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09/05/2025

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09/05/2025

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Everyone knows Triceratops…But have you heard of their cousins the Leptoceratopsids?This group were early offshoots with...
08/26/2025

Everyone knows Triceratops…But have you heard of their cousins the Leptoceratopsids?

This group were early offshoots within the ceratopsid family lineage. They were mostly quite small (most were sheep-sized) and lacked the intricate frill and horn adornments of their larger cousins. However, they still had the sharp beaks (rostral bone) that is distinctive of this family.

While this lineage was mostly restricted to western North America and Asia, a tiny fragment of maxilla found in North Carolina was recently redescribed as the first ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous of eastern North America. Though domunitive and fragmentary, is confident that this represents a leptoceratopsid, evolving in isolation from its west North American cousins. He does not that it is possible that it is closely related to species from Sweden, suggesting possible fauna exchange between eastern North America and Europe during the Late Cretaceous.

Even as just a tiny fragment, this maxilla is really important for reconstructing the ecosystem of eastern North America during the Late Cretaceous. While T. rex and Triceratops were stomping around Montana, Hadrosaurus, Dryptosaurus, and tiny leptoceratopsids were doing their own thing along the east coast.

The massive skull of Giganotosaurus, making me look a bit small. That doesn't happen too often! 😅Had a great time visiti...
08/26/2025

The massive skull of Giganotosaurus, making me look a bit small. That doesn't happen too often! 😅

Had a great time visiting the collections and seeing the displays at the Lisbon National Museum of Science & Natural History. Some rather awesome fossils, which I'll share soon.

☄️ New exhibition, opening at the Museum on November 17! Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs will explore how an ast...
08/24/2025

☄️ New exhibition, opening at the Museum on November 17! Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs will explore how an asteroid impact 66 million years ago changed life on Earth forever, leading to the extinction of non-bird dinosaurs and the majority of animal and plant species. Step back in time to experience the planet as it was during the Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, pterosaurs flew in the skies, and massive marine reptiles ruled the oceans.

Members see it first!

Photo: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

Happy Fossil Friday! This archival image, snapped sometime before 1960, depicts duck-billed dinosaurs on display, side b...
08/24/2025

Happy Fossil Friday! This archival image, snapped sometime before 1960, depicts duck-billed dinosaurs on display, side by side, at the Museum. Also known as hadrosaurids, these massive herbivores were the dominant plant-eaters in many areas of the world during the Late Cretaceous about 85 million years ago. In addition to their duck-like beaks and webbed front feet, hadrosaurs had powerful jaws with hundreds of blunt teeth that were ideal for grinding fibrous land plants.

Photo: Image no. ptc-223/ © AMNH Library

In this image, our Collections Assistant Jill holds a cast skull of Cryolophosaurus ellioti, a theropod that lived in An...
08/22/2025

In this image, our Collections Assistant Jill holds a cast skull of Cryolophosaurus ellioti, a theropod that lived in Antarctica about 190 million years ago during the Early Jurassic. At that time, what is now Antarctica would have been a cool temperate climate, with frost-free forests and open woodlands.

At 7 m long, Cryolophosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs of its time, and one of the first truly large theropods of the Age of the Dinosaurs. It was among the first dinosaurs to be discovered on the frozen continent of Antarctica.

An Oldie but a Goodie!The Natural History Museum of Utah’s Wall is an instant classic. Fantastic casts are displayed a...
08/21/2025

An Oldie but a Goodie!

The Natural History Museum of Utah’s Wall is an instant classic. Fantastic casts are displayed as a phylogeny, showing the relationships of the taxa within and between the two major groups.

Notice how they cluster into two groups at the base, those directly above me are part of the , those on the right of the photo are .

and are just offscreen, the white diagonal lines just over my right shoulder lead to them.

Centrosaurines are known for large nose horns and crazy-cool spikes on the frills.

Chasmosaurines tend towards huge eye horns and giant frills lacking spikes.

There are other characters, but those two are the quickest to use. Please note, discoveries in the last 20 years mean these shortcuts don’t always work.

As one gets later and later into the they hold up well, but earlier than 75 mya ago, closer to the group’s split, their identification power lessens.

We see this same challenge when trying to figure out what is or isn’t a dinosaur in the . Tis a byproduct of how works. a
When taxa split, being closely related means they share many characters initially. Over time, the groups have change more and more, making it easier to tell them apart.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology held its annual meetings in Salt Lake City in 2016, with an event held in this museum. I think every at the meeting engaged in a competitive version of “how many can you name?” My sauropod bias did me no favors…

The ceratopsian specialists shined, though major disagreements could be heard over the validity of some taxa. It was great fun seeing the camaraderie, and competitiveness, of the horned dino crowd.

Note how big Cohuilaceratops is (the Fossil Crates logo), that surprised me!

My love for Styracosaurus is still well-placed after all these years, to me tis the prettiest one on the Wall.

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Some excerpts from my art book Carbon Based now live! (link in profile) Thank you for all the support everyone! ...
08/21/2025

Some excerpts from my art book Carbon Based now live! (link in profile) Thank you for all the support everyone!

Some more photos of some of my custom skull
08/20/2025

Some more photos of some of my custom skull

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