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G'day everyone! I reccently returned from a fossil trip to Portland, VIC searching for pliocene shark teeth and bones. Dad and I came back with some nice stuff but I also found this bone that has had me stumpted. Most bones collected from the site are fragmentary but this one appears to be whole but I have no idea what it is from. The bone is 30mm long, around 5 -6mm wide and very thin (Around 1mm probably a bit less) The fossil is pliocene in age, fossils found from the site include: Shark, fish and ray teeth, cetacean teeth and bones, terrestial mammal teeth and bones and rare avian material. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dan
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This piece was found at the Del Mar Formation in San Diego. It looks like there might be a bone in the middle (see close up). I’m a complete novice at this, so any information is valuable. Do you think it might be bone?
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So I found this bone in miocene area where I normally hunt for sharks teeth, this was found in a big gravel bed where I was finding turtle shell pieces, dugong bones, a few sharks teeth here and there, part of a big vert that ill post later, as well as many bone parts that I can't identify. However this bone is the most interesting thing I have pulled from this spot. At first I thought it was dugong because that's most of what I find. But then I noticed it was hollow in the shaft of the bone making me question what it could be because as far as I know the only things with hollow bones are birds. Any and all help would be amazing because I am lost. Ps: I'm sorry the colors are so blown out. I raised the exposure on the images because the fossil is so dark it was hard to see details in the pictures.
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Didn't pay much attention when I picked this up, just noticed it was interesting. It was a surface find and I guessed I would figure it out later. Any ideas? Found this somewhere south of Wamsutter, WY.
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From the album: Holzmaden
A 3.5 cm long Ichthyosaur vertebra from the Posidonia shale from the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden. Another picture: -
Found in Bremerton, Washington . grappled by a rotted tree and its roots., near the surface. Its big and heavy. Not sure first thought Willy mammoth but was told maybe dinasour nasal cavity.
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Hi TFF friends, how are you? I would like to have your opinion concerning the following fossil. It's a bone I found a while ago in the Himenoura formation, Santonian (Kumamoto Japan) and I forgot until I decided to clean my drawers. It has a quite distinctive shape and make me think to a sea turtle bone, a paddle or an ulna maybe. What kind of bone do you think it is? Any ID? I am not looking for the ID, I just would like to know what kind of bone it is.
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Found on beach in Salvador Bay, Brazil. This is the best quality I could get with my phone. Photo with black background shows the curved part of bone well, note how smooth that part is. Color of bone in that photo is most accurate. Can anyone tell me what it is?
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Hello to everyone, what do you people think about this small foot fossil? The seller says it is Mycterosaurus. I would really like to read some opinions. Thank you all in advance. Best regards, Savvas
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Found this and several others with similar detail I’ve been told it’s bone....?
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Could these be vertebrae or ? Found the one large but several smaller ones as well
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Found this this weekend. It is heavy for its size and when I put a large hot needle to multiple areas it didn't even burn let alone smell. I think I found my first fossil bone. I know its not a lot to go on and I dont need a 100% id but id like an idea what it may be and I know you guys are crazy good at this stuff. it was found on a limestone bluff in southeast Kansas in Pennsylvanian age rock. in a later picture I show some fossils from the same area. there is a layer of shale mixed in. that's about all the helpful info I can give. I dont understand why theres a limit on picture size but im going for quality so sorry about the multiple posts.
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From the album: Holzmaden
This is an isolated, unidentified bone from the posidonia shale from the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden. Its very difficult to determine these isolated bones but it might be a part of a skull bone of a marine reptile ... Another picture: -
Hi everyone! I made a trip with family out to McFaddin beach on Memorial Day (the side closest to High Island). Artifacts and vertebrate fossils wash up here from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. There's some debate as to where they are coming from - they aren't in the Beaumont clay directly below the beach. A great webpage about the site is here: https://texasbeyondhistory.net/mcfaddin/ We found lots of fossilized arthropod burrows, some nice conch shells and beach glass (not fossils!), a piece of turtle scute, and a few bones. It was fun, and we saw no nudists on the beach - perhaps they thought it was too busy? We also found two items that we would love to have help from FF to ID.... The first item we think may be a fragment of a sloth tooth - this is only from perusing the fossil forum. Or ? At first we thought it might be plant, not animal, but the rectilinear shape of one side made us think twice. The other appears to be similar in form and size to a horse tooth, but no tooth enamel on the one end - just holes (apologize for blurriness of end photos). ??? Did the enamel fall off? Or is it something else? Thanks for your thoughts!
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Hello! I'm new here so, please be gentle. I found a bone in the middle of my yard, in the grass, that wasn't there a few days before. I have looked and asked everywhere for someone to tell me from what animal it came. The kicker, for me, is that, a few feet outside the edge of our yard is a huge coal dump. You can't see it in the pictures, but there are tiny pieces of coal inside the hollow parts of the bone. Plus, I'm wondering where all of the (possibly) tiny tooth marks in #2 came from, and the wearing down of the bone in #4. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! ps. I did light it, with a Zippo, but I only smelled the lighter fluid.
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Hello! I have this bone which i recieved in a lot, all bones and remains were advertised as from the Kem Kem Beds. It seems to be hollow, I think it may be crocodile? Thanks in advance for your input, could it be dinosaur? Reptile? Thanks!
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Hi all, Need a little help identifying this bone from Bracklesham, UK. It measures about 1 inch long, should be Eocene age. Thanks in advance. Jay
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Hello! I recently came back from a trip to the Netherlands, and while beach combing in the North Sea, I found this bone. I've been really curious as to what it may be, and even joined this site in hopes of discovering what it may have belonged too. I believe it's a phalanx bone, possibly of a bison from the pleistocene? That's really just a guess based off of others' pictures, so please, any info you can give would be wonderful! Sorry I don't have a ruler on hand for proper measurements, but it is roughly 8 cm in length and 3 cm in width. I put the lighter there to maybe give an idea of size
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Hi everyone, Last week I went to the French cliff coast between Calais and Bologne Sur Mer. At Petit Blanc Nez, a coast famous for its marcasite and ammonite, I found a remarkable bone that looks like a tail or a foot bone. I compared it with finger bones or foot bones, but the middle bones are to short to be a foot and there are to many bones to be a finger here's a link that leads to the exact location where i found it: https://goo.gl/maps/nSv73i2kYwXwqhij7 Can you help me out? Thank You!
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This was found behind my house in the woods in western TN, just outside Memphis. It looks to me to be the shape of a joint of some kind, and the underside has clear structures that look like marrow.
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I’m a huge amateur, but I found what appears to be a cool fossil on the beach in Capitola, California, and Id love to learn what it is! I’d assume it’s mammalian but I don’t know much more than that. Trying to get into fossil hunting and it seems like there’s a lot of cool stuff around here, any help would be appreciated! Photo here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eT9CEWKQ24ZtgVrTPA25kozsudgNJVIT/view?usp=drivesdk
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Just looking for a little help identifying a hell creek vertebra. The individual I purchased it from said it was likely a Tyrannosaur cervical vertebra (probably rex rather than a nano vertebra due to its size). Based on its shape and the fact it's very light, I'm fairly confident their identification is correct. Any help would be much appreciated
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Hey guys, I am currently working on a piece from the KemKem beds, and each time I am working on it it gets more interesting. Or weirder. It is about 35cm in length and starting to show dimples, curves and ridges. I am starting to loose the overview for the cleaning process Can somebody help me identifying this piece or does anybody know/have an idea of what this is? All tips are welcome
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From the album: Holzmaden
A tiny 10 cm long Ichthyosaur rib from the lower Jurassic of the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden. At first you could only see the cross section. The prep work took about 2 hours (I was slow ) One more picture: -
Hi everyone. I found this extruding from a hillside on Green Mountain near Golden, CO. It is in the Green Mtn Conglomerates formation. Lots of little petrified wood around. Color or is white with some slight red marks. There are small pores but different than what I see with a lot of pet wood. Any help would be great. https://imgur.com/tpVtjNR https://imgur.com/tfv8lO3 https://imgur.com/qFxG2c7 https://imgur.com/FKz5Mr0 https://imgur.com/wwYlheE geology info: https://imgur.com/tiAh2ok
