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@dries85 very cool. Definitely want to learn the range. Started looking at the paper but gotta go to work. Jack, hers the age graphic Harry posted. I will tag you when I post the most recent one I found. It’s the shape of a 12 year olds wear but completely hollow. Just the outer enamel left.

I am not an expert. But I agree. Something looks off with the arms.

Conchoidal fracture. Not a fossil.

Agree with coiled nautiloid.

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Hi all! The weather out here on the East Coast of the U.S. has finally started to warm up (sorta…) and for my husband and I (+ the occasional friends) that means a day trip out to Big Brook Preserve for a day of sifting and picnicking. The most major change we noticed was the new erosion. We had a stormy winter out here, with a lot of rainfall, winds, and flooding. There’s newly exposed strata throughout the brook, but about 5 minutes into the main trailhead there’s been a massive mudslide along the far bank. Several trees have fallen across the brook and those that were able to keep their grip on the bank have exposed roots. The bank will resettle and stabilize back up soon enough, but in the meantime please exercise caution when exploring/hunting in this area, especially during storms or high winds. Of course, with these changes comes newly exposed fossils along the creek bed ripe for the sifting! Here’s a collection of what my group and I found out on our first trip of the season. An overview We didn’t find as many teeth as we expected to with all the new collapsed strata and no particularly large ones - but we did find some with a beautiful pale coloring, including the stunning white one in the center there! I was able to find some of my first trace fossils! Two lovely pebbles, with possibly some sort of belemnite/shellfish/burrow imprints on the left side there, and some amazing shell imprints on the one on the right (both include imprints on both sides of the stones). And speaking of shells - we have some lovely marine fossils! The 4 scallops(?) in the foreground are fully closed, with both top and bottom shells intact - a first for us at Big Brook! And these guys range from tiny to itty-bitty. In the newly exposed strata within the major mudslide area there seemed to be a layer close to shoreline containing a MASSIVE amount of shells, and I’m assuming these baby scallops came from that layer. My hunch says it’s a layer from a period of local/mass extinction, but if anyone knows more about what that layer could be please let me know! Top image includes the finds that I think could be either fossilized wood or bone….then again they could just be your everyday rock! I’ll be posting in the Fossil ID topic soon with clearer images, so any help would be appreciated! Bottom image includes our first two vertebrae! The one on the right is about the size of a dime and so the one on the left is absolutely minuscule! I’m just amazed we were able to spot it in our sifters. And these…are our unknowns. Coral? Concretions? Fossilized bone? Or maybe just a rock? (But I am crossing my fingers for pure Gold on that one at that top…) And finally, here’s a bonus image of some of the beautiful stones we picked up along the way!

If I refer to the point on the left under the arrow, it makes me think more of a bovine. Coco

Yes, that's mostly slag, along with what looks like bits of limestone and sandstone.

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Welcome to the forum! And don’t forget if you’re in the panhandle of Nebraska you’re close to the white river formation and the oreodont beds!

so when you thinks you have used your luck for a while check out how long this is. If it´s two week, go out in three For me it was always a highlight in my UK-tours to find ichthyosaur-remains.

Hi, This wants to represent brittle stars and not starfish (but same family). For me, I doubt that it is real, even with the arm over the others, because they are constantly improving to make them look more like real fossils. I think that when they run aground and die, they often have their arms in the same direction, because of the movement of the water, but I can be wrong. That said, the photos are not good enough to be able to say more for me. Coco

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good luck in prep, love to see the result one day When I was a younger collector it was nearly incredible to see or get triassic ichthyos. Now there are...., wow

Bradford bedrock will be Ordovician in age. All of the bedrock in southern Ontario antedates the Mesozoic, so no dinosaurs.

Thank you! I think I have definitely used up my luck for a while. They days that I went there were also very few other people on the beach - so that probably had something to do with it too

It's 26cm in length. The hatchling is unprepped but I would say the snout is complete. A type of ichthysaur found there has very short snout, look at the skull of another specimen below.

wow, looks like you have had luck! Might be they belong to one specimen, size could fit Incredible find! I normally found one in a week, sometimes two vertebraes, sometimes nothing Congrets!

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The fish comes from Sappenfeld - unfortunately the quarry has been closed for several decades. Incidentally, an Archaeopteryx was also found in the neighboring quarry in Workerszell, not so far away from Solnhofen.

Hello Everyone! After my very successful trip to Charmouth last time, I have been on 4 single day trips across the months of February/March/April, and wanted to share each days finds. I was once again looking for bone fossils - and had more luck than I possibly could have hoped for as far as I am concerned! I spent the majority of the time on Charmouth beach, though I did walk across to Lyme Regis Church cliffs on a couple of days. DAY 1 I found 4 very nice bone fossils, including my first articulated vertebrae, and my first definite piece of jaw! Apart from the damage to one side, the bone quality on this Ichthyosaur tail vertebra is very nice - an excellent start to the first day. My first set of articulated vertebrae! The base of the neural arches are also present though most has been been worn off. A nice section of Ichthyosaur jaw, with some other bone fragments stuck in the pyrite. A fairly worn Ichthyosaur vertebra which at the time was my largest to date. DAY 2 3 Bone fossils were found on day 2 - all of which were vertebrae. 3 Articulated ichthyosaur vertebrae - although these are worn down to pretty much a pebble - I was still over the moon with this. Next challenge would be finding 4 articulated! Another single tail vertebrae, the size and preservation on this one is so similar to the one I found in day 1 (and only found a week apart), which makes me think these could be from the same animal. Half an Ichthyosaur vertebra, which shows the bone tie shape nicely. DAY 3 4 Bone fossils were found on day 3, including my best preserved ichthyosaur vertebra, and a section of jaw with some worn down teeth. My assumption on this one is that it is an Ichthyosaur paddle digit, though I wasn't aware that they could be sloped like this? But the bone surface on the top and bottom have the lines radiating from the centre like I have seen on other digits. My best preserved vertebra to date, the photo doesn't do it justice but the bone quality is amazing on this one, and it has pretty much 0 wear from the sea. A quite worn unknown piece of bone, although the shape initially suggested paddle digit to me, I'm now not so sure A very small section of jaw with some worn down teeth! This one was just staring at me on my walk back to the car to drive home. DAY 4 This is easily the best day I have had fossil hunting to date - and I think I will be hard pressed to beat these finds. 2 Good sided articulated Ichthyosaur vertebrae from- need some mudstone cleaning off. This was the first find of the day - and it only got better from here on. A Partial Caturus sp. fish skull! Probably my favourite find to date. I am able to identify the branchiostegal rays at the bottom there but if anyone with more knowledge about fish skulls recognises any of the other skull sections please let me know. I assumed that the next bone up from the rays in the below photo is the dentary/angular but again I am very new to all this. This bone appears to have an ovular cross section from the second photo below which is what made me think jaw. 2 Nice sized ichthyosaur vertebrae with the neural arches present - in the matrix. A small piece of bone, I wasn't too sure on this one, and it may be too small to really know what this could have been. I found some nice ammonites, crinoids and a devils toenail too, though as I was mainly looking for bones, hence why I didn't end up putting them in this post. I actually managed to find more bones than in my 5 day trip from before where I was looking for bones. My favourites definitely have to be the fish skull, the large articulated vertebrae with neural arches, and the jaw with teeth. Needless to say I have definitely 'caught the bug', and will be returning again soon.

Here in the Antwerp Neogene teeth with that type of enamel structure are sometimes being determined as Phocidae. Maybe u should look into pinniped dentition, just a thought as i don't know if they occurred in Florida.. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137100

really not easy to decide. The hugher ones does not look bad, but there are several starfishes on the market that had been carved I would assume it is original because of the position of one arm, overlaying the starfish. The "selfcreated ones" normally look too perfect to be real. But, some are real, too...

I prefer the black one! Perfect posture, wow What is the size of it? @Crazyhen: do you think the snout is complete? Looks very short, unusual

Fairly sure this one is a bryozoan.