Happy #Halloween #batweek and #fossilfriday! 2 amazing specimens of Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon Messel Pit, Eocene, Darmstadt, Germany 📸 Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt) I posted these over on the other app (🕊️) back in 2021 but thought they should to be over here too! #FossilFriday #Bats #Messel

Happy #fossilfriday everyone! Platysomus parvulus 📸 - @PotteriesMuseum ‘John Ward’ collection Knowles Ironstone Shale Westphalian (315-307 Ma), Upper Carboniferous Longton, Stoke on Trent #fossils #palaeontology #fish #carboniferous

Happy #fossilfriday ! This gorgeous specimen is the leaf scarring of Sigillaria sp. (where the leaves used to attach). Coal Measures (Upper Carboniferous) Found in Berry Hill Colliery, Stoke on Trent Photo taken at @potteriesmuseum

Happy #fossilfriday everyone! I was inspired by the news today about the new species of #ichthyosaur Xiphodracon, I had to go and see what ichthyosaur specimens we have in the collections here at @Potteriesmuseum ichthyosaur jaw fragment, Charmouth, Dorset Lower Jurassic Photos @potteriesmuseum

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