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  1. Shellseeker

    Sawfish Vert ?

    Out hunting today. Interesting location. Mostly marine, but did pick up some Equus teeth at the end. I have a couple of Sawfish verts. Is this another ?
  2. Ludwigia

    A Field Trip

    In the last issue of our German magazine "Fossilien" there was an interesting article about a site right in the middle of my stomping grounds of which I was not aware. My area is practically all Jurassic, but this site is in a basin which exposes a middle miocene maar lake, so the other day I figured I'd go have a look for some gastropods, plants and bivalves. Sorry, I forgot to take my camera again. The area is not all that big and I was able to walk over and around the fields on it within a few hours. There were a lot of loose stones to inspect, but unfortunately there were hardly any fossils to be found despite the fact that I did an awful lot of hammering. At least I came up with a couple of little freshwater bivalves and funnily enough, although this was not mentioned in the description, an ammonite on a late Jurassic limestone block. Pisidium sp. on the left. Can't identify the other one. Any ideas? Trimarginites sp. I still had a couple of hours to spare, so I decided to take a walk over one of my favorite fields near Geisingen and this time I had a bit more luck. Here they are all prepped. Garantiana sp. Prorsisphinctes pseudomartinsi
  3. Hello, at Tuesday, 10/01/2019, I made my first visit to the area around St. Josef, Western Styria, Austria ("Florianer Schichten", Langhian-Miocene) since about 11 months. I checked out 6 sites in 5 hours, three of them were made public by me 2-3 years ago: Fuggaberg-3-a Fuggaberg-3-b (This one was also published in a local journal 2 years ago.) Hoellerkogel-4 Bramberg-1 All sites had easy surface pickings of small fossils from debris. Outcropping sediment with fossils is exposed in 5 of them, in one you have to dig a little bit (Fuggaberg-3), but its still easy going. I guess I have collected and seen about 40 mollusc species within these 5 hours. So, the situation around St. Josef is still very good (if you like miocene molluscs and small fossils, though ). I am starting with: Fuggaberg-3 Two fossil-rich outcrops are located in a very small creek, about 15 m apart (W and E, 1st row, left). At E, only the fossil-poor overlying sediments are exposed at the moment (1st row, right, the red object is about 12x6 cm large), but digging in the debris below (2nd row, right) yielded some fossil-rich matrix specimens. You can see the yield of this 10-minute dig in the pic of the 3rd row, right. Of special interest are the two small fossils lying on oyster shells (coral and muricid). The debris 1-3 meters below the outcrop contains many loose fossils, eg. Granulolabium bicinctum (2nd row, left) or Terebralia bidendata (3rd row, left). Nearly the same situation at W, only overlying sediment is exposed (4th row, left). In the debris below, below the red object, many small fossils are lying around (4rd row, right). You can see Granulolabium bicinctum, Terebralia bidendata, Turritella partschi, Sphaeronassa shoenni, Acanthocardia paucicostata and a bi-valve Anadara diluvii; only the last one is not lying at its original position but was put there for photo purposes . Continued...
  4. Fingerprints of ancient forests offer rare look at Florida 16 million years ago by Halle Marchese Florida Museum, September 18, 2019 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-forest-fingerprints/ Alum Bluff fossils show life 15 million years ago Danielle Ivanov, gainesville.com, Sep 29, 2019 https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190929/alum-bluff-fossils-show-life-15-million-years-ago The paper is: Lott, T.A., Manchester, S.R. and Corbett, S.L., 2019. The Miocene flora of Alum Bluff, Liberty County, Florida. Acta Palaeobotanica, 59(1), pp.75-129. Open access https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/acpa/59/1/article-p75.xml Yours, Paul H.
  5. Shellseeker

    Sm bone

    It feels good to get back to river hunting, slightly early this year. My hunting friend found this bone and asked if I could get an ID. There seems to be some features that possibly identify the "type" of bone (humerus, scapel, etc) versus which animal. It is 3.2 length x 1.1 height (inches). Found in the Pleistocene - miocene mix that is the Peace River. However, most of the associated fossils were shark, fish or marine mammal (porpoise earbone & verts), so marine is a possibility. ALL comments & suggestions are greatly appreciated. Jack
  6. fossil_sea_urchin

    French Meg tooth

    Hi, I just brought this shark tooth. It was labelled as shown in the first picture, can anyone see any restoration or any other problems.
  7. Shellseeker

    Small Claw

    Out Hunting today with friends, I found a rarity for me.. a small claw!!!! I looked for comparison photos but the photos are not detailed enough... SO, what animal produced this claw. 24 mm in length
  8. Darktooth

    Maryland trip 9-28-2019

    This weekend family had to drive to Maryland for my son Dylan's Marching Band competition in Annapolis. We drove down Friday evening after I got out of work. The crazies were out in full force during the drive down, but we managed to arrive safely despite the reckless driving that we witnessed. Dylan's school did not perform till 6:30 PM Saturday evening, so the plan was to do a hunt at Brownies for a few hours then meet my parents for lunch, then go to the Naval stadium and watch the other schools perform until my son school performed. After a rather good breakfast at the hotel we headed to Brownies. We were staying in Bowie, so we were only about 35 minutes away. When we arrived around 8:30 there were about 8 cars in the lot. We got our gear and headed out. Originally the forecast was calling for Full sun and a high of 85. So I was expecting to roast while out there. Instead it was overcast with a nice breeze, so we stayed cool the whole time we were there. There was a fair amount of people on the beach already, slowly working their way around to the cliffs. Low tide was set for around 10. The level was already decent when we got there. I noticed alot of trees were down since I had been there last which was a few years ago. Because I had my family with me, I wasnt sure how far down we would go. Once we got a little ways around the corner we began some sifting. I won't bore you with all of the petty details. But I will say that the finds were mostly small and broken. That being said, I think we all had a pretty good time. The weather was nice, moving around the debris was not too bad, and the surrounding was peaceful. My wife made the best find of the day with a decent, cetacean tooth. I was a bit jealous. She found it by digging deeper into a spot that I had already dug. It is different than the other cetacean teeth that I have found myself or have seen come from there. Devin found a few small teeth and some shells. He also grabbed a crab claw, horseshoe crab carapace and fish vert, all which are modern but he didnt care. There where alot of dead horseshoe crabs for some reason. I myself found small teeth, bone fragments, and stingray plates. We stayed till around noon then had to get going so we could meet my parents for lunch. On the way back I could not believe the amount of people back at the main beach there looked to be 100, all of which were searching with sifters! Any ways we ended up going to Fat Boys Crab Shack for lunch. The food was surprisingly good considering the outside of the building was not much to look at. Then we headed over to the Navy Stadium and watched bands perform. After my Son's school performed we had to head home. We didnt get back till 2am. Needless to say I am exhausted today. We found out later, that his school won the competition for their section and for overall. So we are pround! Here are my finds.
  9. Lit.: Nam, K.-S., J.-Y. Ko, and M. V. Nazarkin. 2019. A new lightfish, †Vinciguerria orientalis, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Stomiiformes, Phosichthyidae), from the middle Miocene of South Korea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1625911.
  10. Ludwigia

    Physogaleus contortus (Gibbes 1849)

    From the album: Pisces

    20mm. Burdigalian OMM-Formation Miocene Found at Billafingen, B-W.
  11. From the album: Pisces

    22cm. Lateral. Burdigalian OMM-Formation Miocene Found at Billafingen, B-W.
  12. It was only a couple of days ago that I gleefully exhibited my very first find of a Notorhynchus primigenius symphyseal and now, believe it or not, on my very next trip today I just found not only my very first N. primigenius lateral, but also my very first Physogaleus contortus tooth, or at least I'm pretty well sure that that's what it is. I've made some shots of that one from various angles in the hopes that someone here can either confirm it for me or tell me otherwise. Lots of very firsts for me at this Miocene site only a bike ride away from my home! 22mm. 20mm.
  13. I_gotta_rock

    Strange Preservation

    Here's a strange one. I found plentiful piles of what I thought were casts and internal molds in the iron-rich St. Mary's clay of Virginia last year. Loose clam fossils riddled blocks of talus. I was able to wiggle some out of their ancient resting places without s much as scratching the matrix. Generally that's because the shell disintegrated, leaving a void between the mold and the cast. If you look closely, however, what looks here like an internal mold isn't. The sculpture on the surface is clearly the outside of the shell. If it were the inside, you would see round protrusions where the ligament attached to a depression in the shell, not concentric ridges. Shown here is the most distinct of my specimens, but not the only one. Any thoughts? Mercenaria campechiensis, Miocene, VIrginia
  14. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for how to keep mudstone from cracking and delaminating as it dries out? I recently went to Clarkia in Idaho and came back with a few fossils, including a flower, wrapping them in newspaper and putting them in the fridge as was suggested. They are beginning to crack and delaminate. I was hoping someone could help me think of a way to keep them solid before the leaves are broken. Thank you.
  15. gristlejaw

    Vertebrate tooth or bone?

    Posting for a colleague. Unidentified fossil found in small spoil pile in a public park after a recent rain. Found in Wimauma (southeast of Tampa), Hillsborough County, FL, USA. Feels dense (no marrow holes observed. Doesn't appear curved enough to be a claw. Any help with an ID is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
  16. From the album: Pisces

    1.5cm long. I'm going with this species since it appears to be the only one in the literature on the German Molasse Formation. My very first self-found symphyseal! Yay!! Burdigalian Miocene Found at Billafingen, B.-W.
  17. Ludwigia

    Taxodium dubium (Sternberg) Heer1855

    From the album: Plantae

    4.5cm. Swamp Cypress needles. Miocene Northern Bohemian coal basin From Doly Bilina, Czech Republic.
  18. Shellseeker

    Pre_Equus Incisor

    I was not quite sure what I should have put this discussion under, but Fossil ID seems related. My basic goal is to get photos of this fossil up on the Internet so that it might facilitate other identifications. I have not been posting very much because I have not been out hunting very much. My favorite hunting ground, Peace River Florida, has been far too deep and fast for many months to allow hunting. I was just making an intelligent decision not to drown. I have a single location that very infrequently gets low enough to allow access, and because of other fauna found, I recognize as a Miocene site. A couple of weeks back, I had such and opportunity and did not find very much, but this incisor stood out. It was a stretch to believe this to be a horse incisor. However, it is small enough to be the incisor of a pre Equus horse, and only small terrestrial mammal I had found at this location were some cormohipparion molar. Realizing that, EVEN on TFF, not many would have found or owned an incisor from a Miocene horse, I sent these photos to Richard Hulbert, director/curator of the Vertebrate Research Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville. His response below: I looked up "deciduous" to make sure I knew the meaning. If anyone has a deciduous horse tooth, please post. I would love to see another. In the meantime, I am pleased to find such a rare tooth...
  19. Snaggletooth19

    Calvert Cliffs Shark Tooth

    Hi all, I collected this tooth from Matoaka Beach in the Calvert Cliffs area of Maryland. It's clearly not a meg tooth but it's pretty large compared to most of what you find. There appear to be no serrations. I was thinking Carcharodon/Cosmopolitodus hastalis, the Narrow/Giant White Shark, but I'm just not sure.
  20. From the album: Pisces

    3cm. slant height. Assumed width 2cm. Also known as Carcharodon hastalis. Or Isurus hastalis. I wish these guys would finally settle on the terminology. OMM Formation Burdigalian Miocene Site: Billafingen, B.-W., Germany
  21. Coryander

    unknown

    Hi, Found this rock containing bivalves in Algarve (Portugal), somewhere between de beaches of 'Praia de Cacela Velha' and 'Praia de Manta Rota'. I broke that rock, and inside is this. Can you please identify it? Thank you.
  22. New fossil hunter here! I recently moved to Florida for graduate school and was quickly introduced to fossil hunting. I've been addicted ever since. Here are some images of the first fossils I've found here in North Florida. Mako for sure, but can anyone confirm what kind of bone I have? I'm thinking it *could* be mastodon rib, but that's just an amateur's guess. Anyways, I'm excited to continue showing my finds! Baby meg pictures to come...
  23. Rowboater

    Rapp creek hunting

    Made two trips to the creek while worrying about Dorian; one trip to the beach, but not much there (picked clean by Labor Day visitors? Only one olive shell and a few bleached, worn small teeth.) I pooled the stuff collected in trips from the same general area in the creek. One of the trips I used a slightly coarser screen, followed by a window screen in response to @MarcoSr excellent recent post "What are you missing????". Since my teeth are micro-sized to begin with, I was sure that there would be lots of new stuff to sort through. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in my initial characterization of the "fines". I cannot see well looking about in the creek, but am very near-sighted and think I can see most of what is there at home (but will retry with a different substrate spot; the spot I was digging was fine gravel and shell bits). I do see more smaller drum teeth. Some bone bits and a few angel shark teeth (may have damaged the roots on them as well with the double screening, always wondered if screening was why my cowshark teeth were often rootless?) No nurse shark or cookie-cutter shark teeth yet, but still intrigued. The two trips were mostly sand tiger teeth, mostly rootless or small root spikes. Some were glossy and nice but I'm guessing the gravel takes its toll. A couple of verts, a small piece of a bonito nose(?), a bunch of angel shark teeth (a few with broken triangular bases; I stood them up for the scan). A bunch of drum teeth (and small round rocks, not shown). One ugly worn cowshark tooth. One for sure small mako, and a few that I cannot see any serrations on (micro mako teeth?) More serrated triangular teeth than usual for me, mostly gray sharks, but one worn-on-the-tip hemipristis. Two tooth pieces, one relatively flat with what looks like hemi-serated edge of enamel, and one heavier, triangular edge with finer serrations that I think, hopefully, is a smallish megalodon. If so, this is the first meg that I have seen from the creek since a kid found a big one thirty years ago there (teeth were much more plentiful, but meg teeth were always rare there).
  24. Shellseeker

    Marine Mammal Vert

    Some good friends offered to take me hunting for a couple of hours today.. thank the Lord for good friends. It was only 2 hours but I found some unusual items... including a number of high quality dolphin small verts. Then this one showed up... unusual, meaning I have never seen one like it previously. It's a vertebrae and I thought this would be trivial-- just search the net for "fossil dolphin Axis Atlas vertebrae". No luck... So what is it ? Tail vert.? what?
  25. bespokemodern

    Strange Aurora Skull Fragment?

    Found in a bag of matrix purchased from the Aurora Fossil Museum. I'm not sure what I'm looking at-- perhaps a skull fragment? Hard to photograph, but I tried my best! Any help would be appreciated!
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