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Hello, I picked this pebble up from the beach at Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight, this area is Lower Cretaceous. The pebble looks like it’s full of bony bits, but I have no idea what they might be from and it might prove too difficult to tell. If anyone has some insight I’d be delighted to hear it. Scale accidentally in inches rather than cm in this photo Close up photos taken with microscope attachment to my phone.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97870-8 Two new spinosaurids from the IoW Wessex Formation…making for a total of 3 species including Baryonyx.
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Hello everyone we came across some cool finds at the old hunstanton beach uk one looks like a tooth or claw (could be a rock or flint) the other is an impression on what I think may be wood (it’s very lightweight) IMG_0430.MOV
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Hi tff I can’t see this can be anything other than a pterosaur limb bone? when I first saw it I thought it may be a burrow, and checked in case there was a crustacean sat inside. early Cretaceous, bexhill uk, floodplain. About 20cm apologies photos aren’t great
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Hi, I'm very new to this and have had a couple of trips to Aust cliff uk recently. I hadn't really found much but today I found this tooth/bone? I have tried a little of my own research and have hit a dead end. I think it may be ichthysaur but I'm not sure if it's a bone or a rather long thin tooth. It appears to be hollow.Could anyone help me with an I.D please? Many thanks 20210921_213640.heic 20210921_213649.heic 20210921_214010.heic
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Hey guys, I am new to fossil hunting but do have some amazing areas in the NE of England to visit. I found this at Saltburn beach last week and have been having trouble identifying it. Could you please help? It's about the size of a small tangerine if that helps.
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From the Jurassic corallian of gilberts grave in the UK. Acquired from Will Stevenson. They were originally discovered in a rock with this approx. configuration...however fell appart like dominos at the last second...so, I glued them in their basic configuration and added the powdered rock in the holes between them. Thanks Greg
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I found this in a road cut about forty years ago. But in all the time since, the labels and my memory have become mixed up or lost. I remember it as 'Acidaspis' but that was only my name for it at the time, I didn't do much research. It was either in the Llanvirn shales (Middle Ordovician) or the Wenlock Shales (Middle Silurian) of Shropshire, UK, but again I can't remember precisely where and the label is lost. Seems to be the pygidium and about half the thorax. 2 cm wide, spines included and 1.5 cm long with the spines. (still doing a little more prepping). Thanks for any help.
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Just a little hello. I have been interested in fossils since an early age. I have got a meg tooth that I bought some years ago that renewed my interest. Just taken my second trip across county to try and find some more teeth. I live in Gloucestershire, and took a little trip of 3.5 hours to get to the Naze. One side of the country to another and 181 miles in total. This trip was way more successful so, happy days. Will have to now travel to find more sites where I can hopefully find more.
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From the album: Mesozoic Shark Teeth, England
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About a week ago my boyfriends' parents and uncle came to visit us in Lancaster and on Monday I had the pleasure of entertaining them for the day while my boyfriend was pulled away unexpectedly by work. With the prospect of a beautiful drive (and of course, selfishly, some fossils) I decided to take them to Salthill Quarry. It's an interesting site as it's an old limestone quarry that has been turned into a nature reserve, in the middle of an industrial park. Whilst walking we all thought we could smell bakery goods and were getting hungry, I looked this up later and found a pet food producer is located in the park... Anyways it really is a fascinating place. As soon as you get to the fossiliferous part all you have to do is look down, grab a handful of gravel, look closely and you will find that that gravel is actually thousands of crinoid ossicles. The floor is literally littered with them, it would be impossible to walk away from this site without fossils. It's a fantastic show of just how prevalent crinoids were and how they flourished in this area 340 mya. There isn't much to find apart from crinoids, although I found a couple of small rugose corals and plenty of calyces too. Overall everyone had a good time, it's easy hunting so turned out to be a great place to bring people who had never really thought about fossils much before. I haven't got far on IDs yet but hopefully I'll be able to ID most of the calyces. Amphoracrinus sp.? Also Amphoracrinus sp.? This fossil cracked in two, on the other side is a large, broken calyx (below). Whilst cleaning it I discovered the whole Amphoracrinus sp. calyx above and managed to pick it out. I have no idea what is covering this crinoid stem. There are many other types of crinoid species stems as well, too many to photograph them all. The rugose corals, I think Dibunophyllum sp.
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Hey, we recently went to the Jurassic coast on a family camping and fossil hunt holiday, we are not experienced fossil hunters but me and my husband really love reading about them and viewing them in shops and museums. Our Daughter is 5 and she found this on the beach in Lyme Regis, UK. I told her it was a rock but she is very keen to find out if it could be a fossil due to the middle being a different texture. We also found many Ammonites and what I believe is a back bone, but I will share those separately Thanks!
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Hey folks, got a big one to cross-check with everyone. It's a partial....something. Does this match any identifiable features seen on theropods, like the shape of a pubis or scapula? Location: Oxfordshire, England Size: 220mm X 221mm Any help would be muchos appreciated. Cheers!
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These are from the Cretaceous Greensands of Shanklin and Jurassic of Gilbert's Grave in the UK. I'm told that the first is a lamellibranch and the second is a rhyonachellid...the rest are Brachiopods. Perhaps @Tidgy's Dad will comment? Thanks Greg
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Hi there, I’d like to get the expert opinion of you all. Could these be pterosaur ribs? i just know they’re from Whitney, Yorkshire. As you can see, they’re hollow, and all I know of, that would have little hollow ribs like that are pterosaurs, and avian dinosaurs, but I'd imagine it was very uncommon for articulated ribs from a raptor to make it to, and “survive” an aquatic deposit, intact and untouched, although I know pterosaur bones are sometimes found in aquatic fossil deposits, at least from coastal areas. I'm not sure what else would be found there with hollow ribs, and these also seem like maybe they’re too long for ribs of that size/width, so I'm at a total loss now, and wanted to ask for help in figuring out what these could be from. I'm also interested in what the large flat bone might be, and any others too, of course, if anyone can recognize what it/they might be.
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Hello, We found this item in a crop field when out on a hike and would greatly appreciate any help to identify whether it is a bone or something else. It looks like the end of a bone, the ball bit that goes into the joint or maybe not? We first thought it was human or mammal but then saw it was fossilized rock with signs of wear and tear and maybe teeth marks. Also we can see what looks like fossilized pinkish marrow in the middle of the bone that is more prominent than the picture shows (sorry) with little air pockets. There was also lots of rocks and interesting bits and pieces in the soil. Thanks in advance for all help given, Al Location of find - Leicestershire County, East Midlands, UK
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Marine Reptile Bone Collection from Lyme Regis and Charmouth (England)
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Member Collections
I've spent a fair amount of time now combing the beaches around Lyme Regis and Charmouth in Dorset, England, and thought i would put together a topic that presents all of my marine reptile bone finds (so far) in one place. The fossils here are Early Jurassic in age, approx. 195-190 million years old and come predominantly from the Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone formations. I first visited this area in 2013 with the simple goal of finding at least one ichthyosaur vertebra, and now after three subsequent trips in 2014, 2017 and 2019, i've put together a far better assortment of finds than i could have possibly hoped for! I think i have been quite lucky along this coastline, although it has taken many hours to amass this collection. Across all four of my England trips i have spent a total of 18 days looking for bones in the Lyme Regis area, most often on the stretch of beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth but sometimes at Monmouth Beach as well. This coastline also produces a large quantity and diversity of ammonites, belemnites, crinoids, bivalves, brachiopods, gastropods, and even rare insects. However i've always been most interested in fossil vertebrates, and so the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs that are found here have been my primary target for collecting. There are also some impressive articulated fish to be found, but as yet i have had no luck in finding any! Ichthyosaur bones are the most common type of vertebrate fossil in the area, particularly their bi-concave vertebrae. Less commonly you can also find pieces of the jaw, sometimes with teeth. If you are extra lucky though you may also find plesiosaur bones, which for whatever reason are much rarer than those of ichthyosaurs. The best way to find any type of marine reptile bone around Lyme Regis is to closely examine the shingle on the beach, and i've spent seemingly countless hours bent over and slowly walking along the shore looking for them. If you have a bad back it's even more difficult! I've learnt that bones can be found pretty much anywhere on the beach: in the slumping clays, at the top of the beach in the 'high and dry' shingle, along the middle of the beach, at the low tide line, and also underwater amongst the rocky pools and ledges. And just when i start to think that the beach has already been heavily searched and there isn't much left to find, there always seems to be another bone that turns up, often lying in plain sight. The truth is that most people who visit here to collect are not experts and will probably walk past a lot of these bones, as the texture is the most important thing that gives them away and learning to recognise it takes a bit of time. For the sorts of articulated skeletons that sometimes make news headlines and are beautifully intact, searching the shingle is not the way to go, but for a short term visitor like me i think it is the best way of maximising the chances of finding any sort of reptile bone in the shortest amount of time (and something i can take back with me on the plane too!). Without further ado, here are the pics (spread across multiple posts due to file size limits). I've also included as-found pictures for some of these finds to provide a sense of what they look like and how they are found when they are on the beach. The collection so far. Starting first with my favourite Lyme Regis fossil, this is a very nice plesiosaur vertebra that is in great condition! A very rare find! I have been very fortunate to find two plesiosaur vertebrae at Lyme Regis so far, although this one is smaller and more beach-worn than the previous example. Continued below.
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Just been sent this photo by a friend in Whitby, UK, any ideas what it could be?
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Hello, I am looking to get some legit fossils for my girlfriend and I am eager not to be scammed, what reputable UK websites are there that sell good fossils?
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Good morning, I was searching the beach and found these! Please could you help me identify whether these are fossils or not? I'm an amateur so I don't have any tools. I've also added at the bottom some pics of ammonites and a belemnite I found
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Hi, I found this by the river hodder in Lancashire UK yesterday. It was about a foot square. Is it a fossil?
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I'm trying to help someone ID some vertebrae they found recently. They were found in east London, around 4 meters underground in black sticky soil. My first thought was that they looked similar to dolphin vertebrae, and my knowledge of stuff like that isn't great, so any help would be much appreciated! (Actually, I've just realised they're probably from a bison or something similar - I haven't a clue when it comes to mammal verts. The black preservation seems odd though.)
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Hello, I'm very new to this, so I hope I get things right here. Can anyone help me identify this? I found it in an old bottle-dump near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders that dates back to the 1960s. It's on the broken edge of a stone slab but from what I can see it measures about 5.7 cm across. Is it some kind of shell? If anyone needs more info I'd be happy to give it. Thanks in advance!
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I am unable to identify these pieces from my grandad's collection. He is now unable to clearly see and so sadly couldn't identify it. It must be something, he was a zoologist and the shale meant enough to have a crack repaired. Parts look like bones to me. I'd love to get these identified so I can prep them, making them clearer so he can see them clearer again.
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