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Here's a few:

Rodent mandible & bird claw, McKittrick tar pits.

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Penguin maxila, mandible, skull; Miocene, Chile

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Prophaeton sp. maxila, Morocco, Eocene

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Pseudodontorn maxila (distal), Morocce, Eocene

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Been nice jawin' with ya'!

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The Penguin is awesome.

Thank you!

Of my prepped and displayable fossils it is one of my top three.

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

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Here's one of mine: Mandibles of Trigonias sp. (Rhinocerotidae) from the Chadronian of the White River Badlands:

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Straight tusked elephant half jaw. Early Pleistocene, Danube river, Northern hungary.

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Post your Proboscidea!!!!!

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Did you prep it?

This was waaaaay beyond my skill level.

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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

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From the Dinosaur side here are a few from my collection:

Nanotyrannus lancensis: Maxilla, Hell Creek Formation, Cretaceous, Montana

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Diplodocus sp. : Juvenile Mandible 4" Wide, Morrison Formation, Jurassic, Utah

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Camarasaurus sp. : Mandible section with Unerrupted Teeth, Morrison Fm., Jurassic, Utah

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Sauropod possibly Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis : Upper & Lower Jaw, Islao III Formation, Jurassic, Madagascar

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Here's one:

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The excellent photography and handsome graphic presentation of the relevant info make your post a pleasure to view.

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Very nice Harry

The excellent photography and handsome graphic presentation of the relevant info make your post a pleasure to view.

Thank you for the feedback. I do enjoy photographing the fossils . . . it gives me new appreciation of the bones and teeth.

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Man, those are all some great examples you folks have posted! Teeth in the jaw are one of my absolute favorite things to find, they're fairly rare ( at least to me lol) and it took me a good bit of hunting till I found my first example which is the Peccary piece. I did find a couple decent ones this season including the 2 sections of deer mandiblepost-7921-0-55399900-1436398223_thumb.jpgbest piece so far with 3 perfect teeth as foundpost-7921-0-03105100-1436398268_thumb.jpg2 pieces of deer mandible and a piece of maxillapost-7921-0-73849700-1436398318_thumb.jpgand here is my Peccary piece with 2 teeth and what I think may be an opossum or coon jaw with 1 tooth

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Very nice pieces here. Mine may not be as admirable, but still very good and proud additions in my book

First one I ever found, unknown fish dentary (Peace river)post-14364-0-85517800-1436473853_thumb.jpg

Partial small mammal mandible (skunk?), near where I found the first one but a different trip

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Raccoon mandible with 2 premolars(?), bought from the Tampa Fossil Fest earlier this year. Funny thing is it's still listed for sale online, under Paleoenterprise's "everything else" section

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Wow Jeff, Mammoth AND Mastodon !!!!!!! That's pretty awesome, are those personal finds?

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Troodon, your collection of dino jaws is the best I've seen in any private collection. Kudos to you man.

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cf. Borealosuchus sternbergii from Hell Creek formation

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Tethysaurus nopscai from Asflain, Goulmima

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Prognathodon giganteus from Oued Zem, Morocco

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Eryops megacephalus from Jefferson county, Oklahoma

Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

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That croc jaw is fantastic Andy. I'm headed up to Montana for 7 glorious days in the Hell Creek Formation later this month and I am beyond excited! Hope to find something like that...

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Here is my favorite upper-skull from Platecarpus ptychodon. It prepped out of the matrix so well I decided to leave is just as it was with no restoration or repairs. If you look close you can even see the pterygoid teeth still in place. Not my showiest piece but one of my favorites.

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Juvenile oreodont jaw, Oligocene Era, White River Formation, Badlands of South Dakota. Very complete one side of oreodont mandible, very thin and delicate, an especially good example about 4 inches in length.

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