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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

7 months

Can you dig it?

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

I'm a young black paleontologist, geologist, and Paleo/Geo educator in Gwinnett County, Georgia. I enjoy watching modern day dinosaurs. I enjoy unlocking the secrets that are hidden in the rocks around us and sharing the history of 4 billion years. #BlackInNature #BlackAFinSTEM

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I love being a Paleontologist

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

What a Paleontologist looks like. #diversity #scientist #black #representation

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

I am happy to announce that I will be starting my first Paleontology internship at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science under the curator of Paleontology George Phillips . I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to start this chapter of my life.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I am a Paleontology Educator. I communicate with the public on the 4.5 billion years of history of our planet. I make fossils and geological specimens available to general public...

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

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Was currently in Home Depot looking at polished stone slabs and bro, look how big this Biotite Mica is in this Pegmatitic Granite. That's a decent size! Never take a geologist to Home Depot lol.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

When I see trilobites!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

#FossilFriday ! What I'm holding in my hand is a bulbous like structure known as a Lobolith from a floating Crinoid. These structures would have been filled with gas as the calyx of crinoid would have been suspended above the water column to float along the water current.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

It's hard to post Paleontology and Geology related content here when the whole country is going to shit.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

Some of you may know me but if you don't, my name is Cam. I'm an aspiring paleontologist/geologist and a paleontology educator. I study fossils from the Southeastern US and Historical Geology. I also study Deep Time Geology with a focus on Cambrian fossils. #BlackInGeoscience

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

1 year

My customer in line Guy: "Have you heard about the theory about dinosaurs not being real and they are all just plaster?" Me: "I don't know man, I've worked in museum collections and I have handled and worked with real dinosaur bones." Guy: "Well, you should look into it"

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

Geologist problems...

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Velociraptor mongoliensis foot (left) beside a Utahraptor ostrommaysi foot (right). Whoa right?

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I've got big news! I'LL BE ON TV!! I've had to keep it a secret for a year! I was interviewed by BBC and PBS to be part of the new documentary that will air this Friday on BBC and May 11th on PBS/Nova. I can't believe this is actually happening!!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Spending my July 4th in the paleontology collections at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Here is a huge Carcharocles megalodon tooth!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Welcome back to #FossilFriday ! I am holding in my hands a cast of the holotype specimen of the first described feathered dinosaur known as Sinosauropteryx prima. It was found in the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) siltstones of the Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

I'm a black dude who studies and educates the public on fossils and rocks. What's up? 😎

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

My dad took me to the @FernbankMuseum when I was 7 years old. Afterwards, I told my parents I wanted to be a Paleontologist. I'm 24 now and I'm doing Paleontology and doing outreach where I grew up. Museums are so important! You never know what impact they can leave.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Ex-girlfriend: "You always live in the past!" Me: "I'm a Paleontologist, that's what I do!"

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

So apparently me talking about diversity in Paleontology now means that I'm anti white and racist. That's one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard. Callling Geoscience and paleontology a predominantly white field isn't racist. It's reality.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

I just received a lot of letters from kids thanking me for talking to their class about Paleontology and Geology. I've never received so many letters before in one day and it really makes me happy. Let's inspire the next generation with one rock at a time. 💜

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

I hope I and many others break down the stereotypes of what a paleontologist looks like. I'm going into field as a an autistic black male. I hope to strive to achieve my goals as a young Paleontologist in the making. I've never wanted to be one so much in my life.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

It's official, I have a 2 week paid Paleontology internship at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science doing lab work and field work.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Happy #FossilFriday ! Here is the cast skull of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus. Hadrosaur fossils are common in the SE US. They lived along the coast of Mississippi some 85 to 70 mya. When they died, their bodies would be swept out to sea and were scavenged on by sharks.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I've reached a milestone. 10K followers! Didn't think that would happen. Hello new followers. My is Cameron (Cam) Muskelly. I am a self-taught Paleontologist and a Science Communicator based in Georgia. I study fossils from the Appalachian region.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Them: "You still into dinosaurs?" Me: "Yep!"

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

#BlackInGeoscienceRollCall My name is Cameron Muskelly. I'm a self taught Paleontologist and a Paleontology Educator based in Georgia. My research is on Lower Carboniferous shark teeth and my focus is on the geology and paleontology of the SE US. Especially in Georgia. Dig It!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Class is in session. About to talk to school children via Zoom about Paleontology.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I want to thank everyone for the encouragement. I struggle with anxiety and depression. I don't always feel like I'm a Paleontologist. Everyone's path into field is different. I have a non-traditional path however I do contribute a lot to it. I am a Paleontologist.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

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Preparing for tomorrow morning's "Meet a Scientist" The life of a Paleontologist. I'll be going through what tools I use, to rock groups, from geologic time and much more. Let's inspire the next generation!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

#FossilFriday ! Here is the cut and polished Ammonite Ptychophylloceras from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) rocks of Sakaraha, Tulear Province, Madagascar. The septa (chambers) would have been filled with gas to help the animal with buoyancy. The top is the living chamber.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

My name is Cameron. I am #ActuallyAutistic . I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) at age 8. I'm a self trained Paleontologist. I deal with sensory overload and meltdowns. I am #NotADisease

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@Ava_Nicole23

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My name is Ava (she/her). I'm a masters student in Neuroscience. I'm #ActuallyAutistic & have ADHD, bipolar disorder, & cerebral palsy. Despite what some geneticists, neuroscientists, and other people might think. I am #NotADisease . My disabilities do not make me diseased.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I can't even fathom this right now! I never thought I would see myself on TV. I was weird setting and warching last night and seeing me. I am so happy I was able to play a role in the Dinosaur Apocalypse documentary. This is just the beginning!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Oh nothing, just sitting here with a fully rooted replica tooth from a Tyrannosaurus rex! #FossilFriday

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

From making videos with a hand held camcorder videos about Paleontology from a TV appearance on NOVA talking about Paleontology. Chase your dreams! Don't let ANYONE tell you can't do something. Build your own path. Don't follow the norm. A passion can take you far.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

It is very important that we share the long geological history of the planet with everyone. All rocks and all fossils no matter how big or how small are a window into worlds that no long exist today. This is important history! I am thrilled to be able to share it with everyone.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

Even though I wasn't able to get to Iowa due to Covid-19, I still to receive the 2020 Katherine Palmer Award. I can't explain what a huge honor this is. I am not only the youngest person to receive it but I'm the first African American and Autistic perosn to receive it as well.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Would you collect rocks with me? Be honest.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

Hello, I'm Cam. I am a bit different from others. I'm an black autistic paleontology educator and aspiring Historical Geologist and Paleontologist. My main interests are Southeastern Paleontology of the US, Deep Time Geology, the early cambrian fossil record.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

I'm making a new YouTube series!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Here is a Xiphactinus audax skeleton that Scott Garrett and his wife collected from the Smokey Hill Chalk in Kansas. Phenomenal!!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

What you are looking at here are small beads of glass called Mircrotektites. They have been reworked into the Paleogene Clayton Formation. The glass comes from sediment that was melted during the Asteroid impact and was ejected into the air and fell back during the K-Pg event.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Holding a cast dentary of the hadrosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I was heavily ostracized and bullied as a kid. I was bullied on buses, classrooms, in the gym, lunchrooms, and outside of school. would go home and cry for hours. Paleontology was my way out of it all. It literally saved me. People with disabilities tend be bullied way more often

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Teaching a virtual class today about geology and paleontology. I had to pull out the stuff!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

I am holding a section of the K-Pg Boundary. This comes from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) rocks of the Lance Formation in Wyoming. High traces of the element Iridium, Microtektites, and shocked quartz have all been found worldwide to infer an asteroid impact 66 mya.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

11 days

I celebrated my 26th birthday today by going down to a rockshop and buying mineral specimens. I had bought this beautiful large Almandine Garnet from Pakistan. Garnets are my favorite group of minerals.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Saw this when I was a young lad in the early 2000s and I never looked back.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

#OldRockDay Here is a chunk of Corbin Metagranite from the Rowan Springs Formation in Cartersville, GA. This dates back to 1.2 billion years to the Neoproterozoic Eon. GA's oldest rocks date back to the Greenville Orogeny.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

1 year

Was splitting Shale rock out on my front porch when all of a sudden boom! A nearly complete Olenellus sp. greets me who a "hello" after 521 million years. The Shale comes from the Lower Cambrian Rome Formation in Montevallo, Alabama.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

We are looking at a Lower Carboniferous shale outcrop for fossil sponges, bivalves, and possible vertebrate material. We are basically diving into shallow sea that was full of life is now locked in the rocks. It is our jobs as geologists to free them and tell their story.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

Diversity and representation matters. I am black in paleontology. We matter! I wear this shirt with pride and honer. #BlackPaleontologist #Dinonerd #Diversity

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 months

For #blackhistorymonth , I wanted to showcase a few black paleontologists. There are so many others. I will list a few more in the comment section. 1.) Aaron Steele 2.) Caleb Paul Bohus 3.) Dr. Aja Carter 4.) Candice Nikki Simon 5.) Lynnea Jackson 6.) Aaron Woodruff

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I can't believe in less than a month I'll be seeing myself on Television in a Paleontology documentary. As a preteen I remember using an old camcorder my mother bought me from a Radio shack and would make videos on geology. I've came a long way. Holy shit!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

I was finally able to get out and some a little bit of field work in the Cambrian and Mississippian of Rome, Georgia. I Saw beautiful folded rocks, collceted fossil sponges, Brachiopods and bivalves, and and sedimentary structures. #Paleontologist #Geologist #Georgia #rocks

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

1 year

I found this picture of me in kindergarten. Everywhere I go I would bring a dinosaur figurine. I was about 6 at the time. The blue arrow is pointing to a miniature orange Parasaurolophus. Some things just never change.

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

I used to get this all the time by people I went to school with and even my own family.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

Today's my birthday so I do what anyone does. I spend part of the day and split some shale I had left over. 1 whack of the hammer and this Elrathia kingii trilobite wishes me a happy 24th!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

So I blew someone's mind with this fact yesterday. I love telling folks this! The blocks that make up the Egyptian Pyramids are composed of a limestone made up of single called organisms called Foraminifera. Some are quite large and can get about the size of a quarter...

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

This is how I get fit. I climb late Cretaceous sea beds looking for fossils.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

I'm an educator. I talk with the public about what lies beneath out feet and the stories they can tell. Over 4.5 billion years of Earth's history lies on this table. I try to make it available to everyone no matter how young or how old. Explore the world and ask questions.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

4 years

For a long time that is what I thought a Paleontologist looked like. That's dead wrong! We aren't all white men digging up bones. We are a diverse community from various walks of life and ethnic backgrounds.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

3 years

Oh I'm 1000% positive we can relate!

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

It's the excitement and curiosity that keeps me going into the field and looking at ecosystems that are now frozen in time in the rocks. Sometimes you find nothing. Other times you might find something you've never seen before. Go unlock the door to the distant past. Anyone can.

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Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒

@PaleoCameron

2 years

While the giant Icthyosaur skeleton has been going viral, I thought I would share my Icthyosaur fossil. This is a dorsal vertebra from what possibly belonged to the genus Telmondontosaurs. This comes from the Lower Jurassic rocks of Dorset, England. What a massive animal!

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

Here is a piece of Banded Iron Formation. BIFs are formed by the abundance of Cyanobacteria pumping out oxgen due to Photosynthesis and the oxygen reacting with the iron rich particles in the water resulting in creating layers of iron that can be hundreds of feet thick.

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@PaleoCameron

4 years

#TrilobiteTuseday . I gasped when I found this specimen while opening books of shale with my hands. Here is Aphelaspis brachyphasis from the "Upper" Cambrian (Paibian Stage) of the Conasauga Formation in NW Georgia. Mortality plates are made up of this genus and speices.

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@PaleoCameron

4 years

I'm up early and that's because it is #NationalFossilDay ! I was introduced to my first set of fossils when I was in the 2nd grade. A 4th grade teacher invited to her classroom where I toured her personal fossil collection. Afterwards, she gave me a crinoid stem to keep.

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

"In paleontology or geology, you are shown what is in the earth, and it's amazing when you go back millions of years and you can find a fossil, hold it in your hand, and say, this thing was living millions of years ago, and you are holding the remains of it in your hand...

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@PaleoCameron

4 years

I'm afraid that I'll be collecting at rock outcrop and get pulled over by the police for being black with a hammer in my hand. That could be my last breath. That's the world WE live in.

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@PaleoCameron

1 year

Today marks 7 years that I went fossil hunting for the very first time. A experience that ultimately changed my life.

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

Dude, I'll be first author on 1 paper and a co author on the other. Both on Carboniferous sharks!

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

Go Appalachian dinosaurs! I'm holding the left distal end of a femur from a Hadrosaur (duck billed dinosaur) collected from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Eutaw Formation from Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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@PaleoCameron

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Had to do it! Because of you, I have to pay bills! You mother...

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

TriceraTOP this!

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

Holding the tibia from a sub-adult Sauropod dinosaur that was found in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation in Montana.

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

I had just a lovely time with my first Paleontology internship. Want to thank George Phillips and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science for having me as their paleo intern. I found a lot and learned so much about Mississippis Geology and Paleontology. I'm living out my dream.

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@PaleoCameron

29 days

A 17 year old me out fossil collecting for the first time.

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

I don't have that many people vist me but when they do...

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

Here is a slab of limestone cover from front to back of these Platycrinites crinoids. This comes from the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Lower Monteagle Limestone of Alabama. This goes to show you that the southern US fossils can has some damn good preservation!

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@PaleoCameron

6 months

8 miles! These cliffs are 8 miles across and 350 feet high! The White Clifs of Dover formed from trillions upon trillions of shells of coccolithophores in a Cretaceous sea. When they died, their shells dropped to the seafloor. Building up for over millions of years. Chalk!

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

If Twitter is being possibly deleted I will leave you with this large Asaphid trilobite from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Formation from Morocco. I've enjoyed sharing Paleontology with yall. I'm on Facebook and Instagram (cammuskelly). My YouTube channel is Paleo 101.

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

It's hard to grasp that what I am sitting on are trillions upon trillions of the dead shells of phytoplankton that rained down on the sea bed that would eventually lithify into hard rock we call Chalk. Blows my mind!

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@PaleoCameron

3 years

Here is the cast skull of the ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops andrewsi. Protoceratops lived during the Upper Cretaceous period (Campanian) about 76 to 71 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. It's first fossils yielded from the Djadochta Formation in inner Mongolia.

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

#FossilFriday Here is huge crab fossil named Avitelmessus grapsoideus in the Paleontology Collections at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. This specimen comes from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ripley Formation (Coon Creek Beds) of Union County, Mississippi.

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@PaleoCameron

2 years

For those who didn't see the clip, here it is! It airs May 11th and 9PM/8PM C. I can't believe I'm in this!

NOVA | PBS

@novapbs

2 years

Striking new fossils paint a picture of life right before the asteroid impact. "Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence," hour one of a two-hour special, premieres on WED MAY 11 at 9/8c on @PBS :

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Fossils are records of life and the activity of life that is now in the rock record. So holding a fossil in your hand is special. It's rare. It is rare because 99.9 percent of life that has existed is extinct. The odds of becoming a fossil is rare.

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Will be virtually talking to classes of 2nd grade students today about Paleontology and Deep Time. This is my first class for 2023. What I am holding is a slice of the K/Pg Boundary from Wyoming.

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As I said before, Earth's distant past is all around you. You just might not notice it at first glance. The floor tiles at the Mall of Georgia are made up of limestone. Some of them have fossils. Here is a cross section of a Gastropod shell. Pay attention. The past echoes!

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My mentor Bill Montante has peacefully passed away. I have mixed emotions. I don't know how to express them. Bill was a kind man. He was a Engineer, a Paleontologist, an Artist, a Father, a Husband, and a friend. We met in 2014 and he he become my mentor that day forward. 💜

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@PaleoCameron

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Happy #FossilFriday Here is a replica claw from the Theropod dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri. Baryonyx was found in the Weald Clay Formation in Surrey, England. Back in 1983, fossil collector William Walker discovered the giant claw in a clay pit.

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Here is a tooth from the extinct Otodus (Carcharocles) megalodon compared to a fossil great white shark tooth. The size is absolutely stunning with you actually have the fossils in your hand.

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@PaleoCameron

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I'm holding a Campo del Cielo Meteorite from Argentina. 4.5 billion years old! They are the formers of our planet but they have also nearly destroyed it as well. #AsteroidDay

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@PaleoCameron

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Happy Geologists Day!

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@PaleoCameron

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How do we know what the composition of Earth's Mantle is? Well, clues can be found in rocks like this. Sometimes during fast volcanic eruptions, chunks of the Earth's upper mantle can be brought to the surface in the form of Olivine Xenoliths in Basalt.

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@PaleoCameron

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David Wilcots and I with a huge replica of a new species of Mosasaur. David was the first black paleontologist I ever read about as a kid. It was him that made me realize people of color are in this field. They are just unrepresented. That gave me the boost I needed. #svp2023

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