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29 million-year-old nest of fossilised grasshopper eggs found
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Fossil News
The rather amazing discovery of an underground nest of about 50 fossilised eggs of an insect in the grasshopper-lineage (orthoptera) has been discovered in Michell, Oregon, at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. It's dated to the Oligocene-period, at 29 million years old, and is truly spectacular for its preservation. Insect eggs rarely preserve, and little information exists on the evolution of grasshopper-relatives. So finding a nest full of them is an amazing discovery! CNN-report here, original article here. -
Literature: K. Harz; Zur Heuschreckenfauna des Pliozaens von Willershausen. Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Hannover 1967, Band 111, Seiten 57-61
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Mososaur jaw, grasshopper + footprints
DawnOfADream posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone! Being the type of person I am with I won the following items at an online auction. These include the following (hopefully real) items: - Two Mososaur jaws, one with significant restoration - A fossil grasshopper - Ampibian footprints If possible, please help me understand whether any of these are real or if elements of them are. Further images will be provided in replies to this topic. Let me know if you require new pictures to get a better judgement. Thanks in advance for any help! All items Mososaur jaw #1 - front view. Claimed to be a lower jaw section of Mosasaur Prognathodon from Khouribga, Morocco. 19cm (7 1/2"). Mososaur jaw #1 - back view. Significant work done to restore the jaw or combine multiple pieces.Mososaur jaw #1 - top view Close-up flash shot of tooth (?) coming through- 8 replies
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From the album: Insects
grasshopper, of the order Orthoptera, early Albian age, about 108 million years ago, from the Crato Formation, Brazil- 1 comment
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From the album: My Fossils
fossil amber with encrustation of several insects and a grasshopper