Rhamporhynchus Muensteri

Behind this barbaric name lies a small pterosaur... An adorable physiognomy that I have reconstructed in drawing from existing fossils!

It is neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
No feathers or scales, but a rather special coat of hair called pycnofibres
Membranous wings, supported by the 4th finger, which is particularly long

If you're visiting the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this year, be sure to check out the headline talk 'Spinosaurus and the River of Giants’ presented by Dr Nizar Ibrahim!

Tickets available here: https://fossilfestival.com/palaeontological-festival-event-tickets-for-purchase/

Mary Ann Woodhouse and the discovery of Iguanodon
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/mary-ann-woodhouse-and-the-discovery-of-iguanodon/

"On 10 February 1825, Gideon Algernon Mantell’s paper “Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest” was read by Davies Gilbert MP at a meeting of the Royal Society of London.

In the paper, Mantell gives a brief description of the characteristics of the sandstones of Tilgate Forest. He also gives details of the help given by George Cuvier. At first, Cuvier suggested that the teeth found in a Sussex quarry belonged to a rhinoceros. However, in a letter written in 1824, he admitted his error and stated that the remains were reptilian and probably belonged to a giant herbivore."

#LostBones #FossilFriday! In a 1945, C. R. Stauffer documented the discovery of a tarsal bone from an ancient horse, possibly Equus caballus, uncovered in October 1939 in glacial deposits 31 feet below the surface during well drilling in Marshall, MN.
Pleistocene horse specimens are rare in Minnesota Check out Lost Bones #4 (profile link) for details.

#Pleistocene #Horses #Paleontology #CitizenScience

Ref: Stauffer, C. R. (1945). Some Pleistocene Mammalian Inhabitants of Minnesota.

Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_1

Remnants of Ancient Life is now out in paperback. Surveying fascinating research on what ancient biomolecules can tell us about extinct lifeforms, this book puts a completely fresh gloss on the topic of palaeontology.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/10/09/book-review-remnants-of-ancient-life-the-new-science-of-old-fossils/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new reconstruction of Haootia (Stauroza), from the Late Ediacaran (550 Ma). The Haootia fossils from Newfoundland, Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new description of Haootia (Stauroza), from the Late Ediacaran (550 Ma). The Haootia fossils from Newfoundland, Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue. Also in this picture is a reclining Charnia and Parviscopa.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Their Last Embrace" shows two Allaeochelys turtles copulating to their death in a toxic Eocene Messel Lake.

Lost Bones #4 (A Dip with the Sea Creatures)
#LostBones #Pleistocene #Mammoth #Equuscaballus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-4-a-dip-with-the-sea-creatures

‘Sue’, a 444-million-year-old fossil, reveals stunning soft tissue

PALEONTOLOGY / A recently identified ancient arthropod species has given scientists a first glimpse into the internal anatomy of prehistoric marine animals. Keurbos susanae, a 444-million-year-old fossil discovered in South Africa, has been described in a new study published in the journal Palaeontology...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/sue-fossil-reveals-soft-tissue-preservation/

Follow @archaeology

Happy #FossilFriday, check out some tiny tracks from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site! These darling little traces were likely made by very young coelophysid theropods, perhaps making their first romp around the ancient lake they called home. (1/2)
#paleontology #ichnology

Largest complete dinosaur claw found in Gobi Desert

"Named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, the previously-unknown Cretaceous dinosaur had two-digit hands with lethal curved claws nearly a foot long."

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72808

#science #paleontology

Dinosaurs discovered in the past:

Saying goodbye to Trinity as it's leaving the temporary exhibition at the Sauriermuseum Aathal

We've been continuing our research on these T. rex specimens and the fascinating story of their lives over the past few days.

Many thanks to the incredible museum staff team for their support!

New review: On the Wing is an excellent, factual primer on the evolution of flight that helpfully assumes little background knowledge.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/03/28/book-review-on-the-wing-insects-pterosaurs-birds-bats-and-the-evolution-of-animal-flight/

#Books #BookReview #Scicomm #Evolution #Flight #Biomechanics #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon @EvolLetters

For our 12th trip of 2025, Western Science Centers’s mobile museum #M3 is visiting 4th graders at Hamilton Elementary School in Anza, CA! #museum #scicomm #paleontology #Education

Hey Rockstodon, I found this interesting object in the mountains north of Reserve NM. It's quite dense and attracts a magnet but I was able to gouge a bit out of the back without revealing any metal. Is it a fossil? Is it a rusty tool handle? Maybe you have an idea? #rocks #geology #paleontology

WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON
[sic]

(Housemate sent me this and it seemed highly relevant to my #mastodon feed filled with dinosaur lovers, language obsessers, and people who speak German)

[Auf Deutch in das alt-text]

My Mary Anning quilt top is finished!

I wasn’t planning on 3 borders —or having the green one be so wide — when I started, but I think it worked out well in the end

Happy #FossilFriday, I'm showing off a few of the smallest finds from the Substation Quarry in St. George, Utah! While dinosaur teeth and articulated fish are exciting, small fossils from plants and invertebrates can offer us a unique and diverse view of this ancient ecosystem.
#paleontology