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Again, a fossil from yesterday.. At 1st I thought Alligator, but now , mostly unsure. The jaw is 57 mm long and 25 mm high.. The tooth piece is 7 mm diameter and 14 mm long. I will look for comments when I wake ...
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Out hunting yesterday... went by myself. Not always a wise choice. But I was a Boy Scout some eons ago. Always be prepared. Heavy rains in the area increased the flow rate. Going a little faster than I should have on the way back, caught a log 6 inches below the surface, flipped the kayak as neat as you please. Having experienced this before, everything was in the hatches or lashed down, paddle leashed, no hat ,no sunglasses. Had my sit_in kayak, so as I resurfaced , grabbed the side of the cockpit and my weight pulled it over upright... along with 10 or 15 gallons of water. The water was well over my head, so I grabbed the kayak leash and dog paddled toward the bank while the current moved me and kayak rapidly downstream. Took me 10 minutes to empty the cockpit with a siphon hose and small bucket, which I always keep in the forward hatch for exactly this situation. On top of that excitement, I had a really good hunting. Lots of fossils, nothing spectacular. So, I pick and choose what to ID first... I found what I believe to be 2 Astragali.... First up, one that I have found many times before , and using @Harry Pristis gallery and pictures, identify as a camelid. It is too small for Bison and not cow due to position of the medial tubercle.. If anyone has knowledge, I would like to know if this is Palaeolama mirifica or Hemiauchenia. or Next... and even though it is badly broken, I am excited by the potential.... I have seen this before but NOT at this location. To give you a sense of where I am going... Capybara has a somewhat similar Astragulas, and the closest comparison in my collection is a (much larger) Teleoceras Astragalus I found in the Peace River in 2014 (photo below). The more realistic part of me is thinking a modern wild pig which can get up to 400 pounds wandered into my hunting area.
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Stopped in Chippokes State Park on my way to Norfolk VA. It is a historical plantation on the banks of the James River. Fossil collecting is legal and encouraged , however sections of the beach are divided by rip-rap, and other sections are prohibited because of cliff falls. I collected on the beach, and in walking in the near woods ( to avoid climbing over the rip-rap) came upon a small recent hill slide. The beach picture is from the Chippokes web site taken by Sean Hazzarts, the shell hash photo shows typical beach accumulation, and the green photo shows my woody hill. The other randomized pictures are my finds for the day. A ecphora, several Chesapectin jeffersonia, a drum fish mouth plate (I thought at first that it was a croc scute until I turned it over) . It is another place where I didn't find a megalodon though they are reported here. It is a nice place to visit in the summer, beach, water, fossils and family.
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I’d like to see the Pliocene fossils from California that people have I’ll start off with some fossils I collected from the Purisima formation at Capitola Beach A vertebra with a shell on the back A heavily eroded whale vertebra with some associated (rib?) bones Some cool clam shells Edited to add: Here’s a clam shell I dug up from the Pinole Tuff formation when I was 7. It was the first fossil I ever found
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“Parrotia” pristina (Ettingshausen 1851) Stur 1867 with feeding traces.
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Taxonomy from GBIF.org. There is a complex literature about this polymorphic species. Similar leaf shapes possess the recent genera Hamamelis L., Fothergilla L., and Parrotia C.A. Meyer, therefore the term "Parrotia" pristina (Ettingshausen) Stur is used. Quote from B. Adroit 2020, p. 4 regarding the feeding traces: ”Currently, the main reference to identify and classify the plant–insect interactions in the fossil record is the ‘Guide to Insect (and Other) Damage Types on Compressed Plant Fossils’. This guide subdivides herbivory traces on leaves into seven functional feeding groups (FFGs): hole feeding, margin feeding, skeletonization, surface feeding, mining, piercing and sucking and galling.” This type of feeding trace was assigned to the damage type DT297. Identified by Dr. B. Androit, Swedish Museum of Natural History. References: Stur, D. (1867). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora der Süßwasserquarze, der Congerien- und der Cerithienschichten im Wiener und Ungarischen Becken. Jahrbuch der kaiserlichköniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 17, 77–188. Ettingshausen, C. von (1851). Die Tertiaer-Floren der Oesterreichischen Monarchie. 1. Fossile Flora von Wien. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Reichsanstalt 2, 1–36. Straus, A. (1977). Gallen, Minen und andere Frasspuren im Pliozän von Willershausen am Harz. Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 113: 43-80. Tralau, H. (1963). Asiatic dicotyledonous affinities in the Cainozoic flora of Europa. Kungl. Svensk. Vetensk. Handl., 4 ser., 9,3, pp. 1-87. Buzek, C. (1971). Tertiary flora from the northern part of the Petipsy Area (North-Bohemian Basin). Rozpr. Ustr. Ust. Geol. 36, pp 1-118. Knobloch, Ervin (1998). Der pliozäne Laubwald von Willershausen am Harz (Mitteleuropa) München. Documenta Naturae. 1998. No. 120, pp. 1-302. Titchener F. R. (1999). Leaf feeding traces from the Upper Pliocene fossil Lagerstätte of Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Acta Palaeobot. 1999, Suppl. 2, 403-409. Adroit B, Zhuang X, Wappler T, Terral J-F, Wang B. (2020). A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species. R. Soc. Open Sci. 7: 201449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201449. Labandeira CC, Wilf P, Johnson KR, Marsh F. (2007). Guide to insect (and other) damage types on compressed plant fossils. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology.-
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Hi every! I got this one from an old Chinese medicine store, the owner said they came from Gansu province, China. After I prepared, it turn to be a mammal vertebrae bone but I don’t know exactly the species or at least the family or order. Could anyone help me to have a look about this one? Thank you guys!
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Here are two pics of my bull shark tooth. Species: Carcharhinus leucas Age: 11 700 years to 5 millions years ( Pleistocene-Pliocene) Size: 0,98 inches Localisation: Florida (Sarasota)
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Hi TFF, I've posted about this Pliocene baleen whale jaw section from Florida before, and its the gift that keeps on giving! Within the fossil there are 2 significant crystalized structures which I would love further clarity on. Are they the remanence of soft bodied organisms burrowing in the bone? Or are these structures mineral deposits similar to those found in shelled cephalopod fossils when water gets into the specimen? Or something completely different? The first specimen is 1.7/2cm in length. I would love to know your thoughts
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Went out to Green Mill run not too long ago and found some fossils that I simply couldn't identify. I have my suspicions of what they could be, but would rather get some expertise identification. Any help is appreciated!
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Taxonomy from GBIF.org. The recent Fundulus zebrinus was originally native to the following areas: Mississippi River and Gulf Coast watersheds from northern Missouri to central Wyoming and south to the Colorado River, Brazos River, Galveston Bay, and Rio Grande (mainly Pecos River) watersheds in Texas. Mostly on Great Plains. References: Koster W. J. (1969). Fishes of the Rita Blanca Lake deposits, pp. 135-139, pl. 23. In: Paleoecology of an early Pleistocene lake on the high plains of Texas. R. Y. Anderson and D. W. Kirkland (eds.). Geol. Soc. Amer. Mem. 113. doi.org/10.1130/MEM113 Poss, Stuart G. and Miller, Robert Rush (1983) Taxonomic Status of the Plains Killifish, Fundulus zebrinus. Copeia, Vol. 1983, No. 1 (Feb. 10, 1983), pp. 55-67.
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Found this tooth yesterday while creek walking. It was at the base of an eroding bank and stuck in the sediment. This is my second sharks tooth out of this spot, first was a crestaceous goblin shark. Not sure what this one is. Travis county Texas
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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 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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What is the geological age of the site where the megalodon was found in Indonesia?
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Recently I bought some fossilized shark teeth from sukabumi, indonesia. There are plenty of bulls, dusky, lemons, big hemis and tigers and a lot of giant megalodon, but why are there so few great white shark teeth, and why hastalis almost never seen? Is it because hastalis are extinct at that time? And is it because the great white shark failed to compete with the megalodon in that place? -
Just looking over some of my finds from my Florida trip. Not quite sure which are fossils and which are just stones. All help is appreciated. All were found in the Peace River. First specimen: pics 1-3; second: pics 4-6; third: pics 7 & 8; fourth: 9 & 10; fifth: 11 & 12.
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I was out hunting the Peace River yesterday, and then went to my local fossil club meeting, last of the season doing a swap & sell, show and tell session. There were some impressive finds this season. I did not get a lot of photos but the TFF member sitting at my table had these: Matched pair of Mastodon 8 humpers. That's a great find. I always sign up for the Club Raffle, which has a lot of items donated by club members and I won. Went to the fossil table and selected this ziplock bag of coral fragments: I recognize that Rose Coral (Manicina areolata) and what looks like Brian corals on the right side. As soon as I saw those splotches on the bottom coral, I knew I had questions to ask on TFF today. That is the ID question. What is the coral? and what are the possibilities for that encrustation on the underside?