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  1. 🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience

  2. 🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience

  3. 🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience

  4. 🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience

  5. 🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience

  6. 🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

    Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

    Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

  7. 🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

    Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

    Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

  8. 🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

    Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

    Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

  9. 🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

    Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

    Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

  10. 🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

    Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

    Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

  11. 🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

    Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

    Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

    🔗 smmnh.com

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

  12. 🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

    Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

    Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

    🔗 smmnh.com

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

  13. 🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

    Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

    Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

    🔗 smmnh.com

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

  14. 🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

    Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

    Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

    🔗 smmnh.com

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

  15. 🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

    Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

    Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

    🔗 smmnh.com

    #Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

  16. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃This huge bison skull, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is the broadest I have come across, with a cranial width (between horn cores and orbits) of 32.5 cm. It was found in a local farmer's field after a rainstorm in 2010.

    The Des Moines and Superior glacial lobes heavily influenced the geology south of Melrose.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #anokasandplain #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  17. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃This huge bison skull, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is the broadest I have come across, with a cranial width (between horn cores and orbits) of 32.5 cm. It was found in a local farmer's field after a rainstorm in 2010.

    The Des Moines and Superior glacial lobes heavily influenced the geology south of Melrose.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #anokasandplain #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  18. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃This huge bison skull, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is the broadest I have come across, with a cranial width (between horn cores and orbits) of 32.5 cm. It was found in a local farmer's field after a rainstorm in 2010.

    The Des Moines and Superior glacial lobes heavily influenced the geology south of Melrose.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #anokasandplain #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  19. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃This huge bison skull, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is the broadest I have come across, with a cranial width (between horn cores and orbits) of 32.5 cm. It was found in a local farmer's field after a rainstorm in 2010.

    The Des Moines and Superior glacial lobes heavily influenced the geology south of Melrose.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #anokasandplain #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  20. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃This huge bison skull, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is the broadest I have come across, with a cranial width (between horn cores and orbits) of 32.5 cm. It was found in a local farmer's field after a rainstorm in 2010.

    The Des Moines and Superior glacial lobes heavily influenced the geology south of Melrose.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #anokasandplain #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  21. It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org

    @ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty

  22. It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org

    @ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty

  23. It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org

    @ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty

  24. It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org

    @ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty

  25. It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org

    @ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty

  26. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.

    in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.

    www.stcloudstate.edu/biology

    #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota

  27. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.

    in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.

    www.stcloudstate.edu/biology

    #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota

  28. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.

    in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.

    www.stcloudstate.edu/biology

    #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota

  29. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.

    in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.

    www.stcloudstate.edu/biology

    #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota

  30. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.

    in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.

    www.stcloudstate.edu/biology

    #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota