Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I've been a member of this forum for a few months now, and I just wanted to say thank you to all the members who have helped me learn as much as I can learn about fossils. 80% of my fossil knowledge comes from posts I read on TFF, it is a truly amazing resource! I'm exited to show the collection I've amassed so far. To start I have some overview photos of the display. Lighting quality is aweful, but that's just until I get some better lights. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Here is Ivan, the Alligator mississippiensis. This was one of the first specimens in my collection. The skin just below his lower jaw shows scaring, which is a sign of being nipped by another gator! Awesome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Here's a Castor canadensis skull. Self found, but it's modern. This is one of 3 skulls I've found, but this is the only one I got around to cleaning. It's amazing how long those front chompers are, they go back about 2.5 inches into the skull! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 One monster Lobatus gigas. Otherwise known as queen conch. A member here taught me that the crack on the shell was made by a Homo sapien, attempting to reach the meat inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Odocoileus virginianus (also modern) skull found by me and a group of friends whilst wondering the woods. It's fairly weathered, but a good amount of the teeth are still intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 A gosh darn cool arrowhead. Found this a while ago in a river in New Jersey. The colorations are astonishing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Diplomystus dentatus. This is one of my first bought fossils. The bone quality is great, and the fact that all the tiny bones that were separated from the body are also there is so cool. The separated bones suggests scavenging, possibly by a little crayfish. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Credit goes to @caldigger for this one. My first big trilobite that actually looks like a trilobite . Elrathia kingii. I've determined that the bits of carapace on the left side of the plate are associated, probably a molted shell that broke apart somehow. Really cool. The little ignostid I have sitting there is also really cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 My first meg tooth! Charcharocles megalodon. It's a nice 4" tooth I got for.......$12! Also made a custom stand for it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 First mosasaur tooth. Very small, but the fact it's from a mosasaur is good enough for me. I believe it's platecarpus but y'all are free to correct me on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Cool little Eurhinodelphis tooth. The root is mostly there and the tooth itself has some nice details. Also, it came from a dolphin with a big nose! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Now I THINK this is a flexicalymene trilobite. Im probably wrong, but I've been at this whole fossil thing for only a few months so it's a good guess. The quality is poor but it's a trilobite, cool enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 This is one of my current favorites. A drumfish rostrum. Miocene in age, and I have it labeled as Spotail pinfish but that is a major shot in the dark. A really interesting fossil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Perisphinctes. Cool ammonite half. The suture patterns are goniatitic correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 This is the crown jewel of the collection. His name is Leonardo, the 6" Mioplosus labracoides. From the 18" layer. Just above Leonardo's head is a coprolite...poor guy. Love the teeth on this one! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 This one I'm proud of because it's self found. A cephalon of a Elredgeops rana. The facets of the eyes are the best part. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Knightia eocaena. Nice size Knightia at around 4". This one was fun because I was able to further prep one of his pectoral fins. The prepping led to the discovery of a strange "rock out" expression he is showing with his fin. I had to laugh about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Eusphenopterus indet. My best fern. Small associated branch in the top left corner has some nice detail under magnification. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 This is just one of my pieces of petrified wood. Petrified wood interests me because it shows how exact the process of fossilization can be. Even the small annual rings get preserved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Lepidostrobophyllum indet. Seed pod. Nothing rare, just pretty interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Great collection very varied, the way I like a collection to be. Nice beaver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 This little +/- was original misidentified as a Carboniferous worm, but after some help from the lovely peeps at TFF I found out this is actually poop! Fossilized poop. Likely a carnivorous turd because of a very small bone fragment I can identify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Modern scorpion. He will one day have his eurypterid brother. One day in the very distant future, but the wait is worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Pecopteris indet. This has some nice leaf quality. Only a few hundred million years old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 I believe this is a Macroneuropteris loschi? Fern leaf. The detail of the veins is exquisite. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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