Jaleesa Buchwitz , Hunter Carter and I had a great day salvaging pterosaur tracks from the Late Jurassic Salt Wash Mbr., Morrison Fm. @Escalente Petrified Forest State Park. The track slab will be prepared @St George Dinosaur Discovery Site and eventually exhibited at the museum in Escalente.
I will be following up with a presentation on equivalent age from the American Southwest for the UFOP chapter in Moab hopefully before June.
Will you be at the game on Monday Jim?
Could be a sauropod track.
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Thanks so much Danny! It looks like a large lungfish tooth plate may have been found in the quarry this week.
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
#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.
Things have changed since my original post.
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!
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.
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...
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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
This news story released tonight is already having positive results. Three excavation companies have already contacted me.
www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/heavy-e...
Large trackhoe and frontend loaders.
Thanks for your help and support Rob!
Nothing yet but we're looking.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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
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 (:
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 🧪⚒️🐟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Printed sheet of paper on wooden door with red background and white lettering that says “Keep 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)
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)
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.
NBMG 14143 (New Brunswick Museum) - Pseudobradypus isp. from Pennsylvanian Grande Anse Formation, southeastern New Brunswick.
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.