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Friend found this today in SC. Any ideas?
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Hi everybody. Just finished up this little pycno yesterday. Cute little bugger. Less than 2 hours of prep for this little project. I used my new Zoic Velociraptor air scribe for this. A tool I've fallen in love with. Fixed up the crack that ran through the fish, squared up the rock with my tile saw and smoothed the egdes with my table belt sander and Waaaa Laaaa! I was not going to keep this at first and have decided to thin the rock in half and hang it onto one of my fish walls. Already have a spot for it. I also turned this small project into a video for youtube but it wont be out for a week or so. RB
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So, some of y'all know I am obsessed with finding a mosasaur tooth. I found a new spot in Travis County that yielded some nice Eagle Ford stuff (ptychodus, scapanorynchus and ptychotrygon). It's probably a fish tooth, but MAYBE it's a tiny mosasaur?? I have consulted an "expert" (hehehe) we all know and love @Jared C and says 65% mosasaur. What do y'all think?? It's 1/4 inch.
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Hello, i have the fossil fish collection from Timor, It's unfortunately haven't more information from there. Can you please share me the information about the location and species? Thank you very much *Attached the photos of the fish
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Big Brook, NJ, believe this is a Xiphactinus tooth, but wanted to confirm
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Tooth has flat facets running most of the length from the crown to the tip, a hollow crown, and is just under an inch long.
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Hi forum, sorry, it's me again. After 4 hours of preparation, from an initial 2x1cm of exposed orange surface, this thing popped out i have no idea what it is. the dark part looks pretty wrinkled while the lightest is smooth. My immagination sees a fish head, but i'm not an expert of the Solnhofen area. Also i have exposed the rock a little randomly so i won't be surprise if there is something else below. That's exactly the point where an ID will be very helpful to proceed with preparation and details exposure the rock was collected in a Solnhofen quarry (150m years old). the length is about 5cm Thanks a lot best regards Paolo
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A couple of days ago we had a quick trip just south of Sydney to show a researcher some potential temnospondyl tracks, but on our way home we had a quick look in some road cuttings for fossil fish. Many fantastic fossils have been found in the nodules which are common in this area, such as xenacanths, temnospondyls and various fish. This time, we were lucky enough to find a big nodule with quite a large fish inside, although it's pretty poorly preserved. We only had time to remove the skull and some of the front part of its body but I hope to get back there soon to remove the rest of the nodule. The nodule was really crumbly and broke into many pieces, so I had to spend a long time trying to fit it all back together once I got home. Here is what I have so far (not including the counterpart which is even more fragmentary): This image shows the skull (left), and some nicely preserved scales (top right) and part of what I believe to be the pectoral fins (far right): A close up of some scales: A nicely preserved bone from the rear of the skull which is on the counterpart: The site:
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Both of these verts have been identified as Pachyrhizodus and were found in the Niobrara Chalk of Gove County, Kansas. Needing a second opinion.
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I've been working off/on with this fish for months now. After all the work of getting it put/glued back together and put onto a backer board and then the spaces inbetween the slab and the backer board filled in with concrete patch, then squared up and worked all the edges to a nice finish, it was finally time to begin work on one of the actual fish. The quarry owner does not know the species of this fish, so my good friends, I will ask you. I'm just hoping there is enough uncovered to be able to tell? What in tarnation is this fish? and thank you for any and all help. RB
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Here are some Before & After photos of the 2nd and 3rd fish at practiced prepping, and 1 coat of butvar. I sent 7 fossils off for professional prep and haVE about 35 full fish I'm going to do some art projects with and hang in a wooden frame. I used a razor blade, Q tip, and safety pin.
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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This is one of the fish we found in Green River WY last week it looks distinctive from the others maybe Phareodus?
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Was jogging on trail in NE Kansas today near areas we found Crinoids, brachiopods, fusulinids prior. The hole in this rock caught my attention. Looking closer, it has the shape of a jaw and it looks like teeth. It reminds me of the shape of a Xiphactinus jaw. It’s probably nothing. But what if ? Whether it’s “just a rock” or not, there are some shapes on this that looks like teeth or bone joints. Does anyone see anything in these pictures? my 6 year old daughter says, “it’s never just a rock Dad”. What are your thoughts???
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I found this tooth when I was looking for Shark Teeth on an island outside of Wilmington on the Intracoastal. This is the first white tooth I've found in that area so I'm guessing its not as old as the shark teeth I find there. From research, I think it may be an alligator or a fish tooth? Would love some insight. Thanks!
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I started picking away stone to reveal this fish from Green River split fish plate, turned out alright
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From the album: Ozan Formation
Xiphactinus audax, North TX Campanian, Cretaceous Jun, 2023 Two teeth are erupting from the sockets. This is the distal end of a lower right jaw. -
Lincolnshire Limestone, Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic, Bajocian Im not sure what to make of this, was thinking maybe fish fragment. Particularly puzzled by the circular pattern. I've dampened it with water to help it show more clearly in the photo. Scale is mm.
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So I was recently lucky enough to very generously receive some amazing and very very rich STH micro matrix! So here’s the finds, ID help courtesy of @digit and @MarcoSr’s website. Starting off with the shark teeth - alongside the micro mix I was given a very nice C. planus tooth. So here’s that alongside the 2 C. hastalis teeth I found: Bigger other shark teeth - Negaprion, Carcharhinus: Squatina - Angel Shark: Squalus - dog shark: Cretorhinus - Basking Shark: Galeorhinus - Tope Shark: Symphyseal tope shark: Triakis sp. - Hound Shark: Heterodontus sp. - Horn Shark: Posterior: Anterior: Dermal denticles: Vertebrae and fish spines: Fish teeth: Pharyngeal fish teeth: Now onto the Ray teeth - Dasyatis and Gymnura cause I can’t tell the difference - there were SO MANY OF THESE! Easily 300+. The nuptial/male/breeding teeth from Dasyatis and Gymnura: Mustelus sp (Smooth-hound shark) and Rhinobatus sp. (Guitarfish) cause I really can’t tell the difference either: Mobula sp: And finally, the 3 Raja (Skate) teeth I found: There were a couple other finds - couple triggerfish teeth, a barracuda tooth, etc as well! I went through the matrix twice and I know I’ve missed stuff too. Im surprised I didn’t find any shark denticles, but ah well. Also not included is all the Ray mouth plates and broken shark and Ray teeth I found! Tons of stuff that I’m very happy with! If anyone wants pictures of anything in particular do let me know!
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My 1st attempt at asking advice got locked because I mentioned specific sites. Sorry! (Mods please delete that one if possible). But I'm not even looking for advice about WHERE to go. That's already decided. We are going to a trilobite quarry in Utah and a Green River Formation site in Wyoming. We've never done this before and are driving a LONG way, so I want to be as prepared as possible. So if anyone has any helpful advice for first-timers so we can make the most of our one chance, we'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance!
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My wife and I will be making our first trip out to Utah (U-dig, trilobites) and Wyoming (American Fossil, GRF fish, etc.) later this month and are very excited to finally experience these places. If anyone has any advice for first-timers we'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance!
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Just got this vert. It was found in Fannin County, Texas, and was originally described as Xiphactinus audax. I'm not sure now if this is Xiphactinus or if it came from another large fish like Pachyrhizodus caninus.
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This is a vertebra that was originally marketed as that of an iguanodon. This, quite frankly, is almost certainly not true, and I judge it to be that of a fish- but of course I am no authority on this matter, so I thought I'd put it to you guys to make sure. If you could, would you be able to identify down to a family or genus (or better yet a species, but I imagine that would be incredibly difficult) as well? Thanks in advance for any proposed IDs Othniel
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I wish this was a post to celebrate an incredible accomplishment but instead I am extremely scared that through my potential carelessness, the likely greatest find of my life may be forever changed. I just a few days ago on 6/6 found this stingray fossil at American Fossil Quarry in Wyoming just and was able to keep it because it was at that location. I have been on a road trip and have been storing it in a plastic tote bin with bubble wrap and then fish fossils underneath wrapped in paper towel. I took the lid off for a prolonged period to air out the bin and I think this was a grave mistake and let in humidity. The paper towel was all heavily damp and many of the fish fossils had very obvious signs of mold/mildew growth and discoloration. And now I fear the stingray may show some as well. I desperately need advice on repair and preservation asap. I really need help trying to fix this mess as I’m still on the road for another week. It may not be super obvious in the images but it is the areas that appear a grayish color in contrast to the orangeish brown. The last image is the closest picture I took on the day it was found to show any potential change. This was a lifetime find and I will be crushed if I’ve caused irreparable damage. Please help. Any advice in repair and preservation is greatly appreciated. And I’m sorry to all those that see this and are disappointed in the poor handling of this rare piece, I’m more than disappointed in myself if things are what they seem. And if by a miracle the stingray is perfectly fine then any advice on the fish fossils would be great.
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No sure what we have, from family member estate, He did live in West Virginia, Florida, and working for years on the Alaska Pipeline.. Thank You Brad
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I have been gone for a long time due to severe health reasons. All I can say is the doctors wanted to take me off life support but I didn’t feel like going yet, but half my body decided it was going to be fun to stay in the coma. I can no longer get out in the field to find my own stuff. I have Penn Dixie stuff I would be willing to trade for fish plates or something else if it’s softer/ easier materialI. I can’t find much of anything online. I only have use of one hand but I can hold a pin vice. I don’t really want to give up prepping fossils but I have limited options now.
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