Associated Fossils From Different Species Together

[Wrangellian]

55 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

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im considering buying this, seems a bargain from a reputable Chinese seller. 

 

 

 

 Hey, I guess the creationists are right after all.

That is a wonderful ammo + Gryphaea (not Buchia?) specimen btw.

[Nimravis]

2 hours ago, Canadawest said:

He could have added a dino egg and Keichousaurus and as a bonus tossed in a butterfly in amber.

 

That's too funny.

[Nimravis]

Figured that I would jump on this thread with a couple Mazon Creek fossils- 

 

Annularia on one side Neuropteris on the other.

 

Polychaete Worm and Essexella asherae Jellyfish.

 

 

Pecopteris fern, Seed and Essexella asherae Jellyfish

 

 

Spirorbis worms on a Myalina clam attached to a piece of bark.

 

[JohnBrewer]

Mariella (Marietta) nobilis heteromorph ammonite   
Mortoniceras ammonite
Catopygus echinoid  
Discoides a echinoid 

 

 

 

[JohnBrewer]

tetrahoplites rossicus with bivalve

 

 

[Ludwigia]

Those are nice ones, John! And the Mazon Creek ones are really special!

[siteseer]

Here are two shark teeth with a rhino toe bone (late Miocene, Bone Valley Formation) - 3 different angles.  The shark teeth appear to be an upper and lower of Carcharhinus leucus (bull shark).  You can see fine serrations on the cusp of the lower.  The bone was on the sea bottom and had eroded with some sediment filling in where the bone had worn away.   The teeth came to settle on it apparently at different times before the bone was buried.  At least that's how I think the specimen would be explained.  The teeth were a little more covered by matrix when it was generously given to me as a gift.  I cleaned the teeth a little but did not want to risk dislodging them.  The bone would have been impossible to identify if the visible condyle had not been preserved.

 

The upper tooth is about 7/8 inches wide.  The specimen is higher than the ruler so the tooth appears to be at least an inch wide in the photo.

 

 

[siteseer]

Here's an unusual association.  Northern Sharks has a posted a photo of a coral-covered tooth (Carcharocles megalodon, I believe).  Here's a great white shark tooth (Carcharodon carcharias) which was nearly surrounded by coral.  The tooth is about 2 5/8 inches.  It appears someone found the coral with the tooth tip sticking out and decided to prep it to the point that the size of the tooth could be determined.  The preparator did a pretty good job but cut into the root face a little (hard to tell where the coral stopped and the root began).  It still looks good.

 

Carcharodon carcharias

Pliocene

Caloosahatchee Formation

Hendry County, Florida

 

 

 

 

[nala]

Great sample siteseer!

Goniopholis-sp.--Berriasien-inferieur--Charente with Lepidote scars

[siteseer]

On October 12, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Ludwigia said:

Nice idea, Gery and nice samples too! Here are a few more. Some with 3.

Belemnites with Ichthyosaurus paddlebone.

Coral, Brachiopod and Trilobite.

Trilobites, Coral and Brachiopod.

Ammonite and Belemnite.

Ammonite and Bivalves.

 

 

That belemnite-ichthyosaur piece is especially great because it can be tough to find a vertebrate with an invertebrate together.

 

Jess

 

 

 

[siteseer]

On October 19, 2013 at 3:11 PM, nala said:

All are great samples bluepickup,Roger and Christian! keep them coming

A Gastropod with Pelecypods

 

Gery,

 

That piece and that one you showed with the shell inside a shell reminds me of some fossil preparation I did for a friend last month.  He collected several large Sinistrofulgur contrarium specimens (Early Pleistocene gastropod related to the modern lightning whelk, site in Florida).  Most of them had matrix with several smaller shells inside them.  I cleaned the outside of the large shells, prepped some of the little shells to make them better exposed and then stabilized the matrix.  I'll try to get a photo of one of them.

 

Jess

[siteseer]

It's been too long since the last post.  Here is the oldest association piece I have:

 

several Elrathia kingi and agnostid trilobite

Middle Cambrian

Wheeler Shale

Millard County, Utah

 

The plate is 3 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (roughly 9.8cm x 22.2cm).

 

[Kane]

I forgot about this thread. Thanks for resurrecting it. 

This remains my favourite — a Flexicalymene senaria on Fusispira sp. steinkern.

[siteseer]

Hi Kane,

 

Yeah, it's one of my favorite threads.  The variety of fossils and all the sites worldwide are incredible.

 

Jess

[Ludwigia]

I love this thread too, so I guess I might as well add this recent find to keep things going. The larger one is a Taramelliceras (Metahaploceras) nodosiusculum and the smaller one a Glochiceras sp. From the late Jurassic Kimmeridgian.

 

 

[nala]

Very nice!  Discoides Conica With a rynchonellid to ID Albien.Alpes maritimes

[acsky119]

interesting！trilobite tail hide in the shell，i call it "hermit crab"

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Actinopteria textilis a pteriomorphid bivalve, along with an unknown orthocone cephalopod, (Cyrtoceras eugenium?) and a trilobite pygidium from Phalangocephalus dentatus
Lower Devonian Port Jervis/Glenerie Formation, Tristates Group
Trilobite Ridge, Montague, NJ.

 

 

 

[Misha]

1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

Actinopteria textilis a pteriomorphid bivalve, along with an unknown orthocone cephalopod, (Cyrtoceras eugenium?) and a trilobite pygidium from Phalangocephalus dentatus
Lower Devonian Port Jervis/Glenerie Formation, Tristates Group
Trilobite Ridge, Montague, NJ.

Really cool fossil, Tim!

I didn't even know there was Devonian stuff in NJ

[nala]

Nobiliasaphus nobilis BARRANDE(1846),with a orthis brachiopod Ordovician,Llandeilien (-460 MA) BAIN DE BRETAGNE (35)

[Ludwigia]

I figure I might as well add this one while I'm at it. Fresh off the press. A facies block from the sponge facies in the Early Kimmeridgian hypselocylum zone from the Danube Valley. Included on the sponge pieces are a Laevaptychus obliquus aptychus, a rhynchonelloid brachiopod, a Streblites tenuilobatus and 2 Aspicoceras sp. ammonites and an echinoid spine.

 

 

[Jackson g]

On 7/27/2020 at 3:17 PM, Kane said:

I forgot about this thread. Thanks for resurrecting it. 

This remains my favourite — a Flexicalymene senaria on Fusispira sp. steinkern.

Very unique and cool! Did you find and clean this?

[Kane]

2 hours ago, Jackson g said:

Very unique and cool! Did you find and clean this?

I did! It was from a legendary quarry in Ontario that is sadly shuttered to collectors now.  I would usually pocket these Fusispira steinkerns and thought nothing of it for a few months until I started organizing the finds and I spotted a fuzzy shape on this one. Confirmed in my lab and given some abrasion, and voila! 

[Jackson g]

1 hour ago, Kane said:

I did! It was from a legendary quarry in Ontario that is sadly shuttered to collectors now.  I would usually pocket these Fusispira steinkerns and thought nothing of it for a few months until I started organizing the finds and I spotted a fuzzy shape on this one. Confirmed in my lab and given some abrasion, and voila! 

It's very nice! Can't believe I missed out on this thread for so long. There are a ton of great pieces here!

[Ludwigia]

Siteseer suggested I post this one here as well, so here we go. A Pseudhimalayites uhlandi ammonite which ended up on a sponge reef in the Kimmeridgian. Covered with various tube worms, bits of sponge detritus and a small ammonite, probably an Aspidoceras sp.