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  1. Kinzers Formation

    Fossils of the Kinzers Formation
    • Album created by Thomas1982
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    • 8 images
    • 1 image comment
    • 8 images
    • 1 image comment
  2. Pennsylvania Eurypterids

    My personal favorite state to collect eurypterids in. Finding new locality's is hard but I'm doing it now!
    • Album created by Dean Ruocco
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    • 13 images
    • 1 album comment
    • 13 images
    • 1 album comment
  3. Pisces

    I don't have all that many teeth like a lot of collectors here in this Forum, but I have found, purchased or traded for a few fishy things along the way.
    Update New Year's 2019: The collection has been growing thanks to trades, purchases and my own field finds.
    • Album created by Ludwigia
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    • 115 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 48 image comments
    • 115 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 48 image comments
  4. Sharks

    Mostly shark teeth.
     
    Sharks are also heavily featured in my Post Oak Creek  and Lee Creek albums.
    • Album created by ThePhysicist
    • Updated
    • 95 images
    • 1 album comment
    • 17 image comments
    • 95 images
    • 1 album comment
    • 17 image comments
  5. Pawpaw Formation

    Fossils of the Pawpaw Formation
     
    • Album created by Mikrogeophagus
    • Updated
    • 22 images
    • 4 image comments
    • 22 images
    • 4 image comments
  6. Texas Santonian stage (Cretaceous)

    Fossils from the Santonian stage of the Cretaceous period in Texas
    • Album created by Jared C
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    • 4 images
    • 4 images
  7. Grayson/Del Rio Formation

    Fossils of the Grayson/Del Rio Formation
    • Album created by Mikrogeophagus
    • Updated
    • 9 images
    • 1 image comment
    • 9 images
    • 1 image comment
  8. Post Oak Creek

    Fossils found in Post Oak Creek , and in nearby creeks in Sherman, TX. 
     
    The Cretaceous fossils are washed out of the Eagle Ford Group (~ 90 Ma) , and mammal material from the Pleistocene or younger.
     
    Vertebrate Faunal List (work in progress):
     
    Rarity (purely subjective):
    Abundant,  Common,  Uncommon,  Rare,  Ultra-Rare
    Sharks:
    Cantioscyllium sp.   ('bamboo shark')*
    Cantioscyllium decipiens Chiloscyllium sp. ('bamboo shark')*
    Chiloscyllium greeni Cretodus sp.
    Cretorectolobus sp. ('carpet shark)*
    Cretalamna sp.
    Cretoxyrhina sp.   ('ginsu shark')
    Cretoxyrhina mantelli ?Galeorhinus sp.  ('tope shark')*
    cf.  Ginglymostoma sp. ('nurse shark')*
    Lonchidion sp.  ('Hybodont shark')*
    Meristodonoides sp.  ('Hybodont shark')*
    Pseudocorax sp.  ('False-crow shark')
    Ptychodus spp.   ('crusher shark')
    Ptychodus anonymus Ptychodus atcoensis Ptychodus mortoni  Ptychodus whipplei Scapanorhynchus spp.   ('goblin shark')
    Scapanorhynchus raphiodon Scapanorhynchus texanus Squalicorax spp.   ('crow shark')
    Squalicorax falcatus Squalicorax kaupi Fish:
    Amiidae indet.*
    Enchodus sp.   ('saber-toothed herring')*
    Ischyrhiza sp.   ('sawskate')*
    Pseudohypolophus sp.  ('guitarfish')*
    Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Ptychotrygon spp.   ('sawskate')*
    Ptychotrygon slaughteri Ptychotrygon texana Ptychotrygon triangularis Pyncodontiformes
    Rhinobatos spp.   ('guitarfish')*
    Rhinobatos caseiri Rhinobatos incertus Reptile:
    ?Coniasaurus crassidens*
    Mosasauridae
     
    * micro-vertebrate - should use/need magnification to find
     
    • Album created by ThePhysicist
    • Updated
    • 117 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 25 image comments
    • 117 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 25 image comments
  9. Simolestes vorax

    Simolestes vorax partial tooth with root 
     
    Oxford Clay, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
    Jurassic, 166.1 ± 4.0 Ma (million years ago)
    Measures approximately 30mm (3cm)
    • Album created by Pliosaur
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    • 1 image
    • 1 image
  10. 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean

    Documenting the 1925 Hagemeyer Body and Trace Fossil Collection. This collection has been sealed until late August 2019 and never reviewed by the public.
    The collection consists of Vegetation Fossils, Trace Fossils, Body Fossils as well as Minerals of all kinds, 400+. The specimens came from a 1924-25 Expedition to Argentina while Mr. Hagemeyer; ( the very first “Page” for the states Capital when he was 16, a one-time Washington State’s Olympia Mayor, Olympia’s Kneeland Hotel Owner, 2 Hagemeyer News and Cigar stands owner, and a Saloon Owner and finally a US Customs Officer in 1920 to his death at 66 in 1940, along with two mysterious deaths of wives, both after 10 years of marriage. )   To say the least, Mr. Hagemeyer was not well liked in Tacoma, I gathered, because of his business dealings and “accidents” that happened in his establishments, like the “Suicide” in his Saloon. I of course knew none of this when purchasing the former estate of Mr. Hagemeyer and it wasn’t until we were introduced to a relative, that we started to research our new home and it’s “colorful” history.

    The above information I feel is vital for one important detail for this collection, I am not a paleontologist by any stretch, but find the topic and specimens fascinating, especially today, when science is being forced to look at other radical ideas when the status quo is being challenged. Living in Washington State has shown me that across the country different views and opinions are expressed widely across the board as to how fossils came to be. My research into this collection has proven to be a little confusing, because of the fact that these specimens, disregarding the Meteorite, span from about 66 Ma to (I assume) the youngest item’s, a small Iron scrapping tool made from the meteorite and a stone Shaman’s Pendant, which history tells us can’t be older than 3.3 Ma (Stone Pendent) and that’s stretching it, because I believe the first known smelting is done much later. I do not have the resources to be able to date these past 50,000 years per DirectAMS in Bothell WA.

    I will be adding the entire collection other than the Minerals and Rocks, unless the Rocks or Minerals were used in the life of the specimens, ie. Coprolites (Dinosaur feces) & Gastroliths. (Side note on Gastroliths (stomach stones), although in 1906 Gastroliths were described by George Reber Weiland, it wasn’t until about 1942 that it was widely accepted by paleontologists.) So who knows how many early digs disposed or even over-looked precious trace fossils such as stomach stones, etc.)
    There are also many specimens that are not easily identifiable because of the lack of information but bundled with bone or other fossils that are more easily identifiable. There are several minerals that appear to be dig site samples. I will ask the admins if these would be appropriate to add to the album(s) even though they are minerals and not necessarily trace fossils, per say, but informative and will stay with the specimens found to hopefully tell a more direct story?
     
    My research of Mr Hagemeyer has proven to me that a lot of trading between his Governmental, Freemasonry, and his many Committee ties, tells me that there is at the very least, a question as to the validity of the location that each specimen may have come from. For example, the fossilized tree collection consists of 29 different samples. And I may be wrong, but I am not finding the information to support 29 species (stone and amber) of tree spanning from 66 Ma to present in Argentina? I have attached his will to show what Mines he had shares in, as well as ties to Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1902 and 28 days later he is quite wealthy and able to acquire several News and Cigar Stands and 8 years later he owns the largest Hotel in Olympia, WA and his wife of ten years dies of arsenic poisoning. This story goes on and on, sadly, but hope that with this information some of the missing pieces of the puzzle may be put together as to the relevance of this beautiful, one of a kind Fossil collection. I hope you enjoy reviewing each of the specimens and hope to hear comments and being educated by those in the field especially in the area of the country that had land dinosaurs. In Washington State only one dinosaur has been found and that was only a piece of a femur bone of a Theropod in 2012. I do not believe my dinosaur body fossils would fall under the found in the State when reportedly from Argentina J
     
    If the reader sees a specimen that is mislabeled, please let me know. The Albums are going to be set up as follows:
    ·          Ocean
    ·          Vegetation
    ·          Body & Trace
    ·          Unknown
     
     

    • Album created by Rcotton1
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    • 96 images
    • 6 image comments
    • 96 images
    • 6 image comments
  11. TEETH & JAWS

    Images of vertebrate teeth and jaws to assist in the identification of your fossil finds and just 'cause they're nice to see.
    • Album created by Harry Pristis
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    • 143 images
    • 138 image comments
    • 143 images
    • 138 image comments
  12. Late Jurassic bivalves of European Russia

    • Album created by RuMert
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    • 30 images
    • 30 images
  13. Florida Vertebrates

    • Album created by Thomas1982
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    • 2 images
    • 2 images
  14. Walnut Formation

    Fossils from the Walnut Formation
    • Album created by Mikrogeophagus
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    • 8 images
    • 8 images
  15. Dunkleosteus terrelli partial skull

    Dunkleosteus terrelli
    Fish
    Devonian 
    Cleveland Shale
    Cleveland, Ohio, USA 
     
    Huge 790mm (31 inch) slab with partial skull
    • Album created by Pliosaur
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    • 1 image
    • 2 image comments
    • 1 image
    • 2 image comments
  16. cf. Pliosaurus kevani

    Specimen is from the Late Jurassic Epoch, Kimmeridgian Age Clay - between 157.3 to 152.1 +/- Ma (million years ago).
        Specimen is most likely a chunk of   Pliosaurus kevani , which is known from that region and from that same time period (Kimmeridgian clay).   Specimen has an exposed tooth (root portion) with enamel measuring 4.72 inches in length and 1.67 inches in width Other measurements include 3.38" in specimen width (maxillary bone)   Tooth position appears to be tooth #6 from the very tip of the snout, including the two tiny teeth at the terminus. This is based on angle of projection, texture, and the distinctive bone seam that is visible in some of the photos (#12 in particular) as well as the diagram of P. kevani. Tooth position is indicated via a red dot on diagram.     There are also sensory pits (foramina) visible on the outer side of the specimen, as well as exposed bone on the inside portion. A few holes bored in the bone from some sort of marine organism (worms perhaps) prior to fossilization.     Size estimate: I found a paper on the Kevani animal and checked the measurements. The exact tooth socket in that fossil is ~44mm in width (1.73 inches). The tooth in this specimen is only 0.06 inches smaller, suggesting it came from a similar size animal.   The Pliosaurus kevani is supposed to have had a head 2.4 meters in length which means the whole animal was around 12 meters or 40 feet or as big as a bus. Like the picture shown.* A HUGE predatory marine reptile.  
    • Album created by Pliosaur
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    • 3 images
    • 3 images
  17. Late Jurassic gastropods of European Russia

    More conservative than ammonites, same genera persist through several ages. Oxfordian gastropods are the best preserved. Most of the specimens are under 10 mm.
    • Album created by RuMert
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    • 30 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 8 image comments
    • 30 images
    • 4 album comments
    • 8 image comments
  18. Lower Devonian

    Fossil invertebrates from Lower Devonian formations of Eastern New York State and Northern New Jersey.
    • Album created by Jeffrey P
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    • 106 images
    • 37 image comments
    • 106 images
    • 37 image comments
  19. Jurassic fossils from the Newark Supergroup

    Fossils from the Lower Jurassic, the Newark Supergroup, collected by the author unless otherwise noted.
    • Album created by Jeffrey P
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    • 10 images
    • 9 image comments
    • 10 images
    • 9 image comments
  20. some vertebrates from our collection

    This album was created to post vertebrate-fossils from our collection from all over the world. From sites, I did no seperate album
    • Album created by rocket
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    • 3 images
    • 3 images
  21. Fossil Art

    This album combine my passion for photography and fossils 
    • Album created by Denis Arcand
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    • 47 images
    • 2 album comments
    • 3 image comments
    • 47 images
    • 2 album comments
    • 3 image comments
  22. C&D Canal Micro Fossils

    Micro fossils collected by the author in several trips to the dredge piles of the C&D Canal near Reedy Point, Delaware. Fossils are from the Late Cretaceous Mount Laurel Formation
    • Album created by historianmichael
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    • 84 images
    • 84 images
  23. Devonian Ostracods from Paulding, OH (2022)

    These photos first appeared in a separate thread on the forum. Go to fossil sites/Ohio/species list Paulding  fossil Gardens thread for more information.
     
    These are microfossils were picked from samples at the Fossil Gardens in Paulding, OH.  This site has mainly Middle Devonian (~390 mya) Silica Formation material.
     
    The samples were processed using a variety of methods, such as repeated kerosene and water soaks to split the sample.  The resulting smaller pieces and fine sediment were further "cooked" in hot water with various detergents to try to remove as much matrix from the microfossils as possible.  The sediment was then dried and sieved into fractions.  Most of these specimens came from the 45 mesh and 80 mesh sieves.  
     
    The photos were taken using a macrophotography rail-mounted Nikon D7000 fitted with a 10x microscope objective.  Due to the reduced depth of field using a microscope lens, many photographs at slight different distances from the specimen were taken.  This resulting stack of photos was then processed using Helicon Focus software resulting a final photograph.
    • Album created by Acryzona
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    • 28 images
    • 1 album comment
    • 28 images
    • 1 album comment
  24. Glen Rose Formation

    Fossils of the Glen Rose Formation
    • Album created by Mikrogeophagus
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    • 1 image
    • 1 image
  25. Happy new year

    • Album created by nala
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    • 6 images
    • 1 album comment
    • 3 image comments
    • 6 images
    • 1 album comment
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