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I've been going back and forth with this guy from New Zealand for many years now. His dad passed away awhile back so I was not bothering him and left him alone. He finally sent me an email to say hello and such and also sent me some photo's of his last fossil hunts. One of the photo's had a very unique crab concretion and I was immediately interested in it. We have made many many trades in the past and I made him an offer after a few pleasantries but sadly he didn't respond. So, I left him alone about that and didn't bring it up again. I was simply trying to give him his space. Anyways, my youngest son went over to Australia to visit my twin brother and then down to NZ to visit this friend of mine and so some fossil hunting. Yesterday he came over to show me all his fossil finds and then he hands me one and I instantly remember seeing this one and he says, 'this one is for you from your buddy". What a guy! I was so touched by this I almost instantly knew I was going to reciprocate. I wonder id he likes agatized Aturia? Nobody is this nice to me and gets away with it! This concretion is soooooo obviously a crab I knew it should be in my collection just the way it is. Just cooler than you know what to me! It has some damage to the left pincers but still cooler than you know what! and check out the size of that right claw!!! Massive!!!
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Here is my most fun video to date. This is part 1 of a 3 part crab prepping series. Its about prepping 3 Tumidocarcinus crab concretions from New Zealand at the same time and all the problems that come with prepping them. Part 3, (isn't out yet) will have 2 BIG surprises! The entire series is almost 1 hour long but I had to cram in over 100 hours into an hour. Enjoy https://youtu.be/HlXroj1_hW0
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I don't usually publish a you tube video on Sundays, but my youngest son came over and we popped open a crab concretion from New Zealand in real time for everyone to see. I decided to make it into a video and had some fun doing it. Enjoy https://youtu.be/8PDo3yRP5zE
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Almost 40 hours of prep and then a bunch of editing and this is what I ended up with. Enjoy
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Tuataras May Have Originated as Early as 190 Million Years Ago
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Tuataras May Have Originated as Early as 190 Million Years Ago Enrico de Lazaro, SciNews, March 4, 2022 The open access paper is: Simões, T.R., Kinney-Broderick, G. and Pierce, S.E., 2022. An exceptionally preserved Sphenodon-like sphenodontian reveals deep time conservation of the tuatara skeleton and ontogeny. Communications biology, 5(1), pp.1-19. Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Photographed this is a river bed near Methven, New Zealand. Approx 28 cm in length. My first impression is overlapping horseshoe crabs.
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I need to pick some brains. I found this at a beach, late cretacous in age in New Zealand. The site is known for belemnites, reptilian bones and fossil wood. I have no idea what this is. It has protruding thin lines spanning out over both ends that have been replaced by calcite or quartz. The lines can be seen along the length of one side and on the other side there seems to be a circle with new protruding thin lines. Could this be pine needles? It's the only thing I can think of? Some parts almost have a woody characteristics, and other parts with fine to medium sand textures.
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Hello. I was hoping someone could confirm if this is a belemnite rostrum? It is from a late cretaceous marine site of the east coast of New Zealand. I have found many belemnites in the past but often in a matrix of the Okarahia sandstone formation, and only typically 2 to 3 cm in length and filled with calcite. This one is much larger in size, does not appear to have any calcite replacement, has not got any concentric rings at the base and the overall texture is slightly porous. Thanks in advance :)
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New Zealand's 180-million-year-old forest BBC News Travel, South Island, New Zealand By Marian McGuinness, November 12, 2021 Curio Bay/Porpoise Bay Some papers are: Pole, M., 2001. Repeated flood events and fossil forests at Curio Bay (Middle Jurassic), New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology, 144(3-4), pp.223-242. More papers by Dr. Mike Pole Pole, M., 2009. Vegetation and climate of the New Zealand Jurassic. GFF, 131(1-2), pp.105-111. PDF of Pole (2009) Thorn, V.C., 1999. Enigmatic High Palaeolatitude Forests of Gondwanaland-a Case Study from the New Zealand Jurassic. PhD Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Yours, Paul H.
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Hi, I also found this in the " Roding River" located in the " Aniseed Valley of Nelson, New Zealand. At first, i thought petrified wood, but my friend who is a wood carver of several years, has assured me this is not wood... Quite heavy, not sure exactly how heavy, but i can weigh it if that helps? Any help much appreciated! Cheers!
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Hi, I found this in the " Roding River" located in the " Aniseed Valley of Nelson, New Zealand. Have done alot of web searching to try and find similar, but haven't been successful so any help would be much appreciated! Cheers, Greg
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Something I've not seen before. Found the first one and thought it might just be a cross section of the clamp end of a bivalve but then found the second so rethought that. Found on the coast of Port Waikato NZ in exposed Jurassic mud stone. Found in same strata as belemnites. Both between 2 and 4 mm in length. Edit 1: the photos seem to make them look like they are impressions, but both are sitting above the matrix.
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New Zealand Kids Discovered Fossil of New Giant Penguin Species on a Field Trip
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New Zealand Kids Discovered This Fossil of New Giant Penguin Species on a Field Trip Paleontologists say the bird would have been roughly the size of a ten-year-old child Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, September 17, 202 Children's Field Trip Yields New Penguin Species Kairuku waewaeroa lived eons ago in New Zealand John Johnson, Newser, Sep 17, 2021 The open access paper is: Simone Giovanardi, Daniel T. Ksepka & Daniel B. Thomas, 2021. A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand Article: e1953047 Received 15 Mar 2021, Accepted 01 Jul 2021, Published online: 16 Sep 2021 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Exploring the siltstones of the Manuherikia Group (NZ)
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Currently away from home on a work trip but that has allowed me to explore the silt stone laid down by Lake Manuherikia in the Otago region of New Zealand. The period is early to mid Miocene (16-19 million years). I have spent the last couple of evenings searching sites for fossil leaves or anything else I can find. FYI the bottle cap is for scale. I have nothing else with me but I figure most bottle caps are the same the world over. The above is part of a large palm frond. Hyridella shells above in matrix. Below are an assortment of the other leaf fossils I collected. Hopefully I get to go out for a bit more fossicking before I head home at the end of the week.
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I found a fossil fragment on site the other day unlike anything I have ever come across before. Some ideas that have been suggested by colleagues include a bone fragment, petrified wood, or a bryozoan colony. The fragment is approximately 2.5 cm long and half a cm wide, is Pliocene in age, and comes from the Kaawa Formation for anyone who knows their New Zealand stratigraphy well. Im not looking for an ID as such, more just a general indication of what I'm dealing with from anyone else who has come across something similar. Many thanks!
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Post K-PG non-avian dinosaurs in New Zealand?
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Just out of curiosity I need yall opinions on this. So in 2005 a paper was published analysing various theropod material from Chatham Island, New Zealand, and the deposit they were in was aged to be 61 million years old. The authors of the paper interpreted this as the fossils had been eroded from a Mesozoic deposit and were reburied in an Cenozoic one. However multiple outcrops of the same formation have been found containing more dinosaur fossils, this and considering there is evidence to suggest that this is a bone bed could possibly mean that this is the first evidence of non-avian dinosaurs millions of years past the K-PG event. Now New Zealand during the late cretaceous was within the arctic circle meaning that the animals that lived there were subject to extremely cold temperatures, complete darkness for months on end and limited food during theose months of darkness. Now the animals here were already shielded from the direct impact of the asteroid and had adapted to survive a polar winter, so do you think it would be plausible to assume that some dinosaurs in New Zealand survived the K-PG mass extinction?? DOI to the paper 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.07.017 -
Site preserves 23 million year old leaf fossils in diatomite and gives excellent climate record. Locals are pressuring mining interests to preserve scientific value. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-zealand-fossils
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Kauri trees mark magnetic flip and environmental crisis 42,000 years ago
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Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth’s magnetic field By Paul Voosen, Science, February 18, 2021 Ancient Trees Show When The Earth's Magnetic Field Last Flipped Out By Nell Greenfield-Boyce, Short Wave, NPR, February 18, 2021 Buried treasure - subfossil swamp kauri By Kate Evans, New Zealand Geographic Voosen, P., 2021, Kauri trees mark magnetic flip 42,000 years ago Science. vol. 371, Issue 6531, pp. 766 DOI: 10.1126/science.371.6531.766 The paper is: Cooper, A., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J. and others, 2021, Global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago Science. Vol. 371, Issue 6531, pp. 811-818 Related paper Staff, R.A., Hardiman, M., Ramsey, C.B., Adolphi, F., Hare, V.J., Koutsodendris, A. and Pross, J., 2019. Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp.1-9. Yours, Paul H. -
Hi All I found my largest shark tooth this past weekend here in New Zealand. I thought it was a Great White at first but a few people have thought it might be a transitional one. I was wondering if one of the shark tooth experts could have a look and let me know their thought Here is a bit of video of it as well: https://youtu.be/U-i8W2aOtLE?t=373 Thanks!
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Hello there, so in New Zealand there is an indermitate theropod dinosaur most commonly referred to as Joan Wiffen's Theropod. I am extremely confused on what the specimen actually is because some sources say the specimen is represented by a toe bone while others say a partial vertebrae. Also if anyone could tell me the specimen number (GNS 00 000, for example) or link a scientific paper explaining actually what it is i would be highly appreciative, thank you
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I'm looking for help with finding a genera from this chela/ crab claw, found in Cenozoic rock from Northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand. It is fairly weathered, and was originally split between two separate stones lying on the beach. A little reconstruction and preparation produced the result in the image. It was not in-situ so I am unsure which rock group it is associated with. I'm guessing it is either late Oligocene or early Miocene in age based on what I know of the area, but I could be wrong. I'm hoping there are some crab experts out there who will know what this is straight away, unfortunately I'm not well versed in decapods and seldom find them around where I live in the North Island.
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Hi guys, I have come to you for help as I really don’t know what I’m talking about when it comes to New Zealand shark teeth (I’m fairly sure these are all selachian), anyway, I have separated them into what I think are the separate species based on my understanding of tooth morphology, sorry for lack of scale, for reference the teeth vary from around 2mm-5mm here is species 1 side view of the most complete one There appear to be very faint serrations more prevalent in one of them
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Fossil from New Zealand Rewrites Evolutionary History
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heres a link to a newly described fossil seal that we have been finding bones and skulls of here in taranaki, new zealand for the last 15 or so years. https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&hs=0U9&biw=1496&bih=754&tbm=nws&sxsrf=ALeKk01vc72KwYUUtagYwhLgRk96jWpnXQ%3A1605241533476&ei=vQquX5veHM7w9QPNhoLgBQ&q=new+zealand+fossil+seal&oq=new+zealand+fossil+seal&gs_l=psy-ab.3...33364.36178.0.37013.5.5.0.0.0.0.554.1364.0j1j3j5-1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.uRROVU4bIrg- 1 reply
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