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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
Sentinel crabs from the Pliocene era. -
Hello All, Im Cole from Woy Woy, Australia. I am a SPFX Makeup Artist (20 years) and love creatures. I have always found fossils and minerals interesting and have a bit of a little collection myself. More minerals then fossils atm. As far as fossicking goes I have only been very basic in finding fossil marine plants and shale and coprolites which were exposed on the ground from weathering. I would like to fossick more preferably around my area but would like to go up to lightning ridge to see if i can find anything. I would also like to help on a dinosaur dig one day. anyhow, thats it from me! ~Cole.
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Hi, I would really appreciate an ID on these crustaceans found 2019 at Miami, Mermaid And Nobby beaches on the Gold Coast, Australia. I've done some basic research and came up with Pliocene era. Thankyou so much!
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Historic haul of Australian amber fossils includes ants, spiders and fornicating flies
DawnOfADream posted a topic in Fossil News
Link to news article- 'Historic haul of Australian amber fossils includes ants, spiders and fornicating flies' https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-04-03/mating-flies-found-in-40-myo-amber-from-australia/12114292 Link to open access scientific article about it - 'Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems'. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62252-z -
Hi All, I found this bone on the beach at Miami, Queensland, Gold Coast. December 2019. I would really appreciate some help in identifying it please. Thankyou.
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Hi! I'm Jen from the Gold Coast. I love collecting fossils from the beach. I have a large collection of marine fossils and a few strange bones that need identifying. So glad that I found this forum! Have a great day! Cheers, Jen.
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Hi guys, just an interesting question, i have been trying to properly label my collection with formation names and proper stratiagraphical data buut i culdnt find any for what is a relatively common fossil, the australian thalassina anomala here is what i have so far , others can use this but i was wondering whether anyone could add any info to it Thalassina anomala (Herbst, 1804) Holocene 0.007 mya Gunn Point, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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Amateur Donated Fossil Tooth Showing Earless Seals Used to Live In Australia
Scylla posted a topic in Fossil News
Only the second Earless seal fossil found in Australia. Sea level drop may have lead to their local extinction. https://m.phys.org/news/2020-04-tooth-told-earless-ancient-australia.html-
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Meet Pocky. Our ( @Jesuslover340) newest furry friend. She’s a little handful that’s for sure.. only had her a short while but boy has she burrowed into our hearts! First pic is from when we got her 2 weeks ago. Second pic is Friday just gone. Third pic is today, she was a bit hot so we gave her an ice pack and, well...
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Hello! If anyone could help me out with this it would be appreciated. This opal replacement fossil was mined in New South Wales, about 6 years ago. I found it in a parcel of Lightning Ridge rough and have been trying to identify it for a while now. The closest I have come to a positive match (Still not a match but it's close) is the Molar of a giant Marsupial from the order Diprotodontia. There is a wee problem with this, I've read Lightning Ridge Opal is supposed to be from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, a minimum of 66 million years old. The Diprotodontia existed throughout most of the Pleistocene, about 63 million years off. HELP! Thanks in advance everybody. :-)
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Hello everyone! Today I went to Mentone, Victoria (Australia/Down Under) and found what I think + hope to be marine fossil specimens. I was hoping to get your views on whether they are real or pseudofossils. I have looked at information regarding fossils from the nearby Beaumaris fossil site but am unsure. Any help is appreciated! Whale ear bone (?) - L: 8 cm W: 5 cm H: 2.5 cm
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I have a particular thought for our friends of Australia. I hope you're all well mates. Here is a sad but touching video i found on the rescue of a Koala. https://www.lapresse.ca/international/asie-et-oceanie/201911/20/01-5250503-un-koala-sauve-dune-foret-en-flammes-en-australie.php
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Hi everyone I've been looking for a Megalania tooth for a while and I saw this and a few similar looking ones for sale, does it look like megalania to you, measures 2.1 cm long?
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Hey guys hope you're well! I wanted to show you the amazing lovenia woodsii clusters I found today at Beaumaris, and ask for some advice. These are lovenia woodsii. Some still retain amazing detail, like the final pic! Do you guys have any recommendations for coating the sandy matrix the woodsii are sitting in? I would like to prevent them becoming too brittle upon drying out.
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Yarrabubba impact structure, Australia, dated to 2224 - 2234 Ma (end of Snowball Earth)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Geology
Earth's oldest asteroid strike linked to 'big thaw' Curtin University, January 22, 2020 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200122100546.htm the open access paper is: Timmons M. Erickson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Nicholas E. Timms, Aaron J. Cavosie, Thomas M. Davison. Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure. Nature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13985-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13985-7 Yours, Paul H. -
Hi all, I found this just down stream of my last find and it has a strange layer / seam through it. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the ancient volcanic activity in the area? Maybe it had a larger of ash over it then began growing again. Thoughts? Cheers
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Building a Museum for Lightning Ridge's opalised dinosaurs
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Building a home for dinosaur fossils with extra opal bling at Lightning Ridge By Sally Bryant, Australian Broadcasting, https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-02-03/dinosaur-fosssils-with-opal-bling-at-lightning-ridge/6065346 A couple of papers are: Meakin, S., 2011. Geodiversity of the Lightning Ridge area and implications for geotourism. In Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Vol. 132, p. 71). https://www.academia.edu/24823750/Geodiversity_of_the_Lightning_Ridge_Area_and_Implications_for_Geotourism Watkins, J.J., Behr, H.J. and Behr, K., 2011. Fossil Microbes in Opal from Lightning Ridge: Implications for the Formation of Opal. Division of Resources and Energy. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e7a/9d5d30343d24a9efb4c15d37602a32c3b10c.pdf?_ga=2.69785872.1453044388.1578279722-895145303.1578279722 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fossil-microbes-in-opal-from-Lightning-Ridge-—-for-Behr-Behr/6e7a9d5d30343d24a9efb4c15d37602a32c3b10c Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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From the album: Echinodermata
3cm. A gift from Secret Santas Monica and Viola. Miocene Victoria, Australia -
Well, decided to check an old site before the year ended and really glad we did! @Ash and I originally went out on December 9th and found a part of a Diprotodon humerus, half a large Diprotodon incisor, and what looked to be an array of associated foot bones with the proximal ends of a couple ribs from the same animal. Given the heat, however, we had to turn around and come back that Saturday to plaster jacket the busted incisor out and to more carefully extract the associated bones, as they seemed fragile (they had cracks and some were already in pieces) and we were low on glue. So we came back on Saturday and set to work on the associated bones. This is as they were found: We could initially see about 4-5 bones: But as we progessed, there were more...tiny bones, amorphous bones...and it wasn't a foot-it was a hand! And those proximal ends of ribs? Were actually beautifully complete, large unguals!!! We were so excited-we had found a Diprotodon manus, complete with unguals! Or, at least, we thought. In the back of my mind I felt something was off. The unguals were HUGE and very thin. And I didn't recall coming across any photos pf Diprotodon feet with such large, compressed unguals, though I had seen a much smaller, similar one in an educational display being contributed as having been from Diprotodon. But all my reference photos showed the unguals as being smaller and more blunt and rotund. And as I pieced the bones together in as best their respective positions as I could figure from prior knowledge of basic anatomy and Diprotodon foot reference photos, I found the bones to be very 'funny'. I finally looked up Palorchestes-the only other marsupial mammal I could think of of similar size but that would have the possibility of accounting for the variance I was seeing when compared to Diprotodon. Palorchestes is, essentially, Australia's answer to the giant ground sloth, as far as we know. It had really large unguals, locked 100° elbows, strong, muscular forearms, and possibly a trunk. The unguals were a match to those in this paper, which details the known manus/pes elements of Palorchestes: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221824 And after consulting a few experts, well... Meet Chester. Or, his left hand, at least. The only known manus of Palorchestes azael (the manus in the paper is that of P. parvus; P. azael was larger and existed until the late Pleistocene) :
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