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A friend took me out to a spot on a creek he owns where you can find Miocene-era fossils. Found several whale bones, all black in color, except this large vertebra which is all white. My friend said I needed to stabilize the white ones, as they would crumble over time otherwise. Looking through the various posts on here I bought some butvar, but found a couple methods that people talked about for use. Completely submerge the fossil, paint brush on the solution, or use a turkey baster to squirt it on? Not sure how to proceed. After dissolving the butvar into acetone, which method is the best for vertebra? If I submerge it, which sounds like it might be the best for stabilizing (as it would permeate to the core), how do you move it from the submersion tank to a spot to dry? It doesn’t fall apart once you set it in butvar/aceatone solution for a while? I have let the vertebra dry for several months now. This is my first attempt at preserving a fossil so any tips/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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While walking in the early morning in Corolla, NC 2 weeks ago I was distracted by a black bird that lead me to find this vertebra. I've never found anything like this at the beach so I thought I would ask for some help here. The only thing I've found that looks like it is here - scroll down to Xiphiacetus (Eurhinodelphis) bossi Dorsal Vertebra - Plate 7 - #5 https://www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/mammal/marine/eurhinodelphis/eurhinodelphis_miocene.htm Thanks in advance for any answers! Jennifer
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Over the spring and early summer I got my prep lab set up and am having a blast with it so I wanted to start sharing some of my preps with the forum. Here we go! Fish vertebrae, possibly Xiphactinus: Late cretaceous. The larger of the two, in situ under a few inches of water. The smaller was about a foot away. Preprep: I tore them up getting them out of the matrix - bad collecting on my part as I could have been more careful. Post prep: I used baking soda as blast media at about 25 psi and had some trouble trying to clean out the matrix from the vertebra body without burning through some of the bone. Instead of continuing to try to remove it I decided to leave it.
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Found this in the bottom of a river bank the other day and was wondering what it was. It was buried pretty deep in the bank, but the river has moved a lot in the past decade and had been grazed by cattle since the 1930s. Watonwan River. Cottonwood County, Minnesota
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Can anyone identify these as spinosaurus bones. Ive come across these pictures with very little information, other than apparently spinosaur bones from Morocco. I think the verts look clearly spinosaur, but I'm not very familiar with spinosaur long bones, although they immediately struck me as looking a little off. Maybe them being flattened is throwing me off. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for not just help learning spino long bones, but also while dealing with details like that, which can interfere with "standard" identification. In the 4th picture, the fossil on the bottom right--is that a vert with a long bone next to it? It's positioned like the sail of the vert, and seems to be attached to the vert but something about the bone looks wrong for part of the sail, to me...maybe that it looks like it's rounded along the length's edge, which I thought was not how they were shaped(if I'm wrong, I could also be just picturing dimetrodon sail spines...well, or just plain wrong, of course)? ...As well as looking just like the other long bones present. Thanks for any and all help!
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Fossil ID: Vertebrea, Belemnoidea, Ammonites, Dino egg, crustacean, petrified wood, partial jaw...
lildragon posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, I'm from Belgium and currently tasked with securing a secondary fossil collection owned by the grandfather of my husband. We are emptying an attic, and securing quite a number of fossils. Many of them already have an ID, some of them however lack one. Apologies in advance for the poor quality of pictures, there is little to no light/electricity inside the rooms we need to vacate, so picture quality will be appalling at first. I am aiming for a basic ID here, if possible I might be able to provide more detailed pictures once the fossils have been properly packed and moved. #1 : Could this be a dinosaur egg? #2: vertebrae of different sizes + plate of petrified wood in the background. Looking for possible ID on these vertebrae. #3: Petrified wood, which type? #4 : Small crustacean? #5: Fossilized shell from morocco? #6: Partial fossilized jaw? #7: Belemnoidea, the two in the front? (they seem to be very large).- 46 replies
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I found this specimen on a beach in northern michigan. It was found along with sea shell fossils and petaskys.
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Me and a friend of mine were looking for fossils in a creek here in Austin Texas today when he stumbled upon this vertebrae. Any ideas what it once belonged to? Thanks