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Some good friends offered to take me hunting for a couple of hours today.. thank the Lord for good friends. It was only 2 hours but I found some unusual items... including a number of high quality dolphin small verts. Then this one showed up... unusual, meaning I have never seen one like it previously. It's a vertebrae and I thought this would be trivial-- just search the net for "fossil dolphin Axis Atlas vertebrae". No luck... So what is it ? Tail vert.? what?
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Found in a bag of matrix purchased from the Aurora Fossil Museum. I'm not sure what I'm looking at-- perhaps a skull fragment? Hard to photograph, but I tried my best! Any help would be appreciated!
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Quote from Denton, 2013, p. 790: "Lampanyctus petrolifer and Lampanyctus bolini (David, 1943), are likely not assigned correctly (Fitch, 1969; Prokofiev, 2002). Fitch (1969:14) notes a communication from R. Lavenberg that L. petrolifer is instead a Lepidophanes, and that L. bolini is instead a Diaphus. Although neither rediagnosis was accompanied with character data, examination of several L. petrolifer specimens at the LACM supports assignment of L. petrolifer to the Lampanyctini subclade containing Bolinichthys, Ceratoscopelus, and Lepidophanes, based on the unique morphology in this subclade of the procurrent caudal rays, and on the large size of the orbits in the cranial profile.” References: David, L. R. (1943). Miocene Fishes of Southern California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 43:1-187. Denton, John S. S. (2013) Lanternfish (Teleostei, Myctophiformes, Myctophidae) body fossils from the Modelo Formation (upper Miocene) of Los Angeles County, California, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33:4, 786-793, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.751919
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2019 has been a rather slow year for me in terms of fossilhunts. I have not been on as many as previous years. This is due to family obligations and projects. So I have had to utilize other means to satisfy my urge of finding fossil treasure. Fortunately I had a wonderful time hunting with @digit and his wife Tammy back in March. We hunted in Cookie Cutter Creek and I was sent home with a few gallons of Micromatrix. Also I won an Auction put up by @Adam86cucv. His offering included matrix from 4 different sites. While this has not been my first foray dealing with micros, I had more fun and success, due in part, to having more experience and fine tuning the searching process. I named this topic 'Kitchen Table Finds", because this is where I do my searching. Actually I do alot of fossil related activities there. It has a big surface, decent lighting, and the family can sit around to watch and participate if they choose. My wife used to get mad that I was bringing dirty rocks where we eat, but I make sure to lay a barrier down of some sort and clean up after myself so she has since, gotten used to it. I have rather enjoyed the micro hunts that I have had. My only complaint is that after a while my eyes start to hurt! But I have had the opportunity to add some new sharkteeth to my collection that I would not have otherwise. I used to think that micros were a waste of time as they are so small they are hardly impressive. I now realize that considering sharkteeth are my main interest, I should be trying to collect as many species as possible, regardless of size. I will start off pics of my finds from Cookie Cutter Creek. Adding pics will take awhile so please bear with me.
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I went for another bike ride today to my local shark tooth site and brought a few back home with me. I think my ids are going in the right direction, but I'm not quite certain, which is why I'm posting them here in the hopes that the local dentists can confirm or correct my assumptions. All 3 are from the Miocene Burdigalian. I believe that #s 1 & 2 are Isurus desori and that #3 might be a Carcharias cuspidata. What do you guys think? 1. 2. 3. Thanks for looking.
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A (younger) relative of the sandfish Notogoneus osculus from the Eocene of the Green River Formation in Wyoming. References: L. Grande and T. Grande (2008) Redescription of the type species for the genus Notogeneus (Teleostei: Gonorhynchidae) based on new, well-preserved material. The Paleontological Society Memoir 70:1-31
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Combined the results of two trips to the freshwater creek (five hours total of hunting). Good variety, but no size and lots of broken stuff. One place I was digging in fine gravel and found several vertebrae, few intact, skate teeth, lots of drum "teeth", many broken, and three angel shark teeth, one broken. Also found small rootless tiger shark tooth and a badly broken small mako. The other spot, more sand and shells (probably should start collecting them, just fragile) yielded mostly sand tiger teeth. More overlap than I note here, but gives the picture. Found three sand tiger symphysials, highly unusual (wish they were cowshark! ) Did find two broken cowshark teeth, one each spot).
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Greetings Through this awesome site, I found out about Matoaka Beach Cabins and the opportunity to find fossils there. My family and I stayed here in the Spring to check it out and my son and I camped out over the weekend and spent some solid hours trying to find fossils at this gorgeous spot. We found a bunch of small teeth on the first afternoon by taking shovel fulls of sand and letting the surf wash and sift them, grabbing any teeth that washed out. The morning of the second day presented us with a fairly high tide and we were unable to walk very far up the beach but we found a few of our larger ones fairly close to the cabins. The water was clear enough that we saw a few nice teeth tumbling in the surf in a few inches of water. I was only fast enough to grab one, and I think it might be a small Meg. Can you guys weigh in? It's the upper left one in the group and also the close up shot. It has a small chip but was still pretty awesome to find, meg or not. I read and reread every post on here about the fossils of the Chesapeake and I want to thank you guys for the great community and resource. My son and I had a blast and we can't wait to get back to do it again. Thanks! Chris717
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These are some of the better mako teeth I found over the last year (mostly in the winter). Will be sending the prettiest ones to Singapore. My Singaporean friends have no shark teeth or fossils.
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I found this yesterday at Westmoreland State Park in Virginia, which I think is Miocene stuff. Can anyone ID?
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Greetings, everyone. I spent the other day on the east side of Ventura County breaking open sedimentary rocks. I'm not experienced enough with that sort of material to positively ID it but I think it was siltstone. There was a leaf and something else on both sides of one of the rocks. I've been having a hard time figuring out what the "something else" is. It measures about 35 by 14 millimeters. I took a few pictures of both sides under different lighting conditions to help bring out some of the finer details. It comes from the Modelo Formation (Miocene). Thanks ahead of time for any help in figuring out what it is. Here are pictures of the first side: Some pictures of the second side:
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Hi, I've collected this fossil on a beach near Balchik in Bulgaria and have wandered what it is. On the same beach I've also found small parts of bones and a partial vertebrae. Since there have been previous finds from Deinotherium bavaricum , Trilophodon angus-tidens and Choerolophodon pentelici in the region I was pretty exited that I've found a part of a tusk or one from a baby, but I am really not sure what exactly the fossil is. Please if you have any good guesses for the origin of the fossil please let me know.
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I find a lot of broken teeth, but this one is reasonably intact. Almost an inch long, almost four-sided with two flatter sides, root rectangular with circular hole in center, enamel dull extending almost half-way from the (broken) tip. (cell phone and scanner didn't help much).
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Went out to my usual creek which had dried up. Too difficult to strain out the sand, mud, black leaves, and muggy and buggy. Decided to try a deeper creek, and while not as promising, it was pleasant standing in running water watching frogs, salamanders, tiny shrimp and crayfish in my strainer. Not much, one small mako/ great white. It was nice to find an angel shark tooth, which I had missed recently. Used to be the second most common behind sand tiger shark teeth.
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Greetings fellow fossil enthusiasts! I don't know what this thing is. I've shown it to several other fossil guys in Houston and they don't know what it is either. I think it's from a fish of some sort, other than that I have no idea. I found it in Hogtown Creek in Gainesville so it's probably Late Miocene-Pliocene. Scale bar is in Millimeters. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hi All I've really been enjoying getting out and about here in New Zealand and hunting for fossils and taking some video footage at the same time. I'm still a beginner and find that by posting the videos I get some good info from the more experienced people across the world. If anyone is interested, I have posted my latest video up here: 013 Beach hunt for Miocene fossils I'm on instagram as well: @mamlambo_nz and would really like to follow any other TFF users, so please add me so I can follow you
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Ben away for a while, so wanted to get out. No signs of kids having been "at work". Guess too hot or not worth their effort. Spent three hours hunting, lots of gravel (few verts, drum teeth and only one broken angel shark tooth). Did get a cowshark, tiger and hemi tooth (rare at that site), two tiny mako/ great white teeth, the usual sand tiger spikes, skate teeth, and some triagular bull or similar shark teeth. A few interesting tiny shell and concretion pieces. Guessing crab but could it be shrimp @Carl ?
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Shark Week on the Discovery Channel starts tonight and one of the shows is about C. megalodon. It's on at 8pm Eastern and Pacific time.
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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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Greetings! I found this fossil on Sunday in Bradenton, Fl (Manatee County) It is 1.5”/38 mm long, 1.5” wide and .5” thick. It appears to be broken on 3 edges. I tried to photograph it on white background but some pics where I am holding it turned out sharper. Some of the things I found nearby were horse teeth, chunks of meg teeth, tiger shark and hemipristis teeth and the most massive Florida horse conch and mollusks I’ve ever seen. I’ve been trying to learn the age and specific formations that I hunt in but it’s been confusing to me. Is it possible that I’m in the peace river formation if I’m 40 miles west of the actual river? Or would it most likely be the Arcadia formation, or even bone valley? Some overlap so how do you tell? I think I am mostly in Miocene- Pliocene. Getting a bit off topic but if anyone can shed light on my mystery find and possibly clarify on formation locations I enjoy this forum so very much. Thank you all members. Best, Marie
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Howdy all! I'm super excited about this and I'm looking for expertise and knowledge from all of you! I'm working in Chapel Hill, NC next week and I've paved out a day to FINALLY visit GMR!!! I'm a total noob to this area and what to expect. I've been doing research but I would humbly ask you all about your experiences, local knowledge, where to park (safely), points of entry, tools to bring (i have an good idea), areas to avoid, concerns, etc... I'm doing this alone unfortunately but that also adds to the adventure! I still haven't found my meg yet and it will be sometime before I'm able to get back out to Brownies Beach or Calvert any time soon... SO! I'm really eager to make this visit a great work out and to find some awesome treasures to share with my little boys! I wish they were old enough to come with me!
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Hello everyone, I joined this forum because I find a lot of fossils from the Miocene era on the Oregon coast. It looked like a good resource to research and identify what I have in my collection. Also, Oregon just reidentified a fossil scientists thought was an ancient bear, but turns out is really a Harpagolestes, a sort of pig/hyena. https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/7288857-151/oregon-fossil-found-to-be-rare-bone-crushing-mammal Below are two random pics of some agates from. The first one is a sagenite agate (not a fossil) and the other I haven't identified. It is whitish on the outside but glows red. Maybe an agatized snail?
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Just thought I'd share this post from our Facebook Group. Had a blast sharing some of my shark fossils with visitors this last Saturday. If you can contribute and give back to your community and society in general I promise that you'll find the experience rewarding and enriching. Pass on your knowledge to the next generation and get them exited about the sciences and paleontology.
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My wife and I took a trip fown to Maryland late last week for a little calvert formation hunting at Bayfront park. As i mentioned on another post we got to the beach at quarter to 7am and had the place to ourselves for a while. Nobody was there to collect our access fee so we walked down to the beach just after low tide. One set of footprints were just above the surf line but i never did see who made them as nobody passed us either direction all day. We both found a couple of small teeth on our walk from the enterance to the corner that juts ou. My wife decided to stay in yhe corner and screen while i walked further south. For me it was a very slow pick of small shark teeth and a small cetacean tooth by the time I returned. My wife found a small cetacean vert where she set up to screen. More smalls than i remember from my last trip, or maybe we were just better at spotting them. She found her first Squatina subserrata tooth. Here's our finds, scale on the right is in inches: Close up of some of the smalls, these are under a quarter of an inch and we were lucky they stayed in our screens (and that we saw them): Makes me think I should try a multi layered sifter stack just to see how much micro material is falling through.
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