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#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Sharing a *real* mastodon on Mastodon (or selected replica parts thereof). These are shots from the Albert County Museum's new Hillsborough Mastodon display near where this 8-10 foot tall, 80,000 year old juvenile came to light back in 1936 #fossils #fossil #Mastodons #Pleistocene #paleontology #Palaeontology #museum #newbrunswick #Canada

  2. 🐴 #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 Specimen SMM P2025.8.6 — originally MNH 779 in the Minnesota Historical Society collection — comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota.

    Molar #11 of 12 in the statewide Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s KCCAMS Facility for radiocarbon dating this summer.

    Follow the full 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and its updates through the link in my bio.

    #LostBones #Pleistocene #Equus #Paleontology #CitizenScience

  3. 🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 In the summer of 2012, students from the Geology Department at Gustavus Adolphus College collected over 800 bones on the Des Moines River near Jackson, Minnesota.

    This crunchy but beautiful left horse femur was part of the project and is now housed at the Jackson County Historical Society in Lakefield.

    Jackson County: jchsmn.org
    Lost Bones: medium.com/@dbrake40

    #pleistocene #equus #femur #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  4. Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 is out for the 2nd time in two days, this time at San Jacinto Elementary. We’re showing the differences between American & Pacific mastodons. The femur of Pacific mastodons (on the right) are visibly more robust than in American mastodons (on the left).

    #museum #FossilFriday #paleontology #scicomm #pleistocene #mastodons

  5. It's #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃
    A remarkable find: Two neighbors contributed a total of 100 bison bones, discovered in separate years from the same lowland peat deposit spanning a highway in Walcott County, Minnesota. Notably, one of the collections shows possible signs of butchery.

    Both collections are now at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault, Minnesota.

    rchistory.org

    #Pleistocene #humerus #femur #BisonBison #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience

  6. It’s a #lostbones #MammothMonday 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟 This mammoth specimen is not from #Minnesota but you can see it here.

    Found in Miles City, Montana, this partial Columbian mammoth femur is housed at the Pipestone County Museum. It is currently not on display but a partial tusk and jaw from the same Montana doner are. More to come on those!

    pipestonecountymuseum.com

    #pleistocene #columbianmammoth #tooth #femur #tusk #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  7. 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟🍃
    Its #MammothMonday Jim van Dijk has spent the last few months building the world's first reconstruction of a southern mammoth for the Museum Historyland Hellevoetsluis in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands.

    Not only is the sculpture just an awesome site but Dick “Sir Mammoth” Mol was a consultant on the project.

    ad.nl/voorne-aan-zee/wereldpri

    #pleistocene #proboscidean #sculpture #paleontology #iceage #fossil #femur #shareyourdiscovery #mammalmonday

    Image credit ad.nl

  8. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🐪🦥🦫🐴🐟🍃 This beautiful Bison occidentalis skull is housed at the Anoka County Historical Society. Found in a black dirt pit near Andover it was donated in 1977 along with related vertebrae, long bones, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, and carpals.

    The skull’s horn span across the cores is 75cm, nearly 30 inches!

    anokacountyhistory.org/

    #lostbones #pleistocene #bisonoccidentalis #bison #vertebra #femur #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience