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Ok, last time I post here for a while I swear! At least until I go on another hunting trip... Anyways so I stopped by my mother's today after work and I was talking to her and my stepfather about my newfound passion for hunting & collecting fossils when it turns out that my stepfather had been holding out on me this whole time! After a bit of rummaging around he presented me with this, and even said that I could keep it! He said that he had been given it by a customer of his back when he worked delivering water. The customer a nice older man had found it in his backyard (lucky duck!) somewhere in San Pedro, California, my current city of residence. Any information would be greatly appreciated!
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These are from the Pleistocene of Mississippi
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I’ve been hanging around this forum for a while, and now that I’ve officially joined, I’m gonna start by going through my years’ fossil accumulations, particularly the ones that came from my backyard creek (The Portal) and see if I can’t get them them all correctly IDed. Maybe I’ll call it the Backyard Project, if anyone wants to follow along. So here’s the first item: I hope the picture quality is decent enough. It is about three cm long and one cm wide. I’m very sure it is a bone, and given the long thin shape of it I can only think rib. After a bit of searching the only close match I could find was that of a small mammal. The only thing is that that would seem like a very odd find for where we are, east Hickman, Tennessee, the edge of the Central Basin, which is almost exclusively early Paleozoic (in my fossil experience, specifically Ordovician period). A fish rib sounds more likely for our area, but I just haven’t seen any decent fish ribs yet to compare. Either way, this would be so far the only sign of a vertebrate I have ever seen in our area. According to our geological maps, the nearby waterways might bring in some Mesozoic and Cenozoic from westwards, which could make the chances of a vertebrate it a little more likely. Any information on identification and/or how to identify would be greatly appreciated, and if it is indeed a rib, mammal or fish, is it a lucky find? And how specifically can we classify it with what little we have?
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Looks like a Mammalian metapodial, maybe carnivore, but which one?
Re-Elu posted a topic in Fossil ID
Greetings everyone, Found this bone on the Maasvlakte beach in the Netherlands. Based on the location, probably Pleistocene, but could also be Holocene or Pliocene. It looks like a metapodial, and based on size and shape I was thinking maybe carnivore. An expert was able to tell me that it could be carnivore (or maybe beaver), and that it probably belonged to a young animal (since the outer layer of compact bone is really thin). I've been spending hours comparing this fossil to metapodials of all kinds of carnivores (and Castor fiber) matching this location, but I still can't figure it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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After learning about the burn test, I tried this bone that I was skeptical of after learning that my coyote jaw was a modern bone. After the test this fossil did not smoke or turn black, so I am more confident that it isn't a regular bone. It looks to be a fossilized leg or wrist bone of some sort, and there are visible cut marks on the bone. It appears to have been fairly cleanly cut off, which was another reason I was worried about its age. I don't have the whole bone to go off of but it measures 10.5 cm to the longest point where the joint area is, 1.9 cm wide at the narrow end, and 2.5 cm wide at the base of the joint. The area where it would have connected to another bone or bones is 2 cm long and about 3cm wide. Photos show the structure of the bone, and if anyone knows what it could be I'm really interested in learning more about it. Found in north central Florida in the same area as the previous bone I posted.
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Hello everyone Thanks for looking. I found these yesterday at a Savannah River Dredge Spoil Island after fairly heavy rains and tides. Unfortunately the dredging and river action damages pretty much everything. Most of what is found is Pleistocene to Miocene. These have me stumped. The following are my guesses as to what the following 5 items are: #1 Camel or Horse Canine? Doesn't look like others that I've found or google image searches-Doesn't have a color/texture change from root to crown-Has a ridge on the back side and sharp edge at the end-Looks too symmetrical to be just phosphate #2 Fish Skull Plate? I've seen one of these before but it isn't a ray crushing plate or sea robin skull #3 1/2 of a Mammal Tooth-Doesn't look like a horse tooth from the chewing surface and doesn't have the angled crown of a tapir tooth-May not be able to ID as too fragmentary #4 Broken 1/2 of a Sloth Tooth-Had sea lettuce growing in it and is badly beaten up-Looks like other sloth teeth that I've found there before but has a little rougher interior structure than the others and is not quite as smooth on the exterior #5 Medium sized bone that looks vaguely jaw like-Thick and tapered to a narrower point-beaten up a little-No tooth sockets visible Any ID's or thoughts would be much appreciated Thanks a bunch
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Hello all, decided to pop over to the Santa Cruz Coast in CA to see if anything notable was churned up by the recent storms we've had. A couple brachiopod fossils turned up, but this is what really caught my eye as I was perusing the beach. Fossil whale bones have been found in the area before and I'm wondering if that's what I have here. Very porous looking structure but definitely made of stone, with striations all going the same direction. Thanks in advance for ID help.
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Found this small mammal thoracic vert this weekend - its 1.1 inches/28mm tall without the process - 2.3 inches/60mm tall with the process. It’s kinda similar to canid, and very similar to felid, but that’s as close as I may have gotten, and I could be way off. Any help would be appreciated! @digit @Brandy Cole @Shellseeker
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Ok, I have a box full of fossil like structures that I found and kept just in case, and after closely looking at one of them while showing my cousin, I noticed there were shiny tooth like structures on it. Ive attached a photo and im positive this is a fragment of a potential small mammal jawbone. I found it in big brook NJ and I posted photos from all 4 sides. The fragment is really small, its a centimeter long in total. The black bead like structures seem to be small teeth.
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I found this bone in the river, possibly from Pleistocene (bone color + some kind of subfossil procceses) and what is that? I made a research, and this is smillair to nothing, maybe somebody knows what is that possibly.
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I have 2 white river mammal skulls that I am hoping some can assist with identifying. They both measure a little over 4 centimeters. one has been prepped out of the matrix preserving a relatively complete dentary (including the bases of both canines). The second is still covered in matrix. I am fairly certain that the one that is prepped is likely a rabbit.
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Hello and thanks for looking. I found this on a sandbar in barnegat inlet a stones throw from the Atlantic Ocean in New Jersey . Some type of land mammal?
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So I forgot to ask for an ID on this yesterday - but anyone know what kind of vert this is? If you can name the animal even better - but I’m mostly looking for caudal/cervical/lumbar/thoracic, etc. found a few with this same shape but none as nice as this one.
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Odd looking vertebrae. I've never seen one connected to the bone like this.
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Hi guys. I found this near Charleston, SC a while back. probably in the Edisto, but I honestly can't remember. It has been in a bucket of miscellaneous fossils for about two years. Anyway, I can't figure out what animal this might have come from. I hope one of you all can help. Thanks a million.
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Hello, I have a number of Cretaceous aged mammal teeth that I would like to ID. Here is one I found recently in the JRF of Montana. I have a hard time taking pics of small teeth but I hope these are good enough for someone to ID it. Thanks for any help! It is about 3 mm wide.
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I’m posting this for a friend. He found it on the Brazos River in Southeast Texas. It seems too long and robust to be horse or bison. My initial thought is mammoth or mastodon tibia. Unfortunately, the distal and proximal ends are missing. Any other thoughts? I can get more photos from him if necessary. Thanks!
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Any ideas on what this canine tooth could be from? It’s 1.75” in length and from Manatee county, FL
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These are all out of the same estate auction as my earlier posts. One of the members, found that much of the collection was posted on this site by the former owner but these weren’t. I sent him a message but doubt I will hear back given the nature of estate auctions. Any help identifying these is as always greatly appreciated.
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Dear fellow forum members, I am going through old boxes, in this case with some of my rare own finds (as opposed to bought, gifted and inherited fossils) These I found at a coast of the mediterranean, where the waves gnawed at soft sandstone. On a ledge below the fossiliferous layer there where fragments and some intact shells with and without remaining matrix, and this tooth, without, but weathered and feeling heavy. The shells I could identify (Diodora, Arca) do have living species, Diodora goes back to the Miocene, not sure about the others. So the age could be miocene to "subrecent", or maybe the tooth is much younger than the shells, impossible to tell. Who can tell me whose tooth this was? Thanks J
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What does this tooth belong to? Found along the Mississippi River in southwest Illinois.
Raistlin posted a topic in Fossil ID
Like the title says. It was found along the river on a gravel/sand bar. It's Mammals and heavy so definitely mineralized.
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Hello, I have found this small mammal tooth when I was looking for some shark teeth (in the same layer). It looks like a little jewel Could you please help me with the identification? Location: southern middle Slovakia, age: badenian. Scale is in mm. Thank you in advance.
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Hello, I purchased a huge box of Badlands mammal stuff a while ago and was able to identify mostly everything. I had some trouble with these two jawbones, though. I'm not really expecting them to be anything surprising but it would help me to put a definite label on them. in both the teeth looked a little like an amphicyonid's but that might just be wishful thinking! Thanks again! #1 #2: For scale
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I’m hoping someone can recognize what this chunk of bone might be from. It must be something large like Proboscidean or sloth. The sutures are making me think it’s a chunk of skull. The concave side might be an alveolus for tusk?
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