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  1. My partner randomly suggested we go fossil hunting at Turimetta. I've never been fossil hunting and I was surprised by how much we actually found. I haven't uploaded pictures of everything we found bc it's mostly just plant matter that I've managed to find similar pictures of in other forums. I'm curious to know if the rusty-orange coloured ones are anything. Was really exciting to find them when carefully splitting rocks in half! There's also a tiny ball shape I found when I split open a rock and it almost looked like a tiny soccer ball or pine cone because of the lines in it. It didn't show up quite as clearly on camera sadly. And there's another rock with a cylindrical shape in the side of it. I thought that was very interesting so I took lots of angles. Thanks in advance for your help!
  2. Hi all, We spent yesterday in a different section of the quarry I posted about here. This section yielded some nice fish, plants and even another temnospondyl! Phyllotheca or a different horsetail Xenacanthid pieces Various fish bits A nice nodule with a fish inside I will post some more photos of the temnospondyl once it gets excavated, but here is a loose section from the rear of the skull. After our quarry visit we went to a terrific Eocene plant locality, will post some photos from there next!
  3. Hello everyone! A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to Turimetta Beach, a Triassic fossil locality in the Sydney Basin. I found several plant fossils. Some were too fragmentary for ID, but if possible I would like to know people's opinions on the ID of these three. I've read through previous forum posts and am aware these might not be able to be ID'ed. Fossil plate which I found as a rockfall near Turimetta Headland. A relatively large stem which was found in the same rockfall. A small leaf I found at an outcrop on the beach itself. Thanks for any possible help!
  4. Hello everyone and hope you're all having a wonderful day. Recently, I had the brilliant opportunity to volunteer at the Australian Museum in Sydney. It has definitely been a highlight of this year for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! While I was there, I spent a lot of time exploring the museum, and eventually saw and took photographs of every palaeontological item on display I am aware of, and would like to show them all to you now as an early Christmas present. I do know @Notidanodon did get to share some photographs of the museum a while ago. If you're wondering why the opalised shells Notidanodon shared are not in this topic, they are no longer on display as far as I know. I did also get to see some fossil specimens behind-the-scenes, but I did not get to take pictures of them, so these are only the fossils and replicas on public display I do have a lot of photos of other things as well, particularly the Rameses travelling exhibition, as well as labels of the palaeontology items, so if you want anything in particular, please PM me. I also have a lot of similar photographs of the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in Bathurst, and will probably post those next year. This will be a long topic, and I doubt I'll finish it all today, but here goes: Dinosaur Gallery Entrance Replica skeleton of Jobaria tiguidensis and Afrovenator abakensis, originally discovered by Paul Sereno. You'll see that a lot of Sereno's skeletons are on display in this gallery, as he was involved with its creation. The Jobaria mount from behind; note the upper floor of displays no longer accesible which the sauropod's head reaches up into. From talking with the other volunteers I'm pretty sure this upper floor used to be part of the 'More than Dinosaurs' gallery which the current Dinosaurs gallery replaced, but I cannot find any images of the older gallery to confirm this besides a close-up of a Stegosaurus (which is still in the museum). Mesozoic Plants Pretty nicely, there is a decent amount of space in the gallery dedicated to non-dinosaurs. While I would have preferred a simple 'Fossil Gallery' with a variety of extinct organisms on display, this is still a good compromise. Photograph showing how the plants section, labelled 'A Changing World', is presented. Each of the large windows is into a cabinet displaying the real fossil plants, and are accompanied by a reconstruction of terrestrial life at the time at a child's eyeline, so they can get a better idea of how life on land looked in each period. You can look into them through the small rectangles below the large windows. They all appear in '3D'. The orange circles cover up areas where children can smell what certain plants would have been like (the Triassic one is of a conifer, and the Cretaceous one is of a flowering plant). Australian Triassic plants. Top left is Rissikia media, bottom left is Dicroidium zuberi and right is Cladophelbis australis. Here is the reconstruction of the Triassic. Australian Jurassic Plants. Left is Agathis jurassica, right is Osmundacaulis sp. Here is the accompanying Jurassic reconstruction. Early Cretaceous Australian plants. Ginkgoites australis at left and Phullopteroides dentata at right. Fun fact; this is where I first learned that seed ferns survived into the Cretaceous, as most dinosaur books simply seem to forget about them after the Triassic period. I guess you can also see my hand here. That's one of the annoying things about all of these items being behind glass; it's difficult to take nice photos of them without getting yourself into them. Still, it's better than the alternative, as you'll see later... Here is the Early Cretaceous reconstruction. Weird how there is a stegosaur, when stegosaurs easily reached their peak diversity and abundance in the Jurassic. Only one plant is in the Late Cretaceous cabinet, and ironically it is unidentified. The final reconstruction, which is of the Late Cretaceous. Interesting how this is the only one to not have a Theropod or Sauropodomorph. Non-Dinosaur Mesozoic Animals Opposite to the plant display, there is a section dedicated to the animals the dinosaurs shared their world with. Interestingly, this section starts out with an Eoraptor lunensis cast, to highlight certain features unique to dinosaurs, such as their hollow hip sockets. You can see parts of the herbivores and carnivores sections in the background. Over my many trips, I often seem to gravitate to this specimen, as besides the Jobaria, Giganotosaurus and Archaeopteryx it is easily the one I have the most photos of on my phone (obviously more than two, don't want to clutter the page). Properly starting off our journey on non-dinosaurs is a display of terrestrial animals. All fossils are real except stated otherwise: Skull of an unidentified Dicynodont found in Zambia. Cast of Rhamphorynchus muensteri from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. Parotosaurus wadei skull from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Clarotitan andersoni from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. There is another specimen in a different gallery which I took a better picture of. Cleitholepis granulata from Somersby, NSW, Australia. Cavernericthys talbragerensis from Tralbragar, NSW, Australia. It is overlaid on a leaf. You'll notice some other fossils from Tralbragar in the Jurassic plants cabinet, as well as in another gallery. Left is a nymph of Promimara cephalota, found in Koonwarra, Victoria, Australia, and right is an unidentified cockroach from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Aeschnogomphus sp. from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. This specimen was special, but very annoying to get a photograph of. Cast of lower jaw of Teinolophis trusleri, a monotreme mammal found in Inverloch, Victoria, Australia. According to the label it is the oldest known mammal in Australia, even older than Steropodon. I'm going to start a new post now so that I don't run out of space.
  5. Hello, just recently I did my first fossil hunting at Turimetta Beach Sydney around the exposure of Triassic shale. I found a nice dicroidium fossil I think (after seeing some similar posts from this location) and two more which I'm unsure of the species (picture below and sorry one is without scale). Any ideas would be appreciated of what species or plant group these two fossils are from which look very much like a leaf or stem stem structure. Thanks!
  6. We were recently granted access to a terrific site south of Sydney. This quarry extracts Ashfield Shale for the manufacturing of bricks and has been operating for many decades, some fossils from here housed in the Australian Museum were collected in the 1960s. To my knowledge, nobody has collected here for quite a long time, so we were excited to have a look! The area is mapped as Bringelly Shale, but I think the lower section of the pit is actually Ashfield Shale. The upper section of the pit is a finely bedded sandstone and shale rather than the black shale characteristic of the Ashfield Shale. Our focus was in this lower black shale where we looked for ironstone nodules which can contain fish, temnospondyl amphibians, sharks, bivalves, etc. Here is a nodule where the cross section of a fish can be seen (the thin line just above my pick): As can be seen in this photo, the pit is huge! Much more of it is out of view. My dad and some cars in the background for reference. The back section of the quarry was actively being worked so a lot of fresh and unweathered shale was exposed. This made it hard to spot the nodules we were after since they often split through the middle and blend in with the surrounding shale. Our best luck was in a section alongside the road where a huge wall of shale was presumably exposed many decades ago, allowing the shale to weather away leaving protruding nodules. Unfortunately, many of the nodules had been split through the middle and broken up. Extracting these nodules from the sheer rock face was very difficult! Fortunately, the quarry manager was super generous and helped us remove some with an excavator. The next problem was actually removing the nodules in one piece. They aren't like the beautiful ammonite nodules found on the Jurassic Coast, these are filled with vertical fractures and are a nightmare to remove and split open, even when unweathered. A real nightmare to work with! This rock face yielded some great finds. Lots of smaller nodules contained fish, but one contained a xenacanthid shark and two contained temnospondyl amphibians! The xenacanthid nodule was already mostly gone (probably for many decades) but the characteristic spines and cartilage texture was unmistakeable. Xenacanthid bits: One of the temnospondyl skulls freshly cracked open. This specimen and the other temnospondyl skull are at the Australian Museum currently, will prepare them soon! On our next visit (yestderday) we came much better prepared. We hired a jackhammer which made short work of the shale, much better than scraping away the surface with the bucket of an excavator. Here is dad working on exposing the rest of one of the temnospondyl nodules (note the markings to help us put it back together when it inevitably broke during the extraction): Here is the same nodule BEFORE we started with the jackhammer (photo taken on the first visit)! Once we got that nodule out, we had a bit of spare time before we had to leave. I had a look in the freshly dug section of the quarry for any nodules we might've missed and found nothing of much interest other than a nodule containing a bivalve coquina. That was until I noticed one more tiny nodule, which was empty. But upon exposing the surrounding shale I noticed some fish! This is highly unusual considering that most of the vertebrate fossils here are found in nodules. The small section of shale I exposed had quite a few fish, all stacked on top of each other. In the same chunk of shale was also a few horsetail stems and a (conifer?) cone. Here are some in-situ photos of the fish and some after I put them back together at home. The shale is very fragmentary so it was difficult to extract them. Will update soon with better photos of some of our finds!
  7. A large fish from the Ashfield Shale SW of Sydney, Australia. The nodule it's in is really annoying to work with, it fractures vertically in most cases so lots of smaller pieces are missing. Unfortunately the specimen is pretty poorly preserved so I labelled one of the photos with what some parts may be, please feel free to correct me if any labels are incorrect. Also, it is difficult to photograph the details well due to poor contrast between the fossil and matrix, so hopefully these photos are adequate (I may readjust some soon). Thank you for any help! Skull Pectoral fin? Caudal fin Pelvic fin? Dorsal fin? Possible fin from the lower middle part of the body
  8. A couple of days ago we had a quick trip just south of Sydney to show a researcher some potential temnospondyl tracks, but on our way home we had a quick look in some road cuttings for fossil fish. Many fantastic fossils have been found in the nodules which are common in this area, such as xenacanths, temnospondyls and various fish. This time, we were lucky enough to find a big nodule with quite a large fish inside, although it's pretty poorly preserved. We only had time to remove the skull and some of the front part of its body but I hope to get back there soon to remove the rest of the nodule. The nodule was really crumbly and broke into many pieces, so I had to spend a long time trying to fit it all back together once I got home. Here is what I have so far (not including the counterpart which is even more fragmentary): This image shows the skull (left), and some nicely preserved scales (top right) and part of what I believe to be the pectoral fins (far right): A close up of some scales: A nicely preserved bone from the rear of the skull which is on the counterpart: The site:
  9. Hi everyone, I'm a first time fossil hunter and I went up to Turimetta head north of Sydney with a friend to try our luck. We found a few things splitting shale, and I was wondering what exactly they were - I understand that they're all probably plant material, if they are fossils, but wasn't sure exactly what type of plant they were from. Hopefully someone can help. Thank you in advance!
  10. Hi members, Land is being dug and flattened next to my house in Sydney, so thought would take a stroll and see if I get lucky, found this rock and pressed against the layer by hand and this layer easily seperated, seems like it has something but may not be a good example, still wanted to share, thoughts?
  11. Hi everyone, would like to ask about the Sydney Fossil show earlier this year and I think there is one coming up later in October (unless cancelled due to covid). I went a couple years ago but from what I saw then, there was not much dino material but only the usual "museum gift shop" fossils or crystals. May I ask if anyone has gone to them recently and if they think its worth going for someone more into dinosaurs? And if you guys know when the next one is? Thanks!
  12. Hi, recently I was at Turimetta headland on the northern beaches found this within 15 minutes, will be going Back soon to give it another go, anyone know what this might be?
  13. Bryceg

    First finds (i think)

    Hi i am new to fossil hunting i found a few finds in the illawara region around coalcliffe looks like maybe 2 crabs and aome petrified wood id love some info from more expirienced people thanks a bunch
  14. Bryceg

    First finds (i think)

    Hi i am new to fossil hunting i found a few finds in the illawara region around coalcliffe looks like maybe 2 crabs and aome petrified wood id love some info from more expirienced people thanks a bunch
  15. Fossil footprints found in Sydney suburb are from the earliest swimming tetrapods in Australia by Phil Bell, University of New England https://phys.org/news/2020-05-fossil-footprints-sydney-suburb-earliest.html Roy M. Farman et al. Australia's earliest tetrapod swimming traces from the Hawkesbury Sandstone (Middle Triassic) of the Sydney Basin, Journal of Paleontology (2020). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2020.22 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/australias-earliest-tetrapod-swimming-traces-from-the-hawkesbury-sandstone-middle-triassic-of-the-sydney-basin/2C787D68A8F2F300B2111A0E68E5981C Yours, Paul H.
  16. I didn’t have much time to look around this museum as I had a flight to catch at 1 but I Tried my best to look around and photograph the geological exhibits taking in mind that the museum also has a great collection of animals and aboriginal artefacts that I couldn’t take photos of ,, enjoy (:
  17. Just for a bit if background I was collecting at turimetta headland bear Sydney and I had found several ferns which was decent considering I only had 1 hour but on my way back I spotted these and was wondering whether they were fossils too (probably not knowing me (; )
  18. I was just wondering as I have researched fossils around Sydney and found most places are closed if anyone knew any good places to hunt. (:
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