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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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Palaeomyces gordoni cysts within Aglaophyton major
Pleuromya posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Rhynie Chert
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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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From the album: Rhynie Chert
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Hi everyone, I am extremely sick today, so I decided to go through my fossils I found in Wyoming over the years while laying in bed. While going through my fossils, I found a piece of large exposed Coprolite. I thought to myself, “I might as well try to extract it. I’ve got nothing else to do because I’m so sick.“ After about 10 minutes of working with it, I was able to extract it in one piece. Then, it broke in my hand into two pieces. To my surprise, inside the Coprolite where it broke, there were bones. Looks like fish bones. Whatever left this Coprolite behind may have been carnivorous. This leads me to my question. Is there any way to tell what animal left this coprolite? If so, what animal left it behind? Any help will be appreciated, Jared
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I found this rock/fossil hunting in my backyard
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Hi everyone, I’m curious about an object that is attached to a fossil I recently purchased. This ichthyosaur skull is approximately 50 cm long and adjacent to the snout there’s a darker grey 3-4 centimetre object embedded in the matrix. I keep getting questions from friends about what it is but I have no idea (my wife has started to tell people that it’s an ichthyosaur corpolite, however I’m not convinced). I wrote to the Natural History Museum here in Sweden but they don’t know either. Can anyone here help solve this small mystery? Thanks, TFF is great
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Hi all, I found this on Monmouth beach on the Jurassic coast UK. It's about 4cm long and about 1cm diameter. Not sure how best to describe it... it's in one piece it's not separated in bits. It has raised vein line type things across it's surface. I just thought it looked like a poo and more than just a rock. Any thoughts please let me know, thank you.
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I am visiting my wife’s brother and he found these in the desert in egypt many years ago. He was told they are fossilized camel dung. Anyone out there know what they are for reals? They are very dense. I hope the pix are ok. This is my first ever post from my phone. Adult human hand for scale.
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I found this wonderful coprolite in river rock surrounding shrubbery at a Howard Johnson's in Rapid City SD about 30 years ago. I've always wondered what creature may have produced it. Do you have any ideas? Length is 2.75 inches. See images.
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I know this is a longshot but I had to ask. I searched the web and couldn’t find anything similar.
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In spite of feeling inadequate here.. I don't have the slightest clue what this is and I want to know everything from what it is or possibilities please and THANK YOU! found in a creek bed near agatized tree in southern indiana. 20220628_010555.mp4
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Hello, I made a run the the North Sulphur River yesterday and there are a couple of finds that I’d like help identifying. The first looks like a coprolite to me but I’ve never ID’d one. Please confirm or deny. If it is one any ideas on what animal made it? It reminds me of a small dog poo. I’ve found this vertebrae but I don’t know what it belongs to. I doesn’t look like the mosasaur vertebrae I’ve found in the past. Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance!
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Possible large Croc coprolite found at Calvert Cliffs https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/holey-snarge-paleontologist-discover-an-extremely-rare-fossil-on-the-calvert-cliffs-poop-feces/65-c4045b64-5f63-4574-bf11-c1780585abcb
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Hi, I hope everyone is well. I was out walking at a location close to Darwen in the UK, north of England on a moor. Happened to come across a small stream the banks very eroded and collapsing so decided to walk the stream and check rocks for fossils and other artifacts and came across a large heavy oval shaped rock under the bank which had collapsed hidden from view I had to reach in and under to get it. It stuck out like a sore thumb from all other rocks, is unusually very heavy for size of the rock. Strange colours and has a gloss effect to it and one side is smoother than the other that may have been exposed to droplets from under the bank side. It wasn't in the stream. Does anybody know what it is? Object is about 6.5 inches long.
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Hello everyone! My name is Weston and while I studied Geology at Whitman College, I never continued by degree. I am now getting a nursing degree and was stationed in Jordan, Montana for rural clinical. A contact of mine let me dig on land and I found all these fossils. Here is a link to my google drive photos. Please help me ID everything and anything you can. I am wondering if the things that look like eggs are actually eggs, as well as what the perfect sphere is. I am also wondering what dinosaur the bones most likely belonged to. I am confident there are coprolites right? I am emailing the Museum of the Rockies and Montana State University to get some help with ID, but I'm curious what you think! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ygoAl7xSULYAMcD-F4i4MzZC31YqL3J0?usp=sharing
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After cleaning the mud off of what I collected yesterday from pit 11, there are two that I suspect could be coprolites, possibly shark coprolites? These two were found in close proximity, but are both negative halves of separate specimens. I think I see little undigested bits, meaning it's not an egg case?
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Big Brook, NJ : Coprolite, rock or other?
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In this post I am going to show you a couple examples of fish related fossils that are found at Mazon Creek. Many of these are my finds and many are from my fossil mentor. The pics are zoomed up, I apologize for that, but I mounted my fossils (pairs) on white cardboard, so I do not want to pull them off and have to reattach them. First up is a lamprey - Mayomyzon pieckoensis. This lamprey was collected at Pit 11. Next up are a 3 examples of the Jawless fish- Gilpichthys greenei . These fish were found at Pit 11. Now I do not know if these names are still acceptable, but when I first started they were. These fish were found at Pit 11. Acanthodes marshi Acanthodes beecheri Here is a nice paleoniscoid that was found at Pit 11 and was ID’d by Dr. Dave Bardack, I believe the correct name is - Elonichthys peltigerus. This is a Rhabdoderma exiguum - Coelacanth. This fossil was found at Pit 4, in the area that I always called “Across From Pit 4”-(AFP4). Here is another nice Coelacanth- Rhabdoderma exiguum with a little coprolite. This piece was found at Pit 11 and I acquired it last year in a collection that I purchased. Here is another example- Now here is an odd one, it is called a Pipiscius zangerli. Many older collectors called it the “Push me- Pull me fish”. This second pic shows what should be the mouth. Now I know they are not classifying these as larval lungfish as they did when I first started, but I wanted to show a couple anyways. Here is Esconichthys apopyris. The first example shows multiple individuals. The next 3 are individuals. With this example you can see why collectors call them “ Ghosts”. This next piece was identified by Dr. Bardack as a fish head, but unknown species. This was found at Pit 11. This next piece I had brought with me to one of the Mazon Creek Open Houses at Northeastern and showed it to Dr. Bardack. He identified this as Acanthodian fish scales. This piece was found at Pit 11. Here are a few nice fish scales found at Pit 4 (AFP4). Here is a piece that I have identified as an Orthacanthus sp. tooth. This piece was found at Pit 4 (AFP4). Here are a couple Palaeoxyris. These pieces were found at Pit 4 (AFP4). Now these next pieces, all found at Pit 11, are described as either fish or amphibian eggs cases, either way they are very cool fossils. Mazonomaya helmichnus. This last piece is a spiral shark coprolite, not my best example, but one that I just came across. I also could not locate my Vertebrate Fossil of the Month find to post. Again these are some examples, I hope you enjoy them.
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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Greetings to all. This specimen was encountered on a beach where common Miocene fossils, such as shark teeth, whale vertebrae, cetacean periotic bones and bulla can be discovered. It is the first one of its kind I have come across and would really appreciate input from members to assist with the correct ID. Thanking you all in advance.
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I believe I got the material from someone on here years ago and I get a chance to go through some from time to time. This is Alafia River stuff from Lithia Florida. It had a note of Oligocene/Miocene for age. One of them is kind of hard to see but right beside the other and I suspect these are internal molds in a piece of coprolite.
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