ren, Xin-Ying Ma, Qing-Dong Wang, GoGuang-Hui Xu πŸ§ͺβš’οΈπŸŸ

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.11.2024 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Printed sheet of paper on wooden door with red background and white lettering that says β€œKeep Calm and Follow Ichnology,” with the white silhouette of a three-toed theropod dinosaur track st its top.

Printed sheet of paper on wooden door with red background and white lettering that says β€œKeep Calm and Follow Ichnology,” with the white silhouette of a three-toed theropod dinosaur track st its top.

As we get closer to the weekend, here’s an important reminder, as we aspire for peace of mind via traces. 🐾
(Graphic design courtesy of @stupond.bsky.social)

21.11.2024 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A beautiful little skull from the early armoured dinosaur Scelidosaurus. This one is in the Bristol City Museum, and is one that is NOT privately-owned.. (IYKYK)

20.11.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Amazing science on bird limb functionally! I'm totally not going to harass our pet chickens to watch them rotate their legs at the knee, no sir.

20.11.2024 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NBMG 14143 (New Brunswick Museum) - Pseudobradypus isp. from Pennsylvanian Grande Anse Formation, southeastern New Brunswick.

20.11.2024 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lophionotus occurs in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic in the American Southwest. They have been reported from the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations. Semionotid remains are also reported from the Dockum Group and Navajo Sandstone. These are likely Lophionotus as well.

19.11.2024 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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19.11.2024 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Having fun recycling some posts: Pseudoarctolepis sharpi from the middle #Cambrian Pierson Cove Formation, Millard County, #Utah.

19.11.2024 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0