So exciting! Can’t wait to hear more about your work! 🌿🎉🙌🌳🍁

Happy #fossilfriday !
This gorgeous specimen is Michelinia sp. (Look at that bituminous infilling 😍)
A favosites tabulate coral
Lower Carboniferous (Asbian substage, Visean ~330MYA),
Waterhouses, Staffordshire
Photo taken at Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent

Happy #fossilfriday !

Staffordshire is probably best known for its extensive carboniferous coal measures

This gorgeous specimen in a borehole was found at a depth of 452m.
Lepidodendron aff. ophiurus
Middle Carboniferous, Beech, Staffordshire
Photo taken @potteriesmuseum

#paleobotany #plants

Happy #fossilfriday (my third at @potteriesmuseum), Elonichthys egertoni (potentially renamed), a carnivorous bony fish from the Middle Carboniferous (~300MYA) found in Fenton, Stoke on Trent

Can you believe that this beautiful specimen was rescued from a skip?!
#fish #carboniferous #stokeontrent

#fossilfriday today is a little different!
This week, I officially started my new role as a curator of natural science at @potteriesmuseum

It’s been an amazing first week exploring the museum’s incredible collections — from palaeontology and geology to zoology!

I’m can’t wait to see what’s ahead!

Happy #fossilfriday everyone!
Here is one of my favourite fossils I’ve seen - the Berlin Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx
Discovered 1874/75 Eichstätt, Germany
Solenhofen Plattenkalk, Tithonian, Late Jurassic
Photos taken @mfnberlin.bsky.social

For #fossilfriday I’ve stitched together photos I’ve taken of a gorgeous Mixosaurus cornalianus specimen from the @nhm-london.bsky.social

Mixosaurus cornalianus
235-223 MYA Middle Triassic,
Tee Fontaine, Monte San Georgio area, Switzerland

#ichthyosaur #fossils #palaeontology

For #fossilfriday today here is a gorgeous close up of an ichthyosaur specimen collected by #maryanningrocks !
Ichthyosaurus communis
203-194 MYA, Lower Jurassic
Lyme Regis, Dorset
Photo taken at @natural_history_museum

For #fossilfriday today is this gorgeous Diplocaulus magnicornis
A lepospondyl #amphibian that is characterised by a boomerang shaped skull
Permian 299-252MYA
Texas USA
Photo taken at @natural_history_museum London

#FossilFriday today is this gorgeous mix of Brittlestars (Palaeocoma milleri) and Crinoids (Balanocrinus gracilis) from the Pliensbachian (Jurassic - 191-183MYA) of Dorset, England
Photo taken at The NHM in London

Palaeopropithecus maximus
Holocene - less than 10,000 years old
Ampasambazimba, Madagascar

Palaeopropithecus are a recently extinct genus of large sloth lemurs

Photo taken at @natural_history_museum
#fossilfriday #palaeontology #lemur

For #FossilFriday today here is one of my all time favourite fossils! Bats are the most frequently found mammal at Messel.
Archaeonycteris pollex
Messel Pit, Eocene, Darmstadt, Germany
Photo taken at Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt), 2019
#Bats #Messel

Hello everyone! My names Jenna - aka Palaeo_Scene and I’m a palaeontologist from the UK. I’m using this account to communicate with people, share fossil pictures that I’ve taken as well as my day to day life in the subject I love so much!

I also share stuff on Instagram/the bird app and on my blog