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Micro matrix for trade- Old Church and Hallencourt
fossilsonwheels posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
I have small amounts of micro matrix that I’d be willing to trade. My preference would be to trade both to one person for ease of shipping. Old Church Formation, Oligocene Virginia I had separated some matrix before searching any of it specifically to trade some and rethought it after I found a Pristiophorus rostral lol I decided to not search it though as the intent was to give somebody else a chance to have fun searching. It is very productive matrix. I can see a couple of shark teeth in there. Among the possible shark teeth are Notorynchus, Squatina, Carcharias, Alopias, Isurus, Galeocerdo, Galeorhinus, Sphyrna, Carcharhinus, Pachyscyllium, Hemipristis. You are also likely to find a few Batoid teeth like Dasyatis, Raja, and Myliobatid. I really enjoyed this matrix. It’s a pretty diverse Oligocene fauna with good density of shark material. I did a report here on my searches for reference. Hallencourt France, Cretaceous Tiny matrix, tiny and very sparse fossils. You’ll find some invertebrate material. You may find a few fish teeth. The shark fauna is really cool, pretty diverse BUT there isn’t a ton of teeth. You’ll find broken Anomotodon. You’re very likely to find tiny Chiloscyllium teeth. There is a publication on this fauna and other possibilities like Synechodus, Scyliorhinus, Carcharias, Heterodontus, Palaeotriakis exist but again it’s really sparse. There is also a report on my searches of this matrix. As far as I what I’d like to get in return, I’d say interesting shark and/or batoid teeth. Some of what I’d like is below but I’m open minded and it’s not physically a lot of matrix Pristiophorus Heterodontus Squaliformes Catshark teeth, particularly Cretaceous and Miocene teeth Micro matrix that has shark teeth. I don’t need STH, Calvert, Post Oak Creek, Aquia, Atco, Cookiecutter Creek, Peace River,
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Our friend @sharkdoctor sent us some micro matrix from the Old Church Formation in Virginia. This is our second batch and the first was fairly sparse but we did find some cool stuff. I haven’t searched much of this matrix but it’s already produced some nice teeth and has a better density too. There isnt, to my knowledge, any descriptions of Old Church material so my ID’s are just best guess. First pic- a beautiful little Galeorhinus tooth. Second pic- a really awesome Sphyrna tooth, maybe S. media. Third pic- a colorful Galeocerdo, I’d guess G. aduncas. I will update this I go.
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While combing my local beach in Virginia Beach, I came across this piece. The inside coloring and texture has me questioning tooth, much like some of the broken pieces of GWs that I’ve found in the same area. Shaped like an oval cylinder, about 3 inches long. Tusk? Rock?
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Please help me determine if this is a fossil. My dog had it in its mouth, but is mineralized and heavy. It was found in Fairfax County Virginia. Thanks!
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Eocene lignitized seeds/fruits from Virginia
MarcoSr posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
I just sent the below Eocene lignitized seeds/fruits from Virginia to a paleo botanist at the Smithsonian Institution, who will use a new CT scanner that makes this material vastly more interpretable than before, to study them. Since these seeds/fruits are not mineralized like petrified wood they should have been stored in Glycerin with a bit of thymol, which is an anti fungal agent, rather than in gem jar cups. You can see the discoloration of some of the foam from deterioration of the seeds/fruits over the 15 to 20 years that most of them were stored. I hope that they are still useful. I wish I knew about the proper storage years ago. Some of the specimens show very little deterioration which makes me believe that they are modern contaminants. Marco Sr.
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The assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is researching squamates, which includes snakes, from the Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia. A couple of friends and I have given him recently a large number of snake vertebrae, mostly from the sea snakes Palaeophis casei and Palaeophis toliapicus, from the Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia, to support his research. We will donate the specimens needed for his research. He is definitely interested in my large Palaeophis sp. vertebra in the below pictures: I also gave him the snake vertebrae in the below pictures. When I first started finding the sea snake vertebrae in the Nanjemoy Formation, I put them in gem jars in gem jar displays. However, I found so many, that I also then began to put them in just baggies. I also gave some odd ball specimens, which I believe were lizard vertebrae and a snake tooth. Marco Sr.
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Looking for a possible ID of this tooth fragment. It is almost 1 inch (2.5 cm) in length.
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I found this on the beach. It is heavy and looks like a fossil. Under close examination it looks like layers of gauze. Can you help?
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Around 1 inch (2.5 cm) in length. It has an apparent ribbed structure on one side. From the Potomac River in VA.
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Shark, Ray and Bony Fish Vertebrae
MarcoSr posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
I have several thousand well preserved shark and ray vertebrae from the Eocene of Virginia. I also have many more thousands of bony fish vertebrae from the Eocene of Virginia. See the group pictures in this post. The paper plates are 9 inches in diameter for size reference. There is very little written on fossil shark and ray vertebrae that I can find in the literature and what is written is scattered throughout a good number of different papers. I have a unique, extensive assemblage of many different vertebrae types and forms which represent the fish species from the Eocene of Virginia that could be the basis of a very comprehensive paper on fossil shark, ray and bony fish vertebrae. After two years of looking for a fish researcher interested in studying these vertebrae and writing a paper, which in my opinion is really needed to help with fossil fish vertebrae identification, I’ve finally found a renowned fish researcher who is very interested. In an e-mail reply after seeing pictures of the vertebrae, he stated “I can tell you the shark, ray, and bony fish vertebral centra are worth describing! They appear to be beautifully preserved! The dataset looks exciting to me”. I’m hoping that different fish vertebrae types can be identified and described and realize it will be extremely difficult, with the current state of both fossil and extant fish vertebrae research, to try to identify the vertebrae further to fish family/genera/species. I will donate all of the vertebrae so there is a large comparative sample to go along with those vertebrae specifically described in any paper. Pictures of the shark and ray vertebrae ( 1.5 mm to 20 mm): Continued in the next reply. Marco Sr.
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Found this little fossil on the James River shoreline near Surry, Virginia (US). Wondered whether it might be an incomplete dolphin ear bone, but not entirely confident in that ID! It's just about an inch long.
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Hello, I’m new to this group and was hoping for help identifying this find. I found it on a well known fossil beach on the east coast of VA, USA. It looks like a vertebra to me, but this was my first fossil hunting trip and I was expecting to find shark teeth. Any ideas on what this is from? Or if it is really ancient? Thank you for your help!
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Please help me identify 2 unusual fossils I discovered November 2022 at Popes Creek on the Potomac River, Westmoreland VA. I have attached images.
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Some of the stuff from recent trips. I have had a great year for cowshark teeth @Fin Lover ! One particular spot has produced the best, some even intact. My "usual" finds are sand tiger teeth; most of these, except the biggest, have sharp cusps. And another spot produced mako/ great white teeth. (Some glitches with my scanner; not the image I had edited(?)) May append another later. Weather has been great, cool in the morning, warm with low humidity in the afternoons. Finally getting some rain (too late for my garden) and washing out some teeth and other stuff. Fishing has been good, but the catch poor here (lots of small speckled trout; would think it would bode well for next year, but there seems no connection.)
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Hi all! Looking for advice and insight on this cetacean ear bone ( periotic? ) … All info is welcome and thanks!
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Highlights from a couple of recent trips. I found two Hemipristis/ snaggletooth, the big one is perfect (rare for me). Also a nice cowshark tooth, tips intact and most of a root (also rare for me). More gray sharkteeth than usual, fewer angel shark and drum "teeth" (less gravel where I was digging?) I think the black piece with embedded gravel is a drum tooth plate; not sure what the yellow piece is? (when in doubt "Turtle"). A bonito nose and the usual sand tiger spikes. Fun to be hunting in the cooler weather, less mosquitoes and deer flies, still frogs and salamanders although the water was largely gone from the creek. We had an inch plus of rain yesterday and more expected Sunday night, so hopefully it will move stuff into the opening.
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Yorktown formation microfossils from Chippokes State Park in Virginia
MiguelM posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
Hello, Some friends and I went to Chippokes State Park in Virginia last week. The park is beautiful, and going down to the beach was very nice. We ended up settling at a sand bar formed at the mouth of the College Run creek. Although, we did not find anything too remarkable at first sight - other than lots of fossil oyster and clam shells - after sitting down for a bit we found our first shark tooth. With renewed hopes we kept scouring the area and found a couple more smaller ones - no meg big or small sadly... I did decide to bring with me a gallon Ziploc bag half full of material to look at under the microscope. So far, like halfway through the bag, this is what I've found that has called my attention. Smaller marks are mm on the scalebar. Just a couple of questions or observations: - I think the crab claws are not fossils, right? - Are these guys urchin spines? - What do you think this is? It has some symmetry, but I am not sure if fossil or fancy looking (little) rock. - Tiny tiny shark tooth, but what species? - I have no clue what these might be If there's anything else that catches your eye, let me know and I'll take better pics. I really want to start building a good knowledge of the fossils/micro-fossils of the Williamsburg-Norfolk area now that I live here and so far removed from my beloved Peace River. Thanks: Miguel M
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Found this nice little tooth on Chippokes plantation down in southern VA. It’s just over 1 1/4 inches. It looks meg-ish, but it just seems a bit off. Any ideas?
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A few interesting ones from recent trips (tried to flip and scan each side). Finally found a cowshark symphysial, but like most from the creek, it was broken (fewer but better shape from the beaches? Hopefully not broken from screening.) The pathological tooth I posted last trip (a sand tiger quite bent), along with dolphin tooth and skate scute. No big makos, but a few inch or so. A lot of fossil coral chunks at the spot. Not sure the mammal tooth is ID-able; tips of points missing. I like the jaw bone, not common here. A few angel shark teeth, fairly common here.
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Localities in the Virginia Area
Andúril Flame of the West posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello everyone, This is my first posting on TFF (although I've been lurking on the forum for a while) and I am excited to be joining a community centered around one of my main interests. I have seen that this forum houses a very kind and helpful community, and I was hoping that some may be interested in helping a - very new and inexperienced - fossil hunter. I will be in the Charlottesville area for Labor Day weekend and I am in search of any tips for finding fossils in that area or general locations where they might be. I am willing to drive up to 3 hours to other locations in Virginia or locations in West Virginia, North Carolina, or Maryland. I have heard that there are some fossils in parts of George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia and I would be very glad to hear where I can find fossils there and if a permit is necessary to hunt for invertebrate fossils in that location. I am most interested in hunting for fossils from the Ordovician, Devonian, and Carboniferous periods, but any fossils would be great. I greatly appreciate any tips or information! -
Hi - I collected these specimens on my property in the Blue Ridge Mtns/Shenandoah Ridge, and I’m being told they are examples of petrified wood. I’m not so sure. I’d love to hear opinions from folks who know a lot more about these formations than I do. Thank you!
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Found along the Potomac River, and is half an inch long at best. It's not that visible in these photos but there are faint hints of serrations.
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