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From the album: Plants
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Iwent to a new carboniferous hunt today with a very nice Lepidodendron cone,Eusphenopteris,Mariopteris and Pecopteris in the bucket nice day
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One of the really best websites about cretaceous and jurassic ammonites has been removed from the net, www.ammonites.fr This was always an inspiration to compare own finds and determine them. I do not really know why, have heard some stories but did not talk to Herve Chatelier, the owner And, when you look with the waybackmachine it is not possible to open former versions... I will miss the website
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Gastornis Eggshell
Othniel C. Marsh posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
The item shown below is supposed to be a fragment of Gastornis eggshell, but the texture of the fragment does not look like that of any other fossil eggshell I have ever seen, avian or otherwise. Thanks in advance for any guidance Othniel -
Hello, I found this imprint/mold of what I think is a plant. It was found in France in a dry part of the river Gap. The rock is fragile, I can break it with my hands. Curious to find out your opinions!
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Brittle star from the Boulonnais, upper Jurassic (Likely kimmeridgian). Does anyone know the species/genus?
Fancysaurus posted a topic in Fossil ID
I am struggling to find proper information on how to identify different brittlestar genuses, so if anyone has a good resource for that, that would be great as well! Found at place de la Crevasse near Equihen, when splitting open a fallen block of layered, clayey shale. Scale is in cm.
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From the album: My collection in progress
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 Location: Baudrecourt, Moselle, Grand Est, France Age: 199 - 190 Mya (Sinemurian, Early Jurassic) Measurements: 6,7 cm (diameter) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Bivalvia Subclass: Pteriomorpha Order: Ostreida Family: Gryphaeidae -
Hi guys, new here just found this whilst strolling by the river here in the south of France in the Tarn. Is it a fossil or just a weird stone? Tia.
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Yesterday i went to a new carboniferous hunt ,in the rain,few nice pieces
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I have just received these in the post. Didn’t come identified, but wasn’t expensive and took a chance that someone on the Forum might know what Ammonites they were. Info from seller : Callovian, St Laon, Deux Sevres, France
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Hi everyone, now that it is a prohibitive time for fossil hunting (at least where I am!) I though it was a good opportunity for a little throwback. This summer I travelled to southern France and I had the chance to visit museums, paleontological heritage sites and, of course, collect fossils. Towards the end of August I met with a friend and we headed to an area that was quite popular among professionals and amateur collectors alike, but we didn't know any exact location. We stopped at a place that looked promising and we asked the owner of the land permission to survey and, potentially, collect. And we were very lucky indeed! Note that I cannot pinpoint the spot to you, because the owner asked not to disclose it. Here's a picture of the outcrop at the end of the day. It was a 1.5 m (5 ft) thick bed of grey marls with limestone interbeds, Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) in age. As I am chiefly interested in the scientific aspect of collecting, I managed to record bed-by-bed stratigraphy and fossil occurences. I drew a few sketches and a log, so that no info will be lost. We found a lot of material. Large inoceramid bivalves (not pictured) were very abundant. Ammonites were relatively common, but very fragile and most of the time fragmented. We did find however a few complete ones. Here's the first find of the day. This large boulder was detached and, in hitting it with the hammer, this ammonite popped out undamaged: This was the largest specimen, before and after collecting: Another very delicate specimen, it may need a bit of prepping: And, finally, one of the most interesting find, a heteromorph ammonite, still to prep: In conclusion, I hope you enjoyed my post and my finds. Let me know if you have any ID suggestion, they'd be much appreciated. Cheers, Fabio
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Neocosmoceras sayni (Simionescu, 1899) (m). Upper Berriasian (Boissieri Zone). Montpelier, Hérault (France)
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From the album: Ammonites of the Betic Ranges (Spain) and world
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"Deinotherium Tusk" I bought a while back
GarethGP posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
So I bought this end point of a supposed deinotherium tusk from a man in France a while back. Before I purchased I asked how he knew it was deinotherium and not mammoth etc. he gave me an explanation in poor english I didn't quite understand and then said he got it from a palaeontologist in France who's name he quoted (I checked, real palaeontologist). I've attached some pics. What do you think? It's definitely very old ivory of some kind. Thoughts? It's a little over 3 inches long.
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Questions about any large and currently unnamed Ctenacanthiformes sharks known
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in Questions & Answers
As I have been researching large ctenacanthiform sharks from North America, I've been wondering if there are any known globally that are currently unnamed. I definitely know of the large Ctenacanthiformes Saivodus stratus (found in both what is now North America and Great Britain), the large Ctenacanthiform from the Permian Kaibab formation in Arizona, and the 'Texas supershark' (a likely large species of Gilkmanius) from the Pennsylvanian Texas Graham formation (all three as larger or larger than an adult Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)). But are there any large ctenacanthiformes (at least in size comparable to a modern day adult Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)) currently unnamed that are also known? Ctenacanthiformes are known from North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, and South America. https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P34476.html Even though study of Ctenacanthiformes as a whole is just starting to become more through within the past few decades, I'm wondering if anyone on the forum is aware of any currently unnamed Ctenacanthiform fossils from areas outside of North America of Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)) size? -
By showing Sara my current shells, I realized that I have a different Calliostoma in my box of C. zizyphinum. It was found in the Côtes d'Armor in northern France. Its difference lies in the fact that some turns are more marked than on the C. zizyphinum. What do you think about that ? @MikeR? From the web : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliostoma_zizyphinum#/media/File:Calliostoma_zizyphinum_f._laevigata_01.JPG Thanks. Coco
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Hi, i've just used my first binocular yesterday and decided to take a look on the pieces of schist i had collected in La Maurerie, member of the Coulouma formation, Cambrian, Montagne Noire, France. I need help to find out what i saw on them. Firstly, i splitted a piece of schist in two yesterday and found those tiny rounded things that puzzle me a lot. The whole of them form a shape of a little less than a centimeter. I also found that partial cephalon of one centimeter (part and counterpart) and wondered if it was from a Solenopleuridae or Trinucleidae. This really tiny pygidium of a few millimeters, i thought it could be from a Raphiophoridae or Dalmanitidae This one, a little bigger And that cheek and eye (the supposed eye is half a centimeter) @piranha @Kane
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A guy is selling this tooth, accordingly a theropod from France, found in Cherves-Richemont quarry, Cherves-de-Cognac. It measures 1,5 cm in length. The seller says it is "allosaurid". I've been looking a bit around for some similiar teeth from the area, as well as species, and I find it a bit hard to find some good articles or pictures to cover this, but from what I can make out of it at this point, it may either be Nuthetes, or perhaps a french Neovenator? I had read recently, that they had found teeth in France, resembling the holotype of Neovenator, so that would make sense with the "allosaurid". There's a lot of disagreement about Nuthetes in general as well, from what I've heard. So what would you guys classify this tooth as? To me the shape does not look much like any dromaeosaurid.
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Hey folks. Just got home from a rock and fossil show in Hamburg, where I bought 2 strange little teeth from southern France, Lutethian age, from the Aumelas region. They were labelled as crocodile teeth. But when I saw them I noticed they were very unlike usual croc teeth. The one in best condition has small fine (and quite sharp) serrations, the crown curves slightly to the distal side, and it is laterally compressed. Aumelas just so happens to be the same region, in which Iberosuchus remains have been found from Lutethian beds. The teeth of Iberosuchus and many other Sebecosuchians are described to have laterally compressed teeth with distally curved crown and serrations. I think I could be sitting here with two possible Sebecosuchian teeth. Do you guys agree? Does anyone own any Sebecosuchian teeth or know something on the matter? Because I feel like I haven't seen any Sebecosuchian teeth up for sale ever. Anyways, here are the pics: Pic 1-5: Tooth no. 1, with visible serrations. Pic 6-8: Tooth no. 2, is unfortunately worn on the cutting edges, but is also laterally compressed, tho not as much as tooth no. Pic 9: Tooth no. 1 shown from a dorsal view, in order to show the lateral compressoon better. Pic 10-11: Serrations of tooth no. 1 seen through a microscope in order to better zoom in, as my phone is horrendous at it. Tooth no. 1 is about 1.3 cm at longest dimension. Tooth no. 2 is about 9-10 mm at longest dimension.
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During our explorations in search of fossils, we obviously favor sedimentary rocks; I invite you to follow me with my wife in search of fossils… in volcanic rocks! (only observation without sampling) In the center of the volcanic massif of Cantal (central France), we explored a not very accessible valley where outcrop deposits of breccias of dense pyroclastic flows, in search of fossil woods of Villafranchian age (upper Pleistocene). According to an old reference (conference , 1969) one can find: “sometimes tree trunks inclined in all directions and sometimes branches. They are black, it is charcoal, produced by combustion in the absence of oxygen. After their reduction in carbon, certain woods underwent a strong fumarolic activity with silicification in opal cristobalite, generally respecting the vegetal structures.” By anatomical study in microscopy, 5 genera have been identified: Cedroxylon, Piceoxylon, Cornoxylon, Fagoxylon, Ulmoxylon. They suggest a temperate or mountain type climate. The conservation of carbonized organic matter indicates that the rock emplacement temperature must have been relatively lower than at the volcanic magma exit point estimated at 900°C according to mineralogy. The pyroclastic flow therefore destroyed a forest by descending the slope of the volcano while cooling. Let us now see in some photos what we discovered with wonder: 2 fossiliferous sites, the first with only one vertical trunk in an overhanging cliff, the second with multiple trunks preserved or hollowed out and branches on the bank of the river (without signs of silicification on these 2 sites found about 300 meters apart). There must therefore still be other nearby sites, but the difficult access to the site probably keeps them out of sight.
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Fossil hunting weekend to Falaises des Vaches Noires (Jurassic of France) + museum visit
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone! Last week we went on a weekend trip with our fossil club the BVP to go on a fossil hunt to the jurassic clay cliffs "Falaises de Vaches Noires" between Houlgate & Villers-Sur-Mer in Normandy, France. https://www.paleontica.org/locations/fossil/68 The famous cliffs of Vaches Noires date back to the Jurassic period, and span both the Callovian & Oxfordian stages (166 - 157 mya) and the Cretaceous period spanning the Cenomanian (100 - 94 mya). Back in the jurassic this area was a rich marine environment and fossils that can be found here are many species of bivalves (like Gryphaea, Lopha & Myophorella), ammonites, gastropods, belemnites, brachiopods, crinoïds, sponges and other invertebrates. The cliffs are also known for marine reptile material and even dinosaur material, though these finds are rather rare but you'll see some nice pieces in the museum pics later. We arrived Thursday afternoon (november 3th) and stayed to Sunday (november 6th). We were very happy to join this trip organized by our club since it is probably the last year that fossil searching is allowed in this amazing location. We were with around 27 people I believe and met each morning at the entrance of the beach at Houlgate. We searched the cliffs for 2 days and went to the local museum "paleospace" on sunday. The weather was amazing for the 2 days of searching, it was even sunny the first day! The first few hours we mainly searched among the rocks on the beach which were littered with large Gryphaea fossils and other bivalves like Lopha gregarea. After our lunch break we moved on to search more near the clay to find smaller fossils. On our second day we again searched the clay, went through some interesting places in the sand which were littered with oysters, gastropods and had some ammonite and crinoïd fossils and we ended the day at the cenomanian rocks in search for some fossil urchins. The Cenomanian rocks on the beach A piece a chalcedony A partial ammonite Me very happy with my first complete ammonite, which I found next to me while having lunch One of the mystery fossils which nobody could really determine (we brought it home along another we found) The tubes seem to be pyritised. I believe it to be some kind of Echinoderm and someone suggested it might be a Crinoïd with a parasite on it. But eventually our top finding (and the best of the entire trip) was spotted by my girlfriend Elise and is this gorgeous fish (probably Lepidotes sp.)
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Trip report: The Fabulous Fossils of Pas de Calais!
FossilLerp2 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another trip report! Last week, me and my family went to France once again, but this time to northern France, near Cap Blanc Nez. Cap Blanc Nez is a well-known fossil-hunting site for its ammonites and other fossils. It is located quite near the coast of England, and if the weather's clear you can see the cliffs of Dover very clearly. Day 1: it's a start The first fossil trip was rather disappointing. We walked down the stairway to the beach and headed directly to Grand Blanc Nez, the main landmark in the area. We started searching close to the cliffs, between the large chalk boulders. After some time had passed, we found something which, at first glance, looked like a rock covered in plants. After examining the rock for a while, we came to the conclusion that these "plants" must be suture lines from an ammonite. The rock was way too heavy to be carried off the beach, so I took some pictures to closely examine the ammonite later. Here it is: Lewesiceras sp. It slowly became dark, and we decided to return to our cottage, after what wasn't a particularly satisfying fossil hunt. But as we were walking back towards the car, a surprise was waiting for us: some clay layers (which later turned out to be from the cenomanian stage) were exposed while we were busy searching for fossils amongst the rocks. On top of the clay layers were some small pyrite ammonites, of multiple genera. These finds were certainly promising, but it quickly became too dark to find anything, so we went back to our cottage. After I had scoured the internet and a useful conversation with Euhoplites on instagram (you should definitely check him out) , it seemed like we went to the wrong side of the beach. Like I said in the beginning of the trip report, we went to Grand Blanc Nez, which is on the righthand side when you walk down to the beach. Euhoplites told me that this isn’t the best location for fossils at Cap Blanc Nez. You should actually go left, towards Petit Blanc Nez. Euhoplites sp. This pyrite ammonite was found on top of the cenomanian clay layers. You can find day 2 in the comments!
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I went to visit the "fossillium" show this Weekend near Lille Northern France,a lot of Minerals ,few fossils :( ,crazy prices ,but a Northern France real chamane!
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Last weekend was an extended weekend and good weather forecast, that means a few field trips to the French coast for us The first trip was Friday, we got there early in the morning and planned to hunt the Turonian part of the coast. There was a lot of sand on the beaches so we didn’t find much, but quality is better than quantity and Natalie scored 2! Ptychodus teeth. I only found an ammonite that proved to be incomplete after extracting it :/ and a flint echinoid on the way back to the car. On Monday we tried our luck in the Cenomanian and Albian part of the site. Again lots of sand covering op the boulders but we did find a bit more and some really interesting specimens. The 1st interesting piece was a belemnite in the chalk, this might seen strange, but although the belemnites are common in the Albian gault clay, they are almost non-existent in the Cenomanian chalk and it was the 1st specimen I ever found in there. Not long after that It was Natalie’s turn, she found a complete irregular echinoid. The rest of the finds that day were mostly chalk ammonites, except on one spot were a little bit of gault clay was exposed on the beach were we found a nice little phosphate crab. 1st fieldtrip on Friday, early at the beach: little ptychodus 1: Ptychopdus 2: To bad for this one: A flint echinoid on our way back: Field trip on Moday: Belemnite : Neohibolites ultimus Natalie's echinoid: Tiaromma michelini The little crab in situ in the clay peeking out: All the stuff cleaned up:
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Nice sunday morning at the Cap Blanc Nez sunday morning ,few finds
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Hi TFF, The other week I went for a quick trip to the beloved chalk at Cap Blanc-Nez in France. I heard that the gault clay (albian) was exposed, since that's my main interest I had to go and see. 'Sadly' it was layer P6 (late albian) which does not provide as much ammonites as earlier layers. In my experience this layer provides quite a lot of fish remains like teeth and small vertebra. Picked up a small lamniform shark tooth. Besides a lot of bivalves (inoceramus) and gasteropods (gyrodes gaultina) there was nothing but that tooth I took home. Next time I'll make some in-situ photo's because there's tons and tons of phosphate fossils. Probably very similiar to the gault in Folkestone. On my way to the turonian there was a micraster waiting to be freed. Spotted some sutures that fooled me. I thought they went inwards to the matrix but it turned out just to be a chunk as can be seen (sutures going outwards). Rookie mistake hehe. You can also see where the living chamber starts. That's usually a weak spot to be careful for when extracting, in this case there's already a good crack forming. From not to hot, beautiful mammites nodosoides (turonian) just waiting for someone
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