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Hello again! I haven't posted in a while, but I've been keeping busy looking through microfossils and have found some cool things. The scalebar subdivisions are 1mm. Let me know what you think about this haul, and any other ideas on IDs. Miguel M Some fish jaws: (Anguiliform dentary?) (drum pharyngeal jaw) Some fish vertebrae and basioccipital Random fish teeth (maybe a scombriform?) (Some other fish teeth. Leftmost could be a sheepshead incisor, no idea as to the others) Elasmobranch teeth (skate teeth) (The one to the right looks very interesting)
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Hi everyone on Fossil Forum, I am pretty new to fossil collection but I have decided to post what I have currently collected and will continue to update this page with new fossils that I acquire over time. I am now looking to acquire rarer teeth now! Details of Specimen: Triceratops Tooth Hell Creek Formation, Carter County, Montana Late Cretaceous Period (65 Million Years Old) Measurements: 1.5 inches long x 3/4 inch wide x5/8 inch thick Weight: 8.9 Grams No restoration at all. all natural specimen. I love the way this looks and its huge!
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Hello, I have this piece from the Pleistocene-aged La Brea Tar Pits of LA county, California, USA. Alongside the beetle, it has several bones embedded in it which were just described as "mammal". It's possible that more than one species is represented. Can I get a more precise identification for them? Or would I need further prep for that? I know next to nothing of vertebrates but my understanding is that for long bones, the bone ends are most important for identification. Thank you.
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Triassic Phytosaur Scute Arizona
Lucid_Bot posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, this specimen has been advertised as a phytosaur scute from the Triassic of Northeastern Arizona. I'm curious if this piece is genuine and unmodified as it is relatively cheap. I'm also wondering if it isn't metoposaur scute as I've not seen a phytosaur scute like this. As always, any help is appreciate, thank you.
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Hi, Fellow Fossil Folks. Are any of these things more than rocks?
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I found this walking by my home in Vermilion County, Illinois along a creek bed with other rocks. This stood out to me and the little details on it look very odd. I have tried to theorize what it is but can’t. But they look like little bones possibly? Suggestions?
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I found this gembone and want to get the algae off. I soaked it in hot water and dish soap, then scrubbed with a toothbrush, but the algae is really stuck on there. Any tips?
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I had a couple hours to kill so I took a trip to Calvert Cliffs today. It is really picked over by this time of year. I found 7 ray plates, 3 small shark teeth(2 are broken), 3 crab claw tips, and some misc bone frags. I also brought back some matrix to go through and grabbed a little clay too. Does anyone one of breaking down the clay ever produces anything?
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Hello everyone! I am interested in fossils and paleontology from many years although my knowledge about ID of vertebrate fossils is very limited. My 11 years old son found these three bones, among little stones in the small river in a past glacious region in Poland. Despite I washed them their collours are without changes as you can see on the photos. The weight seems a bit havier than it "should" be in in the case of more or less new bones. What do you think about them when it comes to their age and possible "owners"? My teenager is very curious but I can't answer at his questions about these bones. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you for your time!
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how do you clean old fossil bones, book recomandations
luvmymushpups posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
i have collected a lot of old bones. some are modern moose and others are mammoth and older mineralized bone. what is the best way to clean them? what tools should I get to use? can anyone recommend a good book on general information and cleaning fossils and bones for a middle school age child? (13) thanks -
Im sorry to intrude on your topic but im trying to identify my egg found in Shasta County, it's got some baby bones that are slightly opalized inside the egg and the yoke appears to have pseudomorph into nephrite? the inner shell was packed with clay and the outer has been smoothed with water. i was thinking therapod? there seems to be several nests around my dig location but those are more football size and completely silted up inside, also petrified coral everywhere. hope i didn't upset thanks for your skills in advance
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ID these please fossil bones? Found in Northern Nevada
treasuretrapqueen posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found these In Northern Nevada, when these are hit with a black light they give off the most beautiful colors! Neon pink yellow orange! 20230808_085922.mp4
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Hello and thanks for allowing me to become a member. I live in Costa Rica so things commonly available in the US and Canada can be really hard to find here, so I am asking people to consider this when responding. I purchased several whale vertebrae from a local who found them on the beach which I plan on cleaning and mounting as art objects. I have a woodworking shop here in CR so I have the tools at my disposal to properly mount these amazing pieces. I'm looking for advice on how to clean and get the smell out of these bones...believe me, they are RIPE. You can smell them from 6-8 feet away. My thought was to bag them and wrap the bag loosely with tape to save on the volume of whatever chemical treatment I need to use to accomplish this, but as a complete beginner, obviously I am open to suggestions from those with experience. Thanks.
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We found this in the Yahara river in south eastern Wisconsin. Does anyone have any idea what it might be? The area was glaciated. The piece is about the size of my thumbnail.
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Hi Forum, on April 23rd-25th I visited Solnhofen for some fossil hunting in the most famous quarries. I found some good ammonites and 2 little fishes. While opening some layers, i found a little orange bone shaped piece. At home i tried some clening and preparation. This is the best i can extract. It is VERY small, all the bones cover an area of 1.5x1.5cm. Below you can find some macros at different angles and focus. sorry for the raw preparation, i'll smooth it later i promise :) it was found in the big Eichstätt quarry next to solnhofen. I think some some pterosaur? i tried to zoom the best on the bone surfaces, maybe it can help thanks a lot Paolo
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Where are all the British mosasaurs?
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hi all, While I'm aware that current Cretaceous exposures in Britain are largely restricted to the south and east coasts of the islands (see geological map below; source), significant marine deposition is said to have taken place across much of Great Britain from the Aptian onward (source). As such - and especially considering the richness of the record of the marine ecosystem during the Jurassic- one would expect an abundance of marine reptile remains to be known from British Late Cretaceous sediments as well, the epitome of which, of course, would be the mosasaurs. However, whereas finds of remains of ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs have been reported (see, for instance, Fischer et al. 2014 or Madzia 2016) - albeit from somewhat older strata than from which one might expect mosasaur remains to show up - very little information actually seems to be available as concerns this highly diverse group of marine squamates. When browsing the literature, for example, I've only found limited references to mosasaurs in Britain, most notably in Benton and Spencer's (1995) "Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain", in which the authors (p. 221) observe that Some further mentions of mosasaurs are made in this work on pages 264-265, which include lists of marine reptile finds at various locations across the country, as well as page 270, which describes St. James's Pit in Norwich, Norfolk, purportedly "Britain's best mosasaur locality" (ibid.). The pages have been reproduced below for ease of reference: Some material is also illustrated and described by Milner in "Fossils of the Chalk, second edition" (Smith and Batten, eds., 2002), but again minimally so: Plate 64 3) Leiodon anceps, Campanian, Norwich, Norfolk; 4) Clidastes sp., ?Upper Turonian, Dorking, Surrey; 5, plioplatecarpinae incertae sedis, Upper Chalk, Sussex Plate 65 1) Clidastes sp., Upper Chalk, Sussex; 5) cf. Tylosaurus, Santonian, Forness Point, east of Margate, Kent Outside of that, over the past couple of years I've only bumped into some loose specimens here and there being offered at auction sites, such as the below batch of alleged mosasaur teeth from Worcestershire, purportedly once part of the prominent Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd collection (at the resolution provided and in their state of preservation it's hard to make out whether they are indeed mosasaurian, however); or the mosasaur lumbar vertebra of unknown origin. It was actually these specimens that first attracted my attention to the existence of British mosasaurs, since so little has been reported on them elsewhere: an internet search doesn't result in anything fruitful, for example, nor have I come across any mosasaur material listed in museum collections. I would therefore be very interested in hearing what you all make of the above specimens, as well as the apparent paucity of British mosasaur material either in museums or published literature. Is this just the outcome of a collection/research bias, lack of suitable accessible exposures, or could there be another reason... @Praefectus @JohnJ @caterpillar @Welsh Wizard @paulgdls @DE&i and others
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Hello, everyone! Back in February I was hunting in the North Sulphur River, and I found a few fossils that I am curious about, as well as a broken artifact. If anyone could give me any insights on these pieces, I would be grateful! 1: Pictures 1-3 are of the artifact. 2: Pictures 4-6 are of a tooth. To me, it seems mor conical than a shark tooth, but it does have a flat part underneath. 3: Pictures 7-8 Unknown 4: Pictures 9-11 Unknown 5: Pictures 12-14 Unknown
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We find lots of tiny fossils in this area and my son's were hoping for help identifying these treasures. Picture 2 & 3 are the same fossil just turned over. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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What is this bone from? Found years ago.
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Check out my free exhibit i put together with river legacy nature center in Arlington Texas if your local or in town. there a lot of good trails to hike in the Trinity river forest and bottom lands. I loaned some of my collection all that were found by me and my kids over the years to go along with there summer camp classes of 2nd graders that is centered around extinct mammals etc. here are the display cases I put together with staff. will be on display till end of summer.
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While we were out on the beach searching for ammonite nodules this morning my dad found this seaworn pebble with 5-6 Ichthyosaur verts on it. While it's been rolling around for awhile the piddocks seem to have only eaten away at the matrix leaving the bones behind. I will post some more pictures once I have started to prepare them, i'm looking forward to revealing the bones more. It should look quite different.
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Finished a fossil hunt at Big Brook, NJ! Need help with some ID.
75millionyearsago posted a topic in Fossil ID
The first images are of a bone i am almost certain is non-fossilized but i could always be wrong! can anyone ID the species? Next images are of what i assume may be petrified wood, any chance it is? Its quite heavy for its small size, and has a wood-like texture. Then i have this black shell-like thing, unsure of it’s species but it is certainly something. Lastly i ID’d this tooth as a cretaceous thresher shark tooth- am i right? thank you for your help!
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I found this maybe fossil in a dried up creek in Broome county New York.
Ilikefossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Does anyone know what it may be or if it’s even a fossil? It looks very symmetrical.
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