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Dear Guys, I recently found one scapula fragment of big ungulate in Varena town, South Lithuania. It is 16,5 cm length and 6,5 cm width in the articular part (the joint is incomplete!) Please help me to decide which big ungulate it belongs to. Any help will be appreciated! Best Regards Domas
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Dear Guys, I have found this bone fragment about 6 months ago and I am not sure which family of mammal it belongs to. It is the lower end of radius, to me looks like similar to carnivorous cat but I am not sure if it cannot be an ungulate. The length of piece is 9 cm. Please help to identify this bone. Any help will be appreciated! Best Regards Domas
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Three unidentified tiny bones from Lithuania
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Dear Guys, Today I prepped out the scraps of two bones in flint and also have another completely preserved. The first bone cavity in the picture belongs to frog clavicle and coracoid block in my opinion, the second cavity is scapula like and the third bone is scapula like complete fossil example. The scapula like bones are very tiny- they are only 3 mm length, the coracoid/clavicle block is 4,5 mm length. The remains are found several years ago in Varena town and Barciai village (varena district), South Lithuania, the Baltic States. Please help to confirm or identify frog bone block and especially help with ID of scapula like remains. I can tell that there are not visible joints in scapula like bones and the both specimens are from different sides. Any ideas? Best Regards Domas
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Pterosaur or Enantiornithine coracoids?
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Dear Guys, I have found three coracoid bones in flintstone that are about 0,5 cm length and made the cavities of them by needle. There are two versions about these fossil ID in my opinion- enantiornithine bird or pterosaur (pterosaur is more possible because the lower wider part of bones is not very wide as in almost all birds and the pterosaur, e.g. ornithocheiridae coracoid shape is very similar!). If these are pterosaur coracoid bones they should belong to small species (maybe rhamphorhynchoids), if small bird bones- they should be very primitive, probably early Cretaceous and I do not know any birds with this shape except Enantiophoenix (Enantiophoenix coracoid is even little wider and the bone cavity is very small, not so big as in my specimens). Please help to identify these remains by the coracoid form in pterosaurs, primitive birds or even tiny dinosaurs. Any help will be appreciated! Best Regards Domas
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Dear Guys, I recently collected three examples of interesting small bones that have the cavities in the same area, I found them in flint erratics of South Lithuania. One scientist (Jens Koppka) told be that one time the occasional bird bone in flint was found by his colleagues in Lithuania. I recenly found the link with very similar shape of bone known as Enantiophoenix in the middle picture of one publication that I share with you now : https://peerj.com/articles/1032/ Open this link and look for "Comparison of scapulocoracoid between the dromaeosaurid Balaur and other paravians", the cavity in the second scapulocoracoid picture is named as "snf". Please look at my fossil pictures and this link and help with confirmation if you could. Best Regards Domas
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Please help with ID of fish scale and tetrapod bone
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dear Guys, Today I found one interesting fish scale that is 3 mm length and small tetrapod bone (3,5 mm length in flintstone erratic. I think the fish scale is quite specific to assign it to one taxon but I have doubt if the bone is from shoulder or maybe pelvic girdle? Please comment if you can, any help will be appreciated! Best Regards Domas
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Please help with ID of sponges, corals and bryozoans
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dear Guys, I collected some interesting specimens in Jurassic- Early Cenozoic erratics like sponges, bryozoans and hexacorals and also two primitive Ordovician sponges. The sponge pieces are 3-8 mm length (In yellowish limestone on sponge has very interesting skeleton growth outside). The size of coral in greenish gray limestone is 9 mm diameter, in the white limestone- 7 mm diameter. The bryozoans are from 7 mm to 1 cm length, they web shaped. Please help with ID of these fossils if you could. Best Regards Domas 1. Late Jurassic sponges in my opinion. 2. Early Cretaceous (?) sponges. 3. Late Cretaceous- Paleocene sponges I think.
