Tag: Paleontology
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Home Again – Dispatches from Montana 3 (The Photo Edition)
Some photographs from my recent trip to the Museum of the Rockies’ Field Camp in Rudyard, Montana.
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Hadrosaur! – Dispatches from Montana 2.
We’ve reached the bone bed! It took over two and a half weeks of digging (one and a half on my part) but we’re finally there. Before reaching the bone bed however I managed to find a few other odds and ends within the overburden, including the following: Another Hadrosaur tooth, One small Crocodile tooth,…
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On cataloguing my first Museum collection…
A rather long post describing what I’ve been up to at Craven Museum and Art Gallery over the last month, and talking about one or two lessons I’ve learnt…
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A rare summer find in Lyme Regis
A post following the events surrounding the recent discovery of an (as yet unidentified) Ichthyosaur fossil found in the landslip to the east of Lyme Regis in August 2011.
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Scelidosaurus harrisonii: A Reprise
Answering Simon’s question about whether the dinosaur fossil described in “Scelidosaurus harrisonii: a tale of mass death and discovery” could be re-worked, I talk a little about re-working and outline how we know this dinosaur isn’t an example of it.
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Scelidosaurus harrisonii: a tale of mass death and discovery
Looking at the not-so-famous Dorset dinosaur, Scelidosaurus harrisonii. I talk a little about what the fossils have already told us, and what they are still shedding light on… plus my minute part in the whole story.
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An Essay On: The Fossil Record
An essay on the subject of the Fossil Record and to counter the “no transitional forms” argument from a different angle from the usual.
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Convergent Mososaur/Ichthyosaur evolution. – [Retrospective Post]
A research team from Sweeden, Canada and the US have recently published a paper in the PLoS one journal which looks set to redefine the way vertebrate palaeontologists look at a whole group of mesosoic marine reptiles.
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Of beginnings and biases
A summary of how the project is coming along (not very far at the moment) and some of the issues, biases and conundrums in approach that have so far been identified.
Benjamin David Brooks 