JohnJ Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Welcome to a very special gallery topic! It will be exclusively dedicated to fossil specimens our members have contributed to the science of Paleontology! Their fascinating stories will be found elsewhere within this new forum. However, the posts in this Pinned topic will serve as a visual reference for those fossils our members have donated to further research in science-based museums and universities. So, let's get started. Please follow the format and guidelines below when posting in this topic: Common or Scientific Name. Geologic Formation or Geologic Age. Region the fossil was found. Museum or University that received the fossil. A short note explaining the reason for the fossil contribution. Please include a link to the topic about your fossil (if available). (attach your fossil photos here) Please use the linked topics (or the PM system) to continue any discussion or congratulations. Your fossil donation to the science of paleontology will be recognized by The Fossil Forum with this icon under your avatar: Thank you for sharing your fossil contributions. 5 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Hi everyone! I have been asked to lead this off, as an example of the gallery format. Endocranial Cavity of an Osteichthyan Braincase Pennsylvanian Period/Bridgeport Shale Wise County, Texas American Museum of Natural History (New York) Contributed for study. Link to post here http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/25293-endocranial-cavity-pennsylvanian-age-fish/?hl=%2Bendocranial+%2Bcavity 10 Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) Urenchlys abditus (Eel) Smoky Hill Chalk Gove County, KS Sternberg Museum of Natural History (Hays, Kansas) Reason for contribution: This was only the second eel fossil ever discovered from the Cretaceous of Kansas and was far more complete than original specimen. Link: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/15676-kansas-eel-fossil/?hl=kansas FHSM VP-17591 Edited April 29, 2014 by KansasFossilHunter 11 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsessed1 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) Quadrate bone - Tropicbird - Heliadornis ashbyi Middle Miocene - Calvert Formation Calvert County, Maryland Smithsonian Institution This was the first cranial element reported for this species and so was contributed for study. Link to post here: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/45746-unknown-bone-calvert-cliffs Edited April 27, 2014 by obsessed1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) I've contributed a few fossils over the years for various purposes, but I'll start with this one, since I'm so proud of it. Stenodactylina rogerfurzei n. sp. Middle Jurassic, Achdorf Formation, Upper Aalenian, Bradfordensis Zone, Staufensis Bank. Scheffheu, Wutach Valley, Germany. Stuttgart Museum of Natural History (SMNS) Chela of a new species discovered. Donated as Holotype. Subject of scientific article in the German Paleontological Journal. Link: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/34832-whats-in-a-name/?hl=+stenodactylina%20+rogerfurzei Edited May 9, 2014 by Ludwigia 12 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Attached are images of a potentially new Permian stem reptile skull found and donated in 2005. Dolese Richard's Spur Quarry north of Lawton, OK Permian Cave Deposits, Admiral Formation equivalent Donated to Noble Museum, Norman, OK....specimen currently being studied at the University of Toronto by Dr. Richard Reisz Tentative new taxon Acroleter woehri, but this may not hold up if the specimen is determined to be a more complete example of a species already named from fragments. A paper has been written on this specimen by Froebisch and Reisz describing one of the earliest known cases of insectivory (insect diet) based on cockroach antennae adhered to the skull's palate. See link below. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827974/ Edited April 29, 2014 by danwoehr 16 2 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Codiopsis sp. nov. - description pending Corsicana Formation, Maastrichtian, South Texas Type specimens (2) accessioned by Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and being studied by George Phillips, Paleo Curator of the museum I've found maybe 15 of these specimens while the site was huntable between 2005 and 2013. Other than one specimen found by Keith Minor while collecting there with me, I don't know of other examples of this form. I was fortunate to be able to treat 70-75 collectors to this site over time, some many times, and all proved to be respectful of the site. I guided personnel from Smithsonian, MMNS, and the Brazosport Museum to this site, and collaborated with/donated to University of Southern Florida and Emory University. This site was the best of all worlds - varied fauna affording burgeoning personal collections to family, friends, and academia. I wish I had more sites with this level of rarity, quality, quantity, and variety. 16 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calhounensis Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Undescribed Protosiren Late Eocene - Ocala Limestone Marianna, Florida Florida Museum of Natural History (UF) This mandible represents one of the most complete cranial elements of this genus from Florida's Eocene. Preparation is still being completed on this specimen. Donated: February 14, 2014 Prep. photos: March 21, 2014 http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/44146-brooks-quarry/?hl=brooks Edited April 28, 2014 by calhounensis 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Undescribed crab in the family Aethridae Lower Miocene (Burdigalien) Chipola Formation, Calhoun County, Florida Represents a family not reported from the Chipola and probably a new species. Also the most complete crab carpace found to date in the Chipola. Donated March 3, 2014 to Florida Museum of Natural History UF 246320 Edited April 28, 2014 by MikeR 9 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 A fossil crab - Caloxanthus americanus Rathbun, 1935Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Grayson FormationFound in Waco, Texas - U.S.A. on June 9, 2013Contributed to the Nonvertebrate Paleontology Lab (University of Texas at Austin, Texas) "The specimen includes morphological details not previously described for this species. In particular, the preservation of the eye structure is remarkable and it represents one of the few records of composite eye preservation in fossil brachyurans." 15 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Nov. gen. nov. sp. Bournelyreidus teodorii VAN BAKEL, GUINOT, ARTAL, FRAAIJE & JAGT 2012 Upper Cretaceous (upper maastrichtian) Found in Haute Garonne, southwest France Donated in 2010 to MNHN of Paris 10 1 http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Pycnodont plate with teeth Cretaceous Upper Greenhorn Limestone Found in Central Kansas Donated due to unusually large size and rarity FHSM VP-16865 9 For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I didn't actually donate this item, but I did find it and called in some experts. I helped with the extraction. You can read about it here. www.oceansofkansas.co/FtHaysPtychodus.html You can also google "Giant Kansas Shark" and a bunch of news articles will come up about it (must have been a slow news week) If someone wants to post some links here they can, I can't do it with my server. Ptychodus mortoni Fort Hays Limestone Donated due to the fact that it is the Earliest occurance of Ptychodus mortoni. (that and it was in a super hard limestone and I mistakenly thought a bunch of graduate students would come up and get it so I wouldn't have to work to hard) 10 For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Polycotylid Plesiosaur FHSM VP-16459 Fort Hays Limestone Donated because it is only the 3rd reptile discovered in the Fort Hays Limestone. You can go here www.oceansofkansas.com/FHSM_VP-16459.html for a bunch of photos I didn't have a digital camera back when this was found. Here is a field sketch. 10 For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) Pennsylvanian insect wing Lycodus garretti (new genus/new species) Lawrence Shale Formation, Douglas County, KS. Insect wing discovered while a student at University of Kansas. The fossil was one of the last fossils examined and described by the great Frank Carpenter of Harvard University. He named the species name in our honor. Fossil now curated at University of Kansas specimen numbers 224077a, 224077b http://psyche.entclub.org/pdf/99/99-141.pdf Edited April 29, 2014 by Xiphactinus 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) Dinosaur tail vertebra Niobrarasaurus coelii Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk Fm., Trego County, Kansas Found by my wife (lucky!) making her the first woman to find a dino bone in Kansas. Donated to the Sternberg Museum as they house the world's collection of Niobrarasaurs bones, so that's where this needed to go as well. Specimen number VP-17229 http://oceansofkansas.com/Dinosaur.html Edited April 30, 2014 by Xiphactinus 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Fossil sawfish rostrum & associated rostrals (Ischyrhiza mira Leidy) Ripley Fm., Selma Group, Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lowndes Co., Alabama American Museum of Natural History, New York (s012) Donated for study via Carl Mehling. Subject of a poster (author Carl Mehling, et. al.) presented at the 2012 SVP Annual Meeting. 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Chondrichthyan braincase (possibly sawfish) Ripley Fm., Selma Group, Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lowndes Co., AL American Museum of Natural History, New York (2012) Donated for study via Carl Mehling and Dr. John Maisey. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Associated marine turtle bones (Ctenochylys sp. (?)) Ripley Fm., Selma Group, Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lowndes Co., AL Alabama Museum of Natural History (2005); collections no. PV2005.0009.0001-.0016 Donated for study via Dr. Ed Hooks. 16 associated bones (plastrons, pelvis, ribs, periferals). 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Emileia contrahens Ovale Zone, Wedelsandstein Formation, Lower Bajocian, Middle Jurassic. Wutach Valley, Germany. Stuttgart Museum of Natural History (SMNS) Donated for study. It represents the stratigraphically oldest record of the Genus Emileia in Germany and one of the oldest records worldwide. http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11989/1/zitteliana_2010_50_06.pdf 8 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 (edited) Bathrotomatia amyntas (D'Orbigny 1856)? Geisingen Oolite, Achdorf Formation, Upper Aalenian, Middle Jurassic. Geisingen a.d.Donau, B.- W., Germany Stuttgart Museum of Natural History (SMNS) http://www.palmuc.de/bspg/images/stories/zitteliana/5_Gruendel%20.pdf Donated along with two other gastropodes for a scientific study, one of which had to remain in the museum. I got the other ones back, though. Pleurotomaria rotundata Amphitrochus n.sp. Edited May 9, 2014 by Ludwigia 8 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilcrazy Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Some of my donations in the name of science: Edrioasteroid, Multiplexidiscus mckenziensis, from the late Silurian McKenzie formation Central Pennsylvania. Donated to researchers Carlton Brett and Colin Sumerall. Brown Alga, Manitobia lesquerevxi, from the late Silurian Williamsville formation, Bertie group in Fort Erie, Ontario. Donated to the Royal Ontario Museum. Fish tooth whorl of Onychodus sigmoides, from the early Devonian Union Springs formation at Jamesville, NY. Donated to the Paleontological Research Institute. Hydrozoan, Plumalina plumaria, from the late Devonian Chemung group, Almond, NY. Donated to the Royal Ontario Museum. Conodont Animal of undetermined Genus and Species, from the early Silurian Eramosa formation at Wiarton, Ontario. Donated to the Royal Ontario Museum. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 (edited) I have donated a grand total of 2 items to science so far. #1 a Pycnodont (fish) tooth or jaw section(?) Santonian, Haslam Formation, Nanaimo, V.I., B.C. I could not tell what it was so I took it to the Royal BC Museum. It was not very impressive to me so I didn't think to take a pic of it before donating. It was a small piece of bone material with a serrated edge (teeth) inside a concretion I broke in half. They ID'd it as the above and asked me to donate it, which I did. #2, a large Inoceramus sp. Santonian, Haslam Fm. Cowichan Valley, V.I., B.C. I found on a small muni works/dump site not far from me. I don't know where it ended up: I gave it to a member of the Victoria Paleo Soc. and from there it was supposed to go to Jim Haggart of the GSC in Vancouver who was going to do a study/revision of Inoceramids. I have not heard anything about it since. I hope it ends up in the RBCM if it isn't already, or one of the other 2 Island museums. If I ever learn of its whereabouts I will update this. Here is the Ino were found and at home: Edited June 6, 2015 by Auspex 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Claire01 recently donated some wonderful ?crustacean coprolite masses to the AMNH. Thanks, Claire! ?Crustacean coprolite masses Cenomanian Eagle Ford FormationNorth Central TexasNow in American Museum of Natural History's Fossil Invertebrate collectionsClaire was generous enough to contribute to our growing coprolite collections! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Crab nodules & prepared crab (Avitelmessus grapsoides) Ripley Formation, Selma Group, Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lowndes Co., Alabama American Museum of Natural History (2012) Donated as collections specimens via Carl Mehling; 4 unprepared crab nodules and 1 prepared crab. Photo courtesy of Carl Mehling. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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