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Hi again everyone! I have a small fossil from a unit of lacustrine laminated silt from here in Saskatoon from the very late Pleistocene or early Holocene. The unit directly overlays a unit of till from the Wisconsinan glaciation. The unit contains carbonized plants stems, some of which are filled with wood boring beetle larva frass, diatoms, and burrows similar to Cruziana. In one of these hollowed-out burrows, I found this fossil, which is approximately 0.5 mm in length. It is composed of many extremely small carbonized plant fragments, all arranged horizontally from longest to shortest. I ha
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Hi! I’m still trying to identify one fossil from a particular unit of Pleistocene/Early Holocene lacustrine silt from my hometown of Saskatoon, but I figured I would look away from it for a bit to try and identify another fossil from the same unit I’ve been unable to classify. I have two specimens, both apparently of the same species. They are both approximately 0.5 millimetres across. They are perfectly circular, with lines radiating from the centre and rings of alternating colours (possibly representing growth lines). One specimen is photographed dorsally, showing its circular shape, the ot
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I found this fossil in a rock pile the other day. I have not tried to clean up this specimen aside from a quick rinse under running water. I’m new to fossil hunting (and this forum) but am curious as to what this might be? Looks like it’s possibly the lower jaw of a small marine reptile. It was found in West-central Saskatchewan. Thank you in advance for any replies!
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Hello! Thank you all for taking the time to read this and (hopefully!) help me identify a very interesting find from Saskatoon! I was on a fossil hunting trip to a local exposure of Pleistocene glacial lake sediments in Saskatoon, and I took home a few samples of it to review later. While looking through one piece (the material is silt but breaks like a rock and is somewhat laminated), I saw this very strange shape. Attached are a few images, some simply in situ, others through a microscope. My apologies if the image quality is not ideal, I do not currently have any better equipment. There ar
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My eagle-eyed mother found this in Saskatchewan Canada over 40 years ago...No idea if it was a shell, plant or a cocoon...if something new or very ancient, but all searches thus far have not helped me identify it.
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2/3 found these on shore of Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada. looked to be eroded from sandy deposits with layers of harder iron-rich rusty strata. the fossils themselves are heavy, mineralized with iron and then rusted? corals? all the same type or different? i think this is in cretaceous age but not sure. see other 2 posts these specimens are larger, very heavy. like solid iron, looks like outer textured surface mineralized and inner cavity separate - looks like central tubular structure did not mineralized (still sandy) in one pic (could scrape out with toothpick)
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1/3 found these on shore of Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada. looked to be eroded from sandy deposits with layers of harder iron-rich rusty strata. the fossils themselves are heavy, mineralized with iron and then rusted? corals? all the same type or different? i think this is in cretaceous age but not sure. see other 2 posts
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Rare find inside Scotty T. rex fossil / A Canadian Contribution
Denis Arcand posted a topic in Fossil News
Saskatchewan researchers have reportedly discovered an extensive network of blood vessels preserved in the fossil of a tyrannosaur rib. This discovery, if confirmed, would be the first of its kind. Sask. research teams make rare find inside Scotty T. rex fossil How dinosaur blood vessels are preserved through the ages Scientific Reports Who is Mauricio Barbi-
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So I decided that I would finally make a point of documenting some of these back country field excursions, and made a Youtube channel to keep the videos all in one place. Here's a a rather ordinary extraction of a placenticeras ammonite found the day before we did a little field work with some paleontologists. The GoPro is a fun addition to my kit, and makes it a lot easier to document the actual process of finding and extracting these things in the field. Anyway, I'll let the video speak for itself - enjoy! (click the image to open video link)
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Hello all, I recently found this strange fossil within a sandstone concretion from the late Campanian marine Bearpaw formation. I'm very familiar with the typical ammonites and other molluscs of the formation, and haven't seen anything like this - is it some sort of nautiloid, or something else entirely? Thanks.
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Hello everyone, A few weeks ago I came across this fossil in the field, and couldn't make ends of what it could be. The locality that it was found in represents a shallow marine lagoon environment, deposited in the late Campanian marine Bearpaw formation of SK. Typical finds at that locality (all within sandstone concretions) include nacreous mollusks, as well marine vertebrate material and decapods which are preserved as glassy black, similar to this specimen. Because of this, I'm inclined to think that this fossil is either from a vertebrate, or possibly a chitinous o
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Juvenile Elasmosaur Skull
Norki posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Last summer, on the last day of a long weekend of backcountry fossil hunting around Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan, my friend and I decided to stop our canoe at a beach where on a previous morning I had found a large baculites cuneatus specimen. This beach was an outcropping of a unit of the Bearpaw formation known as the Demaine sand, and dated roughly to the late Campanian. The locality was chock full of golfball to softball-sized nodules, each with a delicate, coalified fossil inside, ranging from crustacean parts, chips of driftwood, to loose vertebrae. It wasn't long before I was looking- 22 replies
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Hi I decided to make this since the new Tyrannosaur from Alberta’s Foremost Formation, Thanatotheristes deerootorum has just been named and described. Enjoy!! Tyrannosaur bearing Formations in Canada: Formations in Alberta but most of the Formations on my list are I Alberta anyway. Horseshoe Canyon Formation 74-68 million years ago, Alberta: Albertosaurus sarcophagus, possibly Daspletosaurus sp. but no compelling evidence so far. Oldman Formation 78.2-77 million years ago, Alberta: Daspletosaurus torosus, Gorgosaurus sp. Foremost
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Good day to all, Figured Id post my last two hiking trips together. Moving from small coral fossils in the river bed to much larger and defined fossils in the banks. Hard work does pay off. Ive put a lot of miles on; Whether it be bent over looking up and down riverbeds to gazing at hillsides for anything that pops out. Slowly, with a little research and time out in the field my finds just keep getting better. I stumbled onto a nice bank, which is providing most of these finds here. Some in concretions and some not. Tell me what you think! Thanks, Dyl
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Just another hike with some more finds! Another great day in my books
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Went for a hike this morning to a river bed, which has been eroding from spring run off. mother nature doing the work for me. Found a number of great coral fossils, couple pieces of small petrified wood and some shell fragment. Almost threw it away but decided to keep it. Ive been out multiple times this late winter and early spring to look but haven't been to successful, just the odd random little piece of fossil but today was a good day in my books.
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found this on my hike yesterday on the way back to the truck. I Had my head up most of the walk back but this huge rock stuck in the mud and shale caught my eye. my gut instinct, mollusk? tell me what you think. Thanks Maybe I was Just carrying a random 20 lb rock around for fun!
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Hello everyone, these are a few of the many fossils we've collected in a cut of exposed gravel near the Moose Jaw river. I've never seen ones like these before and couldn't find any info on the interweb. any idea what i'm looking at? brian
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We found this strange rock on our farm near Swift Current not far from the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan Canada. Does anyone have a clue as to what it is? Thanks, Tyler
