Bone Daddy Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I love a good vertebra. I have a hard time ID'ing some of the ones I find, but I love them nonetheless. It occurred to me that I have a lot of vertebrae laying around. From tiny critters like baby turtles and snakes, to big critters like whales. I was going through my boxes today, looking for something unrelated, and I kept running across vertebrae. So, tomorrow when the lighting is better (it's dark here now and I'm tired), I am going to lay out all of the vertebrae I have found over the years and take a group photo. Before I share my verts, let's see what you have! Show us your favorite verts! I'll post mine tomorrow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoNoel Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Here's a Triceratops vert that I helped dig out in the summer of 2018 in Wyoming's Lance fm. w/PaleoProspectors. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Steneosaurus from upper kimmeridge of southwest France 17 http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Plesiosauria Elasmosauridae? Dorsal Late Aalenian Ichthyosauria Temnodontosaurus sp. Probably Lumbar Late Aalenian 14 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Here is an Edmontosaurus caudal vert with a metatarsal I found in SD. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Here’s a Ceratopsian vert from Drumheller Valley, Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 How about a camelops cervical vertebrae? These are hard to find with processes intact. For scale it's about 10" long from tip of process to tip. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Lords of the sea Plesiosaur, ichthyosaur and pliosaur verts with a replica of a human lumbar one Ulyanovsk Oblast, Upper Jurassic 10 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Another vertebrae! a toothed whale vertebrae from the Yorktown Formation, Aurora, North Carolina. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigantoraptor Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 My favorite vertebra is from the Kem Kem beds. I have no idea what animal it belonged to actually but I think it's from a crocodile. Second one is from the Khouribga phosphate mines. Sold as Mosasaur but I think it's Dyrosaurus phosphaticus. I don't know if it comes from the Cretaceous or Eocene layers. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgdls Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Spinosaurus, Mantellisaurus (iguanodon) Muraenosaurus (plesiosaur) and Cryptocleidus (plesiosaur) vertebrae 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Daddy Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 I love the dino verts! I never get to see those first-hand down here in Florida. Here is my humble collection of verts. All of these have been found in the same general area - the Bone Valley formation in Polk, Hardee, and DeSoto counties of Florida. All were found in or very near the Peace River, with the sole exception of the largest whale vert (that was found at a dry land site). Many of them are not ID'ed, but they likely come from a mix of Miocene cetaceans or sirenia, Pleistocene fauna, and Holocene fauna. Most of these were found by me and a couple of the smaller ones were found by my wife Tina. For scale, the stainless ruler is 6 inches in length and the black cube is 1cm square. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I'll add some spinosaur vertebrae in sequence. We need some 3d scans. Cervical. Dorsal. Caudal. 13 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstraktum Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Some associated Mosasaur Verts from Morocco 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stegonick23 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Here's my hadrosaur (Edmontosaurus indet.) caudal vertebrae from the Lance Creek Formation of Wyoming with a reconstructed neural spine. This is a pretty cool thread, I'm enjoying looking through it at everyone's vertebrae fossils. Thanks! Scale: each yellow square is one square inch 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgdls Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Love the 3D models and all the others. Here's another. Cervical centrum of Pliosaurus macromerus the giant from the Kimmeridge Clay. This one is 5.5 inches across but some are 50% bigger. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam28 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Good topic & some seriously nice verts here. Fossil hunting for vertebrae definitely isn't something that perpetuates the hobby, but at the same time can also turn a subpar hunt into a good one. Glad to include a micro (of sorts,the smallest snake vert there; unsure if I should be more surprised I saw it on the beach without glasses or that I haven't lost track of it after several years xD (only forgot to photograph my biggest mammal vertebrae but it only has the centrum- even Dr. Hulbert couldn't give me an ID besides it is mammalian, & my biggest vert is a mosasaur vert from North Sulphur River that I bought- my heaviest fossil or at least most dense. Also not sure if that creek gator vert is fossil or not, but yeah I still dug it up while fossil hunting 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Here are a few of my Verts. Hadrosaur Vert- Mosasaur Vert- Titanothere Verts- White River Badlands- Oligocene Misc. White River Verts- Associated Verts- Oreodont Vert- Whale Verts- Moroccan Verts- 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Daddy Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Holy Smokes! That is a ton of verts! Besides the dino verts (which are awesome), I really like that Moroccan shark vert in matrix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Bone Daddy said: Holy Smokes! That is a ton of verts! Besides the dino verts (which are awesome), I really like that Moroccan shark vert in matrix. Thanks- I am partial to the Titanothere Verts and the large whale piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Aloha Sorry, no fossils, but my two favorite Vertebrae. The left one is something like a Marlin I found at my very first visit to the pacific, the right one is a Dolphin that I found sticking upright in the sand like a cross or letter "T" in Portugal. Coming back to the same place two years later I found the fitting skull, or so I think. Best Regards 6 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 small caudal vertebrae form Wealden Bexhill bone beds Uk I have it only down to Archosaurs but maybe croc. It is about 12 mm . It is quite nice. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadrosauridae Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 This is an Edmontosaur vert my son and I recovered last year from the SD Hell creek fm. Missing the neural spine and on of the processes. 10 "There is no shortage of fossils. There is only a shortage of paleontologists to study them." - Larry Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracarys Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Here are two T rex verts. The first one is two fused sacral verts w a total measurement of 15 inches. ID'd by Pete Larson. I purposely left open the window of the honeycomb matrix during prepping. The second is a caudal vert. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 I don't have any fancy-smancy dino verts. Most of mine are a bit younger. Heres a few of my offerings. Cetacean- from Bakersfield, California middle Miocene. An associated cetacean column from Maryland. Thoratic vertebra from a ground sloth, Pleistocene, Florida An interesting size graduation of fish verts from 1.25" down to sand grain size. Mid. Miocene, Bakersfield, California. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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