Triebold Paleontology, Inc.

02/02/2026

Continuing to showcase the crown jewels of our real fossil collection with Fossil Crates and Dr. Brian Curtice -- say hello to 'Joyce' the Corythosaurus

01/31/2026

Say hello to Valerie. Another thank you to Dr. Brian Curtice and Fossil Crates for continuing to showcase our premier original fossils.

Valerie is one of our absolute FAVORITES here at TPI.

01/30/2026

Triebold Paleontology will not have a booth at the The Tucson Gem Show on 22nd Street this year. BUT Mike Triebold and Jacob Jett will be on site and taking meetings by appointment from Monday (February 2nd) to Wednesday (February 4th)

If you have any upcoming projects you would like to discuss with the TPI Team, please email Jacob or Mike for availability. First come, first served.

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01/30/2026

NEW BLOG ALERT 🚨
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗯 𝗝𝗲𝘁𝘁
"The reason I distrust the percentage valuation equation stems mostly from the fact that you must clarify what percentage means. Are you referring to the mass of original bone material recovered or the number of bones recovered? This is an important distinction because depending on how you look at it, all bones are equal to one another…unless they’re not. "

"The reason I distrust the percentage valuation equation stems mostly from the fact that you must clarify what percentage means. Are you referring to the mass of original bone material recovered or the number of bones recovered? This is an important distinction because depending on how you look

01/29/2026

Thank you Fossil Crates and Dr. Brian Curtice for stopping by and saying hi to our Plesioplatecarpus, fondly referred to as "Winnie"

01/19/2026

Today we are celebrating a very special occasion for our Head of Field Operations, Maree Yard -- she graduated!

Maree graduated from Baylor University with a Master of Science in Geosciences this past December; her thesis was on the demographics of the lower Columbian mammoth assemblage at Waco Mammoth National Monument. Previous to her time at TPI, Maree completed a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies.

Congrats Maree! We're so proud to have you as a member of the TPI Team.

📸: .kutcher_photo.
📍: Mayborn Museum Complex at Baylor University

12/19/2025

Our crocodilian jacket got a very special Uber ride out of the field.

Courtesy of Mike Triebold and Anthony Maltese

12/18/2025

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM MIKE TRIEBOLD, PRESIDENT OF TPI:
On July 14, 2025, at a rather unremarkable spot in the Hell Creek outcrops which we scout each season, I found an interesting little crocodilian that appears to be mostly complete. While I don't normally publish information on any particular skeleton until it is fully prepared, my confidence level is high that this will be an extraordinary specimen and have decided to share the news as it reveals itself to the modern world.

These first images capture the discovery and collection of the skeleton. I called in Anthony Maltese to assist. While the crocodilian is robust in proportions, it is only about a meter in length.

I’ve collected the late Cretaceous Hell Creek deposits for close to 40 years and before this discovery, had never witnessed articulated dermal scutes in situ! The entire skeleton is contained in the one small jacket shown, and it got a smooth ride out of the field.

Preparation begins this week!

12/10/2025

🔬📒NOTES FROM THE LAB - By Anthony Maltese, Curator

The year is coming to an end soon, but we are still busy developing new skeletal mounts for museums all across the world. Recently, while I was away in England for the SVP Annual Meeting, our founder Mike Triebold led a crew to the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia to install the very first reconstructed skeleton of the humongous Cretaceous crocodilian Deinosuchus schwimmeri.

Deinosuchus fossils are found all over North America in Campanian aged sediments. D. riograndensis is known from the Big Bend region of Texas, D. hatcheri from Montana and Utah, and to the east there is D. rugosus originally discovered in North Carolina. In 2020, Chris Brochu described a new species from Appalachia, Deinosuchus schwimmeri, named after David Schwimmer.

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12/02/2025

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM MIKE TRIEBOLD, PRESIDENT OF TPI:
After two years of work and study, Triebold Paleontology is proud to introduce the first scholarly accurate Deinosuchus schwimmeri mounted skeleton replica ever produced. This was a massive effort from the entire staff, including the 3D department, headed by Evan Sonnenberg in close collaboration with our senior paleontologist Dr. Kraig Derstler. Also assisting in the effort were molding lead Kye Collis, assembly project manager for this skeleton, Kreig Meyers, curator Anthony Maltese, and last but not least, contributing scientist Dr. David Schwimmer himself.

TPI staff travelled from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Austin, Texas to produce high resolution 3D scans of the best Deinosuchus fossil material. Over several months, great pains were taken by Dr. Derstler to rearticulate the entire dermal armor assembly based upon subtle differences in each scute. Our team made careful calculations to properly proportion the skeleton to accommodate its giant stature. The skull was meticulously restored in detail from the best, most complete specimens.

Known for decades as a dinosaur-killer, Deinosuchus was almost certainly the apex predator of its day. In our own TPI collections, our new unnamed tyrannosaur had survived getting its hand ripped off at some point during its life, with evidence of massive healing bone growth along the radius/ulna.

During excavation, one of the background fossils collected was a huge Deinosuchus shed tooth, leading us to hypothesize that it possibly was a Deinosuchus that actually bit the arm off in an attempt to take the entire tyrannosaur down. Using modern crocodile watering hole tactics as reference, it is easy to imagine a big tyrannosaur bending down to get a drink of water only to be yanked off balance and nearly pulled under by this giant, only to escape after losing its hand.

The prototype skeleton, photos of which are shown with this post, was just installed last week at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The photos were taken immediately after setup so please accept my apologies for the specimen not having a respectable plinth installed in time for the photo.

With the introduction of this great new specimen to our catalog, we are ready to build yours to suit your exhibition specifications! I am anxious to be able to build one in the act of taking down a big Daspletosaurus or Appalachiosaurus! You know we love to build those kinds of scenes!

At 31 feet (9.45 meters), this giant prehistoric crocodile could take down almost anything. Its larger cousin, the Deinosuchus riograndensis is known to have reached 50 feet (15.25 meters)! We have the files and the permissions in place to build one of those too! Give me a shout and let’s discuss what it would take to make it real! Deinosuchus persisted into the Maastrichtian, so just for giggles, wouldn’t it be fun to build one putting a T. rex in its place?

We can do that!

L to R: Mike Triebold, Kreig Meyers, Jon Wagar. Foreground: Deinosuchus schwimmeri

10/01/2025

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵: 𝘿𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙚𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨

Dromaeosaurus albertensis is one of the rarest theropods from the American west. They were closely related to the Asian Velociraptor but significantly larger. While best known from Judithian-aged deposits (75 million years old) it is also thought to be represented by fragmentary remains in the end-cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.

This replica is based off of information gleaned from several important skeletons, as well as representative parts that TPI excavated from the famous Sandy Site deposit.

Behavior is difficult to show in most extinct animals, let alone ones found in such partial condition. Fossil footprints show Dromaeosaurus likely hunted in packs, using their powerful "killing claws" to eviscerate their prey, including dinosaurs that were larger than them.

This specimen is also available in an in situ panel mount, perfect for the basis of a children's dig box or a wall mounted display.