ConnorR Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I have a collection of 22 Hell Creek Vertebrae, and I have no idea what any of them are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConnorR Posted March 23, 2022 Author Share Posted March 23, 2022 Here are the close-ups. I took these photos on my new digital microscope. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Okay, so that's only 21. I guess I'll have to go through and figure out which one I forgot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Good general paper to help with identification Guide Hell Creek.pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Please remember, it's helpful to number your specimens, when there are so many posted. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Actually the vertebrae are numbered. Each vertebra has several photos and each individual photo isn't numbered, but the sets of photos are numbered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 In the future you should clean up all these verts before taking pictures. Most images of the larger ones are too close. Size ???? 2,3 & 4 might be Salamander like Scapherpeton 9 Looks crocodylomorph caudal 10 ditto 15 ditto 18 Looks dinosaurian could be a very distal caudal of a Dromaeosauridae or an Ornithomimidae 20 Clean it up so we can see more than matrix 21 Photos too close but believe its also a Crocodylomorph 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: Actually the vertebrae are numbered. Each vertebra has several photos and each individual photo isn't numbered, but the sets of photos are numbered. My mistake. It wasn't really noticeable on my tablet. I've edited the post to bold the numbers, and put more space between the specimens, to make it more noticeable. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 My quick answer is that any with seriously concave ends are amphibian.... Scapherpeton, as troodon mentioned, is a good candidate. That is a lot to look at and I can't do it here at work. Maybe later I can look in more detail. and see if I can add to troodon's IDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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