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Getting back in the swing of things after a very hot summer in which i did little to no collecting. Headed down to Westmoreland for the day, hoping something good would be laying there. It was a beautiful day with minimal wind but the tide wasn't all that low due to recent rain, but water was clear and calm enough. Found a nice little mako that i was able to get a picture of before i picked it up. Also found a big chunk of bone that still had some matrix still on it, not sure what it is or what its from, if anyone knows anything feel free to chime in. On the way home I stopped at George Washington's Birth place to just walk around as i usually do. Thats when i came across these signs, it seems like theres been a problem with bull sharks recently. If anyone has a knowledge about that id love to hear it. There wasn't anyone down there at the time for me to ask. Enjoy! Boneheadz
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Our conversation while showing my daughter a couple of my shark teeth. Dad: these teeth are from a giant shark, as big as your school bus! Daughter: wow dad, that's pretty big! Dad: I wonder what such a big shark would eat? Daughter: probly chicken Also, a good sized great white tooth for scale and perspective.
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I recently went on my third trip to hunt sharks teeth. I came up with quite a few pieces and another ptychodus... Plus an 1892 V nickel. On all three trips to this creek I have seen recent bone and modern cow teeth. I'm guessing the large tooth in the second pic is horse? Normally I can tell a recent tooth but I'm not sure about this one. Is there a test or way to tell if its fossilized? I'm leaning towards recent but wanted to be sure before I chunked it.
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To save money I do my own dental work. Ive had some tooth aches lately so I took some pliers and started pulling. I do love steaks and roasts, but I will have to start eating apple sauce and jello! Actually these have been sittin on my desk for quite awhile collecting dust. Enjoy. RB
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Found these 6 months ago on central oregon coast and haven't been able to ID. A buddy came over for thanksgiving and texted some pics around to other folks. Best answer came this morning as desmostylus teeth. I never would have thought teeth, they seem more like a coral or sea anemone to my untrained eye. Looking at pictures of desmo teeth, they are mostly smaller and heavily warn down. If these are teeth, were they unused/ or unemerged from the jaw like adult teeth replacing a baby tooth? Ill put up some more pics, and any info/ confirmation is appreciated. Thanks!
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Greetings! I am new here and would like to show off my collection. I really am a total fossil dumb dumb so my collection is not very impressive but I would love some feed back! If anything in my collection does not appear genuine let me know! I'd like to learn from my mistakes. Anyway here it is! The first picture is a prehistoric horse tooth and the tooth of a woolly rhino. Second is my two amber specimens. The picture of the amber didn't turn out well at all!
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This fossil is very unusual with a very flat side and a number of holes along one edge. Can anyone identify this piece? Thanks to everyone.
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I've posted photos of 5 fossils which were found in a dredge operation near Houston Texas. I think the large one is a fragment of a mammoth tooth but I really don't know just what the others are. They may all be fragments of teeth but I could use some help to identify them. Thanks for your time and help.
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Hello All, I found a number of fossil teeth recently in Montana on a ranch and am hoping for some help with ID. They were found in fairly loose, recently eroded sandstone on a hillside of a Hell Creek formation outcrop. The teeth were found in close proximity to each other (~50 ft radius) and either within the descending eroded earth or in a hillside ledge that I dug into (with my hands as the sandy-silty layers were quite soft). I've attached 2 images with the fossils flipped over. From the research that I have done, I'm hypothesizing that row 1 & 3 are probably crocodile or Brachychampsa teeth. Row 4, scutes or teeth? I'm pretty much clueless on row 4. For row 2, I'm thinking #4 might be a rooted Brachychampsa tooth. Row 2 #3, maybe a really worn croc? Finally, row 2, #1-2 have me most perplexed. They appear to have herbivore characteristics though. Any thoughts related to ID would be much appreciated.
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I like Mosasaurs so I've been buying some cool stuff here and there for a while now. I have some loose teeth with and without roots and a few jaws. for a while now I've been noticing some interesting patterns. Or rather a single pattern that keeps showing up. I have 42 loose teeth and a number of these teeth have some wear patterns on them. Some just have some random wear here and there or tips broken or worn off of them. But a significant number of teeth have damage to the enamel on the front side of the tooth. Sometimes on the lateral side and sometimes on the labial side. Sometimes on both sides. Of these 42 teeth, 13 have significant damage to the enamel on the front. In about 8 or so the pattern is quite similar. This pattern seems almost exclusive to the large Prognathodon teeth with the only exception being a Mosasaurus beaugei? tooth that has some wear on the front. Though this tooth isn't nearly as damage on the front as the big Prognathodon teeth. This same wear pattern also shows up on a Prognathodon jaw that I'm still prepping. This jaw shows the same damage while the teeth are still mostly in the original position aside from some minor drifting. This pattern also does not show in the jaws of other mosasaur species I have. So I'm wondering is if this could possibly be as a result of some behaviour that Prognathodon might have had. Since quite a lot of the teeth show the same type of damage and it also shows in still rooted teeth. Have any of you ever seen this same pattern on mosasaur teeth? I'm wondering what your opinions are on this. My loose mosasaur teeth, one not shown. Big Prognathodon teeth at the top. Some possible Eremiasaurus teeth below them. The small recurved tooth crown on the left is Halisaurus arambourgi. Below it two small Platecarpus ptychodon teeth. Under those two badly crushed teeth. Lower left middle Mosasaurus teeth, some probably M. beaugei and some M. hoffmanni. Globidens teeth at the bottom. Prognathodon, Mosasaurus and Globidens rooted teeth on the left. Teeth with damage on the front. Only three that aren't Prognathodon at the bottom. Detail of a Prognathodon tooth. Prognathodon jaw with the same type of enamel damage on three teeth. The teeth towards the front are too damage during the fossilisation to tell if they have similar damage.
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This is a recent find. Judging from other pieces identified this looks to me to be a partial lower jawbone with teeth of a horse ancestor. Its hard to see the pattern on the teeth and they are very worn and fairly dirty. I've been a little afraid to clean these pieces as I don't want to damage them. I have just read up on cleaning methods so I will try them out on a lesser piece. This find came from the same dredge location near Houston Texas. I'm hoping that someone can confirm this is a horse fossil. Thanks again to all of you.
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I have 2 more finds that look similar to a partial jaw with teeth I found previously but both are larger pieces. These two look like tapir teeth of a previous piece and I would like to confirm they are from a tapir. They were found in the same area near Houston Texas. Thanks you all for your help.
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Hello. I found about a 10-15 of these big teeth by an accident in a mountain after a colapsed road. I am not sure to what animal they belong to, but I am very curious. A friend of mine doubt that they belong to something extinct. Please tell me if not a big trouble.
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Hello everyone, my first time here and have high hopes someone can point me in the right direction with these bones. (first 2 pics) All were found within 20 ft each other,dinosaur? Next pic is what looks like teeth or part of shell, and possibly a scute? Then close up of what seems more like cartilage, fish jaw? Dorsal? All came from a D/FW creek.
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Hello, I found several of these at an estate sale in Southern California. They were in a rusted tin can and found them interesting. This was an estate from a mineral collector and found the tin among thousands of mineral specimens that were for sale. First I thought they were some kind of mineral, but after washing them (they were covered in rust from the can), they looked to me more like small jaws with teeth. I have been looking online for weeks and can't find anything close to them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Hello I found this teeth in a Jurassic formation in Portugal, in this formation we found dinossaur material and marine too... In this specific site we find mostly marine material, like fish teeth, scales, croc teeth... I asked for help to some members of this forum and their guess is fish teeth. Thanks
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Bizarre Fake Elasmosaur Skull
LordTrilobite posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I came across this absolutely bizarre looking skull on our favourite auction site. Most of the bones look pretty real. It looks nothing like the known Elasmosaur from Khouribda. Zarafasaura has a really short nose and gigantic jaw muscles. Besides the teeth this looks nothing like it. Most of the bone seems to be real and while there definitely seems to be some repair/construction. Most of the real bones seem to fit together. Some of the teeth are definitely plastered in. Though there seem to be some unerupted teeth that do actually belong to the jaws. The top of the snout also looks completely bizarre. What I think has happened here... Is that someone took a crocodile, mosasaur and elasmosaur and mashed them together. Look at the back of the skull. This looks like the back of a crocodile skull to me. I'm not sure where the jaws come from (maybe croc?) but the teeth are definitely those of a plesiosaur, probably Zarafasaura. The top of the snout had me confused for a few minutes but I think that this is actually the frontal and parietal of a mosasaur. Notice what looks like the parietal eye filled in with a chunk of bone in the middle top off the skull. So yeah I think this is an absolute abomination. Steer clear folks...- 9 replies
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This seems to me to be an unusual fossil. It looks like a partial jaw with 2 rows of teeth but I'm not sure. It comes from the same dredge near Houston Texas. In cleaning it has a strong crude oil like odor. I hope some out there will know just what it is. Thank you all in advance.
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This partial jawbone with 2 teeth is a bit different than others I have. It was found near Houston Texas in a dredge operation. Any help to identify the fossil would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
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I've done some online research looking for similar looking teeth but I'm really not sure of the animal this fossil comes from. It looks to me that there was a larger tooth at the end of the jawbone where there is a hole that is missing. It was recovered as others I've listed near Houston Texas. It was recovered from dredging. I hope someone can help to identify this specimen. Thank you all very much.
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So perplexed by this, there are oval teeth, circular ones, and one that looks human with a filling lol. Can't quite picture the bite, can someone help me out? This is the best my camera will do sorry.
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I really don't know anything about fossils, dino bones and teeth. I purchased a box of teeth and bones that were said to be dinosaur. Can anyone help to identify these teeth which are still set in a jaw. They are definitely petrified. Thanks
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This is the first petrified bone I have found, is that the correct thing to call it? Hope the image is good enough, it is just one single row of rounded teeth. Dying to know what it is! North Texas creek.
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Hello all, Can anyone ID these two teeth? All I know is that they're from China; I'll try finding more information. Thanks for looking!
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Last weekend we were coming back from the city and passing the Sulphur, so we swung in for a look. It was hot!!! but we still ended up staying a while. But best go in AM while sun is still summer hot. My best finds were a large 'platter' shark vert, a med/large section of Mastodon tooth enamel and an ammonite imprint that we did end up hauling out!! the kids found some neat stuff and had a blast playing in the water 'puddles'. Sorry, no pics, but here's the video if you would like:
