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  2. Brevicollis
    Wow, thats very interesting Thanks for sharing it here ! I've found fossils in tiles too, but these we're just Belemnites and Ammonites in tiles from Solnhofen.
  3. johnnyvaldez7.jv

    SE Texas - Femur from?

    johnnyvaldez7.jv replied to johnnyvaldez7.jv's topic in Fossil ID

    @Randyw I found this while searching for a black bear femur. My bone size is 330 mm.
  4. MuckyBottles started following SawTooth
  5. gwestbrook
    Thanks for the suggestions though.
  6. gwestbrook
    I was very active a few years ago until my dad died and my mom started going downhill and she came to live with me. She passed last year and I'm slowly getting back into it all.
  7. gwestbrook
    Thanks! I was just hoping they would message me privately, I guess.
  8. gwestbrook
    Thank you! I don't know the formations in those areas at all.
  9. SawTooth started following MuckyBottles
  10. Oxytropidoceras
    Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile. Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones. Jennifer Ouelette, Ars Technica, April 18, 2024 Jawdropping discovery: Remains of extinct human species that died thousands of years ago found in kitchen floor tiles Peter hess, Daily Mail, April 19, 2024 A dentist found a human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, April 23, 2024 A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile. Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not. By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, April 2024 Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house, Reddit My parents just got their home renovated with travertin stone. This looks like a section of mandible. Could it be a hominid? Is it usual Yours, Paul H.
  11. Balance
    The real question here is how do y’all’s autocorrect keep up? Mine changes 4 letter words I haven’t spelled wrong so what I’m the world does it do when Ken or Coco start typing?!? Thanks for the replies. Did not expect to learn about rays this month. Yet, here we are. TFF provides. 😂 Jp
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  13. Shellseeker

    Building a new sifter

    Shellseeker replied to MuckyBottles's topic in Collecting Gear

    Agree. This is a low weight version. Plastic, Large Pool noodles, and zipties. No extra weight, except the gravel and the fossils..
  14. Thomas.Dodson

    What is this?

    Thomas.Dodson replied to AJ USA's topic in Fossil ID

    I'm not seeing anything identifiable as a fossil. The overall structure is a concretion, the color you are seeing is due to iron content, and the pattern on the back is a common fracture pattern in some rock types when a piece is broken.
  15. Thomas.Dodson

    Possible meteorite!?

    Thomas.Dodson replied to May3am's topic in Rocks & Minerals

    A minority of meteorites are not magnetic. I agree this looks like slag though.
  16. Shellseeker
    Thank you, Digit... When you evaluate one of my finds, I love the extensive analysis I wanted to make sure you saw this find from a week ago. The location was clearly Miocene.. The preservation is unreal. Aetomylaeus also ?
  17. Mahnmut

    Is this fossil soup?

    Mahnmut replied to PamAm's topic in Fossil ID

    Hi again, I watch with astonishment and some concern how much many applications of so called artificial intelligence have improved their performance in the last few years. There are quite workable apps for plant and animal ID now. The problem with fossils as far as I see it is that the ID has not only to "recognize" the typical features of a species, but to take into account the different preservations. A plant app will ask you to take clear fotos of a leaf, a flower, a fruit... If a fragment of a shell or bone with mineral staining is all you have got, it gets more complicated. And maybe that kind of mineral staining appears in a lot of pics of a different species... I am sure its theoretically possible to have an app ID fossils, but all the apps that work on other topics do so because a massive amount of data has been fed into them, not sure if and when that will happen for fossils. I tried getting dinosaur pics from an AI image generator lately. They all look a bit like T-Rex, BUT: If you ask for an Apatosaurus it gives out a long necked quadruped T-Rex, and if you ask for Stegosaurus it got triangles on its back. I think thats incredibly and frighteningly good when you compare to what there was two years ago. Back to your specimen: I think thats something close to counterseptarian structures or infilled cracks. Best regards, J
  18. digit
    I believe the protuberance is the worn root of the curved plate before this one--just looks weird. These mouth plates should really be called "eagle ray" and not "stingray" which should be limited to the dasyatids (with tiny teeth that fall through all but the finest of screens). You've seen plenty of the straight eagle ray tooth plates with the beveled ends which would be Myliobatis sp. or the related cownose rays (Rhinoptera sp.). The eagle rays with the pointed snouts (similar to our extant Spotted Eagle Ray, Aetobatus narinari) have these more interesting teeth where the roots angle out from underneath the occlusal surface. The lower tooth plates on these have an angled chevron shape and the upper ones are straighter with more curved ends. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/aetobatus-narinari/ At only 18mm wide I would suspect your find is from a very small individual. Other than very late Pleistocene fossils where the teeth are indistinguishable from the extant A. narinari we generally don't generally go past the genus level in fossil specimens from Florida. The species A. arcuatus may be well described from European sites but I don't believe that taxon has ever been applied to fossils from Florida. A possibly more likely ID may be from a taxon found in older Miocene formations (which is likely where you were sifting). The genus Aetomylaeus is presently found in coastal European waters as well as much of the Pacific. We had this genus in the Florida area back in the Miocene (though I've never seen the fossil species described past the generic level). The lower tooth plates in this genus are more curved (rather than angled in Aetobatus). Possibly, your fragment is a set of articulated lower plates from a Miocene Aetomylaeus. Scroll down to figures 6 & 7 in this paper to have a peek at some cool South American specimens. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817319/ Cheers. -Ken
  19. AJ USA

    What is this?

    AJ USA posted a topic in Fossil ID

    This rock was delivered with 5 yards of landscaping river rock. I noticed the strange colors and layers then the imprint on the other side. Any ideas?
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  21. FossilNerd
    I second what Don said! It is not a good idea at all to post details of sites like this on an internationally accessible public forum. You never know who is watching! Besides, many of us spend an excessive amount of time trying to find hunting grounds, especially prime locations such as the ones you are looking for. I'd be hard pressed to just divulge that info to a random stranger on the internet. I do see that you have been a member since 2012, but haven't posted much. My suggestion is to be more active here. Once you get to know the other active members, you may just find yourself invited out on a hunt, or be given info about a particular site that is tailored to your fossil interests.
  22. digit started following Mammal incisor (?) Found at Big Brook, New Jersey - any chance it's pleistocene?
  23. digit
    Looks a bit like an unerupted (and unrooted) horse canine from a younger male horse. Could explain the lack of wear on the crown and the lack of root. I'm well beyond my bailiwick on this one as I see more horse cheek teeth (and incisors). I'm guessing Harry (or anyone who is a large animal vet in real life) would have a more definitive opinion. Cool find though! I love a good mystery--always an opportunity to learn something new. Cheers. -Ken
  24. johnnyvaldez7.jv

    SE Texas - Femur from?

    johnnyvaldez7.jv replied to johnnyvaldez7.jv's topic in Fossil ID

    Here are better clearer pictures. I didn't clean it. And thanks to everyone who has looked into it for me. Twin babies at home have me super busy... I haven't had time to research the way I've wanted to. I appreciate the help with this.
  25. Balance

    Building a new sifter

    Balance replied to MuckyBottles's topic in Collecting Gear

    In that photo mine’s actually upside down. I have screen on both inside the “basket” and on outside of the bottom. In shallower water load the bottom instead so you don’t have to lift the sieve up out of the water to search. You just push down to clear the waste and it pops back up above the water. Totally Jack’s technique. Actually, it’s his partners technique but I happily have adapted it. 3/8 is fast enough to really run rock and find enough stuff to stay happy . 1/2 inch is faster. You got to decide if you wanna find everything or if you just wanna run as much rock as possible to find big stuff. Personally, 1/4” is best if you’re really looking for everything out there. 3/8” will cut your small teeth count in half. 1/2” will remove almost everything except the big finds. I think the size is like 24x24’’ Here’s normal operation
  26. Coco

    Is this fossil soup?

    Coco replied to PamAm's topic in Fossil ID

    In my opinion no application is able to compete with decades of experience of all paleontologists who sometimes have difficulty identifying fossils themselves from sites they know very well. When you do a job or have a passion for years and years, you learn without realizing it, you know that such a thing is a trilobite, a genre, even a species, but you will not necessarily know why, it is the experience that allows it, and we’ll never get that in a fossil recognition app ! Coco
  27. FB003

    Theropod Indet?

    FB003 replied to ThickHead808's topic in Fossil ID

    To me that looks to be Niger preservation but I could be wrong. Not super familiar with it. Some have the ability to determine a possible species but you would need serration count along with a number of other things including a solid locality for that as there are overlapping formations right beside each other.
  28. Carl
    Cliona has a very different structure from Ophiomorpha. Cliona is a series of interconnected, 3-dimensionally arranged tunnels (see here: https://fossilsofnj.com/invertebrates/cliona_cretacica.htm), whereas Ophiomorpha is a collection of similar-sized, spherical pellets creating a single surface (see here: https://www.fossilsofnj.com/invertebrates/ghost_shrimp.htm).
  29. Brevicollis

    Theropod Indet?

    Brevicollis replied to ThickHead808's topic in Fossil ID

    Its hard to tell which genus this tooth belongs too, without the exact formation this tooth came from. So it would be really hard to identify it. But we can definetly rule Suchomimus, Kryptops, Sarcosuchus, Pterosaur, and crocodile teeth out, they look completly different than this tooth. Maybe @North, @paulyb135, @FB003 have an idea, I have to little knowledge to help any further.
  30. Shellseeker
    Coco, Thank you for your insights,,, PDF on Research Gate 2020-Canevet-Cartilaginous fishes (chondrichtyans) of the Serravallian of the Eyre valley (Gironde, France). B This lower plate about 38 mm. Mine is 18mm I look for small ones.
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  32. ThickHead808

    Theropod Indet?

    ThickHead808 posted a topic in Fossil ID

    Hello all, I know the ID of teeth from Morocco/Niger is very difficult but this one has been bugging me since I pulled the trigger on it. I'm happy to call it Theropod Indet but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the shape of this tooth is reminiscent of a specific theropod family because the shape is so skinny compared to normal theropod teeth and this was allegedly from Niger. I tried to include as many and as clean photos as possible. A specific genus isn't necessary but if anyone has any idea which family this tooth is from, I'll be very grateful. It measures 2.25" straightline.
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