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  2. mbarco

    I ask for artistic advice

    First of all: thanks a lot. Than...I'm trying to understand: do you suggest darkening the background and increasing the overall contrast?
  3. Kane

    Tortoise, turtle, and a few others

    I'm not seeing anything definitively diagnostic to suggest tortoise or turtle here, but instead suggestively shaped/weathered limestone.
  4. The San Diego River flows through the county, from east to the west. The Mission Valley has all kinds of fossils...I am going to start releasing my collection...unfortunately so much development has destroyed some awesome stuff...I have a couple amphibious sturgeon looking specimens 6ftplus...
  5. sixgill pete

    Florida Fossil IDs

    The tooth, possibly Carcharhinus falcimormis; silky shark. But definitely a Carcharhinus species.
  6. rocket

    I ask for artistic advice

    first little work on it
  7. minnbuckeye

    Florida Fossil IDs

    @Coco, thanks for the suggestion. It gives me a start in the process of identification!
  8. Isotelus2883

    Quick Stops throughout Canada-NY, Focusing on Toronto

    That's why I couldn't take it. If I had seen it, I certainly would.
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  10. That is a bargain. Don't see decent ones on offer that often, and not cheaply! I have a partial.
  11. I agree with @Phos_01, partly restored Overall it does not look bad, I would think it is a 90% real one
  12. rocket

    Lungfish from Scotland: Pentlandia or Dipterus?

    3:0 for Pentlandia thanks to all Yes, we are happy that the quality is much better than expected. Got it for a price of some Pizza
  13. Your pieces, your choice. It would likely only be an unfortunate decision if these turned out to be scientifically significant, but since you don't have any provenance information, that is not very likely.
  14. I used Photoshop to color a drawing of an moderately deep marine Ordovician environment that I had done in pen. I ask you for some advice on shadows, the "depth" of the water (foreground vs background),... I would like to make it a little more realistic. Thanks a lot for your help
  15. TqB

    Anyone able to id please?

    It's rather worn but I was going to suggest as a possibility Ptychomphalus which seems to have been renamed Angulomphalus, at least for the Lias. So I agree with Roger.
  16. Ludwigia

    Anyone able to id please?

    Maybe Orbonella? Although you are probably in the Blue Lias and this genus occurs in the Middle and Late Jurassic. Maybe Angulomphalus, which is Early Jurassic.
  17. Pretty much what others and Pachy said. Its a plaster artwork ;- ) They have done it so many times , they sculp from pieces of bone and plaster a Mosasaurus skull-like sculpture. But besides the glued in teeth not much original . Avoid
  18. More and clearer photos are need to really have a good look at it. For now I would say its real, but be aware that it has been broken in half, and glued together, and the tip is restored / fabricated. There is also no image of the back end, there seem to be worked on also. Try to ask images in day light and ask for the back end also
  19. The Legendary Hamzino

    What type of Teeth are these? They seem Crocodilian. Hope they're not restored lol.

    Okay I know this is gonna ###### a lot of people off. But I polished it. Cuz I wanna turn it into a cool pendant.
  20. I am guessing you don't mean 80 cm for the Isotelus. That would make it well over two feet long.
  21. I agree, it does look like a Pentlandia @rocket nice specimen
  22. Doctor Mud

    Cetacean bone

    Not clear in the above slices, but after some more adjustment I could see what look to be sutures inside the bone. Amazing series of fine canals branching off the main canals that run the length of the bone
  23. Doctor Mud

    Cetacean bone

    I was at the hospital getting some other fossils scanned and slipped this one in
  24. cngodles

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    I would easily say this large coiled cephalopod from the Glenshaw Formation (Kasimovian, late Pennsylvanian). I haven't really found a coiled cephalopod that was half this size. Scale bar = 10 cm.
  25. Jared C

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    I have a couple ties for the title of rarest in my time hunting, so I'll put a few in: On the vertebrate side, this mosasaur "Olive" co-found with my step brother. Olive is looking to be a new species so far . Story of this find below: Other vertebrates that come to a tie include this articulated Coniasaur (still unprepared) and partial plesiosaur that hasn't been fully excavated yet - waiting on mother nature to weather the site a bit more so it's not as dangerous. These were found on a great hunt with @Ptychodus04. The Coniasaur is rare because they're almost never found articulated, and the american species is not known from much cranial material besides occasional dentaries. The plesiosaur is rare because it's potentially the second specimen of an undescribed species found in this horizon. Lastly on the vert side, this partial Hadrodus cf. priscus premaxilla, bearing an incisor. Hadrodus is a genus of late cretaceous fish closely related to Pycnodonts, but form their own family, the Hadrodontidae. Isolated pharyngeal teeth are all they're usually known from, but even then the attribution of such teeth to the genus is tricky. The genus is known from skeletal material in Alabama, supposedly Mississippi, and one beat up specimen from Kansas. This is the first occurrence of Hadrodus skeletal material in Texas that I'm aware of, humble as it may be. On the invert side, I have a contender that can tie the options above, which is a pair of Cidarid echinoids that share some affinity with the European taxon Stereocidaris sceptrifera, but likely represent a unique species since this is a transatlantic occurrence (all of these finds are Texan). @Ptychodus04 did most of the prep on these, with @JohnJ doing some more detailed prep on the toothed specimen and taking the gorgeous photos below:
  26. LSCHNELLE

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    Shhhh! That's the teaser. Coming up soon.
  27. Here is some Pennsylvanian cordaitid wood with a similar pattern:
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