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Does anyone know how large this ray might have been?
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The Paleontological/Present Day Chondricthyan diversity of the Mississippi River
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The Mississippi River has (in one form or another since the shrinking of the Western Interior Seaway) been flowing for 70 Million Years. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/geological-history-mississippi-river-180975509/ This may be more of a current biological rather than paleontological question, but I'm curious about the origin of the current chondricthyan diversity in the Mississippi River? Now a fair amount of you might be confused when I say "Chondricthyan diversity in the Mississippi River", but this is truly a cool case of truth stranger than fiction. -
Found these on vacation in Virginia. Are they the same type of ray despite the different look ?
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This is probably one of my best days out in the Paleocene I’ve had yet. I went to purse state park today and upon arriving, there were at least 6 cars. The beach was flooded with people, and boot prints were all over. It seemed well traversed. The tide was also coming in, with some of the beach inaccessible without wadders or high boots. It was slow going on the first half of the day but the second half couldn’t have been better. I was finding one stunning fossils after the next. This was a pretty good outing, and I will have to return as soon as possible. Here are all the finds: E
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Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to c
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I'm so sorry, but I have no location since it was bought in a store :[ It measures 70x15x02 (mm) Any guesses on what it could be?
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Out Yesterday, Miocene Bone Valley.. Normally I find small broken and whole shark teeth, stingray teeth, barbs, and dermal denticles and an occasional prize. This was no different, The prizes were small Megs... Almost everything has a bluish tint.. I like the FAT roots on these Megs, and I especially liked this one which is my 1st whole Hubble Meg. I have been hunting 14 years. These are not common. Here are some very nice Hubble Megs from Harry's Gallary In additional to sharing the Meg, a question... Do any Sting ray Barbs not have side serrat
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Can someone confirm or deny whether this is from a bonnet ray? Found over the weekend near Stratford Hall in VA - along the Potomac. Thanks!
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Hello, a nice discovery today, this 4 cm stingray barb found in zanclean from the South of France This is the first time I have found this kind of fossil. Is it possible to determine the exact name of the animal? Thanks in advance
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I recently recieved some Aurora, NC (Lee Creek) micro matrix from, @thelivingdead531. And what an awesome gift it was! But I am having trouble with trying to ID the stingray teeth I found. So I thought I would ask my fellow TFF members if they might be able to help. Thanks in advance. Ps. I can take more pictures if I need to. -@fossilhunter21
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From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
This is a tooth from the Stingray Dasyatis. It is found on a male stingray during mating season as the swept back design is more efficient than the normal tooth for clasping the female ray during mating. -
Hi! First, thank you to everyone who responded to my older post asking for fossil hunting tips- I used as many as I could and I found some great stuff! Here's what I found and can't ID myself from my latest trip to Flagponds (Calvert MD). I was thinking 11 might be snaggletooth shark, and 19 and 20 looked like they might be from some kind of white shark though I'm not entirely sure? In addition to those I'm especially interested in identifying 1, 3, 4, 5, 8-9, and 13 but haven't been able to so far. I'd appreciate any help identifying these and the other teeth I have pictured! 36-48 are
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Vertebrae from either a stingray or skate. Found in close proximity to each other at a site where such things are rare, so probably from the same animal. L:arger one is about 3cm wide. Found at Reedy Point, C and D Canal, Delaware. Maastrichtian. -
Yesterday, a hunting companion found a Vertebra like this one. The majority of his finds were Stingray (broken) mouth plates, isolated teeth and barbs. He immediately thought he had a Stingray vert, but I said no.... Sawfish. and now I am not sure. Why is it so difficult to find verts from Stingrays (Manta, Eagle, etc) identified on the Internet? What do they look like? Can I compare a Sawfish vert to a Manta Ray Vert and note differences? In searching, I found this reference and photos https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/skates/anatomy/internal-eng.html
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From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
This assemblage came from one cup (about 340 ml) of micro matrix from Aurora Fossil Museum. Oddly, they are generally much larger than most of what I found in the rest of the matrix. They are all from either the Pliocene or Pleistocene. See album description. -
Hello all! This summer I took my yearly trip to Wyoming, and with my luck I again came back with several extremely incredible fossils! I found many less fish this time around, but I did find several more rare ones! I probably only found around 50 fish in the 3 days I was there. I found 8 Phareodus, including 2 juveniles! I found only 1 Mioplosus this year, the fish seems to be avoiding me sadly... I found 3 Priscacara, including a very large Priscacara serrata! I found an interesting Hypsiprisca preserved beautifully on an algea layer, also found several more Amia scales, but one of my favor
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Found today. Any fossil with multiple ray teeth is rare for me. I have previously found a complete mouthplate about the size of a quarter. Then, 3/4 of a much larger mouthplate and it was oval in shape. This one seems to be square or rectangular. Please identify the species and if possible, give me a photo of a single tooth. Thanks....
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No, not named for the famous dive/snorkel spot in Grand Cayman where tourists can interact (usually quite safely) with swarms of Southern Stingrays but instead referring to the abundance of Dasyatis sp. teeth from the Montbrook fossil site in north-central Florida. While this site is a treasure trove of fossil material providing huge numbers of specimens of turtles as well as other creatures like alligators, gomphotheres, tapirs, peccaries, llamas, and ever an early saber-toothed cat, many taxa on the faunal list are only known from micro-fossils. In addition to valuable and scarce fossil rema
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My youngest son found this spine on the Conecuh River, Covington Co., AL Geology: Lisbon Fm. (basal), Eocene, Late Ypresian My other two kids also found spines, but not this nice. I, of course, was the only one who didn't find one! Anyway, I wanted to show it to you all.
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I've always been fascinated by the Cretaceous sea and its myriad of terrifying carnivores, many that would've made Jaws look meek. After watching BBC's Sea Monsters, I made it my goal to compile a box of sea monster fossils. I started this journey 10 years ago, and finally completed the box recently. Allow me to present my Predators of the Cretaceous Sea collection, and take you on a journey to the most dangerous sea of all times. The box measures 20.25 inches long. Inside are 24 unique predator fossils. I will introduce them from left to right, top to bott
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I live in the Arabian desert, near Jebel Hafeet. Yesterday I found a pavement tooth of an eagle ray. Today I found a mysterious fossil which looks like it might be part of the body and fins/wings of a ray. I appreciate that their bodies were made of cartilage and that is not usually preserved very well, but in some cases it’s possible. Any opinions would be most appreciated. Thank you so much.
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From the album: Fossil Collection
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Hello everyone. I saw this green river stingray bidding for much less than it is worth on an auction site. I will likely not bid on it, but in case I do I wanted to check it’s authenticity. I know these are not really faked, but it would be quite a large purchase so I just wanted to make sure everything was in order with it. Thank you all!
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