Some more images of the process: Here Amanda 3D scans the much smaller skull we already had in our lobby
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Denver Fowler Ph.D
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Denver Fowler Ph.D
@df9465
Dinosaur behavior, stratigraphy, fieldwork, raptor feet & claws, tyrannosaur toothmarks, ceratopsids, public interaction, open-science. Opinions my own
North Dakota Katılım Şubat 2015
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NORTH DAKOTA'S BIGGEST HELL PIG: Our brand new exhibit, a Hell Pig from right here in Dickinson! The past few months we've been piecing this together, and today we got it finished!
#fossil #fossils #paleontology #hellpig #entelodont #FossilFriday #NorthDakota #dickinson
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Amanda 3D scanned our existing bones for the reconstruction, then painted the restored parts. I edited and 3D printed the missing parts. Steve and I designed and made the complicated mount.
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kindly donated to Badlands Dinosaur Museum summer 2025 by the Leppart family.
Brule Formation, 35 million years old, Oligocene, Dickinson North Dakota.
Built in house. 3D scanned using our @Revopoint3d mini2 and printed on our @Phrozen3D mega8k
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The omnivorous entelodonts are actually more closely related to modern hippos and whales. However they had long striding legs for living on land in the ancient US Great plains.
This enormous specimen was found in the 1970s by Gary Leppart, near Dickinson, ND.
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References:
Hooker JJ (2021 & 2023/2024) The Mammals of the Late Eocene - Early Oligocene Solent Group. Part 1 & 2, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Soc.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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Excited! I just found out that the FOSSIL BAT jaw my dad found 20 yrs ago was described in 2024!
We'd collected macromammals from Boldnor, Isle of Wight (Oligocene) for over a decade, but in 2000, I discovered a rich concentrate of microverts in situ at the top of the beach /1
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There were hundreds of teeth in our picked concentrates so I'm guessing that a few other teeth in these monographs were from our samples (none are specifically labeled). So cool. Bats & hedgehogs, rodents, all the little guys were in that concentrate! My dad would be so proud. /5
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20 years later... Yesterday I was looking to see if Jerry had published anything new & found his 2021 and 2024 monographs... and there in the second part was the jaw! It looks like it is maybe only the second jaw known for the taxon (Quinetia misonnei), a long-eared bat! /4
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In 2006 I collected another sample, dried it in my mum's oven, and got my dad to pick it. He had a great time, and when I was going through his discoveries I saw this spiky toothed jaw. I sent the photos to Jerry and he said it was a bat, and that he'd describe it. /3
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The 1st sample was processed my fellow Bristol Uni Palaeobio students in 2000, & donated to the NHM, so Jerry Hooker could study them. Among that batch were some spiky-crowned forms which Jerry told me were insectivores, including the earliest hedgehogs - interesting! /2
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@NatSciChannel At this point the %real number means nothing. I used to think it meant e.g. 60% of the skull bones were found, and they were pristine, but I've seen piles of bone scraps glued and plastered together into these skulls... they're not scientifically worth anything, nor financially
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@df9465 Apparently it's close to 60% real afaik, but it definitely looks wonky. It would also be kinda risky to display a full heavy skull like that, no?
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500k for one single Torosaurus skull is FUCKING WILD
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Logan Paul says he’d rather invest in dinosaurs than the stock market “my prized possession is a Triceratops skull I bought it for 500k what’s it valued at now probably 1 million” “the fuck am I gonna do with the stock when I see that skull it puts my humanity in perspective”
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@TheSkillMakerNE It can be difficult when characters are a mix of peramorphic & paedomorphic, & are unrooted. Usually peramorphic characters will make juveniles more basal, but paedeomorphic characters can cause problems too in forcing links between more basal juveniles and derived adults
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Made this nice Compsognathus. Adapted it a bit for our exhibit. Thinking of writing about how Compsognathids are a fake clade created by ontogenetic clustering (Cau's work). Cool stuff. model by Nova. #dinosaurs #fossilfriday
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This is the model. Nova said they'll adapt it to be up to date scientifically (simple changes to the feet and hands) I'm really pleased with how it turned out .
novastudios.be/product/compso…
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An interesting idea. It looks unfamiliar, but it is a good question to ask what the attachment of the plates would look like.
Chris Masna@ChrisMasnaOk
Would this reconstruction be wrong/unlikely? Why? (I find it more reasonable than the big plates being attached just by a thin strip of keratin at the base.)
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Next up is this awesome G1 flying jacket (post-WW2 US navy standard). This was owned by a helicopter pilot in texas who I believe had some role in recovery or mission safety. badges span late Apollo through early shuttle missions, so ~1969-80s. Coolness rating 100%.
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Since #space missions are cool right now (were they ever not?), here are 2 pieces of memorabilia in my collection. 1st is a 1973 #NASA manned #spaceflight souvenir plaque showing Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo mission badges 1961-72. We found this at an auction coolness rating 95%
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Heads up, fossil preparators! I need someone to prep my Centrosaurus bones. (And I guess Tetsuto Miyashita needs someone to prep his fish, too.) One-year contract @MuseumofNature available. #CMNPalaeo
nature.ca/en/join-give/c…
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