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Spinosaurus toe bone real ?
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Hello, i have this toe bone labeled as spinosaurus in my collection. But it seems kinda suspicious to me. Theres definitly real bone that matches the form, but some areas look like plaster or still covered whith a layer of matrix. Is it real and bad preserverd, 50/50, or a complete fake ? And is it even Spinosaurus ? Because Spinosaurus toe bones are very flat compared to this one.- 3 replies
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I am fortunate enough to have such a huge amount of Middle Devonian Givetian material that I thought it best to put the older Middle Devonian stage, the Eifelian, in its own thread. There are some spectacular fossils here as well though! I thought a good place to start would be in the Formosa Reef, which I believe is quite early Eifelian. This tabulate coral and stromatoporoid reef continues similar complexes found from the Middle Silurian, see my: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/84678-adams-silurian/page/3/ thread from page three onwards for details. All these Formosa Reef specimens come from a delightful gift from my good friend @Monica who is a tad busy with life at the moment but is fine and still thinking of the forum. This outcrop can be found on Route 12 near Formosa/Amherstburg, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. This beautiful-looking specimen came to me with only a third of it revealed but I managed to get it this far after nine days of painful pin prepping. Monica found another one and posted it for ID here: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/105528-weird-circular-imprints-formosa-reef-lower-devonian/#comment-1172285 The specimen was identified by another Canny Canadian @Kane to be the little stromatoporoid sponge Syringostroma cylindricum. Hardly a reef-builder, but gorgeous nonetheless. It does have a little thickness to it, but not much. Beautiful! Pretty thin, actually. I love this Monica, thank you!
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A nice Dictyonema flabelliforme dendroid graptolite from Oslo Fields in Norway. It's Tremadoc, Lower Ordovician in age and is thus maybe around 480 mya. Another angle :
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hi I recently wanted to find a Tylosaurid tooth from Morocco, but I'm confused about the tooth morphology of this ID. Because I found that some teeth described as Tylosaurid had very distinct protruding prisms (likes figure 3 and 4) on their crown surfaces, while some teeth were indeed relatively smooth (picture 1 and 2). Which one is correct?
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Hello, i am interested im buying this mosasaur tooth. It has an interesting enamel structure which i only know from Mosasaurus stelladens. Sadly this are the only pictures of it. Is it maybe one ? Or just a positional tooth ?
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Hello, i saw this ,, Pterosaur bone" for sale today. But its obviously not a Pterosaur bone, its definitly a jaw. But from what ? Crocodile again ? Or even Spinosaurus ? I dont know. Maybe you guys know.
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How rare are real plesiosaurus jaws on the market ?
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Hello, I wanted to ask how rare are Plesiosaurus jaws on the market? I've seen hundreds of real, fake, and composite Mosasaurus jaws from Morocco, but now I've seen a nice, big and real Plesiosaurus jaw with two teeth and no evidence of plaster. How rare is it to find a good one on the market? Thanks !- 9 replies
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Has anyone taken a short fossil hunting trip in Morocco - will be there with a few extra days. There are a number of companies that can be found online - but was wondering if anyone here could vet a particular group.
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Hi! I wanna know about species of onnia.. I think it is Onnia seunesi or Onnia superba, but i don't know exactly. What is this??
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I got these tiny teeth in some bulk Moroccan stuff, I assumed carchihinid but I saw another dealer has similar larger stuff as Physogaleus secundus. My largest tooth is about 3-5mm Any advice or rescources from the wise heads here is appreciated in advance
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I have (finally) got around to going through my Moroccan phosphate shark teeth. I've attempted to identify them but I am still not particularly confident at identifying fossils so I thought I'd run it by the experts first. All the teeth are (supposed to be) from the Eocene, save 4 which is (supposed to be) from the Cretaceous. I attempted to label the images with my proposed identifications but there wasn't enough space for all of them so I'll list them all here: 1. Ginglymostomatid (Nebrius?) 2-3. Hemipristis? 4. Unsure 5. Pristid/Sawfish (Pristis?) 6. Otodontid (Cretalamna?) 7-10. Odontaspidid The lighting is also quite poor on these images as the enamel on the teeth is very reflective and they show up as amorphous white blobs if it's too bright as my phone camera is by no means the best. Thanks in advance for any proposed ID's Othniel
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I'm a mineral collector rather than a fossil collector, but this gastropod replaced by chalcedony has one foot in each camp. It was labeled (by a mineral dealer) "Turritela fossil snail" with a locality given only as Morocco. It'd like to come a little closer taxonomically if I can. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Edit: Forgot to include its dimensions: 24 mm tall x 15 mm diameter
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Hi! This is a 19MM rooted theropod tooth from the KemKem group. Sold as an Abelisaurus. But would it be possible to be a Baby rooted Carcharodontosaurus tooth? Not sure.
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Any Shenanigans on these Starfish?
jikohr posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi everyone! I recently acquired these two at a fossil show at a pretty good price. Thing is, I'm not super familiar with starfish and brittle stars. They're Moroccan so I figured there might be some funny business because, Morocco. I suspect three of the arm ends (in the upper left pic they are the upper right and left and lower right arms) on the starfish and the very tips of the brittle star arms, but if anyone sees anywhere else that might be fake or restored or if those areas look okay it be great if they can point it out. Any insight is appreciated as always!- 6 replies
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Hello, i saw this unidentified reptile jaw from morocco for sale today. Does anyone know to what it once belonged ? The tooth socket is oval and the jaw seems to have had a little lip which now had erodet away. So Spinosaurus maybe ?
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Below are three ray tooth plates, all of which are supposed to be from the Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It may well be the case that ray tooth plates can't be identified to a genus or species level, but I thought it was worth an attempt. Thanks in advance for any proposed ID's Othniel
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Please help me to classify species of asaphida(maybe Nileidae?) trilobites plate
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Hi! I wanna classify about this trilobites plate. It from morocco. I think It is maybe Nileidae? please help me to classify this trilobites genus and species! Size of trilobites is 3.5~6cm. -
Below is a reptile tooth, from the Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco, that I have been struggling to identify. I suspect it to be a dyrosaurid of some description, but I'm not particularly confident in that statement. The tooth has no serrations, but it does have a ridge on one side, which I attempted to capture in the final image. Thanks in advance for any proposed ID's Othniel
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Hi mosasaurs lovers, I looked around on different american fossils web sites , and I found, is nowhere a description or list about different species of Mosasaurs from Morocco . So I'll try humbly to fix it . Feel free to correct me if you see something wrong. The Moroccan phosphate history began in 1921 , Moroccan phosphate mines operate three layers of phosphates . Level 1 : Ypresian phosphate bed Level 2 : Thanetian phosphate bed Level 3 : Maestrichian phosphate bed Level 4 : Maestrichian grey phosphate at Sidi-Chenan quarry, ben guerir and youssoufia Level 5 : Maestrichian, grey phosphate,white bones: ben guerir and youssoufia level 6: Maestrichian, grey phosphate,white bones: ben guerir and youssoufia Most of the material on a market belong to oued zem and sidi -daoui zone; even though you will find them under Khouribga denomination, nothing comes from Khouribga... Of course, mosasaurs belong to the level 3, and 4 different species are studied by scientists of the French Museum of Natural History in Paris . Today the last record of different mosasaurs species is at list 18 and probably 20. (personal opinion ) Listed like below : †Halisaurus. arambourgi .(Bardet, Pereda Suberbiola, Iarochène, Bouya & Amaghzaz, 2005) †Halisaurus.sp not described yet †Halisaurus walkeri .(Lingham-Solier, 1998) ( i used this name temporarily, until one studie about this mosasaur show-up ) †Prognathodon sp Dollo, 1889 †thalassotitan atrox 2022 ex †Prognathodon anceps ex leiodon anceps slender form massive form perhaps sexual dimorphism ( personal opinion ) †Prognathodon solvayi Dollo, 1889 †Prognathodon hudae kaddumi 2009 †Prognathodon. currii (Christiansen & Bonde, 2002) †Eremiasaurus heterodontus , gen. et sp. nov sp ( AR. H. LeBlanc, M. W. Caldwell, and N. Bardet. 2012) †“Mosasaurus" baugei Arambourg 1954 ( Mosasaurus beaugei Arambourg, 1952 (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco Nathalie Bardet , Xabier Pereda Suberbiola , Mohamed Iarochene , Fatima Bouyahyaoui , Baadi Bouya , Mbarek Amaghzaz . 2004 ) †Mosasaurus hoffmanni Mantell, 1829 †hainosaurus boubker, 2022 slender form long premaxillary like tylosaurus proriger massive form short premaxillary like hainosaurus personal constatation † Stelladens mysteriosus (Nicholas R. Longrich , Nour-Eddine Jalil , Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola and Nathalie Bardet 2023) † Gavialimimus almaghribensis caldwell et al ,2020 ex: Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourg 1954 †Globidens. phosphaticus (Bardet, Pereda Suberbiola, Iarochène, Amalik & Bouya, 2005) †Carinodens belgicus ( N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Iarochène, M. Amalik, and B. Bouya. 2005) †Carinodens minalmamar. (A.S. Schulp, N. Bardet& B. Bouya. 2009) †Harranasaurus khuludae. (kaddumi.2009) †Globidens simplex (LeBlanc, Aaron. (2019) †Xenodens calminechari (Longrich, N.R.; Bardet, N.; Schulp, A. S.; Jalil, N (2021))
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An odd new genus and species of Maastrichtian mosasaur: Khinjaria acuta
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Yesterday, Longrich et. al published a new genus from late maastrichtian of morocco. Texas's very own Mike Polcyn is second author on the paper. The paper establishes tribe Selmasaurini to describe the clade consisting of Selmasaurus, Gavialimimus, Goronyosaurus, and now Khinjaria. As you can see - it's an odd mosasaur. It's thought that Plioplatecarpine diversity receded as the Cretaceous ended, so alone on the basis of it's age, Khinjaria is unusual. But, it's also very large for a plioplatecarpine, at 8m (26 feet), and has unusual skull morphology: Short snout, big teeth, and tiny eyes. I'm having trouble getting the paper to open, so I'll just link the wikipedia instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinjaria -
Hi I got this Ceratarges recently. I think it is better match with Ceratarges aries than Ceratarges koumalii. (I got the information from "Van Viersen, Allart & Prescher, Harald. (2011). New species of the lichid trilobite Ceratarges from the Middle Devonian in Morocco. Geologica Belgica. 14. 193-202." ) what do you think about? Seller told me that it from Hamar Laghdad, Alnif.
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Hi! I wanna Know about this trilobite's species. I think it's one of the following species. Cornuproetus cornutus Cornuproetus oudrissensis Diademaproetus issoumourensis Diademaproetus mohamedi what is this?
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Some of the nicer fossils from Morocco that I own. Let's start! - Set of nice spinosaurus teeth. Found in the same tunnel and layer. Only some meters away from eachother. 11 and 10.8 centimeter KemKem group, Morocco - Hainosaurus Boubker jaw pieces (dentary + snout) associated from an adult specimen. Really rare. Sidi Chennane, Oued Zem Morocco - Huge 10.6 centimeter carcharodontosaur crown with neat orane/brown like colors. KemKem group, Morocco - Set of 35 associated Otodus Obliquus teeth. Biggest one measures 8CM. Took a while to find one. El Khourigba, Morocco
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Hi. I was wondering if anyone knows about the laws regarding purchase of dinosaur fossils from Morocco, Niger or other African locations. It seems that they could be legally prohibited but these are some of the most common locations I see fossils for sale from. Also many places selling them are large legit companies that say they were legally collected. I have read that it sounds like Morocco does have ability to export but only with certain registered dealers but I’m not sure. I was wondering this because I would like to add fossils from some of these dinosaurs to my collection but I don’t want to do anything sketchy. Thanks in advance for any info on this!