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Welcome to a very special gallery topic! It will be exclusively dedicated to fossil specimens our members have contributed to the science of Paleontology! Their fascinating stories will be found elsewhere within this new forum. However, the posts in this Pinned topic will serve as a visual reference for those fossils our members have donated to further research in science-based museums and universities. So, let's get started. Please follow the format and guidelines below when posting in this topic: Common or Scientific Name. Geologic Formation or Geologic Age. Region the fossil was found. Museum or University that received the fossil. A short note explaining the reason for the fossil contribution. Please include a link to the topic about your fossil (if available). (attach your fossil photos here) Please use the linked topics (or the PM system) to continue any discussion or congratulations. Your fossil donation to the science of paleontology will be recognized by The Fossil Forum with this icon under your avatar: Thank you for sharing your fossil contributions.

Sometimes life takes a different path. A collector friend gave me a few fossils to prepare and identify. It was interesting material. After preparing we thought about writing an article about it. And to donate the material in a collection. My friend died at the beginning of the work. We finished the work and published it in his memory. The material will go into a public collection, but it is still to be decided which one. So, it is not my material what will be donated. I post the story with the paper because I think it is a good story how it should work. The collector, Peter Silberhorn, was not a member of TFF or other social media foren. He was 78 when he died and "did not really like the internet". Paper was published a day ago, I add it. Fossils are a nice Trigonia-shell, a burial aisle of a digging crab Protocalianassa and a rib from a ?Mosasaur. The burial and the rib are new for the site Raquet_Wiedenbeck_Silberhorn_2024.pdf