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Hey all, can you help me ID some finds? Recently pulled some interesting bones from Big Brook. Pickings were a bit slim this round with typical wear of the location. See below. Jaw of some kind. Probably a fish like pachyrhizodus, but could it be a small mosasaur fragment? Next is a random chunk of bone. Thinking cretaceous as well, maybe reptile. This last one was a real headscratcher. Initially leaned toward pleistocene but now thinking cretaceous. Could it be a croc bone? Also bonus including the most majestic/biggest coprolite I ever found, and wow what a great specimen lemme tell you folks. Just my luck 🤣🤣🤣
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Help with Bone ID and Turtle Shell, nice shark teeth photos
hokietech96 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi. Miss everyone. Hope all well. It’s been way too long. Went out twice last month in northern NJ. Felt so good to be out in the creeks in nature and get away from all the life snarge. Two finds I need help with and some nice teeth I found. Hope everyone is well. Miss everyone!
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Hello friends! I need some help on something I found in Monmouth County, NJ (USA). It's from Big Brook, a Cretaceous deposit, but in my opinion; is either modern or Pleistocene (open for correction). I'm thinking mammal but not sure. It also has a 'polished' look to it, so I'm thinking possible claw. It has a wood-grain texture, but I don't believe it to be fossil wood. As always, all help is greatly appreciated! -Frank H.
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Hi! I'm posting a bunch of finds which I keep in my 'unidentified/concretions' pile from Monmouth NJ. Can anyone help identify if these are concretions or something else? Will keep posting finds here if there's interest and if it proves helpful to others. See some ? finds below!
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Hi guys, I found this partial tooth in Big Brook in Monmouth. It's very worn but my best guess from looking at the squished in bottom shape seems to point to it coming from a dino theropod. Possibly dryptosaurus? Please let me know your thoughts.
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Found this chub tooth from NJ Miocene. Tooth is 1.25" on a straight vertical line from left lobe to tip (not along the diagonal). Took a lot of effort: 2.5 years to narrow down a location, and 6 hours of searching. Found it in the last half hr of the trip. Satisfying to have found, but a bigger tooth would have been nice for the effort required. That's just the luck of the hunt though. Hopefully there will be more to come. Thanks for viewing.
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I found this in big brook in Monmouth NJ some time ago. Was going back through my collection and found it again. I initially thought it was a partial enchodus jaw but I have a few of them and it looks nothing like it.. then I saw the end and thought it could be a rooted mosasaur. What do you all think?
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Hi. Hope everyone is well. I found this really cool fossil last week at Big Brook. Has some really great detail and seems not to be water worn. Never saw anything like it. I did research and my best UN-educated guess is an osteoderm? Maybe from a crocodile? Would love some feedback on what this is. Thank you much for taking a look! The measurement is in MM.
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Hi all, I ventured to NJ to visit Big Brook and Ramanessin Brook last weekend (Cretaceous, monmouth group). I found quite a lot of shark teeth I still have to sort through, but I could use help ID'ing some other fossil finds. Some comments on each 1. This looks a little like bone to me of some kind, but not sure. 2-5 look like plates or scutes. Not sure if turtle or croc. I realize 4 may be just a cool concretion, but I wanted to check. 6. This one is fascinating with a suture pattern of sorts that looks like it joins two pieces with the same finger like pattern as those prominences. 7. Looks like a small piece of something in matrix. 8. I think this might be a sawfish tooth but it would be my first one and I wanted to double check. 9. I think this is a large Enchodus tooth? It has only a single edge to it. 10. I think this is clearly a small ungulate tooth of some kind. Not clear if it's a fossil or an extant species. 11. Another something in matrix. You can see a bumpy/rough surface to the fossil in the second two photos. 12, 13. The tooth on the right I think is Enchodus, but I'm not sure about the one on the left. Thanks all!
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Hello everyone, I was looking for possible confirmation on this find. It's am exogyra from Monmouth County New Jersey. I am not am expert on pearls so if someone can take a look a look and let me know if they are pearls or not, it would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello everyone! I was hoping for opinions on this fossil I found in Monmouth County New Jersey. Doing a search, I saw that it was similar to some Hadrosaur jaw sections but is very thin. What does everyone think? -Frank
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Hello all, one of ny early 2022 trips has yielded these little beauties. With some help on the IDs a ghost shrimp claw (Mesostylus sp.) And partial Anomoeodus plate.
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Hi all. I wanted to share this chub tooth I found towards the end of 2021. From Monmouth, NJ, I think Kirkwood formation. One of my targeted species for the year and was able to find one in about 20 hrs worth of searching.
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Hello all! I was looking through my bone fragments from the Cretaceous of Monmouth County NJ and came across two that I figured deserved one more shot on identification.. By any chance, does anyone know of what these may have belonged to?
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Hey all here are some recent finds from Big Brook. #1. Croc fragment?
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Hello everyone! I went to my favorite stream the other day in Monmouth County and had a really good dig so I wanted to show my finds! I found a really pathological shark tooth and a Mosasaur tooth on what was going to be my last sift, but my best find of the day was my artifact - a 3,000 - 8,000 year old serrated spear head! As you would think, after finding it, I contacted every artifact expert I knew for an opinion. The most common consensus is that it's a Meadowood (roughly 3,000 years old) but there are other opinions that it could be Archaic, so that's why that age range is so big. Either way, something like this is extremely rare in New Jersey, and really made my summer!
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Monmouth County Cretaceous revisited - re-classification to Plioplatecarpine
frankh8147 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello everyone! You may have seen this tooth in my last trip report. When I posted this, I originally had it labeled as just Mosasaur (honestly, mostly because I know very well the 'can of worms' you are opening to try to get more specific on an isolated reptile tooth). Curiosity got the best of me and I ended up showing it to every contact (professional and local) that I have and at this point, I believe this tooth to be a Plioplatecarpine/Platycarpus (a deep-sea Mosasaur) which was the most common opinion. The characteristics that led me to this conclusions were the severely re-curved nature, striations at the base, two well-defined carinae positioned towards the back of the tooth, and overall, how slender the tooth is (as slender as some Plesiosaur teeth but with two defined cutting edges). Anyway, despite all the Mosasaur teeth I've found, I didn't know this type was here so I figured I'd share. I'll stand by the identification - until proven wrong
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This is something we’ve found before but weren’t sure if it was fossil or just an odd looking rock but having found another we’re pretty sure we’ve got something... but what ? This was found in a stream bed in Monmouth County NJ, not one of the popular spots (photographed in my home). I’d have to dig thru our finds to pull out the first we found but I believe it was a twin in size, shape, and texture. We’ve gone thru our books and the web hoping that by dumb luck to spot an image of one but no luck. Thinking this might be a cast fossil possibly. Can anyone say they’ve found one and know what it is? Thanks in advance ! Mike & Paula
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Hello everyone! I found this yesterday in a Cretaceous stream in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It measures 3/4th of an inch long. I was thinking Hadrosaur but I've never seen one this thin so I figured I would look for some other opinions. As always, all help is greatly appreciated! Frank
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Hello everyone, For years I've been showing around three problematic teeth which I found in the New Jersey Cretaceous and we all have finally come to a consensus. We now believe these to be Apateodus palatine teeth. These teeth are heavily fluted (like Xiphactinus) and have a deep, hollow base. The bases flares out towards the bottom and ha a wrinkly appearance. Mine measure from .6 - .8 inches long. They do resemble the more common Enchodus teeth besides the differences stated above. I was NOT aware of these being in New Jersey so I just figured i would let everyone know what we came up with. Thanks to Dr. Earl Manning, Carl Mehling, Wayne Callahan, Steve B, MAPS, and everyone else who helped me to finally identify these! @non-remanié @Carl @Jeffrey P @Trevor
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Hello! I found this unusually well preserved 2.25 inch long bone at a Monmouth County New Jersey Cretaceous stream yesterday and was hoping someone could identify it. It has faint lines running vertically on it (most visible on pictures 2 and 3) which I believe I have seen on some Plesiosaur specimens but I can't seem to find the threads on the forum. It's also pretty flat, which I think rules out Mosasaur but again, I'm unsure If anyone could help identify this, it would make my weekend Thanks! @Trevor @Carl @non-remanié
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Hello all! I have two weird ones I found in Monmouh County New Jersey (Cretaceous). The crustacean is interesting to me because I was initially thinking Hoploparia gabbi however, it is over twice as wide as any other specimen I have found (comparison pictures below). It was suggested that another lobster, Linuparus, could be an option but we really weren't sure. This measures 2.5 inches The other one measures .75 inches and has one cutting edge and an oval base. What is holding me back from saying Xiphactinus is the fact that it isn't fluted and only has one cutting edge. Let me know what you think! Frank
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Hi all, had these in the collection for a bit but need help with ID's. These come from Big Brook and guessing they are assorted fish bones and possible turtle bones.
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Hello all! I haven't done a trip report for a long time so I figured this would be a good time! I went to one for my favorite New Jersey Cretaceous streams on Friday and put in a few miles of walking. It was raining slightly but with hot it's been lately, that was actually appreciated! At the end of a mostly unproductive trip, I decided I was done and would turn around About a minute later, I saw something in the water and picked it up - it ended up being a nearly two-inch long, rooted Plesiosaur tooth!! I couldn't believe it; I've never found a Plesi tooth here this big or any with root so I've been excited all weekend. For the invertebrate fans, I also like the preservation on the bivalves too. Here are all of my 'keepers' for the trip. @Jeffrey P@Trevor@Carl
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Hi all here are some finds I cannot identify from Big Brook. Please let me know what you think! Any help is appreciated. First up I believe is some kind of pleistocene horse tooth fragment? But I am not sure. Thought it was a ratfish jaw frag at first from the other side, but it's like nothing I've seen. Below, this is what looks to be a fish tooth of some kind, but it seems to have some of the root attached. So no hole visible at the bottom. Slightly larger than a quarter in length!
