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Hi everyone, I found this piece of Inoceramus from the Upper Cretaceous Tununk Shale near Hanksville, Utah. Can anyone help me recognize the species of this? Also, if anyone could recommend some information (e.g. websites, books, etc.) about the fossils of Upper Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway, I'll be greatly appreciated!

The photos were too big so I had to make an album, sorry! http://imgur.com/a/oOw9Z

Apologize for the fingers in the shot. A friend suggested organic, but the flat circular section on the bottom along with the distant grooves around it suggest otherwise. Thanks for looking! Scientific Name: Unknown Found: North Central Texas Date Found: Spring 2014 Formation: Alluvium Qt / Eagle Ford Size: 1"

I found these two last weekend in North Carolina. Found in Upper cretaceous, Black Creek Formation. One is from a carnivore and the other from a herbivore. I haven't been able to get home from work for better photos taken outside, sorry. I also have all my scales and such packed away at the moment. The herbivore tooth is 3/4" including the root. The carivore tooth is just over 1/2". I have an idea one the herivore but will wait to see what more knowlegeable folks have to say. The carnivore: The herbivore: If you need photos from other angles let me know. Thanks for looking!

I went out to a site where there was a few weathered Placenticeras Ammonites still in the rock. These ammonites in the layer I was digging them are notoriously brittle and as soon as a good rain comes along would have obliterated them. They were in a gritty gray mud bed of loose heavily fractures sediment. Here is what I did to get them out and restore one suitable for display. Locating an intact one is the hard part. These are usually already scattered and you only find pieces of these downstream. We located a few and I picked one that looked like it would possibly hold together in a minimal number of pieces through the extraction process. Extraction I did not have time to do a thorough pedestal and plaster approach because of the long hike out and the >100 degree temps of the afternoon. I started with chisel and hammer parallel to the fossil around the edges to remove loose matrix and get a lip of the surrounding matrix/fossil exposed around the edges. Because of the natural fracture around the fossil itself, the simple vibrations in the rock popped the entire fossil loose from the matrix. This was not what I wanted, because I prefer to have the matrix attached when extracting the specimen so I can remove it in a more controlled environment. Regardless, I continued to remove the surrounding matrix and partially pedestal the fossil till I could wrap heavy duty aluminum foil around it in several layers. Before covering the fossil, I took pictures frequently to help me later during the reconstruction process. I pressed the Aluminum foil into the fossil to help stabilize it when I was ready to flip it over. I jiggled a few of the ammonite pieces (it was in many pieces before I started) to ensure it was indeed separated from the matrix below. Once satisfied, I gripped as much of the fossil as I could using both hands to squeeze the loose pieces together and bracing the bottom of the ammonite with my knees to ensure it did not slide when I flipped it. I took a deep breath and turned it over. I checked to ensure I got the majority of the fossil - Yep! There were several small pieces of both fossil and rock that did not flip with the wrapped fossil. Some were clearly parts of the fossil, but others appeared to just be pieces of matrix. I took all of these and put them in a separate piece of foil - there were maybe 5-8 small pieces. I double checked for any other potential pieces - Nope - then wrapped the rest of the fossil in more aluminum foil. Once it was good and tight, I wrapped this in a heavy towel and stuck it in a backpack to lug it all the way back to the car which was miles away. At Home Prep I opened the Aluminum wrap by carefully cutting across the top in an 'X' and peeling back the aluminum foil till it was a kind of aluminum bowl. I took each piece out one at a time and cleaned it with a little water and a medium bristle toothbrush. Some pieces were crumbly in water, so I stabilized these with some thin cyanoacrylate (superglue). I started with the easiest piece to remove and worked around the fossil cleaning and photographing and gluing piece after piece. When I found a piece missing from the assembly, I would stop and look through the aluminum bowl in the location where the piece should be sitting and tried all the small bits till I found the one that fit. If I could not find it there, I would go to the secondary aluminum pouch and go through those pieces. Being methodical and ensuring pieces always remained where they were when the fossil was wrapped is critical to reassembly. Tools Water tub for washing pieces, several different toothbrushes for various bristle stiffness, several picks for removing excess matrix, Good light, reading glasses (cause I can't see as good as I used to), towel to avoid small parts bouncing off the table, Thin and thick Superglues - thin for stabilizing and small pieces, thick for connecting big pieces together, and a camera for documenting progress and the location and position of all the little pieces. ...continued pics on next post... The final result is a nicely restored fossil. Jon

Does anyone know what this is? The picture is taken in Northern Oman mountains (UAE). A whole layer >50 cm thick is loaded with this organisms, with sizes of individuals from a few cm to >15 cm. The outcroping formation is Simsima, the age of the formation is Upper Cretaceous. The coin is ~1.7 cm in diameter.