MV Palaeontology

We are the palaeontology collections at Museums Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Follow us as we bring our fossils to light

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Cool! If this is from your Marble Foyer, it uses Belgian Petit Granit Marble - a Carboniferous aged crinoidal limestone. What looks like 'prawn' is probably an oblique cross section of of an extinct solitary rugose coral. (see figure 9: https://t.co/MXuzURqVlA).

[Parliament House Canberra @ParlHouseCBR]

You have to dig a little deep to find one of our favourite hidden gems – Shawn the Prawn. He's been lying about in the black limestone of our marble foyer floor for the past 345, or so, million years - along with rather a lot of other sea life fossils.
#InCanberra
#VisitCanberra

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Cool! Quick research indicates this may be from the marble foyer, which uses Belgian Petit Granit Marble - a Carboniferous aged crinoidal limestone. The 'prawn' is probably a cross section of of a solitary rugose coral. (see figure 9: https://t.co/MXuzURqVlA)

[NationalScienceWeek @Aus_ScienceWeek]

@emgfitzgerald @museumsvictoria @Reynardo_red @Palaeo_JRule @VicMarket @zieglertn @MVPalaeo ...there's a fossil prawn in the marble floor of the @Aust_Parliament foyer https://t.co/UgRilewj0E

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

@joanna_sumner99 @zieglertn Plus the Mammalia and Dinosauria are different levels of taxonomic hierarchy, right? (taxonomic groupings are social constructs anyway 😉) so somewhat an apples and oranges situation

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

I better reacquaint myself with Twitter.

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

📌 Reminder 📌 Dr Rolf Schmidt, Collection Manager of Invertebrate Palaeontology will be taking over our Twitter on Friday! 🐦

He'll be answering questions about his work at the museum, and everything in between!

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

#Whale #barnacles! clockwise: recent, two Pleistocene, and Miocene - which is the earliest occurrence after their ancestors jumped from turtles to cetaceans. Huge compared to other species; and check out the base that embeds them into the whale skin.

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Oh btw, next Friday is #Nocturnal again @melbournemuseum, where we’ll be showing off some of our CT scanned and 3D printed fossils. If you’re going to Lindsay Zanno’s talk beforehand then… https://t.co/cB1nEUO4cY

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Can I interest you in a Dinosaur talk by someone who digs them out with her bare hands!
https://t.co/PeZIjjxgyp

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

@amber_tripp Hi this is Rolf Schmidt from Melbourne Museum - I'll be on tonight with the 5 favourite movies. Do you need the list beforehand? (Anna our PR person is off sick today)

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Lots of media hubbub today around a #Science paper purporting to have extracted steranes from #Ediacaran fossils from White Sea, Russia. Colour me skeptical, but if independently… https://t.co/PYeg21PBcu

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Ever wonder what happens to fossils when continents collide? Well these Devonian sea stars were squeezed and smeared during major tectonic events in Germany. Now they are almost shadows… https://t.co/meaI0sPI3a

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

What better #fossil to get out for tomorrow’s #Japan themed #Nocturnal @melbournemuseum than a #trilobite named Japonoscutellum! @ Melbourne Museum https://t.co/ObSIMXcDi2

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

#catastrophe: Massive fire guts the National Museum of Brazil! #history #TypeSpecimens #ohno https://t.co/Wxr09KP7sG https://t.co/lf6EsEpkik

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

#FossilFriday: in honour of David Pickering - colleague, friend, mentor, larrikin. Thank you Sarah for generously donating some of Dave’s toys, sorry: action figures. #thisismymv #museum… https://t.co/hlRnwR6Np8

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

#ScienceWeek: Crowds are massive today for our #fossils on show. Some very smart and knowledgeable kids - hope for our future. #museum #palaeontology @ Melbourne Museum https://t.co/wxBdbIm5Yk

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

It’s #ScienceWeek #downunder! @melbournemuseum is making it especially #fossil themed this year. So watch out, I might just take over the Museum’s instagram account… https://t.co/zka2XIoLnY

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Fossil Find Friday: out of the office for the day, and fellow #palaeontologist Tim Ziegler found a giant Mako #shark tooth without even trying! #fossils #fieldwork #Miocene #museumlife… https://t.co/oIMxf3UNCN

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

You know you’ve found a big #fossil #shark when Masterchef gets interested! @melbournemuseum #palaeontology #unique #giant #cantevenfitonthewall @ Melbourne Museum https://t.co/Y4ud2HL4m4

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Happy 15th anniversary #Firefly, not a fossil firefly, but here's a fossil flea (Tarwinia australia, NMVP26202) with a shape like #Serenity

[MV Palaeontology @MVPalaeo]

Horseshoe crabs in Australia? 110 million years ago sure thing; Victalimulus mcqueeni (NMVP22410) from Koonwarra @museumsvictoria

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Amazing detail on this 110 million year old stonefly (Eodinotoperla duncanae; P32285B) from the Koonwarra Fossil Fish Beds @museumsvictoria