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I received a mosasaur jaw in matrix and I found something is the side which I think is a cow shark(Hexanchus) because of the formation but it is broken in half, it is from Morocco.
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Hi, i need your help here. A buddy of mine found this on an old colonial era site. It actually goes back further. Artifacts such as old pewter spoons were found. Now I know that this is not a fossil, but knowing how knowledge this group is, do you think this is a bone? Few facts. 1) it does not stick to wet skin which I believe is one indicator? 2) there is no marrow 3) it has a layered look 4) part of the surface is flat to me it almost looks like a tobacco pipe bowl rather than bone. So -it is bone? thanks!!
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Hello everybody, I recently acquired a small and beautiful Rotuloidea which unfortunately fell on the floor and was damaged with a few cracks as you can see at the picture below. Does anybody know if is there any way to fix them or make them less visible please? Thank you very much.
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Is this a piece of shark tooth? It is maybe about 1/2". Thanks!
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Hi, I recently purchased some fossil titanothere teeth on eBay. I don't think the seller had ever sold or shipped a fossil before, when it arrived and I picked up the box it became immediately clear that it hadn't been packed well. When I opened it my worst fears were immediately confirmed. Lying there in a single piece of bubble wrap was my fossil in pieces . I'm hoping to repair it and I was thinking of using some plaster and paint certain parts black to repair it but people here are much more experienced than me and usually have better ideas then I do. Here are some photos:
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Sooo...today the postman rings our doorbell with a package from Estonia that was supposed to contain an intact (although ever-so-slightly disarticulated--hey, it was cheap compared to a perfect specimen) Asaphus kowalewski...well, that's not what arrived... As far as I can tell, the box was packed well before it left, but somewhere in transit, someone decided to cut one of the plastic tie downs holding it in the inner box and inspect the specimen (maybe they thought I was trying to smuggle drugs in a trilobite?!?) and put it back in the box unsecured. As a result, it rattled around in the box, and by the time I received it, the eyes were a bunch of small bits hiding in the bottom of the box. I have contacted the seller and hope to have a resolution soon. In the meantime, my heart is heavy as I hold the remains of what was once a lovely trilobite. Perhaps if I can get my money back without having to ship it back, I can try to glue the eye stalks back together and restore the specimen to a presentable state...or something... sigh, ---Prem
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I picked up this Megalodon broken tooth at a show a week ago from a tooth vendor who dives and hunts the shores in SC and MD, etc. It's 169 grams and 4 inches wide at the root which means it's probably a 5 maybe 5.5 inch tooth with a diagonal measurement? This is the first Megalodon tooth that I've acquired although I've found some small teeth in Florida decades ago on the west coast. I also picked up some Isurus from that same vendor. I've never had an interest in Megalodon teeth, maybe because of the price, but I though this one was interesting enough at $10. I like the color and both edges with serration's visible are there. Cheap enough that if it walks off your desk it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world but a good conversation piece nevertheless. I spoke to the vendor and he indicated that this was a compound fracture. I searched around on the web but couldn't figure out how you would recognize a fracture that occurred while in the shark's jaw, before fossilization, or after fossilization. Does this have characteristics of having broken during the shark's life? Thanks everyone!
