Protoceratops Dinosaur Egg Fossil

Here is an image of a Protoceratops andrewsi dinosaur egg fossil. It was found in Mongolia. The dinosaur would have existed in the Cretaceous Period. Fossil was on display at The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Milan Natural History Museum), Italy as of August 2019.

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

Deinocheirus mirificus Limb Fossil

This is a cast of the front limbs of a Deinocheirus mirificus dinosaur fossil. It was collected by Z. Kielan-Jaworowska in 1965 at Altan Ulaa III in Mongolia. Fossil dates to the Late Cretaceous Period (72 million years ago).

Fossil on display at American Museum of Natural History in New York City USA as of July 2018.

Protoceratops andrewsi

The horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) Protoceratops andrewsi displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This small herbivore grazed in what is now Mongolia, China in the Cretaceous Period (Mesozoic Era). This fossil was found in 1925 at the Djadokhta Formation in Bayn Dzak, Mongolia.  Dinosaur remains are accession number CM 9185.

Learn more at the museum web site: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/

Fossils, Rocks, & Akiko Video

Fossils, Rocks & Akiko from The Field Museum on Vimeo.

The Field Museum of Chicago, Illinois has released a video (about 2 minutes in length) of a behind the scenes in the preparatory lab. This video highlights Chief Preparator in the Fossil Vertebrate section Akiko Shinya. She shows some of the work process of preparing a Psittacosaur from Mongolia.

After seeing the video, I should be wearing hearing protection along with my eye and airway gear during fossil prep. Maybe padded gloves might help as the engraver makes my hand tingle or numb after continuous prolonged use.

This dinosaur existed in the Cretaceous Period (130-100 million years ago).  Learn more at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus & Protoceratops & Bagaceratops

Picture of three casts of dinosaurs.  The fossil casting on the left is a Protoceratops andrewsi of the Late Cretaceous Period (85-80 mya) found in Mongolia.  The cast in the middle is a Psittacosaurus sp. of the Early Cretaceous Period (115-100 mya) also found in Mongolia.  The small skull cast on the right is a Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi of the Late Cretaceous Period (85-75 mya) again from Mongolia.

This display was photographed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. (August 2010). The description on the sign reads "Psittacosaurus was a small-beaked animal that walked on two legs. Some of the later protoceratopsians walked on all four legs."