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My daughter and I have just returned from the Isle of Wight, we hunted a couple of times around Yarmouth and Bouldnor where the beaches are full of Oligocene material. We found lots of pieces of croc, turtle and sturgeon as well as a small fish vert. We also found this which I think is the distal end of a mammal humerus. While I don’t think Pleistocene can be ruled out, the bone is heavy and feels fully mineralised. Tapping it with a spoon sounds like hitting rock as opposed to bone and it feels a lot more like rock than any of the ice age bones in our collection. I have read that as well
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I am looking for confirmation of the identity of this rodent jaw from the White River Group of NW Nebraska. I am thinking Ischyromys. Thoughts? Scale is mm. Occlusal view enlarged and not to scale. @jpc, @Fruitbat, @Nimravis
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Weather was pretty decent Monday-Tuesday, so I thought a trip back out to the Peninsula would be nice. Twin Beach is good place to find marine Oligocene fossils. I read a paper recently that proposes that the fossils here may have been part of a 300+ meter deep sea shelf community that was slowly uplifted. Callianopsis clallamensis ghost shrimp claws, extremely common here. Regret cracking this one, would have looked really good prepped. Many of the shrimp fossils have calcite crystals that have formed inside them.
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Hello everyone was wonder if these are just bone frags? Ne florida hawthorn formation. Thanks much
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Hello everyone was wonder if this was a tooth partial or just bone frag? Ne florida hawthorn formation. Thanks much
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Hello everyone ! Ne. Florida find out of the Hawthorn formation. Is this a osteoderm?
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Hello is this just a section of rib or something else? Hawthorn formation north east Florida. Thanks much
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Hello is this a pygmy sperm whale tooth? Also investing in a caliper and better camera for better clarity and scale, kinda handicap at the moment. This was found in northeast florida out of the hawthorn formation.
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For those interested in early cetacean evolution, the long-awaited redescription of the late Oligocene cetacean Kekenodon is finally out: Corrie, J. E., & Fordyce, R. E., 2022. A redescription and re-evaluation of Kekenodon onamata (Mammalia: Cetacea), a late-surviving archaeocete from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac019/6598844?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false Kekenodon was initially classified as a late-surviving basilosauri
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Hi all! I love W.R and Oligocene fossils. Both prepping and looking at them. So i thought maybe its time to see what everyone else has collected out there. So let’s see pictures of what you’ve got! Heres a few of mine!
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Ne florida finds looks like a tusk and turtle claw core?
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This tooth was found in northeast in a spring fed creek. It is very sticky and I believe it is fossilized. I don't have a way to take scaled pics at the moment. I promise not to bug yall with my posts for awhile.
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Hello would like some opinions of these 2 fossils from the Hawthorn formation. I am hoping yall tell me some good news. Thanks very much to everybody that took the time to comment and help me through my newbie struggles. It really is truly appreciated very much. G.
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I had recently received a couple unprepped oreodont limb bones from @snolly50 and have started prepping them. Here's a pic of my workstation There's been a lot of repair in these bones that I had to do. The bone on the left I'm pretty sure is a humerus. Here's some more pictures of that one Then there's this other bone that I'm working on repairing and prepping, I think this might be a femur? Then I have this piece that looks like the end of the tibia and fibula with some tarsals. And last I have this unidentified limb bone end, about 3 inches long
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Please help me id these teeth found in alachua county fl on private property with permission from the owner. Are these all different species of horse? Thank every one very much.
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Found in alachua county florida. Please help me id this piece.
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Found in alachua county florida. Please help me id these verts.
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By some vast, cosmic alignment of karma, snolly has become the possessor of a horde of material, deaccessioned from a museum's abundance. Information is scant, but "Oligocene" and "Nebraska" are offered as clues. The foil wrapped specimens had apparently lain in benign neglect for a a generous span, the bone rests in pieces with sheets of dried, peeling consolidant and crumbling matrix. The specimens appear to be limb bones and Oreodont is the donor that presents as likely. At present, snolly is leisurely joining the puzzle pieces and removing old consolidant (white glue?) and mat
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a very nice crab Coeloma helmstedtenses from the former clay pit "Treue" or "Silberberg" near Helmstedt / NE-Germany, Oligocene. This famous pit is closed now since 30 years, it was very popular for the famous crabs© fossils worldwide
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Found on private property Crawford, NE broken up humerus from???????
cayosusa posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Hi folks! I just get this mandible from a guy sold as unpreped. He found it in South Dakota. Because it still cover in matrix as some section so I would like to as you if this is a Poebrotherium camel jaw or it belong to Oreodont? I can’t identify between both of these species because the tooth look very similar of herbivore animal. Thank you.
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I've been on a ghost shrimp claw kick lately, working through the concretions that I collected over Presidents Day weekend (February 21st for all you non-Americans). This one came out pretty nice! Species is Callianopsis clallamensis from Washington State. Prepped with a Dremel 290.
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MARINE MOLLUSKS aggregation from the Pittsburg Bluff (Oligocene) and perhaps a bone.....
OregonFossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Location: where fossiliferous exposures are found in streambanks and in cuts on highways, logging roads, and railways. The type area of the formation is along the Nehalem River near Pittsburg, Oreg., where a highway cut affords a good exposure of its lower part. Exposures of the Pittsburg Bluff Formation are relatively scarce; they are interrupted by broad areas of thick soil cover and dense vegetation. The formation is cut by minor visible faults, and there may be others that are not visible, so the mapping is uncertain in some places. The Pittsburg Bluff Formation conform -
Hunting for Fossil Whales in the Clifts of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
This Cliff Face Is Packed With Fossilized Whale Remains Devon Bidal, (Hakai Magazine) Smithsonian Magazine, February 18, 2022 Yours, Paul H. -
Stichocorys delemontensis (Miocene) like fossil from Oligocene
OregonFossil posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
Looking on the web for ID, I found Stichocorys delemontensis which is a Miocene animal, while this specimen is from the Pittsburg Bluff which is Oligocene. Shape is similar I think. Again this are from a 5 mpx camera and this is about as good as the image gets @ 800X. subject is almost centered in image.
