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Turtle Carapace Fragment With Pathological Damage
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Hi! When display fossils, does sunlight damage fossils? Is there anything I need to be careful about when display fossils? like moisture
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I wish this was a post to celebrate an incredible accomplishment but instead I am extremely scared that through my potential carelessness, the likely greatest find of my life may be forever changed. I just a few days ago on 6/6 found this stingray fossil at American Fossil Quarry in Wyoming just and was able to keep it because it was at that location. I have been on a road trip and have been storing it in a plastic tote bin with bubble wrap and then fish fossils underneath wrapped in paper towel. I took the lid off for a prolonged period to air out the bin and I think this was a grave mistake and let in humidity. The paper towel was all heavily damp and many of the fish fossils had very obvious signs of mold/mildew growth and discoloration. And now I fear the stingray may show some as well. I desperately need advice on repair and preservation asap. I really need help trying to fix this mess as I’m still on the road for another week. It may not be super obvious in the images but it is the areas that appear a grayish color in contrast to the orangeish brown. The last image is the closest picture I took on the day it was found to show any potential change. This was a lifetime find and I will be crushed if I’ve caused irreparable damage. Please help. Any advice in repair and preservation is greatly appreciated. And I’m sorry to all those that see this and are disappointed in the poor handling of this rare piece, I’m more than disappointed in myself if things are what they seem. And if by a miracle the stingray is perfectly fine then any advice on the fish fossils would be great.
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Hey all, This is an unusual ID post. It's actually of the first tooth I ever posted on TFF. Back then I was primarily confirming that it was in fact T Rex and trying to get some understanding of what damage to the tooth was likely to be antemortem/perimortem/postmortem. The tooth is from the Hell Creek in Powder River co, MO and it's about 3". When it was sold to me, the seller felt he was seeing enough antemortem/perimortem trauma that he thought it was safe to say this tooth had seen its share of combat. The most interesting new bit of info someone offered me was that they've seen a number of teeth with the base-break trauma looking the way it does here and he believes they were shorn off during face-biting combat by a tooth of the opponent's. He was referring to the relatively clean slice-break that the tooth suffered rather than having the normal jagged break--and the presence of what appear to be serration-related chips/racking along the edge of the base-break (i.e., from an opponent's tooth). I've also learned a bit about T Rex face-biting since then, including the fact that it seems to occur when Rexes are in that sort of pre-adult growth spurt. This tooth seems to fit that category too, size-wise. I'm wondering if this looks like a battle-damaged and shorn off tooth to you. Thanks!!
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So I find a lot of eldredgeops parts in this particular spot I’ve been digging for a few months (needmore formation outside Winchester VA). Particularly find a lot of cephalons. Some of them have been a bit warped/bent and I chalked it up to geologic forces doing the distorting. Came across this one the other day though that has a very focused dent in the glabella, like a piercing dent. I can’t for the life of me find the mold I split it from (it’s somewhere!) but it also has the corresponding dent, so I know it’s not damage done by me. Is there any way to know if the dent was pre fossilization/sign of predation? With it being so focused it didn’t feel the same as other specimen I’ve seen bent around the form of a natural split in the shale. Size is 1.5cm
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General question for the group: Would you rather find a large (large being over 8 inches, in my case), inflated trilobite with some damage OR a smaller, flat trilobite with very little damage at all? I know it would depend on the actual examples, but in general I was wondering what people preferred. I have a small one that I think is cool but the larger ones are just so much more impressive to me... I am just starting to collect trilobites, as I have only recently realized they can be found in my area. Thanks.
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I bought this Moroccan mosasaurus tooth in matrix some time ago. As you can see, it has a long scrape down the side. When I got it, I assumed it the tooth was damaged when it was discovered or prepared in Morocco. However, I saw a tooth for sale the other day on a website with a similar mark described as "feeding damage." What do you all think? Anyone seen this sort of thing before? Is there any way to tell feeding damage versus a more mundane type of damage?
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For whatever reason, I find these as interesting as a pristine specimen. Perhaps because the tooth was actually used, like stamp collectors like cancellation marks? How about you? Do you have any interesting photos of feeding damaged teeth (of any species) to share?
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