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I saw this tooth for sale recently, labeled as Pterosaur from Solnhofen, the tooth seems way too thick to be pterosaur, any thoughts? I'm thinking it might be fish, but I have no idea.
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Can someone help me identify this fossil? It isn't a knightia or Mioplosus and that's all I've done so far.
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These are the fossil from Aguja formation that found by ME hunting in Aguja matrix (fossil hunting at home) let get start ! 1. Hadrosaur tooth ? could be from kritosaurus ? 2. Hadrosaur / ceratopsian spitter tooth ??? 3. Dinosaur tooth ???? could be hadrosaur or ceratopsian ??
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I'm told the middle fish is a Knightia. Any ideas about what the other 2 are? Also, When I'm done preparing this, how can I darken the fossils and seal it up? It's in oil-shale. Thanks!
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Fish Vertebra Miocene Calvert Fm. Calvert Co, MD Fish Scale Asterolepis Sp. Devonian Rousay Beds Sandwich Fish Beds Rousay, Orkney, Scotland
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I live in Central Wisconsin and have been finding several interesting looking rocks in scattered among landscaping in a parking lot. Here's one of the stranger ones. Total length is about 7 cm. Detail shot is of bottom of specimen. I've also made a 3d scan and uploaded to Sketchfab. I can provide more pictures by request. Thank you for your time!
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I've always loved living fossils, especially the fish. They are relics of an age long lost, offering us a glimpse of an incredible prehistoric world. Some are enigmas that survived countless extinction events since the Devonian. Others are majestic predators that swam alongside the dinosaurs. Let me present my collection of living fossil fishes from the Mesozoic and before. I will begin with one of the most famous of all - the coelacanth Coelacanth Species: Whiteia woodwardi Age: 252.3 - 251.3 mya | early Triassic Formation: Diego Basin; Middle Sakamena Formation Locality: Ambilobe, Madagascar First appearance: Eoachtinistia foreyi was found 360 million years ago in Australia Paddlefish Species: Protopsephurus liui Age: 125.5 - 112.5 mya | early Cretaceous Formation: Yixian Formation Locality: Lingyuan City, Liaoning First appearance: This is the oldest known species Sturgeon Species: Peipiaosteus fengningensis Age: 125.5 - 120 mya | early Cretaceous Formation: Jehol Biota Locality: Chifeng, Nei Mongol First appearance: Multiple species e.g. Yanosteus longidorsalis found since 125 million years ago in China Pipefish Species: Hipposygnathus sp. Age: 28.1 - 13.8 mya | Oliogocene - Miocene Formation: Monterey Formation Locality: Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA First appearance: Solenostomidae species were found 55.8 million years ago in Italy Note: Although most of this collection only includes fishes that existed since the Mesozoic or later, I made an exception for the pipefish as their order, syngnathiform, existed since the late Cretaceous
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Hiya everyone just got this fossil fish a help with ID would be great thanks
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Apologies but one last fish tooth question from my Saturday hunt in Big Brook. What is it. Is it even A fish tooth? Just over 1/2 inch long. Thank you
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I have prepped this fish a year ago with a needle,looking back at it with a magnifier i see some weird powder on parts of the head only.Is it gonna turn into powder and rust away,or had i carelessly prepped it to this state?
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Greetings all. I had forgotten about this piece of shale that I split while at Jalama a couple of weeks back. To my eye it looks like either a land insect, or possible a sea bug, like a shrimp. Then again, it may be nothing. But just in case it's just to the right side of almost nothing, I figured I'd post an image or two. Thanks for any input provided. Cheers. Rats, I forgot the size reference/index. Length is ~15mm. Exploding fish reference thread. Monterey formation in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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From the album: Fossil Collection
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Last month my dad and I took a four-day weekend trip to Western New York to visit some new fossil sites and to collect in the famous Beecher's Trilobite Beds. We had only once before been out to Western New York to collect fossils - a visit to Penn Dixie Fossil Park - so this time around we wanted to try out some different places that we had never collected in before. The trip was a lot of fun and I enjoyed putting my research skills to work in finding new places to visit. I greatly expanded my collection of Silurian and Devonian fossils and found quite a few things on my fossil bucket list. I am excited to hopefully make another trip out there soon and fortunately still have my list of potential stops to make. Thursday On Thursday we woke early and made the 6.5 hour drive towards Western New York. In preparing for the trip I spoke with @fossilcrazy who was kind enough to invite my dad and me to collect from some of the spoils piles on his property from the various fossil collecting trips he has made. I was really excited to explore his pile of Linton Coal as I have very few fish in my collection and even fewer Pennsylvanian marine fossils - one of the consequences of living near Eastern Pennsylvania is that you end up visiting a lot of Late Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation plant sites. @fossilcrazy is an amazing fossil collector and an even more incredible member of the fossil collecting community. I cannot say enough about his generosity and hospitality. We were all hoping that my dad and I could find an amphibian or complete fish fossil, but no luck. We found a few isolated Orthacanthus teeth and head spines and some isolated coelacanth scales and bones. Fortunately @fossilcrazy kindly gifted me some representative pieces to add to my collection. These fossils are from the Middle Pennsylvanian Upper Freeport Coal from Linton, Ohio. I highly recommend checking out some of the posts @fossilcrazy has made about his finds from the Linton Coal. They are amazing! Rhabdoderma elegans Here are some close-ups of this beautiful coelacanth head and tail Haplolepis sp. Orthocanthus compressus Teeth and Head Spine Conchostracans Death Plate After visiting with @fossilcrazy we made our way into Buffalo to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House. My dad is an architect and he really wanted to see the newly restored interior of the house. It is really a quite stunning home.
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I found this in a phosphatic nodule from the Mecca Quarry Shale (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Illinois. It's pretty jumbled, perhaps as a result of digestion. My first reaction was that this is the base of a fish tooth, but I am not positive. Any thoughts?
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Real or fake? rare fish from the US Eocene.
mardopa posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
True or fake? And what species is it? I have this rare fish from the US Eocene. It has color and a lacquer applied. The rock is authentic and I have passed a flame over the fish and it does not melt, it is not resin. But I still have doubts.
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Figured I might sift through some shark teeth and misc. aquatic creature fossils I have stored in a couple boxes and post them here and perhaps learn a bit more about them from more knowledgeable members. These aren't arranged in any order, unfortunately, as I really don't know much about sharks and am still learning, so if anything stands out, please let me know! I must also apologize for the poor photo quality-I don't have any fancy set ups and this is just a quick perusal of what I have and throw it up here on the forum kinda night, haha. Scale is in mm/cm; I have listed the names and countries for each specimen, but where I have typed labels in the photos, more details can be read by the photo to save me some typing. Otherwise, details are typed out. Hope y'all enjoy! In the Khouribga, Morocco display (45-70 myo): -Carcharias tingitana -Myliobatis dixoni -Squalicorax pristodontus -Odontaspis winkleri -Cretolamna biauriculata -Onchosaurus vertebrae -Odontaspis substriata -Mosasurus -Otodus obliquus -Carcharias whiter -Rhombodus meridionalis -Pristis microdons -Striatolamna gasfana -Paleophis maghrebianus -Odontaspis vincenti -Enchodus libycus -Carcharias atlantica -Myliobatis raouxi -Squalicorax kaupi -Phylodus tolyapictus -Carcharias africana Orthacanthus sp. fin spine from the Permian of Waurika, Oklahoma: Anodontacanthus sp. spine from the Permian of Waurika, Oklahoma: Myliobatis sp. stingray tail spine from the Pliocene of Whalers Bluff Fm., near Portland, Victoria, Australia: Myliobatis sp. Stingray tooth from the late Miocene, Port Campbell Limestone, Portland, Victoria, Australia: Carcharochles chubutensis, Miocene of Peru: Lamna nasus, Belgium: Squalus minor, France: Serratolamna serrata, Belgium: Striatolamia macrota, Antarctica: Protosphyraena sp., Australia: Helodus rankinei, Scotland: Isistius triangulus, Early Miocene, Upper Meeresmolasse, Owingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: Helodus sp., Early Carboniferous, Blackhall Limestone, Skateraw, East Lothian, Scotland: Otodus obliquus, Middle Eocene, Romania: Xenacanthus sp. x2, Scotland: Keasius parvus basking shark gill raker, Czechoslovakia: Isistius triangulus, Early Miocene, Upper Meeresmolasse, Hollsteig, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: Petalodus acuminatus, Scotland: Helodus sp. Dorsal fin spine, Scotland: Cetorhinus maximus gill rakers, Miocene-Pliocene, Hoevenen, Antwerp area, Belgium: Will continue in next post...
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I just made a video which includes a video at the end of my Rarest Fossil find! It's a beautiful fish which are super rare here. Hopefully you enjoy the video if you choose to watch it
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Can anyone please help identify this fish fossil? Thanks!
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Green River Fish question
fossilguy312 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello all, I have been long searching for an exceptionally high/museum quality aspiration example from Green River. I recently have found myself with the opportunity to acquire this specimen. I've been told that there is a small amount of restoration on the tail of the Priscacara but I don't know exactly how much/what it entails yet. I'd ideally prefer a specimen with 0% restoration but I don't know how realistic that is. For scale, the diplo is 18" long, I'm told. It's obviously pretty cool that this is a Priscacara aspiration as my understanding is that this is pretty uncommon. I'd be very curious to hear your feedback on this piece in general, your thoughts on the restoration, and to hear your suggestions on whether or not this is the "right" piece to add to my collection (last part is a personal decision, I know...). I don't mind waiting to find the perfect piece... but I also don't know how realistic it is to find one much better as this one seems pretty nice to my eye. I wish the tail were poking out a bit farther but hey I guess I give the diplo credit for getting it that far down before expiring... Really appreciate your thoughts.
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Hello! Help please to identify this tooth. Size: 3,5- 4 mm. Age: Cretaceous-Paleogene. Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance.
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Silurian-Devonian Jawless Fish were Ecologically Diversified
LabRatKing posted a topic in Fossil News
Via Sci-News: Osteostraci, the jawless sister group to all jawed vertebrates, had adaptations for passive control of water flow around the body, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/ecologically-diversified-osteostraci-08916.html Full original paper-no paywall: Computational Fluid Dynamics Suggests Ecological Diversification among Stem-Gnathostomes https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31362-2 Generalized translation: Armored fish developed streamlining and passivecontrol surfaces adapted for efficiency while swimming, as in form over function. Also the big armored heads likely did not have much impact on the later development of jaws and related structures. Or, even simpler, these guys were really efficient at moving through the water even with big, heavy heads and the more modern mouth that evolved later did not necessarily result in greater numbers of different shapes among species. -
From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
This assemblage came from one cup (about 340 ml) of micro matrix from Aurora Fossil Museum. Oddly, they are generally much larger than most of what I found in the rest of the matrix. They are all from either the Pliocene or Pleistocene. See album description. -
From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
Family Sparidae Pliocene/Pleistocene from Aurora Fossil Museum micro matrix Aurora, North Carolina -
From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
Lagodon rhomboides about 3 mm long Pliocene/Pleistocene from Aurora Fossil Museum micro matrix Aurora, North Carolina -
Hello! this is one of my weirdest things I have found at this location, I believe it might be a fragment from a fin spine? A piece from an Echinoid? Something else? I would love to know what it is and what species this came from! Some information on the area: Location: Missouri Time period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Most likely from a member of the Iola Limestone What makes this one of the most bizarre fossils I have found is the circular pattern on the fossil itself, as I have not seen anything like this in the area before. backside Pictures in their natural file size: https://imgur.com/a/qUWY0gB
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