Equatorial Minnesota

Minnesota paleontology and geology, National Park Service paleontology, the Mesozoic, and occasional distractions

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

The "fossils" of Pipestone National Monument

This is being posted on Halloween, which is fitting for a topic that lingers like a ghost in the literature. Even today , you can still find...

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Minnesota's dinosaurs

The stats for Equatorial Minnesota have recently shown visitors looking for "Minnesota dinosaur", no doubt because of the recent ...

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Algae and not-algae

The last of the fossils to be covered to complete the Upper Ordovician Twin Cities set (barring some microfossils and real rarities) are a n...

Saturday, October 10, 2015

The Compact Thescelosaurus

National Fossil Day is this Wednesday, October 14th. The 16th birthday of Thescelosaurus would have been last Wednesday, October 7th. In h...

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Conodonts

A common yet easily overlooked type of fossil is the conodont (or "conodont element", should we choose to be picky and/or technic...

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Graptolites: gone yesterday, here today?

Graptolites are one of the less-heralded members of the local Ordovician menagerie, probably because they don't seem to be all that com...

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Coming Attractions in Dinosauria?

One more trip to the well... In the spirit of Addendum II, here is my own compilation of undescribed dinosaurs. I am deliberately avoiding r...

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Justin Tweet: I am a researcher and writer who has been helping to inventory and catalog the fossil resources of the National Park Service.

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