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I just recently found this bone in the Cretaceous Black Creek group deposits of eastern North Carolina. I originally thought it was an oddly shaped shark vertebra, but now I think it might be a worn plesiosaur vert. based on the images I looked up online. The overall cross sectional shape is elliptical, and the center looks much too thick for shark (doesn’t pinch in towards the center). Any thoughts? Thanks!
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From Stratford hall Virginia a decade ago. How do I know if it’s mammal or fish or something else?
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I keep finding these peculiar ovaloid shaped fossils in the Cotswolds, Inferior Oolite Group, UK. It doesn't particularly matter which formation they are from, as I've found them in every single one so far! Here's one of them. They always have a side with a convex bump on it (pictured above), and a side with a concave dip, suggesting tessellation. And here's some microscope images:
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Please help identify this fossil. Some type of vertebra I believe. Thank you
Tom Carmichael posted a topic in Fossil ID
Please help identify this fossil. Some type of vertebra I believe. Thank you for your time! Tom
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Found near Lake Huron Ontario. I can see the symmetry and the darker pieces on top and that they coincide with the curved spacing below. Hard to see in pics but I’ll do my best to show. I pointed out the two less obvious in the possibility it help in identifying due to the structure etc. The other is the lighter grey square that is more obvious and visible. Thank you
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Hi! I found this bone on a remote, virgin beach in northern Iceland just the other day. I’m completely green when it gets to those topics and have thus no idea what it can have come from. Possibly a piece of a large fish or seal vertebra? Any ideas? Can anybody help me identify the bone?
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Hi guys! I went to look for some bones on the beach like I always do when the river flow goes down, there's always something but the problem is that I never know what I found. The last time they helped me here to identify a whale humerus, thanks a lot! This time I found several bones, but I had to discard many because they were badly broken or did not look interesting. All of these are about the same (12-18cm) The one that looks better is that kind of vertebra, I searched with Google and it says it could be from a bison, but sounds weird a bison in a beach, and btw, the place where I found them is Uruguay, South America - where there never were bison I think. And sorry for the bad pics, but it was the last hours of sun, I can take others if required. Thanks!!
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Permian amphibian jaw found by me this year. Place:Russia, Perm Territory, location "Perskiye Kluchiki". Age: middle perminan upper kazan or ufa layer I have a description of the location (careful, Russian!) https://sciencejournals.ru/cgi/getPDF.pl?jid=palrus&year=2020&vol=2020&iss=3&file=PalRus2003015Sinichenkova.pdf I would be very grateful for any help in determining
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Finds from a week ago. I am used to finding Sawfish verts more often than Shark verts. This may be a Shark vert. If so, type of shark? Interesting and isolated damage. Here is a view after drying: Size Diameter 34 x 17 mm max/min, and 28 mm height A 2nd find: I immediately thought Drumfish, because I know of not other fish that has similar teeth ? Is it?
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North Carolina Dinosaur or Mosasaur Vertebra or phalanges?
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi, I recently found a bone that looks like either a vertebra or a phalanges. The bone is from eastern North Carolina, legally collected from public land, and comes out of either the Cretaceous Tar Heel or Bladen formations. Both marine and freshwater organisms as well as dinosaurs are known to be found from the general area. The bone does not look like it comes from a turtle or crocodile, but I could be wrong. Is it a dinosaur or mosasaur bone, or something else? And no, there is no way this bone is Cenozoic. Thanks!
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This is a vertebra I won as part of an online giveaway. I was told that it’s a Spinosaurus vertebra, but I doubt that vertebrae centra are identifiable down to genus level like that. Still, thought I’d post it here in case anyone can narrow it down for me so I can get a more accurate ID. (I will add that although it is difficult to see in the images, both the posterior and anterior ends of the centrum are concave). Thanks!
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Found a large vertebra in South Texas where mostly Pleistocene fossils are found. I believe it's a C2 axis vertebra. Due to the size, I was thinking it could be bison. Is that correct, or could it be another large mammal? Thanks, Brandy
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I find lots of verts. Most are horse, cow, deer. Some more mineralized than others. I don't bother posting most of them. This one seems different, but I can't describe why I think it's different. Just a gut feeling. Any thoughts? Found on the Brazos River, Texas, pleistocene.
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Early June, two years ago, I found this ichthyopterygian vertebra in a small nodule out of the northern French Middle Triassic, from the Upper Muschelkalk. Almost two years to the day later a friend of mine helped me complete its preparation this month. When done, one of the first things that struck me were the elongate, and slightly tilted rib attachment sites. As far as I know, such rib attachment sites do not occur in any parvipelvian ichthyosaur species, which, instead, have round, button-like, attachment sites, especially on dorsal vertebrae as my find is. Now I realise that ichthyosaur vertebrae typically hold very little diagnostic value, but I was wondering whether the peculiar rib attachments might be indicative of a super-family, family or even genus, so that I can label the vertebra more informatively than "indet. basal ichthyopterygia". Nothing is known of the species at the sites where I found this, though, based on size alone, Cymbospondylus sp. seems like a good candidate. Any other ideas? @Pemphix @sander @paulgdls @Welsh Wizard @Crazyhen Dimensions of the specimen: 41mm (diameter) x 21 (depth)
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Found in the Lee Creek spoils pile. Is this a whale vertebra or possibly a digit bone? The somewhat flattened and oval cross section kind of looks like images of whale digit bones to me, but I am far from knowledgeable about this. Bonus with this find is the shark tooth embedded in the concretion on the top of the fossil. Any guesses as to what it is?
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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Hey everyone, I found this vertebra back in April on the Zandmotor (Netherlands, most likely late Pleistocene in age). I believe it's a thoracic vertebra from some pinniped, but I'm not sure. I've been comparing it to several vertebrae online, especially using the Osteology section in the Idaho Virtual Museum website (which is quite good, perhaps a useful resource for some of you!). Unfortunately, I am not finding any satisfying matches. The different seal thoracic vertebrae I am seeing look most similar, but they all appear to have a less wide corpus than my specimen. I'm really hoping to be able to put a species name on this specimen; I know it's not complete, but I feel like enough of it is there to be able to make a confident species guess. But I will settle for a less specific ID if necessary. So, what do you guys think? I'm looking forward to hearing your opinions! Best, Max EDIT: just realized there are no size references on my photos, sorry! The vertebra is 8cm wide at its widest point and 5cm long. The corpus is 5.5cm wide and 3cm high.
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Half of a woolly mammoth atlas vertebra.
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Found these in a creek in Maryland. I’m most interested in identifying items 1-4 but let me know if you have any ideas for the rest too. I think 8 might be the edge of a turtle shell because it’s wedge shaped. Item 7 looks like a rib to me.
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Thanks for taking the time to check this out. The vert is ID'ed as Dromaeosaurus from Hell Creek Fm, Powder River County. I've been having a frustrating time trying to make better sense of this, since, as for as I know, there have been no Dromaeosaurus IDs in HC. Are any of you able to shed light on the likelihood of it being dromaeosaurid and anything beyond that? The measurements are 1.875" long * 1" wide * 1.625" tall. (I have a vert centrum ID'ed as Dromaeosaurus from a Judith River Fm and it's only about 0.8" * 0.4*0.5. Position may well explain the huge size difference, but I'm not sure about that either.) Any input you have would be greatly appreciated.
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