PaleoRon Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 In the swap/sell section someone has posted a 'rare bird fossil". I have only been collecting fossils for about 30 years, but it just looks like a piece of road rock to me. In order to save someone the embarrassment of calling a museum to come and collect their driveway for the advancement of avian science, I am posting a couple of pics of some real bird fossils. The miscellaneous long bones are all river finds from several dive trips. The skull is an Alca from the Lee Creek mine in North Carolina. I found it in 2007 in Unit 2 of the Pliocene Yorktown fm. It is currently being studied in the Natural History Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is the first time I have dealt with this Museum but the people working there are friendly and knowledgeable. In the past all of the bird fossils I have found, including one from the Paleocene of Maryland, went to the Smithsonian. Have fun collecting and watch out for flying rocks. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I saw the bird in the trading section. It is so obviously not a fossil. I even think it maybe tarmac with stones embedded in it!!! I didn't reply as several people already had and the poster was getting rather stressed about the negative comments!! The real danger of people selling either ignorantly or worse knowingly fake fossils is that people new to the hobby waste money on fakes. I too have collected several birds the best being a complete skull from the London Clay in Kent, England It is about 3 inches long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 That is an excelent skull, Gary... I'm jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Thats really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I love the skull, what kid of bird is it? It resembles the Puffins of my area.. but I'm probably wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrocklds Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 here is an eocen bird wing i collected a couple years ago. it is from the split fish layers of the green river formation in kemmerer wyoming. nice skulls guys. i would love to be able to find one some day. keep up the good work. brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kauffy Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Nice find brock!!! "Turn the fear of the unknown into the excitment of possibility!"We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 There are very few complete bird skulls from the London Clay of Kent. I have had this one looked at by various amateur experts and we are pretty sure it is a new species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 There are very few complete bird skulls from the London Clay of Kent. I have had this one looked at by various amateur experts and we are pretty sure it is a new species. Well dang, Gary... That makes it ten times better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I second that! Excellent finds guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I need to start posting pictures of some of my stuff, so here goes: here's a bird rostrum that I found while preparing a baleen whale skull from the late Miocene Purisima Formation of central California. Pics of the baleen whale skull to follow later in its own post... The specimen is about 2.5cm long, or 1" Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I don't have a lot of bird fossils, just the usual stuff. Except . . . I do have this claw core from the "Terror Bird" (not my coinage) of Florida. This is a rare bird, indeed, and almost all of these Titanis fossils are museum specimens. The species is named after Ben Waller, one of the early diver-collectors in the Santa Fe. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 That is really nice, where did you find that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I don't have a lot of bird fossils, just the usual stuff. Except . . . I do have this claw core from the "Terror Bird" (not my coinage) of Florida. This is a rare bird, indeed, and almost all of these Titanis fossils are museum specimens. The species is named after Ben Waller, one of the early diver-collectors in the Santa Fe. Harry, that is...amazing.... That bird has got to be one of my favorite things, and it's always been on my goal list to find something from. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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