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These are very common at an exposure of what I believe to be the Monterey formation (Miocene) in Santa Barbara county, California. They look quite different from most pectinid fossils I've seen in southern CA. Any ideas on ID, or references I should take a look at for this area? Thanks!
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Hi everyone, this is a fish I found a few years ago in Santa Barbara. If anyone could help with ID, or provide any resources on fossils in the area it would be greatly appreciated. The fossil is in very soft shale, measures just over 3 inches head to tail, had lots of bivalve and gastropod fossils nearby. I can provide additional pics/info if necessary. Thanks!
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Hi everyone! Found this potential whale fossil while hunting the coastline in Southern California, it looks to me like it could be the cross-section of a cetacean head… any ideas?
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Found this on a beach near Santa Barbara California, hard rock, semi porous in some areas. Was wondering if anyone recognizes the shape and what it could possibly be. A lot of fossil whale bone has been found in the area. thank you.
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Good fossil site near Santa Barbara CA for wheelchair user
orionpepai posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hello everybody, How are you today? My husband and i are visiting your beautiful country this August. We are from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We will be staying in Santa Barbara CA and were wondering what the best accessible fossil site is for a wheelchair user. My husband is paraplegic and in a wheelchair. He can move himself around and the wheelchair isn't to large in size. For a beach site we might be able to contact Nature Track. Do you by any chance have any recommendations for us? Sincerely, Bob and Jennifer- 1 reply
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Help Identifying Several Fossil Impressions on Small Slab Collected North of Santa Barbara
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Hello: Would like to know if anyone can help identify the several impressions on the rock in the attached photos? I am guessing that the roundish impression could have been made by a crab shell, but the other one is a mystery. There are also numerous tiny white all over the rock surface and wonder if these were left by small creatures. The "crab shell" measures 1.5 mm across. The other impression measures approx. 4 mm in length and approx. 2 mm tall. It was collected years ago just north of Santa Barbara. Thank you.- 5 replies
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Hello: Would like to know if anyone can help identify the attached fossil image? This fossil impression was collected years ago north of Santa Barbara. The impression measures approx. 10.5 mm long. Thank you.
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Taxonomy according to Fossilworks.org. Fritzsche 1980, p. 218 : "Diagnosis.- A Syngnathus with 43-47 dorsal rays; 10 caudal rays; pectoral rays not detectable; 14-15 trunk rings; 51 tail rings; snout 1.5-1.8 in head; orbit 5.8-8.7 in head; brood pouch not seen; largest specimen examined 181mm SL. Description.- Ridges of body smooth and generally not accentuated. Osteology basically the same as in extant species of Syngnathus. Plates small, width of trunk plate less than orbit diameter. Dorsal about as high as depth of adjacent body. Comparisons.- S. emeritus is unusual in having 15 trunk rings combined with 51 tail rings. These characters and the number of dorsal rays distinguish it from S. avus." Identified by oilshale using Fritzsche 1980. References: Fritzsche, R. A. (1980) Revision of the eastern Pacific Syngnathidae (Pisces: Syngnathiformes), including both recent and fossil forms - Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (42), 181-227. Wilson, A. B. and Orr, J. W. (2011) The evolutionary origins of Syngnathidae: pipefishes and seahorses. Publications, Agencies and Staff of the U.S. Department of Commerce. 331. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/331 Journal of Fish Biology 78, 1603–1623 doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02988.x
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Over the weekend, I decided to take a trip to the Santa Monica mountains for a hike and a fossil hunt. There was information about the site in "NEW UPPER PALEOCENE SPECIES OF THE BIVALVE PLICATULA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA" by Richard L. Squires and Louella R. Saul, which contains Late Paleocene marine life. This is probably a good opportunity to warn fellow hunters that it is not a smart idea to go quickly up a canyon in near 100 degree heat. Under the early afternoon sun I walked too quickly and made the mistake of not pacing out the hike! Despite plenty of water intake I was still lightheaded by the time I found the site, and a little dizzy. I rested in the shade immediately and ate the lunch I had packed while cooling off. Then I got to work examining the scree for a while before heading down the canyon to my sweet AC. The spot: Unfortunately, not much caught my eye this time. Marine fossils I took home: While splitting, these concretions popped out. Anybody know what they are? I've been enjoying rearranging them. Lower left may contain a fossil, I'll send closer pictures if anybody wants to see. As well as this, which I believe is one of the above split open. It has a ringed, deviled egg quality. I found a similar piece in the Badlands of SD and was surprised to come across this here. If there's a technical name I'd really like to know it! Do pack plenty of water if you hunt around here for the next month or so, you'll be doing yourself a big favor. And go slow!
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Hey all! I got out today to hang out on the beach and ended up searching a shale scree not far from where I parked in santa barbara, CA. This looked like it had fossiliferous potential so I grabbed it along with a good amount of nice malachite. A tube-like shape with white crystal-like openings which measures about an inch in this piece of shale. Curious to se what you think and thanks as always!
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I had a free morning last weekend, so I drove out to Jalama beach. A while ago while searching for good places to fossil hunt near Santa Barbara I saw this post and since then have stopped by twice for a few hours each to crack rocks without any luck. This time I finally found myself a Jalama beach fish. It's not in good enough shape to identify (for me, anyway), but it's nice to finally get something. I had read that the south side of the beach is more fossil rich, so I walked south until I didn't see any people and then started working my way back. The fossil-rich layer is a beige layered rock. This link, referenced in the post that got me interested in Jalama beach, refers to this formation as "the diatom beds of Lompoc." The cleavage is extremely nice and it reminds me of the green river formation fossils you see around (although it seems the fish are usually smaller). Most of the rock in the cliffs is a reddish brown crumbly rock without many fossils, and the first time I came I wasted a bunch of time messing around with that. You definitely have to poke around a bit to find the fossil rich rocks. Anyway, I found the fish almost immediately, and didn't find anything else as I worked my way back for the rest of the morning. I think next time I'll try to go even further south. There are a lot of fragments of algae fossils around and I only picked one up because it looked kind of interesting- I haven't really put any effort into identifying it yet. If anyone else is thinking about going to Jalama beach, I highly recommend bringing along a sharp flat chisel (see picture). I bought rectangular knife stock on Amazon and then sharpened it. It definitely helps in getting the rock to break along a plane instead of shattering, which is usually what happens with a regular geology hammer. Also, if you'd like some company I'd be happy to hunt with someone else, I don't really know anyone else in the area that does this.
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Hipposyngnathus imporcitor FRITSCHE, 1980 Miocene Santa Barbara California partial fish-
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Taxonomy according to Fossilworks.org. Diagnosis from Fritzsche, 1980, p. 217: "A Hipposyngnathus from the upper Modelo Formation of southern California with about 22 dorsal rays; 20-22 trunk rings; 42-44 tail rings; snout 1.5-1.9 in head; orbit 7.8-12.0 in head; pouch rings equal to trunk rings; pectoral fin present but rays not countable; pouch ridge as long as adjacent trunk. Maximum size known 242 mm SL. Discussion about the genus Hipposyngnathus by Fritzsche, 1980, p. 218: "The genus Hipposyngnathus is unusual in having a very exaggerated ventral trunk ridge. Jerzmanska (1968) suggested that the males alone had this ridge and that it was the site of egg deposition. She also speculated that pouch flaps were present on either side of the ridge. However, the extant genus Maroubra also has an enlarged ventral trunk ridge, although not so well developed as in Hipposyngnathus, and its eggs are not protected by flaps. It seems improbable that Hipposyngnathus had brood-pouch flaps." Identified by oilshale using Fritzsche, 1980. References: Jerzmańska, A. (1968). Ichtyofaune des couches à ménilite (flysch des Karpathes). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 13(3), 379-488. Fritzsche, Ronald A.(1980). Revision of the eastern Pacific Syngnathidae (Pisces: Syngnathiformes), including both Recent and fossil forms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Vol 42, 181-227. Přikryl, Tomáš & Krzeminski, Wieslaw & Kania, Iwona. (2011). New information about the anatomy of a peculiar fish of the genus Hipposyngnathus Daniltshenko, 1960. Comptes Rendus Palevol - C R PALEVOL. 10. 559-566. 10.1016/j.crpv.2011.05.001.
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So this specimen I found a few months ago camping above Santa Barbara at the beach. It is 3" long x 1-7/8" wide x 1-1/2" thick. I was walking below cliffs that I could see other small shelled creature fossils. I decided to break apart some hardened sandstone. Inside I found this encapsulated in the sandstone. Any ideas? Let me preface by stating that my geological background isn't that deep. I do my own research. I have a lot of outdoor experience. I have been doing more research into gems and minerals. I spend a lot of time fishing beaches I'm No. LA county, all of Ventura county, and sometimes SB county. Thanks for any help. Tim.
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Here's a new paleo-reconstuction I drew since the past two days of Albicetus oxymycterus, which is a mid-Miocene raptorial physeteroid none of you have probably heard about. Special thing between this little Moby-Dick and city I live in is that although it was not discovered directly in PV, it was discovered very nearby in Santa Barbara in the same formation and sublayer that exists here which highly suggests that it also swam here 16-14 million years ago. I tried to make this as scientifically accurate as possible using the resources I had, which included the entire 2015 paper establishing the genus Albicetus. I mainly used a pre-existing sketch of Aulophyseter morricei as body reference (which the paper stated is morphologically most similar to A. oxymycterus except for dentition) and used the paper's skull reconstruction for the head. I used a Zygophyseter-like head as the paper stated that the supracranial basin of the skull does not elongate to the end of the maxilla like that of Zygophyseter and Acrophyseter, which both posses snouts as a result. For the body size, I calculated the skull-body ratio by dividing the mean and lower condylobasal length estimates to the total calculated length, which came with either a 1:4.6 or 1:4.9 ratio. (Unrelated to the drawing, the 1:4-5 ratio is based on using a body formula for Physeter and Kogia spp.. If you use the upper Livyatan melvillei /Zygophyseter varolai estimates as reference, a ratio of 1:5.9 and total length of 8.6 meters is calculated) I don't know any of the advanced formulas some of you guys probably do know about and simply used division, so my calculations might not be the most accurate ones. I also put in a diver for scale this time! EXTRAS
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I picked this up from a dried up river bed about 16 years ago. Santa Barbara, 154, Cold Spring Tavern area, approx. ele. 1800'
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This bone fragment was found in a pile of coarse gravel outside of my condo in Santa Barbara. I do not know the source of the gravel. Please help if you can identify it or have any clues. Looks like it might be the distal end of a humerus.
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I’d really appreciate any help on this: I just bought a couple of fossil specimens that were described as: Middle Miocene, Monterey Shale Formation. Tranquillon Peak ashfall grading into regular sediments. Rezner Quarry in Tempesquet Canyon, Santa Barbara County, California. The fossils were collected in 1999. I’m trying to find out anything more about the locality. Has anyone ever heard of this quarry? Does anyone know where it is? Does anyone have any suggestions for contacting someone who might know more? I’m not looking to collect there (I live hundreds of miles away!); I would just be grateful for any additional information. Thanks a lot!
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