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Hello, I have been finding all sorts of neat rocks and marine fossils in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona where the Colorado river had once flowed into a large ocean. There seems to be some sort of worm creature fossilized in this stone? I would appreciate an ID on the specimen, or speculation as to what it is? Thank you.
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Hi Randy here. A friend of mine found this tooth today along Calvert cliffs.its a center cow but is it pathological?
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I was wondering if this could possibly be a coprolite? Or just a rock that has formed this way over time. Found in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming. Thanks for your input!
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From the album Cenomanian Shark Teeth and other Marine Fauna, Ryazan Oblast, Russia
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Hi everybody Recently I was examinating limestones with gastropods (turritelids) and I found this. I think it's a fish tooth, but I'm not sure. What do you think? From lower cretaceous (Lower-Upper Aptiense ) Sea sediments. P.s. Sorry about the quality. It's really tiny. P.s.2. How are you all? I hope everything is okay with this quarantine.
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Hi, please stare at this trilobite that I just snagged and tell me if you would agree with me that it's real, or if you think it's fake. If the latter, I would appreciate your reasons. Edit: pictures posted properly. Also I ask because I'm still very new at collecting.
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This belongs to a friend of mine. Never seen anything like it myself, so I have no information for now. He thought it might be Halysite (chain coral).
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I have fill under my deck from before i bout the house, i assume local quarry. I am in erie, pa near lake erie. I have found some coral and brachiapods in the fill but unsire what this is.
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Hi everyone this is matthew again today in the creek I found a rock that I split apart and the rock was full of brachiopods here is a photo of the fossil
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Hi everyone, i'm doing the thesis of master degree in paleontology and I'm studying a new internal lagoon near a carbonate platform. At this moment I can't go to university because we are in quarantine and therefore I can't consult with the professors and can't use various methods. So I ask you for help. Can anyone identify these fish, even just the family they belong to? They are all from the Turonian and they come from a kind of Plattenkalk and represent the only vertebrates found. Thank you
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Hello! I’m not sure if this is going to be a “oh he had that set” type of post but I hope not haha! long story short about 14 years ago (when I was 12) I got a rock collection from a yard sale with my mother and inside were some cool fossils which I added rocks next to throughout. I forgot I had this for about 12 years. Each fossil has an identifying yellow card - I think I found the distributor of this from way back when but I’m unsure. I don’t want to sell anything as I kind of treasure my childhood but I’d love to know if this stuff is actually real because that would be pretty awesome lol! Apparently I have a dinosaur bone? I’d like to know! thank you for taking the time to look I also understand it’s impossible to verify without tests and stuff but, I’m hoping for some optimistic responses!
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An article that talks about fossil remains dated 47mya in the former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt about how ancient horses shrank and how ancient tapirs showed the opposite in that they got bigger. https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/exceptional-fossils-give-window-into-mammalian-evolution-332518 Ring et al. (2020) Divergent mammalian body size in a stable Eocene greenhouse climate. Scientific Reports. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60379-7 (the article is open access)
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Good morning! I was hiking along a park path when I inspected a large boulder and found these two fossils, the first of which is similar to modern day scallop. I didn't have anything to measure with -my apologies, but it was approximately 1 1/4" in height and 1" across. the other object has some faint lines/rays emanating from ~9:00 to 2:00, but not sure it is overlying the underside of another shell, or is part of the fossil. This one is approximately 1 1/2" x 3/4 " Any thoughts and suggestions on i.d.s welcome and encouraged!..... not sure I could remove the scallop intact but thoughts on how to do that as well? Bone
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Free Online Paleontology (And Other) Books Courtesy John Hopkins University Press
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
John Hopkins University Press has made available online books for free for this period of cancelled or remote classes. Some paleontology books, of which each chapter can be downloaded free as a PDF are: Birds of Stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin, 2016 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48019 The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution Sankar Chatterjee, 2015 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/39108 Transylvanian Dinosaurs David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu, 2011 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1874 The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution Annalisa Berta, 2017 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56360 The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution Hans-Dieter Sues, 2019 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67468 Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth edited by Lars Werdelin, H. Gregory McDonald, and Christopher A. Shaw, 2018 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58589 Other free books by John Hopkins University Press can be found at: https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=browse&limit=publisher_id:1 Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Hi there i continue to maintain my very very amateur status but I've been trying to read the different threads on here regarding spinosaurus jaw and what I gathered so far is pitting is reflective of croc jaw and if it only has a single socket or also makes it difficult to determine if its spino or croc. I found this one on our favorite auction site and wanted to get your opinion
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I found this while rock hunting in the Stanislaus river, Modesto, CA. If anyone can help identify it I would be very grateful. Thank you.
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Hi all, we found way we hope is a fossil today in Lyme Regis. Does anyone know what we have found, if and how we can remove the outer layer to reveal what is hopefully a lovely fossil inside. best wishes Tim
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Howdy! I've been trying to properly ID some of my toothy finds from the Peace River and Venice Florida. Please let me know if I have misidentified any. Also, including a few that I am not sure about. Any help is appreciated! Pretty sure the are Megalodon, but not 100 percent. 1. 2 inches top to bottom 2 One inch top to bottom . 3 One inch, obviously. . Snaggletooth Hemipristis: 4. One Inch 5. One inch 6 Just over one inch obviously , Carcharinus (Bull Sharks? Whaler Sharks? Dusky Sharks?) Not sure what species.. Would like to narrow it down, but not sure about that. 7. 3/4 Inch 8. 9. One Inch 10 11. 3/4 inch . Lemon Shark - I am pretty positive on the Lemon ID I just wanted to show this precious teeny tiny tooth: It think that is a salt crystal growing on the side! 12. Tiger Shark 13 3/4 Inch 14 3/4 inch Unknown: 15. A worn Carcharinus? 16. 1/4 inch
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Found this in my front garden today and it feels like flint but looks like a tooth of some sort
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If someone can verify what I have here,thanks
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Can you please help ID this? Found close to the border of WI/IL. It seems spongelike but the inside chambers leave me guessing! NOT a professional. Just like to find cool schtuff'.
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Hey guys, I saw this tooth from Uzbekistan labeled as undescribed and as a possible Dromaeosaurid. Is it? Does someone have an idea? Maybe @Troodon can help on this one. It is 3,2cm. Here are some pictures. Thanks and kind regards!
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I collected some weird fossil rocks today from Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, what are they?
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