ptychodus Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Here are 3 fossils I would like help in IDing. The first is a fragment, but I thought the unique edge might help identify it. Is it some kind of jaw? The second is a calcaneum which appears somewhat bigger and robust than that of a deer....llama? The third, I think, is a fragment of a scapula. Any idea as to species? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 the third id definitely a piece of mammal scapula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossiling Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 They look charred...could they have been modern stuff thrown into the fire? Keep looking! They're everywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 @fossiling they are black because the bones are phosphatized. OK @ptychodus question: what part of the state is this? If this is Horry County or near Myrtle Beach there might be a surprising answer for #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptychodus Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 Yes, they were found in Horry Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 So, the latest Cretaceous Pee Dee Formation underlies the Neogene rocks in the Myrtle Beach area- so, your fossil in the first picture with those ridges is likely a hadrosaur (!) maxilla or possibly dentary. We've got a less impressive piece in our museum. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptychodus Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 You've got to be kidding me. I looked it up and Boesse you are probably right. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyg Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Wow. That's a pretty special find for SC. Nice. G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 The first one looks like a bivalve fragment, see here . " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I'm leaning towards partial Hadrosaur as well. Even though the bivalve pic looks very similar. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Ehh, there's never been a taxodont bivalve that large. That scale bar has to be off by an order of magnitude. Similarly, there are no bivalves with a taxodont "dentition" that are that large in the South Carolina fossil record, or even modern; our largest clam, Mercenaria, is still smaller than that and isn't even taxodont. The other photos appear to clearly show bone texture, and hadrosaur specimens are already known from the area; CCNHM has a partial hadrosaur maxilla from the Pee Dee a bit further inland. I also showed this to my colleague and CCNHM director Phillip Manning (an actual dinosaur paleontologist, unlike myself) and he concurred that this is a hadrosaur maxilla. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 The specimens in question were found in a river or on a beach? Btw, the scalebar in the bivalve picture is ok. That is probably an Isognomon(tree oyster) fragment. For example Isognomon maxillata is large. Also, Isognomon is present in NC and SC. Isognomon maxillata - Calvert Marine Museum Isognomon rollei - Miocene, Austria - 65mm 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 I stand corrected on the scale bar - however, I've never seen one of those in a private collection or on the beach, and it doesn't address the fact that the specimen photographed above is made out of bone rather than laminated calcium carbonate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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