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Hello everyone. I found this molar when searching a site recently, and I am not sure what it is from. I don't know my teeth very well, but I suspect it came from a deer? Maybe a worn molar? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Good evening everyone, Does anyone have an explanation why there are so many theropod teeth from Kem Kem available (Carcharodontosaur, Spinosaur) while there aren't way as many herbivore teeth being offered from that area? Shouldn't herbivores have outnumbered the theropods by a lot?
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Found this large fossil tooth at the Kaloot beach, The Netherlands while looking for fossil shark teeth. Tried cross referencing it to the local database and I think it might be a European Bison...but I'm not sure. Maybe some of you guys can ID it! It's about 10-12 cm tall (rough estimate), two deep grooves on top. Bottom is hollow. Quite worn, you can see the internal bone structure in several places. Sides are smooth. Would love to hear what you guys think!
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Found this thick bone piece in a new jersey cretaceous creek and wonder if its possible to maybe id since one side has a distinct rough texture while the other is flatter and striated, I would guess either large turtle, mosasaur, or dinosaur. My friend joked its a theropod maxilary skull fragment, but we all know around here that material seems close to impossible to come across haha. Interested to hear any other thoughts.
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Hey all, its been a while since I posted last. Due to the drought, the river is low so I went looking around. I was walking the river bank and stumbled on an area I can't make sense of. In an area about 15 ft across and 4 ft high there are bones and teeth everywhere. It appears as if there are multiple species of animals, but primarily I am finding a lot of what I think are cow jaws. It is located near a small college established in the 1850's. It is also located in an area that had a heavy native american population. I am attaching some photos I took and would like some input on animal type, how old they may be (I know that may be difficult). I am taking the day off tomorrow to really take a good look and do a bit of digging. Any help would be appreciated. I am sure I will post more pictures as I get into this further. Thank you.
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Found these teeth with a bunch of other items on a lake beach today. Anybody know what they could be? I have some modern sheep, horse and cow teeth. None of them compare, I do not have full sets of teeth to compare either. These ones are much harder and wiegh much more than the ones I have. Any ideas?
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I'd love people's thoughts on this if anyone knows, but I find it odd that Kem Kem doesnt have much food fossils (other than Rebbachisaurus, which is kinda big to be prey) but has a number of carnivores. It's weird to me becausr most other formations have food fossils in abundance--Iguanodon at IoW, Ceratopsians and Hadrosaurs common in NA. I'm surprised Kem Kem doesnt really have its own common hadrosaur or iguanodon type. Anyone here know/have thoughts on why?
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Reading an ID topic today by none other than @Ruger9a I was realizing how little love the herbivore teeth get sometimes. Personally I love herbivore teeth, especially proboscideans (although I don't have many). So I thought I'd start a topic to show off your underappreciated plant eaters. Note: all herbivores are welcome, not just proboscideans, and not just mammals. Have fun with it!
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I found 2 fossils that look to be part of a jaw. What did I find?
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I saw this tooth at a gem and mineral show a few years ago. Unfortunately, it didn't have a label. Normally, I pass on fossils with no info no matter how cheap and intriguing they are but it was unlike anything I've had in my collection so I bought it. I just found it again this year while trying to clear and clean up some space. It's a mostly-complete crown, perhaps a lower molar, with perhaps some root but the base of the tooth is almost completely obscured by restoration which appears to be plaster. A little plaster was also used to restore part of a cusp and part of a side. The plaster appears off-white to a yellow-orange against the brown enamel in the photos. That indicates it's an old collection piece as almost nobody uses plaster anymore, various types of putty having been the preferred material for at least the past couple of decades. It's about 1 1/2 x 1 11/16 inches in occlusal view and the crown is about 5/16 to 11/16 inches high. I showed it to a fossil dealer with a lot of experience with a range of mammals. He thought it could be something unusual from the Eocene and more likely the later Eocene. I think it might be an early gomphothere tooth and one most likely from North America (as it came out of a private collection in California but that's really just a guess) which would make it Middle-Late Miocene in age. I guess it could be some kind of anthracothere. I don't know. I was wondering what any of the "mammal people" think of it. @fossillarry @Harry Pristis Jess
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Hello. I recently found this tooth on a Lake Erie beach in Fairview, Pa. It measures 1" x 1". It is very hard and appears to be and all surfaces are very smooth. Thanks! Ellen
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I bought this skull at a bones and brews event. I was told it was a 35 million year old camel skull. However, i noticed thats probably not true. Do any of you guys know what this is?
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Hey everyone, I found these teeth in the White River fm of eastern Wyoming last summer and wanted to see what people on the forum thought they were. 1st is what I believe to be an oreodont tooth (possibly Merycoidodon). It's .8 cm wide and 1.5 cm from root to crown. 2nd I believe may be a Poebrotherium tooth but I'm unsure. It's about .5 cm wide and .9 cm long. 3rd may be from a Leptomeryx but I'm not sure. It's about .4 cm wide and .9 cm long.
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Backyard was a prehistoric lake. Dino fossils found close by. Found these recently. They clearly seem to be teeth with a root stem and ridges. Possibly some herbivore, or else, I could just be wrong. Any help would be humbly appreciated Please zoom in. Could not get good pics with file size limit.
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Hey guys, I was thinking this was some sort of mastodon related baby tooth however I am now unsure. Right around 2" in diameter, 1.5" in width and maybe .75" in height. Thanks, corgi
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Back again guys! I wanted to thank you all again for your help in ID'ing the Oreodont skull that my Grandmother gave me when I was a child. Thanks to everyone's help I was able to secure the two halves together and will hopefully be able to get it mounted, but honestly its great as it is. You guys are freakin' awesome. And on to more good news! I found another shoe box that we were literally going to throw in the dumpster, opened it up to find (you guessed it, especially if you read the title) more skull/jaw parts! One looks maybe like a carnivore/omnivore? And the other maybe a lower jaw bone of a herbivore? No clue, so I thought I'd ask you experts! The first looks like she had more of the top of the skull from residue from resin or glue, but I didn't find anything that would attach to it. Its about three and a half inches long and about the same in width judging by whats left of the orbitals area.
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I was a lucky recipient of a wonderfully CRAPPY package from @Nimravis a couple of months ago. Now I need some educating. 1. The only recognizable inclusions in this coprolite are plant fragments, most of which appear to be woody debris. There is one relatively intact "leaf?" that may be recognizable to some of you experienced Mazon Creek folks. My educated guess is it is from a lycopod. Can anyone confirm this. From what I have read, the only herbivores large enough to have produced a mass of this size are Arthropleura, the giant millipede arthropods. How exciting is that!?! 2. This one looks like some sort of stem fragment. Would this be from a lycopod as well?
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Hi all, I’m completely stumped by this. I found this on the foreshore of Holland on Sea, Essex near Clacton on Sea. The area is associated with London Clay deposits which usually throw out striatolamia and Otodus teeth. There is also Red Crag which throws out bivalves. Then again there are glacial deposits that have thrown out mammoth remains. Later still there is the Clacton spear and Clactonian assemblage of tools claimed to be evidence of the first hominid in the UK. So what is this? It has the “feel” of stone / pebble. It doesn’t “feel” or “look” recent but of course that means nothing. I’ve seen nothing like this from this area before although it resembles a herbivore tooth I have seen before so please.....help!
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Found this article about this interesting looking dino. Enjoy! http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/22/deinocheirus-exposed-meet-the-body-behind-the-terrible-hand/
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This item was found on Kiptopeke beach, on the southern tip of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I collect skulls (not fossils), so was pretty sure this is an herbivore tooth, and bigger than a horse. It is heavy, like a stone. From poking around some, my guess at this stage would be a bison molar. Some kind of large, extinct bison, I'd much appreciate any discussion, as this is the first fossil of note that I've ever found.
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From the album: Reptile Fossils
Edmontosaurus annectens (Marsh, 1892) Jaw fragment of a juvenile Edmontosaurus. Location: Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, USA Age: Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous© © Olof Moleman
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From the album: Reptile Fossils
Edmontosaurus annectens (Marsh, 1892) Chevron of an Edmontosaurus. Location: Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, USA Age: Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous© © Olof Moleman
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Hello, my name is Cathy and I was recommended to your site by Carl Mehling of the American Museum of Natural History. I found a jaw fragment in the surf on Holgate Beach in New Jersey. He feels that it may be from a bison or musk ox dating to the Ice Age. Does anyone have any further information? Thank you!
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I am looking for the following coprolites: Ammonite coprolite (long and squiggly - looks like modern art) Coprolite with partially digested ammonites Shrimp burrow lined with elongated fecal pellets Herbivore coprolites that have recognizable vegetable matter (I know some nice patties have been found in ND) Double ichnos (coprolite that has been stepped in or bitten) Anything unusual Most of what I have to trade are other coprolites, but I do have a few nice slabs/pieces of petrified wood, turtle shell fragments, gar scales, unknown small vertebra, microfossils, septarian nodules, mineral specimens, etc., that I would be willing to part with for the right specimen(s).
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Last year while hunting a late Cretaceous Coon Creek formation, i happened up on this tooth. (Or what is left of it. It wasn't in the layer in situ, but was laying in the creek where it cuts through a good CC outcrop. You can tell, whatever did this to the animal it came from was a beast...one hungry boy! Now, to me, this tooth looks like some sort of herbivore. I did take this item and have it looked @ by a professional, who told me he believed it to have been a horse tooth, & though it must have come from a deposit above the CC formation......@ first, that sounded pretty good to me.......so i went home and found some old horse skulls and pulled some teeth! The first photo has the old specimen in the center, it is encircled by "modern" horse teeth. This is for a comparison view. Specimen in question seems to be longer than any of the modern type, even though it is missing alot. Also.....the more i thought about it, there is nothing anywhere above the CC formation in this creek but the Ripley formation....which is alao marine and of a late Cretaceous age. And with this tooth being this color, it is consistent with the color of teeth (in general) collected from the CC formation, which is concentrated with glouconite. I haven't eliminated a horse as the possible source, but would like opinions as to other possible origins.....what mouth did this thing come from?
