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Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)

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Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)

Album with fossils from the Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. This quarry exposes a Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D) paralic succession.

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Ruger9a

WOW!!!!  What a super nice collection.  I especially like the Renaultia and the Annularia!

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20 hours ago, Ruger9a said:

WOW!!!!  What a super nice collection.  I especially like the Renaultia and the Annularia!

Thanks! I plan to add more here over time. Hopefully, others will come to find the album useful for the identification of their own Piesberg material.

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Fossildude19

Fossildude19

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Great images! Thanks for posting them here, Tim!

You've found a lot of great things.  :)

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rocket

great finds! I digged there several times in the 80th and 90th, incredible quarry with fantastic material. We looked more for the insects than the plants, and found some nice ones. Have you found some insects?

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paleoflor

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3 hours ago, rocket said:

great finds! I digged there several times in the 80th and 90th, incredible quarry with fantastic material. We looked more for the insects than the plants, and found some nice ones. Have you found some insects?

 

I've found some animal fossils but my main focus is on the plants. The horizons richest in animal bits tend to have more fragmented plant material, so usually target slightly different rock layers. Would love to see your 80s an 90s finds, though!

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rocket

my 80th/90th finds are now housed in the Ruhrmuseum, the Museum of Münster and, as plants were not my focus, in a lot of collections. Changed most of them or sold them...

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veenasaur

veenasaur

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Love your collection. The specimens are soo beautiful. How long did it take to gather all of these. Might be one hell of a fossil hunting expedition. I wouldn’t call it a trip.

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paleoflor

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16 minutes ago, veenasaur said:

Love your collection. The specimens are soo beautiful. How long did it take to gather all of these. Might be one hell of a fossil hunting expedition. I wouldn’t call it a trip.

Thanks, glad you like them! I've been visiting the Piesberg quarry a few times per year (I'd love to go more often but it's a 6 h round trip for me to get there) for about 14 years now.

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      By bthemoose · Posted

      @Fin Lover, this ID is based on input that @siteseer provided here: 
       
    • Isurus desori

      By Fin Lover · Posted

      Based on the enamel "shelf" on the labial side, I would have IDed this as a retroflexus.  May I ask what features indicate desori?  
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      By Samurai · Posted

      Oh! I am so sorry for the late reply as I never got the notification. Sadly I have not, besides a familial (mostly superficial) resemblence to the modern ratfish (probably from the same diet) I have not gotten any clear answers. 

       
       
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      By C2fossils · Posted

      Nice Point! I really like the color of the chert!
    • I. retroflexus 4.12.24

      By TRout · Posted

      Such a pretty tooth! I love the colors and the cusplets
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      By Balance · Posted

      Bucket list… only half of one so far. That’s just lovely. It’s absolutely still, “delicate”. I don’t know if that makes sense. Of course it’s delicate, but I just mean its vibe is still contained. The broken pieces, even if large and visibly pretty, are missing the delicacy of a sand dollar. So they feel like a piece of fossil instead of what they are. 
       
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      By Fin Lover · Posted

      I enjoy finding these teeth because every one of them has had a different variation of the cusps.
    • I. retroflexus 4.12.24

      By Notidanodon · Posted

      Interesting tooth, cusps remind me of araloselachus from germany
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      By Jaybot · Posted

      Beautiful tooth!  I really like the contrast between the root/enamel.
       
      Also, great photography throughout your album
       
    • Great White Shark Tooth (Neonate)

      By ThePhysicist · Posted

      The cusplets are present in all great whites, they are an ontogenetic feature and not geographically restricted. Nice tooth, it looks like a juvenile lower lateral. See below for an idea of the neonate dentition.

      ^ Tomita, Taketeru et al. “Dental ontogeny of a white shark embryo.” Journal of morphology vol. 278,2 (2017): 215-227. doi:10.1002/jmor.20630
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