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Hi, I found this reptile vertebra awhile ago at Yaverland on the isle of Wight, any idea what kind of reptile it is from?
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I just thought I would share a few pictures of this amazing snake I was able to acquire from a good friend who is letting go of a few pieces of his collection. He is getting up in age and I was honored enough to be the recipient of a few incredible pieces. This snake was found in 1988 in a cave on private property in Oregon. It is Pleistocene in age and is believed to be a species of racer (colubridae). Enjoy Seth
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Hi, after a work related break in Wexford recently I found this item washed up on the beach. After lightly cleaning it and viewing it under a jewellers loupe, I realised that it appeared to have inscriptions on it. I thought I may be just willing oil t to be the case, but upon further investigation they are definitely man made carvings. It seems to be a fish/catfish possibly to the front, and inscriptions of what I can make out to be, a person, stick like figure, fish, a PI symbol as well as others. It is very intriguing and though I'd share in the hope other do too. Thanks.
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Yesterday I was doing some amphibian research and came across the caecilians (Gymnophiona). How had I not heard of one of the three living orders of amphibians? The others being Caudata (salamanders) and Anura (frogs and toads). I thought it was something worth sharing and then I thought there are a lot of extant species that are really cool so I created this thread so we can all see and share some of our favorite extant species. Starting off with the caecilians, a legless amphibian that lives underground in the tropical regions of the world. they come in many colors and the largest species can grow up to 5 feet (1.5 meters). Unlike worms they have a skeleton with vertebrae and a skull filled with small sharp teeth. Caecilia attenuata Very similar but not closely related to the next animal on this list, the legless lizard (Pygopodidae). They are found all throughout the world. They resemble snakes except for the lizard head. The largest species is the European Glass Lizard (Pseudopus apodus). I have to include this dragon like lizard, the armadillo lizard. (Ouroborus cataphractus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_girdled_lizard. They live in South Africa and curl in a ball when they are threatened. That's all for the reptiles now lets look at the descendants of dinosaurs, my favorite bird, the Cassowary (Casuaurius). It looks prehistoric and being the third largest bird, behind ostrich and emu you cant miss its blue crested head. And their footprints look just like dinosaur footprints. Next has to be the Lyre Bird (Menura novaehollandiae) The superb lyrebird. Not sure if the second video is real since it was not uploaded by BBC but it is really fascinating. Next is a mammal, the Colugo (Cynocephalidae) It is a flying mammal and our not so distant relative seeing as we are both in the mirorder primatomorpha. Moving on to some smaller species. Ill start with the praying mantis. An order of insects that everyone should know seeing as they are found everywhere. (Mantodea) They come in several fascinating colors and patterns, just search some of the exotic species there are so many. Here are a few, Next is the largest centipede Scolopendra_gigantea. They live in south america and can grow up to 30 cm (12 inches) That's all I have for now, took like an hour to write this. Probably could of been quicker but I read some more about these fantastic species. Many of the species on this list may not ever fossilize or leave a very small record and things like what sound they make or what colors will not be preserved. Makes you wonder about what species existed that never fossilized or have not been found yet. Please add more species to this list I know there are others. Enjoy
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Hi everyone, found this in a new jersey cretaceous creek. Looks like a partial enamel something but I'm not exactly sure what it can possibly be from, it interestingly has some very defined ridges on the least worn side. Very hard to catch the clearest pics to show the sharpest definition but I tried to get the best I could. Maybe this can be a clue to a potential id. Pictures of it with whiteish background are upside down.
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Hello all, I found this bone fragment many years ago. I'm afraid this will (as usual in this area) be a difficult one. This was found in the Boulonnais area in the North of France. Jurassic, marine sediments. This was a coastal area in the late Jurassic, so also rare dinosaur bones can be found. I included an in situ picture. Hidden in the rock was an ichtyosaurus vertebra. I therefore assumed this to be a piece of ichtyosaurus bone. However, I can not think of a bone in the Ichtyosaurus skeleton that fits. The bone has a kind of socket which, I guess, was connected with a ball joint. So perhaps a part of a mandible? But it seems to robust for a mandible? Also the end of the bone has a particular structure, like an undeveloped bone? Another idea is that it's not ichtyosaurus but maybe an ulna of another reptile or mabye dinosaur? It does not look much but I hope that the "ball joint" is somehow characteristic (if it really is a ball joint off course). I apologize for the bad pictures. I have trouble making sharp pictures of this piece. Maybe the video is better: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vj1CfKZuWggOV7KMiNj4qsFPig_qYDrG/view?usp=sharing Regards, Niels
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I just recieved a box with a random assortment of Kem Kem fossils and I was wondering if some of you might help out with some of the ID's 1) A fish scute, Adrianaichthys (Lepidotes) pankowskii would be my guess. 2) Another Adrianaichthys (Lepidotes) pankowskii scale? 3) A small bone, turtle perhaps? 4) Crocodile osteoderm 5) Crocodile osteoderm 6) I often see similar fossil sold as Kem Kem coprolites 7) base of an Onchopristis numides rostrum tooth 8) A large fish vert, could it be Chondrichthyan like Onchopristis or probably just bony fish? 9) A fish vert? 10) Spinosaurid tooth
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Unearthed in North San Antonio Texas. These are a few pictures of the larger turtle "head". I'll post a picture of where I found it and the surrounding area and "rocks"
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Uncovered in North San Antonio Texas in an area I believe to have been under water at some point and had an abundance of marine life. These appear to be back flippers of different shapes and sizes. The largest one being 14.5 inches. This suggests a rather large creature. I'm thinking marine turtles. . I will post the " flippers" first. I will post what I believe to be the heads of these turtles next. The largest having a circumference of 27 inches.
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Hunting yesterday yields small shark teeth, lots of dermal denticles, a Meg, possible whale bones and this vertebrae. Likely modern due to fragility, pristine nature of very light bone. I thought lizard (iguana, monitor), maybe snake (Boa)... We have some strange pet store imports these days. Hopefully someone has seen something similar. I have not... It is L 32 x W 31 x H 20 mm All suggestions appreciated. Jack
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This is an incomplete specimen of marine reptile from Luoping, Yunnan Province of China. Triassic. Any idea what is the species? It looks like Diandongosaurus.
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Hello community, A friend of mine recently gifted me this keichousaurus. But as you can see the Preperation is not the cleanest/nicest. Can I as an amateur fix this by myself or make it look cleaner and nicer? I also had the Idea that I maybe could work from the other side with Acid layer by layer. Then I could also be able to see the upper side of the specimen rather than its belly. Or would that not work/ be to risky? Isbthe rock maybe to thin? Can i as an amateur who never worked on a fossil with acid before make that or is it generally not possible?
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Hello communtity, So I recently got a keichousaurus as a gift, and due to the fact that therer are a lot of fake specimen out there i was a bit worried if this one is real or not? How can I tell the difference between a real and a fake one? It is also very heavy for its size. What do I have to look out for?
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This is from a two day trip to the same creek. The first trip I found some clues that there may be big teeth here due to the large ray plates I found (the first day was mostly rays so you can tell them apart kinda). I found a few small shark teeth and I called it a day. The next morning, I set out for the creek yet again and I knew I made a good decision because I was going to explore a new place. Sometimes it’s good to explore something uncharted another day. I found a lot of teeth including this beauty that tooth was absolutely flawless and came right out the formation. I found a lot more shark teeth among side it while sifting and a couple small fish vertebrae which are cool because you can’t get them with the 1/4 inch mesh. I also found a nice piece of otodus that is pathological and would have been wicked if it was complete. the backside here is where it shows it’s deformities. It looks broken but I’m further inspection the enamel is still there but the tooth itself is real jacked up. I also found a large shark vertebra and a piece of reptile bone since whales didn’t exist in this time period yet. This is all the stuff, including some petrified wood from the Cretaceous formation. I hope you guys enjoyed it! I hope to one day find a nice complete rib or maybe even a skull there.
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Hello Here I have two bones. I think one is an ulna? Maybe turle, but I don't have any experience with turtles. It looks like a juvenil bone, I have the feeling that there should be joints but they are not there (not fused?). The second one I also have no exprience with. The cortical layer is so ridiculusly thin... It is so light and hollow, I don't know with what to compair it. Ulna? measurements: 131x32x18mm Hollow bone measurements: 97x30x20mm Thank you for any information
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Happy New Year everyone. Tonight I thought I might post a fossil whose identity I wanted to confirm. I found it in Wyoming's Lance formation this summer and someone told me it might be a Pachycephalosaur premaxillary tooth because of it's carinae and ridges at the base. However after comparing my tooth to examples I could find online I felt that this ID was incorrect. Eventually I looked back over one of @Troodon's threads and found a jaw labelled as parasaniwa and those teeth matched what I had found. My tooth is about 6 mm long and about 3 mm wide.
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First off: happy new year, everyone! Blezingeria ichthyospondylus is an enigmatic marine reptile from the Ladinian-stage Triassic, Upper Muschelkalk of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, first discovered in Crailsheim. Although various material has been referred to the species through time, its affiliation remains unclear. Initially described as nothosaurian and later as cymbospondylid ichthyosaurian, it has most recently been classed as thalattosaurian. Fossilworks, however, still defines it as cymbospondylid, whereas Muschelkalk.eu classifies it as an Eosuchian. Below is an overview of some of the material that has been attributed to the species: Source: Wikipedia Vertebrae & humerus. Source: Wikimedia Commons Source: Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen Vertebrae & scapula. Source: Muschelkalk.eu As you can see, the vertebrae are amphicoelous, just like those of ichthyosaurians. Though, contrary to in ichthyosaurs, the neural arch in B. ichthyospondylus is attached to the vertebral body. Scapulae and pubis bones are also highly reminiscent of those found in ichthyosaurs. All this, of course, is not to say that there were no other early marine reptiles with amphicoelous vertebrae - such as those of Placodus gigas figured below, for example: Sources: online vendor & figure 13 from Diedrich, 2013. Review of the Middle Jurassic "sea cow" Placodus gigas (Reptilia) in Pangea's shallow marine macroalgae meadows of Europe At the same time, and in the same area, true ichthyosaurs were also already around, and already had characteristic their amphicoelous vertebrae free of neural arch, including such species as Cymbospondylus sp., Phantomosaurus sp. - which, according to Fossilworks, are sister taxa to B. ichthyospondylus - and, possibly, Pessosaurus sp., to which the below Middle Triassic vertebra has tentatively been ascribed: Source: Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen The most comprehensive overview of Blezingeria ichthyospondylus material, however, comes from Diedrich, 2015. The vertebrates from the Lower Ladinian (Middle Triassic) bonebed of Lamerden (Germany) as palaeoenvironment indicators in the Germanic Basin (figure 9): Looking at the above image, the similarities with ichthyosaur skeletal material is indeed no longer obvious, which is reflected in the reconstruction, though there are still similarities to be found in the bone morphology of B. ichthyospondylus' fibula (no. 11 in the image above) and the Utatsusaurus sp. (primitive ichthyosaur) paddle in the diagram below: Figure 4 from Motani, 2005. Evolution of Fish-Shaped Reptiles (reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) in Their Physical Environments and Constraints The only cladistic data I can find on the interrelationships between thalattosauria, ichthyopterygia and sauropterygia, however, comes from the Pterosaur Heresies and Reptile Evolution - and, therefore, doesn't derive from the most reliable sources - lacks documented source references, and seems, at least in part, internally contradictory: Not having read Diedrich 2015 yet, my first question is, is there any more information on Blezingeria ichthyospondylus out there on easily accessible media (i.e., the internet, preferably open access)? Does anyone on TFF know about this species, and what is there to know about this species? Where does it fit in phylogenetically, and how does this relate to the other clades of marine reptile? Is there any merit to the above cladograms? Thanks for your help!
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It's been nearly two years since last I posted, but I'm back with one of my latest creations, a lifesize replica of a bone from Titanoboa cerrejonensis. The smaller bone next to it is a vertebra from a(n estimated) 10-12-foot anaconda which I used for reference. Enjoy!
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I found this nasty looking fossil in October 2020 and it appears to be the remains of some poor animal. What in the world is this??
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After a few months of many acid baths and manual prep, I finished this quality piece off this afternoon. Most likely heavily predated by another marine reptile. There’s verts, neural arches, ribs, teeth and jaw. Probably around 30 hours of prep in total. Finally have an abrasion unit on its way so all that’s left is to finish the matrix. This is my first foray into proper bone prep, only really doing smaller pieces before, and needed a challenge during this lockdown I’m the uk. Pretty happy with how it’s come out.
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Have had these for years but never got them identified! Found on seperate excursions amongst the Jurassic rocks somewhere between Ravenscar and Whitby (don't remember exactly I'm afraid). Thanks so much in advance.
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Hello! Wanted to double-check the authenticity on this Hyphalosaurus fossil, or if it's been modified/composited in any way. Also, I know it's subjective but is this a nice enough specimen to consider buying?
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Found this piece on a walk near a Triassic outcrop in Pennsylvania, has a pretty exact visual similiarity to the wing rib of a Triassic reptile but is likely just some form of sedimentary trace. It would be great to get some more opinions on this piece to see if its worth holding onto or I would label it to be definitely sedimentary and rid of it, which I feel is the case.
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