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Huge rock art complex filled with drawings of ice age creatures https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-rock-art-amazon.html
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Tiny Tooth of 15 Million Year Old New World Monkey Found in Amazon Basin
Scylla posted a topic in Fossil News
Tiny creature almost as small as pygmy Marmoset https://m.phys.org/news/2019-07-world-smallest-fossil-monkey-amazon.html -
Unknown fossil of part of skull (possible Ground Sloth?) from Bolivia
Vincent Vos posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi, I just signed in on fossilforum to see whether anybody is able to help me ID the fossil in the picture. Although I´ve read the guidelines on posting pics I'm afraid I can't offer any better pictures since the fossil in question is not in my posession and I was only able to take the picture attached. I did some checking on the internet, and my (very not expert) guess is it might be the upper jaw (part of skull) of some kind of ground sloth. The fossil was dragged up from the Orthon River in the northern Amazon of Bolivia, while dragging for gold. Apparently at the time they also found other parts of the animal including ribs, but it would be very difficult to retrieve any of this. I'd appreciate any suggestions on what this might be. Vincent