#paleontogy — Public Fediverse posts

Big worm tooth 😳
Silurian, Pridoli
Europe, Lithuania, Milaičiai
From around 1 kilometer deep
Scolecodont
Scale - 1 gap is 1 mm
#paleo #paleontogy #geo #geology #micro #microscopy #fossil #fossils #microfossil #microfossils #worm #tooth #teeth #scolecodonts #silurian #Pridoli

#fossils #fossil
Brown - #sandstone from Papartynė, Lithuania, Jurassic period. #lithuania #jurassic
Whitish -??? I have no memory where I got that rock from. Maybe a present...
#paleo #paleontogy #geo #geology #shells #shell #rugosa

World’s first worm dating back 220 million years has been unearthed in Arizona | The Independent
#Paleontogy
#Worm
#Fossil
#Caecilians
#Kligman
#Funcusvermis
#ChinleFormation

Named Funcusvermis gilmorei, it lived at the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/world-oldest-worm-arizona-found-b2269883.html

(2/2)
#ThinEnamel
#Neanderthals
#Dentition
#paleontogy

the species recovered from level TD6 of the Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca, Burgos), which reveals new aspects of the biology of this species.

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-neanderthals-species-dentition-characterized-thin.html

Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel
#ThinEnamel
#Neanderthals
#Dentition
#paleontogy

The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has participated in a paper published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology on the dental remains of Homo antecessor, (1/2)

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-neanderthals-species-dentition-characterized-thin.html