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Fossil Hunting Holiday at Beaumaris, Australia- Dec 2020
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hey everyone, i've just yesterday returned from another four day fossil trip to Beaumaris: a coastal suburb in Melbourne, Australia with fossiliferous exposures of the Beaumaris Sandstone Formation. The fossils are about 5.5 million years old (latest Miocene) and comprise an extremely diverse range of both marine and terrestrial animals. A great overview of the Beaumaris fossil fauna is provided by this PDF, for those unfamiliar with the site: https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/beaumaris_fossil_book_museum_victoria.pdf In short, everything from sharks, rays and bony fish to whales, dolphins, seals, birds, echinoids, gastropods, corals, bivalves and others can all be found. It's almost like you need a checklist when collecting here, to mark off the faunal groups that you find one by one. Which makes the collecting rather exciting as you never know what might turn up! Loose fossils can be kept, but the cliffs and foreshore are protected so no excavating or digging of anything in situ is allowed. But this is fine as most fossils are loose on the beach or adjacent shallow seafloor. Lots of people that collect here do so by snorkelling the shallow waters just offshore, and i also brought my wetsuit, snorkel and fins on this trip to search underwater which was very fun. As well as fossils, the waters are rich in modern marine life and it's fascinating to see them up close. The snorkelling and beach collecting proved very successful! The location: Marine mammal bones (whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals): A selection of indeterminate bone chunks. Small pieces of bone are fairly common finds. A small mammal vertebra (caudal?), probably from a dolphin or porpoise. Shown in front and side views. Bony fish: Right and left fish lower jaws, probably from the same species, but found separately so they're not associated. What luck though to have both matching sides! Although the left jaw is from a smaller individual. Crushing toothplate from Diodon formosus. Continued in the next post... (sharks, rays, invertebrates)
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Help With A Privately Owned Opal Specimen!!
Australian Paleontology posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello everyone, after browsing the internet i came across a very interesting private opalised fossil collection (http://andrestucki.blogspot.com/). In this collection there is various fossil specimens, however it has most notably AN OPALISED PTEROSAUR SPECIMEN!!! This specimen is the most complete opalised pterosaur i have ever seen as it includes a fibula and tibia, tooth, partial skull fragments as well as a possible wing imprint and internal details in the fossils. This specimen is beyond beyond rare and as you could imagine is extremely scientifically valuable. As of now i am trying everything in my power to contact the owner but all i can do is leave comments on his posts. If anyone has any clue how to contact him directly or possible ways to, please please let me know!! Ps here is a video about only the Tibia And Fibula of the Specimen as well as a photograph, Thank you
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Hello all, & Thank you in advance. I was wondering if you could help me ID this Stromatolite species or location it could be from, it was a random buy & fair price, though it was only labeled as a Australian Stromatolite. I've looked at a Australian dealer that sells a wide range of AU stromatolites. I'm not coming up with a clear match that says this is it, I know stromatolites can vary some to a lot in a species & locality. Australian or some other location around the world ?
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Hey everyone, I found a ton of fossils littered on the ground around a cave entrance about a week ago. I took a few rocks home but can't quite figure out what they are. I've tried my best to light up the fossils for the pictures, but all the details were difficult to see when the photo was fully lit. A 10x hand lens was used to take the close ups. Ruler is metric. Geology: Bungonia Formation limestone, 427.4 - 410.8 million years old. Found in NSW, Australia ROCK 1 I have 2 rocks with the same fossil. I want to say it's a type of solitary rugose coral, but still not sure.. I saw a few disc-like fossils in the rocks at the site (perhaps the top of the coral?). You can see it on both faces of the rock Rock 2: Same species are the rock 1? Here's another shot of rock 2. You can see a few fossils in this, especially the crinoid (stem?) and the possible rugose coral in the bottom right. I don't know what that line that meanders through the middle of the rock is though and would love advice ROCK 3 This is the one I'm absolutely stumped by. They're difficult to see, but there's faint fossils on this rock. It wasn't found near the cave entrance like the first 2 rocks but in a small eroded drainage line. Are they even fossils?
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Another fossil my son found.not sure if its plant or animal. It also looks to contain gold in the middle, well so he hopes:)
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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. Mike
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Good morning. I just wanted to share one of the projects I've been working on. It's a Thalassina lobster from Darwin in the Northern Territories of Australia and it from the Holocene-Pleistocene. Photos include the before and current stage of the prep. Hope you enjoy.
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Hi everyone! This is my first find, not so exciting as I saw on other members' pictures, though still exciting for me I found it in Sydney Australia, on a beach near Long Reef golf club, Collaroy, NSW, Australia. Rock face here is weathering and pieces of black shale are falling off. As far as I know the entire Sydney area are from Triassic period and later. One looks to me like some plant, probably a flower. If it's a flower, then it shoudl be definitely younger than Triassic for sure. The smaller one is probably similar, since they were on the same rock. Thanks!
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Hi All, Anyone got an idea of if this is a fossil plant or animal? Cheers R
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Cavendericthys talbragarensis. Late Jurassic, Merrygoen Ironstone.Uarbry, New South Wales Australia
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Cavendericthys talbragarensis. Late Jurassic, Merrygoen Ironstone. Uarbry, New South Wales Australia -
Hey everyone . I found this on my local beach North coast of NSW Australia. I have no idea what it is it's really got me and my friends stumped I can't find anything like it on line anywhere .. it looks like a rock that has been some how encased in shell .. there is also a worm track/ hole on one side going through the shell into the rock if that's what it even is
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McNamara, K., 1987-1988. Australian Ammonites. Australian Natural History. 22(7), Summer 1987-88, pp. 332-336. Index and PDF links to Australian Natural History (1962-1995) Yours, Paul H.
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Found in a dam/quarry on the road between Gunningbland and Forbes in central western NSW. The pictured specimen is the counterpart. For reference - CAMPBELL, K. S. W., DURHAM, G. J. 1970. A new trinucleid trilobite from the Upper Ordovician of New South Wales. Palaeontology, 13, 4, 573–580. link WEBBY, B. 1974. Upper Ordovician trilobites from central New South Wales. Palaeontology, 17, 2, 203–252. link
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Another fossil found by amateurs makes the news. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-28/citizen-scientist-finds-460-million-year-old-fossil/12397700
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A new genus and species of Devonian plant from Australia
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
360-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Extinct Species of Fern-Like Plant SciNews, June 17, 2020 http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/keraphyton-mawsoniae-08545.html the paper is; Champreux, A., Meyer-Berthaud, B., and Decombeix, A.-L., 2020, Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia. PeerJ 8: e9321; doi: 10.7717/peerj.9321 https://peerj.com/articles/9321/ Yours, Paul H. -
Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints
Owl_Roker posted a topic in Fossil News
Hello Fossil Friends, You might have already known or been aware, but I came across this in the news today and thought I’d share it with you. I note that these fossils are not a recent discovery—most just had not been scientifically described, hence the recent publication. ******************** Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus—now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The discovery came in University of Queensland research, led by paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio, which analyzed southern Queensland dinosaur footprint fossils dated to the latter part of the Jurassic Period, between 165 and 151 million-years-ago. "I've always wondered, where were Australia's big carnivorous dinosaurs?" Dr. Romilio said. "But I think we've found them, right here in Queensland. The specimens of these gigantic dinosaurs were not fossilized bones, which are the sorts of things that are typically housed at museums. Rather, we looked at footprints, which—in Australia—are much more abundant." He explains, "These tracks were made by dinosaurs walking through the swamp-forests that once occupied much of the landscape of what is now southern Queensland." Most of the tracks used in the study belong to theropods, the same group of dinosaurs that includes Australovenator, Velociraptor, and their modern-day descendants, birds. Dr. Romilio said these were clearly not bird tracks. "Most of these footprints are around 50 to 60 centimeters in length, with some of the really huge tracks measuring nearly 80 centimeters," he said. "We estimate these tracks were made by large-bodied carnivorous dinosaurs, some of which were up to three meters high at the hips and probably around 10 meters long. To put that into perspective, T. rex got to about 3.25 meters at the hips and attained lengths of 12 to 13 meters long, but it didn't appear until 90 million years after our Queensland giants." He says, "The Queensland tracks were probably made by giant carnosaurs—the group that includes the Allosaurus. At the time, these were probably some of the largest predatory dinosaurs on the planet." Despite the study providing important new insights into Australia's natural heritage, the fossils are not a recent discovery. "The tracks have been known for more than half a century," Dr. Romilio said. "They were discovered in the ceilings of underground coal mines from Rosewood near Ipswich, and Oakey just north of Toowoomba, back in the 1950s and 1960s." Most, he said, hadn't been scientifically described, and were left for decades in museum drawers waiting to be re-discovered. "Finding these fossils has been our way of tracking down the creatures from Australia's Jurassic Park." Source: Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints ******************** Below are a few links to related news articles: Tracking Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaurs From Australia’s Jurassic Park Footprints reveal giant carnivorous dinosaurs the length of a bus wandered Australia And, if you’re interested in reading the research paper, which has been published in Historical Biology, the information is as follows: Anthony Romilio et al. Footprints of large theropod dinosaurs in the Middle–Upper Jurassic (lower Callovian–lower Tithonian) Walloon Coal Measures of southern Queensland, Australia., Historical Biology (2020). DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1772252 Thanks, Robert -
A partial incisor I acquired. The only information included was the general area in which it was found - Glen Innes.
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News article: https://www.miragenews.com/fossil-discoveries-reveal-cause-of-megafauna-extinction/ Open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15785-w
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Hi All! I found this possible nautilus fossil shell on the beach. It has nacre and also is quite fossilised on the ends. Any help with ID would be very appreciated. Thankyou!
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Retallack, G.J. & Broz, A.P. 2020 Arumberia and other Ediacaran–Cambrian Fossils of Central Australia. Historical Biology (in press - ahead-of-print publication) 25 pp. PDF LINK
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Fossil footprints found in Sydney suburb are from the earliest swimming tetrapods in Australia by Phil Bell, University of New England https://phys.org/news/2020-05-fossil-footprints-sydney-suburb-earliest.html Roy M. Farman et al. Australia's earliest tetrapod swimming traces from the Hawkesbury Sandstone (Middle Triassic) of the Sydney Basin, Journal of Paleontology (2020). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2020.22 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/australias-earliest-tetrapod-swimming-traces-from-the-hawkesbury-sandstone-middle-triassic-of-the-sydney-basin/2C787D68A8F2F300B2111A0E68E5981C Yours, Paul H.
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Sadly the paper is paywalled https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X20301234
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This fossil was found on a Gold Coast beach in 2019. I'm thinking Pliocene as it's like most of my beach fossil finds. It's a curiosity as it has some crystals inside the carapace. Any thoughts on this? Thankyou!
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This crab was found on a Gold Coast beach in 2019. It is my largest fossil! I love it! I think it is a mud crab. Era unknown.
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