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Dear TFF members, I have bought these two on an auction - the seller says they were found in the sands of the Vistula river, in the area of Kraków (south of Poland). Could they be fossilised horns? I will appreciate any suggestions Kasia
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Two colonies found today in central Poland. Erratic boulders, so no data available other than this: Ordovician or Silurian, Baltica. Is there an easy way to distinguish between various 'monticuliporid' taxa actually placed in different trepostome families? Smaller specimen:
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Minute fossils (fingers in the background as a scale) from the Campanian of southern Poland. The major element looks similar to bourgueticrinid columnals I know from the site, so maybe a semi-articulated crinoid?
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Lower Campanian of southern Poland.
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Southern Poland. Found in parking lot gravel, so age unknown, although Late Jurassic or Late Cretaceous to Paleocene likely. I quess it's an isocrinid - could anything more be added to that?
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Could it possibly be an astartid? Oxfordian of southern Poland.
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Oxfordian of southern Poland. Perisphinctidae.
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Oxfordian of southern Poland rich in Perisphinctidae. Just a belemnite, I suppose? Unlikely a bone?
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A Late Cretaceous - Early Paleogene flint from southern Poland, full of fossils - mainly dasyclad algae and forams, I think, possibly some bryozoans too, and... a sun-shaped object. Any ideas?
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I thought it to be a wood, but was told it's rather a sponge or coral. What do you think? Can you identify the form-genus of the plant if it is one? I found this flint specimen in a parking lot gravel in southern Poland, therefore I'm not sure of the age. There are some other flints there, with possibly a late Late Cretaceous - early Early Paleogene fauna, while nearby outcroups are of late Middle to early Late Jurassic with flints, early Late Cretaceous with cherts and Miocene without silifications. Fossil wood in Poland preserved as a flint, found on secondary deposits, is often of Miocene age.
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Hi, This is shark tooth was found in sand, which brought a glacier. Poland. Could you identyfy genus of shark?
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Stone from Poland weight 1.6 kg / 3.5 lb. Picture 5 internal structure
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Found in Poland. Weight 30kg /66 lb
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Retiolitid graptolite, Pseudoplegmatograptus, Llandovery, Poland
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I was browsing some photos of monograptids for sale and noticed in the corner of one of them a ghostly patch with some faintly marked bristles . Thinking it was probably a retiolitid , I bought it and it arrived yesterday. So it turned out to be which was pleasing as they're very interesting and beautiful and I haven't found any in the field yet. After wading through a fair bit of literature, I think it's probably Pseudoplegmatograptus obesus (Lapworth 1877), or something close (graptolites being frustratingly impossible to ID for non-specialists). (Mrs. @Spongy Joe ?) From Zdanow, Bardzkie Mountains, Poland. Sold as Wenlockian but I believe that should probably be Telychian (Upper Llandovery). Really tricky to photograph, the light has to be just right or it's near invisible, as in the first photo... The next three are taken with near overhead light and some digital tweaking. Scale bar is 1cm.
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Two specimens from the Campanian of southern Poland.
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Hello,I found some fossils,but im not sure about ID. Thanks for any help .
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Photo of the recent Aeoliscus striatus, taken from the Wikipedia article "Schnepfenmesserfische", photo of the author Haplochromis (Jan. 2014) References: Jerzmanska, A. (1968) ICHTYOFAUNE DES COUCHES A MÉNILITE (FLYSCH DES KARPATHES). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Vol 23, 3, pp 379-488, tab 1-7. Nickolay Parin & Norbert Micklich (1996) Fossil gasterosteiformes from the lower oligocene of Frauenweiler (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) I. New information on the morphology and systematics of the genusAeoliscus Jordan &Starks 1902. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 1996, Volume 70, Number 3-4, Page 521-545 Photo of the recent Aeoliscus striatus, taken from the Wikipedia article "Schnepfenmesserfische", photo of the author Haplochromis (Jan. 2014)
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Found this (likely Callovian) beauty today in Cracow, but probably it comes from Zalas, Poland. Any ideas on the ID? I'm towards algae for the moment.
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This species was originally described by Pauca 1929 as Properca sabbae; In the newer literature the spelling P. sabbai is used alternatively. The genus Properca was established by Sauvage for two species from France. Based on morphological differences, Bannikov created in 1991 the new genus Repropca and transferred Properca sabbai to this genus. Diagnosis for the genus Repropca from Bannikov 1991, p. 116: "Perooids with moderately elongated body and single dorsal fin, notched at boundary between rigid and soft parts. Spinous part of dorsal fin higher and longer than soft part, containing about 13 spines, third and fourth the longest. Two predorsal bones present. Anal fin with three spines (middle being thickest) and usually seven or eight soft rays. Gill cover (operculum) spinous: lower part of praeoperculum with four to six thick spines, posterior margin of operculum having two spines. Vertebrae 30—31 in number, 18 of them postabdominal. Tail skeleton of primitive percoid type; caudal fin forked. Scales small. References: Sauvage, H. E., (1880) Notice sur les poissons tertiaires de Céreste (Basses Alpes). Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 3 set., T. 8, pp. 439-452. M. Pauca (1929) Vorläufige Mitteilung über eine fossile Fischfauna aus den Oligozänschiefern von Sulanesti, Muscel. Academia Romana 12(4-5):26-34. Jerzmanska A. (1968) Ichtyofaune des couches a ménilite (flysch des Karpathes), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13 3, 379-488. Bannikov, A. F. (1991) A New Family of Oligocene Perciform Fishes. Paleontological Journal Vol. 25(4):88-94.
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This species belongs to a small order of marine ray-finned fishes, the Zeiformes. The order consists of about 40 species in six (or seven?) families, mostly deep-sea types: Zeidae (Dories), Parazenidae (Parazen), Zeniontidae, Oreosomatidae, Grammicolepidae, Cyttidae (?) and Caproidae (Boarfishes). Zeiformes are considered to be the sister taxon of a group making up the order Beryciformes and a huge conglomeration of spiny-rayed fishes known as the "percomorpha", including the Perciformes. They range in size from less than 5 cm to up to 90cm. Zeiformes are characterized by usually thin and deep, compressed, and oblong to disk-shaped bodies with 5 -10 soft rays and possibly a spine in the pelvic fins, 5 -10 dorsal fin spines and up to 4 anal fin spines. The upper jaw with minute, slender conical teeth is more or less protrusible. With their greatly compressed head and body, large mouth, and extremely protrusible upper jaw, the Zeiformes are successful ambush predators. They slowly approach an unsuspecting small fish by means of undulating waves of the transparent soft dorsal and anal fins. In one quick motion they drop the "trapdoor" lower jaw, shoot out the upper jaw, and expand the gill cavity, sucking in the hapless prey along with a considerable volume of water. Zeiform fishes are carnivores; they feed mainly on a variety of fishes but also consume cephalopods and crustaceans. This fish here is an Antigonia sp. from the menilith shales of Bircza in the Polish Carpathians. Antigonia sp. is a member of the family Caproidae (Boarfish, Capros = boar from the Greek kapros). Boarfish are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 centimetres (12 in) and most reaching less than half that figure. All members of this order are characterized by a laterally compressed body that is as high as it is long. Boarfishes typically have three spines and 25 to 35 soft rays in the anal fin. The pectoral fins are rounded, the pelvic fins set below them (1 stout spine and 5 slightly softer finrays). The first dorsal fin consists of about nine to ten spines, the third being the longest and the strongest. The second dorsal fin consists out of 25 to 35 soft rays. The large eye is well suited to its habitat in deep marine waters ranging from 40m to 600m. The protractile mouth, forming a small tube when protruded, is perfect for catching small copepods, mysids, benthic crustaceans and worms. The living species are all characterized by red, pink or silvery coloration. Swidnicki, J. 1986. Oligocene Zeiformes from the Polish Carpathians. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol 31, No. 1-2, 111-135. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Boarfish_(_Antigonia_capros_).jpg/300px-Boarfish_(_Antigonia_capros_).jpg picture from wikipedia
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Cordaites borassifolius plant Poland, Upper Silesia Carboniferous, Westphalian "C", Middle Pennsylvanian, Moscovian, (309.0 -305.9 million years ago) Dimension: matrix 65x65mm. Cordaites borassifolius was probably quite a large tree of monopodial or even sympodial stature. Its trunk diameter was at a minimum 0.5 m. Branches were between 1.1 m and spaced less than 0.7 m appart. The bases of the branches usually attained about 2/3 to 1/2 of the trunk width. The abaxial cuticle has stomata arranged in multiplex stomatal rows that formed a wide stomatiferous band. A transverse crypt above the stoma is an important diagnostic feature. The cordaitalean leaves, twigs, pith casts, fertile organs and seeds found are referable to a single natural species. The associated fertile organs belong to two types: 1) male fertile organs Florinanthus volkmannii and 2) a more robust, probably female, form similar to Cordaitanthus ovatus . Cuticles from the scales and long bracts of Florinanthus volkmannii have been studied in detail. Most scale cuticles are astomatal, but stomata may occur very rarely on some parts of the abaxial cuticle. Small trichomes grew from the scale margins. The cuticle of the bract has elongate cells and stomata are arranged in single stomatal rows on the abaxial cuticle. Many bilateral monosaccate pollen grains [ Florinites ovalis , Florinites guttatus and Pseudoillinites , with a central body bipolar attachment to the equatorial saccus were separated from scale surfaces of Florinanthus volkmannii . The pith cast belong to the species Artisia approximata . The seeds are small and of the " Cardiocarpus- type". Cordaites borassifolius grew in wet, peat-forming habitats and they were most likely trees of medium height. Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pinophyta Class: Pinopsida Order: Cordaitales Family: Cordaitaceae Genus: Cordaites Species: borassifolius -
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Serranus Fossil Fish Poland Oligocene age (65.5 -23 million years ago) Serranus is a genus of fish in the family Serranidae. It is one of five genera known commonly as the "Atlantic dwarf sea basses". These fish are hermaphrodites, each individual possessing functional male and female reproductive tissues. When a pair spawns, one fish acts as a male and the other acts as a female. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Serranidae Genus: Serranus -
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Clupea and Paleogadus Fossil Fish Poland Oligocene age (65.5 -23 million years ago) Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings. They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Three species of Clupea are recognized. The main taxa, the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) may each be divided into subspecies. Herrings are forage fish moving in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they form important commercial fisheries. Paleogadus was a codfish of the Oligocene. Kingdom: Animalia/Animalia Phylum: Chordata/Chordata Class: Actinopterygii/Actinopterygi Order: Clupeiformes/Gadiformes Family: Clupeidae/Gadidae Genus: Clupea/Paleogadus -
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Clupea and Paleogadus Fossil Fish Poland Oligocene age (65.5 -23 million years ago) Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings. They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Three species of Clupea are recognized. The main taxa, the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) may each be divided into subspecies. Herrings are forage fish moving in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they form important commercial fisheries. Paleogadus was a codfish of the Oligocene. Kingdom: Animalia/Animalia Phylum: Chordata/Chordata Class: Actinopterygii/Actinopterygi Order: Clupeiformes/Gadiformes Family: Clupeidae/Gadidae Genus: Clupea/Paleogadus
