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I’m hoping someone can help me out with this ID- it is driving me nuts!! I have looked through all my books twice but I can’t find a match. I was thinking skull or pelvis of some sort but I can’t seem to pinpoint it. Southern gulf coast FL creek
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Inspired to act by Jamie‘s @JamieLynn and their “fossil a day” thread. I been thinking about creating a digital visual catalogue of my collection for a long time now . Been very dyslexic this is a difficult task to undertake. After seeing Jamie’s thread I thought one fossil a day will just take a sort time to photograph, collate and post, making this more achievable task . I will also keep a digital copies for my records. Posting on the forum means that other members can see my small collection and help me if needed with incorrect IDs or names that have changed . The forum has been really helpful in organising my collection . I really can’t gain information from books or scientific papers, the level of concentration I need to comprehend large passages of text is beyond me. This meanings that most of my information is from TFF. For that I thank you all greatly.
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Unknown creature (dinosaur? mammal?) from Liaoning, China
Crazyhen posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This fossil is from Liaoning, China. It looks very strange, with a very big head and sharp teeth, not sure if it is a dinosaur or mammal. And whether it is genuine or fake. Any idea?
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Mammal Brain Endocasts from the White River Badlands of South Dakota
Nimravis posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I was looking at some of my collection yesterday and dextrose take pictures of my better mammal brain endocasts from the White River Badlands of South Dakota. The first piece is exposed on a partial skull of an Oreodont. This next piece is my favorite and I believe it is from an Oreodont. These other pieces I can only guess, but I would also think Oreodont. This small one appears to be from a rabbit. This last one was ID’d as coming from a Hesperocyon, but cannot confirm that.
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Found this guy down on the gravel hills above my section of the Guadalupe river bottom. South of the confluence or the San Marcos and Guadalupe and north of Victoria. After rains the leaves and top soil washes down and reveals pretty good gravel. Only ever found this as a fossil. But we have arrow heads and indian artifacts as well. Trying to determine if it's a claw or tooth. Mammal or Reptile and any age. Not going to sell or value just inquiring. Hershey's kiss for size reference.
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Hi all, I’m sure this is an obvious one for some of you experts out there, I just haven’t come across a tooth like this one yet. There is still a bit of matrix on the chewing surface but it’s mostly prepped. I know many of you are out East so I don’t expect a species, but it’d be nice to at least find out the genus or kind of animal so I can research from there. thank you all as always!
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Greetings, This is my first time posting here so I apologize if I don't get this quite right. I'm hoping to identify what I think may be a fossilized tooth. It looks to be a specialized tooth so I am assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it's mammalian in origin. It was found in an alluvial deposit on my land in Buncombe County, NC. I apologize that I am holding my find in several of these pictures; I couldn't work out a better way to get pictures of all sides. Any help would be much appreciated.
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I found this bone in Southeast Texas. I don't know what it belongs to but it's pretty heavy and it definitely seems to be fossilized. I'm hoping someone can tell me what species it was a part of and how old it might be?
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Cool in the morning, but the sun was out and by noon just fabulous. When I picked this up, I did not recognize it as anything I had previously seen, and I have seen a lot of fossil bones. For a second, I was unsure that it was bone, but now I am pretty positive. Going hunting in the morning, so will be unable to read comments and suggestions until Sunday evening. Thanks for looking, Jack
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Hi everyone! Recently I have purchased these tooth but they just write as sloth. The location is North Florida. Pleistocene period. I know there are some sloth species there so could you help me to get a science name for these tooth? Thanks guys!
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Hello, I have just received this partial lower jaw, it is supposed to be from Leptomeryx evansi, but i have seen many skulls of L. evansi on the internet, and this doesn't look similar. It comes from the Oligocene of Orella member, Brule formation; South Dakota. I have got three questions; Who did this jaw belong to? What part of the jaw did these teeth occupy? Is that hole on the first photo normal? Or was made by an animal or disease? Thanks to everyone!
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Hi everyone, I was just browsing @PrehistoricFlorida's website and my eye was caught by what was labelled as a pocket gopher femur (trust me there were many more impressive fossils that caught my eye as well). Reason being, I found a very similar bone on a hunt in South Dakota's Hell Creek formation back in 2019. I kept it, hoping in my heart of hearts that it was fossilized, but keeping my expectations low. The rusty staining on the bone made me think there was a chance it was just a beautifully preserved Cretaceous limb bone, but I knew it was most likely recent. It's about 2.5 cm long and .7 cm wide at the proximal end. I'm interested in your opinions about whether or not I can confirm this bone as modern/recent. Floridian specimen. Dakotan specimen.
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Found in a small tributary creek in the Fort Worth area of Texas. The bedrock there is Woodbine formation, but I think some Pleistocene material shows up in these creeks. It looks fossilized to me.
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Unknown bone(?) from Pliocene Pico Formation of Southern California
Crusty_Crab posted a topic in Fossil ID
This was found in the Pliocene marine Pico Formation of Southern California. I'm leaning towards a marine mammal but I'm not even sure if this is bone or part of an echinoid test.
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As I continue to sift through my bag of micro matrix from the Aguja Formation, I came across this interesting little mammal tooth. It looks to me like an incisor but I suppose it could also be a canine. I am completely unfamiliar with Mesozoic mammals and I’m not even sure how far down this tooth is distinguishable, but I thought I’d post it anyway. Super excited as this is my first Mesozoic mammal tooth. Size: ~0.5cm Magnifier 20X from three different angles: Thanks for any information/resources you can point me to. As always, I deeply appreciate everyone taking the time to help.
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Hi everyone! I found this claw while anthill hunting on the White River formation of northeastern Colorado. It's about 6 mm in length and 4 mm tall. Honestly I'm not certain that it's a fossil, but if it is I'm really excited to have found it. My first guess is that it's a small bird, but it could very well be mammalian or reptilian. Any input is appreciated.
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Hi folks! Recently I found a rib from a Paleolithic site which dating about 21000- 10000BP. As the size of this huge, I don’t know if it belongs to the rhinoceros buffalo? Note: I try to put together with the vertebrae of bison priscus from Europe (TH8 bone) and it bigger.
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Greetings, Found in Sarasota, Florida. Size is 1 inch/25.4mm tall and .5 inches/ 12.7mm wide. Looks like a bit of matrix is attached to the concave side of the object. Thank you, Marie
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Hello ! For my first post I want to show you some mammal teeth. I don't have a lot of informations about them, probably from North Africa. I don't know their age but all are mineralized so not that recent. I can add the sizes if it's very necessary. Some of them are very characteristics so I hope that an ID is possible. There are I think Rhinocerotidae, maybe Camelidae and others... I'm not good with mammal, all the infos are welcome ! Thanks for your help !
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Greetings all, I found this fossil near the flat parking area at what's left of the Ernst quarries. When I came across an image I took of it, I realized that based on the shape of the left end, that it might be an ulna from a small mammal, or? It has a shape that is somewhat similar (heel-looking section) to a mysticete, Tiphyocetus Temblorensis ulna, that I found at STH a couple of years ago. Or maybe it's just the remnant of of somebody's lunch from a couple of hundred years, the time it takes for something to fossilize (Joke)? I remember it was a fossil, so please take my word for it, at least until I find it, at a later time, and discredit myself. Any ideas based on formation, Bakersfield, CA Temblor, size, and shape? If more images are required for good ID, I'll track the fossil down and add them. Many thanks. Cheers.
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Im looking some interesting miocene skull for my collection. I offer other fossils... most of my collection. Please privat message.
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Baby t-Rex (or close relative) fossilized into metal; this is one of my best finds, it is the complete body of a male baby t-Rex? animal who has a second unknown animal, a dog-like creature with a mammal face, gripped fiercely in its jaws. There is no separating the two fossils and who would ever want to. Both animals have been fossilised or petrified into an Iron/PMG/Gold metal alloy material – a very heavy, durable, and extremely hard compound that has preserved the specimens in fine life-like detail. The specimen was collected in Africa and was freed from solid rock by blasting to build a rail bridge over a mangrove swamp and river. The specimen is 11 inches tall x 7 inches and is extremely heavy due to the metal content. Interestingly, the dinosaur stands of its own accord and thus must have still been standing when it suddenly became buried and over time fossilized into the specimen shown here. A number of small stones and natural objects still adhere to the specimen and these too are of no small interest to me. The metalic dinasaur egg in the one photo was found close by. I will show more photos of this and other finds later on. Found 2020.
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Hey there! I was visiting the Peace River this year for my bday with my husband, and we came across some awesome fossil hunters. We’d never hunted the Peace, and were totally unprepared. Fortunately, the group we stumbled upon were super nice. They had sifters to spare and beers to share. They not only made my birthday, but also gave me this tooth. I can tell it’s a canine, but not sure what it’s from. Any thoughts? Tooth is just shy of 3/4”. Thanks very much!! Lauren
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Found this tooth along the river, it definitely looks fossilized, but I’ve never heard people finding land mammal fossils here.
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Need some confirmation, or correction, on couple jaws found this week, same creek, does contain Pleistocene material. Pretty sure modern raccoon, but the other not positive it's beaver, no orange teeth, and I've never found a bone this dark in this creek. Could it be anything else fossil, like baby giant beaver?
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