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So many shark, dinosaurs topic! Now I want to see your favourite and more particular fossil mammal! It can be your rarest or your strangest fossil but the fossil you love the most. 

Let me start with this partial juvenile metailurus mandible from Hipparion red clay of Gansu. The erupting tooth still preserve a perfect micro crenulation, I just love it. 

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Hi,

 

Can you show us the STP chewing surface? I know it is not an ID post but I would like to see it. Thanks.

 

Coco

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3 hours ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

Can you show us the STP chewing surface? I know it is not an ID post but I would like to see it. Thanks.

 

Coco

Sure, here you are

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3 hours ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

Can you show us the STP chewing surface? I know it is not an ID post but I would like to see it. Thanks.

 

Coco

Now I'm curious why you wanted to se the occlusal surface :headscratch:

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I shown this before but alway fascinates to think that the U.K. had lions , hyenas and bears oh my. Part of an old museum collection I think going by the markings on the cave hyena specimens.  All the fossil found in Tor Newton (Tornewton) cave in South DevonUK. In the collection was cave hyena teeth and foot bones and a tip of a Straight Tusted elephant . Collecting from these sites/cave is strictly prohibited today, so very rare to have in a collection out of the museums. A little picture of the old storage box the came in.

 

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2 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

I shown this before but alway fascinates to think that the U.K. had lions , hyenas and bears oh my. Part of an old museum collection I think going by the markings on the cave hyena specimens.  All the fossil found in Tor Newton (Tornewton) cave in South DevonUK. In the collection was cave hyena teeth and foot bones and a tip of a Straight Tusted elephant . Collecting from these sites/cave is strictly prohibited today, so very rare to have in a collection out of the museums. A little picture of the old storage box the came in.

 

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So cool! The old box make it even better!*From England I only have a small canis mosbachensis tooth from Westbury quarry

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I don't have a lot of mammal stuff, but these are my favorites:

 

Indeterminate mammal premolar from the Aguja Fm., Brewster Co., TX (Late Cretaceous ~ 82-77 Ma), 1 mm in length - very tiny:

 

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8 hours ago, Joe_17 said:

Mine is my Megaloceros giganteus skull which I've shared here before a few times .

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Amazing specimen! I'm drooling! 

5 hours ago, ThePhysicist said:

I don't have a lot of mammal stuff, but these are my favorites:

 

Indeterminate mammal premolar from the Aguja Fm., Brewster Co., TX (Late Cretaceous ~ 82-77 Ma), 1 mm in length - very tiny:

 

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Nice specimen! I've always been curious about Mesozoic mammals.

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I don’t collect much mammal material. 
But my favourite modern animals are elephants. I have been on many safaris in South Africa and can spend hours watching elephants. 
So I guess I should have some mammoth material. 
 

A partial tooth. 
 

 

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Hi,

 

15 hours ago, Kiros said:

Now I'm curious why you wanted to se the occlusal surface :headscratch:

Sorry, juste because at my first reading I thought you said it was horse and I thought it was weird. When I reread it I understood that it is a feline :) My native language is not English and sometimes if I read too fast I misunderstand...

 

Coco

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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

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:tiphat: :default_clap2:

 

Coco

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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...

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43 minutes ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

Sorry, juste because at my first reading I thought you said it was horse and I thought it was weird. When I reread it I understood that it is a feline :) My native language is not English and sometimes if I read too fast I misunderstand...

 

Coco

Aah I see you though the formation name was the animal 

29 minutes ago, caterpillar said:

One of my favorite. Found with JPC in Wyoming Badlands

 

 

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:b_love1: it's a hyaenodon with an oreodont?

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On 4/29/2021 at 4:56 AM, Kiros said:

So many shark, dinosaurs topic! Now I want to see your favourite and more particular fossil mammal! It can be your rarest or your strangest fossil but the fossil you love the most. 

Let me start with this partial juvenile metailurus mandible from Hipparion red clay of Gansu. The erupting tooth still preserve a perfect micro crenulation, I just love it. 

IMG_20210429_114115.jpg

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Oh yeah, that's a great piece.  It's nice when you can find a specimen showing an unerupted tooth.  I have a hyracotherium jaw section and a Pleistocene kangaroo like that.  I will have to get photos of those for the Forum.

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I posted these in the Ice Age thread, but they fit here, too. I can't choose between these two:

 

Dinictis Maxilla from the White River Badlands, SD:

 

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Machairodus Saber from Gansu Province, China

 

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Sabercats have always been some of my favorite extinct creatures. My dream sabercat fossil would be a Smilodon skull from La Brea, but I know that's pretty much impossible to obtain.

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3 hours ago, Meatasaurus93 said:

I posted these in the Ice Age thread, but they fit here, too. I can't choose between these two:

 

Dinictis Maxilla from the White River Badlands, SD:

 

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Machairodus Saber from Gansu Province, China

 

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Sabercats have always been some of my favorite extinct creatures. My dream sabercat fossil would be a Smilodon skull from La Brea, but I know that's pretty much impossible to obtain.

As I said on the other topic, cool collection. But a smilodon skull is a bit a huge dream and veeeery expensive ahaha. 

Saber cats, bears and creodonts are what I prefer to collect the most

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10 hours ago, Kiros said:

As I said on the other topic, cool collection. But a smilodon skull is a bit a huge dream and veeeery expensive ahaha. 

Saber cats, bears and creodonts are what I prefer to collect the most

 

Thank you, and yes, a La Brea Smilodon skull is pretty much unnatainable.

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