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Thursday, 18 July 2024

GIGANTIC FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

HETEROPTERA: SNEAKOPTERA

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A sweet little water bug from the suborder Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810). He looks more like a cartoon character that any other specimen I...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

FOSSIL RHINO AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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Monday, 15 July 2024

HUMPBACK WHALES: MEGAPTERA NOVAENGLIAE

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Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for whom...
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

NEVADA PALAEONTOLOGY: BERLIN-ICHTHYOSAUR STATE PARK

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Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park High on the hillside up a long entry road sits the entrance to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in ...
Monday, 8 July 2024

UNESCOCERATOPS: A SMALL LEPTOCERATOPSID DINOSAUR

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Unescoceratops koppelhusae , Julius Csotonyi A very sweet small leptoceratopsid dinosaur, Unescoceratops koppelhusae — a new species in th...
Sunday, 7 July 2024

AMMONITE TIME KEEPERS

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Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

TUZOIA OF THE BALANG FORMATION

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A large extinct bivalved arthropod, Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in beau...
Friday, 14 June 2024

TANGLEFOOT MOUNTAIN TRILOBITES

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After a phenomenal collecting trip to the Goat Haven Mountain of the East Kootenay region near Cranbrook, we headed out to the classic Tangl...
Wednesday, 12 June 2024

PROBOSCIDEAN REMAINS AND THE MYTH OF ANTAEUS

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Tetralophodon During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals wal...
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

CERATIOCARIS, YE KEN

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This braw fellow is Ceratiocaris papilio (Salter in Murchison, 1859) a pod Shrimp from the Silurian mudstones of the Kip Burn Formation in...
Monday, 10 June 2024

FOSSIL BIRDS FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND'S SOUTHERN SHORES

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Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....
Sunday, 9 June 2024

FOSSILS AND FINCHES OF MADAGASCAR

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Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) A stunning example of the internal suturing with calcite infill in this sliced  Aioloceras besa...
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