Fossil Bonanza

Trilobites with gills on their legs, pterosaurs with thumbs, burrowing Cretaceous mammals, and giant eurypterids highlight this episode. Also John Day Fossil Beds and La Brea Tar Pits open their visitor centers for the first time since the pandemic started.  Finally, the Hauff Museum in Holzmaden Germany is going through financial trouble so if you can support them here at this link.
https://gofund.me/0fa63950

In this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in March 2021. This includes a newly described, oldest Lagerstätte in South America, Paleozoic lamprey embryos, the first opabiniid discovered outside of Burgess Shale, a failed cephalopod predation attack, an oviraptorid brooding on its nest, and a manta ray-like, planktivorous  shark.  All links to papers on the Fossil Bonanza Twitter account.

In this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in February 2021. This includes a new site designated in Morocco, a previously lost site rediscovered in Vermont, a new Paleozoic Spider, an amber full of fly larvae, and UV-induced, florescent fossilized leaves.  All links to paper on the Fossil Bonanza Twitter account.

This is the start of a bonus series where I briefly summarize interesting Lagerstätten papers from the previous month.  I look at a newly described Lagerstätte from France, an ammonite with preserved internal organs, a beautiful looking assassin bug, and talk briefly about the evolution of Dire Wolves.