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Hey all. I had these pictures sent to me by a friend, and we're both totally stumped over what this possibly could be. It was found pretty densely surrounded by other shattered bone. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated- we've really been scratching our heads over this one!
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Found on private property Crawford, NE broken up humerus from???????
cayosusa posted a topic in Fossil ID
I know it's in a zillion pieces. I dug it out as best I could. Any ideas what animal?
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Early Oligocene fish nodule from the Lincoln Creek Formation in SW Washington state.
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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A humble mount of some of the tusk shells I've found in Centralia. I've only ever found one that was complete. These things are like graham crackers, they crumble from the slightest touch, so needless to say, safely removing them from the sandy shale can be a pain!
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Found this cool complete little bone while screening some gravel in a Summerville creek. Seems familiar but not enough to hazard a guess. Thanks for looking!
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From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Helix Leidyi Location Crawford, NE Date of discovery: 8/9/22 -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Helix Leidyi Location Crawford, NE Date of discovery: 8/9/22 -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Merycoidodon sp. Location: Crawford, NE Date of discovery: 8/12/22 -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Merycoidodon sp. Location: Crawford, NE Date of discovery: 8/12/22 -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Merycoidodon sp. Location: Crawford, NE Date of discovery: 8/12/22 -
I had magnanimous offers to join 3 fabulous collecting trips this summer, those being Hell Creek for dinos, Morocco for trilobites, and Nebraska Oligocene badlands hunting. After careful consideration, I chose the latter, for a few reasons. First of all, I had been friends with the other 2 guys, Rob and Greg, since my first Oligocene vert hunt 10 years ago, where my wife and I met them. Our 2012 trip, however, wasn't very fruitful, so a rematch was in order. Greg had some good ranches leased and critical equipment in storage nearby, so a small group of 3 friends made good sense on this trip. I figured this venue might not ever be cheaper nor less hunted in my lifetime. Round trip airfare was a bargain at $365, so away we went. The other guys were delayed by about 10 hours coming from Florida, so I got our rented pickup truck and played tourist solo in Rapid City, SD for the day. I thoroughly enjoyed a visit to the Geology Museum at the SD School of Mines, and found the staff to be quite engaging. It isn't everywhere I can hold an intense, 2 way fossil conversation for an hour, then I have to be the one to end it due to time constraints. Great displays, but I only took one photo (Brontops, a harbinger of things to come), then strategically gift shopped for my wife, filled my belly with buffalo lasagna, and picked up travel weary companions before burning rubber south to Crawford, NE where we weren't settled into our cabin until 2 a.m.
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Hello Everyone! It's been a minute since I've had the pleasure of finding any fossils worth posting here, but I was lucky enough today to squeeze in a couple hours of hunting. I noticed several sets of footprints around my usual hunting site - others had picked through the material recently. Undeterred, I made my way along the river visually scouring every square inch of exposed grey-brown Oligocene formation and gravel. Im glad I stuck with it because I was rewarded with several nice (albeit small) teeth from the extinct mega-tooth white shark, Carcharocles angustidens as well as a slew of smaller teeth. Then, just as I was ready to start hiking back to the car, I noticed the root of a VERY large mako tooth sticking out of the ground. When I pulled it up I was reminded of the sword in the stone..it just kept going and going. At a little over 2.8" it's one of the largest Isurus desori teeth I've ever personally seen. It's in great condition with exceptional color to boot. Thanks for taking a look and as always... Happy hunting! SOSC
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In the summer of 2020 jpc and I had planned to get together in Eastern Wyoming to collect. That trip was unfortunately aborted by the coronavirus outbreak that year. This year, that conversation resumed and a new plan for a three day excursion in June emerged. I decided to make it a two week long car trip, driving all the way from New York, a longer car trip than any I've made in the past 25 years. That would afford me the opportunity to stop at some other sites on the way there and back, plus see some family. Another big reason for driving was an opportunity to visit and collect at the Big Cedar Ridge Cretaceous plant site. Having the car would afford me the opportunity to bring the necessary tools and be able to transport the fragile specimens safely. The rising price of gasoline certainly had an impact, and my plan was to cut costs as much as possible wherever I could. Part of that plan was camping 10 nights I departed the suburbs of New York City on Saturday, June 11th. That evening I arrived at Sturgis, MI, just off interstate 80. Spent the night in a motel and headed off the next day, driving through the heart of Chicago enshrouded in mist. It was my very first time driving through that city. I headed north and in the middle of the day arrived at my cousin's place in Madison, WI. He had moved there from Manhattan five years ago to teach music at the University of Wisconsin. This was my first time visiting him there, my first time in Wisconsin, actually. He took me on a lovely tour of the school and the town. I spent the night and was on my way again just before noon the next day. It rained off and on as I drove through Western Wisconsin and crossed the Mississippi into Dubuque, Iowa. From there it was a short drive to my first fossil stop- at Graf. This Upper Ordovician site in Maquoketa Formation is famous for its nautiloid death assemblage. I have found quite a few nautiloids over the course of my collecting career, but I've never encountered a site where they are thoroughly dominant. There was a layer of limestone, a few feet thick that was in many places just packed with their shells.
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Enter the Oligocene (Virtual Reality Project) - Phase one is complete !
Brett Breakin' Rocks posted a topic in Members' News & Diversions
Hello Everyone, Now that my time under a --- COVID-19, virtual teaching, selling my house and moving to Colorado --- rock is ending ? I can share the phase one completion of my students' VR project, Enter the Oligocene. This project was a collaboration with Matthew Gibson at The Charleston Museum, Dr. Bobby (Robert) Boessenecker @Boesse and my SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) students. Graduate and Undergraduate students participated in the 'class' and spent a little under 8 weeks to complete the Phase 01 portion of the project. A herculean effort for any artists given the circumstances. On its face the goal was to create a virtual and visual outreach project. A project that takes the fauna specifically from the Charleston area at the time of the Early/Late Oligocene and brings it to life. The star of the show ? ... Bobby's as yet described Genus-Y (now described Ankylorhiza tiedemani ! )would be the hero model and focus of the main display in the encounter. A few references for those not familiar with Bobby Boessenecker or Matthew Gibson's institutions. Mace Brown Museum of Natural History - Bobby Boessenecker - Paleontologist http://geology.cofc.edu/natural-history-museum/ The Charleston Museum - Matthew Gibson - Curator of Natural History https://www.charlestonmuseum.org/ Hopefully this has been posted and shared elsewhere on the forum ! Bobby's newly published skeleton of Ankylorhiza tiedemani and colleagues (Dr. Morgan Churchill, Dr. Emily Buchholtz, Dr. Brian Beatty, and Dr. Jonathan Geisler) Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30828-9?fbclid=IwAR0DbqXtV_IyFhBTOH6i0263t_fFbctGblBeJilnI_ThNQks9s8LvQ024LU#articleInformation I originally imagined the backdrop for the project as an undersea 'lab' environment attached to a equally impressive museum or display structure. The player can go from the interior of the structure to the flooded exterior of the structure effortlessly. The team focused on various hero elements, one being an Otodus angustidens (my personal favorite) Genus-Y and other billfish, rays and fish common for the time period. Our inspirations were varied but the students did settle upon something more akin to Art Deco for the interior. Here are a few of the initial models/inspirations. A few of the models as Works-In-Progress To Be Continued:
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Here's a partial odontocete skull found in the Lincoln Creek Formation of Washington state, early Oligocene. Found by James Goedert. I stepped over it while asking him about paleomagnetic measurements or brands of coffee, he turned to answer and spied it! Nice find.
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A stunning find yesterday, my best so far, of a rare palaega goedertorum. Lincoln Creek Formation, upper Oligocene of Washington state. 34 years hunting here, I've only found six. Some of my colleagues have hunted for decades and have yet to find one.
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Some very, very tiny moon snails from the Lincoln Creek Formation (late Eocene-early Miocene), Centralia Washington. I think these are Natica as opposed to Polinices. Affixed to shale with superglue and consolidated with paraloid.
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I came across this jaw fragment from a spot in the White River Formation, Central WY. I'm going crazy trying to ID this thing- any suggestions?
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Hello again. I wanted to share this jaw section I found in Wyoming's White River back in July 2020. My initial thoughts were that it belonged to the primitive canid Hesperocyon, which in my experience has been the most abundant carnivore in those badlands, however, it doesn't quite match the other material I found which I'm confident is dog. While scrolling through the forum I saw some similarities to a jaw section labelled as Daphoenus by @Nimravis on the thread below: The fossil itself is 3 cm long and ~2 cm from the tip of the tooth to the base of the jaw. I'd be interested to see some opinions. @jpc @ParkerPaleo @siteseer
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