Homotherium crenatidens Tiger Fossil

 

This image is of the cranium and mandible of a Homotherium crenatidens saber-tooth tiger fossil. The animal existed in the Pleistocene Epoch. Fossil was discovered in 1870 near Sammerzzano, Upper Valdarno, Italy.


Picture taken at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy (Università degli Studi di Firenze) in August 2024.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotherium

Ursus spelaeus Skeleton

This cave bear skeleton was on display at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City in July 2018. The specimen was named Ursus spelaeus (Rosenmüller, 1794). It was found in the Cave of Mokrau at Moravia, Czechoslovakia and dates to the Pleistocene Epoch (14,000 years ago). Accession number is AMNH 39416 and gifted to Columbia University in 1945. 

Learn more about the museum at https://www.amnh.org/

Pronothrotherium typicum Sloth Fossil

 

This picture is of a Pentacrinites briareus (Ameghino, 1907) ground sloth fossil. It was found in Argentina. The fossil dates to the Pliocene Epoch (5.3-1.8 million years ago).

The fossil was on display in the Evolving Planet section of The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago Illinois, USA as of August 2020.

Bison priscus Fossil

Bison priscus mammal fossil on display at The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Milan Natural History Museum), Italy as of August 2019. The fossil was found in Serbia. It dates to the upper Pleistocene Epoch (10 million - 80,000 years ago).

Odobenus rosmarus Walrus Fossil

This image is of an Odobenus rosmarus walrus fossil on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). It dates to the Pleistocene Epoch (about 200,000-100,000 years ago). The fossil was found in Alaska USA.

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located at the College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor, Charleston, South Carolina 29424.

Learn more at their blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/

Sinodelphys szalayi Mammal Fossil

This picture is of a Sinodelphys szalayi (Luo, Ji, Wible & Yuan, 2003) mammal fossil. It was found in Liaoning China. The fossil dates to Lower Cretaceous Period (Barremien - 125 million years ago).  Fossil  displayed at Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France.  Image taken August 2016.

Learn more at their website: https://www.mnhn.fr/en/visit/lieux/galerie-paleontologie-anatomie-comparee-paleontology-and-comparative-anatomy-gallery

Asiatherium reshetovi Mammal Fossil

Asiatherium reshetovi mammal fossil displayed at Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France. It was found in Barun Goyot Formation of Gobi Desert Basin in Mongolia. The fossil dates to Late Cretaceous Period. Image taken August 2016.
Learn more at their website: https://www.mnhn.fr/en/visit/lieux/galerie-paleontologie-anatomie-comparee-paleontology-and-comparative-anatomy-gallery

Info about this mammal at this link: http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=183890

Eomaia scansoria Mammal Fossil

Cast of Eomaia scansoria extinct mammal fossil displayed at Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France. It dates to the Lower Cretaceous Period (Barremian Age). The fossil was found in Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China. Image taken August 2016.

Learn more at their website: https://www.mnhn.fr/en/visit/lieux/galerie-paleontologie-anatomie-comparee-paleontology-and-comparative-anatomy-gallery

More information about the creature can be found on Wikipedia at this link:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eomaia

Oreopithecus bambolii Fossil

An interesting fossil shown in this picture is of an Oreopithecus bambolii primate. The fossil can be found at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. Fossil was found in Baccinello Basin located in Tuscany, Italy. The area was known for its lignite mines. An intact Oreopithecus fossil skeleton was found in 1958 by Johannes Hürzeler in one of those mines.

Image taken in June 2014.

Learn more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreopithecus
http://www.museonaturalemaremma.it/index.php?id=45&L=

Pleistocene Glyptodon Fossil

Here is the original fossil shell of a Glyptodon sp. It is specimen ROM 5130 from the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto, Canada. It dates to the Pleistocene epoch (about 100,000 years ago) and was found in Argentina. These creatures could get to the size and weight of a small automobile! It is a mammal in the Order of Cingulata and Family of Glyptodontidae. It could be related to modern mammals like the anteater, tree sloth, and armadillo.

Learn more about it at wikipedia.org.

This fossil was part of the Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and Science in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was photographed in August 2013. The dinosaur exhibit was created by the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto Canada.

The exhibit was supported by Associate Exhibit Sponsor Frisch's restaurant and Promotional Partners Cincinnati Reds baseball, newspaper The Enquirer and TV channel Local 12 WKRO Cincinnati.

Saber Tooth Squirrel Fossil

The November 3rd, 2011 issue of Nature highlights a new mammal species Cronopio dentiacutus researched by the University of Louisville's Dr. Guillermo Rougier. The animal is a squirrel with large fangs that lived in the times of the dinosaurs (Triassic).  The fossil in matrix was found in 2002 in northern Argentina with prep work finished in 2008. The fossil is named characters in the books of Julio Cortázar

It has been compared to a computer animation character Scrat in the Ice Age movie. See pictures in article at Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056715/Fossil-sabre-toothed-squirrel-fills-60million-year-void-knowledge-South-American-mammals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

National Geographic has an artist rendering of what the squirrels might have looked like: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/101102-saber-toothed-squirrel-fossils-paleontology-dinosaurs-science/

Find the Nature article here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7371/full/nature10591.html

Learn more about Dr. Rougier who teaches in the University of Louisville's School of Medicine: https://louisville.edu/medschool/anatomy/faculty/faculty/professors/guillermo-rougier-ph-d.html

Link Update 4/12/2017:
https://louisville.edu/medicine/departments/anatomy/facultylist/guillermo-rougier-phd