Curious about East Coast paleontology? JP Hodnett is our #FossilCratesLive guest Sat., Aug 24th, Noon PDT / 3 PM EDT Zoom w/ us to hear the latest on Dinosaur Park, an Early Cretaceous fossil site in MD. Plus all the other amazing paleo critters JP is working on. #FossilCrates

“Mim-us” or “Mime-us”? Either way, tis amazing! I’m holding a “Gen 1” skull of #Suchomimus, an Early #Cretaceous (~125 mya) #spinosaurid from Niger, and one of the coolest-looking #theropod #dinosaur skulls around, at the BYU Museum of Paleontology. #Spinosaurus #FossilCrates

#Carcharodontosaurus! This skull is a composite, taking original elements from a number of sources and upscaling them to the size of the largest bone, on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology. I didn’t know my cable was failing… doh! #FossilCrates

#Teratophoneus “monstrous murderer” Holotype of Late #Cretaceous short-skulled #tyrannosaurid, 10 million years pre- #Tyrannosaurus, part of a diverse Southwestern U.S. #tyrannosaur line #Lythronax, #Bistahieversor, T. mcraeensis, +! @ BYU Museum of Paleontology. #FossilCrates

#Paleontology in the Dark #Uintatherium “Uinta Beast” named by Leidy in 1872 was a rhino-sized (13’ long, 2+ ton) herbivore that roamed western US and Asia (land bridges!) 40-50 million years ago in the #Eocene. Ossicones! Artwork commissioned from @zetakappasauro #FossilCrates

#Lambeosaurus “George” at the Pacific Museum of Earth PME UBC U. of British Columbia, Canada. The skull is cast but it appears to have original material in the Sternberg-style plaque mount. Articulated? Published? I don’t recall seeing a cast like this before. #FossilCrates

Meet Dorothy from Kansas! #Elasmosaurus platyurus “thin plate reptile, flat tail” at PME UBC. Was the neck snake-flexible? Telephone pole rigid (do they still make those?)? In between? The tail is quite short. W/ all that neck who needs much tail? Brach agrees! #FossilCrates

#Daspletosaurus “Frightful Lizard” at Pacific Musuem of Earth, University of British Columbia PME UBC Named in 1970 from bones assigned to #Gorgosaurus, tis a cousin of #Tyrannosaurus. The scap is longer than the arm! Legs have Peter Griffin Road House power. Lips? #FossilCrates

#Dromaeosaurus “swift running lizard” at the Pacific Museum of Earth at the University of British Columbia (best initials ever) in Canada. PME UBC Such a graceful, lethal predator, I wish they were still around. I love #Daspletosaurus lower jaw cameo at the end. #FossilCrates

Amazing photo and astounding collection!

Lif(ish) Sized I am proudly standing next to a classic #diplodocid #sauropod #dinosaur, the famous #Apatosaurus (=#Brontosaurus). I’m delighted it is represented, #diplodocids are my favorite! So many memories at Rapid City’s Dinosaur Park in South Dakota. #FossilCrates

Hand of Man Museum cast of non-full-sized #Mapusaurus roseae Coria y Currie 2006, who wrote, “It is conceivable that this bonebed represents a long term or coincidental accumulation of carcasses.” Like Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry and a dozen+ other places. #FossilCrates

Finally tis out! As a lad studying big critters, I can’t wait to dig into what looks to be a wonderful contribution to the most commonly asked question I receive, esp. on social media… the *est question: longest, heaviest, tallest, etc. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… #FossilCrates

#Giganotosaurus cast at the Museum of Man on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. I’d love to know who made it, first non-full-size one I have seen. Do #carcharodontosaurids display juvee-to-adult limb proportion changes a la #tyrannosaurids? Or isometry? #FossilCrates

This #Giganotosaurus cast is at the Hand of Man Museum in Canada. You know Coria and Salgado knew it was cool because of its specimen number: MUCPv-CH-1! Few animals engender as much passionate opinions as this taxon :-). #FossilCrates

Tip o’ the cap to the blue whale, #Balaenoptera musculus, “whale fin, muscular,” or is it “whale wing, little mouse”? Named by Linnaeus in 1758, he left us no etymology. I attached his original description at the end for fun. At the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. #FossilCrates

#Teleoceras “perfect horn” is a land loving 12’ long, 3,000 lb #rhinocerotid that looks more hippo than rhino with teeny-tiny legs! This mostly original specimen is on display at the Hand of Man Museum on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. #FossilFriday #FossilCrates

It’s heeeeere! (In my best Poltergeist voice, for those of you of a certain age :-)). The new #Dunkleosteus paper, just in time for a weekend reading! And on the heels of the size paper. A glorious week, indeed! palaeo-electronica.org/content/curren…