Happy #FossilFriday!🦘🦴🐀
Today we’re traveling to Barrow Island (NW 🇦🇺), home to both extant mammals and their Plio-Pleistocene fossil relatives.

📸 Pictured here are @palaeontolucy.bsky.social and Dr. Travouillon documenting one of the island’s ex-cave deposits.
#AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

#FossilFriday from these Tumbiana Formation stromatolites (~2.7 billion years old)!

Stromatolites have a distinct layered structure formed by microbial mats and sediment🦠

Found by Emeritus Professor Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University

#Stromatolites #ArcheanEra #AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

A diorama showing a valley with various egg-laying mammals, one of which is an echidnapus eating a rock.

A lush valley filled with diverse egg-laying mammals, inspired by fossil evidence from Australia. #MonotremeAge #FossilDiscovery #EggLayingMammals #AustralianFossils #GeometricDiorama #Echidnapus