Ian Randall | 21 April 2010
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A new species of plant-eating dinosaur, which sports a grapefruit sized mass of bone on the top of its skull, has been uncovered in Texas’ Big Bend National Park. The find, which would have lived 70 to 80 million years ago, is reported in the latest issue of Cretaceous Research.
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Category: Cretaceous, Geology, Palaeontology, Vertebrate Palaeontology |
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Tags: 70-80 Ma, Big Bend National Park, Cretaceous Research, Dinosaur, Fossil, Pachycephalosaurian, Texacephale langstoni, Texas
Ian Randall | 5 April 2010
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The ecological information which can be gleaned from the fossil record is controlled by the processes of accumulation involved, according to a paper by the University of Chicago, which is to be published in the May issue of The American Naturalist.
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Category: Ecology, Geology, Palaeontology, Sedimentology |
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Tags: American Naturalist, Ecology, Fossil, Palaeoecology, Palaeontology, Time-averaging, University of Chicago
Ian Randall | 4 April 2010
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Well, the field trip was fun – not, perhaps, quite as we had planned it, mind – but it wasn’t without some amusement.
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Category: Cretaceous, Field Trips, Palaeontology, The Palaeo Pad |
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Tags: Brighton, East Sussex, Field Trip, Fossil, Fossil Hunting, Late Cretaceous, Peacehaven, The Palaeo Pad
Ian Randall | 3 April 2010
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We are on the beach, and have just made this fantastic echinoid find!
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Category: Carboniferous, Field Trips, Geology, Palaeontology, The Palaeo Pad |
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Tags: Brighton, Echinoid, Field Trip, Fossil, Live Upload, Palaeontology, Peacehaven, The Palaeo Pad
Ian Randall | 2 April 2010
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For a little treat tomorrow, The Palaeo Pad shall be going on a little jaunt to Peacehaven, in East Sussex, on a fossil hunt.
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Category: Cretaceous, Field Trips, Geology, Palaeontology, The Palaeo Pad |
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Tags: Brighton, East Sussex, Field Trip, Fossil, Fossil Hunting, Late Cretaceous, Peacehaven, The Palaeo Pad
Ian Randall | 31 March 2010
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A new species from the terminal Ediacaran, Cloudina carinata, has been discovered in Spain. The tubular fossil, described in a recent issue of the journal Precambrian Research, lived between 550 and 543 million years ago and was one of the first animals to leave behind evidence of reproduction.
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Category: Cambrian, Evolutionary Biology, Geology, Palaeontology |
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Tags: 550 Ma, Asexual reproduction, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina carinata, Ediacaran, Fossil, Precambrian Research, Spain
Ian Randall | 19 March 2010
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One of the rarest fossils has been found in the most unexpected of locations – the capital city of Canada. Described in the current issue of Palaeontology, the 450 million year old specimen of the annelid machaeridian worm Plumulitids canadensis is one of only eight such finds in the world.
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Category: Invertebrate Palaeontology, Palaeontology |
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Tags: 450 Ma, Albert Street, Amateur find, Annelid Worm, Fossil, Ottawa, Palaeontology Journal, Plumulitids canadensis