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  1. Kittenmittens

    Merck's or woolly rhinoceros skull

    Hello I have a skull I hope the forum can help me ID. Usually the nasal and the zygomatic arches make it an easy call but my skull is missing both. Going by head angle I'm tentatively leaning towards Stephanorhinus over Woolly rhinoceros. The only info I have is Eurasia probably Russia, Pleistocene. Thank you in advance.
  2. Hello friends. It's been a while since my last post and I wanted to share with you my new acquisitions and, better yet, help me confirm the identification of these specimens. 1: The place of origin is Liaoning, China. 2: The place of origin is Yunnan, China. naraoia? 3: The place of origin is Yunnan, China. Isopyx minor?. 4: The last and my favorite (although a bit fragmented). The place of origin is Harbin, China. I appreciate the ID. They are not the best specimens, but I love these pieces.
  3. Hello! I'm a new member with a question. I hope it's ok for me to ask this question and I hope it's according to all the rules I've been a fan of the forum for a while, but just mainly browsed a bit, but now I've got a bit of a problem... I'm basically a giant newbie when it comes to this, so please treat me like one (I hope you don't mind). So I've always had a very big fascination for the woolly rhinoceros. It's been a dream for me to own a rhino skull one day, so I had an opportunity recently and decided to go for it. I bought a damaged skull, originally from russia, which still looked pretty good. It had a few tooth left, the underside was a bit busted up, but the top and one side still looked spectacular. The price seemed very doable as well, for such a piece. A few weeks later it arrived and needless to say, I was pretty bummed to see that the front had broken off, the three remaining teeth were loose and the underside was a total mess. There's a few large cracks, that make the piece very delicate to transport... So... There's a few things I'd like to do, but I really haven't a clue where to start (I know, you might call me foolish, but the skull is in far worse shape then before it got shipped). - I'd like to re-attach the front nose piece (and maybe a few of the smaller pieces, but those really aren't a priority to me) - I'd like to fill/strenghten those large cracks - I'd maybe like to put those three teeth back in place That's about it, unless there's other stuff that needs to be done, that I don't know off. I never had any plans to really restore this piece. I actually like that it isn't complete, I though it had it's charm. But at the moment, it's just so fragile and sadly it's a bit in pieces :/ Also, don't mind the duct tape, it's all I had close to me when I unpacked haha. Sooo, I've got myself a little project here, but I'm looking forward to working on this. Any help would be extremely welcome. Again, please treat me like I know nothing on the subject. Many thanks! D
  4. JorisVV

    Woolly rhino lower jaw

    This just arrived. Lovely woolly rhino (Coelodonta Antiquitatis) jaw. Size: 40CM Weight: 5,1 kilograms Location: Siberia, Russia
  5. I just got back from an amazing and very fruitful week of fossil collecting on the White River Formation in northeastern Colorado. The White River Formation is a very easy and fun rock unit to collect vertebrate fossils on. The White River Formation was deposited during the very latest Eocene and the early Oligocene, though the faunal diversity in the areas I was collecting on suggest it was laid down during the Orellan North American Land Mammal Age, which centers on around 33 million years ago during the Rupelian age of the Oligocene Epoch. I am very lucky to have a grand uncle Gary (no biological relationship to me, is a close family friend who we’ve called “uncle” since I was a toddler) who is a cattle rancher up in northeastern Colorado, and he happens to have a pretty good amount of White River exposure on his property, in addition to some of the neighboring ranches of which Gary knows the owners and helped me to secure permission to collect on a few of them. He really is a great guy and is a real life true American cowboy. He has an interest in natural history and was eager to hear all about the fossils and geology of the area, though has never had the formal education or done the research to learn much about what’s out there. This is the second fossil collecting trip I’ve made to the ranch, though the first one where I’ve stayed for more than one night. The place truly is an amazing trove of fossil treasures and I can’t wait to tell you all about my week! In this thread I’ll make one post for each day (so as to not hit the picture limit too soon). Once I have the fossils prepped I’ll give updates here as well. Day 1, Sunday: My first day at the ranch began, ironically, at my own house. I had packed up the Jeep the night before with my field bag, two coolers filled with seven day’s worth of food, a suitcase full of clothes, and other such supplies for my fossil safari. I left my home early in the morning, took I-76 east to Fort Morgan, and then headed north to the ranch, in total about a 2.5 hour drive. The rest of the morning and early afternoon I spent visiting with and going over logistics with Gary and his wife and settling in at the ranch house I would be staying at, a property that used to be the home of another rancher before Gary acquired the property in 2002. They still maintain the house and it has both electricity and running water, so it makes a fantastic guest house and a place to stay when they’re doing work over on that side of their land. In the evening after I had made myself a quick dinner I decided I wanted to head down to a very productive exposure I had collected on last September for the evening. There was a partial oreodont skeleton that I had discovered eroding out of the hill the last time I was up there, and I wanted to see if there were any more bones there that had eroded out and I could collect. I picked up a few more bones from the feet and ankles that had been exposed in the last eight months and decided to take a scenic route back to my vehicle. A photo of the area of exposure I was in Sunday evening. This piece of badland will become very important throughout the rest of the week... On my walk back I walked over a ridge that I had apparently never been over, becase on a flat wash I noticed a pile of bone fragments. I approached the pile assuming that it would be yet another exploded tortoise shell that are so common in the area. As I got closer however, I was delightfully surprised to see the distinctive black color of fossil enamel, and a bit of digging revealed an eroded Subhyracodon jaw section, along with several loose teeth that I presume had come from the same section of jaw. This find, along with an oreodont jaw section I found later on while walking back to the Jeep that night, would be but a foreshadow of the big finds I would make later in the week. Two photos of the Subhyracodon jaw section as it was found in the field. The jaw section and some teeth after I had cleaned them up a little bit at home this afternoon.
  6. For the last several weeks Tammy and I have been volunteer digging every Wednesday and Saturday at the Montbrook site a little south of Gainesville (FL) with the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). The weather called for continuous light drizzle all day yesterday (Saturday) so we bumped the dig day to today (Sunday) instead. Normally, Sunday and Monday are the non-digging days at the site but the other days are occupied by small groups of volunteers and site managers. This morning was clear and cool with a steady breeze from the north. This meant several layers while packing up this morning and when we got to the site at 10am. The temps quickly rose throughout the morning and the layers of warm clothing were shed. Post-lunch it was quite warm with the sun beating down on your back and it was hard to fathom that it was actually chilly earlier in the day. We were digging in the same grid squares that we'd been focusing on for the last couple of weeks. Underneath several highly visibly banded layers of sterile sand we dropped into a layer that was rich with a tangle of fossils. The foundation for this cluster of fossil goodness was a large pelvis from a gomphothere (a 4-tusked elephant relative that is reasonably common at the site). Wedged in around this large flat pelvic bone were a couple of Trachemys (slider) turtle shells which were badly crushed and so did not merit being preserved in a plaster jacket and instead were "chunked out" into several small bags to attempt to be re-assembled later in the warehouse (possibly by me). We had started the morning by removing the plaster jacket that contained the majority of the gomph pelvis. There was more of this intermixed with other bones that will come out later as part of a jacket that might contain a pair of gator skulls--one in poor condition and one (underneath the pile-up) that might be in much nicer preservation that I discovered last week. I spent the day working around this mountain of bones. Tammy was working an adjacent grid square leveling it down and working on some clusters of bones that had cropped out in that square. Richard Hulbert (collections manager at the FLMNH and well-known identifier of Florida finds) was working on a section of articulated alligator vertebrae that was found a few weeks back several grid squares to the south. The only other participant today was Jonathan Bloch the department chair and curator for vertebrate paleontology at the FLMNH. He had found a large gomphothere leg bone and was clearing the area around it to make a pedestal so that it could be jacketed for removal. Most of the day was pretty run-of-the-mill for Montbrook. We pulled out lots of isolated Trachemys turtle shell pieces and random bits like gator vertebrae and teeth. These are the "background" fossils that are common at this site. Toward the end of the day Tammy pulled up an interesting bone that we had to pass around. From the size of it I guessed that it might be rhino and given the shape thought it might be something odd like a calcaneum or astragalus. When Richard had a look at it he confirmed that it was rhino but said it was one of the bones in the feet. I score that as correct with partial credit. Just half an hour before we were ready to leave at 4pm, I was working on digging down to complete the trench around the mountain of bones we would soon have to jacket. I completed the curved trench I was digging and was lowering it to the level of the adjacent grid square. After digging through some sterile layered sand I got down to a section that had some bone. We dig with flat-blade screwdrivers to loosen the sandy matrix and if we feel the resistance of a harder bone we switch to a dental pick for more careful exploration. I bagged up some broken-up bone fragments that looked like turtle shell pieces and, after running into more than simply an isolated bone in the sandy matrix, I moved to the side to attack the bony bit from another side--sneaking up on it to judge its extent. It was at this point when my dental pick uncovered a honeyed orange colored bone. This is the color we all secretly hope for while digging Montbrook. Most of the bones are either a well-preserved tan (like the rhino bit above), or a purplish color in a layer that preserves well but has lots of phosphatic matrix stuck to the bones making them difficult to clean-up or chalky white in a layer where the bones are not well mineralized. These bones (which we have named "pudding bones") are white and soft as a piece of wet drywall board. Orange, in contrast, is the color that many of the enameled mammal teeth preserve--it is the color we long to see emerge from the sand. Brushing away the sand from this speck of orange confirmed that what I was seeing was indeed a mammal tooth. Jonathan always jokes at the beginning of the day that he is here to find "something with teeth" as this indicates cranial material that is inherently more interesting than most post-cranial finds. Richard commented that it wasn't the curator that stumbled upon something with teeth but Jonathan was happy just to see a new find with teeth emerge from the sandy matrix. A bit more digging revealed three cusps of a proboscidean tooth but interestingly they were not from a gomphothere which are the most common hose-nose to be found at this site--it was instead mastodon! I believe only one other set of mastodon teeth have been found at the Montbrook site--also a smaller juvenile like this find. After a bit more uncovering we could see two complete 3-lophed teeth. The larger tooth was to the left indicating that this was toward the back of the maxilla (we could tell they were upper teeth not the lowers in the mandible based on the bone they were embedded in). This appeared to be a fragmented maxilla and no signs of tusks to the right have turned up (yet) but that could change with additional excavation. You have to put in a lot of time digging out fragments of turtle shell or other common finds before you make a notable discovery. Finding both rhino and mastodon make this a red letter day in our book. I won't be back to the site till next Wednesday but it will be interesting to see how much more has been revealed on Tuesday. Till then the grid squares with all those enviable finds will rest underneath a tarp awaiting our return. Cheers. -Ken
  7. White-wolf

    brachypotherium

    a while ago I got some teeth from brachypotherium, but struggles to find out more info about the species can someone refer me to some good articles about bracypotherium ?? thanks in advance
  8. Hey! Is this tooth real? It's suppose to be covered in resin to protect it.
  9. Hello! Good afternoon for all my big family here in TFF ! I'm thinking of buying this Woolly Rhinoceros Tooth Fossil. But please, I would like to ask some questions before my purchase: 01) Can this Woolly Rhinoceros Tooth Fossil be a real fossil or is it a modern with mud and cement? 02) Anyone know what species of Woolly Rhinoceros exactly belongs this Tooth? 03) According to the seller (Yes, the seller is Chinese), this Tooth was discovered in Heilongjiang Province, China (20000 years - Pleistocene)... Does anyone know if this locality is correct, or is it another Mongolian tooth disguised as Chinese? I thank you for all the help I can get. @Crazyhen
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