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I am in the process of creating scientifically accurate extinct plush animals, and I had a question in regards to the integument of Tyrannosaurus Rex. I know there is evidence supporting the scaly covering of T. Rex from various impressions from the Wyrex specimen, but I am unsure of the location, size and implication of these impressions. We want to make our animals (while made more 'cute') to be accurate to the scientific finds at the time of their production. However, I must admit a large attraction of the T. Rex plush is that it will have a feathery covering on it's body. Even though the feathers are highly speculative I think the idea of feathers on a T. Rex will get some people to question what they know and hopefully delve more into the science behind these creatures rather than just take recreations at face value. So my question in short is this: Where do we KNOW T. Rex had scales, how large were these scales, and whats the maximum size and location of coverage we could accurately speculate T. Rex could have had feathers without ignoring the facts? Thanks a ton for your answers and views
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I have a few fish fossils here that are in a dark colored matrix. I do not know what species they are, nor how old. You can see scales preserved on them, which I think is pretty interesting. Any information about them would be very appreciated! Thank You!!
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I am asking for help identifying the species of some fish scales from Mazon creek. The scales were too small to put a scale in, but the whole patch is about 1.2mm in width. On the reverse side of the concretion it appears there are some spines under the scales, possibly from the fin. My initial thinking is Rhabdoderma Exiguum as the fin looks similar to me as an example from RCFossil's collection:
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So I'm working my way through my tiny fossils, collected in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. These are gar scales, right? They are quite blue! Is there a species name, or just "gar"? And this next set I'm not too sure of. Some sort of skin/scale/scutes? The third is quite more spiky, and the fourth is much more smooth than the other two. The 2nd and 3rd here I think are scutes? From crocodile? And what's in the first container? And finally, some misc. items. The 1st I think is a turtle rib (shown from inside the shell?) And the 2nd is an edge of a turtle shell (smooth on both sides, curves down to the nice edge on top). The 3rd has slight ridges on it. And the 4th looks like a random bone fragment....but it broke in a nice zig-zag pattern (at the top) - or is it actually something?
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Found in mineral springs by the Mississippi
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Hi folks, another discovery in my garden. I haven't seen this size or type of segmented surface before. It doesn't really look like a shell as it has a wavy contour that I hope you can see in the pics. Thanks,
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Hi all, I like to collect rocks off the beach and while I'm usually skeptical of anything that looks like it has organic patterns, this one has just totally stumped me and my curiosity is killing me! It looks like it might have belonged to something living but I really don't know. Found in Albert Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, washed up in the sand among a bunch of other similar sized rocks. The tooth-like structure is about half an inch tall, and the rock itself is a little over half an inch long. The tooth-like structure has these vertical stripes all around while there are scale-like patterns on the bulbous end. Can't tell if plant or animal (if organic at all). Please help! I'm dying to know. Will happily take more photos on request. Thank you!
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Hi Everyone, About 20yrs ago, I was given an unprepared fossils from a friend of the family (from Oxford in the UK). Admittedly it's taken me 20yrs to get round to preparing it, but now that I have, it seems pretty interesting. I did a basic preparation on this tonight and the fossil fish has come up really nicely. I've no idea when or where it was found as it was simply given to me to practice on. Any guidance from a few fish experts would be brilliant. The matrix was a very hard material (I think a limestone). The total length of the fish is 6 inches. Any thoughts?
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I need some help identifying what I think "might" be a mosasaur bone. Also, the skinny, orange items are a mystery as well. I defer to y'alls expertise!
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Dear Guys, I have found many strange scales with radial incisions but I do not know which kind of fish they belong to. The age of the continental limestone boulders with these scales should be Triassic. Might they belong to coelacanths? Any idea what is this? Kind regards Domas
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From the album: Plant Fossils
Lepidodendron sp. Location: Villablino, Spain Age: Carboniferous© @copy Olof Moleman
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Hi All, I have found these at different times in N. Texas, in upper cretaceous, Eagle Ford, with marine; ammonites, crabs etc. These, I have no idea, except that they sort of look like scales. All have very pearly look and smooth feel, with translucence to them. One photo shows the back side of the 3, with one having stone on the back side, mounted to same materia as most of the fossil finds around them. For some reason they do not look or feel as old though, however the one with stone on the back has me wondering. The close up (2nd photo) shows tiny pits on the surface, and all of the three have one larger pit in the middle and many surrounding on the surface. This makes me think of marine as well, not sure why. Please look at the photos and let me know if you have any thoughts or can steer me to the right direction. As always, everyone here ROCKS (pun intended...?), and thank you in advance for looking. -S.
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From my multiple trips to Trent River on Vancouver Island, I've come across a few of these and am never sure what they are, so I bring them home to one day find out. This would be Cretaceous and part of the Nanaimo group and are often found in concretions in the shale walls, or loose on the ground. This one in particular was pulled out of the shale wall and cracked open, splitting the specimen in two pieces. I look at it and see a sort of scale like pattern with little round indents on the negative part of the specimen. I really have no clue what this could be, so any help is appreciated! the photos: keep in mind the actual fossil is about 2 cm
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Unidentified, Undigested Fish Remains In Cretaceous Coprolites
GeschWhat posted a topic in Fossil ID
I am trying to identify the some bony fish inclusions in coprolites from the Eagle Ford Formation in Texas. Can anyone out there identify fish by vertebrae and scales? I have not been able to find any teeth in them that would help with ID. The first two pictures are from a coil-shaped coprolite that has numerous bony inclusions. I'm assuming the vertebrae (40x) and bony thing that looks like coral (20x) are from the same fish. I forgot to take measurements of this one, but the photos were taken through a microscope. The fancy scale is in a different coprolite and measures about 4 mm x 1.5 mm. The vertebrae in the last picture measures approx. 1.25 mm x 0.75 mm. Thanks for your help!
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Hi guys. To my understanding it's common theory that dinosaurs weren't entirely reptilian and most of them carried some sort of plumage. I'm wondering if there's evidence that dinosaurs had scales at all(?) or maybe because they were theorized to be entirely reptilian for the longest time was it assumed they had scales? I've tried to research this a little but I figured I'd learn more (accurate) information talking with you guys. Thanks in advance. EDIT: Excellent links, exactly what I was looking for. I'm sorry if I appear lazy but I'm watching a 1 year old and he's in to everything(!) can't leave him alone for a minute. Much appreciated!
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Okay, How bout this one? Found in the same area near Yuma, CO. same place as "The Egg Maybe" ... and the the tooth that is not a Bison tooth... but, maybe a Gomphotheriidae.. I think it looks like scale (ish) things on (we'll call it the top) and then Dermal layers on the side (YES, I polished part of this one too... okay... well, most of it... sorry) So, here it is.... and it measures 1 1/2" x 3/4" x 1/2" Now, be kind please.... I see cells, and cell walls... don't I, it could happen right? ...more pics on the way. ... and thanks for reading...
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I am having trouble nailing down what exactly this fossil is and would appreciate some help. It is from the Phosphoria formation (270 ma), and was found on a horizon of low grade phosphate that was roughly 20x10 feet. The gentleman who found the fossil said it was covering the horizon and that there were 20-30 3 inch diameter tooth whorls as well! So this material is supposedly associated with helicoprion fossils. The picture is the fossil as is, the guy that collected it POURED shellac over the entire surface The blue tinted 3d model is what I built today based on a surface scan of the rock.
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Howdy from Houston. I am a docent at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and am currently leading tours through our Fantastic new paleo hall. Because of their enthusiasm and questions I enjoy my younger tour member the most. Hearing a 4 year old say " Oh look over there. It's a stegosaurus!" really makes my day. I find that they like having things to handle and am looking for a couple of large (preferably fossil ) alligator gar scales to make a replica arrow with a gar scale point to bring out when discussing our alligator gar fossil. I am happy to buy or trade and also welcome suggestions about where to look to buy. I and my little future paleontologists thank you. I forgot to attach a picture of the shape I am looking for and that they should be at least an inch or so.
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From the album: Vertebrates
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I'm going through my whole inventory in this miserable time of the year (or maybe its a blessing in disguise, in the form of several feet of snow), I've been prepping some of my samples. One in particular was a piece of flimsy shale from Albert Mines, New Brunswick. The only noticeable feature was this bump about 2cm in diameter. This 'bump' was probably fish coprolite, but I needed to make sure (I had encountered other 'bumps' and they ended up being fish squished into a ball, very neat to look at) I started to peel away bit by bit until I exposed some scales. To my surprise, this nice little gem came out: This fella is about 3inches long, and missing the top of its head. I checked if the section of its head/braincase came off while I while taking off the matrix but it wasn't. I'm not 100%, but this seems to be Rhadinichthys Alberti, commonly found in these parts. Morale of the story: follow the poop, you never know where it can lead you - Keenan
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Red Hill - Devonian Teeth, Scales, Dorsal Spines
hitekmastr posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Red Hill Devonian Teeth, Scales, Dorsal Spines
© Copyright (c) 2012 by Michael Tomczyk. Artist illustrations from the Devonian Times website.
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