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Any experiences with fossils from the North Sea?
TeethCollector posted a topic in Questions & Answers
When I was searching through the forum, I read some threads telling that fossils from Sea must be desalinated and coated very well, otherwise, it will break down in several months or so. I want to see your experiences with fossils from northern sea. Did your north sea fossils break-down? Or it is just okay? -
Got some ice age fossils, from North sea.. have you any idea what these are?
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My wife and I recently traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska for a mini vacation and toured the Museum of the North on the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus. It brought back some old memories as I completed my undergraduate training there in 1986. Here are a few pictures from the displays that I found interesting. The hadrosaurs display is fairly new and in the entryway Mammoth display Dinosaur interpretive displaysRay Troll art. Enjoy! AK Hiker
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Hello all! I am a new member and this is my first post. I found this piece snorkeling in near shore waters of the Gulf of Mexico in southwest Florida. Could it be a mammoth tooth fragment?
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Hi, Can anybody offer me a suggestion on how to get a display stand built for my Woolly Mammoth Tusk? I used to live in Alaska. Before I left, I purchased a Tusk as a memento. Dimensions are roughly 38.5 lbs and 7.5' - 8'. It's pretty solid/stable, not polished, and I believe coated in Elmers Glue. I'm looking to get a stand made to display it. Specifically, one that supports it and doesn't apply a stress that could damage the Tusk over time. Does anybody have a recommendation on who I can contact to get a stand?
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This would be my first Mammoth Molar I'm preparing again in 10 years. My first one was a 10lb Mammoth molar. This one is quite small of course since it's from a calf. It has been laying in right water for 1,5 months and at the moment I'm glueing the last 4 pieces since it's precision work with this small piece. I'm really glad I picked up on this one (Found in Maasvlakte, Netherlands). I found it in pretty poor condition you guys can see in the pictures. But I have never seen this molar, so I'm amazed anyways! I will show you guys the full picture when it is all done! If anyone has tips too for my next prepairs, I will take any advice and tips!
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Is a mammoth tusk ivory or has it been mineralized? Thanks. Tom
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I am considering buying this stegodon jaw section. I am looking for a good one for quiet some time now. Came across this one, has one little repair (marked) but i don't know about the rest
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Hi all what could this possibly be. Found along a river bed in Canada. I think might be ivory because of the lines seen on the black side. Quite heavy,. Note the fossils in the growth lines on the totally flat/ smooth side.
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I'm trying to identify the polished fossil material in this Georgian English snuffbox, circa 1760 to 1820. Is it mammoth ivory? Walrus? Wood? Something else? The material is set in unhallmarked sterling silver. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Adam
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Hello everyone! Reporting back from a trip to the peace yesterday 5/15! It ended up being a really beautiful day! Taking into consideration that we’ve been pushing into the upper 90s lately I was not looking forward to that 2pm heat stroke in my wetsuit. However I saw the depth drop back down after these heavy rains and figured I had maybe a few more trips before the gators, bugs and rain kick me out for the season for good! I launched from Wauchula to go to the usual gravel islands upriver and only saw 1 juvenile gator where as a few weeks ago I saw 3 6-8 footers. I was hoping it being early and chilly they were somewhere away from me. I guess I’ll never know! The areas I was digging in only had a foot and some inches of gravel before hitting the limestone. This was frustrating as I spent all night reading to refresh myself on “DIG DEEPER” philosophy we are all so familiar with. I was finding the usual, frags and smalls with nothing really to show for my efforts so I headed back downstream and spent a few hours at one spot with similar efforts. I decided to drift back down to the boat ramp and pass it because there was a 4 footer guarding the gravel bar near the bridge. I ended up at a spot with a few people who had walked in about 50-100 yards downstream. They decided to leave and as they were passing me one of them stepped into a few foot hole. I thought that would be a good spot to dig as it looked 2 feet deeper than the one I had started digging in and I wasn’t wanting to put in any more serious effort for the day. After about 10 minutes of digging around that hole I noticed the gravel / rocks in this area were larger than the upriver gravel bars I was at earlier. I also pulled out 2 bullet casing, one 22 and one I couldn’t identify and some colored brown glass. Even though this layer I was digging in was basically clay textured karst / white matrix it was almost impossible to get through with my non spade tipped shovel. I started to widen out a little bit on the layer of gravel above the matrix and then I pulled this out... Sometimes this place makes me wonder if I should buy a lottery ticket on the way home. Could anyone give me some more info on this find? The Facebook group I am on suggested mammoth, and maybe Colombian mammoth. This is definitely the best tooth I have found on the river so far!
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It's been a challenging season on the Peace River for various reasons. Was sidelined for most of Feb and March with some minor health issues and forbidden by my doctor (and wife) from going in the water until all was healed. Add to that what appears to be a tremendous amount of sand built up in some of my favorite hunting spots by last seasons heavy rains. Then throw in a lot of debris restricting portions of the river to narrow passages. All together it has hindered my luck with any major finds. Can only hope for some of the success our friend Jack - @Shellseeker has been having lately! That said- I still feel blessed to be able to hunt on the river pretty much whenever I choose. I am attaching some photos of the river here that show the downed trees, sandbars and debris that need to be negotiated to travel to one of my old dig sites and a few shots of some of this seasons finds so far. Last season I posted more trip reports and wanted to at least try to catch up with one for those who are interested in seeing photos of the river and some recent fossil discoveries. This initial shot shows the open river with what looks like a dead end ahead I knew the river took a bend to the right ahead so I kept on with the hope of finding my way through. The following shots are of the debris encountered and a sandbar that needed to be skirted to keep going - I was able to squeeze by to the right here and follow the curve of the river. on the next turn I came upon a sandbar stretching almost all the way across Got by this one and then was faced with a few trees that were not present last season This one looked impassable but as I got closer I saw a way through It first required a weave left, then back to the right and eventually threading through several underwater obstructions A few challenges to keep things interesting! Thankfully, the flow was slow and I didn't have to fight a current pushing me into any of the debris. With that paddling report I will finish with some recent finds that make it all worth it. My first mammoth tooth of the season was what I think is a "spit tooth"- Picked up right off the bottom just to the left of where @Bone Daddy is standing in the picture of him in his latest posting, I missed the horse tooth, lol. My second mammoth find of the season was another one I spotted in less than a foot of water and was able to just bend down and pick it off the bottom - This one was found much farther south, below Payne Creek State Park. One of my favorites so far is this whale tooth - one of only three I have found in the last three years- A few more miscellaneous finds that included a dolphin tooth, gator teeth, dugong tooth crown, horse incisor, half a tapir tooth crown and a broken llama tooth fragment. These finds keep me coming back for more. I'll be back out there next week and hope to finish off the season with some more interesting finds! Good Hunting to all!
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Sometimes it is hard to believe how lucky I am in hunting fossils. I was on the Peace River prospecting. Mostly small teeth (no GWs, Makos, Megs). My find of the day was half a giant tortoise humerus. With the afternoon moving to a close, this Tusk dropped into my sieve. I think that this is a Mammoth yearling and I am looking for confirmation or skepticism. 1) It is about 7 inches long with the tip broken. It is 2.25 inches (57 mm) in diameter at the butt. 2) The butt end I believe to be round rather than oval and not broken. I have seen many broken tusks and they do not have concentric circles in a flat pattern. 3) The segment is straight , not curved. There is a Youtube video on Woolly Mammoth tusk growth. It seems to curve after the 1st year. In the photo, my find might be the green section. 4) I will figure out Mastodon versus Mammoth once I allow the tusk to dry and see the schreger lines. Hopefully, TFF will be able to ID first.. @digit has been playing with hosenose tusks and @Harry Pristis has lots of skills in all fossils Florida. Please chime in... I will check responses with my cell. This is one of those rare occasions where I am going hunting on back to back days.. I must be feeling my oats.
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I just received this Woolly Mammoth Tooth from Russia and am sharing it with the forum for discussion. It appears to have been coated with a clear substance like poly urethane (At the tip of one root is a solidified drop). The specimen measures approximately 7”x6”x3”
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Found this in Texas pretty sure it's a mammoth but not a 100% sure figured I would ask about it here
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Friends, daddy/daughter recent extensive beach fossil hunt yielded lots of fossils. My daughter and I found the piece pictured below, which shares the same color of the teeth we find in North Florida but has the most unusual intersecting lines in a very regular pattern leading me to a multiple week search. We *think* we see Schreger lines and my 9 year old daughter is quite literally exploding with excitement. Can this community of experts who have helped do IDs in the past help us figure this out? If these are Schreger lines is there a way to determine whether these are likely mastodon, mammoth or other proboscidean fossil? Thank you all in advance.
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Hi from the Puget Sound Area in Washinton State, USA
OkayFossil posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hey there - I found your forum after my wife discovered that we "accidentally" found a Columbian Mammoth molar while walking on the beach. I've been searching for information on how to preserve it and this forums seems like a HUGE wealth of information that I'm pouring over now. I've got some Butvar 76 on order and am picking up some acetone tomorrow as well. I'm going to be looking for information to ensure I'm not about to make a huge mistake with something that we accidentally found but now REALLY love and think is SO cool. It doesn't hurt that our 4.5 year old daughter is basically the rockstar of her pre-school class now that all of the kids know that she's got a mammoth tooth! Thanks in advance! I picture of the fossil we found since we're really proud of it!!
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Got up early, went out hunting to a favorite location with good friends. I had searched this spot so often that I went in believing that I would have to prospect new locations before today was over. Turned out not to be true. After 5-10 small shark teeth in each of the 1st 2 sieves, this interesting fossil fell into my lap. It is 6.5 inches long and 2.75 inches at its widest point. Going to be a great day. I will make some observations. 1) At 2.75 inches wide, it is far smaller than the width of an adult tooth and must be from a juvenile. 2) It consists of approximately 3 plates. A complete juvenile tooth might be 10-12+ plates 3) The section I have found has not been chewed upon YET.. It was likely un_erupted when the juvenile died. 4) Maybe redundant to #3, the section I have found is 100% enamel, 0% roots/dentin/cementum Questions: When one of my friends looked at the fossil, he said that I had found the "posterior" end of the tooth, because the "fingers" you see, are only present in this volume on the posterior end. News to me, for Mammoth tooth experts, is it true? Here is a very interesting link https://www.fossilera.com/pages/about-mammoth-molars which includes this discussion: So, if there are 2 set of deciduous teeth between Age 3 and Age 20, let's speculate that each set lasts more or less 8 years... My find was being created as a "deciduous" tooth, and creation of a deciduous tooth happens around 4 years of age and 12 years of age. My gut feeling looking at a lot of deciduous mammoth teeth, many medium in size and many larger in size is that my find is one of the larger "juvenile teeth" created at Age 12. All comments appreciated, especially from someone who knows about sizes of deciduous mammoth teeth. p.s. I did take some comfort in seeing scientific papers that estimated modern elephant age based on tooth size... and the comments that it should also apply to Mammoths.
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Wondering about these teeth...can someone please help ID these? I have two that I think are Mastodon and Mammoth but not 100% sure. Thanks for the help! IMG_9860.HEIC IMG_0209.HEIC
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I found this by Corpus Christi. I am 90% sure this is a mastodon crown but would love some confirmation and then I found this tusk with cross hatching and I don't know if its mastodon or mammoth Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you fossil forumers!
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Big piece of skin, is this actual mammoth skin? Seller says it's from Yakutia.
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Found this odd bone fragment on Asbury Park Beach in New Jersey last Saturday. The only thing that comes to mind is a fragment of mammoth skull, but that seems like a bit of wishful thinking. Any thoughts?
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Hi all! I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to Attach two pieces of ivory? I tried gluing, but it didn’t work well. I stabilized it with a 50/50 clear elmers/water mixture, and it’s pretty solid now, but I don’t know what to do because I still can’t glue it.
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A couple of recent mammoth tooth finds are: A. Camano Island, Washington (state), mammoth tooth Camano family finds woolly mammoth tooth on the beach By Evan Caldwell, Stanwood Cammano News, Jan. 30, 2021 Woolly mammoth tooth discovered on Camano Island By KIRO 7 News Staff, KIRO, Channel 7, January 31, 2021 Camano Island, Washington - Wikipedia B. Chernivtsi region mammoth tooth Tooth of 300,000-year-old mammoth found in Chernivtsi region, UAZMI News UkrInform: Tooth of 300,000-year-old mammoth found in Chernivtsi region, UkrInform, January 20, 2021 Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine - Wikipedia Yours, Paul H.
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Mammoth tusks found in Gulf of Mexico off Florida’s coast
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Mammoth tusks found off Florida’s coast from Aquanutz Scuba Diving Charters Largest Tusk nearly 8-feet in length and 22-inches around on the fat end of the tusk. By Noel Rehm, WWSB, Sarasota, Florida, December 30, 2020 Yours, Paul H.
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