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Hey guys, My name is Alex, I'm from Moscow, Russia. I'm extremely amateur in paleontology so can you please help me to identify some fossils from my collection. I found these fossils about 20 years ago in a small sand quarry 130 km west from Moscow. If you search in google maps the nearest train station is: o.p. 133 km, nearest villlage is Blagoveshchenskoye and Kozino. The fossils were maybe about 2-4 meters deep in the ground (I actually don't remember). The dimension of the first fossil (black one) is 2.4x0.8 cm, the second (grey) is 3.7x2.3 cm. I've always really wanted to know what are these and how old they are.. Thanks!

What is being called the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found anywhere is described in a recent paper. The internal organs are mummified while the fur is slightly ruffled. Boeskorov, Gennady G., Valery V. Plotnikov, Albert V. Protopopov, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Philippe Fosse, Love Dalén, David W.G. Stanton, Innokenty S. Pavlov, Naoki Suzuki, and Alexey N. Tikhonov 2021. "The Preliminary Analysis of Cave Lion Cubs Panthera spelaea(Goldfuss, 1810) from the Permafrost of Siberia" Quaternary 4, no. 3: 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4030024 https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/4/3/24/htm

Hi everyone I came across these teeth on our favorite site. It's listed as plesiosaur and ichthyosaur, but could the plesiosaur be a pliosaur tooth? The ridges are quite pronounced.. The teeth in this set were both found in the Seversk Sandstone in Belgorod, Kursk, Russia

Hello everyone, I recently got some fossils from Russia, some plant remains from Perm Krai where I grew up and a couple of Productid brachiopods from Sverdlovsk Oblast. They are from the Artinskian stage of the Permian period, one is around 2.5cm in width while the other even though incomplete is absolutely gigantic, the largest I have in my collection. I am not great at identifying Productid brachiopods and the Permian is probably the period I have least experience with within the Paleozoic so I have not been able to ID them myself. The large one looks similar to some Reticulatia sp. I've seen online but all of those are smaller so I don't know if that's accurate, the smaller one I have no idea. Thank you for any help, Misha

Hi all! This is another report from Oxfordian quarries in the vicinity of Moscow. Previous 1 (Peski) Previous 2 (Timonino) Peski again. If you read my fossil sites overview, you know that Peski quarry is a unique site where you could find lots of Carboniferous fossils, Middle Jurassic dinosaurs, calcitic Callovian ammonites and very good Oxfordian gastropods. The latter are the most numerous and easier to search for. My trip took place in April and was mostly a success with a good variety of finds

Greetings, Sorry, if slightly off-topic. Found this tooth-like thing near Vladivostok, Russia, 10-20 meters from sea line, among remains of an early iron age culture (800-300 BC). Any help would be much appreciated!

Hi all! You know I visit my favorite Volga river site (Ulyanovsk Oblast) more or less often, but this time I decided to give a try to another well-known Jurassic-Cretaceous site on the Volga river, located in the nearby Samara Oblast (city of Syzran). It's famous for its iridescent ammonites as well as marine reptile finds. I hoped to discover a real alternative to the Ulyanovsk site particularly as the conditions are very similar: surface collecting on river bank. Here the Ulyanovsk site is to the north, Syzran to the south. The latter is home to two distinct locations: in the city itself (Oxfordian-Volgian, 2km) and by the Kashpir village (to the south): Volgian to Barremian, 4 km.

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Does anyone know about the occurrence of Pliosaurs in Russia? I recently acquired a lovely pliosaur tooth from Calvin from this forum, and the information given was: Polyptychodon interruptus Stary Oskol, Russia Upper Cretaceous I am curious because firstly, every single of this type of tooth are said to have came from Stary Oskol of Russia, and secondly they are all consistently listed as species Polyptychodon interruptus. However, I am not aware of any scientific papers or paleontology database listing Polyptychodon as a pliosaur from Russia. Polyptychodon is instead found in England and US. These teeth supposedly comes from an old German location. Could they be an unidentified species of pliosaur, or was Polyptychodon more wide-spread than we realized? Thank you. Here's a pic of a tooth that's almost identical to mine

I just received this Woolly Mammoth Tooth from Russia and am sharing it with the forum for discussion. It appears to have been coated with a clear substance like poly urethane (At the tip of one root is a solidified drop). The specimen measures approximately 7”x6”x3”

Hi all! Those who follow my reports know I was planning another trip to Ulyanovsk in spring. Well, here is the report, in continuation of 1, 2 and 3. This time I was on the shore for 3 days. In short, the weather was fine, the ice abundant, the competition high and the finds scarce. The trip felt more like an extravagant outing than a productive fossil hunt

I purchased some shark teeth recently, all or most of which appear to be sand tigers, from Russia and am hoping some folks on here might be able to help me identify them. The information from the seller, who is in Russia but didn't collect these himself, is that these are Cretaceous teeth found in chalk deposits on the banks of the Don River, near Kalach-on-Don, Volgograd region, Russia. He doesn't have any more info or know the exact geologic layer. I haven't been able to find much information from searching online, but using the app Rockd, it does appear that the geology in the area around Kalach-on-Don is Late Cretaceous (see composite screenshots from the app below). Many of the teeth themselves also have remnant white chalky matrix on them and some have what appear to be calcite crystals on them. If anyone here knows more about the geology/stratigraphy of the area that you could share with me, that would be great! Below are photos of the teeth. While the info above checks out, I have some suspicion that these teeth might be younger than Cretaceous in age. I may well be wrong about that, though, and would be happy to know either way if you think these look like Cretaceous teeth or if you think they're from a more recent time period. These are nice looking teeth that were reasonably priced, and I don't mind if they're younger; I'm just interested in trying to identify them. I've tried to organize the teeth in the photos below into groups with similar characteristics. Please let me know if any additional photos would be helpful, and thanks in advance for any help you can provide! Group 1: These all have lingual striations, except for the tooth on the far right, though that one's more worn and may have had them originally. The tooth fourth from the left/third from the right has very different coloration than all of the other teeth I acquired and reminds me of the coloration of teeth I've seen from Kazakhstan (perhaps it was accidentally mixed in?). You can't necessarily tell from the photos, but these all have very small lateral cusplets/nubs, one on each side. Here are additional views on the leftmost tooth above, which is generally representative of the others. One reason I question whether these are Cretaceous in age is the striations on these remind me more of Striatolamia sp. teeth I've seen from the Paleocene and Eocene than Scapanorhynchus sp. teeth from the Cretaceous, which in my albeit limited experience have deeper/more prominent striations. The striations on these teeth also do not appear to extend onto the roots. Group 2: These teeth are also lightly striated on the lingual side, which you can see more clearly in the second set of photos below detailing the leftmost tooth. These all have one lateral cusplet on each side of the cusp (more rounded on the two teeth on the right). My guess is these are the same species as the ones above, just different tooth positions. The tooth on the left in particular does remind of Scapanorhynchus sp. Here are more detailed views of the tooth on the left: Group 3: The teeth below all lack striations; the preservation is quite good, so I don't think they ever had them. These teeth have fairly large lingual root protuberances. The first three teeth each have one sharp, but small lateral cusplet on each side. The two teeth on the right both have two lateral cusplets on each side. Here are some more detailed photos of the leftmost tooth: And here are some closer photos of the two teeth on the right, which have two lateral cusplets on each side: Group 4: The two teeth below also lack striations and have one pointy cusplet on each side of their cusps (one of the cusplets is broken on the left tooth). I've separated these two out from the teeth above as the lingual protuberances aren't as large/prominent. Group 5: These are somewhat smaller teeth that may be from the same species as teeth above. All three lack striations. The one in the middle has two cusplets on each side while the other two each have only one. Group 6: These two teeth have more u-shaped roots and narrower cusps than the ones above. They lack striations and have one cusplet on each side of the cusp (though some are broken). Group 7: This tooth has more triangular cusplets than the ones above and a more angular root. It lacks striations. Group 8: The final tooth is a bit worn, but reminds me of the Cretaceous thresher, Paranomotodon sp.