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  1. 🫎It’s a #Bisonbison #Alcesalces #FossilFriday! 🐂🐴🐘🦥🐪 These #LostBones skulls come from Kittson County, Minnesota—the northeastern most county in the state, known as “where Minnesota begins.” Many other species and elements are also displayed.

    If any of these great specimens are your donations and you have more details, please reach out through the link in my profile.

    facebook.com/KittsonCountyHist

    #Pleistocene #Skulls #Palaeontology #Fossils #Shareyourdiscovery #Citizenscience

  2. 🫎It’s a #Bisonbison #Alcesalces #FossilFriday! 🐂🐴🐘🦥🐪 These #LostBones skulls come from Kittson County, Minnesota—the northeastern most county in the state, known as “where Minnesota begins.” Many other species and elements are also displayed.

    If any of these great specimens are your donations and you have more details, please reach out through the link in my profile.

    facebook.com/KittsonCountyHist

    #Pleistocene #Skulls #Palaeontology #Fossils #Shareyourdiscovery #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. 🐴 #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

  5. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday
    These two skulls were discovered along with 52 additional bones—ribs, femurs, tibiae, vertebrae, and various fragments near a peat bog in Wabasha County, #Minnesota.

    Peat is anoxic, preserving ancient remains very well. It's often speculated that bison were driven into bogs while being hunted, but in many cases, no signs of butchery or human activity are found.

    rchistory.org

    #Pleistocene #Bison #WabashaCounty #Paleontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience

  6. 🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday
    These two skulls were discovered along with 52 additional bones—ribs, femurs, tibiae, vertebrae, and various fragments near a peat bog in Wabasha County, #Minnesota.

    Peat is anoxic, preserving ancient remains very well. It's often speculated that bison were driven into bogs while being hunted, but in many cases, no signs of butchery or human activity are found.

    rchistory.org

    #Pleistocene #Bison #WabashaCounty #Paleontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience

  7. #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐂 Five bison species are said to have roamed North America: The Eurasian Bison priscus adapted into Bison latifrons, which downsized into Bison antiquus. Later, Bison occidentalis emerged in the Late Pleistocene, leading to today’s Bison bison. Are they all distinct, or was it a gradual shift?

    #pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #skull

  8. #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐂 Five bison species are said to have roamed North America: The Eurasian Bison priscus adapted into Bison latifrons, which downsized into Bison antiquus. Later, Bison occidentalis emerged in the Late Pleistocene, leading to today’s Bison bison. Are they all distinct, or was it a gradual shift?

    #pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #skull

  9. 🦌#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃Remnants of deer and bison are common along many Minnesota rivers. Teeth, metacarpals, metatarsals, and some long bones withstand the erosive forces of rivers particularly well.

    These specimens were all found during a single kayak trip this field season, along just a two-mile stretch of river in southern Minnesota.

    #pleistocene #holocene #bisonbison #whitetail #odocoileusvirginianus #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  10. 🦌#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃Remnants of deer and bison are common along many Minnesota rivers. Teeth, metacarpals, metatarsals, and some long bones withstand the erosive forces of rivers particularly well.

    These specimens were all found during a single kayak trip this field season, along just a two-mile stretch of river in southern Minnesota.

    #pleistocene #holocene #bisonbison #whitetail #odocoileusvirginianus #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  11. #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Brown bear in Minnesota?! This specimen, discovered during a visit to Crow Wing County, was subsequently transferred to the Science Museum of Minnesota. identified as a left patella (kneecap) from a modern brown bear (Ursus arctos).

    Tags include the notation “Maryland and Mississippi” – referencing construction in St. Paul from the 1960s.

    www.crowwinghistory.org

    #ursusarctos #palaeontology #brownbear #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #patella #minnesota

  12. #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Brown bear in Minnesota?! This specimen, discovered during a visit to Crow Wing County, was subsequently transferred to the Science Museum of Minnesota. identified as a left patella (kneecap) from a modern brown bear (Ursus arctos).

    Tags include the notation “Maryland and Mississippi” – referencing construction in St. Paul from the 1960s.

    www.crowwinghistory.org

    #ursusarctos #palaeontology #brownbear #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #patella #minnesota

  13. It's #LostBones #FossilFriday!🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Bison hyoid bones are quite rare in the collections I have reviewed. This pair is part of a larger assemblage donated in 2022, including elements from both juvenile and adults.

    The bones were all recovered in Wolcott Township by an independent researcher and are currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault Minnesota.

    www.rchistory.org @ricecohs
    #pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #hyoid #skull

  14. It's #LostBones #FossilFriday!🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Bison hyoid bones are quite rare in the collections I have reviewed. This pair is part of a larger assemblage donated in 2022, including elements from both juvenile and adults.

    The bones were all recovered in Wolcott Township by an independent researcher and are currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault Minnesota.

    www.rchistory.org @ricecohs
    #pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #hyoid #skull

  15. 🐌It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 Believe it or not, these snail, clam, fish and ammonite fossils from the Cretaceous period are from Minnesota!

    Minnesota’s Iron Range lies below what is know as the Coleraine Formation, the 85 to 95-million-year-old shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway, which crossed the North American for nearly 100 million years.

    mndiscoverycenter.com/visit/pa

    #hillannexpaleontologyproject #massabirange #cretaceous #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  16. 🐌It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 Believe it or not, these snail, clam, fish and ammonite fossils from the Cretaceous period are from Minnesota!

    Minnesota’s Iron Range lies below what is know as the Coleraine Formation, the 85 to 95-million-year-old shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway, which crossed the North American for nearly 100 million years.

    mndiscoverycenter.com/visit/pa

    #hillannexpaleontologyproject #massabirange #cretaceous #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  17. 🐘#LostBones #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 This Mastodon tooth, from an unknown donor, arrived at the History Center of Olmsted County in 2012. It is displayed alongside a Mastodon tusk from a quarry in High Forest Township, also of Olmsted County.

    So far, this tooth is one of only two found in Southern Minnesota county collections that I have come across during my #LostBones research.

    www.olmstedhistory.com

    #pleistocene #mastodon # proboscidean #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  18. 🐘#LostBones #FossilFriday🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 This Mastodon tooth, from an unknown donor, arrived at the History Center of Olmsted County in 2012. It is displayed alongside a Mastodon tusk from a quarry in High Forest Township, also of Olmsted County.

    So far, this tooth is one of only two found in Southern Minnesota county collections that I have come across during my #LostBones research.

    www.olmstedhistory.com

    #pleistocene #mastodon # proboscidean #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. It’s a #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This juvenile bison mandible was found two feet below the surface near Cannon Lake, just outside Faribault, Minnesota, during excavation for a cabin foundation.

    Donated in 2018, it is now housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org
    Instagram: @ricecountyhistory

    #Pleistocene #BisonBison #mandible #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience #RiceCounty

  22. It’s a #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This juvenile bison mandible was found two feet below the surface near Cannon Lake, just outside Faribault, Minnesota, during excavation for a cabin foundation.

    Donated in 2018, it is now housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.

    rchistory.org
    Instagram: @ricecountyhistory

    #Pleistocene #BisonBison #mandible #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience #RiceCounty

  23. 🐘 #MammothMonday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 These wonderful mammoth tusks are on display at the Vernal Utah Natural History Museum. They were discovered while digging a well in Craig, Colorado, in 1961 and recovered by paleontologist Ernest Untermann. The tusks belong to a Columbian mammoth and were found under 15 feet of gravel.

    nhmu.utah.edu/

    #pleistocene #mammoth #Mammuthus #tusks #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  24. 🐘 #MammothMonday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 These wonderful mammoth tusks are on display at the Vernal Utah Natural History Museum. They were discovered while digging a well in Craig, Colorado, in 1961 and recovered by paleontologist Ernest Untermann. The tusks belong to a Columbian mammoth and were found under 15 feet of gravel.

    nhmu.utah.edu/

    #pleistocene #mammoth #Mammuthus #tusks #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  25. 🍃It’s #FossilFriday! 🐘🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 Came across this wall of Eocene leaf fossils at the Utah Field House of Natural History last week while visiting Vernal Utah - a great museum exhibiting Utah’s rich geological and paleontological record.

    I was told these specimens were collected by park employees. There are some amazing specimens on display.

    stateparks.utah.gov/parks/utah

    #eocene #paleontology #paleobttany #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #utah

  26. 🍃It’s #FossilFriday! 🐘🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 Came across this wall of Eocene leaf fossils at the Utah Field House of Natural History last week while visiting Vernal Utah - a great museum exhibiting Utah’s rich geological and paleontological record.

    I was told these specimens were collected by park employees. There are some amazing specimens on display.

    stateparks.utah.gov/parks/utah

    #eocene #paleontology #paleobttany #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #utah

  27. 🍃#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 A block of Cretaceous leaves and branches was recently removed from Hill Annex Mine with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Hill Annex Paleontology Project crew.

    #MinnesotaDiscoveryCenter #shareyourdiscovery

    instagram.com/reel/C_SuEKyJdYq

  28. 🍃#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 A block of Cretaceous leaves and branches was recently removed from Hill Annex Mine with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Hill Annex Paleontology Project crew.

    #MinnesotaDiscoveryCenter #shareyourdiscovery

    instagram.com/reel/C_SuEKyJdYq

  29. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🐘🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 Document everything and always look twice—these are great fossil hunting rules.

    The two indistinct specimens below were found by a friend with a very discerning eye! Both are fragments of teeth: one is a suspected mastodon tooth cusp, and the other is a fragment of either a mammoth or horse tooth. Both have been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota.

    #equus #mammuthus #mammut #pleistocene #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  30. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🐘🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 Document everything and always look twice—these are great fossil hunting rules.

    The two indistinct specimens below were found by a friend with a very discerning eye! Both are fragments of teeth: one is a suspected mastodon tooth cusp, and the other is a fragment of either a mammoth or horse tooth. Both have been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota.

    #equus #mammuthus #mammut #pleistocene #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  31. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟🍃 The fourth most found large ungulate element on river gravel bars? The humerus, following teeth, metacarpal, metatarsal

    #equus #bos #bison #bones #pleistocene #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #lostbones

  32. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟🍃 The fourth most found large ungulate element on river gravel bars? The humerus, following teeth, metacarpal, metatarsal

    #equus #bos #bison #bones #pleistocene #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #lostbones

  33. #FossilFriday #Bison 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Taking advantage of the lowering river levels in southern Minnesota to do some field research with a friend. We found some great evidence of one of Minnesota’s most prolific Pleistocene mammals, the Plains bison! These specimens will be cataloged and then donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study!

    @sciencemuseummn #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  34. #FossilFriday #Bison 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Taking advantage of the lowering river levels in southern Minnesota to do some field research with a friend. We found some great evidence of one of Minnesota’s most prolific Pleistocene mammals, the Plains bison! These specimens will be cataloged and then donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study!

    @sciencemuseummn #pleistocene #bison #bovid #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  35. It’s a #lostbones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful bison skull is housed at the Brown County Historical Society in New Ulm, #Minnesota. It was found in Lake Hanska, possibly during dredging.

    The society's exhibits cover various topics related to the county, including its geological formation, Native American culture, early settlement, ethnic makeup, and early industry.

    www.browncountyhistorymn.org

    #pleistocene #bison #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #NewUlm

  36. It’s a #lostbones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful bison skull is housed at the Brown County Historical Society in New Ulm, #Minnesota. It was found in Lake Hanska, possibly during dredging.

    The society's exhibits cover various topics related to the county, including its geological formation, Native American culture, early settlement, ethnic makeup, and early industry.

    www.browncountyhistorymn.org

    #pleistocene #bison #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #NewUlm

  37. 🐂#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

  38. 🐂#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

  39. Happy #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🦣🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 This perfect horse molar (right p2) is from Wright County, Minnesota. It was found on the shore of Olson’s Point on Buffalo Lake in 1976 and is currently housed at the Wright County Historical Society in Buffalo.

    www.wrighthistory.org

    #wrightcountyhistory #pleistocene #equus #tooth #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  40. Happy #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🦣🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 This perfect horse molar (right p2) is from Wright County, Minnesota. It was found on the shore of Olson’s Point on Buffalo Lake in 1976 and is currently housed at the Wright County Historical Society in Buffalo.

    www.wrighthistory.org

    #wrightcountyhistory #pleistocene #equus #tooth #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  41. #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 🐴 This crusty but beautiful mastodon tooth is a great #Minnesota #LostBones example. Donated sometime after 1965. First housed the original Lawshe Museum collection in St. Paul and subsequently merged into the new Dakota County Historical society in the mid-70s, It has no provenance, a puzzle to solve. Please reach out if you are from Dakota County and have any information on this tooth.

    #pleistocene #paleontology #mammutedea #teeth #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  42. #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 🐴 This crusty but beautiful mastodon tooth is a great #Minnesota #LostBones example. Donated sometime after 1965. First housed the original Lawshe Museum collection in St. Paul and subsequently merged into the new Dakota County Historical society in the mid-70s, It has no provenance, a puzzle to solve. Please reach out if you are from Dakota County and have any information on this tooth.

    #pleistocene #paleontology #mammutedea #teeth #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  43. #lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This fragile elk antler tine, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is part of a jumble of bones found east of Melrose by a construction worker in April 1967.

    The worker was operating a drag line in a peat bog about a mile east of Melrose during the construction of Minnesota Interstate 94.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #melroseareahistoricalsociety #pleistocene #cervid #wapati #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  44. #lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This fragile elk antler tine, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is part of a jumble of bones found east of Melrose by a construction worker in April 1967.

    The worker was operating a drag line in a peat bog about a mile east of Melrose during the construction of Minnesota Interstate 94.

    melrosemnhistory.com

    #melroseareahistoricalsociety #pleistocene #cervid #wapati #bones #palaeontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  45. During the end of the Pleistocene, the remaining horse species in the Midwest, likely Equus scotti, disappeared. Rare traces of these animals, usually teeth, can be found in the Midwest but are uncommon and not well documented.

    These two beautiful molars, one upper and one lower, from Goodhue County, Minnesota, are highly permineralized but still require further research.

    #pleistocene #paleontology #equus #teeth #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  46. During the end of the Pleistocene, the remaining horse species in the Midwest, likely Equus scotti, disappeared. Rare traces of these animals, usually teeth, can be found in the Midwest but are uncommon and not well documented.

    These two beautiful molars, one upper and one lower, from Goodhue County, Minnesota, are highly permineralized but still require further research.

    #pleistocene #paleontology #equus #teeth #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience