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A recent acquisition that I bought just because it's beautiful. Impressions of cidarids crop up quite often in Cretaceous flint but I've never been lucky enough to find one (and I live in the wrong area). Probably Temnocidaris sp., Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Kent coast, southern England. Test fragment 13mm across
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found this near Boerne TX. I think the formation is Glen Rose, but unsure, might be Edwards?
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First 2 Days in the Judith River fm of Montana- July 30-31, 2019
PaleoNoel posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hey everyone, I've entered the final week of my awesome 3 week excursion with PaleoProspectors! We finish in Northern Montana in the Judith River formation. Monday we started at microsite which was easily accessed and a location I had some success two years prior- in 2017 I found a Troodon tooth here among other nice fossils. It became readily apparent that this location was going to give us another productive day. Although I found no complete theropod teeth early on, I did find a number of partials and fragments, along with spit teeth and some crocodilian fossils. The beautiful view from where we parked. Piece of crocodilian osteoderm Some spit teeth, most likely hadrosaur. The tip of a tyrannosaurid tooth A view from the microsite And now for my big find of the day! A huge tyrannosaurid tooth. I was so excited that I had to prep it out that night and I was happy with how it came out. oh yeah I also found a lil croc tooth after this. Some more views of the site and who I'm collecting with
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Echies of Texas Part 3 (That's how the Echie Crumbles)
JamieLynn posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
It's been a pretty dry spell in Texas Echinoid Hunting for me lately...been out to a few new sites around Canyon Lake but not found anything new, just some tiny little Salenias and Loriolias. I had high hopes for an Austin Chalk formation in San Antonio, No echinoids, but did find a couple of lovely ammonites. Went to Dallas area and found a few other neat things, including a small shark tooth. I did FINALLY find something new at a big roadcut - a Leptosalenia scotti or volana (not sure which) and was very excited about it! But as I was gently cleaning it with a toothbrush, it just crumbled! Needless to say I was a bit upset, but I guess that's how the echinoid crumbles! Hopefully when it cools off a bit I'll have better luck!
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http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1159547.shtml
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Could I get some help with this please?
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D. elongatus seems to be a junior synonym. References: Davis, S. and Martill, D. (2003) The Gonorynchiform fish Dastilbe from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. 2003, Palaeontology 42(4):715 - 740. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00094 Alexandre C. Ribeiro, Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza, Flávio A. Bockmann and Marcelo R. de Carvalho (2018) Phylogenetic relationships of Chanidae (Teleostei: Gonorynchiformes) as impacted by Dastilbe moraesi, from the Sanfranciscana basin, Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 16(3): e180059, 2018 DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20180059 (ISSN 1982-0224)
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I will be heading through the area this upcoming weekend and was wondering if there are any good spots to still check out there near the Reedy Point Bridge or anywhere along the canal up to the Route 13 bridge. Thanks!
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My daughter found this at Big Brook NJ. It was loose at the bottom of the stream. I don't think it is a cow, horse or deer, but it could be pleistocene. I just joined the forum, and hope this works. Thanks
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NYT article, with video, covers the uncovering of a triceratops skull in North Dakota badlands. Cool side story of one of the discoverers losing chance at internship in So. Cal., La Brea Tar Pits, and gutting out excavation in the badlands. Enjoy. Alice (Triceratops) in Badland
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Hey-oh! I found this while at GMR and I'm clueless as to what (if anything) it is. I've been though my fossil books and online but the curvature and the indention marks have me puzzled. I've not found something like this before. My luck it is a weird curious rock.. if it is, I'm just going to imagine it's a meg eye lid or something hahaha As always, I welcome your thoughts and appreciate you all Steve
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Hello, a couple of weeks ago I bought a piece of amber. All the seller told me was that he had no idea what it could be. It has some cracks, I presume that’s why he sold it to me for a really low price. The piece is less than an inch in length. It is from the early cenomanian (98-99 million years old). It comes from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar.
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https://nextshark.com/boy-discovers-dinosaur-eggs/ http://www.ladbible.com/news/interesting-boy-finds-11-dinosaur-eggs-in-china-20190726
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Chasing Opal and Fossils in the Australian Outback An ambitious collaboration between scientists and a local mining community seeks to preserve one-of-a-kind opalized fossils. BY Clare Watson, Undark https://undark.org/article/chasing-opal-fossils-australian-outback/ A recent paper is: Bell, P.R., Fanti, F., Hart, L.J., Milan, L.A., Craven, S.J., Brougham, T. and Smith, E., 2019. Revised geology, age, and vertebrate diversity of the dinosaur-bearing Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 514, pp.655-671. Yours, Paul H.
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A super cool addition to our programs- A Pterosaur BONE !!
fossilsonwheels posted a topic in Member Collections
I am pretty much giddy right now because we were able to make a significant addition to our program. We are acquiring a partial Pterosaur wing bone from the Niobrara Chalk. It was sold as a Pteranodon which is what we will go with for the program though the actual ID is probably more accurately stated as Pterosaur indet. What makes this important to us is this gives us something other than a few small Kem Kem teeth to represent Pterosaurs in our programs and this also gives us another touch fossil that kids will really love. As we learned last spring, kids love Pterosaurs and it is q shock to many of them when we tell them that they were not dinosaurs. I think getting to touch a real Pterosaur wing bone will offset that shock quite a bit. This is also a huge fossil for us in that it helps us add to a section of the 4th grade Dinosaur program that we recently decided to add. We want to spend a little time on the Western Interior Seaway. It helps us paint a more accurate picture of what the US looked like at that time and helps us give a more in-depth record of what non-dinosaur creatures ruled the sea and sky when dinos ruled the land. So here it is, a partial 12" section of Pterosaur wing from Cretaceous Kansas.thumb.jpg.ce29f38c8eba4185c1eb0e31838aad26.jpg)
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From the album: Vertebrates
Protopsephurus liui LU, 1994 Early Cretaceous Linyuan Liaoning PRC Length is around 71cm -
Last weekend was almost surreal; I've always been looking to go hunting for ammonites at some point, but the opportunity finally arose while I visited Hokkaido, Japan last week. Ammonites from Hokkaido have always been captivating; they definitely represent some of the best the Asian continent has to offer, and are also known to produce the biggest in the continent. In the far north of Hokkaido, iridescent ammonites could be found, while in the central region, heteromorphs are more common. In very rare occasions across the island, titanic ammonites are lifted out of the streams. On the 13th of July, my first day in the Hokkaido Prefecture, I met up with a local friend in Sapporo to go hunting. He's had quite a few years of experience, and is very knowledgeable about the ammonites of Hokkaido. After a few hours of driving, we went off the road and into the Hokkaido wilderness to search for ammonites. Not long after our arrival at the creek, we started finding clues of ammonite-bearing rock.
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New addition to my collection an Ankylosarus and Pachycephalosaur theeth.
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Today was the last day spent in Wyoming and one of the most productive. This collecting area was definitely the most scenic among the spots we visited this week with a view of a wide open grassy valley with trees lining the Little Cheyenne River. I found a channel deposit site which had been worked in years past but had not been touched recently. I remained at this spot for the duration of the day, splitting through the conglomerate. The most abundant fossils were gar scales which appeared practically every split. I collected a number of small alligator teeth, myledaphus ray teeth and triceratops and hadrosaur spit teeth. Some of my best finds were pieces of shark spine and a thescelosaurus premaxillary tooth. Views of the collecting area A view of the open space A very small myledaphus tooth (lower right side) A gar scale preserved right next to a gar tooth A small Brachychampsa tooth (rear "molar like" tooth) A shark spine preserved next to a bivalve. Stay tuned for South and North Dakota next week!
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Went out to the Badlands last week for some fossil hunting. Little bits of turtle shell are a common sight and the folks with me were in turtle fragment city, but this find was a little unusual. Take a look at what is turning into a whole tortoise plastron!
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Another day hunting in Wyoming's Lance formation proved more successful than yesterday. Due to the high amount of rain Wyoming has been facing this year, many would be exposures were grassed in. We started at a channel deposit which was producing a number of bone pieces. Although bones were relatively plentiful, there were no spectacular finds with the best being a thescelosaurus vertebra found by another member of the group. My best find from this hillside was a section of Triceratops jaw, a partial crown found in the conglomerate where the fossils were eroding from. and some variety of small animal limb bone (reptile or mammal). Here are some pics from this site A hadrosaur spit tooth A piece of softshell turtle shell A bivalve The Triceratops crown After most of the people had left the site, I explored the surrounding area and found an anthill which proved to be very bountiful in the microfossils it produced. I found several small crocodilian teeth, a tiny myledaphus tooth, a gar tooth and a potential mammal tooth.
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Hi All, I will be visiting the Houston Museum of Natural Science in September. While in the area I am wondering about doing some local fossil hunting. Are there areas near Houston anyone would recommend? I am hoping there are some marine Cretaceous deposits nearby. Thanks. :-)
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My daughter found this at Trussell's creek in Alabama; the site is full of Cretaceous marine fossils (80 MYA). It has gone to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, but I don't know what it is.... anyone recognize it?
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I was gonna call this a monthly round up but I just realized it's been four months, adjusting to new job has had me messed up. I've only gone to 2 locales in 4 months and I'm having withdrawals. Anyway, I stopped at a outcrop of buda formation for about 30 minutes while the family went shopping, the buda had given me 2 graptocarcinus carapaces previously so I was looking specifically for that, I found what I thought was a carapace but it turned out to be a chela with just a nub of a dactyl, unfortunately the finger got broken off somewhere in between getting it out of the ground and getting it home. I assume this is graptocarcinus but I have not found any pictures of the chela.
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