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Hi All, I found this strange looking rock in a creek bed in central Queensland. I've never seen anything like it before. Maybe fossilized coral of some type? There are opal fields and dinosaur fossils in the area. Sorry about the blurred photos, my phone is just about stuffed. Thanks
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2 days ago I found a beautiful jet black fossilised great white shark tooth almost 4cm long on a Sunshine Coast beach. I think it may be a lucky find as we’ve combed the beach for a few days now at low tide and nothing more to be found. I haven’t been able to find anything about finds in this area either. Not sure if anyone knows if it is a rare thing here?
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Two highly polished, end cut Stromatolite agate achats from the Mátra mountains, Gyöngyöstarján, Hungary from the Miocene, 20 million years ago that I recently purchased. These are the first Stromatolite fossils that I’ve added to my fossil collection. I’m posting a few pictures to show the incredible colors in these pieces. End Cut (1) ( 543grams 103mm by 102mm by 35mm) End Cut 2 (166grams 75mm by 45mm by 45mm)
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From the album: fish
Leptolepis gregarious Woodward, 1895.Late Jurassic.Merrygoen Ironstone, Purlawaugh Formation. Farrs Hill, Uarbry. New South Wales.Australia -
Hello everyone I have recently obtained an opal parcel of rough to cut into gems from the opal fields at lightning ridge Australia, however right before I was about to grind this one rough opal something stood out. I remembered walking in the natural history museum in Sidney Australia and noticed the opalized teeth of varies animals/dinos etc. This one was just like one I had seen many years ago. I cleaned it only; no polish just water and a soft paintbrush as not to alter it. From my research, I found a possible match a Hypsilophodon it lived in the area where lightning ridge opals are fo
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Can anyone please tell me what these are? Found in a quarry in Australia I have a lot of unusal shape rocks from there. 20210311_090719.heic
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Hi I have a fossil I found while exploring an area near Dubbo NSW australia. I taught it was just petrified wood until I cleaned it and notice on one end has colour and looks like it could have fish fins on the side. The length is 300mm and width is at its widest point 180mm. It was just sitting on side of a dirt track and also has another part to it which I will pick up next time I'm out that way again. Any help in identifying what I have here would be much appreciated as I wouldn't have a clue other than what I think it is. Thanks
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Is it from a great white? 1.5 inches and was found in Australia.
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One of the common coniferous plant fossils found at the Talbragar site is Agathis jurassica. The genus Agathis is extant, representing a small group of some 21 species mainly distributed in Australasia, belonging to the same family (Araucariaceae) as Wollemia. Together with a fishtail. Key references: White. M.E., 1981a. Fish beds reveal lush fossil forest. Australian Natural History 20 (7), 227-230. White. M.E., 1981b. Revision of the Talbragar Fish Bed Flora (Jurassic) of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 33 (15), 695-721. Woodward,
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Hi all. Yesterday, I went on my first fossil hunt in about fourteen years. Went back to one of my old haunts, Jan Juc beach on the south coast of Victoria, Australia (Oligocene deposit - mostly mud and sandstone). I was expecting to find the usual - sea urchins, small crabs, coral, sponges etc. Instead I found a big, dark thing. A thing is all I can describe it as - buried in sandstone with the eroded top showing, I initially thought it could be a toe, or maybe some petrified wood. Once I moved the boulder to my garden and attacked it with a small hammer, what popped out was a little puzzlin
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Planning trip to Lismore. Any fossils near there?
FrostbyteFossils posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello, I might be going on a week long trip to Lismore, NSW soon. Are there any fossil sites/places to look within an hour (any direction) from Lismore? -
A Late Devonian (?) ‘mystery fossil’ from New South Wales, Australia
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
McLean, G., 2017. A ‘mystery fossil’ is evidence for massive Devonian trees in Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 69, pp.101-118. https://journals.australian.museum/mclean-2017-rec-aust-mus-692-101118/ https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/37694/1661_complete.pdf Yours, Paul H. -
Giant lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
The Massive Genome of The Lungfish May Explain How We Made The Leap to Land The open access paper is; Meyer, A., Schloissnig, S., Franchini, P. et al. Giant lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03198-8 Yours, Paul H.-
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Pleistocene "Swamp King" (Croc) from South East Queensland
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Crikey! Massive prehistoric croc emerges from South East Queensland University of Queensland, Science Daily, December 21, 2021 The open access paper is: Ristevski, J., Yates, A.M., Price, G.J., Molnar, R.E., Weisbecker, V. and Salisbury, S.W., 2020. Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886. PeerJ, 8, p.e10466 Yours, Paul H.-
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I found this fossil at the Molecap Greensand Formation in Western Australia. It's a Late Cretaceous coastal marine deposit, mostly marine invertebrate fossils there, shark teeth too. Sometimes marine reptile fossils and there's also been a couple of dinosaur bone fragments found, plus a pterosaur jaw fragment. I visited there in search of shark teeth, unfortunately I didn't find any but I did find whatever this is. Maybe a bone fragment of some sort? A rib fragment maybe?
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Prehistoric Cambrian arms race - Emu Bay Shale, South Australia.
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Bizarre sea beast with a circular mouth full of serrated teeth sparked a 'prehistoric arms race' 500 million years ago Michael Havis and ShivaliBest, MailOnline, Dec. 13, 2020 The paper is: Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D. and GarcÃa-Bellido, D.C., 2020. Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology. Science advances, 6(49), p.eabc6721. Abstract of open access paper PDF version of paper Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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So i happen to come across this image, and it claims to be an opalised dinosaur jaw fragment from SA (South Australia) for me at least i do see some kind of fossil but its identification as carinal is dubious in my opion. What do yall think?
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Hi all I found this little specimen a while back back and have a tenatave Id for the specimen I am still open to other options as to what the fossil may be. This specimen was found in the marine enviroment of the toolebuc formation in central Queensland.This formation is cretaceous aged about 100 millions years. In this enviroment I have found - ichthyosaur, pliosaur, turtle, shark, fish, bird, pterosaur so the posibilities are there. I have held back on the tenatave ID so as not to push in any direction and to allow alternate sugestions. Thanks in advance for any input.
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Hello, I'm not sure if I can get criticism on here but I might as well try it anyway. So here we have an Eomurruna skeletal I've been working on for a while and its very close to done, I just need some criticism to complete it. For context sake, Eomurruna was a small procolophonid from the Early-Triassic rocks in Queensland, Australia. Thanks
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From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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Lepidopteris stormbergensis complex (?) (sensu Holmes et Anderson 2005b)
paleoflor posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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Cladophlebis sp. with unidentified pollen organ (?)
paleoflor posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Coalmine Quarry (Nymboida, Australia)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
