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ID unlabled Fossils, mostly just the Ammonite


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Hello, I just recently made an account. I'm in the process of collecting more rare fossils, but while I was cleaning out some space, I came across some old fossils from when I was a small child.

These are fossils were purchased in Japan at a Shinto Shrine during New Years about 10+ years ago when I was small, it's a bit fuzzy in my memory so I assume quite a while ago. Unfortunately, the locale and ID of the fossils were all lost (because a kid just throws away the paper immediately . . . right?) except the Spinosaurus. I mostly wanted to know about the two Ammonite fossils, the sharks I just assume are nothing special and Spinosaurus is . . . well just your every day common Spinosaurus. The white one has some kind of green junk on it, which I assume is some kind of plastic that melted onto it. I don't expect anything spectacular from them, but I just wanted at least some ID on them. The ruler is in centimeters.

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Welcome to the Forum. :) 

 

Your black ammonite looks like a Prolyelliceras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous of  Peru. 

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That was my thinking too.

The lighter one appears to be a Perisphinctes or similar, possibly from France (Jurassic), but don't quote me - wait for others to chime in.

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5 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

That was my thinking too.

The lighter one appears to be a Perisphinctes or similar, possibly from France (Jurassic), but don't quote me - wait for others to chime in.

Agreed, although the "Perisphinctes" could originate from any number of countries. I would go with Perisphinctidae family for that one and leave it at that.

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It looks similar in size and preservation to ones I have from France but maybe you're aware of other places with this type/size/preservation that I am not.

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