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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
2 unidentified mosasaur species' anterior end of premaxillary bones. One with teeth broken off just beyond the skull, and the other has 2 remaining teeth, with the rest broken off at the level of the skull. the larger fossil was found in the phosphate mines of Khouribga, Morocco. ive since lost the information for the smaller fossil, sadly. -
From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
A little collection of assorted mosasaur fossils from 2 different places that I got when I first started collecting. 2 different types of vertebrae, one is mosasaur, and the other is a questionable claim of mosasaur, a corprolite that was claimed to be that of a mosasaur, a tooth, & 7 rib fragments. 2 ribs have predation marks, as well as the large vertebra. The large vert has a round tooth indent on the very center. The 2nd rib down has tooth scratches along the surfaces, & 3rd rib down has a round tooth indent in the center, which is probably what caused a strip across the middle to break off. There are 2 other tooth marks on that rib as well, forming a diagonal line from above left of the center indent, breaking off a piece along the top, to below right. -
Zarafasaura Oceanis elasmosaurus sacral(?) vertabrae
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Zarafasaura Oceanis Elasmosaurus sacral(?) vertebrae. -
From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Unidentified Cretaceous crocodile species, suggested by multiple people, to appear to be a Dyrosaurus, came from the second phosphatic layer of a phosphate mine(what a shocker!)around the suburbs of Khouribga, Morocco. Original teeth, not replacements. Have gone through and cleaned up the base of some of the ones that had some sand around them. -
Hey Gang, So need your opinions on this one...We find alot of nodules down here and this one has a particularly well digested lumpy look to it, more so than most. Any chance you think this might actually be a coprolite? It does have a few clam borings and along the top wrinkle you can see some irregular parallel tubes that make me wonder. All thoughts are welcome. Thanks! Regards, Chris
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Nearly finished this item, it did not survive the journey well (not packed by me) and was in numerous pieces. Turned out ok though IMO once stabilised and re-joined. Can you see the gastrolith? Nigel
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From the album: Beginner collection
Astarte from the ypresian (53-46 MY) of El Kouif in the center-east of Algeria. -
From the album: Beginner collection
Burrow of a crustacean, El Kouif, center-east of Algeria, found in the phosphate from the ypresian (53-46 MY). -
From the album: Beginner collection
Burrow of a crustacean, El Kouif, center-east of Algeria, found in the phosphate from the ypresian (53-46 MY). -
Coralina algae + Homotrema rubrum (pink foraminifera)
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From the album: Beginner collection
Coralina algae + Homotrema rubrum (pink foraminifera) -
From the album: Beginner collection
Coralina algae + Homotrema rubrum (pink foraminifera) + tubes of worms. -
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Gryphea oyster, ypresian (53-46 MY) phosphates of Algeria. -
From the album: Beginner collection
Gryphea oyster, ypresian (53-46 MY) phosphates of Algeria. -
Hi everybody, here are others fossils from Algeria that were given to me. They mostly are ypresian pelecypods imprints. Their finder wrote ctenodonte, i think the one on the left of the first photo and on the top on the following is one, i am right ? They all three are about 3 cm of width (a little more than 1 inch). I took some of my photos without flash, like those two ones : 1) 2)
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
This is an Early Eocene (Ypresian) fish jaw from the phosphate deposits in Central Morocco. For more images and discussion, see this TFF thread: http://www.thefossil...jaw-with-teeth/ (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2015
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Very Unusual Megalodon In Phosphate Matrix Specimen - I Need Some Advice
Fossil_Rocks posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
This tooth in matrix has been sitting on a local diver's desk for about three years, under a dust cover, and has remained very stable. We think the matrix is essentially a phosphatic nodule. It's basically a piece of the ACE River Basin river bottom, and obviously it's an amazing specimen. I wanted to prep. it using a hardener, but I've never prepped any fossils before, and wasn't sure which product that I should use. I've heard of Butvar, of course and know people use it on bone, but this isn't bone, it's more mineral. Should I dip, or brush? It would seem a lot cheaper to brush it on. I'd also like something that would be water proof, afterwards. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like some direction on a reputable seller of the product. Any folks here in that biz? If you are, then I'd rather throw the biz to a member, but I will need the product over nighted to me. I want to do the job myself, and I won't be doing a lot of prep. work, so I don't need a ton of the stuff, just enough for this one piece, which measure's about 10" in length. Here's a list of products that are advertised on a site called PaleoPortal Fossil Preparation. - http://preparation.paleo.amnh.org/47/adhesives-and-consolidants Solution adhesives which set by evaporation of a solvent and include:Paraloid B-72 (ethyl methacrylate co-polymer, formerly called Acryloid) Butvar B-76 (polyvinyl butyral, or PVB) Butvar B-98 (polyvinyl butyral or PVB) McGean B-15 (polyvinyl acetate or PVAC, formerly called Vinac B-15) “White glue” dispersions and emulsions (e.g. Elmers, Rhoplex, Lascaux) - Not Waterproof, so not my choice Thanks in Advance, guys ...
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Hi there! I found this bone last weekend in the Bone Valley Formation in Tampa Florida. It's a massive phosphate deposit that's mined by 'Mosaic'. Any fossils in the deposit won't go through the mining machinery, so the miners pull the chunks out and throw them in a separate bone area - which is just chock full of crazy fossils. These are primarily Miocene fossils (both terrestrial and marine)... but some Pleistocene fossils have been found before. This fossil is the only one of my haul that I just can't identify. Even if we can't figure out what animal it belonged to - I'd be happy to know what kind of bone it is. If it helps - most of the bones I found were dugong. The funky thing about this bone is the 'front' of it has a curve that suggests vertebrae... but the 'back' of the bone is curved in the opposite direction. As if the curves are perpendicular to one another. I think it may be a joint bone. Sorry for all the text - I just want to throw everything I know about this weirdo out there. #1 - What I think is the front of the bone. The bottom part near my thumb is exposed interior - so the bone must have snapped there. The top (towards my fingertips) is exterior bone. #2 - The opposite side. All exterior except for the bottom part where it must have snapped. #3 - Profile of the back of the bone. #4 - Profile of the front of the bone. #5 - Another front profile.
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From the album: Platecarpus start to finish
Platecarpus ptychodon skull finished. (Platecarpus ptychodon Arambourg 1954), Oued Zem, Morocco, Cretaceous: 146-65 MYO© Seth Sorensen
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From the album: mosaic ft meade
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Greetings All; Thanks in no small part to the help I've gotten here on the forums, I managed to get my fossil dig / identification class off the ground. So far we've had around 400 kids sorting through gravel from Florida and North Carolina, identifying and keeping what they find. I've been stumped by a recent find, however -- a bilatterally symetrical, roughly t-shaped thing about 4mm X 4mm. It's from the Aurora Mine in North Carolina. To me the material looks a little like urchin test, but as the shape is so peculiar I am by no means sure. The scale in the background is 5mm X 5mm. Any ideas? Regards, Don Esker
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
This is a pair of gomphothere (elephant) teeth from the Late Miocene - Early Pliocene Palmetto Fauna. They were recovered from a phosphate mine. The Taxonomy from Hulbert (2001) is: Parvorder PROBOSCIDEA . . . . . . . . . . Superfamily ELEPHANTOIDEA . . . . . . . . Family GOMPHOTHERIIDAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subfamily GOMPHOTHERIINAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tribe GOMPHOTHERIINI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gomphotherium simplicidens (Osborn, 1923)© Harry Pristis 2009
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