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Hi all, This may seem like a weird topic but I wanted to ask here because this keeps happening occasionally and I am unsure of what the cause behind it is and whether this could be of any concern. When going through my fossil collection, whether it be putting new specimens up for display, looking through my collection, dusting pieces off, moving them, etc. I occasionally see small translucent white bugs slowly scuttling across the surface of them, I believe that these are springtails as that seems like the only plausible organism to be found there that also has that appearance and body shape. I personally have no issue with the bugs, I like springtails, I think they're fascinating organisms and somewhat cute even. My question is where could all of them be coming from? My understanding is that they primarily feed on fungi and need lots of moisture to thrive, I understand maybe finding a couple of them a few days after pulling fossils fresh from the ground, but some of these seem to come out weeks or even months after these fossils have been laying on my shelves with little to no contact with fresher specimens. My display area is kept clean and dry so I really have no idea where they could bee coming from, is this any cause for concern? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Thanks for looking and any replies, Misha
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I have decided to start a thread showing pieces from my collection. I usually post in the "mailbox score" thread, but have found that my additions get lost in the volume of postings in the thread. So my collection will be in my own thread.
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Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I have posted on here. Next summer my family is moving to the Fort Collins area and I was wondering if there were any sites or natural areas to hunt/collect in. I read on fossilspot.com that the south shore of Horsetooth Reservoir (west of Fort Collins) contains Late Cretaceous Fox Hills formation containing “Inoceramus, Ostrea, etc.”. I have already planned to get down to Florissant Fossil Quarry (despite the extremely expensive one hour access fee). My mom has friends with ranches in the central part of the state that have extensive land with mountain ATV trails. I’m still working out the formations of the area, but hopefully they are vertebrate bearing. If they are and include dinosaurs or phorusrhacids, then I would be more comfortable to brave the Mountain Lions, Fire ants and rattlesnakes for them. Near my mom’s friend’s ranch is Monarch Mountain, which is built on Ordovician rocks full of fossils. It is unfortunate that there is not many vert sites in Colorado that you can collect at. However, I will take invertebrate sites too. Of invertebrates I want Baculites or Placenticeras. Any help appreciated.
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First one was theorized to be a gerastos trilobite, but I am unsure after comparing images The second image came with a note that said pachycephalosaurus vertebrae, hell creek. I don't know how accurate that is but if someone could at least tell me what type of vertebrae this is because all the ones I looked up were not this intricate Third and fourth one I have no idea what they are they never had any notes attached when I unpacked. I completely understand if nobody can identify exactly what they are but if someone can tell me what bones they at least are I'm happy with that The last two pictures are the front and back of what I assume is a juvenile mammoth wrist bone. Or at least that's what the note said there was no location written down Goodness, I believe this might be the last post of all the stuff I found. I really do appreciate everyone's help.
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I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place but I figured I'd show off my collection. I don't have many of my own finds cleaned up enough so I'll start with the ones I have bought or have been gifted. I don't have much, but I'm proud of what I do have (except that spino tooth). Note: I just figured out how the label pictures. If I made any mistakes please let me know. Zarafasaura oceanis Zarafasaura oceanis (Unknown fish jaw) Prognathodon Spinosauridae Amber with ants in it (I got it at a gift shop back in 2017 and have no information about it)
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Long story short my grandmother use to order fossils from a website. She would keep some of the authentication certificates because I was so young at the time of receiving these. When she had passed I learned she lost almost all of the paperwork. I've been struggling to identify these with such little information to go off of. Any help is greatly appreciated. First image to last: - Small roughly 1'' tooth - Was thought to be plesiosaur tooth but it looks slightly different then the confirmed plesiosaur tooth I own - unknown -wrist or ankle of some sort, mammoth or mastodon -unknown
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Hey all. I just wanted to pick everyone’s brain and see everyone’s opinion on what trilobite they believe is necessary for a collection. I think it is safe to say all collections both beginner and advanced should have at least one Utah Elrathia kingii. While super common and pretty inexpensive in terms of trilobites they are one of the classic images when someone thinks trilobite and so for that reason I believe they are a perfect specimen for any collection.
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Dinosaur, Reptile, and Amber Collection UPDATE: Shelf #3!
Mousehead posted a topic in Member Collections
Things are getting pretty serious over in The Fossil Zone, so I cleared off a few books and replaced them with fossils. Who needs to read, anyway? Feel free to ask questions about particular pieces. Whole collection: The turtle skull is real, but the surrounding matrix has been stained by the preparator for better visibility. Some here might recognize the new claw that arrived broken in the mail There is a Vinctifer comptoni fish on the back right, along with a negative Grallator footprint, which I can't seem to find a good way to display. New additions here include a croc/turtle egg in-matrix, a Campo del Cielo meteorite, and a few various claws. There's also a piece of the Roman Colosseum, whose origin story I should not divulge. A complete Psittacosaurus foot joins the family. To its immediate left is a Triceratops frill spike. My best-prepared fossil here is the Ichthyosaur rib plate on the right – just incredible work. The little Knightia in the front reminds me every day I need to get a really good fish fossil soon. Amber Time! My favorite time. Rarer inclusions are a mushroom, pill pug, a gigantic damselfly, triple crane flies, a large millipede, caterpillar, a bloated tick/mite, moth with perfect wings, and a small lizard claw. More amber! S-shaped Centipede, multiple termites, a gecko tail, a big fuzzy bee (middle center), and my favorite... ...the back half of a lizard stuck to a leaf on the bottom right. Nice view of that killer centipede here as well! I'm gonna need a new shelf soon, but space is limited here in this tiny NYC studio apartment. Thanks for looking, friends!
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I bought parts of an old collection a couple of years ago. It cotained a bunch of peices from the north sea. Some of the fossils came without tags and i would like to ask for some help identifying what type of species they might have came from. First of is this vertebra. As far as come with my own research im guessing woolly rhino?
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Hello! This topic will show my personal finds from the Ignaberga Quarry, Sweden. Ignaberga is a quarry in Skåne County, Sweden. It is in the Kristianstad Basin. The age is Upper Cretaceous. Santonian to Maastrichtian. But most of the outcrops are Lower Campanian in age. The environment was a warm to subtropical shallow inland sea with an archipelago and small Peninsulas. I will be updating this thread with pictures of my finds. Enjoy & regards - Adriano
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Just sharing, let me know if something stands out. Thank you.
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From the album: Nanotyrannus35's Dinosaur Teeth
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One of the newer teeth in my Megalodon tooth collection. I have been collecting Megalodon Teeth for some months. now. The tooth is around 4 8/16 inches big and has some restoration on the root. I love the colors and serrations! Show me your South American megalodon teeth!
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From the album: Nanotyrannus35's Dinosaur Teeth
Edmontosaurus tooth collection. From left to right, 4 spitter teeth, partially rooted tooth, nearly full tooth, rooted tooth in matrix-
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So I'm kind of more focusing on dinosaur teeth. This topic is where I'll post my dinosaur teeth. I'll still post the bones in my other topic though. Here is the collection so far. My Edmontosaurus teeth A couple new additions to this include a partially rooted tooth that I'd found, And an interesting spitter tooth. My tyrannosaur tooth collection And my Triceratops teeth I'll probably be posting some more soon.
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This piece was in a collection that I purchased earlier this year and I just noticed it, but have no clue what it is. I have no information at all on this piece. Any help would be appreciated.
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Been awhile since I posted my collection. It has grown quite a bit over the years, what do you guys think?
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Hello to all. This is my collection of flora from the Carboniferous period. This topic will be filled gradually - there is a lot of material. All material originates from the Araukarite Formation of the Gzhel Stage of the Upper Pennsylvania Carboniferous period (303.4 Ma). Unless otherwise specified, it means that the default sample is from this formation. The type of substitution is silicification (sometimes with ferruginization), sometimes with quartz crystals on the surface of the samples. Enjoy watching Part 1. Sample 1. Part of a branch of small diameter with a whorled arrangement of knots. VID_20211212_143605.mp4
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I started collecting around a year ago and have gained a small collection just wanted to show some the fossils off. Some I've found but most are bought. I will update if I get any new fossils. I can't post all the stuff at once because I need to take all the photos which takes some time. Thank you
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This is my small fossil collection! i’ve found the shark teeth and dolphin vertebrae but the rest are bought.
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How to exactly study fossils in your collection ?
Tyrannosaurus Rex posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello everybody, I have question that I always wanted to ask,but it was so dumb that I always avoided asking it. However,curiosity was stronger and I finally decided to go for it and ask it. OK,I would like to know how can someone who collects fossils learn more about fossils he got and find out more about that particular specimen? Is there any sort of ''study'' that can be done with some fossilized specimen like etc. seashell in matrix that would provide more information about that specimen as well as specie? I would like to know more about fossils I have,but to me it's just fossilized organism that I don't know much about except it's etc. seashell. I would really like to do some study on my fossils,but I don't know what kind of study is possible to do without any lab equipment? For example,I uploaded one seashell fossil I have in my collection. It's still in matrix and I know where it came from and approximately age,but nothing else.Not even specie since it's not some more ''famous'' animal that is well known and I can't find any guide for fossils that would tell me more about local species in my area (this fossil was found by my friend in creek few miles from my home). Do you have any advice for learning more about fossils I have,since I don't have list of species found in my area because they are considered of ''low importance'' and only place that I may get some list is University of Natural Science,but they are too busy and don't have policy to give that kind of info to individuals outside University. So,back to original question,is there any way to study fossil we have in our collections that would tell us more info about that particular organism? Again,I'm sorry for dumb question,but I'm big newbie and I don't even consider myself an amateur tho I know many things about paleontology that are above ''standard/basic'' knowledge,but as far as ID'ing and studying fossils themself,I don't have almost any knowledge. EDIT:I recently got compound microscope and I manage to use it on minerals and some fossils despite it's not stereo microscope that is made for studying 3-D things like fossils among others. Trick was using very bright light source close to specimen near the objective and it works very well actually. It's not same as stereo microscope,but it's nice experience to try. Would you recommend some studies on fossils that are possible with help of a microscope perhaps?
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A Fossil A Day....keeps the blues away! Or something like that... I started an Instragram account (jamielynnfossilquest) and am posting a fossil a day, so I figured I should do that on here, to REAL fossil enthusiasts! I'm a few days behind, so I will start out with a few more than one a day but then it will settle down to One Fossil (but I will admit, I'll probably miss a few days, but I'll double up or whatever.) I'll start with Texas Pennsylvanian era, but will branch out to other locations and time periods, so expect a little of everything! So enjoy A Fossil A Day! Texas Pennsylvanian Fossils: Nautiloid Agathiceras ciscoense Brachiopod Neochonetes acanthophorus Trilobite Ditomopyge sp. Gastropod Straparollus sp. Bivalve Astartella vera Cephalopod Brachycycloceras sp, Brachiopod Cleiothyridina orbicularis
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Hey everyone, I've been acquiring some new fossils, and it's been getting me to want to start a trilobite collection. I wanted to make this so I can update whenever I get a new specimen. For now I'll start with my Kainops raymondi. Paciphacops campbelli
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Hi everybody! This my dinosaur collection. This is my Hell Creek and Judith River shelf. It's a bit empty but I'm working on getting more fossils. I also have a replica Triceratops skull that I had 3-d printed. This is my tyrannosaur tooth fragment from the Hell Creek fm of Harding County SD. I'd gotten a bag of micro-matrix from hell creek and I got some ossified tendon fragments A partial Pachycephalosaurus? caudal vertebra from Harding County SD A jaw fragment from an indeterminate hadrosaur from the Judith River fm of Hill County Montana And an Edmontosaurus spitter tooth from the Lance fm of WY And now onto the Moroccan fossils I have a spinosaur tooth and some mosasaur teeth, the biggest of the mosasaur teeth being 2 inches. A Spinosaur indet. too
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I hear there are over 10k ammonite species. If that number is true, who or what museum has the most? Thinking of starting down a long road but that's who I am.
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