Jump to content

Few More Fossils From Calvert Cliffs That Need Identifying


ajnthony

Recommended Posts

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

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

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

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

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

  • 1 month later...

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

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

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? :P

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

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? :P

That poor cow... it'll never be milked again 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, Thepaleontologist101 said:

That poor cow... it'll never be milked again 

:(:D

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

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...