flyingpenut Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Pictures from my latest NSR trip. Some mosasaur verts and bones, a jaw, ammonites, baculites, and of course the normal array of oddities. No really good verts but still fun. Does anyone know what jaw this would have come from? Also the turtle looking shell and the large white bone next to it feel a lot heavier than recent bone to me so maybe Pleistocene. Ill send a few close ups of those and of the crazier stuff later. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planko Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Great finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Nice haul. The jawbone is fish, likely Enchodus. "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praefectus Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Great finds! The ammonite pieces have beautiful patterns on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castle Rock Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Another possibility on the ID of the jaw fragment is Cimolichthyes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 Thank you all for the IDs. Also here are some close ups of the turtle shell and bone. They both look like recent bone to me but are very heavy. Is there anyway to tell if they have any fossilization? On 5/6/2021 at 7:59 PM, ThePhysicist said: Nice haul. The jawbone is fish, likely Enchodus. Thanks. That was my initial thought but it is pretty beat up. On 5/7/2021 at 5:51 AM, Castle Rock said: Another possibility on the ID of the jaw fragment is Cimolichthyes Thanks. I will have to look into Cimolichthyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 On 5/6/2021 at 8:21 PM, Praefectus said: Great finds! The ammonite pieces have beautiful patterns on them. Ammonites are some of my favorites. I actually found an almost entirely intact one that had incredible sutures but I left it when I was examining a gravel bar. On 5/6/2021 at 5:12 PM, Planko said: Great finds! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 (edited) Here are a couple of other strange bones. I didnt know if the first bone, in the first two pictures, is identifiable or just chunkasuarus. The next three pictures a broken piece of a larger mosasaur bone or something more interesting? Edited May 11, 2021 by flyingpenut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricWonders Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Nice finds!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPayton Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 The three pictures following the chunkasaurus are turtle shell plastron. That glossy, finely-striated texture is always a dead giveaway. Great finds! That fish jaw is making me jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 On 5/11/2021 at 9:15 PM, GPayton said: The three pictures following the chunkasaurus are turtle shell plastron. That glossy, finely-striated texture is always a dead giveaway. Great finds! That fish jaw is making me jealous. Thanks for the ID. I have never found turtle shell plastron before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) Ok so I don't think these are fossils but maybe petrified wood? Is anyone an expert in that? Piece A is pictures 1, 2, and 3. Piece B is pictures 4 and 5. Piece C is pictures 6, 7, and 8. And piece D is pictures 9, 10, and 11. Piece D broke so I glued it back together but before I did I took picture 11 of the inside. Edited May 19, 2021 by flyingpenut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpenut Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 And for last are the oddities. Picture 1 I'm assuming is coprolite? Picture 2 and 3 I have no idea but here are two different angles. Picture 4 is really cool and it is very shimmery in the light. It looks like it is covered in goldish flake. Any ideas? Pictures 5 and 6 i cant tell if it is maybe scraped bone or petrified wood or something else. Finaly pictures 7 and 8 look like bone so I guess chunkasauraus. Any way to tell if something is bone or not? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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