Notices by The Dinosaur Dave (thedinosaurdave@sauropods.win)

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Stegodon

In 1842, Hugh Falconer brought 70 chests of dried plants and 48 chests of fossils to India to study.

Between 1846 and 1849, Hugh Falconer and Proby T. Cautley published over 107 plates describing it items from those chests. One of them was Stegodon

Originally assigned to Elephantidae, modern elephants, its now thought to be part of the older Stegodontidae. Stegodontidae has no living family members today.

When the tiktok ban happened, the weirdest thing also happened on Aussie tiktok.
There was no political spam. The boy accounts trying to divide us vanished. The fake posts making claims about our leaders stopped.
We all had assumed it was russians doing it, but given the timing, what are the odds bad actors in the USA are the guilty ones?

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Triceratops

In 1887, brow horns and a skull roof were found by George Lyman Cannon. He sent them to Othniel Charles Marsh who thought the formation was from the Pliocene, belonged to a weird bison, which he named Bison alticornis.

In 1888 OCM published on the dinosaur genus Ceratops.

In 1888 John Bell Hatcher found a more complete skull and OCM renamed Bison alticornis, Ceratops horridus. After seeing the nasal horn, he renamed it Triceratops horridus.

@Paxil @DrPsyBuffy honestly, i 100% expect it to pass both because we are in the most fkd up timeline.
Everyone should get saving, right now, every cent they can, this going to crash the economy into great depression levels...

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as easy. This well known ceratopsian is famous for possibly being an adult version of another dinosaur.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This is a modification of the original lego triceratops fossil I did, turning it into something new.

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Suchomimus

In 1997 a large hand claw was found in Niger by David Varricchio

Through 1997-98 American palaeontologist Paul Sereno and his team at Gadoufaoua discovered Fossils that represented about two-thirds of the skeleton.

In 1998, Sereno, et al named and described the type species Suchomimus tenerensis, meaning crocodile mimic.