FossilHub – Page 2 – PALAEONTOLOGY (AND GEOLOGY) CENTRAL

October 7, 2020

A Geological History of Yorkshire

Below are materials and links for my course ‘A Geological History of Yorkshire’ PowerPoint slideshow: PDF handout of slideshow: Geological timescale (International Commission on Stratigraphy): https://stratigraphy.org/chart The rock cycle: http://geologycafe.com/erosion/rock_cycle_illustrated.html John Phillips’ 1855 geological map of Yorkshire: http://www.geology.19thcenturyscience.org/books/1855-Phillips-Yorkshire/figures/1855-Phillips-Yorkshire-p0030.jpg An introduction to the geological history of Yorkshire is provided by the Yorkshire Geological Society here, in the online version of their...

Outreach/Teaching

August 2, 2020

Fossilympics20 Medal Table & Results

Held from Saturday August 1st to Friday August 14th 2020, Fossilympics20 was run by Liam Herringshaw on Twitter under the auspices of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival. Here are the final results and medal table. Fossilympics20 Final Medal Table Entity Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL Canada 4 0 0 4 Mollusca 3 3 2 8 Great Britain 3 0 2 5 Ichnotaxa...

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July 27, 2020

#Fossilympics20

Events & competitors Fossilympics 2020 Schedule This year’s inaugural Fossilympics is unsurprisingly experimental. The details of the dates, events, and competitors can be found below (subject to final ratification from the Intentional Obrution Committee). The medal table will be a load of old nonsense, lumping together modern political entities, palaeocontinents, and taxonomic groups, but what the heck. It’s no worse...

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July 23, 2020

The Fossilympics

With neither the Yorkshire Fossil Festival nor the Olympic Games able to happen this year, and with my academic career coming to an end this month, I’ve decided I might as well do something daft to while away the summer weeks, and have created…the Fossilympics! Starting on Saturday August 1st 2020, the Fossilympics will run on Twitter, through the Yorkshire...

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May 23, 2020

Trapped Wind

The Fascinatingly Fortuitous Fossilization of Farts There are people out there who don’t think palaeontology is astonishing, and they are quite wrong. To prove this, here is a 20 million-year-old cockroach fart, fossilized in amber: The late lamented Dr WHO once told me “serendipity is looking for a needle in a haystack and finding the famer’s daughter.” I think my...

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May 21, 2020

Rolling with dinosaurs

After Chalking With Dinosaurs with Burnsy on BBC Radio Humberside this week, I intended my next post to be on the Megalosaurus trackways of Oxfordshire. However, my better half then showed me this video: We immediately found ourselves thinking: “That would be cool with dinosaur feet!” Then we thought “Actually, it would be cooler with correctly sized dinosaur feet that...

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May 19, 2020

Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 4

I don’t even work on dinosaurs, and here I am, yet again, writing about the crunching great lizard monsters and their footprints. It’s all a very elaborate ruse to get you hooked on ichnology, such that I can then start making videos such as Crawling With Ragworms and Irrigating With Thalassinids. Hey ho, it’s all good fun, and here we...

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May 12, 2020

Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 3

On Saturday May 9th 2020, as promised, I chalked a load of dinosaur footprints onto my driveway. My video below explains what I did, and what a single footprint can tell us about the tracemaker. WARNING: this video features some low-quality singing. If you want to go chalking with dinosaurs, here’s my checklist: 1. Choose a footprint you want to...

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May 9, 2020

Chalking With Dinosaurs, Part 2

As GeoWeek 2020 starts on Saturday May 9th, so does Chalking With Dinosaurs. And since we can’t all go to the Dinosaur Coast this weekend and hunt fossilized footprints, let’s bring the dinosaurs to our streets, our driveways, and our houses. My video below gives an introduction to Chalking With Dinosaurs, and the science of ichnology. The Jurassic rocks of...

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May 4, 2020

Chalking With Dinosaurs

The Yorkshire Coast is one of the best places in the world to walk with dinosaurs. The Jurassic rocks exposed between Staithes and Scarborough have yielded huge numbers of fossil dinosaur footprints, and scientists from all over the world come to North Yorkshire to better understand how dinosaurs lived and behaved. In the absence of being able to go and...

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