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Hi Everyone! Can anyone out there tell me what they think this skull belongs to? I’m in the process of prepping it for a guy who found it laying on a Corpus Christi beach in Texas 20 years ago. The teeth and left side of the skull were pretty beat up, but there should be enough for an ID. I’ve been researching for a while, but still not certain. The area is in the Beaumont Formation; which means Pleistocene material although the skull could’ve been carried by a big storm or hurricane from elsewhere. I had someone suggest gar and another person suggest a Hesperornithine bird. While still fragile, the skull seems more hefty and sturdier than fish material, but I could be totally wrong. Any insight would be much appreciated! Thank you!! Lauren
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Interesting way of displaying an oreodont.
fossilhunter21 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi, everyone. Just thought I would share with everyone this thing I just made to display my oreodont skull nicer. I had been thinking of ways that I could do it, and decided this would work the best for me. To make the insert, I had to put saran wrap around both halves of the skull. Then, using apoxie sculpt, I sculpted the insert to the the shape of the skull. This took a lot of patience, and a lot of time... I was worried I wouldn't be able to get it done before it dried. The reason for the weird shape in the matrix of the jaw is to help keep the insert in place. I am not super happy with the green color, but it still looks pretty good, at least to me. I am also not sure happy with the placement... Hope you enjoy! Cheers and Shalom, -Micah -
Hello forum, I was doing some yard work and found what looks like a petrified skull. Can anyone help identify what it may be? Appreciate all input and help. Located in Michigan. /Chris
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Hi everyone, Today I was working in the garden and found a small, recent skull. I tried to identity it but after an hour scrolling through skulls I gave up. I think that it most resembles to a rat skull but this one is shorter and has a wider top part. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!
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Hello I have a skull I hope the forum can help me ID. Usually the nasal and the zygomatic arches make it an easy call but my skull is missing both. Going by head angle I'm tentatively leaning towards Stephanorhinus over Woolly rhinoceros. The only info I have is Eurasia probably Russia, Pleistocene. Thank you in advance.
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Mosasaur skull - real or fake?
chris131313 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Opinions on these images? Mosasaur skull seems too good to be true for a size this big from what I’m seeing but I don’t know how to judge. It looks relatively real to me but wanted you guys to weigh in. It’s like 3 feet long. -
Complete mosasaur skull - real?
chris131313 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi everyone, I’m new to this but am curious as to whether these are legit or not. I’d imagine they’d be way more expensive but I wasn’t sure if this website is legit or not, and I really do not want to get scammed if I eventually buy something like this. Does this forum have a list of credible websites/vendors? -
So I thought I would share my recent and dream fossil find. Mark Kemp prepared my precious find for me. When I found it on the beach the skull had a big blob on the top. For some reason the nodule had been formed in this shape, possibly preserving it well? Anyway, here it was as I found it. A nice heavy lump to carry back. I could see the front of the rostum (Jaw, and back of the skull poking out of the rock) After preparation Thank you
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Unknown Skull, gives me uncertain vibes...
Katy2319 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Third and final fossil I was asked to identify which totally stumped me. It honestly gives me weird vibes, and I know that's not scientific at all, but I just couldn't make myself stop wondering if it was a fake. The teeth are certainly real I think, but the texture and appearance of the skull itself just seemed too smooth. Maybe it was lacquered though, as some other specimens in the collection were, and it does have a similar appearance in that regard. there are many fragments clearly held together by glue, and a white sedimentary material within the jaws/cavity. It appears to have a seam running the length of the skull across the top which leads to a sort of ridge, which reminds me of what I've seen on rhinoceros skulls in my other research projects earlier today. Almost 6" tall from lowest point of the jaw to top of the ridge. Nearly 8" long, from farthest point of snout back of skull. 3-4" wide, so certainly very narrow, but fossils do get squashed sometimes, so I'm not certain how helpful that measurement really is. -
Thoughts on this Mosasaurus Skull ?
Phos_01 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, What are your thoughts on this Mosaurus Skull. Im considering buying it It should be a Tylosaurus, it was found in Kansas. Sized at 45 × 17 × 16 cm. There is also a photo showing the found bones. -
Machairodus Horribilis sabertooth cat skull
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Hi this is posted online. I was hoping to get input on its authenticity. How can you tell new material and composite for older material? Stated it is from Hippareon layer Gansu province Would this be considered a good better or best specimen? Are the sabers all original? Thanks for the help! On a sperate note there are a few on a local auction house that come from China, Taiwan and Korea. Are these commonly fakes?- 9 replies
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Hi there! I am new to this site and woefully uneducated on fossils/bones/skulls but my friend felt like this skull was a bit large to be bison bison so I'd love to hear what anyone on here thinks! The largest diameter around the horn base is 8.5 inches. Item was found in NW Wyoming in the Wyoming range mountains south of Bondurant, WY. It was unearthed in an area that was burned over by the Roosevelt fire in '18. I don't really know what happens to bone when it burns so totally possible its a recent burned skull and not even a fossil but I figured I'd ask. Thanks so much.
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Original piece of Mosasaurus skull
Cris Tang posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
After I rejected the seller’s offer. He sent me another one. And he named it is an original piece. So I upload the photos here. And I hope to ask the opinions again. Hope it won’t bother you all too much. Thank you.- 6 replies
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Id help! I’m not sure if this in an animal skull or just a rock
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I have this piece from Central Indiana (Generally the Mississippian or Tertiary/Quatemary). What I find fascinating is that it appears to be a nasal cavity. I’m not sure if it’s coincidence or something of actual interest. I took quite a few pictures some with stronger flash so you can see the difference in the different light. -
Unique find! Partial Triceratops Skull! Thoughts Welcome!
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Good morning fellow fossil hunters. I have the opportunity to purchase a partial triceratops skull. Below please find the photos. It allegedly has 15-20% restoration and is from Hell Creek. Here are the dimensions: from the top to the back of frill it is 39 inches, and the horns are 23 inches measuring from the inside. It’s 21 inches across and weighs about 100 pounds. It was found by a friend of a friend. Questions: how does it look to you? Is it a juvenile, as the size seems somewhat small to me, but perhaps that is because it is only a partial skull? It is quite expensive so, I wanted to get the thoughts of the forum first!- 6 replies
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Just purchased this crocodile skull piece from the Kem Kem, Morocco, I love the bone structure of this piece. I guess it's difficult, but can anyone maybe ID what part of the skull this came from? Size is 10.1 cm (3.98")
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Probably Miocene* turtle skull I found (prep in progress)
mamlambo posted a topic in Member Collections
I found a concretion on one of our local beaches (New Zealand) with a bit of bone sticking out. The bone was different in texture from the cetacean material we usually find but I thought it was probably a large vertebra of some kind. Imagine my surprise when I started prepping it and the shape started looking more and more like a large turtle skull! It's about 17cm wide at the back so a chunky animal! I'm prepping it using a combination of air scribe (to get close to the bone) and vinegar (to remove the last 0.5mm of rock). The bone has an amazing texture, full of holes and suture lines. Very different to anything else I have ever found or prepped. Here is the video where I find it: https://youtu.be/VUvO5vKLIUg?t=149 I'll post again when it has been prepped but will be a few months If anyone has any papers on Miocene / Pliocene sea turtles, I'd love to know!- 39 replies
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This skull was found in a local southwestern USA rock shop; the owner of the shop knew nothing, and the skull was on consignment. I attempted to contact the original seller to find more details (such as where they got it), but no one returned my calls. Length of skull: 53 cm Width of skull at maximum: 17 cm (back of skull) Width of skull at minimum: 4 cm (across narrow part of snout) Height of skull at maximum: 14 cm The two large fenestrae above the orbital fenestrae measure between 9.5 to 10 cm Teeth measure between 1 and 2 cm each. I suspect it's an Eosuchian, but cannot yet identify the skull to the genus.
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Ok, last time I post here for a while I swear! At least until I go on another hunting trip... Anyways so I stopped by my mother's today after work and I was talking to her and my stepfather about my newfound passion for hunting & collecting fossils when it turns out that my stepfather had been holding out on me this whole time! After a bit of rummaging around he presented me with this, and even said that I could keep it! He said that he had been given it by a customer of his back when he worked delivering water. The customer a nice older man had found it in his backyard (lucky duck!) somewhere in San Pedro, California, my current city of residence. Any information would be greatly appreciated!
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For a friend of mine. ID'd as a partial fish skull. Found in the KemKem beds. Honestly no idea what it actually is. So give it a shot here.
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This is being sold as a Pachycephalosaurus skull piece, the bumpy section of the skull rim that borders de Pachycephalosaurus dome. It's 65mm, no locality mentioned. I'm not an expert, but the structure and color doesn't look right to me. Opinions?
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Holy grail Dunkleosteus terrelli partial skull for my collection
Pliosaur posted a topic in Member Collections
Hello everyone! I wanted to share a holy grail fossil that I have obtained: a partial skull of Dunkleosteus terrelli found in Cleveland Shale, Ohio This specimen has been confirmed by Zerina Johnson, a leading paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of UK as well as James Boyle who is a leading expert in the field and published academic research papers on Dunkleosteus and other placoderms of the Devonian period. Below is an excerpt from James Boyle on the Dunkleosteus partial skull specimen: "Yes, it's most like a Dunkleosteus based on what I can see. You have both anterior dorsal lateral plates of the thoracic armor there. These are the bones that connected with a mobile joint the head and shoulder regions of the armor. The bone to the bottom left is the internal view of the left anterior dorsal lateral plate. The bone under it is the right anterior dorsal lateral plate in external view. The piece that's skewed to the right a bit in the image is part of the left anterior dorsal lateral plate as well. The easiest way to identify which of the two plates is the external (from the outside) view is that there's a sensory line canal on the one plate (it's straight nearly straight line tracing across the one bone at the top). These are the lateral line system you can still see in some modern fishes and act as pressure sensors to detect movement in the water around the organism. They are only found on the outside of the body." "That oblong bone at the top is probably a piece of the paranuchal plate, but if that's the case it's only a very small fraction of it." Johanson Z (null) Vertebrate cranial evolution: Contributions and conflict from the fossil record. Evolution & Development, doi: 10.1111/ede.12422 Lebedev OA, Johanson Z, Kuznetsov AN, Tsessarsky A, Trinajstic K, Isakhodzayev FB (null) Feeding in the Devonian antiarch placoderm fishes: a study based upon morphofunctional analysis of jaws. Journal of Paleontology, 1 - 18. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.54 Charest F, Johanson Z, Cloutier R (2022) The preorbital depression and recess of antiarch placoderms (jawed stem-gnathostomes) revisited from an ontogenetic (saltatory) point of view. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42 (1) : doi: 10.1080/02724634.2022.2116335 Johanson Z (2021) Paleontology: There are more placoderms in the sea. Current Biology, 31 (16) : R1012 - R1014. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.073 van Mesdag SNK, den Blaauwen J, Dean MN, Johanson Z (2020) Hyperossification in the vertebral column of Devonian placoderm fishes (Arthrodira). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 40(1) : e1766477 - e1766477. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1766477- 1 reply
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