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Got to work on these guys because some of these creatures were my inspiration of what they would have looked like in color and others are at an art show. Wonder what animals will you like to see when its unleashed before your very eyes?
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Fish Labrodon sp. Mouthplate Peace River Florida
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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I got a fish fossil, which is the first I've ever done. They had lines marked and was wanting to ask if I may have missed something? There was 2 line marks below and 3 on top that would guess was for fins. But the fish seemed to stop way before any fins? There is a raised line bump near the back of the spine(back where tail fin should be), is it a second fish maybe? or did I mess up?
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From the album: Lower Devonian fossils
Polybranchiaspis sp. (liaojiaoshanensis?) Pair of galeaspids Xishancun Formation Early Lockhovian Early Devonian Qujing, Yunnan Province, China -
I want to give this away with a correct ID. Is the a Knightia fish from the Green River Formation? Fish about 9 cm long. Thanks, John
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Hell Creek Fossil ID Help - Triceratops Frill, Squamosal skull fragment, or fish?
MuseumofBioNotreDame posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dimensions: To begin, the specimen is 36cm long, 19cm wide at the base (widest point), and about 7cm thick at the thickest point (base). Background: I am a student doing research in the Museum of Biodiversity at Notre Dame. I have begun a project to try to identify many of the fossils in the collection. Many years ago, there was a faculty member who was a paleontologist who collected specimens for many years, most of which now reside in the museum. The issue is that he passed away suddenly and left many fossils without much or any information attached. From what I have been able to gather, most of his fossils have come from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana (66-65 mya, late Cretaceous), due to all of his fossils in field jackets coming from this location (like this one, that I removed from the jacket). All other jackets (that are currently opened) in the museum contain remnants of a triceratops. There are many more that have not been opened from the field, which I believe were collected in the mid 1990s (unimportant). Because of the ambiguous nature of the fossil and my inexperience with fossils (I have just started exploring the field). I am the only person in the museum who has touched the fossils in at least 5-7 years, as there is no full-time geologist or paleontologist on faculty at ND, and the collection is solely taken care of by students who have interests. Identification?: When I first started working on the fossil, it was labelled with an identification as "Fish?". I have absolutely no idea who tentatively identified it as such, and in looking at it, I have no idea what led them to the conclusion. I, personally, do not see anything fish-like about it, sans the vague shape resemblance. Because of this, and my suspicions about where it was found and what other fossils are found at Hell Creek, I thought that it was unlikely a fish. From the concentration of ceratopsidae that are found in the formation and the amount that we have in the museum, I started to explore the possibilities of it being a part of one. Because the museum also has other parts of the same triceratops skull such as two horns, the beak, and one small skull fragment. I first thought that it may be a frill, due to the lines that I thought might be blood lines, which are found on most frill fragments, but the patterns appeared to be different (see photo 2). I then looked into other parts of the skull that might fit this fossil fragment. Following this, and based on the ridge that runs along what I assume to be the back of the specimen, I theorized that the it may be a piece of the squamosal bone morphology of the skull of a ceratopsian. Also, because there are parts of an ankylosauridae in the museum, I thought that it may be an armor fragment. Please know that these preliminary identifications are based on my limited knowledge of the morphology of late Cretaceous animals, and the lack of information I have on this specific fossil. Any help will be appreciated, and I will be looking closely to respond any questions on the subject. Lastly: As I am beginning in the subject of paleontology, where do you suggest that I can get my information? Are there any preferred resources, textbooks, or databases where I can increase my knowledge? Thank you for your help, and I look forward to learning more and maybe eventually contributing to the Fossil Forum when I learn more in the future. I have been using the one textbook in the museum dealing with fossils of these sort, where I read about the frills and skull morphology of ceratopsidae: Romer, Alfred S. (1966). Vertebrate Paleontology. The University of Chicago Press.- 4 replies
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I find these little black shiny round things at Purse State Park. Some of them a ball shaped, some are elongated, and some of them are kinda squared off and flatter than others. My guess is that they might be fish teeth, but I could be way of here. Any help will help me sleep at night. Thank you in advance.
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I have recently bought a mixed bag of random verts that I am wanting to use to make little kids boxes for my shop. I know there is many different types etc in here but I wondered if there is some general info that could be gleened, rough age, fish sizes are the longer ones from a specific part of the spine etc? They are just a little pocket money buy for the kids but the last thing I want to be doing is telling them wrong information! Thank you for your time
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I found a tooth (?) of which it is completely unclear to me what it belonged to. Facts: Geologic age or geologic formation: Nekum Limestone. The Nekum Limestone is part of the Formation of Maastricht and dates from the last part of the Cretaceous, the Maastrichtian. State, province or region found: Sibbe Limestone Quarry, Netherlands. Pictures: Can anyone help me further?
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Psittacosaur9's Cabinet Renovation Fossil Identification - Mesozoic and Cenozoic Animals Thread
Psittacosaur9 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, and I hope you've all had a good day. I started to put my display cabinet together today, and after an exhausting day of work, I'm only half done and I haven't even started on the bookshelf! Yay! Sarcasm aside, I've got some more fossils I would like identified, as I am creating labels for my displays. Just as before, I would prefer the most specific identification possible - species would be preferable, but I would rather a genus or clade name over an invalid species name. Location would be helpful too. Again, if any of you want them, I can take more photos tomorrow. Specimen 1: Actinopterygii This specimen I purchased at a museum, which simply labelled it as 'fish fossil'. While I do not know the location, I suspected it was from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, as many commercially available Actinopterygii fossils come from that site. At first, I thought the specimen was Knightia, as that fish seems to be one of the more common from the Green River Formation, and the only common one of the same size and rough shape. However, after recently observing a slab of Knightia at a museum, I began to doubt my initial identification, as the Knightia in the museum looked more bloated than my specimen. Is it a Knightia, or something else? Specimen 2: Ammonite I apologise for the rather shoddy attempt at editing out the supplier's logo. As you can see, I purchased this ammonite in a small plastic case at a museum, and cannot take a photograph of it from all angles. However, the back of the box (or at least what survives of it) says that the ammonite is Jurassic of age and comes from Madagascar (thinking about it, the supplier probably had to stick the ammonite to the case in order to get it through customs). Therefore, after comparing it to other ammonites from the same location, I believe it is most likely a Phylloceras specimen, as those ammonites lived in the correct place at the correct time, and had the same shaped, relatively smooth shell. Do you all agree with this conclusion? Specimen 3: Gastropod Another specimen I purchased from a museum with no knowledge of its original location or age. Unfortunately, I know very little about Gastropods, so I do not know how to identify it. Do any of you recognise at least what group it came from, or even tell its species, time period or location? Specimen 4: Ray tooth I received this tooth as a gift in a set of various teeth from Chondrichthyes. The gift set identified the ray tooth as Jurassic in age, however gave no further information on the specimen. To add to the confusion, all of the fossil ray teeth I have found available to purchase online come from Myliobatis, a genus which only evolved in the Cenozoic. While I am pretty sure it is Myliobatis and the gift set's information was simply inaccurate, I would like confirmation that this conclusion is accurate. Also, I do know that there is only half of a tooth; it broke a while ago and I no longer have the second half. Thank you for all of your help! Next up will be a couple of Triassic plant fossils, and following that will be some fossils I am concerned are fake. Hope you all have a good night! -
From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Oklahoma Permian Fossil Finds
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From the album: Oklahoma Permian Fossil Finds
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From the album: Oklahoma Permian Fossil Finds
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This looks similar to some jawless fish bone I’ve seen. Could this be some? Ordovician, Wisconsin, Dane county, Madison.
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Hello, does anybody have a clue of what type of fish these scales may belong to? The specimen is part of a fish skin cemented together with sand and pebbles, found on a beach in southern Brazil. Fossils of Pleistocene mammals and marine organisms are commonly found along the beach, but these scales are unlikely those of the largest marine fishes (Micropogonias furnieri and Pogonias cromis) that inhabit this area. Although similar in size, the scales of these species are ctenoid, whereas the fossil scales seem all cycloid, much thicker (~2-3 mm) and formed of stacked laminae.
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This fish fossil jaw from the bearpaw shale was sold to me but I'm not sure which one, I think it might be from an icthyodectid if somekind?
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Hi TFF Please can you help, I have been looking at some micro fossils from Lee Creek, Miocene Pungo River Formation. I tried to do some IDs but I am having a hard time navigating this tiny collection. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated. cheers Bobby
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Yesterday evening we went out to a spot we haven't visited in a while, it started out extremely slow, until we hit on one spot that held a possible whale tooth (link to ID thread at bottom) and from there we started pulling out a lot more teeth, here's what we found, enjoy! nice hastalis, probably 1 1/2 inches great white with some great colors fish jaw Whale tooth?
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossil Finds: Fish
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossil Finds: Fish
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From the album: Misha's Middle Devonian Fossils
Gyroptychius agassizi Frontal portion of large predatory osteolepiform sarcopterygian Eifelian Middle Devonian Sandwick Fish bed Orkney Scotland- 1 comment
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