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I recently acquired a tooth fossil from UK. The locality of the tooth labeled by the seller is Oxford Clay, but I suspect it might come from Faringdon Sponge Gravels due to its preservation. The tooth seems to have carinae, which rarely occurs on plesiosaur and pliosaur teeth. Can anyone help me identify this tooth? Would it possibly be a candidate for Dakosaur?
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Oxford Clay, Callovian, Peterborough Member I'm wondering if this pitted fragment is crustacean. It seems wrong for a scute, although there is some similarity to fish scales I have in overall shape. Or something entirely different. Scale is mm. The most similar thing I've found are ostracods.
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Jurassic, Callovian, Oxford Clay, near Yaxley, Cambridgeshire. The first fossil I picked up thinking it was a new echinoid spine, but under the microscope its structure looks quite different to the others I've found, and I'm wondering if it might be part of a fish spine. Those are my two best candidates for this. I would appreciate any opinions or suggestions. The second I think is the mould of a belemnite phragmocone, with some of the aragonite still attached. Every second bar on the scale is a mm.
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Warm day, not muddy now, the Clay was cracked into convenient units for searching. There usually are some pyratised Ammonites, but the preservation of these is beautiful and odd. It might be to do with the amount of rain we've had acting with pyrite - I don't know. I really like the colours and the attached white Serpula worm.
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These two coprolites have the most visible and interesting bits to them of any I have found. I've been trying to work out what the bits are, and I think they're bits of fish, from the colour and size, but I'd value more opinions! They are from the Oxford Clay, Jurassic, Callovian, Peterborough Member, and the first has colours I associate with fish remains I've found on the site. I don't really understand the dark pattern on the back. ETA: Sorry, I think this should have been posted in the coprolite sticky!
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I'm trying to get to one Oxford Clay site pretty frequently, and it did not disappoint. I found my best gastropods from the site this weekend. I thought I had found two pieces of crinoid, but when I got home found it was four. More ammonite as well. Even better, I managed to not bring home any living creatures. Last time I had a caterpillar clinging to an ammonite.
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These are from the Oxford Clay in Cambridgeshire, Callovian, Peterborough Member at Yaxley in Cambridgeshire and for one reason or another have stumped me. I'm not convinced these are all fossils. The first doesn't quite look like the oolitic limestone I have, but it's what they remind me of, and I think they may be oolites rather than a fossil.
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2 verts that I purchased a few years ago and would like an accurate ID. I will provide as many photos as possible. This first vert was sold to me as Cetiosaurus. Is this sauropod, or plesiosaur? Location: Oxford Clay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England Age: Upper Jurassic - Oxfordian
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I went back to Yaxley, and because my method of fossil hunting at this site is to sit on the ground and look very closely for often tiny fossils, got caked in mud. There was less visible than last week, but I found lots of crinoids and ammonites, including this, less than a centimetre.
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This is from the Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member so Callovian, Middle Jurassic. I'm not sure what it is, it's very small and I took the pictures with a digital camera - the scale is in mm. Other fauna found with it included ammonites, crinoids, belemnites and gryphia. Any suggestions appreciated. Other things I've found of a similar size and shape there are echinoid spines and some kind of burrow cast, but this is very different. I was wondering if it might be a different part of a crinoid than I'm used to finding?
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It was raining this morning, so my best site was near Yaxley. The fossils really pop there when wet. In one hour of searching I had 13 fragments of ammonite. I thought it was 14, but when washing them realised one was a miffed snail, who is now in the garden. Mostly the ammonites are pyratised, and preserve sutures and ornamentation well. I found 8 crinoid sections, including round ossicles - I normally only find star shaped ones.
