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From the Calvert formation. Wondering if this is a hemiptistis or something else? personal tooth ID- #5c
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I’m stumped on this one. Leaning towards a mako species. From the Calvert formation. personal tooth ID- #2x
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From the Calvert formation. Could use a second opinion. personal tooth ID- 1b
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I have these teeth from the Calvert formation that I think are Charcharhinus sp. Thoughts? personal tooth ID- #3z (left) and 3b (right)
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Hello! Help please identify tooth. Length - 3,5 mm. Age - Middle Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Sorry for bad quallity... Thanks in advance!
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Scrappy bones and a few teeth: Denmark's finest mosasaur specimen
The Amateur Paleontologist posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Hi all Some of you may remember that I used to (and still do) research on fossils from the Late Cretaceous chalk of Denmark... Now there are 2 main chalk sites in Denmark, Møns Klint and Stevns Klint. My work focuses on the stuff from Møns Klint, but in all honesty there's some spectacular fossils coming out of both localities. One thing that both Møns and Stevns have in common is that fossils of mosasaurs (giant lizard-like marine reptiles) are extremely rare, with only a small handful of specimens found every year. A few years ago, I went to the Geomuseum Faxe (south of Copenhagen) to check out one of the finest mosasaur specimens from the Danish Chalk. It's roughly 67 million years old, and was found by amateur collector Peter Bennicke at a small quarry close to the Stevns Klint cliffs. The specimen is preserved in a large-ish block of chalk (~0.7 metres wide). The whole fossil consists of about 7 or 8 teeth, and some small cranial and jaw fragments. Yeah. Mosasaurs are so rare in Denmark that the best mosasaur fossil is a small association of a few teeth and bone bits. These remains are from Plioplatecarpus sp., one of the smaller fish-eating mosasaurs. The find was considered so rare that it was declared as part of the "Danish Natural History treasure trove" (Danekræ, catalogue Nº DK-1048). The museum where the mosasaur is kept (on loan from the natural history museum in Copenhagen). The chalk quarry (Stevns Kridtbrud) where the mosasaur fossil was found. Here's the Plioplatecarpus specimen in all its fragmentary glory! Most mosasaur fossils in Denmark are in the form of single isolated teeth, so this find is especially cool because it's one of very few (2-3) specimens that consist of multiple associated bones/teeth from one individual. This one would've been roughly 4-5 metres long, and would have ate small to mid-sized fish such as Enchodus. By the way sorry for the not-so-great photo quality, it's kinda difficult to take good pictures from behind an exhibition case... Best-preserved teeth. Tiny little teeth... And a small scrap of bone, probably cranial. More bone fragments... So yeah, a few associated teeth and bits of bone - for something so rare, this one's pretty cool. Hopefully I can find something like that, at Møns Klint this time, when I go out for this year's fieldwork! Let me know what you think about this nice mosasaur specimen!!
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Hit the beach hard Saturday with my girlfriend. Water was choppy which kept them coming in. My biggest tooth ever was a 1.5 inch mako in Virginia. Didn't have hopes of finding much with size. But we brought home 430 total teeth. All sizes. During the first 5 mins I looked in the edge of the chop on the water and saw this huge(well it was huge to me) tooth. Ended up being a 2 inch mako which I assumed Meg at first. Regardless was thrilled. After finding alot of smaller teeth(bunches of hemis) I saw another 2.25inch mako just off the water edge. 2 very nice makos within 20 yards of each other. My back's sore from picking up these. Only 41 but I feel 89 right now. A heck of a haul. Search continues for a Meg. Have yet to find one. Getting closer! Seems I'm stuck on good makos for now. GF found a very good cow shark tooth and ray Barbs.
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Suggestions? Peace River Florida fossil hunting south of Zolfo springs
Jasons_fossils posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I want to go back to Peace River but I don't want to do the normal canoe outpost thing this time. I want to take a kayak south of Zolfo springs were the river gets bendy, shallow, and remote. I don't have a kayak so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for where I can rent one or if they want a hunting buddy for the second week of May. -
Florida - Venice - Bone Valley suggestions or hunting buddies
Jasons_fossils posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello all, I'm making my fourth trip to Venice in a few weeks and I was wondering if anyone knows of any good land sites in the area, or further inland to where one might find Bone Valley teeth. Would also enjoy the company if you have a secret spot that you don't want to disclose the location of. I'll be diving in Venice a few days and maybe a trip out to Peace River, but I've always wanted to find a good Florida land site. -
Went on a wild fossil hunting trip today out on private land in the Dinosaur Park fm. and found something that I’ve since reported to the Tyrrell. My best guess is a partial hadrosaur tail. The specimen is about 3 feet long by 1.5 feet wide. There was no other associated material nearby but there may be more of this dinosaur under the surface. I’ll also post a few of my favourite surface finds for today. I have a before and after photo of a vert, a large partial rib and some tyrannosaur teeth & a croc tooth.
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Hello gang. I am looking for advice from more experienced folks about sifting for fossils. I have a wide range of appropriate tools available to me, but as one that has never really done this sort of fossil hunting, I have some questions before my excursion this weekend. I always have a canvas bag/tube type I normally use for forest floor detritus to find various insects and the like. It has also proven useful in streams and creeks. Very handy as it folds flat and doesn't use up much pack space. However it is in the sieve range of #3-4 (about 5mm +/-). I don't know if I should be dragging it up the slopes due to its limited size. I own a number of full sieve sets, from the fancy brass and steel mining types, to the lighter plastic "student sieve sets" (U.S. Bureau of Standard mesh sizes 5, 10, 35, 60, 120, 230, and a few extras in the micron range) However these tend to be pretty unwieldy to haul around and they are on the small side, being around 200mm in diameter. I also have a set of the large wooden "archaeology" sifters- wooden frames with handles about 45cm by 90cm. The rocker frame is missing, but they were a steal at 5 bucks at an auction. 4 different mesh sizes from about 10mm down to around 2.5mm. Anyway, I was just curious as to what you "pro" shark tooth sifters use, if anything, while out in the field. This comes up as I got to see some very promising photos of some stuff found by other campers at the sites. I'm thinking I should take them all, since base camp is just a few dozen meters from the prospecting sites. and I can easily hike back and forth if I stumble on the dental detritus motherlode or something... I should add that it is going to be a very wet day on friday, and I doubt if things will dry out much by saturday, however the proximity to the "river" makes me think my 5 gallon bucket might be handy to do wet sieving.
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30 years ago I was in 5th grade and used to hang out nearly every summer day at the back of our property in Van Buren County, field was nearly 60 acres. We would build forts and play in the creek that came off of the Paw Paw River. One day while we were in this deep depression in the ground that the creek went through we found a small black shark tooth. That summer we dug and dug and were able to find about 50 teeth. This week being Spring Break I told my small children maybe we should go look for shark teeth and told them what I did as a young lad. We went back to the old spot I remembered finding them but the deep depression had now caved in. We dug and sorted but didn’t find any more. I am not finding much about shark teeth in Michigan. I have read another post about Port Huron and the people saying they were planted because it was at some commercial gem mine for kids, I’m like oh maybe my parents did too, but after all these years and literally being in the middle of the forest way away from any road, house, etc. I am not buying this. They also told me that they didn’t even know where we dug at, only that we played at the creek. My parents were the type that said “go play as long as you don’t go near the river” we did what we wanted. so that brings me here. Anyone ever found legit shark teeth in Michigan or do I have to call my parents liars after 30 years? I have attached a photo of what we found.
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I found these teeth in my yard today buried under weed paper. I need help with identification. Thank you.
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Hello! Help please with ID. Squatina or some Orectolobid species? Length - 4,5 mm. Age - Cretaceous - Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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I had this rock and the top broke off and there was a hair imbedded in the rock
Starstruck106 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Not sure where this came from exactly to begin with but I got it from a friend whose next door neighbor had passed away who used to be a geology teacher at a local school I guess his wife wanted the dirt and the rock pile gone so my friend needed the dirt and let me grab a bunch of the rocks. I no longer have this rock so have to go by memory, I gave it to my dentist because it resembled teeth and a small jaw bone when the top came off. The interesting thing is there was a hair imbedded in the rock where it fractured. It was not fractured when I got it and it was definitely part of the rock but not sure if you can see it in the pictures. The pictures are of all angles of this rock and of it apart as well. It fit in my hand perfectly and I have small hands to give you an idea. The rock was hard but not brittle even when fractured. Kind of like a lava rock but not exactly.
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Hello again! Help please identify. Height - 4 mm. Age - please probably Middle Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hello! Help, please, to identify tooth. I think that its tooth of some bony fish, but I didnt found before such type. May be its possible to identify family or genus? Height ~ 1 mm. Age - Middle Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hi everyone, found this in a new jersey cretaceous creek. Looks like a partial enamel something but I'm not exactly sure what it can possibly be from, it interestingly has some very defined ridges on the least worn side. Very hard to catch the clearest pics to show the sharpest definition but I tried to get the best I could. Maybe this can be a clue to a potential id. Pictures of it with whiteish background are upside down.
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Two additional items found on Manasota Key beach south of Venice, Florida. Item one (3 pictures) is apparently a tooth about 2 cm in width. Any suggestions on what it belonged to? Item two might be a bit of tortoise shell, but I'm not sure, (2 pictures). The concave side of item two shows porous structure I've found in other fragments of bone. Confirmation? Thanks!
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Shark teeth from Paleocene Aquia Formation at Douglas Point, Potomac River, Maryland
traveltip1 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
This riker mount displays the best shark teeth that I collected on 3 hunts sifting at Douglas Point beach, Charles County, Maryland. This is the Paleocene Aquia Formation. Bottom row contains several Odotus teeth. There are many goblin shark Anomotodon and sand tiger shark Carcharias. Also appears to be one pygmy white shark Paleocarcharodon in lower left corner.
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Is it deinosuchus teeth ? These are 4 different teeth.
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Found this while rock hounding this morning near Warren Dunes State Park in southwest Michigan. I almost overlooked as it wasn't a very interesting color, but the shape made me take a second look. To me it looks like a set of a few teeth with one mostly intact. I thought it was just a piece of coral until I saw the separation where the "tooth" line would be. Anyway, thought I would post it here to the experts, as I have no idea what I have. Thanks!
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Wondering about these teeth...can someone please help ID these? I have two that I think are Mastodon and Mammoth but not 100% sure. Thanks for the help! IMG_9860.HEIC IMG_0209.HEIC
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Hello! Help please to identify this tooth. Is it Burnhamia? Length: 5 mm. Age: most probably Paleogene. Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
