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Hi everyone! I acquired this on my recent trip to Tucson (first time at that show, hoping to make it a regular trip!). The seller didn't remember much about it having apparently acquired it himself a really long time ago from someone else who had gotten it decades earlier, with any information including proximity lost along the way. After showing it off at a recent fossil club meeting, several people suggested it could be a Platybelodon from the Miocene of China. It makes sense after doing some research but I'm hoping to get a second opinion in case there's something else it could be. It measures just over 15 cm across. Any insight is appreciated as always!
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Cold and breezy days, couple of rather unproductive trips, cow shark teeth wise. Need to try a new spot. Did find one, while comparing it with others, noted some have serrations on first tooth, others don't just like bottom laterals. Unfortunately not sure which one is the new one. Bonito nose, two colorful sand tiger, and two tiny tiger shark (?) teeth (scanned both sides) among the bunch.
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My son is a new fossil hunter (age:13) and we found this digging in a creek in SC. Please help us ID…thanks!!!
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Hello, Can anyone identify what this claw is from? It's said to be from a North Florida river and perhaps Miocene in age. I'm guessing it's bird at least.
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Hello dear fellow forum members, this is a fossil that I got as a gift when I was eight years old, as a fossil sponge. In the years after, I began to doubt if sponges fossilize and called it a coral, but maybe it really is a sponge after all? I think it is from the region around Porto Christo on the east coast, but cannot be sure about that. The east coast is mainly Miocene on the surface as far as maps tell me. There are jurassic and cretaceous fossils on the island also. Any ideas? Thanks, J
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Really stumped with this one, but it has a pretty distinctive shape, so I'm hoping someone with more experience can pretty easily tell what it is. Found it in southeast Texas. --Brandy
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Hello all. First of many IDs I will be requesting of the fossils I have found in the Verdigris Creek of Northeastern Nebraska. This creek runs through the Valentine Formation which is roughly dated to 15 million years old, but is also known to cut through Pleistocene exposures. This bone I found has almost certainly been gnawed on- it matched up to the size of one of the larger stem hipparions found around here, but I am still unsure whether it could possibly be camelid or anything else. Let me know your thoughts!! Thank you.
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I checked the river yesterday for a short time and came across a lot of chunkosaurus, but I'm pretty sure this piece could be a small hoof core. If so, I'm not sure which species it may be. I felt like it was too rounded for deer but too small for equus. There is mostly Pleistocene in this gravel bed, but Miocene/Pliocene is possible due to older formation outcroppings up river. To me, this looks similar to a small hoof core that @garyc found and posted in an older thread that was ID'd as a possible miocene horse. But I'm always learning. Thanks for everyone's patience with all my posts. I've learned so much the past year from the forum. --Brandy
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Hey Gang, I acquired this fragment as I was extremely intrigued with the pattern as it was described as Glyptodont. I've been still playing around with turtle fragments oh way too much lately and my brain is saying this is not Glyptodont and wants to say the textures and groove pattern and polygonal nature are perhaps an ossicle or maybe ossicles from something like Psephophorus polygonus. Are the surface grooves sulci? Its not completely flat on the bottom has a general irregular arch to it and varies in thickness from 1 to 1.8 cms.. Does anyone have any similar pieces and/or agree or disagree? I have been going thru pubs and photos and I'm not convinced that I know what I'm talking about...wont be the first or last time! I havent run it past the UF folks yet but intend to do so... Thanks! Regards, Chris
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Don’t know where it was found but it is about 4 1/2 in long, and it has prongs so it is definitely not a megalodon
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Although I haven't been beach hunting much this winter (fishing was great until a few weeks ago), I rooted around for my shrimp coprolite burrows. Lately I have been finding less of the cylindrical 1-3" long burrows and more broken pieces. @Carl @GeschWhat are the experts on these things, and lately I've found more of them on the beachs than shark teeth (Covid-19 opened the interest in beach combing so more competition for teeth.) Difficult to get much resolution, even enhancing the contrast, but this is a scan of most of my collection:
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Found some teeth lately. Shown are a cow shark tooth (of course missing the root!), some type of small jaw with teeth(?) and what I'm most interested in, a root with two tiny silver white barbs. Maybe there was more to it at one time but this is all I ended up with. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Hey all, If anyone has any Oligocene Galeorhinids may you please post a picture? Also is there any record of them in the calvert formation of md? I know that’s Miocene but just a question. Thanks, FA
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Tried a different beach on the Rapp. Not many shell fragments, lots of gravel and small rusted metal pieces. Found three tiger shark teeth, but no others (odd, don't usually find those). Looking for an ID on the 3" bone in the photos below. When in doubt I guess turtle, but my nephew who was really into fossil hunting 30 years ago, guesses dolphin neck or tail?
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I picked up this Parotodus tooth recently on our favorite auction site. The seller couldn't give me much information except to say that it's from South Carolina. I was just wondering if someone might be able to tell me more exactly where it might have originated? I also wanted to ask if this could be a P. benedeni and if it might be from the Eocene, Oligocene or Miocene?
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Still too hot and buggy for hunting the creek in the woods, so headed over to a local beach where I have been finding only 5 or so weathered teeth per trip, but usually find pieces of fossil whale bone, and lots of non-fossil stuff (lots of what was once metal, once glass, brick and pottery shards, modern shells, and some old but not conversant in shells, and flotsam. 30 years ago teeth were more common, guess they are more picked over nowadays? At least hunting is pleasant, even when muggy and hot there is usually a nice breeze off the River. The water was very cloudy despite finally dry days, will try the beach again in the water once it clears. Usually don't bother to post the beach stuff, but today found a nice cowshark tooth in good shape with an intact root. Don't remember ever finding one there before?
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Another partial petrosal? Whale? and a possible cervical? vert?
Plantguy posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey Gang, Here are a couple more unknown Sarasota County finds I'm looking for some help on. Typical non-insitu items from Florida. Miocene to Plio-Pleistocene in age. 1) First unknown was split in two and separated by a foot or so but both caught my eye as being some type of petrosal and a quick rinse showed they fit together and were part of a larger specimen. ...its still pretty big (11cm at its widest point) so maybe a whale of some sort? Hoping there is enough there to say for sure. Not sure the photos really show it well. 2) Second one is a vert that has its process busted off but everything else is pretty much intact. 7.5cm wide by 5.5cm tall without the spine. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Chris.thumb.jpg.8b973386da648a08fc1f4ab32465db5c.jpg)
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Found this one up towards popes creek on the Potomac river on the Maryland side. I've found a lot of bones but never one looking quite like this. I'm guessing whale or porpoise? I normally just find vertabrae or bone fragments. Although it looks a lot like a vertebrae. If anyone knows what this bone is I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Conor
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