The BLM and the Burpee Museum will be starting their annual spring tours of the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur excavations, at what may be the largest single dinosaur site in the Jurassic of North America. www.blm.gov/announcement... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
Composite image with portrait photo of author Christa Sadler, an image of the cover of her new book, "Dinosaur Frontier", and a painting by Andrey Autuchin showing some of the many dinosaurs found in Utah's Early Cretaceous.
Hybrid Meeting with author Christa Sadler, Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 PM. Sadler will talk about her brand-new book: "Dinosaur Frontier: Utah at the Dawn of the Cretaceous".
Visit the UFOP website at rb.gy/eh1jft for more info or to sign up for the online meeting.
#FossilFriday
Kosmoceratops richardsoni from Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has an amazing array of floppy horns on its frill. Reimagined here as the Sideshow Bob of ceratopsians. The holotype at the Natural History Museum of Utah includes an amazing skull prepared by Mike Getty. #FossilFriday
Dr. Nathan Ong carrying a pick while doing badlands field work looking for fossils.
Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for a hybrid meeting Thursday, April 10 at 7 PM. Dr. Nathan Ong will present: "Streamlining Fossil Inventory and Data Analysis Across U.S. National Parks." #paleontology
Sign up to attend online at the link. utahpaleo.org/2025/03/31/a...
Please note that the date is April 10. Sorry for the error.
This #FossilFriday, let’s also celebrate #FractofususFriday! Here’s a cast of several #Fractofusus specimens growing around (and likely absorbing nutrients from) a large mass of decaying tissue on the #Ediacaran sea floor. From Mistaken Point, #Newfoundland.
A four-toed crocodylomorph track impressed into orange-brown sandstone. The toes are wide and slightly splayed.
A four-toed crocodylomorph track preserved in orange-brown sandstone. Three of the thin toes are in sharp relief, and a smudge of a toe print has been smeared below the rest of the toes on the right.
Happy #FossilFriday, check out some darling crocodylomorph tracks! 200 million years ago, small and snappy distant-croc-relatives, like Protosuchus, darted and splashed along a ripple-marked lakeshore and through silty riverbeds, leaving behind their traces. (1/2)
#paleontology #ichnology
#FossilFriday takes us back to the #Silurian (~430 MYA) for a classic example of planar close packing in nature -- a silicified favositid "honeycomb" #coral with many individual hexagonal corallites sharing adjacent walls. #FossilHill Formation, #ManitoulinIsland, #Ontario 🇨🇦 #Canada
The skull of Daemonosaurus chauliodus at the museum at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, USA. The snout of this basal theropod dinosaur is short and ends at the front with highly procumbent teeth.
Presenting the skull of one of the earliest theropod #dinosaurs for this #FossilFriday, Daemonosaurus chauliodus, from the Late #Triassic of New Mexico 🇺🇸. It was unearthed from rocks of the famous Chinle Formation, which outcrops across the Southwestern USA.
#Paleontology #Science
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Happy #FossilFriday!
Enjoy this maxillary tooth from an Allosaurus. Found in western Colorado on BLM lands. #BLMPaleo
I love this tooth! Great resorption pit with a new tooth just starting to form inside. Such a great teaching specimen!
art of parapuzosia in a murky underwater environment, surrounded by marine flora and some very small fish
a photo of a parapuzosia fossil, which is 1.8 metres in diameter, with a woman standing next to it for scale
happy #fossilfriday! this is parapuzosia, a giant ammonite from late cretaceous africa, europe, and north america. it is the largest ammonite currently known, with some estimates putting its weight at over a tonne
(art by callum pursall)
A paleontologist is outside holding a children’s book called “The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure” with a dinosaur poking its head in the background.
My first book, The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure, is out now! It’s illustrated by the amazing Nat Cardozo. Each page features embossed fossils you can touch.
Every fossil tells a story, and every scientist started out as a curious kid.
I can’t believe it’s finally here!
#fossilfriday #booksky
Hadrosaur skin impressions with dorsal osteoderms at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Many hadrosaur fossils found at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument include skin impressions. #FossilFriday
Dr. Jim Kirkland presents "Eggs, Nests, and Dinosaur Behavior: Evidence from the Morrison Formation, Colorado Plateau" at the February Great Basin UFOP Chapter meeting in SLC. #paleontology #jurassic www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4W1...
A public lands protest will take place this Saturday, March 1st, at the Dinosaur National Monument entrance (Utah side), in support of federal employee community members who have recently lost their jobs.
#PleaseShare
#Paleontology #Dinosaurs #NationalParks
Please note that the location for the meeting has been changed from the Utah Core Center to the main Department of Natural Resources building. The map at the link above has been updated.
Utah State Paleontologist Jim Kirkland standing near a reconstruction of a Utahraptor skeleton at the Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi, UT.
Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for a hybrid meeting Thurs. Feb. 13 at 7 PM. Jim Kirkland — Utah’s State Paleontologist will present: Eggs, Nests, and Dinosaur Behavior: Evidence from the Morrison Formation.
In-person & online. tinyurl.com/36994wwn
Dr. Jim Kirkland, Utah State Paleontologist and Ethan Cowgill talking with visitors to the UGS and UFOP tables at the Natural History Museum of Utah's Dinofest event.
If any Salt Lake City area UFOP members (or wannabes) would like to help staff our table at NHMU's Dinofest Saturday and/or Sunday, February 25 & 26, please sign up here: forms.gle/AGhXEMrK6ShG... #FossilFriday #scienceoutreach #utahpaleontology You'll get a badge and Museum pass. Thanks!
Full description of our Scottish pterosaur, Dearc!
The final piece of @nataliajagielska.bsky.social 's PhD in Edinburgh. Natalia did a sublime job working on Dearc, becoming a world expert on pterosaurs along the way.
Read her work 👇 (open access!)
Happy #FossilFriday everyone! This is a #3Dprint of a bone from the #Triassic Thaynes Formation of #Idaho. Originally described as a skull bone from an #ichthyosaur, it turns out not to be. Come talk to @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social and me at @nhmu.bsky.social #DinoFest this weekend! #IdahoPaleo
*motorcycle noises* #FossilFriday
Famous #WillowCreekAnticline #EggMountain #TwoMedicine @museumoftherockies.bsky.social Locality named #Geoheritage site! www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/interna...
Accidental Flavian hair
For #fossilfriday here is the little collection I gave made of toys and models based on species I gave named. I hope there will be a pterosaur one day to add to it.
Images from Pates, et al show some of the exceptional preservation of Utah's Burgess-type fossils. #FossilFriday
Utah's Cambrian record is world class!! peerj.com/articles/105... Sadly, it is largely ignored in Utah, but attracts researches from around the world. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @andrewtracks.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @cambriancam.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social
Saturday and Sunday at the Natural History Museum of Utah. #FossilFriday
