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Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor BBC News, October 6, 2022 Elgin Reptiles - Wikipedia Clark, N.D.L. (2008) The Elgin Marvels. Deposits, 13 . pp. 36-39. ISSN 1744-9588 Yours, Paul H.
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Wondering if anyone can give me a clue as to what I've found at Achanarras Quarry in Caithness, Scotland? I'm pretty much a novice so any help is greatly appreciated.
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Can anyone ID these, please? Again found in Caithness. The textured stuff looks plant-like to me but I'm doubting my eyes and think they could just be really cool looking rocks!? I've Googled things like 'concretions' but I'm still none the wiser. The flat piece with the minerals running along the top fizzes with vinegar so I'm guessing it's calcite with a sparkle of pyrite. It was found beside the textured piece in pic #1 which seems to contain a pink tinted quartz (?) and pyrite? The big piece I'm holding aloft looks so like bark to me but I'm anxious of merely making assumptions.
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The Rhynie Chert preserves one of the oldest terrestrial ecosystems, which is a hot spring environment. It's Lower Devonian, and the oldest know harvestman was also found there. These are some photographs of my thin sections from this environment. This first thin section is one of my favourites, it has several Aglaophyton major plants that contain fungal cysts of Palaeomyces gordoni, containing spores. These are more Aglaophyton major cross sections. In this and the one above, there are a few vascular bundles, these consist of thin-walled protoxylem cells, surrounded by thicker metaxylem cells, which is then surrounded by the phloem. In the cortex of some of these is the mycorrhizal fungi Glomites rhyniensis. Their hyphae look like a darker-coloured ring. These both are Aglaophyton major. This one has Aglaophyton major, as well as Retusotriletes spores and some more Palaeomyces gordoni cysts without spores. This section contains a few Retusotriletes spores. This has the plant Horneophyton lignieri in it, which had a rhizoids instead of roots. In the upper left of this one is an arthropod coprolite consisting mostly of spores. Lastly, this is a piece of the Rhynie Chert containing Aglaophyton major.
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This was found in Scotland, unfortunately not sure exactly where. A friend suggested it could be part of a fossilized bryozoan colony and I was hoping to get confirmation or a correction.
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Found this at a beach near Gourock, western Scotland and was wondering if it is possibly a fossil? The lines on it remind me of a plant of sorts.
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Hello all Apologies in advance for the potentially stupid question, but I promised my 9 year old (fossil hunter/general geology fan) son that I'd get to the bottom of this! During a river walk today, we came across an exposed rock that had some weird line patterning on it, that does admittedly look a little fossil-y. However, elsewhere on the rock there are lots more of these patterns in more random formations, so while I'd love it to be a little more interesting, I suspect it's just some unusual rock form. Anyway, you lot are the experts, so please advise! Thank you! P.S. rock found in central Scotland, UK.
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I found this on Prestwick beach in Ayrshire, Scotland. Is it a fossil. It was almost black but now getting lighter as it’s drying out. Thanks!
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Interesting article bout concretions that mentions fossils. Concretions in sandstones of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland Mark Wilkinson, June 2016, Deposit Magazine The Great Estuarine Group (Jurassic, Scotland) The Palaeontology Newsletter, 1992 Yours, Paul H.
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Hello all, Here are some finds from this spring near Thurso, Scotland. Fish from the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone). None of them is perfect, but these are the more complete ones, but I find it difficult to identify them. The fish are compressed a bit disintegrated or decomposed and the details, especially near the head, are hard to distinguish. I suspect Osteolepis panderi ? I have another box full to prep so who knows what will pop up. Regards, Niels
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Hi all. Took another trip to our closest site yesterday - a Carboniferous marine deposit on the shores of the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Amongst the usual Bivalves and more familiar shapes (which I may need to ask about on here at some point - as I have only the wildest guess of what they actually are) we found the below. It looks for all the world like a coarsely textured skin of small scales. I'm aware that soft tissue preservation is incredibly rare, so am dubious - but I don't know what else it might be. Anyone able to help? Nb. I haven't done any work on this at all yet - this is exactly as found.
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Hello again, I also found this bone, both ends are missing, but it seems hollow and the "split" in the end looks characteristic. A couple of years ago I found a pterosaur bone at this same location (Helmsdale, Scotland, late Jurassic, marine sediments): http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/97935-tiny-bone-from-scotland/ I wonder if this is pterosaur as well. I noticed the same "split end" on pterosaur bones, for instance the tibiotarsus. What do you think? Regards, Niels
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Hi all, Another newbie here saying hi. My name's Alex, and I've been fascinated by fossils for years. Finally got myself together to go find some and learn how to clean/prepare and identify them, and fell over this forum looking for resources... happy to be here, and looking forward to having a poke around!
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I have a small collection of fossils I've bought, but mostly wanting to post my own finds here. Below is the first piece I've actually extracted and cleaned, from a marine Carboniferous fossil bed on the shores of the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Quite happy with the result, especially for my first time cleaning and exposing a piece with a dremel... wondering whether there's anything else I can do to clean it up a bit more. Any tips/hints gratefully received! :-) Also wondering what the odds of identifying a fossil like that are beyond 'brachiopod'?
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So I split a slab at home and this showed up. Unfortunately compressed and a bit splintered, but negative and positive. Found in Helmsdale, Scotland. Jurassic marine sediment. It looks like a claw, but I also saw see hybodont claspers and squid hooks with this shape. Any ideas?
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Found in Helmsdale, Scotland, ca 3 cm. Jurassic marine sediment. I wonder if this is a fish mandible or maybe reptile as it looks a bit different. Regards, Niels
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Scotland, Solway Firth, thought crinoid but friend thinks plant- club moss? Any ideas. Measurements are 20cm x 5cm for “stem” section corals and bivalve shells in rocks around these examples. Carboniferous era.
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New large pterosaur described from the Jurassic of Scotland Dearc sgiathanach Headline : Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00135-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098222200135X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Article Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10537923/Worlds-largest-Jurassic-pterosaur-unearthed-Isle-Skye.html Article New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2309151-pterosaur-fossil-from-scotland-is-largest-jurassic-flier-ever-found/
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Hi,Could anyone help with this?It was found in Scotland close to a large fossilised Lepidodendron tree.Thank you
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Just acquired a nice Osteolepis from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland! I love the scales on this fish, each one is like a shiny black gemstone. She now lives at the bottom drawer where I keep my oldest Fossils.
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Hallo from Roslin Glen, Midlothian in Scotland. I'm a complete novice with a great fascination for the awesome geology and fossil- filled landscape where I live. Our glen has a deep river gorge and is in the Pentlands area- rich in geology and geomorphology.
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I suspect this is just an ordinary bit of flint but I wanted to ask you all for your opinion just in case. I found it amongst gravel on the garden path outside my home in Scotland. The the width of the widest end is 1.4 cm, the thinnest is 0.9 cm and the full length is 3.1 cm.
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Hello, I'm very new to this, so I hope I get things right here. Can anyone help me identify this? I found it in an old bottle-dump near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders that dates back to the 1960s. It's on the broken edge of a stone slab but from what I can see it measures about 5.7 cm across. Is it some kind of shell? If anyone needs more info I'd be happy to give it. Thanks in advance!
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Billion-year-old, freshwater, multicellular microfossils reported from the Torridonian sequence of the Northwest Scotland
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One Billion-Year-Old Fossil Could Be The Oldest Multicellular Animal. David Bressan, Forbes, April 30, 2021 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/04/30/one-billion-year-old-fossil-could-be-the-oldest-multicellular-animal/ The open access paper is: Strother, P.K., Brasier, M.D., Wacey, D., Timpe, L., Saunders, M. and Wellman, C.H., 2021. A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity. Current Biology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221004243 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00424-3.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350888013_A_possible_billion-year-old_holozoan_with_differentiated_multicellularity https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Strother Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Hi. I've found one similar to this find. Found it in a an order of large Scottish cobbles I had delivered. The back of the head there's holes as if from where it's head attached to the body. Decieving rock? Either way it's pretty cool. I have it on my bathroom window ledge next to my alligator head. People think it's a real skull fossil of some kind. I tell them it's prehistoric dinosaur skull.
