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Hello fossil-hunters! My most recent fossil hunt was rather successful! I went to the Zandmotor, in the Netherlands, which is known for its abundance of: fossil seashells, big Ice Age mammal bones, fish material and more Pleistocene fossils. Here are the things I found: 1) All the black/brown things on the top are bones/bone shards from big Pleistocene mammals such as the mammoth, the cave lion, the cave hyena, the Irish Elk, the woolly rhino, the bison, etc. - 2) The big white shells on the right are Acanthocardia tuberculata - 3) The smaller shells next to them are Mactra plistoneerlandica (clams) - 4) Next to the Mactra we have some Cerasroderma edule (cockles) - 5) Underneath those are some Macoma balthica - 6) The big grey things to the left are Ostrea edulis (oysters) - 7) The "tooth" underneath the oysters is actually a crab pincer - 8) Next to it we have a small piece of mammoth ivory - 9) All the small black things at the bottom are fish vertebrates - 10) And finally the small black thing above the fish verts is a partial fish jaw with one tooth! In the close-ups we have: 1) The partial fish jaw with the small tooth - 2) The fish verts - 3) The crab pincer - 4) A big piece of bone, maybe a partial femur of a rhino, bison or mammoth - 5) A small piece of mammoth ivory. Some of these fossils were given to me by a really nice young man named Rick, that I met that day on the beach. Rick was searching for fossils just like me, and he gave me some tips for the hunt, and have me many cool fossils! Some of you might notice this is the same post as on my Instagram account @world_of_fossils. What do you think? Best regards to all, Max
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Mammoth Fossils Found Beneath Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Metro unearths ancient elephant fossils below Wilshire Boulevard, Curbed LA - Dec 1, 2016 http://la.curbed.com/2016/12/1/13802216/metro-mastodon-mammoth-purple-line-fossils Metro Workers Unearth Mammoth Fossils During Purple Line Construction K-Earth 101 FM http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2016/12/01/metro-workers-unearth-mammoth-fossils-during-purple-line-construction/ Mammoth tusk, teeth, and skull discovered during construction of Los Angeles Metro line Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3989006/A-mammoth-discovery-Tusk-teeth-skull-ancient-elephants-discovered-construction-Los-Angeles-Metro-line.html Yours, Paul H. -
I've posted photos of 5 fossils which were found in a dredge operation near Houston Texas. I think the large one is a fragment of a mammoth tooth but I really don't know just what the others are. They may all be fragments of teeth but I could use some help to identify them. Thanks for your time and help.
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I'm guessing this to be a mammoth tooth. It was found in a dredge operation near Houston Texas. I'll be glad to hear from others. Thanks very much.
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More from a creek in north Texas, Cretateous or Pliocene. First pic appears to be a tooth I think, next ones shows what looks like very worn vertebra and yes it's got a purple hue for some reason, was partially exposed in gravel bank. The other object I thought was a turtle carapace when I saw it sticking up out of gravel, but after digging up not so sure esp since it doesn't feel like turtle bone. Sorry for the poor quality phone pics. Having problems with phone or website and somehow that first pic is out of order!
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I'm hoping someone can identify this fossil. It is interesting, looks a bit like a short horn. It has a glossy black appearance over most of the surface. It comes from the same dredge location as previous fossils referenced near Houston Texas. Thanks to everyone for your help.
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I'm hoping this tooth can be identified. Its one of the longest I have found so far. It was found near Houston Texas in a dredge operation. Thank you all in advance for your help.
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Isolated, essentially intact molar tooth (missing tiny portion of root at rear of specimen). Note the relatively small number of enamel plates (7 to 8 in a 100mm line) compared with the Woollly Mammoth (M. primigenius).
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From the album: Ice Age Europe
Woolly Mammoth tooth from the Pleistocene Upper Rhine Plain in Germany. Mammuthus primegenius (Woolly Mammoth) Sinister mandibular molar dp4 Mannheim Formation, Early Würm Glaciation, 78-59ka Upper Rhine Plain, Germany -
Found this in the Brazos River near Waco along the bank. I believe that this crosshatching that I see would make this a mammoth or mastodon right?
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Right half of a skull joint of a woolly rhino.
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Left shoulderblade of a woolly mammoth.
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A fragment of the left lower jaw of a woolly mammoth.
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The Mammoth Pirates: In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way.
aplomado posted a topic in Fossil News
I found a fascinating article about Russians hunting mammoth ivory illegally. It has some great pictures: http://www.rferl.org/fullinfographics/infographics/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html -
Fossil Collection 2015 Left Shelf Overview
LordTrilobite posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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From the album: Pleistocene Florida
A large section of tusk from a Mastodon (Mammut americanum). From the Pleistocene of Florida, US. -
Last year my son and I took a trip to one of my favorite museums, the Kenosha County Public Museum. This museum isn't the biggest, BUT it's free, very educational, beautiful, kid friendly and the dioramas are unforgettable. While there I noticed that they had mislabeled a simple pyrite blob for a critter that I am way too familiar with, the Essexella Jellyfish. So last Saturday I took full advantage of the warm weather that had blown in (a blazing 55 degrees) thawing us from our wintery grip, and made the hour trip to donate a proper Jellyfish. I also decided to donate a few more Mazon Creek fauna pieces that they didn't have. For most of you that don't know this, Kenosha County has been one of the best spots to find complete ice age mega fauna in the US for the last hundred years or so. Located on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, the Kenosha Public Museum proudly houses a cast from a local find of the most complete Mammoth ever found in the US. It also has a recreated dig sight from a local find as well of a rare Mammoth butcher site. All of these were found about 30mins from my home. But unlike most mega fauna hunters, I don't have the luxury of rivers to sift. These fossils are either under wetlands, 4'-10' of clay or are in a neighborhood with a house sitting on top of them. Because of this though when they are found they are usually almost complete and well preserved. To this day there is still a Mastodon under a local lake that I will not name. Hopefully funding will come soon so it can be finally uncovered, and I can only hope to volunteer my time to be a part of it. I'm getting off topic....... I highly recommend anyone that is visiting the Chicago or Milwaukee area to take a walk through the Kenosha Public Museum. It is small, but jammed packed with simple to understand information. The dioramas are just amazing. If you're at all interested in woodland Native American culture, this is the place for you. As most museums do, it has a timeline walkway that brings you from creation to modern day. This museum also has many other things to do and see, and it sits next door to a Civil War Museum and just down the street from the Dino Museum. The pyrite smear that I will call the Golden Ghost Faux Jelly. My chosen donated fossils (Jellyfish, associated group of Jellys, shrimp, shrimp molt, sea cucumber, coprolite and a Macroneuropteris. continued......
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Help With Identifying Mammoth Tooth
Janetzillah posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi there, I work in an antiques store and we get in a huge variety of unusual items and sometimes, something comes in that we need some help with. I have attached pictures of what is apparently a baby woolly mammoth's tooth. I have never personally seen one before so I would never be able to tell a real one from a replica. I am a new member and hope that someone would be able to provide some information. Many thanks, Janet
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A quick one for the experts... Can we tell what species this Mammoth is? I have no locality data etc. to help out, just wondering if it is possible to ID from the morphology. Also, upper/lower, left/right? Turns out that my Mammoth ID skills are pretty much zero Cheers!
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Found in South Georgia. Very smooth on one side and one end. Very heavy for its size. I thought it was petrified wood at first but someone told me it looked like a piece of tusk so I thought I would post some pics. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello, need help identifying this object. I was told it was a section of mammoth tusk. Hoping someone can confirm this. Thanks
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Hello, I need a little help identifying these Gomphothere teeth. The first one is Miocene age, from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am not sure where the second one is from. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Jay
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I am always sensitive to breaking fossils, especially rare ones... It is exceeding painful to realize that a fossil made it intact for tens of thousands of years and I broke it with my shovel finding it. I am very careful, but it happens: My worst experience was a broken major root on a Dire Wolf Carnassial.. the pain...the pain..!!!!! I also broke the tip of a point (twice) that was pinned upright in a crevice of the bedrock. I was digging in an area rich in mammal fossils -- some mastodon, mammoth bones & teeth. The chewing surface is distinctive. and this is a pretty nice "fragment"...almost 5 plates of a lower jaw tooth. Lower jaw because of length between roots and chewing surface. I found the 1st piece about 10:30 am and a 2nd piece of the same tooth 45 minutes later about 3 feet away. Digging in a mixture of 60% gravel and the rest sand -mud mix down to a base of grey clay. The fragments were on the clay. The 2 pieces fit almost like a glove. . At first, I thought I might have broken them apart but was relieved to note that, although the plates fit loosely, there was significant missing cementum and no telltale shovel marks. Whew! So, broken by some natural forces in the preceding decades. I'll consolidate and set the 2 pieces up in a display, but I do not intend to glue them back together... Where would be the story in that? By the way, my hunting partners and I have an agreement on all "fragment" fossil finds. Who ever finds the 1st piece, has title to all other fragments of that fossil found. This, of course, is from Chapter 3, sec. 5 of the 14th edition of the Peace River Fossil Hunters Code of Conduct and Rules of the Road. (PRFH-CCRR). I can quote chapter and verse to my fossil hunting buddies, but sometimes they do not listen. SS
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This weekend, the Perot Museum will open its new exhibit of a nearly complete female Columbian mammoth. Yesterday (11/16/15), Dr. Tony Fiorillo and Dr. Ron Tykoski were interviewed on NPR about the mammoth and some other fossil related topics. I even got a mention during the interview! Here's a link to the page with the recording: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510036/kera-s-think
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My largest find yet! I am quite certain because of its size it is mammoth but I'm curious to see if there is enough bone to make a better ID.
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