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Tooth was found a long South Australia coast line, back up in the dunes. Have had it for nearly 30 years. Would love to know what its from.
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So, some of you may have heard of the small outback opal mining town of White Cliffs, New South Wales Australia. For many who read this post, I suspect that you have never even heard of it, or even know that it produces opal fossils. White Cliffs is a 12 hour drive from Sydney, traveling north west (towards Broken Hill), you travel over the Blue Mountains, through the farms of the central-west, the gold and copper town of Cobar and then hitting the historical town of Wilcannia and then traveling north to White Cliffs. White Cliffs claim to fame is an opalised replacement of ikalite - known as a pineapple - presumably cause if its spikey appearance. Not much in the town... A post office come grocery store, a pub and petrol station opposite. Geology: The Wallumbilla Formation (Doncaster Member) crops out as mesa overlaying palaeozoic conglomerates. It represents a near-shore costal setting based on size fraction of the rock (sandstones - claystone) and the invertebrate / vertebrate fossil assemblage (gastropods, bivalves, crinoids, belemnites, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs). Low-lying hills (mesas) in the distance - white dirt representing the the Wallumbilla Formation (Doncaster Member). I was really hopeful that because of its long history of opal mining, its remoteness and the fact that fossils had been found here in the past, that finding fossils here would be really easy and plentiful. I was proven so wrong. 101 holes and none of them had fossils... This is all that remains of the opal rush that took place in 1889. So in the four days that we were there I found lots of opalised wood, a few shells and that was about it. Top left and bottom left - partial shells. Middle - a really nice example of a cut and polished slice of opal wood, and right one of the bits of wood found. Overall if you are prepared to put in the time, you can find fossils, but from my experience it was very hard to find material from just specking.
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Need help planning trip to Hutton Sandstone Formation/Walloon Coal Measures, Qld, Australia!
Australian Paleontology posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hey there! I've been wanting to go to the Hutton Sandstone Formation, Walloon Coal Measures to search for Jurassic aged fossils, specifically in search for dinosaurs such as Rhoetosaurus. The only problem is I can't seem to find anything online on how to get there, and where exactly the formation is. Can I get some help? -
I found this strange looking rock along the cliffs of Maslin Beach, South Australia. The beach is a fossil hotspot for shells but this doesn't look like a shell to me... Any idea what these strange lines are?
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Hi guys! Found this at Mona Vale (Sydney, Australia), early triassic, Narrabeen group. Fossil ID please.
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Hi Guys, I don’t know if we have any echinoid experts on the forum but I figured I’d try, I’ll start with this piece this is miocene from the Murray river, australia, there is a lovenia woodi on there but I’m not sure what species the regular echinoid is, thanks for your help
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IMG_1404.MOV Hi all. I’m very new here and hoping to get a verdict on a possible find. The “thing” was found on the ground surface with few similar pieces that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in a field near Boulia (Australia). It definitely sticks to the tongue, but is it a fossil or some sort of a septarian nodule? Thanks in advance for any info. IMG_1490.MOV
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Greetings all. New to this, so please go easy on me...
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Hi All, I purchased this Australian Dicrodium recently. The previous owner had used some sort of press stick / tack to attach the label. When the fossil arrived, the label was loose in the packaging. But there was some residue on the fossil itself. I tried to very gently remove some of this, but it took up some of the underlying fossil as it came away. What is the best way of removing it, without damaging the underlying fossil? Anyone with experience with this? Thanks
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Recently I found this plant fossil at the Late Triassic aged Blackstone Fm, Queensland, Australia. I think it’s a horsetail but I’m not certain.
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Hey, everyone! These are some of my paleo reconstructions I've done recently, and I thought I may as well share them here. Btw if you want to use them, the top to are both under CC BY-SA 4.0, so theres that. Enjoy! Firstly here we have a skeletal reconstruction of Eomurruna yurrgensis, a small procolophonid from the Early Triassic, Arcadia Formation of Queensland, Australia
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Here’s a different kind of possible opal fossil from Australia. This was found in Winton, not lightning ridge. See the next post for the story behind it. I hope the opal fossil collectors and experts on here will weigh in with their opinions.
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Paleontologists Classify New Species of Titanosaur, Largest Dinosaur of Australia
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Paleontologists have classified a a new species of Titanosaur, Australotitan cooperensis, found in 2007 in South-West Queensland. It is the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Australia. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57394830 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/world/australia/new-dinosaur-species.html- 2 replies
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Dating Craters: is younger Meteor Crater older, than previously thought
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Dating Craters: Wolfe Creek is younger Meteor Crater older, than previously thought https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dating-craters-wolfe-creek-is-younger-meteor-crater-older-than-previously-thought https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191121121811.htm The paper is: Barrows, T.T., Magee, J., Miller, G. and Fifield, L.K., 2019. The age of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater (Kandimalal), Western Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54(11), pp.2686-2697. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.13378 Yours, Paul H. -
An eight-million-year-old crocodile skull discovered in central Australia is now believed to be part of an extinct species new to scientists. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57139281
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About a year ago I would purchase delinquent storage lockers and accumulated many cardboard boxes that I've yet to go through. This was found in one of those boxes just this weekend with many other beautiful rocks. Just hoping someone can help me out with it.
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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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Hi everyone, My names Lachlan and I'm a university student at RMIT. I've had a long love of paleontology since I was a child, going around Victoria with my family visiting all the various dinosaur museums and reading tons of books. Although Im studying for my degree, I really want to pick up fossil hunting as a hobby along the side as well as reigniting my passion for learning about the past. I'm not sure if dinosaurs is the right term since when I say that since I think of large reptiles when I say it but Im interested in finding anything and everything there is to know about them. I really appreciate the significance of every fossil thinking that the item thats in my hand was once part of a living creature and the fossil surviving millions of years is just astonishing. It's hard to conceptualize how old fossils really are but when you do, you develop a really deep appreciation and wonder for them. I do love a good shark tooth or vertebrate fossil but finding anything is a gift. I decided to join this community to propel my knowledge of local fossil areas and of the facts about the fossils much faster than I could researching alone. It would be awesome to team up with a few knowledgeable people and go fossil hunting together too!
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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, A.S., David, T.W.E. and Pittman, E.F., 1895. The fossil fishes of the Talbragar Beds (Jurassic?), with a note on their stratigraphical relations. Memoir Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology 9, 1-27. Frese M, Gloy G, Oberprieler RG, Gore DB (2017) Imaging of Jurassic fossils from the Talbragar Fish Bed using fluorescence, photoluminescence, and elemental and mineralogical mapping. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179029. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0179029
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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) Marco Sr.
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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 puzzling. It's about as long as a Sharpie (sorry, no ruler on hand, so this was the most universal thing I could think of), and has the girth of a banana. It's much, much harder than the sandstone it was in, and much, much darker. Almost black. The part that was not eroded is in a pretty uniform semicircular shape, which made me think it could be a bone. The breaks you see were present in the thing before I popped it out of the rock. I'm assuming it was originally longer than what I have, as it was eroded away at the edge of the boulder, leaving the small chip at the end. The other end was sheared off at the other edge of the boulder. The rock broke off cleanly around the thing, so it's not a part of the sandstone substrate. Can anyone ID this for me? I know it's pretty beaten up - heavily eroded on the exposed side, and little creatures have started growing on it. Even just confirmation of its status as a fossil or mineral would be helpful. Also, some fossilised coral and shells I found at the same cliff on the same day. Weird little shells with a division up the middle. IDs on these would be greatly appreciated too. Thanks guys.
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