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Hi everyone. My name is Sonny and im a fossil collector from the Netherlands. I got into this hobby as a kid, but now with a stable income and my own house I decided I would take the hobby more serious. Since March I began picking up high quality pieces, with my main focus being anything reptile or dinosaur related. All the fossils I own are checked for authenticity, unless stated otherwise. My main pieces right now: A 3 egg hadrosaur nest from China A high quality keichousaurus from China High quality megalodon tooth from Florida Branchiosaurus with a fish on the same matrix A travertine crab from Turkey 3 charcharodontosaurus teeth from Morocco And some cool ammonites. I have more, including a unidentified reptile skeleton on matrix from Utah and theres a museum quality turtle fossil coming soon. Im looking to learn more, im not as knowledgable on some fossils and im looking to slowly expand my collection. Hope I get to know some of you better! With kind regards, Sonny
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Hello everyone! I don't know if anyone would be interested but I have this Apateon pedestris I purchased a while ago that I would love to trade for something else. The fossil is from the Permian Pfalz formation in Odernheim, Germany. The shale it is on is 8 cm x 10 cm
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Hi all, Been eyeing up this item online. Advertised as species Apateon pedestris. I thought it would be best to ask for some opinions before dropping money. I think it looks pretty nice, and at a good price. I like that it doesn't have the preservative applied to mimic skin impressions (like the majority do) but I wonder if the ID is accurate (or if it's even legit.) I'd love to add more amphibian material to the collection and I think this might be a good choice. Thoughts?
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Branchiosaur, is it real?
Nickflemo posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hey team! What are your thoughts on this piece? Real? Permian branchiosaur from Germany. Thanks for any input- 2 replies
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Does this Melanerpeton display patterned pigmentation?
jpenn posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Here is a Melanerpeton humbergense. I acquired this lower Permian branchiosaurid recently from a well-known dealer in the Netherlands. I had been eyeing this specimen for some time and decided now would be a good time as ever to pull the trigger on it. Even with some bone missing it was a nice price for a nice creature that probably would have been about 12 centimeters long in life or close to it. Much of the fun of fossils for me is to find and read as much material on them as I can. The most prominent recent paper on Melanerpeton is TIMELESS DESIGN: COLORED PATTERN OF SKIN IN EARLY PERMIAN BRANCHIOSAURIDS (TEMNOSPONDYLI: DISSOROPHOIDEA) (Werneburg 2009) regarding a 19 cm long specimen of Melanerpton tenerum found at Börtewitz in Saxony. This paper describes a "spotted pattern of skin color" which feature patterned spots (gaps in the pigmentation?) of about 2 to 5 millimeters in width. The fossil I own has been identified by the seller as Melanerpeton humbergense and is from a completely different location, Odernheim in Pfalz. I am somewhat confident in those IDs of location and species. The stone closely resembles other branchiosaur specimens from Pfalz I have seen internet photos of. I can find no contra-indicatory features in my fossil to the rather detailed description of M. humbergense in THE INTRARELATIONSHIPS AND EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE TEMNOSPONDYL FAMILY BRANCHIOSAURIDAE (Schoch, Milner 2008). M. humbergense is a different species from a different location of a slightly different stratigraphy than M. tenerum. Still, there is color on the stone of my fossil that may suggest a possible pattern of open circles. I present this fossil to the forum for open consideration of this feature. I seek to avoid a confirmation bias and hope to get an understanding of what is there, whether that understanding is positive or negative. Hopefully there are some European collectors here who have seen many of these before in hand, and collectors familiar with the preparatory methods used. Per the seller, there has been no restoration. The fossil seems to show none of the protective surface coating often applied to branchiosaur specimens from other sellers. Factors that may be negative to a confirmation of patterned pigmentation to this specimen: M. tenerum and M. humbergense are different species from different locations from a different stratigraphic period. None of the possible 'patterned circles' seem to be evident on my fossil's tail, only a portion of the thorax, There is no counterpart impression to examine. Per Werneburg "Hundreds of branchiosaurid specimens are known from the vertebrate Lagerstaette Börtewitz, but only one is preserved with colored skin pattern. " This would suggest that finding a branchiosaurid with colored skin pattern would be very improbable. More photos will be posted after this initial photo. Thank you for looking, and I hope you enjoy this little bit of mystery as much as I do.- 10 replies
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