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Strange trace fossil or plant fossil from Taranaki region New Zealand
Leon Meads posted a topic in Fossil ID
Some weird looking patterns in the rocks. I suspect it to be a trace fossil or a plant fossil but I am unsure. Does somebody know what they are? They are from northern Taranaki.
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Hi everybody. I remember seeing a thread about fossils coming from New Zealand and in it was a paper about legality and such. Does anyone know how I can find that? I tried the internet but all I got was confusion. any help would be much appreciated. Thank you RB
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This I found on west coast south island NZ,near hokitika,any ideas?
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Hi everyone, I've just signed up to the forum and hopefully will learn heaps from being here. I have only just got back into fossil hunting after many many years. Yesterday i went for a hunt in North Canterbury (NZ) during what seemed like an extremely low tide and came back with a few pieces that were interesting to me, mainly as i don't really have a collection. Anyway while i was down walking the low tide line i was looking at a concretion which appeared to be empty sp i placed it back down and as i stood up i noticed a black thing in another rock. The colours were quite a contrast to each other especially as they were wet at the time. I think this is what i noticed the most but after picking the rock up and examining a little closer the black thing appeared to be a large-ish tooth sitting in a recess. On closer inspection tonight it almost looks like there is another further back still in the rock. Am i imagining this and just being a newbie or is it something interesting like a tooth? The visible part of the "tooth" is about 33mm long and although it could be wear, one side appears flatter than the other. The only other option i can think of is that this is another rock layered within the parent material. the next layer or "tooth" appears to be slightly sitting on the rear edge of this one with a slight overlap like they are partially sitting on each other. The tip of the main feature also looks to have been broken off. Ive tried to take some photos, but i think under artificial light the shape doesn't show as well as i had hoped. If anyone thinks its worth pursuing i can get a few in the sun. This is the parent material with what appears to be a tooth in the upper center A closer view of possible "tooth" An idea of the size A sort of top down view and in the background behind the main feature you can see another layer of the same material just showing through. Any comments are appreciated as i really am a complete newbie and have to learn somewhere. Cheers Jeff
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Hey there! I'm back again, and again I'm on another continent I moved to New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and in between the incredible fishing and birding I forced myself to head out to Glen Afric (2 hour drive) for a stab at some crabs. The day started out with a couple belemnites, quite long and skinny. The concretions were various shades of khaki to black, some of them still more clay than rock. There were various shells encrusted in them. I kept my eyes peeled for a 'crab' shaped concretion, however this was easier said than done. After a full lap (about 400m) I was nearly back where I started when I picked up a rock, turned it over and holy moly it had legs! Please tell me they're crab legs and not belemnites trolling me haha!! If it's a crab, would an air scribe be safe in the hands of an amateur? Anyway I had to go, but I'll be back!
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Found in mudstone mass of fossil bivalves. Uncertain of exact location geology as not my find. Length 30mm. Assuming univalve or snail?
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I've got this very worn vertebral centrum from the marine Conway Formation near Oaro (Late Cretaceous; about 79-73 Ma) on the south island of New Zealand. The only two logical candidates are plesiosaur or mosasaur from this formation, both of which are known here. There are characteristics of both groups seen on this bone which is tripping me up a bit. One end face seems a bit concave and the other more convex which is a mosasaur feature, but then there also looks to be two distinct holes on the ventral side (see photo three) which could be the paired foramina that are characteristic of plesiosaur vertebrae. So i am left scratching my head! What do others think? Front face Dorsal view Ventral view (note what look like paired foramina) Lateral view
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Hey everyone Weather and tides look good for Motunau and possibly Glen Afric this weekend. I'll be driving through from Ashburton, is anyone keen to join? I've never been to Motunau so this would be an exciting exploratory trip for me.
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Dr Mud, 6ix & TinBum - more crabs than you could poke a stick at.
6ix posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
The good Dr is back in NZ and we caught up again. Time to hit the old hunting spot again - and we werent let down! Of course TinBum found the first couple of crabs, but Doctor Mud and I very quickly caught up. In the end, I stopped photographing them all as the battery was going flat... but wow what a blast. Have a look at this vid after browsing the photos.....thumb.jpg.6daffa248cc6ec5e475f9acc56d03291.jpg)
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Hi all, On a recent trip to the seaside cliffs of Port Waikato, NZ, I found this little beauty amongst the indistinguishable fossilised plant matter that is common along the beach. Does anyone have an idea of what it might be? According to geological maps, the area that I found this in was a part of the Apotu group (Late Jurassic), although could of also been from the nearby Huriwai group. Cheers, TJ
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A recently discovered fossil of a giant penguin from nz https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223102022.htm http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-017-1441-0
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Hello, This is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing this right. I found this last morning in New Zealand. It's about 4,5 cm wide. Thought it was a tooth or claw. Anybody recognizes it? thanks and best, Herman
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The Weather here has been Terrible high seas, rain,more rain the list goes on.but we got a chance to go for a walk on the beach on Thursday hadn't walked more than a hundred yards when i started to find some fresh exposure and nice concretions along the beach with more sand sucked off the beach than i had seen in years, the first rock i had a crack at i found bird material a nice penguin pelvis then in the same area i found two more rocks, a small concretion with hollow bones exposed in the side, then i hit a larger concretion that has a tarsometatarsus also what look like more associated leg bones of a medium sized Petrel . all are yet to have work done after ferrying these back to the car i returned to beach in about the same area and found a large concretion with the Radius and ulna and maybe the Humerus of another large seabird possibly another Petral then to top it off a found a nice Seal Radius All in all an awesome day, this is just what i found my friend that i was with also found a nice big bird sternum,also other bird material and other mammal bones all fossil i find along this part of the coast are all from the pliocene
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Well it was only a matter of time ,i was only saying last month that it was on my wish list... alas it still is. i just wish it was me, one of my mates came across this partial lower right beak section last week while fossil hunting along the stretch of Taranaki coast we call heaven. it could be from Pseudonrornis stirtoni or maybe another bony toothed bird,i havent done any comparisons yet but an awesome find.
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Hi i found this yesterday picking it is a partial 3/4 humerus of a Bony-toothed bird( PELAGORNITHIDAE) from my favorate spot here in Taranaki New Zealand it was well at low tide mark very wet and muddy just waiting for it to dry out a bit before i do any more work.
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Does anybody have a list of fossil dealers in New Zealand? I have been looking online, but nobody seems to have decent specimens to buy. I'm looking for dealers in dinosaur/reptile teeth, bones and the like. Links to Australian dealers are also welcome, as long as they don't require PayPal*. *I tried to use it, and I could never figure out how to do so.
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