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We are the palaeontology collections at Museums Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Follow us as we bring our fossils to light

Melbourne, Victoria Katılım Temmuz 2017
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Cool! If this is from your Marble Foyer, it uses Belgian Petit Granit Marble - a Carboniferous aged crinoidal limestone. What looks like 'prawn' is probably an oblique cross section of of an extinct solitary rugose coral. (see figure 9: popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/inde…).
Parliament House Canberra@ParlHouseCBR

You have to dig a little deep to find one of our favourite hidden gems – Shawn the Prawn. He's been lying about in the black limestone of our marble foyer floor for the past 345, or so, million years - along with rather a lot of other sea life fossils. #InCanberra #VisitCanberra

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Cool! Quick research indicates this may be from the marble foyer, which uses Belgian Petit Granit Marble - a Carboniferous aged crinoidal limestone. The 'prawn' is probably a cross section of of a solitary rugose coral. (see figure 9: popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/inde…)
NationalScienceWeek@Aus_ScienceWeek

@emgfitzgerald @museumsvictoria @Reynardo_red @Palaeo_JRule @VicMarket @zieglertn @MVPalaeo ...there's a fossil prawn in the marble floor of the @Aust_Parliament foyer twitter.com/Aust_Parliamen…

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@joanna_sumner99 @zieglertn Plus the Mammalia and Dinosauria are different levels of taxonomic hierarchy, right? (taxonomic groupings are social constructs anyway 😉) so somewhat an apples and oranges situation
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Overhearing a Zoom discussion btwn my Year 12 kiddo and his VCE biology class on whether mammals or dinosaurs evolved first (text book has a vote each way…!). What say you, #melbournemuseum brains trust?! @zieglertn @MVPalaeo
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#Whale #barnacles! clockwise: recent, two Pleistocene, and Miocene - which is the earliest occurrence after their ancestors jumped from turtles to cetaceans. Huge compared to other species; and check out the base that embeds them into the whale skin.
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@amber_tripp Hi this is Rolf Schmidt from Melbourne Museum - I'll be on tonight with the 5 favourite movies. Do you need the list beforehand? (Anna our PR person is off sick today)
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Ever wonder what happens to fossils when continents collide? Well these Devonian sea stars were squeezed and smeared during major tectonic events in Germany. Now they are almost shadows… instagram.com/p/BnZ10_kF9e_/…
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Happy 15th anniversary #Firefly, not a fossil firefly, but here's a fossil flea (Tarwinia australia, NMVP26202) with a shape like #Serenity
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Horseshoe crabs in Australia? 110 million years ago sure thing; Victalimulus mcqueeni (NMVP22410) from Koonwarra @museumsvictoria
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Amazing detail on this 110 million year old stonefly (Eodinotoperla duncanae; P32285B) from the Koonwarra Fossil Fish Beds @museumsvictoria
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