Dinoguy89 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Hey everyone, I hope your 2020 is going well so far. As the title says, what's everyones first fossil of the year? And what fossils are you hoping to add to your collection for 2020? My first fossil of this year is this beauty of a Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth. I'm also hoping to get a nice allosaurus tooth for my collection. Looking forward to seeing everyones finds, purchases and wants 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Hunted New Years Day, 01/01/2020 Temblor Formation Round Mountain Silt Formation Bakersfield, California A mix of Carcharodon hastalis and Isurus planus shark teeth A cetacean bulla ( ear bone ) Cetacean vertebra 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinoguy89 Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 hour ago, caldigger said: Great job on those teeth, they're real beauties! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 @caldigger Nice finds and I learned what a “bulla” is this morning. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PODIGGER Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 The below fossils were found Jan. 2, 2020 on the Peace River, FL USA. First photo is the best of the day finds including Mammoth tusk section, Bison astragulus, partial Deer antler, Tortoise shell fragment, Alligator scute, Megalodon tooth, Hemipristis tooth, Horse tooth. Remaining photos are of the tusk after a gentle cleaning & consolidation. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Nice chunk-o-tusk! Quite a bit larger than any piece I've been able to find. I'd say I find tusk fragments virtually every trip out but they are small frags and only knowing what they would have looked like more intact and the experience of finding so many of them allows me to know what they are. Really great Schreger lines on the end in the photo above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreger_line Cheers. -Ken P.S.: Here's my first interesting find of the new decade. It's an extreme posterior/commissural tooth (the last in the row) from the lower right corner of the jaw of the Cookiecutter Shark (Isistius triangulus). It's just a couple of millimeters across. Turned up a catshark (Scyliorhinidae) tooth last night which has not yet been micro-photographed. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinoguy89 Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 41 minutes ago, PODIGGER said: The below fossils were found Jan. 2, 2020 on the Peace River, FL USA. First photo is the best of the day finds including Mammoth tusk section, Bison astragulus, partial Deer antler, Tortoise shell fragment, Alligator scute, Megalodon tooth, Hemipristis tooth, Horse tooth. Remaining photos are of the tusk after a gentle cleaning & consolidation. Congrats on the nice variety of finds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PODIGGER Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Thnaks Dinoguy and Digit. Hope to keep the finds coming throughout the year! Thanks for posting the Cookiecutter tooth Digit. Gives me something new to look out for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Looks like 2020 is shaping up nicely for everyone!! I missed New Years Day but went out on the 2nd. Texas Echies bonanza! Went to my sweet spot i had not visited since last year and was rewarded! Nothing new to me, but some rare finds...balanocidarid plate and spine plus a few plates of an echinothurid and two more fragments of my coveted Pseudodiadema. Second pic - a couple other not so common echies - Pygopyrina hancockensis and an Orthopsis. And from another site - a neat ammonite Engonoceras fragment and a cool little gastropod that I havn't ID'd yet, probably Anchura. 4 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Jamie, the bottom right image in the first collage is from a Cidarid. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 So not a Balanocidarid? Just Cidarid? www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingSepron Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 This broken Devils Toenail was my first find in 2020, in a new location very close to my house 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingSepron Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Not as flashy as everyone elses but it was my first 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Not one I took home (but that I could easily retrieve in spring if I wanted to). Found on January 3rd, before the extended collecting season was "winter"-rupted. It was about this time that our own @Peat Burns showed us a Devonian sponge in situ, cross-section polished and magnified. Here, too, is a Devonian sponge (upper Early Devonian, Amherstburg Fm), but not as thick as the one he found. The stromatoporoids in these layers are on average about a centimetre thick, but almost always covered in big bumps. If you zoom in, there is at least one typical rugose coral, three rostroconch (one large, two not so large), a few fenestrate bryozoans, some trilo-bits (mostly Pseudodechenella sp. pygidia) and other goodies. 3 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 22 hours ago, JamieLynn said: 20 hours ago, erose said: Jamie, the bottom right image in the first collage is from a Cidarid. On the bottom right here ? Looks like gastropod for me. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, Coco said: On the bottom right here ? Looks like gastropod for me. Coco 13 hours ago, erose said: Jamie, the bottom right image in the first collage is from a Cidarid. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Just I don't understand... First line to the right of this image set ? Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 16 hours ago, JamieLynn said: Looks like 2020 is shaping up nicely for everyone!! I missed New Years Day but went out on the 2nd. Texas Echies bonanza! Went to my sweet spot i had not visited since last year and was rewarded! Nothing new to me, but some rare finds...balanocidarid plate and spine plus a few plates of an echinothurid and two more fragments of my coveted Pseudodiadema. Second pic - a couple other not so common echies - Pygopyrina hancockensis and an Orthopsis. And from another site - a neat ammonite Engonoceras fragment and a cool little gastropod that I havn't ID'd yet, probably Anchura. @Coco This "bottom right image". The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 My first nice find of the year. I got lucky when I split the slab of limestone containing this calyx. The crinoid split right in two, and I was able to prepare the rest of it free of the limestone for repair. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 That is a real cool looking Calyx, so alien! -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Jackson g said: My first nice find of the year. I got lucky when I split the slab of limestone containing this calyx. The crinoid split right in two, and I was able to prepare the rest of it free of the limestone for repair. OOOOohhhhh....that is fabulous!! 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Jackson g said: My first nice find of the year. I got lucky when I split the slab of limestone containing this calyx. The crinoid split right in two, and I was able to prepare the rest of it free of the limestone for repair. That's a beauty. Nice find. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 08/01/2020 at 12:23 PM, caldigger said: cetacean bulla ( ear bone Nice finds, I do like theses tympanic bones, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 38 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: Nice finds, I do like theses tympanic bones, I have kept the matrix in it due to them being extremely brittle from this area. This is the most complete one I have ever found. I really like the coloring too! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 10 hours ago, JohnJ said: @Coco This "bottom right image". Many thanks John. Very nice finds in this post. Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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