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My hope is that someone can confirm if this is a fossilised vertebra - possibly from a plesisosaur? Item was found on North Norfolk, England, beach and approximately 90mm x 50mm. Thank you for any assistance. Four photos included.
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Greetings again Thisis a second vertebra also found at the Lee Creek Mine (aka Aurora) in Yorktown spoils. It is 50mm in length, rather porous and very light. I was thinking bird, but thought I'd get some other opinions. Any ID suggestions? The photos in order are: "bottom", "top", "side", end 1 and end 2
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Greetings, Since There's not much collecting to be done here, I've started diving into the collection and trying to ID and label. I found this vertebra at the Lee Creek Mine (aka Aurora) in Yorktown spoils. It is 33mm in length, rather porous and very light. I was thinking bird, but thought I'd get some other opinions. Any ID suggestions? The photos in order are: "bottom", "top", "side", end 1 and end 2
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Hi all, it's me again! for my first expedition of the year, I decided to go to big brook to try my hand collecting there. had quite the adventure, found some neat things. but there are a handful of oddity's that I am unsure. in my research that ive done over the day I have a couple ideas, but any confirmation from experts is always appreciated. first one up is this weird thing. I'm not sure what this is although it's no concretion these ones are also strange, but I have some ideas on a few of them. top two are probably vertebrae fragments, but I have no clue what they are from. bottom left is a total mystery, but I think that the shark tooth in the right is possibly a Hybodont tooth. I say this because of all the research I've done both on this forum and the Big brook website. it is the only one that matches the profile. more views below @The Jersey Devil @Rockwood any ideas?
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I was able to obtain a couple of fossils found on the western coast line of France. The first one is presumably a piece of paddle bone from the upper tithonian, found between Wimereux and Cap de la Crèche. It measures about 220 x 160 x 65mm. Very heavy. The second is a vertebra found between Cap d'Alprech and Equihen (Tithonian). Measuring about 80 x 65 x 35mm. Could these be pliosaur or rather plesiosaur fossils? I'm sure they are too worn to identify better than sp.? Thanx for notes!
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Can someone help me identify this fossil vertebra I found in Montgomery?
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From the album: Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Volga
Ulyanovsk Oblast, Undory. Caudal-
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
Ulyanovsk Oblast, Undory, Kimmeridgian, pyritized-
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I wonder if the baby shark song made outside the US, it's been stuck in my head since last night when I found the smaller of the 2 vertebra. Amazing I even spotted it, pretty sure the larger one is shark? Can anyone tell if tiny one is fish or shark? I'm trying to picture something so small, which shark could have babies so small? Could some shark vertebra be from babies still in egg sac? These were found in Eagle Ford, Cretaceous, the dark ruler is in mm.
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I had found this vertebra in the box of matrix I'd gotten for my birthday. I think that it might be either a crocodile or a Pachycephalosaurus caudal vertebra, I was hoping that you guys might be able to identify it. It was found in the Lance formation of Weston County, Wyoming. Here are the pictures. Scale is in millimeters. Thanks for any help!
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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Myrtle Beach fossil - vertebra part maybe? (EDITED TO ADD PHOTOS)
PSchleis posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found on Myrtle Beach, Jan 18, 2022. Never saw this one before. Bottom is concave with a small protruding tip at the top (third picture) Top is rounded, coming to a peak in the middle. The top two pictures make this look almost like a steinkern but it isn't, as you can see from third image. Thank you!
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The only terrestrial reptile fossil I own: Mycterosaurus longiceps
gond posted a topic in Member Collections
In my collection (about 30 fossils in total, but it's always expanding!) there is only one fossil of terrestrial reptile (but I'm saving some money to get another one soon!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Species: Mycterosaurus longiceps Size: 1 cm x 5 mm Age: 280-275 mya (Lower Permian, Kungurian) Origin: USA, Oklahoma --> Dolese Brothers Quarry --> Richard's Spur About this fossil: one of the smallest ones in my collection, it is a partially complete caudal vertebra of Mycterosaurus longiceps. It is missing only a small piece in the upper part of the vertebra.
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Hey guys, Recently received this vertebra from Brightstone bay, Isle of Wight, UK. Could it be baryonyx? What else could it be if it’s not? Size is 7,5cm long. Thanks for the help.
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What kind of dinosaur is this? Vertebrae from North Africa Probably the Cretaceous period But I don't know anything else Thank you for your answer
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Actually a Polycotylid Vertebra?
Opabinia Blues posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Not sure if this goes here or in Fossil ID but I’ll post here… This is one of my latest online purchases, and one I had to snag because if this is what it’s supposed to be it’s a neat piece. But seeing as I can’t personally verify it myself, I thought I’d post here. This vertebra was being sold as Trinacromerum sp. While I doubt that just a centrum like this is identifiable down to genus, I would like to know whether or not this really is a Polycotilid vertebra. I think it’s likely because it’s a very sizable bone that’s not mosasaur, but just want to check. This fossil is, according to the seller, from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas. And as can be seen, this fossils as pretty obviously been flattened by geology. Thanks!
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Anyone familiar enough with the Crocodylomorphs from the Hell Creek Formation to be able to help in determining a probable genus or species? I purchased this specimen and have been unable to find images or research papers with similar examples.
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Hi everyone . I recently receive this vertebra from Kem Kem basin . I am not sure about ID of this vert ... could be Theropod vert? I removed some of the matrix that covered this vert. I hope it helps a bit in ID There are some gap fill/restored areas to this vert as clearly see in photo. Thank you in advance and Happy Christmas ! Guns
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Hi guys! I found this vertebra on sale, probably caudal, can be spino? There are only these pictures… Thanks!
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North Carolina mosasaur, plesiosaur, or dinosaur vertebra fragment
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Here’s a vertebra fragment I found in Cretaceous Black Creek group sediments of North Carolina. It’s not turtle, and it doesn’t look like any crocodile vertebra I’ve ever seen. That would leave mosasaur, plesiosaur, or dinosaur. Personally I think it’s mosasaur, but I could be wrong and it may not even possible to ID further. Any thoughts?
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What's covering my plesiosaur vertebra? How to clean
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hi all, I recently decided to buy the below plesiosaur vertebra after having seen it for a long, long time. It dates to the Callovian of the Oxford Clay and was found at Peterborough. I suspect it may be attributed to Muraenosaurus leedsi, as it comes from a cryptoclidid plesiosaur, but is both larger and more elongate that the typical Oxford Clay Cryptoclidus vertebrae I'm familiar with. Supposedly coming from an old collection, it has a blackened exterior that doesn't cover the entire piece, with the more common buff colour visible underneath. As such, I expected the dark colouring to be simple dirt or may be some kind of consolidate that could be removed using acetone to leave a nice and clean looking vertebra in its place. However, since having tried acetone cleaning, the dark colour doesn't come off - suggesting that it isn't surface dirt and any consolidate, if present, is not soluble in acetone. I've also noticed that the black colour doesn't spread equally across the vertebra, which is most noticeable towards the top on the front face (first image) where one half of the vertebra is buff, the other black, with a hard separation in between. As this mottled pattern can be seen in other places on the vertebra as well, I thought that, may be, the vertebra might have been in a fire and have become covered in soot. I find additional support in the latter hypothesis in very brittle pieces of bone in one or two spots, with a charcoal-like grainy texture. Lastly, then, I've spotted a tiny edge of yellow staining/infill in an area where the vascular structure of the bone is exposed, with some white infill in an area adjacent - which I've now started worrying might be pyrite. My questions to you are: Origin of the blackening: Does the black clouding of the vertebra look like natural preservation? Related to the above: could the black clouding be due to pyrite decay? In contrast: could exposure to fire cause the clouding pattern seen on the vertebra? What consolidate might have been used to result in such colour patterning? Cleaning: Is there a way to remove soot from a fossil? Has anyone tried? Other than removal by acetone, what other ways might I try to remove an old, darkened consolidate? In case of decayed pyrite, I don't think there's anyway to clean the surface, other than, may be, through careful sandblasting, is there?
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Isle of Wight Baryonyx
Charlotte787 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi guys, I was considering purchasing the attached vertebra as a Christmas gift, however, I'm aware that identifying partial material down to the genus level can be tricky. I would really appreciate any opinions as to the identity of this vert, it's labelled as Baryonyx sp. indent and measures 8.9x10x10 cm collected from the Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, England. From my own reading around on the forum and online (see attached figure from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285762094_A_new_specimen_of_the_theropod_dinosaur_Baryonyx_from_the_early_Cretaceous_of_Portugal_and_taxonomic_validity_of_Suchosaurus) I thought that this could be the ventral portion of a caudal vertebrae, but I'm definitely no expert so please correct me if I'm wrong!
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A few things from Post Oak creek, Eagle Ford. I don't have a shark tooth like this so easier to ask for ID on first one The tiny little vert I'm assuming is fish, not expecting more specific , this is the smallest one I've seen. Last item I have no idea, maybe fish related?
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I’m guessing sea turtle, since it doesn’t appear to be snake or croc?
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Good morning, I Saw this vertebra for sale and advertised as a Sauropod cetiosaur, since I'm not an expert I would like to ask if you guys think it's a true sauropod vertebra or It can be instead of a pliosaur, or plesiosaur since they are more common. Thanks In advance
