#fossil the day

[northernmaineminerals]

Massive Arietites Ammonites in Natural Matrix with Custom Base from Nancy, France ☠️😵‍💫☠️

Nature is Art 🫠

#NorthernMaineMinerals

[naarisz]

Gale's missing modern au scene from the patch 8 animation. The others left the game, while he was preparing gamer snacks. :DD

[amnhnyc]

What can we learn from a dinosaur feather preserved in amber? Let’s go behind the scenes of the Museum’s collection of amber fossils to find out!

[miiilowo]

IT'S NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY IN THE US 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 here's my favorite. it's name is Borealopelta and was found in Alberta. It's the only known one in it's species (borealopelta markmitchelli) (named after one of the people who helped prepare it) (it took him Seven Thousand Hours / 5 and a half years), and took 14 days to excavate out of its site. and yes it's in the ankylosaur clade if u thought it looked like one that's because it is

It's one of the best, if not THE best, preserved dinosaur fossils currently known . They found it's ORGANS preserved inside. It's ORGANS !!!!! It's rare for soft tissue to survive fossilization, so this has always been really really super duper cool for me and I like it a lot and it makes me very happy. I recommend looking into + at it on your own time because it's absolutely fascinating. it really just looks like an animal that went to sleep

The theory as to why it's so well preserved is that it likely died at or near the sea, sunk down to the floor and was quickly buried under the sand. Instead of being squished by layers and layers of sediment and rock, water carried in minerals and sort of made an Internal Rock Cast. They also discovered from studying the scales that it was likely an earthy reddish-orange tone . Nice for camouflage :-)

[pollo-finster]

🐉 ANCIENT BATTLE ! 🦖 Happy pokemon day 2025!

[ghoulgeists]

YIPPEE FOSSILGIRL <3 I made a new dnd character :] she's an earth genasi and she's sillayyyy

[xaoca]

Focus stacked image (composed of 59 frames) of a complete stock of a trilobites of the species Austerops speculator found in Jebel Oufatene, Morocco. The length of the fossil is approx 3 centimetres (1.2 in) and it lived in the Early Devonian period and is approx. 400 million years old.

[fleebites]

here’s some of my Pokemon art on this Pokemon Day :)

[velozee]

Happy Valentines Day

Here is my favorite couple from Thuringia, the Tambacher Liebespaar (tambach lovers). A fossil of two skeletons of Seymouria sanjuanensis from the Bromacker quarry

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️:

Teapot with Fossil Decoration British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65 Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration 4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 37.22.6a,b

“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.”

[alaskan-wallflower]

yall darry isn’t an old man he’d understand brainrot slang and how to use technology y’all forget he’s twenty fucking years old he’s not grandpa joe 😭🙏

[scrawlingwithstyle]

*chanting*

I-SO-PODS! I-SO-PODS!

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[gayvampyr]

yeah i have seasonal depression. usually starts around the time the temp gets above 65°F

[amnhnyc]

Who’s this fuzzy potato? It’s the hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri)! Found in parts of eastern North America, this burrowing mammal creates tunnels that can extend up to 78 ft (24 m) long. Though it typically weighs only 2.2 oz (62.8 g), this critter’s powerful forelimbs can generate force more than 30 times its body mass, allowing it to slide through the soil with ease. Its diet includes worms, insects, and snails.

Photo: crazybirdy, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[housecow]

Housecow: I dont like history.

Also housecow: Has a particular interest in fossils and historical artifacts.

Come on man 🤓

that’s not history history >:(( that’s like. deep time.

if someone came up to you randomly and asked if you liked history, they’re like 100% going to tell you some boring shit about WW2

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Wordplay Wednesday: Unconformities

Unconformity is a word used quite often by geologists. This is in reference to a contact between rocks that are unconformable or that were not deposited in sequence. There are several types of unconformities. Take the one above that I took at John Day Fossil Beds. The pale strata at the bottom of the hills are the fossil bearing John Day Formation from the Eocene/Oligocene (56-23.03 Ma). This is primarily welded tuff and tuffaceous siltstones. The dark strata above that is the Miocene Columbia River Basalts.

There is a distinct erosional surface between the two layers. This is called a disconformity. A disconformity is  an unconformity between parallel layers of sedimentary rocks which represents a period of erosion or non-deposition.

In the Wind River Gorge in Wyoming, there is another kind of unconformity called a nonconformity. A nonconformity occurs when sedimentary rocks are deposited on top of igneous or metamorphic rocks that have been eroded.  In the above photograph, Cambrian Flathead Sandstone was deposited on top of eroded Archean granite.

Perhaps you have heard of the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon? It's pretty famous even by non-geologists. It is the final kind of unconformity, the angular unconformity. An angular unconformity is a gap in the geologic record where tilted, eroded rock layers are overlain by younger, horizontal layers of sedimentary rock.

In review:

Tune in tomorrow for a look at the father of paleontology and make sure you remember today's terminology. It will be important for next Tuesday! Fossilize you later!