#FossilFriday‼️ We continue to digitize the Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums paleontology collection (t.ly/RMayS) this semester. Here are hundreds of ~50 million-year-old gastropods from Alabama. 😃 Photo: undergraduate student intern Trudie Murphy #fossil #paleontology #snail

Article alert‼️ What do fossil decapod crustaceans look like? A new, open access Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology chapter describes and illustrates the morphology of adult decapods. 🦀 Short news story: t.ly/Dxxev. #FossilFriday UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History #paleontology

#FossilFriday!! The 7th Mosasaur Meeting in Maastricht (The Netherlands) is ongoing. 😀 I will talk about the marine tetrapods in the Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums collection. This is a part of one giant, Mosasaurus hoffmannii from the Maastrichtian of Lowndes Co, Alabama. "Sweetie". #fossil

Article Alert‼️ Eocene decapod crustaceans from a single basin show ecological zonation in shallow to relatively deep environments. 🦀 Open access paper led by Fernando Ferratges: t.ly/-F5rN. #FossilFriday Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums. #paleontology #fossil

‼️Recipient of the 2024 Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award announced‼️👏👏👏 Presentation of the award will occur during Alabama's National Fossil Day Celebration on Nov 2 Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums. Read full news story: t.ly/zIHJu #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil

New article alert‼️ A 99-page monograph about Jurassic and Cretaceous sea lilies is out. It includes the stratigraphically youngest record of Millericrinida, found in Alabama by Research Associate George Martin. 😀Summary: t.ly/rkdV7. UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History #FossilFriday

For #FossilFriday, here is a 2024 find of a mosasaur vertebra embedded in the Campanian-aged Mooreville Chalk of Harrell Station Paleontological Site (t.ly/_-9nf). For next month, a trip for the Alabama Paleontological Society to here is scheduled. Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums.

Alabama's National Fossil Day celebration is on Sat. November 2. 😀 Theme = dinosaurs. Why Dinosaurs documentary, Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award, and Tabling Event with many fossils incl. dinosaurs. Full schedule: t.ly/z74in Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums #FossilFriday

#FossilFriday! 🦖Two theropod dinosaur finds in Alabama this past summer during Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums trips. Come see these discoveries during the dinosaur-themed Alabama's National Fossil Day Celebration on Sat. Nov 2. Full schedule: t.ly/z74in #fossil #paleontology

True gem of the Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums collection: Dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) foot bone with a Squalicorax kaupi shark tooth stuck in it! 🦈 Scavenging ~82 million years ago in Alabama. Come see in person on Nov 2 during AL National Fossil Day (t.ly/z74in)! #FossilFriday

‼️Job Alert‼️ Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 😀 Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums UA Arts & Sciences. Please share widely and feel free to get in touch if interested. #fossil #paleontology #museum

‼️Just 6 more days to apply for the Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) job in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 📷 Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums @UA_AS x.com/paleoadiel/sta…

#FossilFriday‼️ We had a blast at Alabama's dinosaur-themed National Fossil Day celebration this past Saturday. A record number of people showed up for the WHY DINOSAURS? documentary & Q&A, the AL avocational paleo award, and the tabling event UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History. See you next year!

#FossilFriday‼️ 🐟🐟Fishing for fossils in the Cretaceous. A couple of neat predatory fishes were found by the Braswell brothers during an Alabama Paleo Soc trip to Harrell Station on Nov 9! 😃 Specimens UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History collection. #paleontology #fossil #fish

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#FossilFriday‼️ Cretaceous Eldorado for vertebrate fossils. A fish coprolite with vertebrae within it and mosasaur vertebrae were found by Ashton Johnson during trips for the Alabama Paleo Society to Harrell Station! 😃 Specimens UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History. #paleontology #fossil #fish

Still time left to apply: ‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study biotic interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums @UA_AS U.S. National Science Foundation