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Actually a Polycotylid Vertebra?
Opabinia Blues posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Not sure if this goes here or in Fossil ID but I’ll post here… This is one of my latest online purchases, and one I had to snag because if this is what it’s supposed to be it’s a neat piece. But seeing as I can’t personally verify it myself, I thought I’d post here. This vertebra was being sold as Trinacromerum sp. While I doubt that just a centrum like this is identifiable down to genus, I would like to know whether or not this really is a Polycotilid vertebra. I think it’s likely because it’s a very sizable bone that’s not mosasaur, but just want to check. This fossil is, according to the seller, from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas. And as can be seen, this fossils as pretty obviously been flattened by geology. Thanks!
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https://public.uk.com/2021/11/19/tylosaurus-skeleton-expected-to-fetch-up-to-120000-at-summers-place-auctions/
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It's from Kansas and is Late Cretaceous age.
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Dear Forum members, A few years ago I bought this piece from a fellow collector. The description mentioned that it is probably a Platecarpus sp. atlas and axis vertebrae, Niobrara Fm. Gove Co. Kansas. I think that this is acutally the supraoccipital, epioccipital, basisphenoid and several other skull parts. I do not know if this is indeed from a Platecarpus species? if so, which species could this be? I'd like to know whether this piece is Coniacian, Santonian or Campanian in age. Perhaps the preservation already can point in a direction. the fossils are all very flattened and embedded in a blue-grayish matrix. I think it certainly is the Smoky Hill Chalk, but perhaps this preservation hints to a certain member, layer or unit of that chalk? In any case, thank you in advance for your answers, Kind regards, Sander
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
5mm long Collected in the Niobrara Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS. Suggestions/corrections on the ID are welcome© Isaac Fox
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Traveling from Minnesota to Texas next week Take I35-W down and roughly following the Mississippi back up. Any recommendations for fossil or paleo related Museums to visit or fossil hunting trips/locales along this loop? I am mostly interested in vertebrate fossil hunting but would really be up for any good suggestions.
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
REMPC P0031 Fossil Leaf Impression Cretaceous, Cenomanian Dakota Sandstone Elisworth Co., Kansas, USA-
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
44mm long. Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
63mm long. Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
25mm long Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
27mm across the disk Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
27mm across the disk Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
12mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
33mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
12mm across the root Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
11mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
15mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
15mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
20mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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These were all collected last summer, from the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane County Kansas. Any help/suggestions/corrections would be much appreciated. 1 12mm Long Enchodus? 2 13mm Long Enchodus? 3 20mm across Gillicus arcuatus? 4 Entire piece put together totals 48mm in length. Not sure on the genus. Better pictures to come. 5 29mm long Stratodus? Seems to bear some resemblance to strato2.jpg (790×562) (oceansofkansas.com). The other possibility I thought of was a damaged Cimolichthys. 6 12mm across Perhaps a member of the Plethodidae family 7 20mm long Apsopelix? 8 3 out of 4 associated vertebrae. All about 11mm across x 11mm long 9 Group of associated vertebrae. All approximately 12mm across long way I expect Pachyrhizodus. I've got a couple more, but it seems I need to re-take the pictures of them.
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
30mm long. Collected in the Niobrara Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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We have been collecting for our first year 4H exhibit. These were all collected in Kansas in the Smoky Hill Chalk and also in Southeast Kansas around Greenwood, Elk, and Chataqua counties. We are looking for some concensus on our identification. We have had a hard time this year due to Covid. When we used to do this 15 years ago we would go to big meetings where we would get help identifying things. This year it was all identified on site and the leaders were very busy helping many people as best they could. As you can see we have already caught quite a few errors ourselves so we are pretty reluctant on the others. I couldn't get my camera to focus on the label and specimen at the same time so sorry for the fuzzy labels. I am helping my neice with her project. She is 7 and just learning about geology but has been picking up rocks and bringing them home for years. Seems like shark teeth are her favorite like alot of others here on the forum. We really want to get east in Kansas and find some carboniferous stuff.
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I collected this a couple years back, from the Topeka Limestone in Elk Co. Kansas, and it was identified as Archimedes. Is that correct? it doesn't look quite right to me (in fact, I think it looks more like Penniretepora, but I could be wrong). The specimen is 18 mm long. I apologize for using the penny for scale, the picture was taken before I started using a ruler as the scale in my fossil pictures, and my camera is having problems right now.
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We found this yesterday outside of Sedan Kansas on a 4-H Geology field trip. It was with a thinner layer of sandstone just below a thick layer of Ireland sandstone. One of the leaders thought it was ripple marks. I also thought it looked like ripple marks but wanted a second opinion. We would hope to be able to display this in her geology exhibit as a fossil if it is truly ripple marks.
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