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Hey guys. I saw these claws online and I was wondering what Dino they are from. they are very small and incomplete. I am aware of the poor quality of the pics but unfortunately it’s all I have. Hopefully you guys can still tell. From Hell Creek fm. Thanks and kind regards.
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Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get hell creek matrix? If someone knows of a source, please pm me. Preferably macro but either would be good. Please pm me if you know someone. tia.
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Hi everyone, it's been a while since I've posted something to have ID'd so I thought I would take a few pictures of the oddities in my collection and post them on here. I'd like to know people's opinions on this piece of bone I found in the Hell Creek formation of North Dakota which looks like it may have holes in it made by bone boring invertebrates. Here they are!
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HC Tyrannosaurid tooth
andy_mnemonic posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone! I found this little tooth for sale and was wondering if it could be ID'd as a Nano or T-Rex. It is from the Hell Creek Fm, Garfield Co, MT and is 12mm x 8mm x 4mm. I thought it had the chance to be a T-Rex maxillary tooth since I don't see a pinch on the base and has a robust tip. Thanks for your input!
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My last acquisition was this worn teeth of what the seller used to describe as duck-bill dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. In my opinion it does look like some hadrosaurid teeth but I cannot assign it to a single species...
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Hi Everybody, like I wrote in my last post, I got some new teeth shipped to me. :-) This one took me a while because the ID of the seller is possibly wrong (I don't think I tell you big news on this topic ;-) ). It was sold as a "Dromaeosaurus" from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Unfortunately no county was provided. I have read in several other posts in this forum about Dromaeosaurus that in the HCF this species didn't exist. This leads me to the question which raptor it is from? The length is approx. 2 cm and the width at the base roughly 1 cm. Unforunately I was not ably to identify any denticles, although it looks like there is a sharp line at one of the sides (labial side???).
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I found these scale looking fossils yesterday out looking on the Milk River. Does anyone know what the might be? I also posted one of my larger dinosaur bones that seems to have some opal veins maybe? not sure. Anyone have an idea about these? The scale looking one on the left has marrow and is a thin bone, the one on the right just looks like it was flaked off something. Appreciate the help.
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Hey guys, I saw this claw listed on online, the seller has no idea what it belonged to but she did know that this was from 65million years ago. Any idea what it is?
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Hey guys, I think these may be troodon tooth, but I’m not really sure can you guys help my identify this tooth?(the one on the right)
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Hello everyone, On this edition of Rex or nano, we have this nice little mailbox score I got earlier this year. The seller and I are reasonably certain that it is a young adult rex. But I wanted to bring it to you folks to get your assessment. It matches the locality of Rex ( hell creek, from a microsite in Carter county) and based on my research from the forum and elsewhere it checks out as tyrannosaurid. (Ie: robustness and seemingly no pinch) Bonus question: I'm also curious on the placement of the tooth in the animals jaw. I have reason to believe it may be a right maxillary tooth.
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Hey y'all. I've had this therapod tooth for a while, and I'm wondering if an id can be placed on it. It's completely shattered unfortunately, so I don't expect an id to be easy. It's from the Hell Creek formation. It was labeled as T. rex, but I'm not convinced. Though, I've very little knowledge of dinosaur teeth. I've attached various photos of the tooth in question, and some reference serrations from a probable rex. Thank you!
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Hi everyone! A very good friend of mine grew up on a 8000 acre sheep ranch in Harding County, South Dakota near the town of Buffalo which is, I believe the hell creek formation. He now lives in Sioux Falls on the eastern side of the state. I’m in the far SE corner of the state just 80 miles south of him. The ranch is still in the family and we are headed there in a couple months to try our luck. We are both complete amateurs so any advice is welcome! Thanks, Pat
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(Posted in SD forum as well, feel free to move) I thought this would be an appropriate addition- my hope is that this map will allow forum users to plan trips to SD! Threw this thing together for you guys in some spare time at work. The map shows the extent of common fossil bearing strata in the state of South Dakota, as well as some "no-go" areas- reservations and the like. If you guys want a certain area zoomed in on let me know! FossilsSD.pdf
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I bought this tooth last week, and it arrived today. I’m really excited about it, because it’s my biggest tyrannosaur tooth so far, and I believe it’s T.rex. It was found in the Hell Creek formation, but no other locality is given. I think it’s T-rex because of the base lacking any pinching, and the overall robustness, but I always like to hear any opinions others have. Thanks!
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I thought it was finally time to introduce myself and say "hello". I've been reading and researching TFF for many months. It seems every paleo related question I have put to google always ends in a conversation on this forum. So, about me.... I've been a dino-nut my entire life. As far back as kindergarten, I remember playing with dinos, and having books about them. I still remember how every single person who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up got the same puzzled look when I said "paleontologist". I was always annoyed that I had to explain the term to grown-ups. A lifetime of scanning the ground and picking up rocks and fossils, led to a son who also was fascinated with dinos and fossils. For the last 11 years he and I have been making trips to the South Dakota Hell Creek in search of vertebrates. I am putting the finishing touches on my own prep-lab (finally). A life time of scratching with screwdrivers, ice-picks, and dentals is finally about to get better with air scribes and soda-blasting. So a hearty THANK YOU to everyone who has already been helping me learn and improve.
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Here are some of the better finds from my digging trip in South Dakota last year. First up is what is likely an osteoderm from Ankylosaurus. This specimen is gone for research. I've got a "stupid rookie" story to go along with this if anyone is interested. Next is a section of Edmontosaurus rib with the head and part of the main. This still needs final cleaning and consolidation. I'm still debating whether to leave them separate or re-create the missing portion and join them. This is the largest and most complete ossified Edmontosaurus tail tendon I have seen. Most of the time you only find little 1 inch sections. This one is completed prep, retaining some of the matrix and a random BOB, as dug. Nice chunk of turtle shell. I have a love/hate relationship with these. This is one is large and quite thick. Most of them are extremely thin and fragile as egg shell. Still needs final prep and consolidation. Unfortunately its a covered in CA, which is making it so much harder. A very nice Tricerotops tooth that my son recovered. He is like a magnet for these large trike teeth. This is the 3rd big one he's found. All I find are tiny spitters. This is a juvenile T-Rex tooth, found beside the Ed rib. This one is gone for research. There's also a small nano-T tooth missing its tip, and a large BOB which I think could be a bit of Trike frill. No pics of those available at this moment. I'll have to add them later.
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Hello, I recently finishing preparing this fossil and you may have seen it in the Prep section, however given I would also appreciate an ID, the smart suggestion was made to move it here. I bought this off Ryan at Hell Creek Dinosaurs who discovered it on one of his trips last summer to Hell Creek. Apologies for not having it next to a scale, but it's 46cm long. Ryan suggested it could be a Triceratops or a Hardosaur (Edmontosaurus one assumes) and although I was erring on the latter, will admit having seen some trike fibulas recently, now I'm not 100% sure, hence this post. Showing pics from the find (Ryan very kindly agreed I could use. Thanks again!) and now after prep. If these aren't clear enough or you need more to be able to help, just let me know. Any thoughts much appreciated. Thanks Dave ps: If you're questioning the prep, in my defence, it was my first ever...
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Hey, Others viewing this section regularly will see my current project is a mosasaur skull, I have however been splitting my time between this and finishing my last (first real) prep project which has been dragging a little; this fibula. I bought this off a top chap (Ryan at Hell Creek Dinosaurs) who discovered it on one of his trips last summer, but decided it wasn't one for his collection. It was covered in a horrible chalk/clay coating which (as Ryan predicted) was the stuff of nightmares to get off. That said, with dark nights and miserable weather in the UK, time was something I have had on my side recently, so three months later, here's the finished item. In reality, it's been finished for a while, but I only got round to making the display stand yesterday and wanted to show the finished project. It's about 50cm long and comes from the Hell Creek formation. Ryan suggested it could be a Triceratops or a Hardosaur (Edmontosaurus one assumes) and although I'm erring on the latter, will admit I'm not 100% sure, so please let me know if you have a clearer opinion! Given this is my first 'real' prep job, would love to know thoughts and/or improvements I could make - It came in six sections, they were cleaned using a variety of tools (engraver, Dremel, dentist pics and various other hand tools/abrasives). End of each section stabilised and strengthened with CA, glued together with epoxy and finally coated in PVB to protect. Showing pics from find (Ryan very kindly agreed I could use. Sir, if you're a member of this forum and happen to see this, thanks again!) all the way through to now (as at yesterday in fact) Cheers Dave
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I found this bone over the summer in the Hell Creek formation of South Dakota. I have no idea what it could be, and I don't even know if it's complete. It's slightly reminiscent of the ear bones I see on here sometimes, but that's just a guess. The fossil is about a centimeter from top to bottom and around 8 mm wide
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Here's an interesting fossil I found from the summer which I am just getting around to posting. I believe it's a piece of turtle beak based on its shape and the numerous holes which I believe are part of the vascular structure of the beak, rather than just the standard cancellous tissue of bone. Here's a modern one I found online for comparison. And one from a marine turtle on the Oceans of Kansas website.
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Hi I recently stumbled upon this femur with with a very large & pointy fourth trochanter. I have not seen that before. The length is 45cm. Sorry for not providing straight views. Location: Hell Creek Fm, Jordan, Montana Do you know what animal it belongs to?
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I was reading some posts about tooth ID last night on the forum. I read that dromeosaur teeth from the Hell Creek formation have different serrations on the front and the back. If I remember correctly, I think I saw a post that said the back side of the tooth have larger serrations. I saw this tooth from Carter county Montana this morning, listed as dromeosaur but to me it looked like both sets of serrations were pretty uniform. I was wondering if there’s a chance this is a tyrannosaur tooth, or if it is some type of dromeosaur tooth. It’s approx. 3/8 long, so maybe the size alone is enough to rule out tyrannosaur but I thought I might as well check. Unfortunately only 2 pictures were given.
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This next tooth i just recently purchased was sold to me as a probable dakotaraptor tooth. Its from the hell creek formation in Powder River Co. MT. Its CH is 18 1/2 mm....posterior serrations are 20 per 5 mm. Anterior serrations are 25 per 5 mm. @Troodon , @Andy, @fossilsonwheels
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So I was looking through some “older” papers and found this one by Rigby et al. (1987)(pdf attached). They were looking at some of the rock formations specifically members of the Hell Creek Formation. In one area, they have a lot of river deposits from before and after the K-T boundary. In one of the river deposits from the Paleocene as dated by pollen fossils, contains ungulate mammal fossils and some dinosaur teeth specifically ceratopsian and theropod teeth as far as I understood. They recognize that the dinosaur fossils could have been eroded from the bank and fallen in but the fossils aren’t weathered like they should have been and the river wasn’t the right kind that would rework sediments. I’m not sure I believe their arguments but what do you guys think? Rigby-et-al_1987_Paleocene-dinos.pdf
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