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During the Christmas holiday we had the opportunity to go on 2 field trips to the north of France. 1st one was just after Christmas when we visited the Turonian part of the cliffs. Here we found a couple of nice ammonites ( Mammites nodosoides and a realy nice Fagesia catinus ) and a big flint echinoid. (with @Natalie81 and @Euhoplites) The second trip was last weekend, but we had no luck with the weather this time and we had heavy rainfall for most of the day. Also lots of competition that day. Not a lot of fossils to be found that day: a small flint echinoid, a big Mariella sp. but not the best preservation and an Acanthoceras, but this one is still completely in the matrix, I don’t know how this one will turn out. pic's from the 1st day: The echinoids from the construction site: Fagesia catinus all cleaned up the 2nd field trip: a wel hidden Acanthoceras rhotomagense: Rain, rain, rain,.. I almost forgot, Best wishes for 2022 to all the forum members
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Hey y'all, here's an ammonite I found in what I'm fairly sure is a small, unmapped Eagle Ford outcrop. I'm hoping to use it as an index fossil, as the target species that I'm hoping this outcrop will produce occurs in the late cenomanian/early turonian Bouldin Flags member of the Eagle Ford formation. I find that the written descriptions that I've read about the bouldin flags geology are inadequate for my understanding, as it seems colors, shades, and degree of textures are up to the interpretation of the reader. Maybe I'm just overthinking that though. Hopefully this ammo helps. @LSCHNELLE, I know you're familiar with the Bouldin Flags - seem familiar? (Diameter=1 inch)
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Last Saturday, Natalie and I went for a trip to the chalk cliffs in Northern France. We got there early and we were surprised at the parking by a friend who happened to have the same idea as us . @Euhoplites So now we were 3 to hit the beach. We were quite lucky with the weather, at least dry, and not to cold for this time of the year. We did get a decent haul to, a few ammonites, a se urchin, a realy nice nautiloid. Natalie also found some pretty shark teeth. The best find for me that day was a rare and very well preserved ammonite Hyphoplites falcatus. Enjoy the pictures Some of the teeth found by Natalie The Cymatoceras sp. : And finaly the fossil that made my day : a rare Hyphoplites falcatus:
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Charentes Amber (Fouras Peninsula, ~100.5-98 Ma)
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Select specimens of Charentes amber, 5.5g in total weight (far right specimen is 2.9g, 20x19x16mm); these are the more attractive specimens of a 45.5g lot, while most are opaque with a light yellow-beige coloration; some have transparent layers alongside translucent and opaque layers, and one specimen has a marcasite inclusion near its center. This material is extremely fragile and low-fractile, crumbling quite easily. Since 2005 the original site on Fouras for this amber has since been developed, and is no longer accessible; what few exposures do remain yield very little material (this is also the case for the nearby Aix Island deposits and the Les Renardières quarry). Araucarians are believed to have been the main source of the resin production, but members of the Podocarpaceae and Cheirolepidiaceae also possibly contributed.© Kaegen Lau
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SAPINDOPSIS ANHOURYI. cenomanian. En Nammoura, Libanon
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SAPINDOPSIS ANHOURYI. cenomanian. En Nammoura, Libanon-
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I'm visiting family in San Antonio, Texas, and have been doing a little fossil hunting as well, including in a nearby creek. Based on a local geologic map, I believe this creek mostly exposes the Edwards Group (Albian age), though there appear to be some younger (Cenomanian age) rocks from the Del Rio Formation mixed in as well, based on an Ilymatogyra arietina shell that I found a couple of days ago. This creek isn't very fossiliferous. In about 3 hours of searching, I've only found a single I. arietina and a few small shell impressions in rocks. However, today, I also found the rock below and am wondering if it's something more. I am moderately confident that the bit in the lower right is a shell impression. What I'm unsure of is whether there's a bigger (worn) shell mold here too or just a bit of pareidolia. Any thoughts? Here's the outline of what I'm seeing -- the dimensions of what I've outlined are approximately 7cm wide x 6cm tall. Here's further detail of the part in the lower right that I'm more confident is part of a fossil shell/shell impression: The "shell mold" is raised relative to the surrounding rock, though is pretty heavily eroded if it is a fossil: Here as well is the I. arietina I found -- no doubt that this one's a fossil at least! And here's a wider shot of the creek: Thanks for looking!
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Hello all, Last Saturday our geology club went on a field trip to the Breckweg limestone quarry in Rheine, Germany. Although my main interest lies with minerals, I found a nice fossil. I have been trying to identify it, but unfortunately without any succes. I hope you can help me out. According to the information I received, the limestone found at the quarry is from the Cenomanian. Thanks in advance!
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Fossil hunting trip to Cap Blanc Nez (Cretaceous of France)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, Last week after getting lots of recommendations from people I spend a couple of days at Cap Blanc Nez in France to look for some fossils. And while it wasn't to most bountyfull hunt I did have a lot of fun and I was very pleased with the little finds that I managed to do. We had very nice weather, it was sunny and the temperature was just perfect for fossil hunting, and the cliffs and beach (and landscape overall) were absolutely stunning. The fossils in Cap Blanc Nez date back to the Cretaceous and there are deposits from the Turonian, Cenomanian & Albian. I spent a lot of time searching in the clay deposits which lay on the beach. Besides fossils we also found some washed up marine life: A large jellyfish (Rhizostoma sp.) A washed up Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) A washed up Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) We also payed a little visit to the beach at Wissant although we didn't went there to search for fossils but to visit an old shipwreck
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
REMPC P0031 Fossil Leaf Impression Cretaceous, Cenomanian Dakota Sandstone Elisworth Co., Kansas, USA-
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Hello everyone. My son and i are both passionate about paleontology. During our research’s, we found these stones in red clay/sand with flint dating from Cenomanian (near Chartres, France). The stones were among the remains of bivalves and sponges. All the fossils found show strong erosion. Do you think it could be fossils or just stones? Thank you
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Hello. I found this some time ago, in an outcrop, of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian). some fragments of belemnite, which seems to me a poorly preserved hedgehog radiola, a solitary coral, (it may be a kind of placosmilia). and a curiously shaped stone, which has me puzzled, and I would like to know what it is. sorry for the photos, but I don't have a good tool to make them better.
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Hello! can't figure out what kind of fossil, maybe brachiopod or ostrea bivalve sticked on silex nodule, upper cenomanian, Laghouat-city, Algeria, Any idea? thank you.
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Hello everyone, I am trying to identify a dinosaur vertebra that comes from the KemKem basins in Morocco. Can you help me ?
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The transcription of the Arab terms and names is often ambiguous. In the literature, the locality is called both Ain el Kerma and Ain Karma. Different spellings can also be found for Jebel Tselfat and Jbel Tselfat. Taxonomy from Encyclopedia of Life, EOL for short. Diagnosis according to Pictet and Humbert 1866, (translated from French by oilshale): "Elongated head, ending in a long beak similar to that of Belone. Small skeleton, composed of numerous vertebrae. Short dorsal fin, a little behind the middle of the body and slightly behind the ventrals; pectoral fins that are rather large; short anal fin that is close to the tail; tail divided into two lobes. Very poorly preserved scales." Rhinellus Agassiz, 1834 is regarded as preoccupied by Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 and replaced by Ichthyotringa. Line drawing: Originally identified by Dr. N. Micklich (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - HLMD) as Rhinellus cf. furcatus (now Ichthyotringa furcata). References: Agassiz, L (1835). Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 4). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, pp. 33-52. Pictet, F.-J. and Humbert, Alois (1866). Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons fossiles du mont Liban. GENÈVE CHEZ GEORG, RUE DE LA GORRATERIE PARIS J,-B. BAILLIÈRE ET FILS.— F. SAVY. Woodward, A. S. (1901), Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, 1-636. Arambourg, C. (1954). Les poissons crétacés du Jebel Tselfat (Maroc)-Notes Mém. Serv. Géol. Maroc 118: 1–188. Taverne, L. (2006). Révision d’Ichthyotringa africana, poisson marin (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) du Crétacé supérieur de la Mésogée eurafricaine. Considérations sur les relations phylogénétiques du genre Ichthyotringa. Belg J Zool. 136(1):31–41. Khalloufia, B., Ouarhache, D., and Lelièvre, H., (2010). New paleontological and geological data about Jbel Tselfat (Late Cretaceous of Morocco) Historical Biology Vol. 22, Nos. 1–3, March–June–September 2010, 57–70. SILVA, Hilda and GALLO, VALÉRIA (2011). Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(2): 483-511.
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I just recieved a box with a random assortment of Kem Kem fossils and I was wondering if some of you might help out with some of the ID's 1) A fish scute, Adrianaichthys (Lepidotes) pankowskii would be my guess. 2) Another Adrianaichthys (Lepidotes) pankowskii scale? 3) A small bone, turtle perhaps? 4) Crocodile osteoderm 5) Crocodile osteoderm 6) I often see similar fossil sold as Kem Kem coprolites 7) base of an Onchopristis numides rostrum tooth 8) A large fish vert, could it be Chondrichthyan like Onchopristis or probably just bony fish? 9) A fish vert? 10) Spinosaurid tooth
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Alternative combination: Raja whitfieldi Hay 1903 Literature: HAY, O.P. (1903) On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 19 (10): 395–452.
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Good evening to all participants! I have accumulated a lot of local (from Ukraine) material - I decided to sort it out, and recurring fossils, or not of interest to me, offers you an exchange. Everything in the photos is one lot. Consists of: 1. Tile from Carboniferous period with fern print; 2. A fragment of the armor of a armored fish Podolaspis Lerichei of the Devonian period; 3. Tile with Silrian brachiopods and tentaculites; 4. Mollusk of Neogene; 5. A small fragment of a fossilized araucaria of the Carboniferous period with quartzite crystals; 6. 2 fragments of orthoceras (found together with a tile with tentaculites); 7. A selection of teeth and vertebrae (most of the Cenomanian fish): 7.1. 3 Enchodus teeth (2 large ones are glued from fragments, and the largest (light) one is also smeared with a children's felt-tip pen), Cenomanian. 7.2. Ptychodus teeth (light - Cenomanian; found personally, and dark ones got by exchange); 7.3. 2 undefined teeth of the Cenomanian fish and good teeth of a shark from Malin, Zhytomyr region (by the way, dark teeth of Ptychodus are from the same place); 7.4. 2 Pycnodus teeth - Cenomanian. 7.5. - A bag of Cenomanian fish vertebrae - about 50-60 pieces. Perhaps some of this will interest you. What is interesting to me: first of all, on marine reptiles and dinosaurs, and also offhand, I am interested in the teeth of megalodon, Crinoids and ammonites. Surely I missed something - I ask you, do not hesitate to write to me in private messages - i will glad to talk. Best regards, Svetlana
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From the album: Best of 2020 finds - a year in review : 2 - echinoids
A few echinoids Discoides subuculus found in Cap de la Hève (Sainte-Adresse), Normandy, France in july 2020. Cretaceous - Cenomanian -
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A small (2cm) but splendid echinoid : Tetragramma variolare found in Cap de la Hève (Sainte-Adresse) - Cretaceous, Cenomanian, Normandy - France -
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A nice echinoid Cottaldia benettiae (1cm) found in Saint Jouin de Bruneval, Normandy, France in july 2020. Cretaceous - Cenomanian -
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A sweet echinoids association Conulus castanea and Tetragramma variolare found in Saint Jouin de Bruneval, Normandy, France in july 2020. Cretaceous - Cenomanian -
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A nice echnoid Crassiholaster subglobosus found in Saint Jouin de Bruneval, found in Cap de la Hève (Sainte-Adresse). Cretaceous - Cenomanian -
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A nice Crassiholaster subglobosus found in Saint Jouin de Bruneval, Normandy, France in july 2020. Cretaceous - Cenomanian -
Aboral view. Collected on C level. Adoral view. Collected on C level. It is from a different specimen due to matrix on the original and was added for identification purposes.
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ammonite hunting in the Turonian and Cenomanian
Manticocerasman posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Good tides and a promising weather forecast and we were ready to go for a trip to the French coast ( Cap-Blanc-Nez) High tide was set for 8AM, so we left around that same time, getting there when the tide was starting to go down giving us a whole day of opportunities to search. First stop was the beach of the “Grand Blanc Nez” with the Turonian cliffs. Since our last visit there, there have been high tides and multiple parts of the beach were cleared of the sand. The prospection of the loose boulders revealed for me a large Mamites nodosoides and a Morrowites wingi. I was especially happy whit that last one since it is the first specimen of this species that I found. Natalie found a small belemnite , although this might not seem spectacular, it is probably the best find of the day as they are incredibly rare in the Turonian at this location. On our way back to the car Natalie found another ammonite, this time a Lewiseceras peramplum. The way back to the car then became quite hard due to the weight and sizes of those fossils. In the afternoon we went a couple of kilometers further to prospect the Cenomanian boulders on the beaches near “Petit-Blanc-Nez”. On the first few meters on the beach I found a boulder with a really nice Cunningtoniceras inerme sticking out. Further down the beach we found a few smaller ammonites, but we ended distributing those to a few starting fossil collectors that were prospecting the area. The last good find of the day was made by Natalie who found a small but exquisite nautilus fossil ( Eutrephoceras sp. ) in the Turonian boulders: to late for this one: Mamites nodosoides: Morrowites wingi : Lewesiceras peramplum: in the Cenomanian boulders: Cunningtoniceras inerme: the little nautilus: Eutrephoceras sp. : of cource the pictures of the prepped specimens will follow.
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