Clarkia Fossil Beds is known primarily for its floral fossils; the first tetrapod fossil, a squirrel, was found in 2009 and later described in 2018. Tree-dwelling animals are incredibly rare in the fossil record.
#ClarkiaWeek #FossilFriday
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Celebrate #SquirrelAppreciationDay with this ~16 million year old large squirrel from Idaho. Paper published a couple years ago in @thePeerJ: https://t.co/GEA972CJ0B https://t.co/SgQoL1xXv1
This rusty-looking fossil is the first tetrapod from a 16 million-year-old lake deposit in Idaho. Housed at @burkemuseum, It is a squirrel largely preserved as an impression with bits of teeth still intact. New paper at https://t.co/cISyi5QyPe https://t.co/KVs2RAApc7