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My Jurassic Park now heads across the pond to England and Germany. Dinosaur material from these countries is not common like North America and in fact very difficult to obtain. Theropod material is extremely rare and most remains are fragments. Most of my material from England comes from the coast of two areas The Isle of Wight and East Sussex. Material from these area comprises the Wealden Super Group (Hasting+Wealden+Weld Clay) and is early Cretaceous from the Valanginian to Barremian Stage (140-125mya).

Yellow - Hasting Group , Green - Weald Clay

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Red - Wealden Grouip

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Theropods

Baryonyx walkeri

My collection includes two examples of this Spinosaurid from England. One tooth is partially rooted.

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Megalosaurus bucklandii

One of the large theropods of region. This tooth was found encased in a block and the tip was restored based on the matching blocking

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Dromaeosaurid indet

A very cool small theropod tooth. May not have yet been described.

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Unidentified Theropod

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Ornithopods

Probably the most common material found are those from Iguanodonts. A number of species exist and my collection includes a few teeth, vertebrae and bones.

Iguanodon indet

Teeth

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Toe Bones, Unguals

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Iguanodon cont.

One of the more interesting items in my collection is a thumb spike (Pollex) from the species Iguanodont Barilium dawsoni. The shape is diagnostic to this species.

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Vertebrae

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Valdosaurus canaliculatus

A small dryosauruid the tooth and claw were found associated and identified by a local museum

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Unidentified

This may be a Dryosaurid claw but not certain

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Scelidosaurus indet.

An extremely rare claw from an armored ornithischian dinosaur a Scelidosaurid indet. which was identified by a paleontologist at Oxford.

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Ankylosaurid

My collection includes a few ankylosaurid specimens including tooth, dermal armor and an vertebra. A tooth possibly belonging to a Polacanthus is shown in matrix.

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Dermal Armor

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Vertebra

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Unidentified

Tooth of a possible titanosaurus sauropod

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Germany

Germany is represented in my collection by two isolated theropod teeth one Triassic Ceratosaurid and the other a Jurassic Dilophosaurid.

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Hard to pick a favourite tooth out of this selection.. but now I finally know who got the rooted Baryonyx tooth from the Wadhurst Clay haha

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If it werent for that drawing I would have thought that Barilium's thumb spike was just a worn Iguanodon spike. Nice collection as usual.

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Hard to pick a favourite tooth out of this selection.. but now I finally know who got the rooted Baryonyx tooth from the Wadhurst Clay haha

Thanks and very happy to acquire it. Not many around with roots.

If it werent for that drawing I would have thought that Barilium's thumb spike was just a worn Iguanodon spike. Nice collection ad usual.

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Hard to pick a favourite tooth out of this selection.. but now I finally know who got the rooted Baryonyx tooth from the Wadhurst Clay haha

Not for me! My pick is the Valdosaurus tooth! Very, very nice indeed. These are definitely dinosaur teeth/fossils you don't see everyday!

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As usual, nice fossils! Your rooted bary and Megalosaurus teeth are jaw dropping! These are my favorite for sure. Thanks for sharing.

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If it werent for that drawing I would have thought that Barilium's thumb spike was just a worn Iguanodon spike. Nice collection as usual.

I believe Barilium is/was a species of Iguanodon but a guy wanting to make a name for himself decided to publish a paper arguing that every different Iguanodon was its own genus so now instead of around 9 different Iguanodon's we have that number Iguanodontid's.

I suppose if you really want the glory of naming your own dinosaurs its a lot easier to rebrand ones already in existence than find your own. No wonder its so hard to keep track of all the dinosaurs in existence!

Anyway as an Englishman myself I appreciate the quality and rarity of those items. You just can't get Megalosaurus teeth for love nor money so that's an especially impressive acquisition. Put me down for that in the will Troodon..........I'll let everyone else fight over the Dilophosaurus tooth!

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You even have a tooth of the first identified dinosaur....

So which is rarer? Dilophosaurus or Megalosaurus?

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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I believe Barilium is/was a species of Iguanodon but a guy wanting to make a name for himself decided to publish a paper arguing that every different Iguanodon was its own genus so now instead of around 9 different Iguanodon's we have that number Iguanodontid's.

I suppose if you really want the glory of naming your own dinosaurs its a lot easier to rebrand ones already in existence than find your own. No wonder its so hard to keep track of all the dinosaurs in existence!

Anyway as an Englishman myself I appreciate the quality and rarity of those items. You just can't get Megalosaurus teeth for love nor money so that's an especially impressive acquisition. Put me down for that in the will Troodon..........I'll let everyone else fight over the Dilophosaurus tooth!

Your on the list :) I'm with you and do not understand why we have so many Iguanodontid's but that's how some folks get recognized.

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You even have a tooth of the first identified dinosaur....

So which is rarer? Dilophosaurus or Megalosaurus?

Your splitting hairs they are both rare.

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Your splitting hairs they are both rare.

To have one is unheard of.

Yet you have both. (And even an Acrocanthosaurus!) Truly your many years of collecting has paid off.

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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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The first purported Baryonyx tooth (rooted one) looks like Goniopholid to me. Perhaps I'm wrong, but at first glance, it does not have all the autapomorphies/features of a baryonychid tooth.

Your collections are amazing, museum grade fossils. Any fossil from Spain?

Congrats!

Regards

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The first purported Baryonyx tooth (rooted one) looks like Goniopholid to me. Perhaps I'm wrong, but at first glance, it does not have all the autapomorphies/features of a baryonychid tooth.

Your collections are amazing, museum grade fossils. Any fossil from Spain?

Congrats!

Regards

No its a spinosaurid. The crown has all of the typical striations found on them and is very similar to the other one.

I have two teeth from Spain both not in the greatest shape. One badly preserved iguanodontid shed tooth and an theropod tooth that suffered from pyrite desease. Not the best but my only Spanish teeth

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Hey Troodon, was curious if you had a lot of things from Niger. If so I would love to see that!

Lots no a Afrovenator and a couple of Suchomimus teeth. Will get images up at some point need to take photos

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As you certainly know, Spanish dinosaur material is extremely rare. Any material has great value.

By the way, do your theropod tooth come from the Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous (Albian?)?

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Some teeth from Spain may be expensive but the condition of mine just warrant rare :) I don't have photographs at the ready and need to take some

Escucha Formation

Santa Maria Mines

Ariño, Teruel Spain.

Cretaceous. (albain)

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