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Hi to all, My name is Cate and I hail from South Yorkshire, England. I am very much a new comer to fossil hunting, starting about 12 months ago, so have only managed a few trips up to yet! My hunting ground is on the East coast, Whitby area. I love all the fossils I have found up to yet, particularly my ammonites, but also have some I am not sure what the are (may just be interesting rocks). Happy to share some of my finds and will post separately those I don’t have a clue about. I have enjoyed looking at the photos / posts on the site thus far, so a huge thank you to everyone else for sharing.
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The center looks porous in texture, with a harder much darker outside edge.
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Liopleurodon Ferox Tooth?
Alston Gee posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I know this pliosaur tooth has been discussed early in another post, but here are more pictures with true colour (I guess) provided by the seller. The true locality of this tooth remains unknown although the seller claimed it was from Oxford Clay Formation, England. Does this tooth belong to Liopleurodon Ferox or Cretaceous pliosaur?
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It's common knowledge that Smilodon has been mistakenly called the "saber-toothed tiger", yet it and other machairodontines were not closely related to the tiger or other members of the felid subfamily Pantherinae. However, Smilodon was the not the first saber-toothed cat to be bestowed the epithet "saber-toothed tiger". In a poem about Pleistocene mammals found in England, British poet Thomas Miller refers to the European machairodontine Homotherium latidens as a "saber-toothed tiger", in which case people in Europe and America had yet to literally use the term "saber-tooth tiger" for the Smilodon. Link: https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/the-origin-of-sabre-toothed-tiger/
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Hi! My primary interest is archaeology, and it always annoys me when people conflate archaeology and palaeontology but I have recently become pretty interested in the subject because my gf is really into it and you actually tend to find a decent amount of fossils sometimes when digging on archaeological sites. It was probably a site I was on in Northamptonshire recently that made me a lot more interested in fossils, because the geology there was very Jurassic I think and so you would find quite a lot, mostly just ones that looked like shells you could find at the beach, but also quite a few fragments of what I think are ammonites. Probably the most interesting one was actually burned in a Roman furnace or oven which is kinda funny, I originally thought it could have been a fragment of a quernstone until I saw the fairly regular curvy striations on it - unfortunately they dont show up too well on camera.
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A lovely and today rare ammonit from northeastern england, found near Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. Unpolished this ammonites (found in an iron limestone) are a little bit ugly..., but after polishing they are fantastic! This has around 20 cm -
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Partial 'Megaloceros giganteus' Jaw: I'd Love to Learn More about It...
JamieC7696 posted a topic in Fossil ID
This is a partial 'Megaloceros giganteus' jaw I recently bought, which I'd love to learn more about - but especially the following: 1. Is it actually from Megaloceros, or - indeed - another mammal? 2. Can we tell how mature the animal was when it died? 3. Is the jaw a composite at all? 4. How are such fossils prepared for sale after being found: i.e., I'm especially curious to learn about whether paint and/or glue are applied - and, if so, what would it have looked like before such preparation, upon its discovery?
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Very large & irregular flint nodule, sea sponge or burrow system?
Thames Adventurer posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi! I found this very large and irregularly shaped flint nodule on the Thames foreshore, London. To me, it kind of looks like the branching arms of a sea sponge, but I have heard that flint nodules also sometimes filled the shape of animal burrows and other things. It has a number of holes/handles in it. What do you think it is?
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Hi all, greetings from this retired Royal Navy officer/fossil newbie in Southern England. I've returned to fossil hunting after maybe 40 years doing plenty of other stuff, and the bug has bitten pretty hard. I've attended a couple of organised field trips and it turns out that I like nothing more than crawling along a beach with my nose about a foot from the sand. I'm looking forward to plenty more opportunities for getting my hands dirty, and to using the great resource that this forum seems to be. Here's to dirty fingernails and heavy rucksacks.
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Hi, more fossils from my collection. The first two pictures are of a pyritized Ammonite from Buttenheim, Germany and is from the Jurassic. The next two are of a pyritized Ammonite from the Volga River, Russia and is Jurassic. The next picture is of Marston Marble. The second to last and the final is Beringiaphyllum cupanoides from the Fort Union Formation in Montana.
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New longirostrine pliosaur described from the Oxford Clay
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Fossil News
Hi all, Just came across the exciting news that a new pliosaur genus and species has been described from the Callovian stage of the Oxford Clay near Yarnton in Oxfordshire. Dubbed Eardasaurus powelli (Powel's Yarnton lizard), it's a longirostrine thalassophonean pliosaur that is slightly more derived than Peloneustes philarchus (with which it shares numerous anatomical features) and forms a sister taxon to "Pliosaurus", Simolestes, Liopleurodon, Pliosaurus and brachaucheninae. A feature of particular interest in the dentition of this new species is the presence of connecting carina-like apicobasal ridges on some of its teeth. The article describing Eardasaurus powelli can be found here. -
I'm opening this new thread as in my "Fossil collection Part 1" came out from one of the pictures that I might have found and old broken clay pipe (found in a rock pool during a low tide) Is there anyone that can help me understand if this is effectively a pipe and how old this object could be? Thank you! Attached images:
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum >> My welcome This is my "fossils collection", some may be just stones some definitely fossils. I collected these during a low tide in the rock pools on Margate sands beach (Kent, England). I picked these up with my hands, no hammering or digging. Over time they presented a white patina on them, maybe calcium? I didn't clean them as it might help to recognize them (maybe a chemical reaction? not an expert so I preferred not to alter them) This is just part 1 of my collection, I will upload more in days to come. The photos are front and back of the fossils. I'd like to know more about what they are; teeth, Belemnites and more? I'll upload here the compressed pictures, for you to identify them, if possible. I'd like to learn how to clean them but I think it requires lots of experience and expensive materials... If you need any pic brighter and crispier, just let me know and I can upload it separately, I'm a Photoshop wizard Omono 1. Tooth? Front 2. Tooth? Back 3. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - FRONT 4. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - BACK 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. Bone? 11. 12. Tooth? n.2 13. Tooth n.2 Detail 14. Tooth n.2 BACK 15. 16. 17. 18. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - DETAIL
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My son and I get a lot of clams from castleton, UK but I’ve never seen anything quite like this… any ID would be fantastic. thanks
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Hello from Yorkshire and Tyneside, England. I am fairly new to this game, although have accidentally stumbled on some nice fossils over the years. Have Recently started finding bits and bobs on northern English beaches with my 8 year old grandson. We are both hoping to learn more from this site.
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Fossil found on Walking Path in Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire
Blunderbore posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi - Found this on a walking path along with tens of Devil's Toenails. It seems quite sizeable and I was quite excited when I found it. It has a 'hard' appearance and an interesting dark brown bone-like colour in certain parts. Also, notice that there is a sort of curvature below the first layer. I feel like I want to rule out part of a very large ammonite because the substance seems quite bone like compared to the rather sandstone effect that I have seen on these large ammonites (which also usually don't have such defined edges). Due to the curvature underneath it looks like that would have been another substance - not sure on the makeup of ammonite but could easily be a sort of bone marrow. But I'm not sure what bone would look like that.. I thought it look like some sort of vertebrae possibly from a large flat fish dinosaur thing - but this is my imagination getting the best of me, I'm sure! Regards, Chris
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Found on Brighton Beach in England. Salt Water, cold. The whole stone is about 8cm across and main circular shape has about 3cm diameter. It looks like it goes through the stone which is what was confusing me. Thanks
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another ID for you guys to help me with! thanks to everyone who helped on my last post, here is another. now u have no clue what this is….? guessing a negative of a fossil or trace fossil due to only being impressions. this was found in port mulgrave on the yorkshire coast if this helps
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hi, i went walking in the north east of england and found this, it looked to be a fish jaw? i’m new to fossil collecting and finding as a hobby and i could be completely wrong but if anyone knows anything could you let me know? thanks it was found in a beck/stream, not directly on a coastline. could this be a fish jaw? or small animal jaw?
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It is from Dorset, England
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Hello all, I found an interesting looking rock while walking along a forest path in mid Devon, and think it could be a fossil of some kind. If someone could give me an idea of what this is, I would be grateful! Please let me know if you need additional photos/information. Apologies if it's just a rock.
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Hi everyone! I was into dinosaurs when I was a kid, but my then stated goal of being a palaeontologist kind of fell by the wayside in my teens. I've always tried to keep an eye on cool stuff going on though, and I randomly saw the Ladbible video of Mamlambos giant crab prep on FB last week. Somehow the concept of fossil YouTube hadn't occurred to me, so I spent a bunch of time watching him then decided to see if there's anywhere in Essex with fossils. Turns out Burnham and Mersea are both accessible to me fairly easily, so my plan is to get out there some point next year and satisfy my inner 7 year old. I'd like to make a trip to Whitby for ammonites at some point as well, always thought they were cool. Outside of fossils, I'm a big tabletop gamer. I play Magic as well as various rpgs and GW games. Dragonlover
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Hi, Found this bone over Christmas whilst on a beach walk on the south coast of England. Please could someone identify what animal it's from and what part of the body too? It's about 15cm long. Thanks, Steve
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