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Arctic Ocean fossil specimen collecting ideas?
cutgrindpolish posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could suggest an interesting fossil I could add to my collection that is from the Arctic Ocean. Fossil Walrus tusk is not allowed in my state and I'd like to add something from this locality. I was thinking the Greenland sleeper shark fossil teeth as it is the oldest vertebrate but I'm not sure how to identify one that would have traveled to the Arctic Ocean as I'm not aware of any collections in the arctic as opposed to closer. Is there any other interesting fossils that would be known to be from the Arctic Ocean? It is the last region not already in my -
A new ichthyosaur-related paper is available online: Nikolay G Zverkov and Megan L Jacobs. 2020. Revision of Nannopterygius (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae): reappraisal of the ‘Inaccessible’ holotype resolves a taxonomic tangle and reveals an obscure ophthalmosaurid lineage with a wide distribution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlaa028. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa028 The description of Nannopterygius borealis from the Arctic circle and the synonymization of the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian genera Paraophthalmosaurus and Yasykovia with Nannopterygius offers ne
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True North: Hunting Fossils Under the Midnight Sun by Lou Marincovich, PhD
Lou M posted a topic in Fossil Literature
Greetings! I spent my career as a research paleontologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (Menlo Park, California) and the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco), specializing in Cenozoic marine mollusks of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans. My summer fieldwork for 34 years was in Alaska, Siberia and northern Canada up toward the North Pole. Several times I had the indescribable thrill of being the first collector, perhaps the first human being, to visit a remote fossil site, reached by bush plane or helicopter. I was often dropped off to spend the day alone at remote sit- 4 replies
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Interesting article on a fossil tooth that his been "buried" in a museum vault for years. It was recently identified as a type of hyena that may have roamed the Arctic Circle. NYT subscribers, or those who haven't gone over a free limit, should be able to read. Cheers. Arctic hyena tooth fossil
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When did Life Arrive on Land? (Organic-walled microfossils, *FUNGI* Arctic, Canada)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi reached land long before plants. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, May 22, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html The paper is: Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, J.W. and Javaux, E.J., 2019. Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): Diversity and biostratigraphic significance. -
Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Found (Central Urals, Russia)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Was Masquerading as Fossilized Feces. Some researchers initially dismissed the remains of Palaeopascichnus lineari as teeny turds from a bygone era SmithsonianCom, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/oldest-known-macroscopic-skeletal-organism-was-masquerading-fossilized-feces-180970509/ Petrified Chains of 'Poop' Turn Out to Be One of Earth's Oldest Skeletons By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, October 9, 2018 https://www.livescience.com/63783-mystery-fossil-is-oldest-exoskeleton.ht -
It seems that some habits are just imprinted in the genes http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bear-fossils-arctic-1.4451466
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Hallo, Does anyone know what this might be? I am hoping for a dinosaur skin inprint. :-) This was found on Svalbard on a spot where I also found bones from Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaur. I am grateful for any help. Thanks! /Malin
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Hi everyone ! Just discovered this forum and thought I should give it a go regarding identifying some trace fossils. I am currently working with the sedimentology of the Upper Triassic on Svalbard and in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Several trace fossils has been observed in the field and it would of course help a lot to identify them when it comes to the sedimentological interpretation. So, feel free to comment. - Picture 1 shows a vertical 'tube' burrow in a heterolithic setting (mud + sand). The preliminary interpretation is that it was deposited in the offshore-transition zone. Could also
