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Taylor McCoy 🦖

@TM9380

Paleontology volunteer at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Field/lab experience, research, and scicomm. Career Counselor. Opinions my own

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So maybe someone that knows more than me can comment. I notice a lot of older books and docs refer to Velociraptor as 80 million years old, when it hails from formations 71-75 million years old. Was the age just less understood for a bit? Curious…

So maybe someone that knows more than me can comment. I notice a lot of older books and docs refer to Velociraptor as 80 million years old, when it hails from formations 71-75 million years old. Was the age just less understood for a bit? Curious…
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Other than the abelisaurs, ceratosauria generally doesn’t make it past the Jurassic. Genyodectes from South America however is an exception, living around 112 million years ago…

Other than the abelisaurs, ceratosauria generally doesn’t make it past the Jurassic. Genyodectes from South America however is an exception, living around 112 million years ago…
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You may have seen this thread claiming that the osteoderms of Ceratosaurus were internal mineral deposits. Just know that this interpretation is completely unsupported and the author is blocking people pointing this out in the replies.

You may have seen this thread claiming that the osteoderms of Ceratosaurus were internal mineral deposits. Just know that this interpretation is completely unsupported and the author is blocking people pointing this out in the replies.
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A new friend of mine(fellow Carnegie volunteer) has offered to 3D print things for me provided I send him the files needed. This Incredibly generous offer means Deinonychus will now be joining the lineup

(Work started today, these pics are from the download file)

A new friend of mine(fellow Carnegie volunteer) has offered to 3D print things for me provided I send him the files needed. This Incredibly generous offer means Deinonychus will now be joining the lineup (Work started today, these pics are from the download file)
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Just as a reminder, my @ on here is straight up pulled from this wonderful fossil courtesy of my wife’s creative thinking….

Just as a reminder, my @ on here is straight up pulled from this wonderful fossil courtesy of my wife’s creative thinking….
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The beautifully preserved holotype of Corythoraptor, skull circled in this picture. This was a small dinosaur, measuring about 1.5 meters in length…

The beautifully preserved holotype of Corythoraptor, skull circled in this picture. This was a small dinosaur, measuring about 1.5 meters in length…
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This take on the Chased By Dinosaurs Giganotosaurus goes so hard

I’m not sure who modeled it so if you do, please comment

This take on the Chased By Dinosaurs Giganotosaurus goes so hard I’m not sure who modeled it so if you do, please comment
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With a skull around 2.65 meters, Pentaceratops definitely wouldn’t be hard to miss in the late Cretaceous landscape…

With a skull around 2.65 meters, Pentaceratops definitely wouldn’t be hard to miss in the late Cretaceous landscape…
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Looking through old vacation pictures at my parents last night and I was reminded of when we saw a washed up Pygmy sperm whale at the Outer Banks. Not a recent find, this was 20+ years ago

Looking through old vacation pictures at my parents last night and I was reminded of when we saw a washed up Pygmy sperm whale at the Outer Banks. Not a recent find, this was 20+ years ago
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Today Skeleton Crew Paleo covers the helmet crested Corythosaurus. We have a mount at the Carnegie, the display being done mid grazing and oriented based on hadrosaur trackways…

Today @SkeleCrewPaleo covers the helmet crested Corythosaurus. We have a mount at the Carnegie, the display being done mid grazing and oriented based on hadrosaur trackways…
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Generally Jobaria is a bit tough to nail down in terms of classification, but it usually comes out as a fairly basal eusauropod at least. Either way, it’s big…

Generally Jobaria is a bit tough to nail down in terms of classification, but it usually comes out as a fairly basal eusauropod at least. Either way, it’s big…
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