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From the album: Hash Plates (Late Ordovician)
The camera flash is giving this stunning color the the matric and fossils.© Denis Arcand
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I found this on one of my hash plate, is it what I think it is, a very small cephalopod ?
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Nicolet River Formation, Brachiopod (Late Ordovician)
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From the album: Fossil Art
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From the album: Hash Plates (Late Ordovician)
© Denis Arcand
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I recently found this brachiopod in an Upper Ordovician formation, I usually find hundreds of sowerbyella and other fossilized gastropods, this one seems rare in this formation as these are the only ones I have found for this genus. An ID would be much appreciated! Thanks!
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Canadian Amber (Allenby Fm., 52.5-48 Ma)
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Closeup of material from previous entry.© Kaegen Lau
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Canadian Amber (Allenby Fm., 52.5-48 Ma)
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Rough amber from an old site near Coalmont, British Columbia. The original site is now closed to collecting, since a mining company somehow got a court injunction and has "jumped" the owner's legal, active long-standing claim. The claim owner has informed me that he is not able to collect larger specimens (>3g fraction), as he had been able to in the past.© Kaegen Lau
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
REMPC P0030 Fossil Leaf Eocene Black Mine Road, Allenby Formation Princeton, British Columbia, Canada-
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Massive New Predator Discovered in Burgess Shale (Titanokorys gainesi)
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“Absolutely Mind-Boggling” Massive New Animal Species Discovered in 500 Million-Year-Old Burgess Shale. SciTechDaily, September 8, 2021 ‘Spaceship-Shaped’ Fossil Reveals Hungry Predator of Ancient Oceans Titanokorys gainesi, turned up in the Canadian Rockies, was among the largest known predators 500 million years ago. Trilobites, New York Times A Football-Shaped Animal Species Is Discovered In A 500-Million-Year- Old Shale, NPR, September 9, 2021 The open access paper is: Caron, J.-B., and Moysiuk, J., 2021. A giant nektobenthic radiodont from the Burgess Shale and the significance of hurdiid carapace diversity. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210664 Yours, Paul H.-
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
Fossil Coral - Indeterminate species Devonian Bull River site Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada-
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Greetings I am a Geologist who works in Northern Alberta and B.C., and I have been finding some great Pleistocene Horse and Bison bones in river gravels. My bones were looked at and samples sent for Carbon dating through the provincial Museum and a Professor buddy of mine. The Horse bones were 22-25k years old and the Bison bone was 44k years old. They paid for the analyses and I am donating them to the Museum. All were found within a couple kilometers on the same river. I found these two this year. They were very close to where I found the Horse bones. Does anyone have any idea what animal they came from? (Can't get a hold of my buddy at the moment). The lower bone shows more wear from the gravels. Any Help would be appreciated. Best Regards Rob
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Found along the shore of the North Channel at Little Current on Manitoulin Island. Any chance this can be ID'd more specifically? I
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I was just away for 10 days and now as of tomorrow I'll be flying to Canada for an indeterminate time. My mother has just passed away. I'll tune in here when I can every once in a while.
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I recently rescued several trilobites from a dusty cardboard box at an estate sale. The orange trilobite was unlabeled and a little over 3.5 inches long. The tan colored trilobite is 1.25 inches long and was labeled as “Canada Trilobite”. I realize it isn’t much to go on, but was hoping someone could provide a little more information if at all possible.
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Pleurocystites squamosus with partial Isorophusella incondita
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From the album: Echinoderm Collection
Pleurocystites squamosus (Parseley, 1982 (?)) with partial Isorophusella incondita (Raymond, 1915 ) attached to the cystoid. Upper Bobcaygeon Formation, Middle Ordovician. Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Plate is 11cm long.-
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Hi guys I decided to rescue and acquire a new unlabelled specimen. It appears to be a rugose solitary coral that can possibly come from the Devonian of south western Ontario. Can anyone give me any leads on the species level??
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Hi guys so today I came across a new shop that popped up in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. Anyway long story short I bought what appears to be Silurian coral fossil that originated somewhere on the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario or the State of New York. This fossil came from a peculiar museum that liquidated its collections in Niagara of Ontario and closed but the fossil didnt come with a label. Can anyone help me pin down what it is? I have never encountered a fossil like this on the Niagara Escarpment of Hamilton, Ontario. Also this was being sold along with other/what appears to be Silurian corals from the local area of the Niagara region of Ontario/New York.
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Hi All, First post for me. Excited to participate! I have recently taken up fossil hunting in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's river valley creek beds. I have found several fossilized bone fragments, petrified wood fragments and even a few first nations artifacts. All of these have been found on small creek bed shelves during low water. The geological time period is mesozoic. The first object I would appreciate any feedback on is an irregularly textured flat rock or potentially a fossil of some kind. It was found loose on the surface next to the water. It has an interesting varied texture which differs on both sides. It doesn't seem to present the kind of regular pattern that would indicate a shell or skin, but there appears to be some degree of regularity or patterning. It kind of looks like a piece of beef jerky. At first I thought it might be from dried mud cracks but the patterning does not reflect this. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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Hey all! Just found this forum after looking for a place to identify this: I'm hoping to find enough of you to disprove or prove that this is or is not coprolite. If not, that's okay too, but damned if it doesn't look like a dino turd to me!
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So I decided that I would finally make a point of documenting some of these back country field excursions, and made a Youtube channel to keep the videos all in one place. Here's a a rather ordinary extraction of a placenticeras ammonite found the day before we did a little field work with some paleontologists. The GoPro is a fun addition to my kit, and makes it a lot easier to document the actual process of finding and extracting these things in the field. Anyway, I'll let the video speak for itself - enjoy! (click the image to open video link)
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Can anyone identify this? I think it might be coprolite.
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Found this fossil while surface collecting in the Alberta Badlands (Canada) North Of Drumheller in the Red Deer river valley. Looking for some help to ID this unusual looking fossil. If I had to guess I'd say it looks like a possible jaw fragment? Any help to ID would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Presumably a slow swimming grazer-detritivore. Alternative combination: Elonichthys cupidineus Lambe, 1916. Taxonomy according to fossilworks.org. Diagnosis for Albertonia according to Schaeffer and Mangus, 1976, pp. 545-548: "A parasemionotid (as defined by Patterson, 1973, pp. 262, 287) specialized in having deeply fusiform body and greatly elongated pectoral fins. Small acuminate marginal teeth present on mobile maxilla and dentary. Suspensorium nearly vertical. Preopercular present; opercular and subopercular subequal. Longest pectoral fm rays about one-half length of body. All fins bordered by fringing fulcra; fin rays distally segmented. Caudal fin hemiheterocercal, weakly cleft, and probably equilobate. Scales rhomboidal, deeper than wide in anterior flank region; posterior border of all scales pectinate.“ Quote from Schaeffer and Mangus, 1976, p. 548: “Albertonia cupidinia . . . is a deeply fusiform fish: the maximum body depth is about one-third of the overall length. The impressively elongated pectoral fins, composed of approximately 21 rays, are equal to about one-half of the total body length. The pelvic fins, which are very much smaller and include nine or 10 rays, are situated at the deepest part of the ventral contour. The dorsal fin, composed of about 17 rays, arises in front of the anal, which has approximately 18 rays. The short-lobed hemiheterocercal caudal fin is composed of about 30 principal rays and is externally homocercal. The scales are rhombic with serrated posterior borders. There are about 40 scale rows between the cleithrum and the origin of the hypochordal lobe of the caudal fin." Identified by Dr. N. Micklich (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - HLMD). Sketch of Albertonia from Anderson and Woods, 2013, p. 325. References: Lambe, L. M. (1916): Ganoid fishes from near Banff, Alberta. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Series 3 10:35-44. Schaffer, B. and Mangus, M. (1976): An Early Triassic fish assemblage from British Columbia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156(5): 515-564. Anderson, K. and Woods, A. D. (2013): Taphonomy of Early Triassic fish fossils of the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Palaeogeography 2(4):321-343.
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I found this fossil while hiking up a mountain in Kananaskis, Alberta a few weeks ago. Any info will be appreciated.
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