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Spiny productid, Eomarginifera longispina, Mississipian UK
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Can't help, but there are some nice teeth there.
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I recently found a few shark teeth on the beaches of Ft. Pickens (Gulf Islands National Seashore) on the Gulf of Mexico. The tooth in the top left corner is from a Great White. The second from the right on the top row is from a Bull Shark (I think), and I believe the tooth on the bottom right corner is from a Lemon Shark. Can anyone help me identify the rest? Many thanks in advance!
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It has been almost a year since I discovered this rock and the Fossil Forum (awesome site) asking for help identifying it. I revisited the site to get better pictures and have done some research on the trace and found a research paper describing the formation (Spirocosmorhaphe, A New Graphoglyptid Trace Fossil) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/spirocosmorhaphe-a-new-graphoglyptid-trace-fossil/392963AD0F84A65435AE91F94B049E56#
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Found at a local Thrift Store with newspaper clipping taped to it suggesting it is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil.
Mark Kmiecik replied to TimWaits's topic in Fossil ID
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I agree with ironstone conccretion. I think it is definitely collectible as a good example of the possible variations in concretion shapes and sizes.
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Just thought I’d draw back attention to this post, does anyone have any more ideas on identification, particularly the potential dinosaur tooth?
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I think it's a bit small to be deer, even juvenile.
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You get a lot of fun from a big bag of micro matrix. Very generous gift. Cheers Bobby
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So I cut open one of the other ones and it gave off a rusty color of dust. I then wet sanded with 1500 and I’ll post a pic of sanded material and polished end of stone. Came out almost mirror like. Maybe all this will help?
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I'm seeing bones (if they are bones) here from the same side of the animal. I would expect to see, in a group of this size, at least one specimen from the other side of the animal.
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Try a flame. A modern seed will burn and stink. A fossil seed will not be affected.
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I’m heading out Monday to Calvert Cliffs and Matoaka Cabins, if I wrap up soon enough I’ll stop by The Calvert Marine Museum. They might be able to help?
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No bone or claw texture. Looks to be metamorphic layering.
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One more!
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Here you go. Thanks
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Sandstone, limestone and tons of shale. Pretty much everything else is glacial erratics.
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I have done both of them and weak attraction and no mark on scratch test.
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I will second (or third) the advice on an ultrasonic cleaner. They generally do a pretty good job, of course depending on what is adhering to the fossils. But I'm glad you are going to try that route, it is fast and cheap. If my microfossils are big enough, I but them on a fine mesh fabric and the clay, etc. that falls off slips through leaving just the clean fossil on the fabric for dumping/drying. If they are really tiny (like off a 40 mesh sieve or smaller) I put them in the ultrasonic cleaner in a small plastic container so I don't have to worry about finding them again in the larger volume of the cleaner. Good luck and I hope to see some of your results.
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Thanks Adam, this is great! This is one of the sites that I still need to get to, especially to collect some matrix for searching, so I look forward to seeing what you two have found. You are starting off with a very nice one!
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Hello and welcome to the forum! I agree, nice find and possible seacow. Although prepping it out would of course help an ID much, there is one thing you can look at to get a hint : There are broken ends of ribs, give us sharp fotos of those. Seacows often (I do not know about the very early species) have very dense ribs nearly without spongiosa. COuld be visible in your fossil without much preparation. Best regards, J
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Indet since county is not certain. Bottom and front/back view are helpfull with id, but looking at this tooth it looks more like nano than rex. It seems to have thight curvature that nano teeth would have.
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Thanks for posting, I love microfossils, they are often overlooked
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Hello, my friends, and a jolly warm welcome to one and all. Many moons ago, my friend, the exceedingly kind and generous Brett @Elmo sent me nearly 6 lbs of micromatrix from the Purse State Park in Maryland, USA. The tiny fossils found in this gravel are from the Piscataway Member of the Aquia Formation which is Late Palaeocene in age and about 60 million years old, give or take. I have been trying to sort through a little every day and am about two-thirds of the way through and have found lots and lots of goodies. Now, this is well out of my comfort zone as there is not a brachiopod to be seen, but lots of teethies from sharks, rays, skates, and bony fish. I have no idea what I am doing at all, and so Brett, who is also seeking some IDs, and I decided it might be useful and fun to start a thread to show off our finds, hopefully get some help with identification, encourage others to post their own finds and have a fun time, really. I don't have any Palaeocene material at all, except a couple of larger sharks' teeth from this location. So, please feel free to comment, just watch and enjoy or tell me off for my obviously stupid attempts at ID. I'll start this off with a really beautiful tooth that I think might be Delpitoscyllium africanum.
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