ajnthony Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Found 3 more fossils at Calvert Cliffs I would like help identifying. Item 2 Item 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Top ones a navicular bone of a horse (or relative) I believe. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Hi @ajnthony! Your second specimen reminds me of a turtle neural carapacial element (i.e. "scute") - are turtle fossils found at Calvert Cliffs? Monica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnthony Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 Monica, Thanks for your reply. Yes we find fragments of fossilized turtles quite often at the cliffs. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 2 hours ago, ajnthony said: Monica, Thanks for your reply. Yes we find fragments of fossilized turtles quite often at the cliffs. Thanks again. My pleasure! Happy hunting! Monica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finderskeepers Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Item 2 and Item 3 are fossil parts of the ocean sunfish (Molidae, Ranzania), Mola Chelonopsis and I think they are jugular plates. I have found them myself as well as their premaxillary beaks and other bones I think are associated with this unusual fish. I misidentified their beak for a turtles the first time I found one until I had it properly identified by a professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finderskeepers Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Dr. Robert E. Weems did a paper on this should you choose to look further: Robert E. Weems, Miocene and Pliocene Molidae (Ranzania, Mola) From Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina (Pisces: Tetraodontiformes), Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume 98, Number 2, 1985. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Molidae outtake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepaleontologist101 Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 The first one i believe is the top of a lemon shark tooth but the the actual enameled part of it was broken away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 3 hours ago, Thepaleontologist101 said: The first one i believe is the top of a lemon shark tooth but the the actual enameled part of it was broken away Sorry, but a 3 inch wide lemon shark tooth(?) - no way! Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 On 9/16/2017 at 1:13 AM, ynot said: Sorry, but a 3 inch wide lemon shark tooth(?) - no way! Who knows? Maybe that lemon shark drank a lot of cow milk when it was young? Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepaleontologist101 Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 On 9/18/2017 at 6:39 AM, Max-fossils said: Who knows? Maybe that lemon shark drank a lot of cow milk when it was young? That poor cow... it'll never be milked again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 4 minutes ago, Thepaleontologist101 said: That poor cow... it'll never be milked again Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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