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We had a really low tide Thursday with the cold front came through so before work I made a quick trip to check a favorite spot and picked up another partial tooth. The 5th one I've found in perhaps 15 visits to the same 100 yards of shoreline. Darrow
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North Sulphur River Texas was pretty picked over but I managed to find a nice variety. I found Mosasaur, Cretaceous Turtle, Ammonite, Enchodus / Shark Teeth, Ice Age Tooth, Rudists, Mastodon Tooth Enamel and one artifact in the creek. NSR needs a good rain.
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We found this vertebra, from pleistocene period, in Hungary. Can somebody help which animal could have it?
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Hey all, yesterday my wife (CCNHM collections manager Sarah Boessenecker) and I wrote about some of our recent finds from Folly Beach, SC. Collecting fossils there is quite easy, and if you're there for non-shark teeth, there's essentially no competition since that's all anyone ever looks for there. The fossils of Folly Beach have never been written up, and I'm getting more and more curious about them - particularly fossil marine mammals. If anyone finds marine mammal earbones out there, I'm dying to take a look! We've already gotten a nice donation from Ashby Gale, Edisto SP ranger, of a pygmy sperm whale periotic. Here's the blog post with some images of our recent finds - including my first giant armadillo scute (Holmesina), an Alligator osteoderm, various shark and mammal teeth, and a snake vertebra. I've made a plan to go out to Folly once a week this entire semester, since it's only a 15-20 minute drive from College of Charleston (a very nice escape from campus and teaching) http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/2017/02/03/friday-fossil-feature-it-would-be-folly-to-pass-this-site-up/
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I have found several of these over the years and always wonder what they are. Having trouble ID'ing it, so if anyone knows, please enlighten me. Thank you!
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I found this in pleistocene river gravel on the Brazos River. There are a lot of references to patellae on the forum, but it seems this bone is often confused with carpals. So, I'm looking for confirmation that this is either a mammoth or mastodon patella or carpal. I'm leaning toward patella from what I've seen so far. It measures 6.5in X 4.25in X 2.75in. Thanks for looking!
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Any ID help from the experts appreciated here, thanks!
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I'm guessing horse, because wouldn't bison be thicker/bulkier?? Thanks for your help.
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I picked up two items from Casperson Beach in Florida (along with TONS of fossilized shark teeth). There is a Pleistocene boneyard offshore, so I'm not sure if this is a bone fossil or a rock. It is much lighter than a rock this size should be, and porous. There is an indentation on one side (see larger pic in collage).
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Example of stacked individuals.
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A lot of concerns about going out today due to weather. It turned out gorgeous: warm with a mixture favoring sun over clouds. But it was windy!!! My kayak, tied off to a small tree, was whipping back and forth in a semicircle banging into the bank. I lost my baseball cap 3 times, twice chasing it downstream before it sank. After the 3rd time, I just dug capless! I was digging in heavy gravel, an 8 inch layer tightly packed under a sand layer 8 inches thick. It seemed like heavy gravel (size of golf balls) discard pile but I was finding some nice small shark teeth and slightly damaged horse teeth (4), plus a damaged bison molar, plus 2 larger chunks of mammoth, and a number of various size earbones, and a few broken meg fragments. A little strange but I was starting to anticipate a great! find. Then this 2.5x3 inch fossil pops into the screen and my 1st reaction, only lasting a second or two was Rhino. But I was confused until I turned it over. Side #2 makes it clear... Another great day in the neighborhood.
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Good afternoon, I found these fossils in the Dessau Formation near Austin, Texas and have a good idea on most of them except the shark tooth. I am torn between Megalodon and Mackerel. Any ID on the others appreciated as well. Thank you
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Hello! I have fossil antler. Is it possible that it could be antler from Megaloceros giganteus? It is 47 cm long. Kind regards, Paweł
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I spotted this in a site with one foot deep water a couple days ago while out fossil hunting: An hour or so before, I found this in the same site: A mammoth spit tooth. We also found quite a lot of petrified sticks and a root that all look modern but are completely mineralized: Not a bad way to start off the year.
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Hi all, Same as the other one (North Sea; Pleistocene). I'm thinking piece of antler of a deer (Megaloceras?). Thanks in advance, Max
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Hi everyone! I received this vert from the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam. It was in a big box with many other fossils fished from the North Sea (Pleistocene). The size of the vert makes me think of rhino or bison, even possibly mammoth. I asked already on Fossiel.net and they said it could be a chest vert from a bovid or a horse. But no definitive answer came up... What do you all think? Any help appreciated, Max
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Looking for Amber, Have Pleistocene and Miocene to Swap
Bone Daddy posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
I am looking for fossil amber (no copal at this time, unless it's something really unusual). Locality is not important. I have a ton of Pleistocene, Pliocene, and Miocene fossils from Florida - most of them are from the Peace River locality (Bone Valley formation, Hawthorn Group). If you have some surplus amber to swap, let me know and maybe we can work something out. Reply here or message me to inquire. -
Both of these fossils come from Peace river in Florida. Judging from the edge and size I'm wondering if the top one is from the scapula of a mammoth/mastodon? Either that or something from a whale. Any ideas? The bottom is an armadillo scute that I once mistook for scrap bone and left in the scrap box until being rediscovered. Any way to tell if it's Holmesia septentrionalisis or Holmesina floridanus? Thanks
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I find lots of verts on the brazos river and figure they are usually horse, cow, or deer. This vertebra seems different than any I've found before. I'm terrible at trying to id vertebrae, so I'll leave it up to y'all. Hope it's not too beat up. Thanks for looking!
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Hey guys. Still working on this one but hoping someone can tell me what the heck it is? No idea.
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Hi, I'm new here and I am a biologist by education and a fossil hunter by hobby. I found this fossil on Freeport Beach in Texas on Christmas Day, 2016. I have been trying to get into contact with a paleontologist at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, but I figured it doesn't hurt to seek out additional resources, especially for future ID assistance. This bone is approximately 3 cm long. I think it is a medial phalanx, but I have seen so many phalanges, but I have no idea how to get it down to species or even Order for that matter. So I was hoping someone here could help me out. The area it was found in is known for Pleistocene fauna and Clovis artifacts, since the what is now beach was plains 10,000 years ago. Thanks! I will appreciate any feedback.
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Jlar7608 and I have been on many successful fossil hunting trips together, but at this specific time, we are lacking a favorite spot that produces lots of fascinating fossils. As a great example , I found a sloth mandible with 2 teeth on Jan 2nd, 2016 !!! It was a WoW. This year we originally decided to go out December 31st, but postponed to Monday due to a cold front rolling thru. It was a prospecting trip to a creek location we had never been to previously. There were some concerns like low water, not likely to be above 2 feet, lots more vegetation in the smaller creeks. steep side walls and the likelihood of bumping into animals. It was not what I would say was my most successful outing. My single fossil was a piece of a turtle shell. Jlar did slightly better with a maybe cow/bison astragulus, a complete but modern turtle shell, a nice coral head, and a couple of fossilized bones. And we did see a couple of river otters, one of which disputed our pretense in his/her hunting grounds. The REAL story of the day was the vegetation crossing the creek!!! Let me do a blow_up here just in case you missed it. That is Jlar in front of his Kayak -- We agreed that I would be the trip photographer, sooooooooooooooo I could not be holding the hacksaw, machete, or whatever.. Jlar is up to his waist in creek water, trying to determine which path is going to be easiest to cut through. There were 10 or so of these types of barriers in the approximate 2 miles we advanced into the interior, porting kayaks and gear up , over and around, the obstacles. The GOOD news is that we did not find any outstanding honey holes that will encourage us to go back to this creek. I was bushed when I got home last night, and every muscle hurt when I woke this morning. But I did have a lot of fun --- Jlar and I always have a great time when we go fossil hunting A couple of non_fossil finds... Here is an odd modern turtle shell: So, a question: the turtle shell has 4 tiny holes, 2 on each side. I have speculated but would be interested in other suggestions on how/why the holes are there. I am still thinking about it. Shellseeker -- my name matched this creek -- there were lots of broken fossil shells in the creek'.
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When I found this humerus in Sacha's Merritt Island matrix (aka Frog Toe matrix), I remembered a post from @Harry Pristis regarding the EECF of a similar bone. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/67182-miocene-mystery-bone/#comment-705462 I wonder if it can be ID'd further. If the entepicondylar foramen is present in opossums, shrews, moles, mustelids, and raccoons, those are the possibilities to consider. I think that it is too large to belong to a shrew and too gracile to be that of a mole. If from a raccoon or opossum, it would have to be a very young one. So that leaves a very small skunk or a weasel. I am leaning towards a weasel, but would love to have confirmation. Is the bone too beat up to ID?
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Hi friends This year in the holidays, in Spanish beach..... Sparisoma cretense from pleistocene of Fuerteventura. Marvellous dental plate I look for up more pictures
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