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Dipping my toes in 'bama's Cretaceous waters.
MeargleSchmeargl posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Armed with information courtesy of @FossilDAWG , I've headed to Montgomery, Alabama to get my first taste of Cretaceous fauna from 85-80 MYA (Santonian and Campanian stages). After booking a hotel in close proximity to the creek and (restlessly) sleeping the night away, We ate breakfast, got our boots on and eagerly drove to the site with the help of a GPS. When we arrived, the GPS signal was showing us miles off from where we actually were, so Google was shelved and Papa and I started the flurry of pictures. As per description, the entrance to the site itself was kind of jagged, made of huge concrete slabs left there from a time long forgotten. After we got down this man-made hill, I took a moment to take in the sight, the outcrop plainly in view: We slowly sloshed through the creek, being careful not to slip on rocks or step into deeper-than-you-think holes in the stream bed. Once we got to the outcrop on the far side, we got right to looking. Barely even 5 steps in, I instantly recognized the blade of a shark tooth that was sticking out of the sand. It has little root on it, though I can tell that it is probably a sand tiger. It is the only one I've found, so far. Venturing further in, we started finding Oysters. Lots of them. It wasn't long before we found what was apparently the main bed they came from: To sum it up; Bivalves. Bivalves everywhere. You almost can't walk there without stepping on pieces of them they're so abundant. With everything there, it didn't take very long to get a decent haul, with pieces of ammonites, two echinoids and a lone gastropod being added to the seemingly limitless supply of bivalves. I was quite tempted to get back in the creek and have another go at it, but Papa balked, citing the heat which was in the 90's, and since he was the driver he had all the decision-making power. I came away with 4 specific favourites, the gastropod, the 2 echies, and one particularly complete valve (the name of which eludes me, as I am by no means an expert in bivalves). The right-most echie's top side is covered in River crud, though as I found it practically in the water. Cleaning tips, anyone? Do keep posted, as I will make 3 return trips, when temps aren't in the 90's.
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I wanted to share some of my projects with all of you. A hobby and side business of mine is creating dinosaur sculptures. I do all different kinds of things aside from dinos too, but to keep it relevant, we’ll stick to the mesozoic Featured in my profile picture is my raptor created from scrap metal used to construct railings. I named him Bambi (ironically not a Bambiraptor). Probably more like Deinonychus, he’s a pretty big chicken, but you let me know what you think. As of now he’s my favorite creation, hence why he’s featured in my profile pic. Still trying to figure out the paint job. I wish he’d stop scaring all the birds and deer away...
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Hello everyone I have here a specimen and can’t figure out if it’s just a plain ol’rock but I think it might not be a rock at all. This specimen weighs almost 5lbs it’s original location was found in Carrizo Springs Texas at a drilling rig location. Some helpful info and opinions about what this specimen could be would really be great -Thanks y’all!
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Hello all, In juli I go to the south of France for 2-3 weeks. We go every year to a different place. Now I want to ask if there are good hunting spots over there that are free accessible? I would prefer to find some vertebra fossils but I know that might be hard. Inverts are also fine. Anyone here that can help with tips or locations? I never found fossils in the south before but I know they are there. We don't go to the West/South coast because there are too many tourists over there. Thanks in advance. Greetings
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Not sure if this is petrified wood or a concretion due to the dark center on one side. I could use some clarification and input.
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I've been told this could be something, fossil or inorganic. It was found in the same Mesozoic area as previous finds in the Big Sky, MT area. Just looking for some input pertaining to what it could be whether it's a rock or something more......
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From the album: james herrmann
In this right side view of the sculpture I would like to show the green marble base. I chose this mottled green marble as a continuation of the kelp forest theme. I envision this ammonite pulling its way along the waving fronts of a kelp forest as it forages for small crustaceans. Kelp forests are contrasts of warm, bright beams of light and deep shadow. The marble is mottled in various shades of green much like looking down onto the kelp forest's waving fronds.- 2 comments
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From the album: james herrmann
In this view I again wanted to show the cantilevered structure of the sculpture and the subtle color differences in the patination of the shell vs the body of the ammonite. -
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In this front left view I wanted to highlight the waving of the kelp. The challenge was to strongly support the heteromorph while still making the sculpture feel like there was movement and a lightness to the work. -
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This left side view of the sculpture shows the attachment of the ammonite to the kelp, actually there is a lot of bronze in the mass of tentacles. From the base to the top of the sculpture is approximately 40 inches. -
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I like the complex repeating nature of the spines in this view of the sculpture. I am supporting the mass of the bronze ammonite with the bronze kelp leaves welded into a trellis-like pattern to carry the weight down to the base. -
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Heteromorph is my most recent sculpture with a paleontological theme. This is the rear view of the sculpture showing the shell spines. -
The coin in the photos is a 50 cent piece. Found in Western Colorado. Really unsure of type. Piece is very dense, similar to river rock. The thickness of the bone at joint is 2 3/4".
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From the album: My Fossils
I found this tooth from Morocco I’m a shop in Portugal. While the root could be faked in someway. The actual tooth, is real. I did a post on this before but I took much clearer images for the ID for this later on. I decided to repost with these images. -
Although fossil finding was not part of our vacation itinerary, fossils found us. After our boat docked outside of the strip just outside the town of Montego Bay, there was a large shelf of limestone filled with coral fossils. I had just been snorkelling in the living coral reef at Secrets Bay, and it was fabulous to see corals in living colour with all those abundant tropical fish eddying about. The limestone here dates between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, and is largely dominated by coral. Some of the specimens in the rock have very nicely defined corallites. As I didn't think to bring a rock hammer on vacation, I did manage to find a loose rock to hack out a few small specimens. This first batch shows these corals in their raw, in situ context:
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Please help with ID of sponges, corals and bryozoans
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dear Guys, I collected some interesting specimens in Jurassic- Early Cenozoic erratics like sponges, bryozoans and hexacorals and also two primitive Ordovician sponges. The sponge pieces are 3-8 mm length (In yellowish limestone on sponge has very interesting skeleton growth outside). The size of coral in greenish gray limestone is 9 mm diameter, in the white limestone- 7 mm diameter. The bryozoans are from 7 mm to 1 cm length, they web shaped. Please help with ID of these fossils if you could. Best Regards Domas 1. Late Jurassic sponges in my opinion. 2. Early Cretaceous (?) sponges. 3. Late Cretaceous- Paleocene sponges I think.
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As a graphic design artist I sometimes like to create some paleo-art and pop-art mash-ups. Please feel free to comment.
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Hi, my name is Sérgio Jorge and I live in Goiania - Brazil. during a fishery I found in a pile of gravels which in my view is a vertebra( Cranial base?) and a fossilized seed. If anyone has an idea whatsoever, I would really be grateful! these are the coordinates of where I found the fossils! 18 ° 21'03.1 "S + 52 ° 01'36.4" W
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I have an ammonite(?) that I received circa 1990 from a missionary who said that it was "brought down from the mountains by monks" in Papua New Guinea. Apparently, there is relatively little known about the palaeontology of the area. There are similar ammonites showing up in native tribal art pendants (see article in "Deposits Magazine" HERE The article indicates that it is not known whether these ammonites that are showing up are recently imported or of local origin. I suppose mine could have been imported, but given the date of acquisition and what I was told, I am inclined to think it was collected in situ in Papua New Guinea, but I can't be certain. The geologic map I found did not distinguish between periods in the Mesozoic, so I don't know if it is Cretaceous or Jurassic, etc. I did find 2 papers (Both available as .pdf online): Tatsuro, M & S.K. Skwarko. 1991. Ammonites of the Cretaceous Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea. J. Australian Geology & Geophysics 12(3): 245-262 Tatsuro, M & S.K. Skwarko. 1993. Cretaceous ammonites from south-central Papua New Guinea. J. Australian Geology & Geophysics 14(4): 411 - 433. The closest resemblance of the taxa in those papers was Subthurmannia (Fauriella) boissieri. In doing my own searching, I thought Macrocephalites bifurcatus (middle Jurassic) looked like a good match and has been collected in Papua (see link to museum specimen HERE). The preservation of that specimen appears to match mine, too. Here are some pics of my specimen. Any help from the ammonite enthusiasts would be greatly appreciated! @Ludwigia
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Silicified specimen from Jurassic/Cretaceous/Paleogene marine sediments of Małopolska region, Poland. From secondary deposit, so precise age and locality unknown. Similar to a humerus, e.g. of a turtle. Or is just a sponge?
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My most recent and most exciting acquisition, a giant partial vert from a tyrannosaurus rex from the hell creek formation of Montana. Nearly went into cardiac arrest that I was able obtain such a large specimen from t rex, so I thought I would share. It really fills up the dinosaur collection and feels like it weighs a ton, I think the dimensions are somewhere around 6.5 inchs or so long and 10.5 inchs tall if I remember, would've been alot taller if the process was still intact and I like how the giant pores are visible cause of the damage. Super massive piece, I was worried about it collapsing my shelve but it fits fine so far.
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Hi all, I recently found this on a trip to the Jurassic Coast at Dorset and have been intrigued by this find, i'm not an expert on fossil identification and i would be grateful for all your potential ideas as to what this could be.
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Hi! I found some pieces of mesozoic bones. I know that it is just pieces, but may be it is possible to ID some of it. I found it near Ili river in Kazakhstan. It belongs to cretaceous period for sure. Tyrannosauridae, Ankylosauridae, Titanosauridae, Triceratops Marsh and some other types were found here earlier. I use sm. scale. One more
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From the album: WhodamanHD's Fossil collection.
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While visiting family, my cousin showed me a fossil he collected at the coast when he was a child, cracking rocks to see what he could find. They spent a lot of time on the Jurassic coast, but also went to places like Hunstanton, which have Cretaceous layers. I'm really not sure what this is, but it's something in a flint nodule. Could it be a bryozoan?
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