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I found this in the mid-2000's but never really had it checked out, I'm having a paleontologist look at it soon, but I wanted to get your guys opinions. I can only post 1 photo because there is a size limit.
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Found a small 1" long bone recently along Calvert Cliffs. In the pic it's the small bone just under the small lower cowshark tooth. Wondering if this is either a land mammal toe bone or a possible toe bone from a bird? Daryl.
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Hafa adai everyone, greetings from Guam! Been sortin' through the collection and came across my Lee Creek bird finds. I have about a half-dozen bird vertebra. Does anyone know anyone who might be able to ID? I also have a large-ish bird vert from Calvert Cliffs. Thanks in advance!
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I discovered what looks like a fossilized egg today in northern Colorado. I found the piece in pile of landscape rock, filtered to 2in diameter. If anyone can provide me with information it would be much appreciated.
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possible dinosaur bird?? Unknown origin of this rock. Is is a sand like stone. Any help would be great
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Looking through the sieved material I noticed this little jaw ? I has come out of the marine material I get from Richmond in central Queensland in Australia. I refer to the layer it came out of as the fish mash layer as it is full of small fish material. In the layer I find fish, shark, turtle, Ichthyosaur, pliosaur, pterosaur and bird material. The fossil is 6 mm in length and quite fragile. Thanks in advance for any input Mike D'Arcy
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Hello, I found these fossilized 'eggs' taped together at a pawn shop in Kalispell, Montana. I know nothing about them but they are really cool! Does anyone know what they are? The more oval one is about 2" long by 1.5" wide. The more round one is about 1-9/16" x 1-13/16". They were sliced in half when I found them. The one that looks slightly developed ha some missing 'yoke' around the center small circle but is close to fully intact. They are fascinating but I don't know much. I'm a newbie. Thank you for any help.
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I found this inside a rock along with some other things I found in a nearby Creek. Have a lot of interesting things I found there but this one caught my eye because it seems to be the whole thing, both sides are the same.
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I have been told this bone is avian, probably miocene but could be pliocene. The striations are perplexing to me. From Aurora, NC. Ruler scale is in cm. I'd like to know what family it may belong to if possible
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Hello, I am new here (sorry if I did something wrong or something I shouldn't have) and I am volunteering at a geology museum and I was given this cast of a fossil to look at and see what it was by a visitor. The visitor told me she got it as a gift and she does not know where it came from, nor does she know what it is. I was wondering if anyone here might be of some assistance in figuring out what it might be? I think it is some sort of Coelurosaurian (maybe a primitive bird?). Unfortunately I do not have any more or better pictures available right now. I could get some more pictures, but I'm not back at the museum until next week so it will take a few days. Also the cast is about a foot long (give or take about 2 inches).
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This is the third phalanx from the Terror Bird Titanis walleri, found at a Blancan site in a North Central Florida river.
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A friend of mine own 30 acres along the ridge of North Mountain near Martinsburg. He uses an excavator to find stones for stone masonry. Walking the site the other day I noticed this laying in a cut. Thought it was fossil plant, closer look seemed to show feathers and long neck head with beak? Most of fossils I've seen there have been marine life. Could this be a bird?
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Wow! http://a-dinosaur-a-day.com/post/161549500085/a-baby-in-amber
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An interesting day and enjoyable also: Waist deep water, sun was shining, warm breeze. Fossil #1 Bird foot bone? 1 inch wide , slightly less than 2 inches in length: Which birds are candidates? Fossil #2 Very small Fossil #3 Osteoderm. Which animal? Any input on body position? Head, Tail. etc Fossil #4 A 2+ inch Jaw with 1 tooth All suggestions and comments Appreciated..
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I found this small fossil specimen recently along Calvert Cliffs, MD. It seems to be missing some portion and I've never seen anything that looks like this. My first guess is that it is some sort of bird vertebra? Any ideas would be appreciated. Daryl.
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An afternoon of sorting through some more micro material has turned up what I suspect is some bird material but with my luck still could be fish. The preservation is correct for bird and the specimen appears to be hollow on the broken end and infilled with crystal. I cannot as yet find any photos of a similar bone in the cretaceous bird material on the net but early days. The specimen is fairly flat so is hard to be sure with the USB microscope. the specimen is 9 mm at the longest point and about 2 mm thick. Thanks in advance for all observations and comments Mike D'Arcy
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Cyprus, some 10 km north of Amathus ancient city I am really not equipped yet with knowledge, therefore I will not be posting many photos of each thing, unless one expert finds it promising. This one is 3 keyboard buttons long. on the other side which is somewhat similar theres a thin layer of an orange/red mineral, probably calcite, if that means anything.
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Found this on the beach at Jekyll Island GA Not sure at all what it might be. Any thoughts? Thank you
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Hello everyone, I found this thing back in my collection. At first I thought it was a piece of wood, therefore I did a flame test (as you can maybe see from the black at the tip), but it revealed to be a fossil. Therefore I started thinking more, trying to figure out what it could be. Then I remembered that I only knew one thing so delicate from the Zandmotor: a piece of bird bone. I'm pretty convinced now that it's that, because I don't know what else it could be. The structure feels right for bone too. Do you agree with my guess as bird bone? Found on the Zandmotor (NL) --> Pleistocene. Thanks, Max
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Just thought i would show off a nice example of a pelagornithid beak (slightly distorted) North Island NZ. found by a friend on one of our trips made to the beach recently. took two days to prep
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Fossilized egg with brown-colored shell and chalcedony fill. Probably from a limpkin-like bird (possibly Badistornis aramus Wetmore). Note the porous texture of the shell material.
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Show Us Your Feet----Your Fossil Footprints Of Course!
Fossil Claw posted a topic in Member Collections
Recently bought a couple of Grallator dinosaur footprints. A Podokesaurus South Hadley, MA in the Connecticut River Valley. and one from La Grand-Combe, the Mont Lozère, France. Curious to see what others have.
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Looking for opinions on this one. Small and unassuming but if my gut feeling is correct very rare. I found this little bone when sieving through some matrix 19-10-16. The matrix is cretaceous albian in age and comes from a marine environment. The length is 5mm and the scale in photos is 1mm squares. the crack seen in the as found photo indicates the bone is hollow thus my assumption of an unknown bird. I have found several what are believed to be enantiornithine bones in the area that I have since donated to a museum for study, but this one was found a kilometer away so not an associated piece. As usual thanks in advance for any input Mike D'Arcy
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New Kiwi-like Paleognath Bird Discovered In The Green River Formation
Anchiornis posted a topic in Fossil News
Calciavis grandei: An awesome new Green River bird species for all you fossil hunters in Wyoming! Palaeoart (by Velizar Simeonovski) From SciNews: "A nearly 50-million-year-old bird fossil unearthed in Wyoming represents a new species that is a close relative of living kiwis, ostriches, and emus, according to a team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The ancient bird, named Calciavis grandei, is believed to be roughly the size of a chicken and was mostly ground-dwelling, only flying in short bursts to escape predators. “This is among one of the earliest well-represented bird species after the age of large dinosaurs,” said co-author Dr. Sterling Nesbitt, from Virginia Tech. The exceptionally well-preserved specimen of Calciavis grandei dating from the Eocene epoch — with bones, feathers, and fossilized soft tissues — was found more than a decade ago in the Green River Formation, a former lake bed. The Eocene lake is best known for producing scores of complete fish skeleton fossils, but other fossils such as other birds, plants, crocodilians, turtles, bats, and mammals from an ecosystem 50 million years old. According to Dr. Nesbitt and his colleague, Prof. Julia Clarke from the American Museum of Natural History, Calciavis grandei belongs to the extinct group of early Palaeognathae birds, the Lithornithidae. The bird is a close relative of the modern-day kiwis, ostriches, and tinamous now living in the southern continents." Full article at SciNews. Research paper from the AMNH. Fossil:- 6 replies
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