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Hello everyone one, this is my first post on here and I was hoping to try and figure out what this mystery bone is. It was found on the coast of North Carolina near the town of Duck on the ocean side on 12/25/23. This is for sure a modern bone and not a fossil. I am led to believe this piece is from a sea turtle shell, though I am not 100% sure. The piece itself is roughly 13 cm across, a little over a cm thick, and about 8 cm tall in the middle point. The piece appears to connect to other bone structures from just about every side except for the points of the "wings". If you all have any suggestions as to what this could be that would really help! Thank you!
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Supposed fossil plant from Colombia actually a juvenile sea turtle
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A couple of fossils from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia originally classified as plants have been reidentified as juvenile sea turtle fossils: Fossil plant or turtle? (palaeo-electronica.org) Turns out a 100-million-year-old plant fossil was really a baby turtle (cosmosmagazine.com) Fossil first identified as plant is actually a baby turtle | Popular Science (popsci.com) The initial assignment of Sphenophyllum colombianum to Sphenophyllum by Huertas (2003) was perplexing because Sphenophyllum is known only from the late Devonian to Permian, but the reclassification of S. colombianum as a marine turtle removes the sole chronologically extraneous record of Sphenophyllum. Huertas, G. 2003. Flora Fósil de Villa de Leyva y sus alrededores. Camargo Editores, Chía, Colombia.- 2 replies
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I had spotted a few sharks teeth in my driveway, but that's nothing out of the ordinary. In my area, a lot of people choose to put crushed shell in driveways and you can often spot teeth. I have science and spelunking in my blood and I am forever picking up rocks that I think look that I think look interesting. I picked up a chunk that had broken off of a bigger piece because it looked like a conglomeration of things within a larger concrete looking formation. After a week of speculating and internet searching, I'm no closer to figuring out what I found. There's still a much larger piece of whatever this is in my driveway, but this is a small sampling of the things I found in that general area. I live in a floodplain and I am somewhat close to the ocean if that helps any. Thanks in advance for any direction or identification!
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I found a really interesting bone a week ago. Tonight I found a Research paper. Oligocene pancheloniid sea turtles from the vicinity of Charleston South Carolina U S A A Map of where these Sea Turtles were found: A photo picture of a right Humerous of a turtle named Carolinochelys wilsoni. It is approximately 16 cm in length, My find, basically a distal half of a Sea Turtle humerus is 8.2 cm. I am feeling good tonight. Sharing the joy. Morning coming quick. Going out hunting at 5:30 AM. Goodnight, Jack
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Hey gang, still going thru old fragments and found this piece that I'm wondering about. Hope there is enough to confirm crocodilan due to the small elongated pits/foramen and maybe rule out any sea turtle jaw/dentary/skull possibilities. Shell pile find. Probably Plio-Pleistocene based on the types of shells found with it. Its approximately 8cm long X 1.7mm wide. It has a small channel/groove along its length that tapers to down to almost 1mm. Also shows a large foramen? that connects to this channel/groove/foramen? thru the flatter side of the bone. Its got many distinctive elongated small pits/foramina? that are only 1-2mm long and none that appear to be larger. I was hoping it was a sea turtle dentary/jaw fragment as that's what I'm looking for in the box of scraps but I cant find any matching comparative photo. I'm not smart enough to say really one way or the other and defer to you all. Is there anything visible that screams crocodilian or what part it may actually be from? Just doesnt seem very robust and seems very thin to me but I've not seen alot of reptile material... Aside from teeth/osteoderms is there anyway to distinguish gator from croc bones that show this kind of pitting? Ok here's a general picture 1st and then I flipped the specimen around in some in better outside lighting. Then some closeups of the pitting. Lastly, a view of the canal like structure that runs the entire length of the piece and seems to be possibly connected to a larger opening/foramen? on the flat side? Hoping this is an easy one for you bone folks. thanks for your thoughts! Regards, Chris
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Hi all, I found this turtle peripheral in eastern North Carolina. I believe it is from Cretaceous Black Creek group sediments, but Pliocene Yorktown formation is also possible (both are marine). A person I showed it to said it was a Hesperotestudo (tortoise) peripheral, not sea turtle, so thus terrestrial (I guess it might be terrestrial Pleistocene, but that would be unlikely, I don’t find much of any Pleistocene material where the shell was found). However, it actually looks similar to a peripheral I have from a known fossil sea turtle. Is this peripheral sea turtle or tortoise?
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Associated sea turtle remains from Chandler Bridge Formation, South Carolina, U.S.A., 2021
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From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection
Associated remains of the sea turtle Carolinachelys wilsoni from an Oligocene lag deposit just outside the township of Summerville, SC.© Lando_Cal_4tw
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Associated Cenozoic sea turtle carapace from Summerville, SC lag deposit
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So I just finished piecing together the remains of a partial sea turtle carapace that I dug out of a lag deposit just outside the town of Summerville in South Carolina. Anyone potentially know any taxonomic information on it, such as what genus or species it might be from? Conversion from inches to cm: 10 inches = 25cm; 5 inches = 12.5cm; 1 inch = 2.5cm -
Anyone have any idea what this is? Found it in a creek just outside the town of Summerville. It’s definitely a fossil, it has an internal histology. The back part extended longer before it broke digging it out (it’s incredibly fragile). I’m thinking it might be some type of fossil coral, otherwise I have no idea, even with researching it online. I found it next to some associated pieces of a sea turtle shell in a lag deposit, lots of phosphate nodules surrounding it. Very brittle, just like the sea turtle shell, and of the same color as the turtle shell. Weird.
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Made my first fossil hunting trip to South Carolina, went to some areas around Summerville, thought I’d share pics of some of the fossils I collected! The best finds were some echovenator-like teeth, Angies, great whites, some intact sections of dugong ribs, and several associated pieces of a sea turtle shell. Felt like Indiana Jones exploring all the creeks trying to find productive spots haha. Fun trip, hope to return in the future!
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Hi all! I just got back from a trip to the Charleston area of South Carolina. Did a little fossil hunting just outside Summerville. Ran into a phosphate lag deposit in a creek and dug out part of an associated sea turtle shell. Are associated and/or articulated remains normal for lag deposits? I was surprised by the find, thought lag deposits were a random assemblage of disarticulated/non-associated remains left over and concentrated by receding shorelines. I’ll post pics of the fossils I got on my trip later today, thanks for the help!!!
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Need help identifying an odd find on the beach in Galveston Texas.
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Found a few days ago on the beach in Galveston Texas, it had some build up of sediment around it and I cleaned it up to be left with what I believe is a fossilized/petrified sea turtle. Any thoughts or ideas on what it may actually be and or an idea on possible age?- 14 replies
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Glad to be back. I'm here to share a rock fossil my co-contributor and research partner discovered. It was unearthed in north San Antonio, TX. I believe this to be "the smoking gun" of proof sea turtles once inhabited the shoreline and ocean of San Antonio and that an event of great magnitude occurred covering these creatures and allowing petrification to occur. Bold statements and conclusions, but this appears to me to be a small sea turtle that is sticking out of whatever material covered it. And it did not decompose. Your thoughts?
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Hey everyone I ordered this piece last night, it will probably arrive in the course of this week. According to the listing it is a turtle bone from the cretaceous phosphate layers of Oued Zem in Morocco, but the exact species wasn't identified. But unfortunatly I am not very familiar with Cretaceous sea turles from Morocco, I just found it a nice piece to add to my Oued Zem display. So does anyone know which turtle species can be found in the cretaceous phosphate layers of Oued Zem? The only species that came out while googling was Lytoloma elegans, but I am sure some of you might know other species that lived in Oued Zem during the Cretaceous? Thanks in advance!
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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