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Gwen.Sauer

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Long story short my grandmother use to order fossils from a website. She would keep some of the authentication certificates because I was so young at the time of receiving these. When she had passed I learned she lost almost all of the paperwork. I've been struggling to identify these with such little information to go off of. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

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- Small roughly 1'' tooth

- Was thought to be plesiosaur tooth but it looks  slightly different then the confirmed plesiosaur tooth I own

- unknown

-wrist or ankle of some sort, mammoth or mastodon

-unknown 

 

 

 

 

 

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First looks like a pterosaur tooth from the Kem Kem region of Morocco

Second is a plesiosaur also from Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco

Third/fourth  Dinosaur toe bone thinking it's from a hadrosaurid but need more views

Fifth  mammal bone, wait for those experts to chime in,

Last  Theropod limb bone might be a metatarsal

Without a locality cannot say much more on the Dinosaur items

 

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So a bit of new information, I spoke with my grandfather and he had mentioned that my grandmother had bought many of these from Morocco and bought/ collected some of these herself from hell Creek. She took me on a dig with her to South Dakota once and I wish I could remember more. Many of these had the occasional note wrapped around them that said Hell Creek but I don't know how many of those got swapped around over the years. Obviously there's the occasional outlier like the Mastodon tooth and the mammoth wristbone. But I hope these two locations can help narrow some of this down. 

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