Financing the Skeleton Crew - Carboniferous Bones Need a Home

Teeth and Fangs ( other   posts )  These Bones Need A Home   1000 Fossil Freaks Care - Become A Fossil Freak One of the rarest prizes discovered at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia Canada is this innocent-looking elongate bone. Along with the slab it was attached to, this is a portion of the lower jaw of a Basal Carboniferous tetrapod. It was the first tetrapod jaw ever found at Blue Beach. It was collected in 1999, loaned to colleagues in 2003 and still remains unreported.  For fifteen years this important find has been been buried in obscurity by scientists who haven't got around to describing all the fossils they have. We too are guilty of the same, because h ere at our small museum thousands of fossils have accumulated and there's over a hundred years worth of research awaits. Tetrapod jaw fragment (about 1.5 cm long) with 3 marginal teeth spaced at regular intervals, a narrow dorsal shelf, and a conspicuously striated surface where the dentar...

THESE BONES NEED A HOME LET'S BUILD A PALEO-CENTRE Learn More Here Blue Beach, Nova Scotia has yielded the earliest collection of tetrapod tracks on Earth, with more than 2000 specimens in the study sample of the Blue Beach museum. Here is less than half of those laid out in the driveway for viewing. Prior to this only 3 examples have been described in the scientific literature. Blue Beach is now understood to produce the most significant track discoveries of the decade. We have discovered several new morphotypes, and are clarifying some of the mysteries in how early tetrapod ecosystems worked. This is one example of the acceleration of discovery  at Blue Beach. Our friends and colleagues were pleasantly intrigued by the preservation of the 350 myo footprints found at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia. New Mexico paleontologist, Dr. Spencer Lucas (left) and Nova Scotia's Natural Resources paleontologist, Dr. John Calder (right) discuss aspects of variability and clarity...