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Australian Marine Invertebrate Fossils to Trade
Dan 1000 posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hello Everyone. I have recently returned from some fossil collecting trips and have many Australian invertebrate fossils to trade. I have a large collection of sea urchins, gastropod, bryozoa and other marine invertebrates to trade. The Victorian fossils I have to trade are Miocene to Pliocene and the New South Wales fossils are Devonian and Permian. I would like in return vertebrate fossils. ( Sharks teeth, fish and shark vertebra, mammal bone, etc.) I am also happy to trade overseas. Thanks, Daniel -
Where do i get permission for mulbring quarry near cessnock?
FrostbyteFossils posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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How to tell difference between smooth rock or bone fossils?
FrostbyteFossils posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Found this rock. Looks similar to when fossil bones are polished. I doubt it is a bone but is there a good way of telling the difference?
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Found in NSW Australia. Is it a fossil or just an interesting iron mineral?
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Searching through some matrix I found this partial vertebra. Wish it was a bit more complete but maybe next one. This was found in marine sediment from near Richmond in Central Queensland Australia. It is from the Toolebuc formation witch is Cretaceous Albian about 98 - 100 million years old The longest length dimension is 6.5 millimetres so the animal it comes from must have been huge Also interested in where on spine this would have been situated if sufficient information can be gleaned for this partial. Thanks in advance for all input. Mike
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So we ventured out this last Saturday and had a bit of luck. We chanced upon a poor bit of bone protruding from an unusual deposit and went to uncover more of it to see the extent of which it went into the soil. After a time, it started to look like an upside-down Diprotodontid jaw: So we finished up the property and went to get a late lunch; we decided we would come back to put it in a plaster jacket. I later decided it would get too cold and dark for me to be of much help (I can barely yield "Maximus"-our giant pick-and am quite out of my element in the dark), but @Ash and a friend of ours decided to head back around 3:30 p.m. (Brisbane time) to at least get it pedestalled and plastered. They left the jacket to dry during the night after having finished at about 7-7:30. The following morning, Ash and I headed back out with a sturdy garden fork to dig under the jacket and flip it over. I had had the idea of taking a wheelbarrow down to carry it back to the vehicle (which was a ways away because we couldn't drive directly to the site due to the terrain) the night prior, but we had forgotten it, so Ash was dreading carrying it (I'm only about 110 pounds, and this jacket weighed much more than I, so I was not going to be of much help in hauling it back...I resorted to carrying the fork back and paving the easiest trail back to the vehicle for Ash). Anyways...we did manage to get under it and flip it over, which was a relief. The jacket had worked. Then we both hoped-if it was a jaw indeed-that it had teeth! But our first task was getting it back to the vehicle, so we made many stops along the way until we could leave it at a place we could go get the vehicle and drive back to: We got back to the house, rested a bit, and then started on prep. This was a BIG jacket: And it would prove to be an unusual prep. We had never come across such a mix of soils. Clay, white rock, charcoal-like clay, and black nodules with orange inside them. Finally, we found...a tooth! We grew excited. All the work for the plaster jacket was worth it if the jaw had teeth, and it seemed it did. But as time wore on, our excitement was quelled by the difficulty of determining what was bone...and what wasn't. And what was bone was so soft! And...deformed? We started finding more teeth (a beautiful black-blue), but they weren't arranged appropriately: And as always, so many cracks! But when we started towards the back of the jaw(s), we started to realize things were getting really "wonky"...what were we to make of this? Where was the bone going (obviously not where it should be)? After sending a few pics to the QLD Museum curator to see what he thought, we decided to call it a night last night. So far as we can discern (with the help of Scott, the curator), we think it is Diprotodon, but it's unusually small and has odd preservation. Time will tell us more, hopefully, so we'll keep this page updated. Right now we are waiting for it to dry so we can apply paraloid to help stabilize it. We just tried to remove as much clay as possible so that when it does dry, it doesn't crack the fossil further. Here's a 15 cm ruler for scale where we stopped:
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I have come across another small bird fossil and am unsure what bone it actually is. this was found in the toolebuc formation in central Queensland Australia near Richmond. This makes it about 98 to 100 million years old. The bone at longest length is 17 mm so still quite small. Thanks for any input in advance. Mike D'Arcy
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Could belong to either Dasyurus viverrinus (Eastern Quoll), D. maculatus (Tiger Quoll) or D. geoffroii (Western Quoll).
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A good paper on D. optatum here
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Hello everyone, I have been collecting fossils for almost two years now but even incthis short period of time I have amassed a large collection. Unfortunately bringing home slabs of rock home atleast a couple times a month starts to fill up the house and does not bode well with my parents. Still being 15 I do not have a lot of space for the fossils so my dad and I have started cleaning through the garage soughting through the large slabs. To also tackle the storage peoblem I have started collecting smaller fossils (Shells, teeth, etc) and have now taken an interest in micro fossils. There is a couple sites in Victoria and South Australia where you can collect micro fossils (Small gastropods, bivalves, echinoids) but I am looking to buy some micro vertebrate fossil matrix. I have been looking around a couple places and have found a store with some good reviews (D and D Fossils). Is there any other places I should check out? Also I am happy to trade for micro fossil matrix if any one is interested. Thanks, Daniel
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New paper out on Albian-Turonian Squalicorax from Australia, including three new species. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2018.1462401
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looking trough some matrix I came across this little specimen. When it was complete it would have been 40 mm in length. Unsure of the orientation of the section of bone on left end and small section in middle is upside down, but due to this being very delicate, I am not going to play with it. The bone is hollow, thin walled and filled with calcite but the bone will chip easily so this is the only photo as specimen now in small case so as to not damage further. I am comfortable with this being bird as it matches the preservation of the other pieces found in the area. I assume it is an ulna due to the curve so it would be the only one known from this species. The other bird specimens from this local are assumed to be enantiornithine, but only time will tell for sure. Mike D'Arcy
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I came across some interesting fish scales when looking trough some matrix. ruler scale is .5 off a millimeter so all are about 3.5 mm in width so fairly small. The scale on the left has a small curve and the others are flat. the specimen on the right is fairly common but the other two are the only ones I have found and both were in the same small batch so could be from the same fish. Any ideas on what family of fish they come from? Mike
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What on earth is this!!???? I’m so so confused right now,,, when it was still in the stone I thought it was a claw or tooth.... obviously I’m no good at this, but maybe someone else knows, now we can see it
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Given to me by a member of the Australian Fossil Club. Will add more information about the formation soon.
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Common coral collected from Fossil Beach, Mornington, Victoria.
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Common shell collected from Fossil Beach, Mornington, Victoria. Alternative combination: Barbatia celleporacea
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http://www.newsweek.com/400-million-year-old-ancestor-dinosaurs-humans-and-bony-fish-discovered-954474?piano_t=1
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Hey all I bought this Emuellidae balcoracania from ebay, which turned up today and it looks awesome! I'd like to know what you think of it
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Hello! This is where I will be posting the best of my Talbragar Fish Beds collection over time. The site is near Gulgong, NSW Australia. They are from the late Jurassic. 1. Cavenderichthys talbragarensis, named after and endemic to the site (so far). This is probably my best specimen from the site, it is complete, large, and white. Continued...
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I recently moved to Melbourne, Australia to be with my husband and it has always been on my bucket list to basically go out and hunt for fossils in my spare time. I grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and for a brief time frame I lived in Colorado (and will forever regret never being able to find the time to fossil hunt there, ugh!). Since I am new to the area as well as the hobby, any tips and guides would be greatly appreciated by anyone willing to offer! I even went to scope out Beaumaris today. Not at low tide, sadly, so I didn't find anything neat but I think I may take a look there again sometime soon. It's only about 40 minutes away. Geelong is next on my list, so if you have tips for there, I would love any! Any tips on possible gear I should bring in terms of diggin' around? I can't wait to gather a little collection.
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Hi everyone from sunny Perth Long time watcher and now starting my journey hunting down fossils is Western Australia. My my dad used to take me when I was 4-5 but that was over 30 years ago and then he passed away. Now that I have kids I’m looking to show them how to do it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
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https://phys.org/news/2018-04-primitive-kangaroo-ancestor-rediscovered-years.html
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Is this a fossil? It was found in Australia.
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Fossil Hunting Holiday at Beaumaris, Australia - Feb 2017
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
G'day all! I have just returned from a three day collecting trip to Beaumaris, a coastal suburb of Melbourne in Australia. This report acts as a pictorial overview of the trip and provides an insight into what collecting at this beach location is like. A similar trip was undertaken by@digit late last year (http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/70070-quick-trip-to-beaumaris-cliffs-australia/). I too had previously spent two days at this location in early 2016, during my first Victorian fossil hunting trip. Pictures of the finds from that trip can be found in this thread: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/61248-fossil-hunting-holiday-in-victoria-australia-dec-2015-jan-2016/ I decided to return to Beaumaris for a second time as i haven't been collecting for quite some time and i wanted to find more vertebrate material from this location, as i knew the potential that the site possesses and didn't manage to do it enough justice on my first trip here. All of these finds were collected on the shore across the three days that i spent here from the 14th through to the 16th of February. I spent most of that time rummaging on hands and knees in the beach shingle near the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron. As mentioned my main goal was to collect vertebrate material and i was especially interested in finding shark teeth. The fossils come from the Beaumaris Sandstone formation and are between 5 and 6 million years old (latest Miocene or earliest Pliocene). Most of the vertebrate material is derived from a phosphatic nodule bed at the base of this formation, just above the unit contact with the underlying Gellibrand Marl. This nodule bed outcrops only at the very base of the cliffs and on the shore platform which is normally covered by the sea except at low tide. Because i was collecting loose material from the beach shingle a lot of the bones and teeth are heavily worn and fragmentary, but they are still very cool! Beaumaris is highly significant as it is one of the only places in Australia where you get fossils of both marine and terrestrial animals from this period of time, capturing a snapshot of almost the entire ecosystem from fish, birds and mammals to corals, gastropods, echinoids and many others. It is also one of the only places where you can collect vertebrate fossils so close to a major Australian city (only about 30 minutes drive from the centre of Melbourne). The Location: Fossil bones in-situ and in my hand (these are most likely from whales): Many more pictures still to come!
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