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Hello Everyone, we are looking for help in identifying a fossilized tooth that was found in deposits dated back to the miocen-badenian age in Poland, Europe. That site is knows from Gigantopecten mussels fossils and Carcharias, Galeocerdo, Diplodus fish teeth but such tooth has never been found there before. Thank you for any identification ideas.
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My boyfriend dredged the Pacific Ocean for a living. This vertebra was scooped up off the ocean floor. It has barnacles on it. What animal could it be from?
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Next grouping is mammal teeth! Hoping to get confirmation on these few; my others are quite similar, so once labels are confirmed I can positively identify the rest, as well. I will divide this into multiple posts - 1 per tooth - to hopefully make it easier to read. 1. camelid? Palaeolama mirifica
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Bones and a bonus scale(?) ID, Peace River, Florida 26/12/23
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Back again! It's too much fun figuring things out. I'm running out of shadowboxes, though, so will have to wait before tackling my next batch. 1. 2x unknown metacarpals/metatarsals as identified by our guide. Both are 'spongy'. -
Hey, i got some mammal teeth ID vibe going thx to @citronkitten's post. I'm kinda in the dark about these two teeth. As they wash up on the Schelde river shores in Antwerp i'm not sure on their age tho. Both look like front teeth to me. 1. 2,9cm x 1,3cm x 0,8cm 2. 2,6cm x 0,8cm x 0,6cm Thx in advance!
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From the album: Peace River, Florida 26/12/23
Next shadow box from Peach River 26/12/23: Mammal Teeth. Teeth are hard! Still working on IDs, but this is current progress. -
Hello there here is another skull I’ve seen online and I’m interested in. Any red flags? I don’t have much info I’m afraid… Any and all help is very welcome!
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Hi Everyone, I went fossil hunting last weekend on the Norfolk coast, UK. A long walk up and down the beach of Happisburgh. Well known for its Ice Age mammal finds. I found a few different pieces, but this one in particular caught my eye. It's been rolled around in the surf somewhat, but I was hoping someone might be able to ID this for me? Because it does retain some shape still, it kind of looked like the end of a femur or tibia? But it does also resemble an ankle bone from a large animal, possibly Mammoth, Rhino or Bison? What do we think? Thanks in Advance, Jim.
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What appears to be a fossil canine tooth from Virginia, USA. out of a layer that typically produces marine fossils from the late Oligocene-early Miocene. It measures ~2.5” from tip of crown to the base of the root, has some sort of cementum or ossification at the base of the root. The enamel is smooth with the presence of a carina on both cutting edges. As you can see, there is very little wear to the tooth, which makes me wonder if it was a juvenile or is that indicative of the type of prey it ate. I initially thought it had to be a whale/odontocete tooth, but the smooth enamel with the presence of the carina has me second guessing that ID. Could it be from a pinniped? Large cat? Something else? This one has me stumped. Any thoughts are appreciated.
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I found this lying on a dirt road, in the Western Cape, South Africa. I looked at dozens of pics of mammalian teeth, and the only one I could find that looked similar, was a hippopotamus tooth.
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Hi TFF friends, Went to Cadzand for the first time and found this mammal tooth. Not an expert at all, looks like a carnivorous mammal tooth, maybe a molar? Thought about pinniped tooth. Does anybody know what it could be? Many thanks by advance
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Recently, I found many fossilized bones, including a lower jaw, buried in clay next to a riverbank in Greece. I surfed the internet to get more information about that place and discovered it was very close to another site on the same river where Miocene bones were found (about 50 species, mainly mammals). I cleaned the jaw bone and then noticed that the teeth were missing, and I couldn't identify whether it was a carnivore or a herbivore. I would appreciate it if anyone could recognize any characteristics and maybe find what animal it belonged to. (In the known locality there were found rhinoceros, apes, turtles, hyenas, gazelles, lions, saber-toothed cats, other felines, various species of giraffes, bovines, bears, deer, horses, boars, primitive elephants and chalicotheres)
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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
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Hey Gang, Happy New Year! I'm not sure this is exactly a fossil prep question but it relates to Identifying an unknown supposed Pleistocene fossil from Iowa so here goes. I'm trying to put together a comparative collection of extant/extinct mammal inner ear bones. I've got a number of fossil fragments from a number of critters and about to work on removing a couple of petrous bones/bulla (highlighted with red arrows) from a couple of extant skulls. Ive got to cut them out of 2 extant bovid skulls/cap--see photo below: The smaller example on the left is from a sheep and the other a much larger bovid I'm assuming a cow/Bos. I am thinking I can take my dremel with a cutting bit and remove the sheep petrous bone fairly easily by removing a surrounding section thru the skull cap along the blue line i've drawn. The larger skull on the right is more stout so I'm looking for any easy/cheap ideas from Harbour freight, hacksaw ideas or other to cut the ear bones free. Perhaps the dremel will have no problem cutting thru it as well. i've seen some pretty cool dissection equipment but I'm doing this on the cheap to satisfy the curiousity of how these bones are positioned/attached and identify their components and take some photos along the way. Any simple solutions for removal are welcomed. I'm ok with up/experimenting one side as I can always work on the opposite petrosal of each. Here's an unknown petrosal that I have that I want to compare against to compare the two extant bones too. I was told it might be possibly bison from the Pleistocene of Iowa. That ID has not been confirmed Thanks! Regards, Chris
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Hello everyone Below are some finds from my last trip to a dredge spoil island that has Miocene to modern marine and terrestrial fossils. The dredge and river action unfortunately beat up the fossils and make it hard to ID. The scale on the white graph paper is 1" for the boxes. Photo quality a little off due to the poor winter sun angle. Large Un-numbered Bone: Possibly a mammoth or bison femur? Weighs more than 3.5 pounds. It looks like the head of a femur and a heavily worn limb bone. May be too far gone to ID. #1: Two small mammal (likely cetacean) periotics #2: Edge of a Turtle shell? Just didn't see the typical interior turtle shell texture #3 Broken coprolites? Interesting interior compositions on them #4 Worn turtle nuchal shell? #5 Wild guess-fish tooth in jaw? Has a smooth enamel on the pointy end that tapers on both sides to a broken point #6 No idea-Probably unidentifiable? #7 Small broken horse scapula? Thanks for looking. Hopefully the photos stay in order, with an outdoors photo followed by another photo indoors due to the outdoor light this time of year. Be happy to add better photos if requested.
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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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I found this jaw section in the Chandler Bridge creek in Summerville, SC. It looks like a jaw section possibly from Bob Cat. Does anybody have any differential opinions where this may originate?
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Is this skull real? Is it from an adult individual? Its 10 inches and has minor restoration on the canines braincase and sagittal crest. Seller says it from miocene but I am pretty sure Hyaenodon lived during the Oligocene
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I recently found this partial tooth in Florida and I really think it’s dire wolf. It looks exactly like the upper carnassial dire wolf teeth online. The only measurement i have is that the thickest part of the enamel from top to bottom is 17mm thick, not accounting for wear. Can you guys confirm/deny? Thanks! filtered-3F76D20A-199B-4B93-8957-ACB17287FC39.mp4
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
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I go Fossil hunt in Antwerp, Belgium on a regular base as i live in the region. I'll try to share some of my experiences and finds along the way. For starters some of yesterday's finds as I went searching the shores of the river Schelde by night... VID20231209183331.mp4
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The first fossil mammal in my collection: a partial jaw of Merycoidodon sp.
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Hello everyone, even though I haven't reached 35 fossils in my collection like I hoped for this year, I still managed to close 2023 with my 34th fossil! The one I'm going to show you today is, in fact, this 34th fossil, which is also the first mammal fossil I've ever owned Species: Merycoidodon sp. (Leidy, 1848) Size: ~3.0 cm long Age: 34-23 mya (Oligocene, stage indet.) Origin: South Dakota's Badlands (USA) About this fossil: a partial lower jaw of this genus, with four nicely preserved teeth. I personally like how, in this specimen, the matrix is still present, which helps to keep the two parts together and just makes the fossil look nicer- 1 reply
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Howdy all, Found these on a beach in Panama city a few years ago and I'd appreciate some help identifying them. The first one I originally thought was just a piece of turtle shell, but later while examining it, I noticed the presence of a root canal, which leads me to believe this is some sort of tooth. The second one I saw in my pan, and I just paused, cause I wasn't expecting to find land mammal material. I want to place this as Archaeohippus, but I'm not sure.
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