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From the album: Cephalopods
This Hoploscaphites nicoletti fossil ammonite is from the Trail City Member of the Fox Hills Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of South Dakota. The ammonite measures approximately 2.3 inches in diameter, and sits on a base of original matrix that measures approximately 4.5 x 6 inches. The whole ammonite was "popped" out from the matrix upon which it rests, and is equally well preserved on both sides. The shell has a beautiful pearly iridescent sheen.-
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Hello there! I live in western South Dakota, and my family has a ranch right in the middle of the Hell Creek Formation. There is a location about 1 mile from a river where about three years ago I found several serrated tooth fragments. I went back to this location last week to see if I could find any more of the tooth fragments. I did find some more serrated fragments, but they are from a different tooth, and possibly different species entirely. There are several areas within a 50 yard radius with bones surfacing, but they seem to be from several different creatures. I'm used to seeing triceratops and duckbill bones at the surface, which are light in color, spongy, and very, very crumbly. Most of the bones in this area are much different, and I'm not sure if that would be due to the type of sediment it was preserved in, the location, or the species. Many of these outcroppings could almost be mistaken for iron ore rock that is breaking apart. I was hoping to get some help identifying one piece in particular. Please ignore the rubber bands, I'm trying to find the missing pieces before I glue the large sections together. All the pieces together will make it around a foot long. In some areas, the bone is a dark chocolate brown, and very smooth and shiny. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a really hard time finding any sources of information on theropod, Hell Creek, or Cretaceous identification. If anyone knows of any good literature for this area, feel free to post a link, it would be greatly appreciated!
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Found a shoreline on the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota with some mollusc fossils. There were lots like the one on the left, but only one I could find like the one on the right. Can anyone identify these? They'd be from the Cretaceous period, right? The fossil on the right is the size of a quarter. The ones on the left range from softball to golf ball.
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Anyone have any idea if this is a tooth? We found it near fort sisseton in South Dakota.
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Hi all, I've this nice vertebra fossil from the Hell Creek Formation in Harding County, South Dakota. I'm pretty sure it is a Crocodillian vert but not sure of the species or genus. Also, is it possible to tell which part of the body this belonged to? Any suggestions are welcome and much appreciated! Cheers, Jojo
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Found this while hiking and climbing in south west South Dakota not far from Badlands National Park. A quick google search suggested an early camel, but I'd like to know for sure if possible.
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Hello there! I was the lucky one who recently purchased "ammonite batch #3" from @RJB, and I was hoping to assign a name to the prettiest piece in the lot. I think it is a Discoscaphites sp. - what do you think? If so, there appears to be two common species belonging to this genus from the Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota (where this little guy was found) - D. conradi and D. gulosus (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/815 and http://www.wmnh.com/wmima000.htm). I'm leaning towards D. conradi but, really, I'm not sure. Is there anyone out there who can help? Please see picture below: Thanks in advance! Monica
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Hello, I am new to fossil hunting and was wondering if I could get any pointers on localities in my area. NW Iowa, NE Nebraska, SE South Dakota, SW Minnesota. I know sometimes people like to keep these things secret but if you could point me in any direction it would be much appreciated, thanks and happy to be on the forum.
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Hi I'm from Sd and was recently introduced to the fossil forum by a friend Any advice to a Newbie such as myself?
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Does anyone know if the Missouri River and the bluffs along it are good for fossils and if so where would be a good place to start? It seems like a lot of good exposures are along the banks.
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Seeking ID on a vertebra likely from the White River formation in SD
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Hi there. More fossils from the estate sale, this time a vertebra. I don't know an exact location, but the rest of the lot contains many examples from the Oligocene era, and some have been found to be from the White River formation in the Badlands. I don't have much information other than that. I've done an image search on Google, but there are so many that I am having trouble spotting one that looks similar. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
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Out at a hadrosaur dig site and came across this seed. Can anyone identify it? Thanks for looking!
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I found this tooth on the Missouri River by Yankton, SD. Can anyone identify it? Tell me any history on how it got there? How old it is? Does it have any value? Thanks
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Very new at this, have been out on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands and came across this little piece. The closest I can find online are some photos of syringopora? What do you think?
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Hi! Back with more from the estate sale. I'm guessing this is a jaw section from a Titanothere? It appears to be, but I'm new to the ID game and want to be sure. The estate contained other smaller teeth that also look like Titanothere/Brontothere, but I don't have an exact location as to where it was found. There were many Stylemys turtles in there as well, and I've had those looked at by a paleontologist at SDSM&T and they said the turtles were likely found in the White River formation of the Badlands. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
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My son and I have recently started visiting the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands to hunt for agates and other goodies. Today we came across something that we haven't found. About an inch and a half long, vertical structures that come together at center points on each end. Found in an area with plenty of petrified wood.
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Hi everyone! I figured I should introduce myself since I've already posted and received help. I'm fairly new to fossil collecting, though I've been interested in a long time. I came in to a large collection of fossils rocks, and I'm working on going through those and have many questions. Hoping to learn at least the basics of identification and preparation while I'm here.
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Hi there! My daughter and I love to collect fossils, though we don't know much about them and can't identify most of what we have. We stopped by an estate sale today and bought 8 fossils, three of which were wrapped in brown paper and bound with electrical tape. When I opened them, I found three turtle shells. The best of the bunch is pictured below, and I'm wondering if I'm right thinking it's a Stylemus turtle from the Oligocene period. It's roughly 12" from front to back and 10" wide. I haven't taken the paper off of the bottom yet to see if there is anything underneath. The second turtle is in fair shape, but not nearly as good as this one. And the third I think is in bad shape. If you're interested, I can upload photos of those two as well. They appear to be different than this one. I don't know where they came from, just that it was part of an estate and they were in a lot of about 100-200 fossils. We're in the Rapid City, SD area. Thanks for looking, and any help would be appreciated.
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Found by a friend in Badlands National park South Dakota. Looking for any help on wether it's mammal or reptile.
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Thought I'd introduce some and re-introduce others to a great little museum in Rapid City, S. Dakota: The South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. I love little museums like this. The displays are put together by faculty and students, mostly, and thus are innovative in their simplicity of materials and design and purpose. Admission is free, and there is a little museum store where you can buy shirts and other museum store fare. I'll let the photos do the rest of the talking:
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Hello all! Just joined up, I study earth science and anthropology at the University of South Dakota. My interest in fossil only started a few years ago while I was visiting college, and I've been blessed to work in prep labs in South Dakota as well as field work for some ranchers. I spent the summer working for a museum in Wyoming, excavating the Morrison formation.
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Last fall after working a museum, I returned to a ranch in the Pierre Shale south of Rapid City. One of the students I'd brought with me earlier in the spring of 2016 spotted a chunk of fossil that we originally identified as wood, before we realized that it was a large squid pen! So, right before our classes started we got back together and spent a few days camping on the ranch to excavate it to donate to the museum as well as some other fossil. All kinds of things got in the way, our car broke down, we were driven out of our tents by a thunderstorm, and if it weren't for GPS we would have lost the location of the pen. The site was on a steep, soft hill of shale on the edge of a ravine with a half dozen cattle skeletons from a blizzard back in the nineties. But we got the squid out of the hill and into the museum! Almost a meter long, seems to be the middle of the rachis with a few fragments of the vane
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