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Saturday, 03 June 2023

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Platyostoma niagarensis Snail Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [19:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
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  On a recent trip to Napoleon, Indiana USA, I found this gastropod fossil which might be a Platyostoma niagarensis (Hall, 1852). It dates to the Silurian Period  (Telychian to Sheinwoodian stage) in age. According to Dr. James Thomka, professor at SUNY Plattsburgh, it is "from the mudstone lithofacies of the Massie Formation (long known as the "upper Osgood shale"), which is renowned for its 'cystoid' fauna."  

La Rivoluzione Piumata - Volume Quinto: Gli Pterosauri 

Theropoda [10:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
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 Perché i dinosauri dominarono in tutti i continenti, praticamente senza rivali, per oltre cento milioni di anni? Perché i dinosauri, e non altre specie, furono i più giganteschi animali che abbiano camminato sul nostro pianeta? Perché gli uccelli sono oggi considerati “gli ultimi dinosauri”?I dinosauri sono gli animali estinti più famosi. Essi sono i protagonisti di romanzi, film di successo

FOSSIL TETRAPODS FROM THE ARCTIC 

ARCHEA [09:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (16 visits) info
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Qikiqtania wakei, a fishapod & relative to tetrapodsYou will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, Tiktaalik roseae. These were [...]

Paleontologica Infographica 

The Bite Stuff [01:38:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
It occurs to me I need a single place to collate all my various "infographic" art pieces discussing a variety of topics, so here we go. Brief summaries of their content when not obvious will follow. Continue [...]

LOVE LESSONS FROM THE ARCTIC 

ARCHEA [03:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (21 visits) info
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Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, NunavutWarm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nunavut. They speak Inuktitut, the mother tongue of the majority of the [...]

Cottage report 

Ontario-geofish [00:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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 We've entered a nice time, between blackflies and deerflies. The toughies are swimming in the lake.The storms missed us but we got nice rain.  Now it is quite
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