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A new pliosaur from the Kimmeridgian deposits at Kimmedige has just been revealed to the world! Rumours have been going around about it for some time, but now the source of the rumours has been revealed, and it's spectacular! Belonging to the genus Pliosaurus, to judge from it's age and tooth morphology, it's one of the best preserved - if not best preserved - skull of its kind! https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67650247?fbclid=IwAR3ukvNzGPSxBdhBp3Z3zrIEJZEbDki1ezYhSrCaLjpYVUIsc_nOGPexuDs
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Hello Guys, I found this interesting little fossil at Pointe Aux Oies/Wimereux last Thursday. it is from the Thithonian/ Kimmeridgian layers. It reminds me of a tail spine of a ray, or a sea urchin spine. Am i correct?
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From the album: cf. Pliosaurus kevani
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From the album: cf. Pliosaurus kevani
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Man was it hot today! Would you believe it? 30°C on the 9th of May! I did a lot of sweating, but even though it was somewhat exhausting after 7 hours of digging, I did have some fun too. I cleaned out this area during the first few hours. And came up with at least a few things. I then decided to move to another spot. And promptly found the best one to this point. The fossiliferous area in the hypselocylum zone which I am working consists of two ca. 20cm. thick concretionary limestone beds separated by about 20cm. of friable soft marl. The fossils in the marl, which are numerous, are mostly flatly pressed and usually fall to bits. The ones in the limestone beds are strongly cemented in and there is a lot of ammonite brekzie and an awful lot of sponge material within. So I spend a lot of time whacking away at them once they are extricated, which necessitates a lot of energy, since they are extremely hard. They don't always come out complete, so there's some glueing to be done at home, but every once in a while I get a lucky split as above. The up side of this is that the fossils from the concretions are very well preserved, once you manage to get them out intact. Here's my booty at the end of the day. Tomorrow I should be getting down to some preparation.
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Are there ways to differentiate long neck plesiosaur bones vs. pliosaur bones*(specifically vertebrae from the kimmeridge clay in this case), other than by size, in some cases? *or any of the paddle bones
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Unidentified plesiosaur vertebrea Jurassic period kimmeridge clay weymouth, Dorset U.K.-
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
13cm. From the hypselocylum zone, early Kimmeridgian in the Danube valley.-
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From the album: Belemnites
Rostrum 7.5cm. Lower Kimmeridgian. Upper Danube Valley.-
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From the album: Belemnites
Rostrum. Not quite complete at 5cm. Lower Kimmeridgian. Upper Danube valley.-
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Taramelliceras (Metahaploceras) subnereum (Wegele 1929)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
4.5cm. Steinkern. From the Kimmeridgian platynota zone in Gräfenberg, Bavaria.-
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