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George the Gorilla

Finally! Our new Discovering Dinosaurs gallery opens to the public tomorrow, April 1st, at 11am!

This coincides with the launch of a new "pay once visit all year" entrance fee into Wollaton Hall. £15 per adult, children free (ages 0–15).

That provides unlimited access to the Nottingham Natural History Museum, including the new dinosaur displays, for 12 months.

T. rex skeleton surrounded by displays of many natural history objects
#NottNatHist#museum#WollatonHall
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Stella Angelika Ludwig

Read more about the unusual fossil assemblage from this prehistoric river of giants:

doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.928.47

ZooKeysGeology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern MoroccoThe geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the “Kem Kem beds”, are reviewed. These strata are recognized here as the Kem Kem Group, which is composed of the lower Gara Sbaa and upper Douira formations. Both formations have yielded a similar fossil vertebrate assemblage of predominantly isolated elements pertaining to cartilaginous and bony fishes, turtles, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs, as well as invertebrate, plant, and trace fossils. These fossils, now in collections around the world, are reviewed and tabulated. The Kem Kem vertebrate fauna is biased toward large-bodied carnivores including at least four large-bodied non-avian theropods (an abelisaurid, Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Deltadromeus), several large-bodied pterosaurs, and several large crocodyliforms. No comparable modern terrestrial ecosystem exists with similar bias toward large-bodied carnivores. The Kem Kem vertebrate assemblage, currently the best documented association just prior to the onset of the Cenomanian-Turonian marine transgression, captures the taxonomic diversity of a widespread northern African fauna better than any other contemporary assemblage from elsewhere in Africa.
#paleontology#dinosaurs#Spinosaurus
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llewelly

U is for Udelartitan, a saltisauroid titanosaur from Uruguay

V is for Venenosaurus, presumably non-venemous, but found in the Poison Strip member

W is for Wintonotitan, found on the point bar of a fossil river in Australia

X is for Xianshanosaurus, named after Xian mountain

Y is for Yamanasaurus, a saltisaurid from Ecuador

Z is for Zhuchengtitan, who lived among tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians, and giant hadrosaurs.

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossils
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

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llewelly

P is for Patagotitan, giant of Argentina, known from seven amazing specimens

Q is for Quetecsaurus, named for fiery breath it probably didn't have

R is for Rinconsaurus, whose name means "Amazing in the tail". I heard you giggle

S is for Saltasaurus, smallest and most taxonomically important of titanosaurs

T is for Titanosaurus, described for scrapy bits, of dubious distinguishing characters, leaving a taxonomic mess

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossils
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

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llewelly

K is for Kaijutitan, from Argentina, land of Kaiju Titanosaurs

L is for Lohuecotitan, a Spanish titanosaur from a vast bonebed of titanosaurs

M is for Magyarosaurus, Nopcsa's dwarf titanosaur, from Hatzeg island and Transylvania

N is for Nemegtosaurus, a skull whose body may or may not be Opisthocoelicaudia

O is for Overosaurus, a small titanosaur from a land of large titanosaurs

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs. The spots and stripes familiar to us today didn't arise until later in mammalian evolution sciencenews.org/article/dark-c

#Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

"Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest #mammals during the Age of #Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to tail."

illustration of 3 small black shrew-like mammals
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