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From the album: MY SE TEXAS FINDS
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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Recently I took a trip to a new spot in the Maastrichtian of Maryland. I did not manage to recover too much vertebrate material, though I have been quite intrigued by one piece that I collected. The main question regarding this piece is whether it is bone or whether it is simply a suggestively shaped rock. If it does turn out to be bone, would it be possible to determine what it may have come from? The main marine reptiles that are recovered from these deposits are mosasaur and marine turtle. A few photographs of the specimen in question. If better photographs are needed/photographs from a different angle, I would be more than happy to attach some to this thread. Thanks in advance for all suggestions and opinions!
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Chinese turtle fossil
Microraptorfan posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Yeholochelys lingyuanensis Shao et al. 2018 Early Cretaceous Albian Jiufotang Formation Sihedangzhen Liaoning PR China -
I think it could be a fossil of a turtle shell possibly. Maybe scales. But I obviously am unsure. It does show alot of similar features to the top and the bottom parts of a turtles shell of a fresh water turtles I have been researching for the area. I found this near Frenchman Coulee along the Grand Coulee Canyon area in Washington. A location where many ice age floods have accured. It has faint crystalization on one side of the piece.
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I found this in Sarasota county Florida. Is it a rib or maybe a piece of turtle shell? Can someone help me?
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Hell Creek Dromaeosaur or Troodon Partial Humerus.... OR plain turtle?
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Hello beloved community. Anybody able to weigh in on this specimen's ID. It was labelled as "Dromaeosaur or Troodon Humerus, Hell Creek, Harding County, South Dakota. 1 and a half inches" My hope is that the ID is correct, and the humerus belongs to a baby. My fear is that it's 'just' a Hell Creek turtle humerus. All insight deeply appreciated!- 1 reply
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Found this fossil at the Zandmotor beach close to The Hague, the Netherlands. Can anyone ID it for me? I thought it might be turtle shell. However, the pattern on the inside throws me off. It is 2,5 cm wide and a little over 2 cm high.
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This bone fragment is from the Late Cretaceous of the East Coast of the US. I am fairly certain it is from a turtle; however, I am not sure if it is a scute or perhaps part of the plastron. As you can see in the photos, it is fairly smooth and has a "airplane wing" shape to its cross section. It also has what I would call a "hole" on the side of the bone. What I am curious about, and perhaps someone with greater knowledge than me about sea turtle might know, is if the shape of the bone fragment and the "hole" are diagnostic enough to tell if this is a scute or part of the plastron, and if so, where it may have been located on the plastron. From my research, it seems like Osteopygis emarginatus is one of the more common turtles found in Late Cretaceous deposits of the Eastern US and is described with a fairly smooth scute with only shallow irregular divots displaying no particular patterns. Could this bone be from Osteopygis emarginatus? An alternative identification based on my research is Peritresius ornatus. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi, I was hoping that you guys could confirm that this is a lepidotes dental plate (unfortunately minus the teeth). Found at Bouldnor on the Isle of Wight, UK. I’ve also added a photo of what I have hopefully correctly identified as a small piece of turtle shell. I didn’t find the shark teeth I was looking for, but these more than made up for it.
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Fossil Turtle? Placochelys
Lucid_Bot posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, I'm looking to purchase some more specimens and was really curious about this one. It is supposedly placochelys from China and Triassic. The price just seems way too low for a specimen such as this. All help is appreciated.- 14 replies
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These are fossils from the early Campanian of northwestern New Mexico, collected on BLM-managed land as part of the Menefee Expedition. The Menefee Expedition, which has run yearly since 2011, is a multi-institutional effort combining the talents of the Southwest Paleontological Society, Western Science Center, Zuni Dinosaur Institute for Geosciences, and formerly the University of Pennsylvania, permitted under the Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico. Fossils collected as part of the Menefee Expedition are prepared and stored at the Western Science Center in Hemet, California. If you'd like to watch the day-by-day of the expedition, be sure to check out the Expedition Video logs on YouTube! Baenid turtle shell- my find! Dinosaur limb end- my find! Large croc tooth, likely Deinosuchus- volunteer find! Leaf and stem- my find! Gar scale- my find! Dinosaur tibia- volunteer find! Brachychampsa tooth- my find! Bivalve, which I think is a unionid- my find! Crocodilian tooth in matrix- my find! Finally, a dinosaur toe bone- volunteer find!
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It was really hot today, hunted in the rain, actually pretty nice. Kept the mosquitoes off of me.... Great opportunity to stand in water and looks for fossils....Lots of variation in the finds... I'll show_and_tell the more common finds and then ask for help on the last few... Turtle: Not many , but a few were pretty nice.. I have found lots of turtle . This one had odd fossilization.. A neural #2 .. @digit might confirm. A very nice Hemipristis, a Sawfish Vertebra and a rat jaw with canine.. A couple of bones. I think one is a radius. Any hints appreciated: These are sort of extra credit... 2nd bone, great shape ,, not a clue... In addition to the above , found a couple of hundred small colorful shark teeth... Now the ones to be identified wrong size for Horse, either Equus or Tridactyl. I have incisors for both and this just seems wrong.... I wondered about wild hogs or common pigs... so maybe this is a peccary incisors... I find little comfort in those guesses... and now this molar... Hard to get a good photo of it.... Chewing surface above... Enjoy.. All comments and suggestions appreciated.
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We find lots of tiny fossils in this area and my son's were hoping for help identifying these treasures. Picture 2 & 3 are the same fossil just turned over. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi guys, these days i was given this claw coming from kem kem as a birthday gift. This fossil was sold as a theropod claw, but it looks anything but to me. I assumed it could belong either to a sauropod cub or to a strange lizard not yet described. What do you think? THANKS XD
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Probably Miocene* turtle skull I found (prep in progress)
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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 fossil was found at Liaoning at the same formation as Psittachosaurus. Any idea what is that? A primitive turtle or a dorsoventrally compressed Psittachosaurus? The locals called it "turtle-back dragon" in Chinese.