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Rare find, Antwerp, Belgium


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Went out to hunt for sharkteeth today but due to the poor weather and trafic I lost a lot of time, so hardly any finds... Since I’m new to the forum I think however it would be nice to post a recent find. This is a piece of jawebone from a delphinodon dividum... it might be the only piece like this ever to be found in Antwerp. So pretty rare ;)  Kind regards Charlotte

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That's a pretty nice find! :)

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Very nice find!

Thanks for showing us. :) 

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 Beautiful piece congrats, teeth in the jaw are one of my absolute favorite things to find:fistbump:

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Fantastic find. That is definitely the find of a year for most anyone!!

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Nice Delphinodon! Quite a rare find!

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Happy hunting,

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This really, really looks like Delphinodon dividum from the Calvert Formation - probably worth scientific study.

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Most(maybe ALL) of Othenio Abel's classic work on Belgian (odonto)cetacea is freely available online*,but a quick perusal showed more postcranial material than

teeth

*in French

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1 hour ago, Boesse said:

This really, really looks like Delphinodon dividum from the Calvert Formation - probably worth scientific study.

I’ve already contacted the Belgian Museum of Natural History. They agree it’s  delphinodon dividum and a rare find. But due to the fact that it’s an ex-situ find and it’s only a fragment they can’t publish about it or use it in their studies. 

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5 hours ago, CharlotteG said:

I’ve already contacted the Belgian Museum of Natural History. They agree it’s  delphinodon dividum and a rare find. But due to the fact that it’s an ex-situ find and it’s only a fragment they can’t publish about it or use it in their studies. 

Thats a shame, whole species are based on fragments. Guess you’ll just have enjoy it yourself!

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  • 4 weeks later...

What a great find!  I have seen small whale jaw sections from various sites before.  In almost all cases the teeth were gone - probably fell out before final burial.

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Great find Charlotte, indeed very rare for Antwerpen. I have seen a  few yaw pieces before of them, but it is the first I see with the teeth preserved.

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