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My Jurassic Park: Dinosaurs From Uzbekistan/Asia


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Your saying did I read the Topic correctly? Uzbekistan? Where is that? Is that a country? Dinosaurs were there? Well yes to all those questions.

First: where is it? well its in Central Asia next to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. I'm sure that clarifies the locality :) In case your still scratching your head here is a map of the region

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On the map all of the Dinosaurs in this post come from the Kyzyl Kum Desert. I highlighted the area on the map with two red lines. The area is quite difficult to collect but if you dare quite productive for Dinosaur fossils and meteorites. Here are a few pictures of the area. No its not me in the pictures I'm not that crazy.

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The Dinosaurs from this area are poorly understood but there has been some study done in Russia.

An excellent paper of this area is:

Dinosaurs of Northern Eurasia: New Data About Assemblages, Ecology and Paleobiogeography by L Nessov published in 1995 and then translated into English. Unfortunately I cannot find the paper with the plate so no images.

Specifics:

Age: Cenomanian - Turonian (94.3-89.3mya)

Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum Desert.

Navoi Region

My collection will begin with a number of Therizinosaurus hand claws. Most of you may not be familiar with this dinosaur. Its one of the most interesting ones ever to exist and paleontologists are still trying to understand it.. It begins its existence in the early cretaceous as a meat eating predator about 4 meters long and ends its reign at the end of the cretaceous as a giant 10 meter long herbivore with gigantic meter long claws on their hands. Quite a transformation, wish I had some of those claws.

Great reference : Therizinosaur : mystery of the Sickle-claw dinosaur by the Museum in Northern Arizona. Only $10

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The first group of pictures all all Therizinosaur hand claws.

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more to follow:

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Unknown Theropod Claw

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Archaeornithomimus bisseketensis Hand and Foot Claws. A member of the Ornithomimus family and one of the few we have described

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These claws are unidentified but compare well to Pachycephalosaurid

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They not only find Claws but teeth here are a couple from a big theropod Alectrosaurus sp.

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Hadrosaurus material is also found and possibly from the species Bactrosaurus. The indentation on the front of the second claw is pathological from a wound or disease.

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Link to my other Jurassic Parks

Claws of Kem Kem

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/57318-my-jurassic-park-theropod-claws-from-the-kem-kem/

Allosaurus

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/57284-my-jurassic-park-allosaurus/

Anzu Wyliey

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/57267-my-jurassic-park/

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Very neat. You don't usually find material from Uzbekistan. Once again, thanks for sharing some of your fossils. Love them.

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troodon... I know you do some collecting in the Hell Creek, but your recent "Jurassic Park" posts leave me wondering do you also collect in the Morrison, and I assume form your "I'm not that crazy" comment that you do not collect in Uzbekistan, or any other Stan. Just being curious.

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I have collected in the Morrison but just don't have the access I do in the Hell Creek or Lance simple as that. Would love to given the opportunity.

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Hi Frank, many years ago, I was offered some Iguanodontian teeth from Uzbekistan but hesitated too long and missed out on them. Do you happen to have any in your collection? There have also been some nice marine reptile teeth from there to if i'm not mistaken.

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Hi Frank, many years ago, I was offered some Iguanodontian teeth from Uzbekistan but hesitated too long and missed out on them. Do you happen to have any in your collection? There have also been some nice marine reptile teeth from there to if i'm not mistaken.

No, but I have one from Kazakhstan, close :) Material from this part of Asia is incredibly hard to acquire.

A lesson I learned the hard way a long time ago, just like you, you have to pull the trigger instantly when something special is offered to you. At the Tucson show I've seen it time and time again, you walk out of a room and go back a few minutes later whatever you were looking is gone. Yes on the marine but have never seen any.

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Amazing fossils! I am very impressed. I can only imagine how much time and effort has gone into assembling your collection. It's an inspiration to fossil collecting.

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Amazing fossils! I am very impressed. I can only imagine how much time and effort has gone into assembling your collection. It's an inspiration to fossil collecting.

Thank you, +20 years of enjoyment and I happy to share it.

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A new addition to my collection is from a newly described species from Uzbekistan of the Hadrosaur

Bactrosaurus kysylkumensis.

Partial maxilla with very colorful teeth

Photos show both sides.

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Nice partial jaw! Especially like the teeth in there. They have a very nice and unique color tot tem. Kind of look like tiger stripes. A wonderful addition!

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That's gorgeous!!! :wub:

"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

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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  • 1 year later...

Updated Tyrannosaurid names to Timurlengia euotica

 

Added a couple of hand claws.   The second claw is much smaller and not as recurved and may be a positional Juvenile T. euotica since there are some similarities or just an Theropod indet.?  

 

 

 

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Very amazing finds! I wish I could have access to out-of-country sites such as that!     :envy:

 

 

:hammer01::mammoth::trex: Troy Niler, amateur fossil & mineral/artifact collector:meg::bone::trilo:

 

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Ran across this tooth today, the dealer had it identified as a Bissekty Tyranno but it looked different and the condition was super.  So I asked to take it home and do my thing to check it out.  I did and now its in my collection but I guess I do have to pay for it first, darn.   It still can be a juvenile tyranno but its morphology matches very well with the described Dromaeosaurid in that assemblage so I will leave the label alone until I determine otherwise.  Need to see a few more dromaeosaurids to make my final call, would have liked to see more compression on this tooth and a bit leaner.   Again identification of isolated theropod teeth is very difficult since there is so much variation in a jaw of one of these beasts and between juvies and adults.

 

ID based on:

 Serration density different on mesial and distal carina and within the range of the holotype, mesial twist of carina, recurved, subrectangular denticles.

 

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One of the isolated teeth with holotype you can see more compression and a bit leaner. I do not have any info on juvie Tyranno Timurlengia

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Another great thread and tremendous new acquisition.

What a tremendous collection you have. :)

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On 2/2/2018 at 5:27 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

Another great thread and tremendous new acquisition.

What a tremendous collection you have. :)

Thank you

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3 hours ago, Baryonyx said:

How do you get these things? They must be extremely expensive.

Several ways.  Over the many years of collecting I've developed a relationship with dealers that contact me when something new arrives.  Attending big fossil shows like the Tucson or Denver always helps where you find dealers that do not have an online presence..  This material is now seen for sale on auction sites like eBay so its available to all, correct not cheap.

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45 minutes ago, Troodon said:

Several ways.  Over the many years of collecting I've developed a relationship with dealers that contact me when something new arrives.  Attending big fossil shows like the Tucson or Denver always helps where you find dealers that do not have an online presence..  This material is now seen for sale on auction sites like eBay so its available to all, correct not cheap.

Really nice collection of which I can only dream of. How do you finance your collection? If I can ask you that.  

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