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Andrew J. Steinmetz<p>To clarify for someone who asked: 44 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Tyrannosaur" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tyrannosaur</a> rexes have been found at Hell Creek (24% of all finds) so the total Hell Creek T-Rex population was ~0.7 million during a 2 million year period. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dinosaurs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Science" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PaleoSky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaleoSky</a> 🧪🦖<br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xd6msyxiymq4ldfllpeusl6h/post/3lm54hlhfus2s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xd6msyxiymq4ldfllpeusl6h/post/3lm54hlhfus2s</a></p>
AltonDooley<p>Today is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NationalFossilDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalFossilDay</span></a>! Over my career, I’ve been an author or coauthor in naming five new fossil species: the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Miocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miocene</span></a> baleen <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/whale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whale</span></a> Eobalaenoptera harrisoni (2004), the Miocene toothed whale Squalodon whitmorei (2005), the Triassic gliding reptile Mecistotrachelos apeoros (2007), the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cretaceous</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tyrannosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyrannosaur</span></a> Dynamoterror dynastes (2018), and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pleistocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pleistocene</span></a> Pacific <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> Mammut pacificus (2019). </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxonomy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@westernsciencecenter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>westernsciencecenter</span></a></span></p>