"put Yer Back Bone In It Lad!

[FossilForKids]

That's a phrase I heard many a summer day working on my Grand Da's farm in Central Kentucky

. So I've decided to do just that and put my Back Bones out there. That's right it's time to show off our verts. Finding a vert while by itself may not always be exciting the hint of what it might lead to gets the pulse a going. In Bakersfield whale verts are the lodestone for shark teeth. SO here are some of my verts: Juvinile whale spine with accompanying meg (4inch), Six various location of whale verts, An assosciated Otodus group of verts, 5 various shark verts, fish verts, Sea Lion verts, a dolphin vert, a Mososaur vert, an Icthyosaur spinal section (small black one) and a horse vert. That should get us started

[TourmalineGuy]

Here's my best from the Peace River

Perhaps not a lot to look at, but I like them.

A whale/dolphin vertebra

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A shark vertebra

A small snake vertebra

Another, slightly bigger snake, I believe with a good degree of certainty its Nerodia floridana

Edit: Perhaps this is a good time to ask, are shark vertebra identifiable to any degree?

Edited April 9, 2010 by TourmalineGuy

[Phoenixflood]

Meg vert

And whale from VA, what species it is ???

[Phoenixflood]

Anyone else have any out there???

[bmorefossil]

Anyone else have any out there???

I'll have to take some pictures tomorrow I guess

[Harry Pristis]

[Uncle Siphuncle]

Mammoth axis

[FF7_Yuffie]

My one and only vert!

A Icthysaur vert I picked up from the Isle of Wight years ago.

Not that impressive I know, was the first bone that I actually found though One of the few fossils I actually found and didn't buy to be honest so I like it

[Harry Pristis]

Here's a vertebra from the Early Miocene "giant hog" Daeodon sp., the last and largest of the entelodonts.

[worthy 55]

Here are a few of mine.

[Ramo]

Here are a few from the short-necked pleisiosaur that I collected. These and the rest of the critter now reside at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/FHSM_VP-16459.html

[Louie]

I have a couple I can add now...

First, my gator vert I found in the Peace River Secondly, a recently aquired mako tooth/whale vert from near STH in Cali (courtesy of John/FFK).

[siteseer]

I have a couple I can add now...

First, my gator vert I found in the Peace River Secondly, a recently aquired mako tooth/whale vert from near STH in Cali (courtesy of John/FFK).

That's a cool STH piece. Yes, you'd be surprised how many of the vertebrae are found with at least one shark tooth stuck to it - and I mean stuck to it, gypsum acting like glue. Occasionally, you get a rather sizable mako on a vert like yours.

[Frank Menser]

An Equus neck vert I collected from the Holey Lands (western Palm Beach CO, Florida).

Edited April 24, 2010 by Frank Menser

[Northern Sharks]

Here are a few of mine. Pretty good bite damage on the last 2

[Oddball]

Xiphactinus audax vert hash

[Oddball]

Captorhinus aguti verts (and a bit of skull)

[Oddball]

Shark verts from FL.

[Oddball]

Enchodus verts (upper right)

[Auspex]

Well, since the avian synsacrum includes fused verts, I'll slip these in...

Teratornis merriami, Rancholabrean tar seeps, McKittrick, CA:

From a Hesperornithine, Upper Cretaceous, Montana:

This specimen compares quite favorably to Enaliornis sp., as described from the Late Early Cretaceous of Cambridge, England.

[Oddball]

Does this count? Cladocyclus ferox vertebrae surrounded by body.

[Plantguy]

Ok, interesting topic you have here. Quite a bevy of neat examples thus far. Kudos!

I have a few to contribute. We won’t win any awards for completeness or be pushing the realms of the spectacular, but they are types of backbone fossilization nonetheless and they give some of the newer folks an idea of what partials look like. Being the semi-hoader that I am, instead of pitching them as not terribly impressive or valuable, I’ve somehow drug them around for decades…

Both were retrieved from beaches along Northern California and are a bit weathered. Because the geology in this area has been shaped and fragmented by the San Andreas fault zone and they were both beach finds its difficult to assign formation/age. If I had to venture a guess, they are Mio-Pliocene material.

A well worn unidentified whale? vert section from Sonoma County, California.

And if the shock and awe of that mind boggling specimen hasn’t made you faint or run to find your 3D glasses for more , how about a slightly different fish? fragment showing rib attachments below from Point Reyes, Marin County, California.

All for now and to all a good nite! Regards, Chris

[Lindsey]

All were found in the North Sulphur River except for the shiny one, I don't know the formation they came out of or the species they came from (I'm a rookie at this, but still assuming the big ones come from Mosasaur). The shiny one I found on the beach of South Padre Island while I was looking for sea beans, it was just as shiny the day I found it(guessing that's from the salt water). I didn't have a clue what it was as I didn't even realize fossils could be found at that time, I thought it was some kind of seed.

[beck man]

That's a phrase I heard many a summer day working on my Grand Da's farm in Central Kentucky

. So I've decided to do just that and put my Back Bones out there. That's right it's time to show off our verts. Finding a vert while by itself may not always be exciting the hint of what it might lead to gets the pulse a going. In Bakersfield whale verts are the lodestone for shark teeth. SO here are some of my verts: Juvinile whale spine with accompanying meg (4inch), Six various location of whale verts, An assosciated Otodus group of verts, 5 various shark verts, fish verts, Sea Lion verts, a dolphin vert, a Mososaur vert, an Icthyosaur spinal section (small black one) and a horse vert. That should get us started

hello nice fossils, thought u were from yorkshire northern england when saw the title,kentucky must have had some northern english settlers gran das is scouse, liverpool.the rest is pure yorkshire. tara for now beck man.

[Roz]

Wow, nice to see so many different ones on here.

I am adding two of my favorites

Ichthyosaurian vert (Texas)

Neck vert Elasmosaurid (Arkansas)