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CDiggs started following SE Texas - What is this thing???
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I agree... a toe bone. Looks mammalian, but we'll need better pix. On the other hand, I don't know how IDable isolated toe bones are.
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aplomado started following Do you feel a haunting sense of guilt.....?
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Do you feel a haunting sense of guilt....when you find a fossil in your house without locality information with it? It's horrible...! Am I the only one?
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@minnbuckeye Mike, I can't see the peristome or the periproct or any other feature so I can't offer a suggestion. I have lots of small examples of the common sea biscuits and they look similar. Hit the surface with a fine wire brush and see if anything shows up. Also a photo from the side might help since some are fully inflated, some have flat bottoms and some are indented.
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sometimes a natural break or surface is deceptive. You think it's a fossil, but unfortunately it's just a natural phenomenon. We have all experienced this as collectors, unfortunately it happens again and again I remember my last one..., uuuuuh, happy to say that it is long time ago
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The first does look like a phalanx. You might get an id with clearer pictures of each end and sides
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Water also absorbs colors. Blue color penetrates deepest and red is absorbed first. So you also need to consider do you still want to keep more colors on your work.
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Here are the other finds I didn't upload. I actually had two. The one I forgot to photograph in the field, and also a larger plate with what looks like it could contain a larger Calymenid. Part of the cephalon and a few axial rings are exposed. I'm hoping it is all there, because it would by far be the largest specimen I saw.
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Not like the rock you've posted pictures of.
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That was a lot of fun. I remember you were fantasizing about finding a coniasaur vert as we were walking to the site. Not 30 minutes later I heard "Hey Kris, what's this?" and we were looking at the 1st vert poking out of the matrix. Never expected articulated vertebrae to be there!!! If you get sick of waiting on it, we can always throw it in my prep queue.
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Is this a real spinosaurus foot claw?
Praefectus replied to Oops's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Ludwigia started following Tortoise, turtle, and a few others
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A lot different than it would today. You're welcome.
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Wow! Nice find in outer banks! I never find teeth here on vacation.
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If in the digestive tract of a predator, there would be clear evidence of fragmentary bone material.
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What would a turtle, a snake, lizard, and fish look like in the digestive track in a bigger predator 100million years ago... Thanks again everyone
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No similarities to bone at all.
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Here is a chunk of fossil tortoise shell for comparison. You can see the internal porous texture on the right hand side. An incomplete piece of turtle shell will clearly have noticeably porous texture. Your piece lacks that feature, but I can see how the shape led you to shell as a possibility!
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The more the depth, the less light. Do a search on Google for undersea photos to get a sense of how things appear.
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Moved to FOSSIL HUNTING TRIPS. Please PM Sdrckhnd your suggestions. Topic Locked.
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right, but I imagine a seabed at (well around) 15m (50feet). I don't know how much light it illuminates
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@sixgill pete, I have collected from the Peace River many times and never found a tooth like this. Then to find 3 on the same trip! I am not one who is versed in classification of sharks. A lemon shark is in the the family Carcharhinidae. But what you are suggesting is Carcharhinus as a genus? So this is definitely NOT lemon? The teeth have now been labeled as Carcharhinus falcimormis. Thanks for the help .
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Unfortunately, I agree. No bone texture. No bilateral symmetry. No turtle skeleton or skull morphology. Not seeing any fossil here.
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Please PM any suggestions you may have to Docweldon. Topic is now locked.
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In terms of realism, you might want to consider the play of light in water. Light acts a bit differently in water, casting its own pockets of light and shadow upon anything that is there. Various colours/hues will be muted at that wavelength. Here is an example:
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First of all: thanks a lot. Than...I'm trying to understand: do you suggest darkening the background and increasing the overall contrast?