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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
A close up of coral from the calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Unknown species. Calvert formation.Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
A close up of ‘sand dollar’ detail. Calvert formation. Calvert co. Maryland.-
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Hello everyone Below are some finds from my last trip to a dredge spoil island that has Miocene to modern marine and terrestrial fossils. The dredge and river action unfortunately beat up the fossils and make it hard to ID. The scale on the white graph paper is 1" for the boxes. Photo quality a little off due to the poor winter sun angle. Large Un-numbered Bone: Possibly a mammoth or bison femur? Weighs more than 3.5 pounds. It looks like the head of a femur and a heavily worn limb bone. May be too far gone to ID. #1: Two small mammal (likely cetacean) periotics #2: Edge of a Turtle shell? Just didn't see the typical interior turtle shell texture #3 Broken coprolites? Interesting interior compositions on them #4 Worn turtle nuchal shell? #5 Wild guess-fish tooth in jaw? Has a smooth enamel on the pointy end that tapers on both sides to a broken point #6 No idea-Probably unidentifiable? #7 Small broken horse scapula? Thanks for looking. Hopefully the photos stay in order, with an outdoors photo followed by another photo indoors due to the outdoor light this time of year. Be happy to add better photos if requested.
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I’ve been round and around with this one. Even messaged UF’s invertebrate paleontologist but no word, yet. Probably should have thought about colleges on breaks… Any suggestions?? Found: Peace River , Florida , US mixed with other positively identified Miocene echinoids, shell hashes and botryoidal covered shells and limestone composite rocks. Drusy coverings on most everything in this group. Including this fossil. Size: 35mm narrowest 45-50mm widest. Depending on if you stop at the fine rings or the outer flat perimeter. Could this be a jellyfish? Can others see the symmetry and outer rings? Thanks and fingers crossed! Jp Here are photos. Fossil in question- fossil side with close up in upper panels. Flip/bottom side in lower. It lightens when dry as shown in upper left. Sprayed with denatured alcohol to show the color when wet in the upper right. Close up details of the four quadrants of the oval. Drusy frost.
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Yesterday I found a Y-shaped bone fragment on the beach along the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, USA (Miocene epoch, Calvert fm.). It is approximately 6.7 centimeters long, 3.1 centimeters wide at the forked end, and 1 centimeter wide at the narrow end. I have an inclination that it could be a fragment of a dolphin jaw where the lower mandibles fuse together but would like some other opinions for confirmation or a better ID. Ventral view (presumably) Dorsal view (presumably) - this side is fractured, exposing the concave interior of the bone Right lateral view (presumably) I found some photos of a living species, Pontoporia blainvillei, that is endemic to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina and bears a strong resemblance to my fossil. For reference, here is a high quality photo of Pontoporia blainvillei skull Holding my fossil in front of the photo suggests a good match: So does pontoporiid dolphin jaw seem like the correct ID? Is there any way to identify it further? Thanks in advance and my apologies if I left anything out - this is my first ID post. I'll be happy to provide more info/pictures if needed.
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Here are my finds from the Topanga formation today. An Oyster some clams and a lot of Turretella
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Can somebody help to ID this fossil? it comes from shallow marin miocene deposits is it a coral or a bryozoan?
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Went out on my first time hunting fossil fish and found this! Any tips for identifying fishes? I’m new to this and any help is appreciated!
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A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal by Bob Yirka , PhysOrg The paywalled paper is: Martínez, C., Pérez-Lara, D.K., Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., Caballero-Rodríguez, D., Rodríguez-Reyes, O., Crowley, J.L. and Jaramillo, C., 2023. An early Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.112006. Yours, Paul H.-
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hello is this proboscides Miocene tusk? thanks
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Hello! Last time i posted a fragment of bone that unfortunately was not telling much, but recently i found another piece of bone but again i have failed to identify what piece of bone this could have belong, outwardly looks like a footbone of a mammal but i'm not sure, again, i found this in place that may range from late pleistocene to late Miocene, Central America. Anyone that may be familiar with it? it is missing two pieces
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Here are some finds I collected today in the Topanga Formation in California. I have more that are still soaking 1. I think this is a Tellina oldroydi
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Recently received this Brachiopod that was said to come from the Miocene Topanga formation. No species was listed and I haven't found any documentation that says there are brachiopods from this formation. I know there are some from nearby formations but unsure what those look like.
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I recently found this partial tooth in Florida and I really think it’s dire wolf. It looks exactly like the upper carnassial dire wolf teeth online. The only measurement i have is that the thickest part of the enamel from top to bottom is 17mm thick, not accounting for wear. Can you guys confirm/deny? Thanks! filtered-3F76D20A-199B-4B93-8957-ACB17287FC39.mp4
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Heliophora sp. Boujdour, Morocco Unknown Miocene/Pliocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Balcis sp. Aurora Fossil Museum, NC Pungo River and Yorktown Formations Miocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Anachis milleri Aurora Fossil Museum, NC Pungo River and Yorktown Formations Miocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Nassarius cornelliana Aurora Fossil Museum, NC Pungo River and Yorktown Formations Miocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Strioterebrum sp. Aurora Fossil Museum, NC Pungo River and Yorktown Formations Miocene
