CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

Home of Vertebrate #Paleontology @goCMNH! Tweets about Late Cretaceous dinosaurs like #Nanotyrannus, & #Cleveland’s own Devonian apex predator #Dunkleosteus! cmnh.org/c-r/vertebrate… Cleveland, OH Joined December 2015

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

5 years ago

Dear Twitter friends, We have greatly enjoyed sharing content with you over the past 5 years. Our institution is restructuring social media and @cmnhvertpaleo will be deactivated. Be sure to follow @goCMNH for future #fossilfriday and #Dunkleosteus content! Thank you all!

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

5 years ago

Our last #fossilFriday from your friends @CMNHvertpaleo, and no better #fossil to go out with than CMNH 5768! At 5 feet long, "Dunk" is the largest complete #Dunkleosteus terrelli skull ever found. It's been a blast sharing with you over the past few years. Thanks for the love!

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

5 years ago

Enjoy some #paleopoetry for #fossilfriday courtesy of everyone's favorite #placoderm, #Dunkleosteus!

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

5 years ago

With everyone being responsible and following #StayHome and #shelteringinplace potocols, local #Cleveland swimming pools have seen a boom in #Dunkleosteus populations! Once thought extinct for 360,000,000 years, these elusive predators have reappeared in their natural habitats!

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Victoria Arbour @VictoriaArbour

6 years ago

Dunkleosteus is a classic and iconic fossil animal from the Devonian of the Cleveland Shale and I've had a chance to visit one of the spots where its fossils have been found, thanks to a 2017 visit to the @CMNHvertpaleo DinoFest & @clevemetroparks!

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH

6 years ago

@CMNHvertpaleo came across this awesome skull labeled “Miller’s Wolf” from the La Brea Tar Pits in LA. Very little is known about this species since its prevalence at the site was extremely rare. Is this a subspecies of #greywolf, a #direwolf, or something else entirely? 🤔

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH

6 years ago

Linda the Virginia #opossum took a stroll around the empty @goCMNH galleries and was treated to exercise, enrichment, and close views of the dinosaurs! #goCMNH 📷: Sami Beeke

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH

6 years ago

This particular Haplocanthosaurus delfsi became the holotype of the species - described by the famous sauropod paleontologist, Jack McIntosh, and former CMNH curator Mike Williams– after being discovered near a Colorado creek bed in 1954. #goCMNH

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH

6 years ago

Our @CMNHvertpaleo squad may be stuck at home, but they’re having a blast sorting archival photographs of @goCMNH's most famous faces! Plus, we found pictures of the our favorite Sauropod, “Happy,” just in time to celebrate #NationalTaxonomistAppreciationDay!

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

Dunk is practicing social distancing by being suspended 10 feet in the air in Kirtland Hall! @goCMNH is closed to help #flattenthecurve during the COVID-19 outbreak & @CMNHvertpaleo staff are working from home. Stay safe everyone, and wash your fins! #dunkleosteus #covid19

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

If you're Happy and you know it... 🎶transform into a 60 foot long #sauropod from the Late #Jurassic of North America and stand stoically and don't clap because your palms can't touch and also you're a #fossil and also really deeeeaaaaad...🎶 *clap clap* #haplocanthosaurus

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

This @goCMNH skeleton of #stemtetrapod #Greererpeton burkemorani was plastered into a mount for decades, making it largely unavailable for study. @paleeoguy successfully extracted the thin specimen and it is now ready for a research loan! #FossilFriday #fossilprep #paleontology

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH

6 years ago

If you haven't met @CMNHvertpaleo 1st female curator in the 100 year history of @goCMNH - it's time you do! We sat down with @hypothecait to unearth her story. Keep checking back for more videos leading up to Women in Science Day, March 14, sponsored by @neorsd & @LubrizolCorp

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Michael @PaleoMike716

6 years ago

Since @IKnowDino made Haplocanthosaurus their #DinoOfTheDay, let’s also make it a #FossilFriday. (Including Allosaurus photobomb) The only mounted specimen (H. delfsi) is at @goCMNH. It is also the holotype of its species. 🦕

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

Look at this delicate little foot of #Greererpeton burkemorani, a #Mississippian stem tetrapod from West Virginia! Though small, the limbs of Greererpeton were functional and allowed these predators to crawl across ponds and river bottoms. #FossilFriday

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

Hey, @PaleoMolly, thanks for all your help in the @goCMNH #fossil prep lab! We know you'll have this #oreodont skull looking fine in no time. #paleontology #fossilprep

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CMNH VertPaleo @DunkCHOMPS

6 years ago

#Simosuchus is arguably the most #boopable extinct croc! From the Late #Cretaceous of Madagascar, it was an herbivore whose name means "pug-nosed crocodile" b/c its stubby snout resembles a pug (& it was the size of one, too)! #fossilfriday