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  2. Wrangellian

    What is the VERY LAST fossil you have collected?

    I missed this post until now, Franz, but I'm also sorry to hear that your collecting days are at an end (probably). I've already forgotten which fossil was my latest (last year), but hopefully it's not my last (final) one. My collecting trips have diminished for various reasons but I don't expect to quit just yet. There are some newly dumped piles of rock up my local hill that I found out about last year, though it appears other collectors are on top of it quicker than I am, as the finds were pretty sparse for the size of the piles. Maybe after this winter there will be more fossils exposed and I'll get at them before anyone else does, but I'm not counting on that... Competition from other collectors and lack of storage space will be what stop me (if not infirmity/death).
  3. jpc

    Mines

    I think it needs to be specified that the OP is asking about Florida, I suspect.
  4. jpc

    Gold or Pyrite

    Are you asking if this whole chunk is gold or pyrite? Or if there are micro amounts of either somewhere in this chunk?
  5. garyc

    Florida Fossil IDs

    That is a teeny tiny bone. I don’t even know how you found it. I’ll defer to jpc
  6. Kato

    New Mexico Fern Fossils

    I thought that I did write up a trip report that I'd done where I was collecting in some local Devonian formations and was within a mile of the fern site so I made a quick detour to check it out. Regardless, the photos I submitted were what was lying in float about 1-2 weeks ago. I was doing a quit hunt in the Devonian so I barely spent 15 minutes at the fern collecting site. On one end of the field the specimens are prolific with bright colors and a nice blend of cordaites and ferns. The shale splits decently and specimens are often on all exposures. As one progresses to other side of the field the shale becomes increasingly brown, darker and difficult to split. The specimens shift to a mix that's predominantly cordaite with occasional small calamites and even more randomly ferns.
  7. Darktooth

    Buffalopterus pustulosus

    @Buffalopterus Thank-you for sharing this with the forum! I consider myself lucky to have seen your B. pustulosus in person, as well as the rest of your collection.
  8. ThePhysicist

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    That is a fantastic find! Beautiful.
  9. fossillarry

    Equid fossil from Nevada

    Wow I just saw this fossil piece on ebay. It's a young adult individual of merychipine grade horse from the Early Late Barsovian Tonopah fauna,Esmerelda County, Nevada. The specimen is missing the right upper m3 and it looks like, the M1 and M3 on the left side . as to identification. in 1875, E.D. Cope names Merychippus calamarius from the Late Miocene of New Mexico. In 1915, J. C. Merriam names Merychippus sumani and M. intermontanus from the Late Barstovian , Barstow fauna, California. In 1942, P. C. Henshaw identifies one of the horses from Tonopah as Merychippus calamarius. A number of researchers have lately, ie, R. H. Tedford et al 2002, considered M. calimarius and M. Intermontanus to be the same species, an opinion I agree with base on my collection of horse fossil from the Bastrow fauna and Tonopah fauna. In 2006 D. Pagnac created a new genus of horse, Scaphohippus for the species sumani and intermontanus. in 2021 B. E. Stoneburg et. al considered S. intermontanus and S. sumani to be the same species, with sumani having page priority being the valid name . So if the opinion of B. E. Stonrbuurg et. al. stands the test of time this fossil horse specimen from Tonopah would be called Scaphohippus sumani. A very nice fossil maxilla indeed.
  10. jpc

    Can I prep Moroccan Trilobites?

    I have never tried one, but they are in very hard rock. I suspect they need some serious tools and skills.
  11. snolly... too late... I bought it out from under you.... But it is Moroccan...maybe they have a second (and third and fourth) one
  12. Brad84

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    Most of my rare things have been donated but it led to two species ( one new genus and species ) so that made it worth it. Out of my remaining collection my rarest has to be my Acrocanthosaurus tooth I found. Acrocanthosaurus remains are very rare. Only 5 partial skeletons and one skull have ever been recovered. This tooth is just shy of 3 inches with the curve it has. It was found in the Glen Rose formation ( not Glen Rose) about 2 1/2 hrs north from there. It’s 115-120 mya and I doubt I will find another like it but sure hope so!
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  14. jpc

    Florida Fossil IDs

    mammal tail bone, not toe bone
  15. jikohr

    Post oak creek finds

    Nice finds! The first one definitely isn't Ptychodus, although that might be a typo for Ptychotrygon which is what I would call that one. 5 looks goblin to me. Good ol Scapanorhynchus is a Post Oak Creek staple!
  16. I dont know what you all are talking about… that’s obviously not a mosasaur! That’s actually the much rarer and more valuable only existing example of a baby dragon! It obviously fell into a mineralizing spring and was petrified in a way never before seen or encountered!why this amazing discovery will turn the scientific world on its ear! A very valuable addition to the stately snolly manor!
  17. snolly50

    Baby Mosasaur

    Sorry if I mislead anyone. I thought this was too good of an example to pass on posting it.
  18. Buffalopterus

    Buffalopterus pustulosus

    Discovery of the rare and exotic Buffalopterus pustulosus from the Late Silurian of Ontario Canada In the Summer of 2018, while digging for eurypterids in the Williamsville Formation at Ridgemount Quarries in Stevensville, Ontario Canada a most unusual carapace was uncovered. This fossil was identified as Buffalopterus pustulosus (Chelicerata, Eurypterida) in Figure 1. James Hall in 1859 first reported the occurrence of Eurypterus pustulosus from a single fragmentary fossil, however, the most important characteristics were clearly defined, that is the form of head, the position of the lateral eyes, and the fantastic yet extraordinary pustules covering the carapace. Pohlman in the late 1800’s inaccurately described a similar carapace believing it to be a different species. He then studied another fossil (Fig. 2) consisting of post-abdomen tergites (body segments) concluding again that it was not E. pustulosus but instead belonged to the same species as his carapace. Pohlman assigned this genus to the pterygotids. Clarke and Rudemann (1912) determined that indeed all the fossils were synonymous and that the species represented was P. buffaloensis = Buffalopterus pustulosus. Hence, B. pustulosus is known from only a few fragmentary fossils. It is unclear as to what the entire animal looked like as no complete specimens nor identifiable appendages belonging to the species have ever been found. The carapace discovered by me is remarkable not only for its size but flawless preservation. The length of the head is 12 cm (4.75 in.) with a width of 19.0 cm (7.5 in.). The length of the entire animal is estimated to have been as much as 1 meter. Unfortunately, no other parts of the exoskeleton were found. Incredibly, a second, smaller carapace was found by another person a few weeks later but again no other body parts were recovered. Parts of the specimens were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum. Moreover, the late, Sam Ciurca believes the discoveries may represent the first known occurrence of the eurypterid in the Canadian Williamsville. It is interesting to speculate the morphology of B. pustulosus if a complete animal were ever found. Were the swimming legs equipped with paddles so typical of the eurypterids? What were the chelicerae like? Were they small and aligned with the mouth or did they become very large formidable grasping organs similar to the pterygotids with their large cheliceral claws? What was the shape of the abdomen? Was it covered by pustules like the head? Were the pustules simply ornamentation or did they serve another function? How about the telson, was it thin and straight or was it curved? Paleontologists may never know the true answers to these questions of a most aberrant sea scorpion. References Clarke, J.M. and Rudemann, R. 1912. The Eurypterida of New York. New York State Museum Memoir 14, vol 1-2. Fig. 1. Buffalopterus pustulosus carapace from the Late Silurian, Stevensville, Ontario Canada discovered by me. Fig. 2. Post abdomen body segments of Pterygotus globicaudatus Pohlman from the Buffalo Natural Science Museum, Buffalo, NY
  19. Wrangellian

    Unpolished Ammonites from Madagascar

    Check closely the outer ribs especially in this area - They might be slightly flattened but it's hard to tell from this pic. That might be all they did just to be able to say they did some work on it. I've seen others that are more obvious but a buyer might still miss it if they don't know to look for it.
  20. UPDATE: I retrieved the rock and OOPS.... instead of Carbonifereous Pottsville now I think its late Devonian Mauch Chunk... quarzitic sandstone with small bits of iron or mangenese weathering away.... so could this pattern really be boxwork related to that? Notice how the black grains are concentrated in the pattern.
  21. SharkySarah

    Post oak creek finds

    We got a donation at work of a lot of little finds from post oak creek Texas. I’m not familiar with the site at all and the labels for these appear to have gotten wet some time in the past. I looked at the book on Cretaceous sharks and rays of Texas and it made me more and more confused. Would love any help to get these relabeled. If not, they’ll sit for a decade, be thrown out or given away here are my really unsure ideas- 1. Texatrygon sp. or ptychodus sp. 2. Pseudocorax sp. 3. Not enough there ? 4. Not enough there ? 5. Goblin ? 6. Carcharias sp. 7. Carcharias sp. 8. Carcharias sp. 9. Not positive enough to guess 10. Carcharias sp. 11. Hybodus sp. 12. Not enough there ? 13. Ptychodus sp. 14. Too broken ? 15. Ptychodus sp. 16. Too broken ? 17. Fish tooth? 18. Enchodus tooth 19. Drum tooth? Not a vert. The bottom is flat and shiny 20. Small fish tooth 21. Slag? Super shiny in person 22. Stumped here. Bone? Coprolite? Straight shelled cephalopod? Just rocks ?
  22. I'm sure we've all done that if we're regular collectors. Most of my forgotten-info fossils are from when I was younger and less diligent about that sort of thing, or acquired from other collectors such as members of the rockhound club who have been very frequently careless about recording locality info, though, to be fair, some of them told me but I promptly forgot because I didn't write it down. (I still blame them for not making labels!)
  23. Fin Lover

    Baby Mosasaur

    And it's not even April Fool's Day yet.
  24. That's a pretty neat sample, thanks. Certainly seems like a maybe.
  25. Wrangellian

    New Mexico Fern Fossils

    Thanks, I remember your finds but I had forgotten that I asked that. You wrote a separate trip report, somewhere other than here?
  26. Well little or no lignin back then, I think. Wonder if that's an ingredient to patterning dry rot like this?
  27. Fossildude19

    Baby Mosasaur

    Snolly has been collecting fossils longer than you have been alive, I'll warrant. Humor and sarcasm are sometimes hard to interpret when English is not your first language.
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