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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Calotrophon ostearum (Conrad, 1846) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Quality Aggregates, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extant Notes: Its common name the "mauve-mouth drill", -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Chicoreus xestos (E.H. VOKES, 1974) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Aggregates Phase 8 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to C. floridanus but almost lacking spiral sculpture, shortened spines and crenulations on the inside of the outside aperture lip. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Hexaplex hertweckorum Petuch, 1994 Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Aggregates Phase 8 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Hexaplex fulvescens but more compact with shorter siphonal canal. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Phyllonotus globossus (Emmons, 1858) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Aggregates Phase 10 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Apple Murex Phyllonotus pomum but more squat with shorter siphonal canal. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Chicoreus floridanus E.H. Vokes, 1965 Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Quality Aggregates, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Ancestor to the recent Chicorues dilectus but more ponderous and "shaggy." -
From the Meherrin River in NE North Csrolina. Local geology and preservation suffuse Plio-Pleistocene. I've eliminated tuna, grouper, wahoo, seabass, drum, sturgeon and tarpon. Im out of ideas. Thoughts?
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Hey Guys, new to the group. Hoping to learn more from you all and share some of our finds from around the low country. I've been a long time fly fisherman here on the GA coast and though I still love it (especially summer migratory fish) the decline in our fishing has inspired me to try new things. Now we've had a couple great years of fossil and antler shed hunting all over the GA coast. Looking forward to much more!
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The era of sabre-toothed cats and giant sharks and climate change
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
What the era of sabre-toothed cats and giant sharks says about climate change by Simon Levey, Imperial College London, April 2019 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190795/what-sabretoothed-cats-giant-sharks-says/ The meeting is: The Pliocene: The Last Time Earth had >400 ppm of Atmospheric CO2 Royal Meteorological Society Meeting https://www.rmets.org/event/pliocene-last-time-earth-had-400-ppm-atmospheric-co2 The video of the talks is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmdJJEuwTrg Other articles are: Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole Pliocene beech fossils in Antarctica when CO2 was at similar level to today point to planet’s future, The Guardian, April 3, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/03/south-pole-tree-fossils-indicate-impact-of-climate-change Dire future etched in the past: CO2 at 3-million year-old levels by Patrick Galey And Marlowe Hood, PhysOrg, April 5, 2019 https://phys.org/news/2019-04-dire-future-etched-co2-million.html Yours, Paul H.-
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Line drawing of Frigocanthus margaritatus from Sorbini & Tyler 2004, p. 64: Identified by oilshale using Sorbini & Tyler 2004. References: Sorbini, C. & Tyler, J.C. (2004) Review of the fossil file fishes of the family Monacanthidae (Tetraodontiformes), Pliocene and Pleistocene of Europe, with a new genus, Frigocanthus, and two new species related to the recent Aluterus. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Vol. 28, 41–76. Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria. Sorbini, L. (1987) Biogeography and Climatology of Pliocene Messinian Fossil Fish of Eastern-Central Italy. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 1987, Vol. 14, pp. 1-85. Sorbini, L. & Bannikov, A. F. (1988) On the Pliocene fish locality at Fiume Marecchia, Italy. Paleontological Journal, 1988, 1, pp. 121-123.
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Good morning, second post today! I found this bone in the Neuse River in Craven County/ Eastern NC. The shape of the bone is throwing me off on my google search. Can anyone identify the bone? Apps size is 3.5 inches by 3 inches. Thank you
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Good morning, I am requesting help with ID on a bone I found in the Neuse River in Craven County in eastern NC NC. I have searched google but not able to find a bone of this shape. It measures 2 inches by 2.5 inches. What throws me is the twist in the bone, probably a result of excessive wearing in the River. Thank you
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Hi There, Picked up this tooth fragment while sifting on the Savannah river. The sifter always seems to pull up cool stuff. First time in a long time that I brought out the heavier gear and my arms were dying by the end of the day. It looks too robust for a tapir tooth (?) and the chewing surfaces (what is left of them) feels off. I know the fauna is similar in the Florida Peace river. This would be Pliocene-Pleistocene @digit @Shellseeker does this strike your fancy right off as something recognizable. It may be too much of a fragment. Thanks, Brett
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I have found a lot of fossils at a land site in Southwest Florida recently and have been trying to ID them all. After finding a section of gomphothere and rhino tooth I think they are all from the early pliocene. This bone has been driving me crazy though. Its 2 inches long and an inch wide, and any help would really be appreciated.
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Hi, this is a find from high up the beach in the dry sand found 50m east from Clacton pier, I dont think its bone or ivory, it was in two pieces when found so I stuck them together, a lot of material from the Pleistocene and before found in this location due to the beach recharge, Bison horn?, any help with a possible ID would be great, many thanks.
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Hey there, A friend of mine recently came back from Caspersen Beach in Florida with a handful of shark teeth and random chunks of bone found along the beach. Having never been to the area myself, it’s my understanding that fossils wash ashore that are Miocene and Pliocene in age. I was able to ID a number of her finds, but there are these two similar looking chunks that I’m hung up on. They almost look like worn horse teeth. Can anyone ID these beyond the chunks that they are? Thanks as always!
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Can someone possibly clue me in on what this tiny bone is? It looks like it has a tooth attached or something of the likes...thanks in advance
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Okay, say you are in a special area and in that area there are numerous fossils. The local museum and collectors have numerous specimens in their collections but you are visiting and find something awesome! You contact the local museum, let them know you had found something and let the property owner know. You allow the museum to know you are more than willing to help if they will allow you to assist them in their retrieval efforts. What is the likelihood they will contact the finder, and what is the likelihood they will allow you to help? They do need volunteers ...
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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
A very nice small specimen of this famous gastropod, although a very small part of the base is missing. An iconic species of the Pliocene of northwest Europe. For those not familiar with the species, the round tip is not due to damage or very heavy weathering: this species is known to often have a round tip in smaller specimens. Status: extinct Fossil occurrence: rare (but rather common on other beaches in Zeeland)© 2019 Max DEREME
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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
A damaged specimen of a Pliocene gastropod species. Status: extinct Fossil occurrence: uncommon© 2019 Max DEREME
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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
An incomplete but still cool specimen of the Pliocene cap shell species. Status: extinct Fossil occurrence: rare© 2019 Max DEREME
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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
A very incomplete specimen of the famous Pliocene pelican's foot species. Status: extinct Fossil occurence: rare© 2019 Max DEREME
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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
An incomplete specimen of a Pliocene species. This species is easily distinguished from the other Turritella species by its much thicker and better defined ridges. Status: extinct Fossil occurence: uncommon© 2019 Max DEREME
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Hello all, So i've recently come into the possession of this chunk of bone, and based on the size, porosity, and locality (York River State Park) I believe it's a whale bone (Miocene-Pleistocene in age, likely a mysticete). My question is, which bone exactly is it? It seems to have some fairly distinctive features that seem to lend towards identification, but after around two days of research i'm stumped. I'm thinking it could be anything but some vertebral element, but i'm not sure. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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This object came with the whale bone I posted about recently. I'm not sure if it's biological or geological so I figured I'd throw it into the room & see what happens. 8.5 cm long x 4.5 cm wide x 8 mm thick (roughly). Flat with a slight curve. This was the shape when found. I sanded the broken part for better internal views. Pics labeled 4, 5 & 6 are closeups. 4 being the break running from side to side, 5 being the break running lengthwise & 6 a closeup of the outside surface.
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