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Interesting fossils found in bag of river rocks from Petsmart
Brad Taylor posted a topic in Fossil ID
So I was caring for my snapping turtle when I found these 4 rocks in his tank. 3 of them are undeniably fossils. I was wondering if anyone knew what type of fossils they are. One looks to be some sort of clam, one looks to be the tail of something, and the other almost looks like a turtle shell. The rock that looks like a turtle shell has a smooth top, what looks like car tracks under it, and a hole in the middle where a turtles head could go. As you can see by the photos, they are very small, and there's likely much more in my turtles tank. There is a 4th rock that I didn't take photos of that has a few black hair-like things stuck to it. I would love to know what types of fossils these are.
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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!
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Today I went to a nearby creek in north Florida and came across these fossils that I need help identifying. 1. Definitely posterior. Maybe bull, lemon, or hammerhead? 2. I don't know if I've seen this before, at first I thought small hastalis, but then I noticed what appears to be a cusp on the left side. (it's just on the tape measure so you can see the cusp better.)3. Turtle, but I was wondering with the odd shape if it was possible to tell where from.Thanks!
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While Cretaceous Turtle bones are extremely common in NW Queensland, I found this bone in marine material in Sep 2022. I'm happy how this bone came up considering it looked very average in the field. Hopefully the we can get out there soon and make some rarer finds. For the mean time I'm going back and trying to prep some of my older finds. I'm still on the hunt for some good Ichthyosaur fossils which are also common there but other than a few lone teeth have eluded me this year is going to be the year we break our drought.
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Small claw from the Kem Kem? possible croc, turtle or small theropod?
msantix posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi, I know claws from the Kem Kem are very hard to identify since not much is published on them, but this is a small 2.1cm claw from the Kem Kem with a curved shape that makes me think that it might be enough to determine if it is theropod (as listed) or croc or even turtle. My gut tells me it is likely to be croc or turtle, but I think some members here might have claws just like this in their collection, so thought it would be worth asking.
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Hello people. I recently started buying fossils from the kem kem beds other than dinosaur. Not that they aren't cool (Just awesome ) but as to get a better understanding of the paleoecology since , imho, only talking about dinosaur does not do justice to the fantastic other prehistoric creatures. Among many kinds of fish that i aquired was also a shell piece of a turtle. I can't find much on the net but have learned that at least 3 species are known from these beds. After comparing with pieces offered by other vendors the name "hamadachelys " often is used. Some of the pics on the net look the same others don't. So I wonder if this piece can be named. If not no worry since i am happy with "testudian indet." The piece is 10 centimeters long (sorry i am metric ) and repared along the fracture and covered with standard "Morrocan matrix fix-it-all " (they should get a patent for it but not bashing on the people since i know a lot of very nice morrocan people ) sorry for bad pics as I have stated earlier that i am absolutely a giant newbie with technology. Thank you for comments and information. With best regards, Dirk
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I purchased this claw as a Struthuiomimus claw, it was advertised as such. I later on realized it's probably a turtle claw however.. it's from the hell creek formation What do people here think? It's 4.5 cm long @Troodon
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Dear brain trust . Recently found coastal So Georgia. Initially thought ice age turtle shell but missing the typical suture marks. It has a slight curve to the surface and has a smal convex protrusion on inner surface . Approximately 3/4 inch thick .
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Any recommendations on how to prep this? I am brand new to this world but was fortunate enough to discover what I believe to be a juvenile turtle, Chisternon Undatum, a few years ago at one of the commercial quarries on the Green River Formation in Wyoming.
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Hello dear fellow forum members, I have been offered a bundle of bones and teeth from one of the formations subsumed under "kem kem", although the more blackish ones seem to be of a different preservation than the "classic". There are quite some interesting pieces in there, amongst some turtle bones I think. I would be grateful for any hints on ID you can give me. first some of the tentative turtles.
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Normally we only go out shell hunting, but recently learned a bit about fossils and shark teeth here in SC. So we found this on our first trip on the beach. Might it be a plastron bone? We're very new at this hobby so any help on the species and time period would be appreciated (if it is a fossil).
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Hello there! Found this in North Myrtle beach, any idea as to if this is a turtle shell or some other kind of fossil (Or a rock)? Thanks for any information.
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Hello everyone! Found this in North Myrtle beach, wanted to check and see if it was the edge of a turtle shell, or something else. I'd love to hear what you think! Thanks in advance!
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Hello there everyone! I found these in North Myrtle Beach, I think these are partial turtle shell fragments but would love a second opinion. Thanks in advance for any information!
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While these are not very rare, I still enjoyed finding and prepping some Cretaceous turtle material from NW Queensland ,Australia. Lastly I have added a few pictures of an interesting fossil which has a sharks tooth, fish jaw and a section of either degraded bone or Squid material Turtle material Unknown bone or Squid material with sharks tooth Unknown bone or Squid material Fish Jaw on underside of rock Close up of sharks tooth Close up images of bone/Squid material Close up of Fish jaw
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Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to check it out as none of my initial finds were extinct species... I have since found horse teeth at that location and can't wait for water levels to go back down!!! Hoping to add a few new species to my collection on my upcoming trip to GMR & one of the Summerville creeks (not sure which one yet but would love to find my first Angi & GW)... the GW in my pics was actually found by my Grandfather in Panama in the 70s! Thanks for looking : )
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I had a couple of requests to show the shark teeth that I have found from Hawaii. I am pleased that folks are interested! All of the fossils were collected directly from the Mid- to Late- Pleistocene Waimanolo Formation. The formation is a mixture of deltaic/nearshore limestone and unconsolidated sands and silts. First, the shark material. There are a group of teeth and two vertebral centra. The shark teeth are in various stages of mineralization, with some completely phosphatized while others haven't altered much since they fell out of the shark's mouth. They appear to be from the blacktip reef shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus, a species currently common in Hawaiian waters. I also had 1 Scyliorhinid tooth, but misplaced it years ago. The vertebral centra are from a Carchariniform shark, probably the C. melanopterus, and seemingly unaltered, which is consistent with the turtle, bird, and some of the fish material that I collected. While some may consider these subfossils, I did recover them from the formation itself, which dates to 400,000 BP, which makes them fossils. The lack of mineralization may be due to the significant carbonate content and resultant high pH of the sediments.
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Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis fossil turtle
Blubby the blobfish posted a topic in Member Collections
Hi everyone! Its been a while since I posted. I was waiting for this new piece, arguably the most stunning and most certainly the rarest fossil in my collection. Here we have a Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis fossil from China, acquired from one of my good friends and fellow collectors here in the Netherlands. Now its extremely hard to certify the authenticity of a piece like this, however I can 100% say that all the bones are original. There has been some restoration done, these fossils never come out of the ground in one piece so it doesn't bother me. I tried to show you the minimal restoration on the last 2 photo's, its not noticeable with the naked eye, but I put it under the microscope to look at all the restored areas. I also looked at it under a good UV light to make sure it all matched up. I can confidently say that all the bones, and the entire turtle is authentic. I will have my geologist friend check it out one of these days to fully confirm authenticity, and the fact that restoration was done only where needed, and none of the bones are forged. Does anyone else here have one of these? Let me know!
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Not sure it's a fossil possibly a turtle need help identifying
Missouri Timber Finder posted a topic in Fossil ID
Please help me identify this item. Found part way up a wooded hill side in northern Missouri.
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Howdy all! I found this possible turtle shell shard on a beach in South Carolina. Any help getting a positive ID on what this is a part of would be greatly appreciated!
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These were all found on Myrtle Beach over the last few months and I was just wondering what they were (obviously). They look like fragments of turtle shell but I'm not completely sure. I realize I should've used a lighter more even-colored lighting/background, but I hope these pictures will suffice. Thanks for any input. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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I've been dragging my feet on posting trip reports on two excursions out to a river in SE Texas simply because I hate having to convert image file formats but I've finally bit the bullet and am ready to report! First up is a trip a month ago. The weather has been brutally hot so I have to head to and leave the site earlier than id like but I've recently found a way out to a gravel bar that's actually an island in the river and had pretty good luck on both occasions I've been there hunting. Drought conditions have exposed large areas of the gravel bars and might be the reason why this spot is accessible on foot lately rather than requiring a boat of some description. I should mention that I've still got a lot of learning to do so I'll admit all my ID's are tentative and would welcome any corrections or assistance. Also if anyone wants individual shots of different angles of any of this material with scale or measurements I'd be happy to do so. One last thing worth mentioning is my collection bias, I tend to leave behind any invertebrate material (mostly Cretaceous Texigryphaea) and an absolute ton of petrified wood. First is a shot of the gravel bar from the bank. Second photo is highly fragmented turtle/tortoise shell in situ that I took so I could vinac the pieces back together once I got home. Third shot is the sum total of the fossils recovered once they'd been cleaned and reassembled in the case of that turtle/tortoise shell. Fourth shot is a close up of the two proximal horse phalanx and three horse teeth. Fifth photo is all turtle/tortoise shell including the reassembled fragment. Sixth is a bunch of unidentified tooth enamel, a couple possible tusk fragments up top, and mastodon and mammoth enamel on the right hand side. Seventh is a group shot of the unidentifiable material. Eighth and final photo is of three pieces from the unidentifiable group that I can at least hazard a guess as to which element/family they might have come from-specifically part of a phalanx I believe, a large rib fragment and a small hollow long bone I assume is from a bird but one epiphysis is totally gone and the other is so damaged I doubt its possible to say any more about. All in all I'd call it a pretty successful outing! (for some reason the order I uploaded the photo's isn't the order they posted in so the 4th photo was moved up to the first position, whoops!)
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Found this during a trip to Big Brook in Marlboro, NJ. Looks like it could be a fossil from a turtle but am not 100% sure. Please help!
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Good evening! I have so enjoyed reading all your posts on the fossil ID over the past month. It is fascinating to witness the knowledge and enthusiasm of your members! Tonight I’m sharing possible turtle shells my mother picked up in The Wind River basin near Riverton Wyoming. I think this area is Cenozoic. It has a lot sandstone but she recalls these were just laying on the ground among other normal rocks. We have many pieces but I am just sharing a few representative items here. I’d love to know anything more about them. Are they possibly turtle? Any guesses as to what kinds? What are the odd shapes on item 1? Is item 4 a bone? Thank you so much for your time and expertise! I look forward to learning more.
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Hi! Can someone help me identify these fossils? They are from Portugal, early Cretaceous, close proximity to each other. I think they are from turtle. Carapace: Carapace 2: Bones?
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