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Exceptional fossilization of a Pleistocene vulture by pyroclastic flow deposits
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Below is an interesting paper that I came across. Iurino, D.A., Bellucci, L., Schreve, D. and Sardella, R., 2014. Exceptional soft tissue fossilization of a Pleistocene vulture (Gyps fulvus): new evidence for emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic flow deposits. Quaternary Science Reviews, 96, pp. 180-187. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379114001553 The abstract states: “Here we report an exceptional case of soft tissue fossilization of a Late Pleistocene Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) in the pyroclastic sequence of the Alban Hills volcanic region (SE Rome, Italy).” CT scans of the natural cast revealed extraordinary detail in the natural cast of the head, including everted tongue, beak, feather insertions and the nictitating membrane of the eye. The PDF file of this paper can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262431624_Exceptional_soft_tissue_fossilization_of_a_Pleistocene_vulture_Gyps_fulvus_New_evidence_for_emplacement_temperatures_of_pyroclastic_flow_deposits https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266734626_EXCEPTIONAL_SOFT_TISSUE_FOSSILIZATION_OF_A_LATE_PLEISTOCENE_VULTURE_GYPS_FULVUS_FROM_ALBAN_HILLS_VOLCANIC_REGION_ITALY https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dawid_Iurino https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca_Bellucci3 Yours, Paul H.- 4 replies
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Hello, have some idea about it? Found in 1906 in Italy, Bellagio country Dimension about 4 cm long thanks
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Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to date approximatly this bone...thanks!
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An underwater lizard fossil discovered with lunch yet in its stomach
Kasia posted a topic in Fossil News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/pretty-amazing-alberta-researchers-spot-new-fossil-species-and-its-lunch-1.4715056?cmp=rss- 2 replies
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Hello, can you help me to identify this bones? Many thanks in advance
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Hi, i don't know id it's only a rock or a leaf. Someone have one idea. Found by my son on river of the Ionian Sea in the Mediterranean, south of Italy.. maybe it's only a suggestion.. every opinion is appreciated.. thanks
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Hello, could you tell me if the two fish, I suppose Lebanon needle fish are the same species and the exactly name of them? In lenght are about 15 cm (first picture) and 8 cm (second picture) Many thanks in advance...
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Some other picture of Fossil Diatoms take with biological microscope, magnification 400X - 650X
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Some foraminifera I found in the past, picture take with Microscope...
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Some Radiolaria and Diatoms from my collection, I take this picture with microscope...
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Hello, I bought this "fossil" ? but I do not have any idea of what it could be...can you help me? Dimension are about 40 cm x 20 cm and the ball is about 4 cm in diameter Thanks in advance
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I'm not sure about the classification. This is the tooth in question: Shark tooth from Fiume Mareccchia, Italy I think it's a Prionace cf. glauca, @michele 1937thinks it's a Carcharias acutissima. Who can help? Carcharias acutissima with side cusps Prionace glauca without side cusps I don't think the tooth in question has side cusps, but I am not 100% sure. According to fossilworks, Carcharias acutissima is known from 43.0 to 5.332 Ma. Prionace is known from 5.332 to 0.012 Ma. Fiume Marecchia is Upper Pliocene, Zanclean to Piacenzian (younger than 3.15 Ma and Prionace glauca is mentioned in Sorbini's paper "BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATOLOGY OF PLIOCENE AND MESSINIAN FOSSIL FISH OF EASTERN-CENTRAL ITALY: That's mainly the reason why I decided for Prionace. Any thoughts? Thanks Thomas
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Updating My Exotic Meg Teeth Collection Italy, Japan, Indonesia
Kurufossils posted a topic in Member Collections
Added three new teeth in recent times to my collection of exotic meg teeth, I'd like to share since there,s not to many images from these localities out there, the photos maybe in shabby quality because I pulled them directly from my Instagram page to save time. 1) This partial tip of a meg was found in the Chiba prefecture of Japan! Acquiring this, even just a fragment was a real pain in the butt as megs from Japan are extremely scare. 2) Even though its not a Meg of course but still being the closest ancestor, this 3.1inch chubutensis tooth was found at a land site in Lecce, Italy with gorgeous color! 3) This tooth measuring 4.1 inches came from new site in Bangkalan City, Java, Indonesia. A majority of the megs here were found with absolutely terrible preservation so this one is one of the best out of the bunch! A few more pics of these teeth can be found on their posts on my page at https://www.instagram.com/nyislandfossils/ if its ok to post this here.
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Fossil sites/shops/museums in/near Milan, Italy
JohnBrewer posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Okay guys, I’ve managed to get some cheap air tickets (£20) to Milan from the UK. Airbnb was good to me too at £25 a night. Anyone know of any sites, museums or shops in the area? -
Hello I'm a natural scientist from Emilia Romagna, a funny place in Italy characterized by fog and swamps (so yeah, even more fog...). I have always been enthusiast about zoology and paleontology and even if I decide to undertake a career into the cetology/ethology fields things such as fossils continue to attract me a lot (in particular if they show tracks of interaction between organisms). I often look at this forum and I see lots of very competent users. I wanna thank you for your works and I'll try to learn as much as I can from them (please be patient).
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From the album: Vertebrates
?Myctophum sp. Upper Miocene Messinian Licata Sicily Italy -
From the album: Vertebrates
?Myctophum sp. Upper Miocene Messinian Licata Sicily Italy -
Cyclothone pygmaea, a bioluminescent bristlemouth, is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
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From the album: Vertebrates
Ramphosus rastrum (Volta, 1796) Middle Eocene Monte Bolca near Verona Italy -
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Fish non det. Late Miocene Messinian Licata Sicily Italy -
From the album: Vertebrates
"Myctophum" sp. Upper Miocene Messinian Licata Sicily Italy -
From the album: Vertebrates
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage, 1880 Upper Miocene Messinian Licata Sicily Italy -
A new cetacean-related paper is available online: Tsai et. al., 2017. Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal exchange. Current Biology 27 (19):R1058-R1059. (link at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31096-5) The discovery of neobalaenid fossils from marine deposits in Japan and Italy not only fills a small gap between Miocaperea and the extant pygmy right whale, it also shows that pygmy right whales were widespread in all oceans and seas in pre-Holocene times, suggesting that a number of fragmentary taxa formerly classified in Cetotheriidae from the North Sea basin might be related to the pygmy right whale.
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Can anyone tell me what this might be? I found it on the shoreline of the Amahlfi Coast in the city of Maiori, Italy while I was on a trip to Europe this past April. I was thinking it was a shark tooth at first, but when I look up images of shark teeth it looks different. Whatever this is it does seem to be light-weight and porous like a bone.
