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a sand dollar fossil and a little blood sucker

Weight: Light

Size Comparison: Small

Age: Jurassic

Species: Clypeasteroid sp

Found In: Madagascar

Weight: Light

Size Comparison: Tiny

Age: Jurassic (?)

Species: ???

Found In: China

I think your Clypeasteroid is, in fact, a Pygurus sp.

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Love the siberian mammoth tooth. I'm hoping to find a mammoth tooth

One day in my hunts.

Great collection..

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a platybelodon grangeri tooth from the miocene of hujialiang formation, linxia basin, gansu province, china.hehe, my dad sneaked me to this cluster of stalls which sells ancient stuff as a reward wink.gifPlatybelodon grangeri, Miocene, Gansu, China

Amazing!

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On December 20, 2015 at 10:53 PM, PaleoWilliam said:

WOW!

Hehe :P

 

On December 31, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Guguita said:

I think your Clypeasteroid is, in fact, a Pygurus sp.

Thanks for the correction! All the old posts are frozen in place so I can't edit them even if I wanted to :( will definitely keep this in mind for the future 

 

On January 6, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Twinlukers said:

Love the siberian mammoth tooth. I'm hoping to find a mammoth tooth

One day in my hunts.

Great collection..

Thanks man! I can just imagine pulling one out of the ground heh

 

On January 12, 2016 at 7:41 AM, amour 25 said:

Got some killer stuff there, plus the minerals also.

Thanks amour! The mineral collection kinda stopped after 2 years though :P

 

On January 12, 2016 at 9:58 AM, PaleoWilliam said:

Amazing!

Thanks William! 

 

Sorry guys for replying close to a year later! Been so busy lately... :blush: I kinda put fossils on the shelf for a bit but I'm back here and there, will update again if anything new comes my way ^_^ 

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On 10/31/2016 at 3:58 AM, MB said:

Great collection, sinopaleus :)

 

 

Thanks, MB!

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It's been three years since my last update here, so I'll boot this old thing back up again with some of my new fossils. Not too many, though.

 

Haikouella lanceolata (one of the oldest vertebrate animals known to science)

Early Cambrian

Chengjiang biota, Maotianshan, Yunnan, China

 

Each individual is around 1 cm in length. 

 

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Opalized clam from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Top shell is polished to reveal opal splendor, bottom shell retains original growth lines.

 

Cyrenopsis australiensis

Early Cretaceous,

Bulldog Shale, Coober Pedy, Australia

 

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Discoscaphites conradi

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichian)

Fox Hills formation, South Dakota, USA

 

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Some nice and rare Silurian-aged agnathan fish, from Scotland.

 

Birkenia elegans (Anaspid)

Late Silurian

Leshmagow, Scotland, U.K

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Shielia taiti (Thelodont)

Late Silurian

Leshmagow, Scotland, U.K

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Micraster trangahyensis

Late Cretaceous

Trangahy, Madagascar

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Paracadoceras sp

Late Jurassic

Madagascar

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Fossil walrus tusk from the northwestern coast of Alaska.

 

Odobenus rosmarus

Pleistocene

Nome region, Alaska, USA

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I love dogs, but I love canid fossils too. Here's a brain endocast of the first true canine animal, and ancestor of all modern canids. 

 

Hesperocyon gregarius

Early Oligocene

Brule formation, White River Badlands, South Dakota

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This tooth belonged to T-rex's great grandpops, a tyrannosauroid

 

Xiongguanlong baimoensis

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Xinminpu Group, Gansu, China

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A therizinosaur foot claw, most likely had to fend off X. baimoensis as they are all from the same formation

 

Suzhousaurus megatheroides

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Xinminpu Group, Gansu, China

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An incredible and large example of this elusive Cambrian Asaphid

 

Guangxiaspis guangxiensis

Late Cambrian (Furongian)

Sandu formation, Jingxi, Guangxi, China

 

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A textbook example of this Cambrian Corynexochid

 

Amphoton deios

Middle Cambrian

Laiwu, Shandong, China

 

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Large split pair of another iconic Chinese Asaphid

 

Sinosaukia distincta

Late Cambrian (Furongian)

Sandu formation, Jingxi, Guangxi, China

 

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A meraspid Duyunaspis, I believe. Around 4 mm in length.

 

Duyunaspis duyunensis

Middle Cambrian 

Laiwu, Shandong, China

 

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Last (for now... ;)) but definitely not least, one of the best and largest specimens of this elusive species I've ever seen.

 

Postikaolishania jingxiensis

Lower Cambrian (Furongian)

Sandu formation, Jingxi, Guangxi, China

 

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8 hours ago, piranha said:

Wonderful trilobite acquisitions :drool: Congrats! :fistbump:

 

Thank you Scott! 

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1 hour ago, Kosmoceras said:

Liking these new specimens, particularly that early Cambrian vertebrate!

 

Thank you, Thomas!

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On 5/28/2019 at 3:05 AM, Sinopaleus said:

A textbook example of this Cambrian Corynexochid

 

Amphoton deios

Middle Cambrian

Laiwu, Shandong, China

 

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What book is this? Looks like it could be interesting to me.

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