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A week ago my friend Diego (@fossilesdecapblancnez) sent me a message that he'd found a big lewesiceras peramplum (lower turonian, grand blanc nez formation). This is the ammonite in situ. He decided to leave it alone and come back with me a week later to extract it and carry it of the beach since it's huge. So that makes it yesterday. He arrived a bit early after high tide but luckily the ammonite was still there as the site is frequently collected. As you can see the pebbles moved quite a lot in a weeks time. It's good and bad, lots of erosion but also lots of boulders with potential fossils buried. I arrived a bit later. The extraction itself went quite well. The matrix wasn't too hard and it split well of the fossil. A massive 77cm (+-30.3 inches) which is relatively big for the species. It should be a female since they grew biggest. I don't know how but it seems he and I always manage to photograph our shoes/boots too Luckily she's not the fattest/thickest making the weight acceptable for my old handtruck. A good half kilometer on the beach and a steep climb of the beach and she was secured
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Brittlestar fossil is it real?
Starfishfossils posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, I’m newer to collecting fossils and I was just wondering if these two brittlestar fossils are real or not. The information I have on them are as follows: Ophioderma elegans,from the Jurassic; Calovian of La haute vault, Ardeche, France.
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A very nice WE first day The Cap Blanc Nez
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Asterophyllites equisetiformis Stéphanian , Carboniferous , Graissessac ; Hérault France
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Avery nice WE,the second day with a famous local guide in the Jurassic!
nala posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
The second day was in the Jurassic cliffs of the Boulonnais,Northern France,with a famous local hunters who took with him! Ludovic was born on the top of these cliffs and is a real passionate ,it was hard for me to follow but i saw stunning fossils !
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This time on our field trip we tried the late jurassic deposits of the northern french coast. those spots are a bit harder to prospect, but from time to time you can find vertebraten material there. This time we found quite a few Hybodont remains, 2 realy nice teeth and a spine. we also found a little piece of marine reptile bone and fish scales.
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Taxonomy from Rückert-Ülkümen 2001. Alternative name: Palaeoatherina vardinis Gaudant 1976. Line drawing from Rückert-Ülkümen 2001, p. 66 : References: Sauvage, M. H.-E. (1883): Notes sur Poissons fossiles. - Bull. Soc. Geol. France. Ser. 3,11: 475-492; Paris. Ferrandini, M. & Ferrandini, J. und Gaudant, J. (1976): Decouverte d'un nouveau gisement d'Atherines (poissons Teleosteens, Atherinomorpha) dans le Paleogene de Marmoiron (Vaucluse). - Geol. Mediterr., 3 (2): 115-126, 8 Fig., 2 Taf., 1 Tab.; Marseille. Gaudant, J. ( 1998): Poissons des lignites papyracés oligocènes du Valle del Ponte (Province de Vicenza, Italie): Réhabilitation du genre Hemitrichas Peters (Teleostei, Atherinidae). - N. Jb. Géol., Paläont. Mh., 1998 (6): 376-384; Stuttgart. Rückert-Ülkümen, N. (2001): Hemitrichas vardinis (Sauvage, 1883) (Pisces, Teleostei) aus dem Alt-Tertiär (Obereozän) von Gard, Südfrankreich. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Histor. Geologie. Volume 41, pages 65—71.
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I've enjoyed many trip reports that @Manticocerasman made about the chalk cliffs at Cap Blanc-Nez that I decided to make one myself. A big tide, warm sunny weather and the summer season approaching... I only like one of those 3, a big tide The goal was to visit the albian gault layers if they were visible, but they were covered with sand. I've collected some of cenomanian fauna already thus I decided to visit the turonian boulders. Hunting in the turonian is not easy, it can be hours before you see something and everything has odd shapes that could be something. The scenery makes up for it. However, when you see something it's usually good. And that day was no different. A nice mammites nodosoides. Upon extraction it turned out way bigger (39cm / 15-ish inches) and better than expected. A good 2 kilometers to the car.. and she's safe Currently the prep is looking really promising. Went back on the beach and spotted a sweet acanthoceras rhotomagense, cenomanian in age. At some points the lower layers of the cliffs are cenomanian in age, thus making a mix of finds possible. It's unfortunate I did not take an in situ picture (the boulder itself is actually in the picture) , but you can clearly see what the sea had worn down of the ammonite which I could spot. On the way back some more lovely scenery. I wonder if the germans did collect fossils during the time they were stationed in their bunkers looking towards England. If you've enjoyed this post, please leave some feedback. Writing something strucured with pictures is surprisingly difficult
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Hello everyone I am a new member on the forum and to introduce me : I am a French student in palaeontology and fossil hunter in my spare time. I am mainly interested in vertebrate paleontology, especially chondrichthyans and marine mammals. Most of the time, I dig in the Miocene deposits of South-West France and collect fossils of marine invertebrates and vertebrates. Thank you for the welcome. Damien
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Hello, a nice discovery today, this 4 cm stingray barb found in zanclean from the South of France This is the first time I have found this kind of fossil. Is it possible to determine the exact name of the animal? Thanks in advance
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The Short Life and Hot Times of The Giant Marine Gastropod Campanile Giganteum
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
A delightful open access paper is: De Winter, N.J., Vellekoop, J., Clark, A.J., Stassen, P., Speijer, R.P. and Claeys, P., 2020. The giant marine gastropod Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) as a high‐resolution archive of seasonality in the Eocene greenhouse world. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(4), p.e2019GC008794. Researchgate PDF file More Publications of Dr. Niels de Winter Discovery and preparation of Campanile giganteum from Lutetian of Fleury-la-Rivière (France) Fossil Forum Yours, Paul H. -
Good morning, afternoon or evening. Last weekend I purchased an Ammonite at a gem and mineral show in Conroe, Texas. The seller indicated that it was from France, but had no other information. Could anyone help me ID the ammonite from the attached pictures? I'm thinking that it's something like Harpoceras sp. but that's a Google pictures guess. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Daniel
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I preped this nautilus fossil recently, Wondering if the damage on the shell was caused by predation? And is it Cenoceras sp.? Thanks Information about this: location:Gard,France age: Jurassic
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Fish fossil-lots of fish - real or fake?
MHAN posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Do you think it is a real fossil? I am very interested: ) want to get your advice first. From France (according to seller) Thanks!
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Not a lot of finds,but a nice Sunny Day
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Last weekend we have been to the coast of France to look for fossils in the chalk. We found the usual ammonites, but I also saw some fish remains sticking out of a boulder. At first I thought to leave it since it looked very brittle. Natalie convinced me to take my time to try to extract it. She put some paraloid on it in the field and I removed the fossil with a knife. At home she consolidated the matrix and prepped the piece. She sure was right to take the fossil home , it turned out to be a really nice Enchodus Jaw. (moral of the story, always listen to the missus ) In situ: after the prep:
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Hello, I have bought this ammonite, only knowing that it is from Montreuil-Bellay, France. To me it looks like Perisphinctes virguloides, but I am not sure, any ideas? After examining it nearly, I noticed a hole, that looks to perfect to have been made. What do you think about it? Ruler is in cm. Thanks!
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Hi everybody, i need help to identify that Oxfordian Perisphinctidae i found yesterday in a quarry of Charente, South-West of France. I think it could be a Zigzagceratinae indosphinctes, but that's only a supposition. I also thought it could be a choffatia, but i don't know if they can be that big (an important part of it is lacking) as you can see on the second pic with my friend's hand as scale. The scale on the first pic is in inches. Thank you for your help.
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Before Easter,a nice hunt in the carboniferous today :)in situ pictures
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Request for identification of echinocorys from the Cretaceous of France
aldo66 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, is it possible to know the exact species of this echinocorys? It was found by me a few years ago in France, in Normandy in the Cretaceous cliffs of the Pays de Caux. its size seems huge to me! I have never seen one of this size cm: 9 X 8.5 X 8.3 inches: 3.54 X 3.34 X 3.26 Thank you in advance for your comments
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Oise Amber (Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais, Lowermost Eocene [~56-53 Ma])
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
“Oise Amber” Creil, Oise Department, France Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais Lowermost Eocene (~56-53 Ma) Specimen C (Left): 0.4g / 15x12x5mm Specimen D (Right): 0.3g / 10x10x8mm Lighting: Longwave UV (365nm) Entry nine of ten, detailing various rare ambers from European, Asian, and North American localities. French amber localities are extremely numerous and are found in 35 departments. There are at least 55 Cretaceous amber localities, contained mainly within the southern half of France; three French departments also host amber from the Carboniferous Period. Many of the Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene amber localities were widely available in the 1800s to the 1950s, but as the lignite, potash, and alum quarries vanished, so did the amber found in them. The locality at Oise was discovered in 1996, making it a relatively recent find. It is located within the Paris Basin outside of Creil, at a place known as “Le Quesnoy” (not to be confused with the small town in NE France), and the amber is found in lignite layers situated in clayey sands. These layers were formed during a warming period that caused mass extinctions in Europe, but not necessarily among the insects; warm oceans and high temperatures created ideal conditions for a tropical environment at that time. Fossilized remains of the amber-producing tree “Aulacoxylon sparnacense” are commonly found in amber deposits near Houdancourt and Moru; the structure of the wood is reminiscent of modern trees of the subfamilies Combretaceae and Caesalpiniaceae. The Aulacoxylon genus belongs to the same subfamily (Detarioideae) as the trees which were responsible for the production of the Dominican and Mexican, and possibly Ethiopian ambers (Genus: Hymenaea). Since 1996, at least 20,000 arthropod inclusions in Oise amber have already been collected, mostly belonging to the Psocoptera (barklice) and Coleoptera (beetles). Sources: “Insects from the Early Eocene amber of Oise (France): diversity and palaeontological significance”; Denisia, Volume 0026, pp. 41-52; Nicolas, André, Denis 2009 “The French ambers: a general conspectus and the Lowermost Eocene amber deposit of Le Quesnoy in the Paris Basin”; Geologica Acta, Volume 2; A. Nel, G. De Ploëg, et. al. 2004© Kaegen Lau
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Oise Amber (Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais, Lowermost Eocene [~56-53 Ma])
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
“Oise Amber” Creil, Oise Department, France Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais Lowermost Eocene (~56-53 Ma) Specimen C (Left): 0.4g / 15x12x5mm Specimen D (Right): 0.3g / 10x10x8mm Lighting: 140lm LED Entry nine of ten, detailing various rare ambers from European, Asian, and North American localities. French amber localities are extremely numerous and are found in 35 departments. There are at least 55 Cretaceous amber localities, contained mainly within the southern half of France; three French departments also host amber from the Carboniferous Period. Many of the Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene amber localities were widely available in the 1800s to the 1950s, but as the lignite, potash, and alum quarries vanished, so did the amber found in them. The locality at Oise was discovered in 1996, making it a relatively recent find. It is located within the Paris Basin outside of Creil, at a place known as “Le Quesnoy” (not to be confused with the small town in NE France), and the amber is found in lignite layers situated in clayey sands. These layers were formed during a warming period that caused mass extinctions in Europe, but not necessarily among the insects; warm oceans and high temperatures created ideal conditions for a tropical environment at that time. Fossilized remains of the amber-producing tree “Aulacoxylon sparnacense” are commonly found in amber deposits near Houdancourt and Moru; the structure of the wood is reminiscent of modern trees of the subfamilies Combretaceae and Caesalpiniaceae. The Aulacoxylon genus belongs to the same subfamily (Detarioideae) as the trees which were responsible for the production of the Dominican and Mexican, and possibly Ethiopian ambers (Genus: Hymenaea). Since 1996, at least 20,000 arthropod inclusions in Oise amber have already been collected, mostly belonging to the Psocoptera (barklice) and Coleoptera (beetles). Sources: “Insects from the Early Eocene amber of Oise (France): diversity and palaeontological significance”; Denisia, Volume 0026, pp. 41-52; Nicolas, André, Denis 2009 “The French ambers: a general conspectus and the Lowermost Eocene amber deposit of Le Quesnoy in the Paris Basin”; Geologica Acta, Volume 2; A. Nel, G. De Ploëg, et. al. 2004© Kaegen Lau
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Oise Amber (Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais, Lowermost Eocene [~56-53 Ma])
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
“Oise Amber” Creil, Oise Department, France Argiles à lignites du Soissonnais Lowermost Eocene (~56-53 Ma) Specimen A (Upper Left): 0.5g / 14x13x12mm Specimen B (Upper Right): 0.35g / 13x9x7mm Specimen C (Lower Left): 0.4g / 15x12x5mm Specimen D (Lower Right): 0.3g / 10x10x8mm Lighting: 140lm LED Entry nine of ten, detailing various rare ambers from European, Asian, and North American localities. French amber localities are extremely numerous and are found in 35 departments. There are at least 55 Cretaceous amber localities, contained mainly within the southern half of France; three French departments also host amber from the Carboniferous Period. Many of the Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene amber localities were widely available in the 1800s to the 1950s, but as the lignite, potash, and alum quarries vanished, so did the amber found in them. The locality at Oise was discovered in 1996, making it a relatively recent find. It is located within the Paris Basin outside of Creil, at a place known as “Le Quesnoy” (not to be confused with the small town in NE France), and the amber is found in lignite layers situated in clayey sands. These layers were formed during a warming period that caused mass extinctions in Europe, but not necessarily among the insects; warm oceans and high temperatures created ideal conditions for a tropical environment at that time. Fossilized remains of the amber-producing tree “Aulacoxylon sparnacense” are commonly found in amber deposits near Houdancourt and Moru; the structure of the wood is reminiscent of modern trees of the subfamilies Combretaceae and Caesalpiniaceae. The Aulacoxylon genus belongs to the same subfamily (Detarioideae) as the trees which were responsible for the production of the Dominican and Mexican, and possibly Ethiopian ambers (Genus: Hymenaea). Since 1996, at least 20,000 arthropod inclusions in Oise amber have already been collected, mostly belonging to the Psocoptera (barklice) and Coleoptera (beetles). Sources: “Insects from the Early Eocene amber of Oise (France): diversity and palaeontological significance”; Denisia, Volume 0026, pp. 41-52; Nicolas, André, Denis 2009 “The French ambers: a general conspectus and the Lowermost Eocene amber deposit of Le Quesnoy in the Paris Basin”; Geologica Acta, Volume 2; A. Nel, G. De Ploëg, et. al. 2004© Kaegen Lau
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This ammonite is from France,but I don't know what species it is. Please help identify, Thanks!
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Publication on French Jurassic Dino's using PRIVATE collections FANTASTIC
Troodon posted a topic in Fossil News
WOW a eureka moment..... a publication using specimens in private collections...so It can be done and should be done. My hats off the the authors and hopefully it sets off a new standard for publications. One of the authors is well known paleontologist Eric Buffetaut Abstract: Dinosaur remains found at the Vaches Noires cliffs (Calvados, Normandy) have usually been discovered by amateur palaeontologists. The bones come from carcasses which drifted away from a nearby land (Armorican Massif) during the upper Callovian and lower Oxfordian. Most of these bones belong to private collections and are hardly accessible. Consequently, many of these bones were never described. Thus, and for the first time, private and public collections are gathered to obtain a global vision of theropod remains from the Vaches Noires cliffs Excerpts from the paper "they are essential for the study of theropod diversity from the Vaches Noires Cliffs, even if they are isolated and their precise stratigraphic origin is often unknown" "The aim of this study is to gather and describe bones from 6 different collections, most of which are private, and to provide new insights on known specimens" Wow again.. getting a good understanding of the fauna is more important than putting up walls on why not...nice job authors it would be nice to see that in North America where a few of our paleontologists even frown at looking at private material. https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2022v44a12.pdf
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