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Any ideas what type of bone piece this is? I am inclined to say it is a skull piece from a whale. It is heavy - seems too heavy to be a vert fragment. Found it in the Potomac near Stratford Hall and the Horsehead Cliffs. (VA/MD)
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Looking for help identifying fossils I was given 35 years ago that was found in Indiana.
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I found this today in Edisto, South Carolina, on the beach, and would appreciate any information that can be given about it. I can provide additional pictures if needed. Thanks
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From the album: Cretaceous of Delaware and New Jersey
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Awesome day at Peace River FL... Need help IDing this vertebrae...
Idelond posted a topic in Fossil ID
Yesterday was awesome.... A day trip on Peace River never fails... Had some great finds... By the way, did all my search by "Fossil Noodling"... Spent all day just feeling around the floor with my hands and feet... It's my new favorite way of looking for fossils... =) P.S.... Need help identifying the vertebrae. Thanks.
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Hi all! Lovely little something I acquired recently. Seller said Struthiomimus, just wanted to verify and see if anyone could provide insight on differentiating altus from sedens from potentially something else like Anzu, raptor, or Tyrannosaur. Measures 7.5 cm tall, 7 cm long, 3.8 and 4.2 cm wide centrums. Found in powder River County Montana. Was apparently found "crushed" and then repaired.
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I have a few vertebrae I was hoping to get identified. These are 3 that I don't have any others that are alike. I tried to search online and the oval shaped one looks like possibly a Pachy but wasn't sure. These were all found on the Judith River Formation Montana, Hill County. first 4 is the one that I thought was Pachy, 2nd 4 I am not sure, 3rd 4 might be Hadrosaur?
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I have seen this for sale, however the seller states that they don’t know if it is real or a replica. I’m thinking it might be worth taking a risk on, but the air bubbles in the bottom are a red flag. It’s clearly another layer to the top so I suppose it could just be something added to the fossil to strengthen the piece. I’m also thinking that such a piece wouldn’t usually be worth making a replica of. What are your thoughts on this; worth the risk at a low price?
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Mammoth or mastodon? Found at land site in Sarasota along with
Finding Florida posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found at a land site in Sarasota we have to go back tomorrow to excavate the rest there is so much more bone in the ground!! Could somebody please tell me what this is I'm leaning towards mammoth or Mastodon maybe a juvenile
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Hi guys I’m from NSW Australia and have been finding teeth for the last couple years and just wondering if someone can help identify a tooth and two vertebrae. Thanks!
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I have a collection of 22 Hell Creek Vertebrae, and I have no idea what any of them are.
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Found in Kansas... Can someone tell me what it might be??? Let me know if anything else is needed...
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Strange Spinosaurus fossil.
ConnorR posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
First off, this is my first time posting on the forum. So hello everyone! I just got my hands on some Spinosaurus fossils, allegedly from the Kem Kem beds. Both are from a seller in Arizona. One of them is a hand claw, as seen below. I'm not 100% sure that it's from a Spinosaurus, so I hope someone can tell me. But it seems very real. The other specimen, though, has some bizarre properties. I thought it might be fake. But after doing some tests on my own, I'm only more confused. These are the vertebrae that I bought. The first thing you'll notice is that they appear crushed, flattened and distorted. In the last photo, you can see some tool marks on the back of the second vertebra. But I noticed some strange things. Firstly, it makes a hollow-ish sound when tapped. Not the matrix, just the bone. Secondly, the bone has a faint odor that's hard to describe. I did a scratch test with a small pick to see what was up, and it's VERY soft. It's somewhere between 2 and 3 on the Mohs scale. I can't scratch it with my fingernails, but I can scratch it with limestone, producing a fine white powder. I scratched a little deeper to see if the smell was because of paint, but found that it's the same deeper down. The matrix is also fairly soft. I can scrape it easily with a steel tool. Confused, I did an acid test with vinegar to see if maybe it's carbonate or something. It didn't react, but I found that the bone absorbs liquids very slowly, even though it's not porous to the naked eye. And by slow, I mean it takes 20-30 seconds to absorb a drop of liquid. Another strange thing is the coloration. It's mostly white, with orange in some parts. But in the following image, you can see that some of the cracks have a reddish color. Now notice that there are small fossil fish teeth and vertebrae in the matrix. I wanted to see if they had the same properties as the large bones. If they don't, then maybe that would indicate that the Spinosaurus bones are fake. Maybe the matrix is made of crushed rock that just happened to have fish fossils in it? So I did a scratch test on the fish vertebra in the following image to see how hard it was. I found that it has exactly the same properties as the larger bones. It's the same color, it has the same hardness, and it produces the same fine white powder when scratched. The fish vertebra is only 3mm long, and there are many smaller fossil fragments throughout, all with the same strange properties as the large bones. At this point, I'm convinced that it's real, and that it's probably Spinosaurus. But beyond that, everything about this specimen is weird. Does anyone have any ideas about what the deal is here? How could this have formed naturally? What mineral(s) is it made out of? Or if you think it is fake, how do you think it was made? Either way, do you think $500 was a good deal?
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A couple larger dino vertebrae I found on the Judith River last year, I believe the larger round one is Hadrosaur but not certain, the longer rectangular shape vertebra I have no idea. I was hoping someone would be able to help identify.
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I am sorry, I know next to nothing about fossils and most bones. I do think this is a fossil because the little areas that look like stippling are porous like the inside of a bone and the other areas are really smooth like they have been rubbed against. I could be way off base here, but I just don't know. I found this at North Topsail Beach in North Carolina, March 6, 2022.
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Hi everyone! So first and foremost let me say, it's not a composite. Yes I know there is some sediment where the process meets the centrum, yes it is Moroccan, yes 99.9999999% of the time that automatically means funny business but I've looked at the area really carefully and the bone connects there (might try getting rid of some of that matrix at least on one side depending on what it's from). Anyway, I'm on the fence on this one. I was comparing it to a similar thread where a fellow asked about a caudal vertebra from the kem kem which turned out to be croc but was sold as Rebbachisaurus. In the thread some pics were posted of Titanosaur caudals and this looks really similar to that versus the examples of Crocodyliforms that where shown. But before I take that leap I would like a second opinion. The dimensions are 2.25 in. (6 cm) long, 1.85 in. (4.7 cm) tall, and .83 and .75 in. (2.1 and 1.9 cm) wide on its centrum. I also included the pic from that thread of Titanosaur caudal that was posted by Troodon.
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Hey guys, just saw this dimetrodon vertebrae for sale. Not really familiar with reptilian material and tried checking in the forum for similar threads for reference but cant seem to find one I could use. Also tried looking fkr similar ones for sale online but just not really familiar with reptilian material to positively ID mine. Was hoping if you guys may be able to help me with this one though and if it was possible to ID them to a species level? Cheers! PS. Currently asking for more specific locality but atm, all I have is that it is from Texas. Age Location Formation
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Hi everyone! I'm helping a friend go through a large amount of Cretaceous Moroccan stuff and came across this piece. It measures 6.3 x 6.5 x 4.33 inches (16 x 16.5 x 11 cm). I know it's the process of a huge vertebrae, but I'm not entirely sure from what. I'm thinking sauropod but I was hoping to get a second opinion. Any feedback is appreciated as always!
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After spending a great deal of time in the house lately do to COVID and days and days of rain, I took the family on a nice leisurely walk to our favorite hunting spot on this beautiful North Texas day. While the kids wwere off collecting some beautiful Turitellas and oysters, I had only one thing on the mind, shark teeth. Cretalamna seems to dominate this site, however some large Cretodus semiplicatus have been found. A Ptychodus latissimus and 2 Plesiosaur teeth have also been found at the site, filling us with hope on each trip for an incredible find. The trip was a pretty good haul, 11 teeth found in 2 hours. Not bad for a nice family outing. The real highlight though were 2 shark verebrae (about the size of a bottle cap), not large, but still my first ones I've ever found which put me over the moon. They were found just a few feet away from each other, so odds are they belonged to the same critter which is even more incredible! And now it's time for everyone's favorite game, FIND THAT FOSSIL!
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Hi What are people's thoughts on these three small verts from Hell Creek. The one on the right of picture 2 has rounded ends--if I am not wrong, that is a sign of it being a crocodile? Any thoughts on the other two? I can get extra info from the seller if needs be Cheers
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Last week I stumbled upon a deposit that might be yielding a bit more. Several bone fragments, a vertebrae (I think), lots of boney plate material, and a small tarsal bone. I have collected this area for years an never found as much in one spot as I did last week. Going back with proper tools for looking further. Wish me luck.
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Hey everyone! My boyfriend and I go shark tooth hunting on the south end of Amelia Island, Florida frequently. Today we went to a new area. Close to a dredging site. I think we found a few fossils! They are all vertebrae of some sort. believe one to be a shark, one a fish, and the other 2, I am stumped on. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I was recently given this amazing fossil from an old man before he passed away. While he couldn’t remember exactly where it was found, he did tell me a general area in Wyoming that is known for Eocene fossils. Any help with identification is greatly appreciated!
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Hi Help with ID please. My wife found this yesterday whilst we were walking the Holderness Coast. It’s mainly Boulder clay with lots of erratics but there is some Pleistocene material that gets washed up very now and then. Not sure if it’s modern tho. Thanks
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Good evening, these vertebrae are announced as spinosaurid, but it's posible to know just with the centrum preserved? At Kem Kem beds there are a lot of other reptiles so, it's posible to know with incomplete material like these?
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