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Here is a large bone from my small collection. Again, it belonged to a fossil collector here in the UK but I don't know anything other than that. Many thanks!
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Hi, i broke up some bone bed tonight and this was the best find. Can anyone identify it? The section at the rear is serperate and rounded, possibly the end of a rib or similar.
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Hello again! I'm a complete newbie here so any help would be gratefully received. I've recently been given a small collection of bones that belonged to a neighbour of my parents here in the UK. He was a fossil collector who recently passed away. The largest bone has been identified as a woolly rhino femur but I'm struggling with the others. I'm wondering if this is a section of vertebrae but from what I really don't know.! Apologies for the background.
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help identify if these are a tooth, bone or piece of a shell? Found off the Big Brook Preserve area in Monmouth county NJ Thank you!
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Hello! I'm a complete newbie here so any help would be gratefully received. I've recently been given a small collection of bones that belonged to a neighbour of my parents here in the UK. He was a fossil collector who recently passed away. The largest bone has been identified as a woolly rhino femur but I'm struggling with the others, especially this strange looking thing! Apologies for the background.
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Hi, Are these 3 iron concretions or something else? Found in Monmouth county area
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Here is a couple of fossils I’ve found on the coast of South Carolina, I’m really really sorry I couldn’t use a ruler with cm I’m on vacation and this is the best I’ve got! Please tell me if I should post pics of individual fossils as well. D E F and G all look like vertebrae to me, H looks kinda like a piece of a turtle shell, but I’m not very good at Identifying these sorts of things! Again tell me if I need to take different pics!
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I found this bone in a creek in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I have asked some hunters and farmers what it could be but nobody seems to know. It appears old but modern. There looks to be a suture mark or perhaps an old fracture or some pathology. I would appreciate any insight into what bone this may be. Or where I might look to find something to compare? Thank you.
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Cleaning up the backyard today, and rediscovering shells and fossils that I originally found years ago. I think that most of these came from SMR Aggregates outside of Sarasota , Florida. Pliocene 4-5 mya. They were scattered by Hurricane Ian, my job today was to cleanup, sort the keepers from the discards. So a box of Keepers, followed by some closeup photos. Isolated Shell #1 Vasum Isolated Shell # 2 No clue Isolated Shell #3 Good sized Cone Isolated Shell #4 Leafy Jewel Box Included in the mass of debris and shells were other fossils that are my primary curiosity. I can not recall finding these at SMR, BUT the only events where I might have found them were Florida Paleontology Society field trips... Memory is just not that good..... Fossil #5 Silicified Coral ? or Sponge ? or ... Fossil #6 and #7 I think #6 (the larger chunk) is silicified wood... I even imagine that the top layer is bark.... Fossil #7 When I first saw it, I knew it was bone, some sort of silification and considered an ungual. Once I saw the 3rd photo, I was pretty sure on this ID. Pretty neat stuff out in my backyard... I just (re)_noticed that piece of coral in the sieve box, If I get a close _up, @MikeR almost certainly be able to ID it... Thanks for looking... jack
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Hi, Anyone know what this is? The provenance seems to be "Port Colboru, Ontario" of Canada? Thank you
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Hi all, This bone section is thought to be from a limb of Deinonychus. it's from the Cloverly formation in Carbon County, Montana. Is there enough there to ID it as Deinonychus?
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Found this weekend, originally I thought was bone but I cannot explain the pin holes on the side. Insect holes?
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Hello, I went to East Mersea yesterday to look at pebbles, shells, and fossils, and found this with a really interesting grain. I love pebbles with layers, but to me these layers do not look like the layers I usually see in rocks, they look very much like wood grain. I have searched and searched online for something similar and I just can't see anything that quite works. Is it a fossil? If so, what could it be? I'm just not sure. It isn't light weight, it is heavy like a pebble. I have included pictures of it wet and dry, plus 10 times magnification as best poss. Thank you for any help PXL_20230102_101826965_TS.mp4
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I dug this up out of a riverbed and it looks like a tree stump but it also looks very much like bone
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I found this bone in the river, possibly from Pleistocene (bone color + some kind of subfossil procceses) and what is that? I made a research, and this is smillair to nothing, maybe somebody knows what is that possibly.
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Are these crocodile teeth? Found in Darwin, NT, Australia
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My kiddo and I made a trip to our favorite cretaceous spot in central Texas. We've been hoping to find a certain type of rock with the hopes of finding a coniasaur or other cenomanian or turonian treasures. This trip a found a medium sized slab in about 8 inches of water. The slab showed white shells and was crumbly. I gently overturned it and took a look. I was very surprised to see a pliosaur tooth. I knew it was possible at this site but I didn't expect to find one. Unfortunately, my faithful assist had slipped and fallen in the water and was now shivering so I decide to pack up the rock and take it home. To give it a shower. In the bathtub. I then sorted through the flaky, sandy dark shell-filled shell. It really smelled like petroleum, and was loaded with teeth and bits. Long story short. I found a nice pliosaur tooth, what I think is a plesiosaur tooth and plesiosaur paddle bone. I also found a knobby, circular-ish dark bone piece, and some sort of fang/claw... The knobby thing is probably a mosasaur kneecap or fossilized snake head. We also found some shark teeth, and hunk of flaky fish bone. It was a fun hunt and I hope I'm right about the plesiosaur tooth and paddle bone, and the mosasaur kneecap or fossilized snake head! Jackito
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Picked these up at tidmoor point near weymouth convinced they were vertebra under torch light, now I'm thinking they might be stones.. both convex on one side and rough to the touch. Smaller (first) is about 20mm across, larger is about 50mm. Thanks for looking.
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Is it real? Spinosaurus hand claw & finger bone
connorghabra posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Do you guys think this is real or fake. I'm assuming fake, but thought I would post to see if you would be willing to give any insight. Apparently it was found in the Kem Kem Basin, Morocco, Africa.
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Is it real? Struthiomimus center toe w/ claw & digits
connorghabra posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, I was about to purchase this Struthiomimus specimen for my mother but I happened to come across this forum so I decided to make an account and post to see if you guys would be willing to offer any insight about the authenticity of these Struthiomimus claw & toe bones. The seller said he got the parts for this specimen from his friend that he has collected with before. He has plenty of testimonies going years back. Apparently the parts were all found within 10 miles of each other in Wilbaux County, Montana.
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Hi folks. New here. Glad I found the forum. My son and I found this in a creek bottom where we have found several large complete ammonites. Any ideas on what kind of bone it is?
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Hello all I bought a bone these days. The seller didn't know anything about it. But I think it's interesting and cheap. I think it's like an uncertain mammalian bone. What do you think about it? Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Looks like a vertebra to me. Anyone know what kind?
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Hello! I found these a few days ago while taking a brisk stroll along a very seldom utilized section of the niagara river in western new york. the larger bone was just barely poking out of the silt/mud in the water. the water level was quite a bit lower than it has been in awhile. the smaller piece was about 20 feet away mixed with some small rocks at the water's edge. in that section of the river there is a good bit of silt/mud which sits on top of a fairly thick layer of clay. both pieces feel pretty much like rock, heavy for their size and neither exhibits a burned hair smell when flamed. i forgot to take a photo with the ruler but the smaller piece is about 4.5 inches long and maybe an inch wide. it has a curvature on one side. ive been having fun researching the past few days but i think ive done all i can on my own as i dont really have any expertise in anatomy. i just like hiking around and trying to find unusual stuff. my best guess is that the larger piece is part of a scapula and the smaller piece resembles some photos of tusk portions ive come across but i really dont know. if anyone knows what animal these could potentially belong to i sure would appreciate any info. holiday cheers to all!
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Hello everyone, first post in this forum! If I make any newbie mistakes please let me know and I’ll edit this post/remember for next time. I have a broken reptile tooth sifted from Big Brook (a stream near Marlboro, NJ) that dates to somewhere between the Late Campanian and Early Maastrichtian. I posted this online at another point and it was identified as a crocodile tooth from the original pictures I posted. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while though and it doesn’t seem to line up with the teeth from other known crocodilians and from this area (Brachychampsa, Borealosuchus, Hyposaurus, etc). Can anyone offer a second opinion? It has really prominent anterior ridge on the front of the tooth which makes me think it’s possible a theropod but it doesn’t look like Dryptosaurus. The back half is broken which means I don’t have any serrations to use as an ID. I’ve included the files in this post. I have also included some bonuses to these image though. I believe I found what appears to be a bird femur in the brook but I’m not certain if this is a quaternary find or actually from the same formation as this tooth. Anyone have a family id or insight on how to check if this is fossilized or just turned black from the soil? I also included some images of saurornitholestine teeth which I personally thought are close in appearance to this tooth. Thinking I might be too hopeful on that ID but thought it was worth sharing my thoughts lol. Material of these dinosaurs has been found in New Jersey!
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