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From the album: Missouri Conulariids
A lot of my conulariid finds tend to be broken at or near the tip of the apex, even before the attachment which is typical of other conulariid specimens. I am not sure if it is a plane of weakness, a common feature when the animal dies, or simple predation, but when I collected this specimen from the Paola limestone the lower half was missing from the rest of the slab, despite being an almost clean fracture.-
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Very small Cladodont (Falcatidae?) Tooth in Phosphatic Nodule ( Missouri )
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Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member) Hello once again! Today I have a fossil tooth that I happened to have seen while going through my old phosphatic nodules from Muncie Creek and was wondering if anyone could identify it further than a Cladodont tooth. I have googled images of Cladodont teeth and believe it to possible be a tooth belonging to Falcatidae, but what do you think? It resembles a few of these teeth on the chart below in size and form, hence why i'm making the guess of it being a Falcatid even though my tooth has very slight differences in lengths of each cusplet. I will note that my specimen seems to have 6 cusps total, while the specimens below that it most resembles has 5. Here is the size in mm. The last thing I wanted to note is that it might be next to possible coprolitic material, although it's hard to tell as coprolites in these nodules looks very similar to just a phosphate center, although if you find inclusions its almost guaranteed. Example of an obvious coprolite and a not so obvious coprolite from these nodules.- 7 replies
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Location is in Missouri The area is dated to the Pennsylvanian Formation: Muncie Creek Shale Found this very small tooth like structure and was wondering if anyone could confirm if it is a tooth or not. Normally I can identify teeth if they are large enough, but this specimen is very small. I have found teeth before in these concretions but much larger such as a possible Symmorium or Glikmanius along with a tooth from a member of Eugeneodontida. Here are some images I edited that might make some details more clearer:
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
I believe the dark brown may indeed be skin while the blue part is cartilage.-
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Nodule #7: Possible Fish body part with what could be skin impressions
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
One of my larger concretions, I find this one very interesting and plan to dig out the rest of it once I learn how to prep fossils from concretions! -
From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
This concretion came out in multiple parts and I was able to salvage the tip. I will restore this specimen and prep it in the future!-
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
The second half of the cartilage pterygiophores When breaking the concretion most of the internal structure was unfortunately damaged -
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
My best guess is fish material or crustacean material-
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
I assume this is some sort of bone either from a fish or some sort of other specimen. It could be a spine of some sort but I am extremely doubtful -
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One of a few teeth I have from Eugeneodontida-
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
Thanks goes to Connorp for the ID!- 2 comments
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
Close up picture, identifications are welcomed!-
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
Currently being donated and Identified. Will update on this specimen if this is a new species and its identification.-
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Is there enough left of this fish tooth to identify it? ( Missouri )
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Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member or Raytown limestone member) Hello! I happened to take a trip to my usual fossil hunting spots in search of another tooth that was stuck in a rock I planned to dig out but found this delicate one before it and took it home. Sadly this was missing most of its pieces but I thought it could be identified. I couldn't really think of anything it most resembles as it does not look like my Campodus teeth or Petalodus teeth. That's mostly why I posted it here but it very well could have been from them as they are the most common of the teeth I find there. Sorry in advance I got a new phone recently and it does not take as high quality pictures as my old one. Rotated: rotated again Measurements:- 4 replies
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Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member) Hello! I have happened to come across a strange structure while attempting to retrieve a fossil from a limestone rock. While breaking the stone around this nodule the force was enough to separate 2/3rds of the fossil leaving the other section still in a massive slab of limestone that will need more time to dig out Nevertheless here is the structure in question Rotated: 1 of the 2 pieces I was able to retrieve and contains the round "ball structures": I will note I have seen the odd "ball" pattern once before from a post I made over a year ago and I was unable to get it properly identified beyond it possibly being fish ribs/support structures or something else, but I'm hoping this new perspective will help nail down this mystery. I decided to retake some of my original photos since my old device was restricted in file/image size
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Anyone Good with Fish braincases/Skull Material? (Some are very incomplete) ( Missouri )
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
Location: Missouri Formation: Muncie Creek Shale Time Period: Pennsylvanian I have found many things in the phosphatic nodules from the Muncie Creek Shale formation ranging from scales, bones, coprolites and in some cases braincases or skull material however I have found very little of braincases and I was curious if someone could identify what they either belong to or in case of specimen #1 if it is indeed a braincase I was also wondering if someone could possibly link me to some material relating to Pennsylvanian period braincases as It may help me to better identify such material Specimen #1 I posted this one to this site quite some time ago but never got a response to what it was but I am not 100% sure if its braincase or just some other bone material or even the aforementioned coprolite Unfortunately for these last 2 specimens they are incomplete due to my inexperience 2 years ago when I first cracked them open. I neglected to collect the rest of the pieces hence why I have hesitated to show them on this site for the shame of losing something potentially scientifically valuable, nevertheless I was wondering if they could be identified Specimen #2 This one is 100% a braincase but i do not know what it belongs too and wish for identification if possible from the fragment i have Specimen #3 I only think the one above might be skull material is due to how it looks similar to my other more obvious skull/braincase that I own here is a photo of the one I'm describing, which i did have all pieces for: -
From the album: Missouri Ammonoids, Nautiloids and Gastropods
Here are some more detailed/more lit up areas of the shell and the other half other half- 2 comments
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
https://i.ibb.co/K0N2mGV/20211117-194532-HDR.jpg https://i.ibb.co/KmZQM6p/20211117-194520-HDR.jpg This is the largest I have found out of the 3 specimens I have (One isn't shown in this album due to being incomplete). the othe two exhibit Yellow hues-
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