This one I would rate as medium. This small Thyreophora is known from China.
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This was designed by Kongzilla and modified by me into something new
For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️: #Teapot with #fossil decoration
British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65
Salt-glazed stoneware w/ enamel decoration
4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm)
Met 37.22.6a,b: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197991
“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”
This one I would rate as hard. This small theropod is known for some impressive fossils, but this one doesn't look like it.
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This one I would rate as medium. The ceratopsian is one of the few without "ceratops" at the end of its name.
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The body was designed by Kongzilla and the skull was modified by me into a new species.
Found a nice pebble on shore. Fossilized sea urchin maybe? Anyone on here with #fossils knowledge to help out? North Sea coast. #FossilFriday#seaside#fossil
This one I would rate as easy. The mammal is probably one of the most well known extinct animals of all time
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For #FossilFriday, here’s a big lump of a bone that occurs is so few species that sometimes even professional paleontologists will struggle to identify it.
Today is #FossilFriday & I taught my humans that to be a #fossil the specimen needs to be at least 10.000 a old. That doesn't hold for this #corals, but this is basically how fossils of corals look like. We found them during #hedgewatch on the #Seychelles.
This one I would rate as medium. I will post the answer after i get back in service, as I am crossing the Nullabor this week.
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Found a puzzling object while out on a walk. At first I thought it was a piece of driftwood but it’s very heavy rock. We get fossilised wood in this area but we also get slag from old smeltworks, so I’m used to finding both. I did wonder if it’s a knotty bit of fossilised wood but maybe it’s a weird bit of slag? The pattern on the lumpy bits is absolutely beautiful #fossil#rocks#geology#slag
A surprise fossil found in the Amazon rainforest connects to both ancient saltwater dolphins and contemporary freshwater kin. The largest river dolphin fossil has been found — thousands of miles from its nearest living relative, reports an international group of paleontologists in Science Advances....
A "Scaldicetus" I made for the Steinkern Magazine. "Scaldicetus" is considered to be a wastebasket taxon, consisting of various prehistoric sperm whales, often used as a name for tooth fossils.
This geological punctuation mark is a Goniatite fossil. An ancient relative of modern squid and octopus that swam in the seas that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
This one I would rate as medium. This ceratopsian is a from Texas, and is named after the formation it was found in.
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The body was designed by Kongzilla and modified heavily by me into something new.
Ranger Sarah has arrived at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska. Known for a large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils. Fossils from the Harrison Formation and Anderson Ranch Formation, which date to the Arikareean in the North American land mammal classification, about 20 to 16.3 million years ago, are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals.
Ranger Sarah at strange corkscrew that was once know as the Devil's Corkscrew. The Daemonelix is the corkscrew entrance to the Palocaster's den. Palocasters were small ancient beavers that behaved like modern prairie dogs.
— at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
Niobrara River was to small to carve this valley area. River Terraces found in the area indicated that a larger, ancient river once flowed through forming the valley.
— at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
The Suprise Discovery Of The World's Largest Prehistoric Dolphin Reveals Unlikely Link (www.discovermagazine.com)
A surprise fossil found in the Amazon rainforest connects to both ancient saltwater dolphins and contemporary freshwater kin. The largest river dolphin fossil has been found — thousands of miles from its nearest living relative, reports an international group of paleontologists in Science Advances....