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I bought this rock online auction site. it was sold as a Permian Coprolite with bones from Oklahoma. it is 2 cm long. The last 5 images are microscopic. what do you think?
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Hello, Could I get an ID on this piece? Permian-aged from the Ryan Formation near Waruika, Oklahoma. It's labeled as a reptile jaw piece. Has three teeth that are laterally compressed and somewhat twisted with serrations (Apparently there are serrations only on one side of the teeth). I wonder if it's shark and not reptile at all. Pathological shark tooth perhaps? Size is a little over 1cm. @jdp
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Hi all, I've been finding pebbles in a park with paleozoic age fossils in them - rugosa, goniatite and this one has, along with forams and crinoid ossicles, a dark imprint that reminds of a trilobite cephalone. As for the location, I believe the gravel is from the Drava river, which may carry fossils all the way up from Slovenia and beyond... What are your thoughts on this?
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Hi all, I've been finding pebbles in a park with paleozoic age fossils in them - rugosa, goniatite and this one has something reminding me of sand grains in a gut or poop I believe the gravel is from the Drava river, which may carry it all the way from Slovenia and beyond.. Any ideas?
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Hi all, I've been finding pebbles in a park with paleozoic age fossils in them - rugosa, goniatite and this one has something i just can't figure out. I believe the gravel is from the Drava river, which may carry it all the way from Slovenia and beyond.. Any ideas?
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I recently attended the PermianFest event at the Whiteside museum in Seymour Texas. Along with several days of great speakers, they also offered dig workshops at one of their Permian redbed sites. I absolutely couldn't make the trip without getting in on a dig! I only went for a single day in the field, I wish it could have been for 5, it was so great. We were digging in the Craddock bonebed, a location where many museum specimens of Dimetrodon, and many other Permian fauna have been recovered. It was a special treat to be working a quarry site in the footsteps of Cope, Sternberg, Bakker and more. The shear amount of fossil material is staggering. I thought that the PaleoAdventures Hell creek site was dense, this was packed even more. We started with surface collecting. Just plop down on a bit of ground and start looking. Ddon, Eryops, Orthocanthus and more species of bone bits everywhere. Everything I collected on the surface was in an area about 2ft x 2ft. After getting our eyes tuned in on the shapes, sizes, and colors of the fossils, we moved into the quarry to begin working back the quarry face. I am convinced that we were exposing a new Dimetrodon skeleton. I was uncovering ribs, verts and sail-spines, the people to my right were finding cervical verts, and the man to my left was finding verts, spines and an ilium. It was a great dig, I wish it wasn't almost 5 hour drive each way for me.
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There is a tiny town in Texas called Seymour. It has two stoplights. It's tiny. But there is a museum there - the Whiteside Museum of Natural History which is primarily dedicated to Permian Era fossils because there are the famous Red Beds very nearby, of which this museum has access to. So they put together the inaugural Permian Fest held last weekend. Not only did they have digs and auctions and fancy fund-raising dinner, but some of the best paleontologists from around the US gave presentations. I got to meet Carl Mehling, Jimmy Waldron and the infamous Dr Robert Bakker as well as some other amazing people! There were book signings, a bake sale (got a blueberry pie!), paleontological origami and of course...vendors! I had my little set up (8 tables worth!!) of tshirts, artwork, fossil art and more. It was quite the weekend. But of course, I did a little fossil hunting on the way up and back! Permian Fest: Me and Dr. Robert Bakker (my mom worked at the Peabody Museum at Yale when I was in utero and she worked with Dr .Bakkers first wife - so I "sort of" met him a long time ago....hahahah) a few of the displays from the Whiteside: My favorite! The Diplocaulus! My second favorite - Edaphosaurus and of course, a Dimetrodon So I found myself a couple of Permian roadcuts to check out - none are vertebrate sites, all were marine invertebrates, but I had not collected any marine Permian stuff, so I was happy to add it to my collection. An interesting bryozoan cluster corals and crinoids I'm assuming this is Lophophylidium coral. I am not at all familiar with Permian stuff and am assuming that much of this is the same as the Texas Pennsylvanian fauna A few other nice things: Brachiopod Crinoid I'm always happy when I find some Echinoid stuff . another brachiopod One of the roadcuts had amazing hash plates....full of bryozoans and such. But my final stop yielded my best fossil find....not Permian, but back to my familiar Cretaceous stomping grounds! My biggest and best preserved Leptosalenia mexicana from the Walnut Formation.
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Wow... I had a SUPERB run around Texas for the last 2 weeks. The inaugural Permian Fest in Seymour, which was an absolute blast, started us off. Thanks Chris Flis @dinodigger and the other Whiteside folks for EVERYTHING! Then some more Permian in TX & OK. Then various archives and site pilgrimages relating to RT Bird, about whom I am writing a biography. And sprinkled in there, a bunch of wonderful Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous collecting. Thanks to Tully Hair @thair and admin John Jackson @JohnJ for their participation in these adventures. What an amazing trip! 3 xenacanth teeth and a fragment of Eryops jaw from the Permian of OK Jonas Studio T. rex from the 1964 World's Fair at Dinosaur Valley State Park, TX Elongate theropod track with reflection of fossil hunter Edlin Pitts at Dinosaur Valley State Park, TX Complete Cretaceous Phymosoma peeking out of road cut and an ammonite my wife found near Lampasas, TX Pennsylvanian Petalodus tooth from near Grosvenor, TX in the wild and in the hand Complete Cretaceous ?Tetragramma that my wife found near Lometa, TX My wife and John canoeing in central TX hunting for Cretaceous goodies A surprise Pedernales Point (thanks for the ID @JohnJ!) from a gravel bar in central TX RT Bird's "swimming" sauropod trackway at Mayan Ranch, Bandera, TX 2 shots of the Davenport Ranch dinosaur tracks with Davenport descendants
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Lecture by Dr. Bakker at the Whiteside Museum 2.25.23
hadrosauridae posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
The Whiteside museum in Seymour Texas recently held their first ever "Permian Fest" event, part of which included 3 days of presentations by many guest lecturers. I was fortunate enough to have a seat literally, in front of Dr. Bakker. Since I was about 4 - 5 feet away from Dr. Bakker for the lecture, so I couldn't pass the opportunity to record it. I wish I could have recorded his presentation the day before, but the auditorium was packed with school kids and I didnt have a clear view of the presenters or the screen. -
Trying to locate a site recommended by a group we met today outside Waurika, OK...
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Hello! This is a long shot and will probably read more like a Craigslist "missed connections" ad, but I figured it was worth a shot! My husband and I were on a road cut looking for fossils today (Feb 27) between Randlett and Waurika, Oklahoma. A group stopped and asked if we were fossiling and we all ended up having a great chat. Y'all had come from the Whiteside Museum of Natural History Permian Fest and were headed further south into Texas. I believe y'all were associated with the American Museum of Natural History... we didn't exchange names (why?? haha) but y'all pointed us to a fossil hunting site and put it into my husbands map. We never found it! So if by some miracle one of you see this, we would love to try and find the place again. Thank you for the directions (even though we clearly didn't follow them) and for looking at some of our finds and sharing some of yours! -
Age: Permian formation: hermit shale of the mogollon rim location: Sedona, AZ Hey all, Was bouncing back and forth from fossil hunting trips and fossil ID but since I’m quite inexperienced with this area and age group I decided to post here. Took a trip out to Phoenix with my family and drove to Sedona for the day. I did some reading on the geology of the mogollon rim and targeted the red shale beds of the hermit formation exposed all over Sedona and nearby Oak Creek (big thanks to @Arizona Chris for his wonderfully informative site on the geologic history of the mogollon rim and also to @DPS Ammonite for his destination suggestions for my trip). I searched a couple locations, both on the main road into Sedona and found some interesting things. In the first site: Possible footprint? Not at all sure. Really unfamiliar with the fauna of this age but it looks like it could’ve been a weathered footprint due to the coloration and the position on the smooth flat surface of the shale. Apologies for the lack of scaling and perspective, I did not bring many tools with me on this trip. Also saw lots of these pretty pockets of crystals in the shales. Further down the road, I spent more time searching and came up with this: Looks to me like a lot of woody debris drag marks and a really nice preservation of mud cracks. Looking forward to hearing others’ insight on this and if I missed anything on these rocks. Not the most prolific/incredible finds, but for an off-the-cuff fossil hunt put together in my hotel room, I’m pleased with the results. I’ve never found mud cracks before. Plus, the Sedona scenery is a real treat in itself. Didn’t take any of these pieces home since I’ll be flying back soon but I have some alternate photos if needed, apologies again for the lack of scaling. Thanks y’all!
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Howdy folks, I found this fossil in the West TX Permian Basin near the town on Mertzon in Irion County, USA. It looks to be in a limey fine sandstone (possibly a very poor quality chert) and I found it in a dry riverbed. The little spikes easily seen in the profile picture of it are also present in the larger more amorphous mass but are harder to see. It is definitely a Permian aged invertebrate marine fossil, but I don't know from there. Any help would be appreciated.
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From the album: Permian
Some more complete Orthacanthus teeth, each maybe about 1/4" in size-
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One of the most common fossils from the Permian (this locality in particular). Unfortunately, they are almost always broken. Of the hundreds of teeth I have, perhaps only a few larger than a couple of mm are mostly complete. -
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A handful of the more interesting (of very few) fossils I found in unprocessed matrix from the Archer City fm. here in TX. -
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Eryops teeth are conical (this one bears no carinae, though don't know if that's true for the whole dentition), and often have basal creases. -
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It's remarkable how much of an ecosystem's diversity can be captured in a space smaller than a matchbox. In this case are the likes of Dimetrodon, Eryops, Archeria, Seymouria et al.-
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Hi there everyone! Ive got a tricky one today. I came across this listing for a “Trimerorhachis fossil” and I was wondering If y’all would be able to help me properly identify the specimen and possibly identify from what part of the body it comes from. The seller specifies that it was found in the Ryan Formation near Waurika, Oklahoma and claims that the bones belong to a member of the family Trimerorhachidae. Permian fossils are personally some of my favorites, but I’m not completely able to distinguish what this fossil could be. My only guess is that it could be part of the frontal/nostril area of the skull seeing as there’s a cavity at the front and that the eye sockets of the skull point upwards and not forward, but I’m not entirely sure. I’d greatly appreciate any guesses as to what exactly this specimen may be!
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From the album: Permian
Teeth from the Permian are often difficult, nigh impossible to identify with confidence. This tooth is strongly carinated, with the carinae proceeding to the base of the crown. It has no labio-lingual curvature and an irregular enamel texture. My best guess at the moment is a synapsid, something like Secodontosaurus. -
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Actinopterygian (ray-finned) fish teeth from the Early Permian of OK (Wellington Fm.). -
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An amphibian tooth from the Early Permian of OK (Wellington Fm.). They can be differentiated from similar Actinopterygian teeth by the lack of a conical acrodin cap (translucent tip), no "S" curvature, and basal creases which terminate well before the apex. The exact ID is uncertain, but it could be something like Trimerorhachis. -
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Rhipidistian (lungfish) scales from the Early Permian (Wellington Fm., Waurika, OK). They can be identified by a "honey comb" structure on one side, the other is largely featureless. -
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These sand grains were deposited by a river in the Early Permian of what would be North Texas. Iron oxides (e.g. hematite) color these sediments red (they weren't originally).
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