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First hunting trip of the year and its a home run!
hadrosauridae posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Well, 2 days ago I was freezing my butt off in Chicago and today its almost 90 degrees here in Oklahoma! But warm dry weather is perfect hunting time, so I headed out to a ranch I started searching last year. After many hours of walking and eyeballing every bit of rock exposure, something finally caught my eye. I immediately recognized the bone structure, marked the spot and kept searching. More and more bits started to show up and I immediately recognized the "figure 8" shaped that is distinctive of the sail spines of Dimetrodon! This is the animal I have been hoping to find since I began my research into Oklahoma fossil locations. I was super excited. These were found on surface as "float", so I marked every spot with engineer tape. When I couldnt find any more, I stood back and looked at a perfect triangle pointing to the highest spot where I found material, and it was also several bits together. So now I have an arrow pointing to my dig site. My only hope is that I am just finding the tips (since almost all of it was sail spine bits) and the rest of it is still in the ground waiting. Fingers crossed. Even if this is the only parts left, I'm still super excited. Most were sail spine bits and some were BIG, huge compared to what I saw on my day of digging in the Craddock bone bed in Texas. Also a few other bits that might be pieces of rib or limbs. Also, 2 bits of Orthocanthus shark headspine (actually the first items I saw) and 2 coprolites including 1 that has visible bone bits in it! @thelivingdead531 I know its been 3 years, but I'm a heck of a lot closer to finding that Ddon tooth I promised you! My field collection collection Dimetrodon sail spine bit That distinctive shape for sail spine! and another one Everything brought home Not a great pic, but the light spots are bits of bone in this coprolite. Othocanthus spine pieces. Ortho head spine showing denticles 2nd ortho head spine with denticles- 39 replies
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Hello all, A few months back I happened upon an intriguing rock while taking a walk in the woods. The main groove on the front of the rock struck me as a possible trace fossil (perhaps a worm burrow or a tunnel created by plant roots). I considered the possibility that it could potentially be a fossil since it was found in the Newark Supergroup of northern Virginia which is know to have some fossiliferous rocks. However, I fully expect that it is simply an artifact of weathering or that it has a geologic origin. Can any confirm whether it is a trace fossil or simply a case of weathering? I’ll tag a few members that I feel are knowledgeable on this subject: @Fossildude19 @EMP @cck @WhodamanHD I deeply appreciate all input.
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All that was on the label for this item was that it’s from the Permian age and from Texas. I don’t have any further info on it. Does anybody know what this is?
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I had the pleasure of arranging a special fossil hunt to the Red Beds of Texas - a famous Permian site that was originally described by Copes in 1870's and later by Romer. It's an old quarry on private land that we were able to take a group of 10 to hunt on. And I was corrected by our guide that it was really not so much a "hunt" as a "collect" because the fossils were literally EVERYWHERE! You could sit in a 10 foot radius circle and be picking up vertebrate material all day long! We collected for about 5 hours and everyone came away with some fabulous fossils. Lots of amphibian skull pieces, sometimes with jaws and teeth sockets, vertebrae, lots of little toe bones, shark teeth and spines and much more. Most were small things, but occasionally you'd fine a nice big vert or piece of bone. Full Dimetrodon skeletons have been recovered from this site as well as amphibian Eryops and others. Here are some of my favorites from the "collection"! Dimetrodon toe bone: 3/8 inch Amphibian Eryops Toe bone: 1 inch Eryops ungal (toe bone) 1/2 inch Eryops jaw and tooth sockets - 1 inch Amphibian skull fragment (the biggest bit I found - 1 1/2 inches) Eryops Tooth: 1/4 inch Another jaw fragment - 1/2 inch An unknown tooth: 1/8 inch Orthocanthus shark tooth (Fresh water shark - there were HUNDREDS if not thousands of these teeth, but rarely do you find a complete one. Some were big, almost an inch, but this one was 1/4 inch) The blue color is amazing Some awesome little amphibian tooth plates, all around 1 inch This one has little teeth that look like hersheys kisses! smaller one - 1/2 inch my best vertebra (found about 4 but most were crunchy). 3/4 inch A lungfish tooth 1/2 inch Lots of other bits and pieces of bones and spines: This is a Dimetrodon sail spine fragment. Some of the others found even better bits. 1/2 inch Edaphosaurus spine spur (a different type of Dimetrodon). Size 1 inch I can't wait to go back out again - I hope to find a Dimetrodon claw (a couple of the group did). Next time!!
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Hello, Just purchased some Permian matrix bags from Richards Spur, OK and the Texas Red Beds. I have a few items I'm wondering if anyone can help me ID. I do have some guesses for a few of them. Using a dime for scale. Red Beds Going to guess Eryops skull fragment on this one. I think these might be fragments of Orthacanthus spines. Partial vert? This one is so small I really can't capture any distinct detail in the photo. Most small teeth fragments in this matrix were the broken tips of Orthacanthus teeth. However this is much rounder (although I can make out at least one edge), has no serration as far as I can tell, and under a very bright light I can see extremely fine vertical ridges (striae?) down the length of the tooth. It is also colored differently. Not hoping for much on this guy but my best guess would be some sort of amphibian. This one I'm fairly confident is an Archeria "jaw"; I understand they would have had some kind of palate plate to help grasp/swallow prey? More info on that would be awesome. It definitely matches what I've seen on Google. Richards Spur, OK Am very interested in this one in particular. Some kind of rooted tooth, it has this strange acorn shape to it. Not seen anything like it elsewhere. Thanks for having a look and my apologies for the poor photos; all I've got is a magnifying glass. I think I need to buy a book so I can try and identify this stuff on my own!
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Hi everyone! This school year has been incredibly busy which is why I haven't been on the forum as much as I'd like to be. However, about a month ago I ordered 3 lbs of washed "Texas Red Beds" (Permian-aged) matrix from PaleoTex - it arrived a few days ago, and I just couldn't wait until March Break to start looking through it (mainly because our March Break has been moved to mid-April - that's way too long to wait!!!) so I began the search last night. I've found a bunch of teeth and bones so far, and I was hoping to get some identification help for some of the larger/more interesting items that I've found so far. Thanks in advance to all who can help! I'll tag a few people who might be interested and/or who might be able to help: @grandpa @JamieLynn @jdp @dinodigger Here we go... Tooth 1 (three views) Tooth 2 (three views) Tooth 3 (three views) Tooth 4 (three views) Tooth 5 (three views) Tooth 6 (three views) Tooth plate ! (one view) Tooth plate 2 (one view) Bone 1 (one view) Bone 2 (two views) Bone 3 (one view)
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Hi everyone I think I just found a new hobby With my latest fossil delivery I recieved quite a lot of microfossils & matrix vials as the world of microfossils was something that I have been long interested in. So a 2 weeks ago I finally ordered my first microfossils for which I reserved a special drawer in my archive cabinet. So here is a recapp of what I all got: 3 vials of permian material from Waurika, Oklahoma 1 vial of permian material from The red beds of Archer County, Texas 1 small vial of Conodont rich Mississippian material from the Chappel Limestone formation, Texas 1 small vial of Cretaceous Lower Gault Clay, East Wear bay, Folkestone, Kent, UK A micropalaeontology slide with Jurassic Blue Lias matrix rich in holothurian material. A thin section of an Ostracods filled Elimia snail from the Green River Formation in Wyoming A thin section from the Rhynie chert of Scotland which should contain preserved parts of the plant Aglaophyton major and perhaps even other species. I also got a lot of Bull Canyon micro fossil teeth and 2 cretaceous mammal teeth from Hell Creek In this topic you will be able to follow my path through this newly discovered hobby as I will post my finds and progress Currently I am only working with a clip-on cellphone microscope, but I do plan on getting a professional microscope in the next few months! (Tips are always welcome) So let's put on our Ant-Man suit and explore the microfossil realm So here are some of the first pictures I made of some of the microfossils Starting with the thin slices! Thin slice with Ostracon filled Elimia tenara snail from the Green River Formation, Wyoming Thin slice with Aglaophyton major from Rhynie Chert in Scotland
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