Amazing! Neovenator, “new hunter,” Hutt et al. 1996 was found on the Isle of Wight. I remember when it was published, it made quite the splash, as here was the first Early Cretaceous allosauroid from Europe. As a Morrison Formation fan, I was delighted to see an allosaur appear “across the pond,” one that it made it into the Cretaceous. However... As is always the case in paleo, especially among toothy beasts, additional re-search transpired. This “allosauroid” was suggested to be the sister tax

Willllllllllburrrrrrrr! Meet a cast of #Protorohippus, one of the most spectacularly preserved, and paleontologically important, fossils ever collected from the prolific Green River Formation (Eocene, 53-48 mya). Protorohippus venticolum, species named by Cope in 1881, genus by Wortmann in 1896 (but oft spelled P. venticolus, why?) means “before mountain horse,” and is one of two nearly complete #horse skeletons I am aware of from the Green River Formation, which produces unbelievably amazing fo

135K views · 3.3K reactions | A cute pet! #Gastonia burgei (“Gaston...