Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 sorry again, i dont know what the species of these specimens are and also sorry for some reason parts of the photos were cropped and made smaller i think its because i put too much on there so they had to cut down the file size (: 2 Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 (edited) That is an amazing collection! 1.) echinoid 2.) Marine reptile (ichthyosaur?) paddle! Really cool. 3.)echinoid 4.) goniatite Not sure on good IDs of 5 and 6 7.) Ammonite 8.) brachiopod 9.) need more views 10.) vertebra, reptile? 11.) IDK 12.) cephalopod 13.) barnacle (balanus sp?) 14.) trilobite pygidium, got a few guesses as to which type but maybe @piranha would be a better source than I. 15.) more cephalopods (goniatite, ammonite, etc) Edited September 23, 2018 by WhodamanHD Fixing a few terms 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Bobby Rico Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Number 7 the ammonite looks like Hildocerss Lusitanicum. Nice too Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 thanks so much i thought that the marine paddle was a calyx or something like that Link to post Share on other sites
RJB Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Love the paddle . Really cool! RB 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 is it rare? i got given it from someone who had inherited a victorian collection so i don't know much about it Link to post Share on other sites
Bobby Rico Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Not incredible rare but a fantastic addition to a collection. Your pictures is a little dark to tell but you may consider getting it prepped to modern standards. I have a lot of fossils found in the Victorian times beautiful labels with some of them, in copper plate text. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Perhaps fanciful but if I had it I couldn’t help but wondering if it was an Anning specimen. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bobby Rico Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Just now, WhodamanHD said: Perhaps fanciful but if I had it I couldn’t help but wondering if it was an Anning specimen. How fantastic that would be. Maybe the history of this collection could be traced. Link to post Share on other sites
BobWill Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Very nice. I agree with WhodamanHD but will add that the label is correct on #9 and possibly #5 (other views will confirm) and I'm sure he meant to say "more cephalopods" instead of more nautiloids for the last image. If you can give us an age, formation or location for the ones you found we may be able to give you more precise names. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 sorry as i said its mostly from a victorian collection so i assume its from england but that's about all the info that i can give, Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 40 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said: Perhaps fanciful but if I had it I couldn’t help but wondering if it was an Anning specimen. that would be wonderful if it was, i'll try and trace the collection further to see if there are any links Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said: Not incredible rare but a fantastic addition to a collection. Your pictures is a little dark to tell but you may consider getting it prepped to modern standards. I have a lot of fossils found in the Victorian times beautiful labels with some of them, in copper plate text. where could i get something like prepping done, i am a kid so i don't have the equipment to do it myself also i live in LOndon if anyone knows a place near there which could do it Link to post Share on other sites
Bobby Rico Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, will stevenson said: where could i get something like prepping done, i am a kid so i don't have the equipment to do it myself also i live in LOndon if anyone knows a place near there which could do it Looking at your other pictures I don’t think it needs to be. It is lovely. Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 27 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: Looking at your other pictures I don’t think it needs to be. It is lovely. ok thanks (: Link to post Share on other sites
andreas Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 pic five looks like an Aptychus of an ammonite 2 Link to post Share on other sites
BobWill Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 5 minutes ago, andreas said: pic five looks like an Aptychus of an ammonite I agree. @will stevenson can you tell us the size of #5 please? Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 they are around 10cm tall Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 did you mean pic 6 because pic 5 is the 2 bivalves, if so it is around 8cm long Link to post Share on other sites
Ludwigia Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 1 hour ago, will stevenson said: did you mean pic 6 because pic 5 is the 2 bivalves, if so it is around 8cm long No, they mean pic 5. I would interpret those also as Aptychi. Quite large as well. Echinoid 3 is a Heliophora orbiculus. Bivalve 6 is a Myophorella sp. Ammonite 9 is a Catacoeloceras sp. Nautilus 11 is a Cymatoceras sp. I agree with all the other ids. Nice little collection! 4 Link to post Share on other sites
ynot Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 1 hour ago, will stevenson said: did you mean pic 6 because pic 5 is the 2 bivalves, if so it is around 8cm long It always helps to number each item so We can tell what is which. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
abyssunder Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Oh, Roger, you're right about the IDs! I'm not a cephalopod specialist, but specimen 3 is definitely Heliophora orbiculus. I have one of these little and strange echinoids in my collection, and the label says: Heliophora orbiculus (Linne). Unt. Pleistozän, Mauretanien - Nordafrika. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Wow, big aptychcus! Awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
Notidanodon Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 ok thanks so much everyone for the identification, it really helps me, just to tell you, i found the apychti in the kimmeridge clays in Dorset, i also found another one but it broke on the journey home Link to post Share on other sites
DE&i Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 @will stevenson your ichthyosaur paddle would be a special find indeed. Victorian fossil curiosities such as ichthyosaur material are somewhat few and far between. Ichthyosaur specialists such as paleontologist Dean Lomax may be interested in seeing it. Link to post Share on other sites
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