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There were more pictures originally, if I'm not mistaken. Either that or my phone was glitching.
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Holy ####! Bombshell indeed. Mexico has some incredible Cretaceous lagerstätten that I feel will get international attention in next couple decades, as it absolutely should. The paleontology of the country is very underrated. I've seen and heard rumors of stunning reptiles coming out of their marine cretaceous as well. Can't wait to see what our southern neighbors continue to discover
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Found at a local Thrift Store with newspaper clipping taped to it suggesting it is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil.
Randyw replied to TimWaits's topic in Fossil ID
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Piece of what I believe is reptile rib bone from Big Brook, NJ. Bone fibers are very dense - any chance it could be dinosaur?
shark57 replied to TRexEliot's topic in Fossil ID
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Lower Eagle Ford, Britton formation trip 4/23/23
jpc replied to Gcurtis45's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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Agreed - Sea robin skull.
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Found at a local Thrift Store with newspaper clipping taped to it suggesting it is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil.
TimWaits replied to TimWaits's topic in Fossil ID
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I think it might be part of a sea robin skull.
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Hello all! I'm hoping to get a bit more information on this "tooth" I found in the surf at Panama City Beach, Florida, Bay County. I was literally telling my wife that I really would like to find a shark's tooth on the beach and then found this about 5 minutes later. It doesn't look like any of the shark's teeth I have ever seen elsewhere and doesn't seem to have any edge serations. I'm just hoping to get some idea as to: 1. Is this an older or fossilized tooth? 2. What shark or other animal is it likely from? Not well visualized from the photos (best seen on pic #4 and #6), but this tooth has at least two foramina that extend longitudinally from the top down to the lateral protrusions near the point or apex. You can see their origins along the upper mounting edge. If it really is a tooth, I'm curious as to what the purpose of the foramina would be? Perhaps sensory nerve canals of some sort? Venom injection ports?? Interesting structure either way... I'm a total novice who just happened to find this on the beach a few days ago. So, any information anyone can provide is definitely welcome! I hope the photos are satisfactory, but please let me know if I need to redo anything. This is the best resolution I can do with my phone. Thank you!! MrPisky
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Now that is a bombshell article! Wonder what other Ptychodus experts think about these conclusions because this turns things completely upside down. This reminds me about the time I had first learned of Ptychocorax, the Anacoracid (Lamniformes) that has typical Squalicorax teeth in the front and Ptychodus-like teeth in the back. I wonder if some day they will determine that Ptychodontidae was an early offshoot of Anacoracidae. That family already seems to have a head start for high bite force so maybe to bridge that gap is not as difficult as we previously thought. The stuff about them being high speed swimmers that ate turtles and ammonites instead of benthic animals is also interesting. It throws a wrench into the traditional explanation for why oysters and clams of the Late Cretaceous got such big shells (higher durophagus predation from Ptychodus namely). Thanks for sharing this
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This incisor tooth was mixed with some bison specimens from a peat bog site found in the early 80s in Sherburn County, Minnesota. The specimen catalog is long lost. Pollen analysis at the time dated the site to between 5000 and 10000 years old. The specimens were thought to be washed into the site in a flood event.
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As all the others said, ironstone concretion. Still cool looking though.
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Piece of what I believe is reptile rib bone from Big Brook, NJ. Bone fibers are very dense - any chance it could be dinosaur?
TRexEliot replied to TRexEliot's topic in Fossil ID
@pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Sorry, I'm not sure I followed your comment completely. Isn't hardness/density of the bone usually a sign of terrestrial rather than marine material? I've always been told that the spongier material is more indicative of marine reptile, while dense, tightly-packed bone fiber is an indication that a piece may be terrestrial -
Hominid fossil found in travertine floor tile during kitchen renovation
Oxytropidoceras replied to Oxytropidoceras's topic in Fossil News
I suspect that this specimen came from the travertines of the Denizli Basin, Turkey. Some revelent papers are: Vialet, A., Prat, S., Wils, P. and Alcicek, M.C., 2018. The Kocabas hominin (Denizli Basin, Turkey) at the crossroads of Eurasia: New insights from morphometric and cladistic analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 17(1-2), pp.17-32. Rausch, L., Alcicek, H., Vialet, A., Boulbes, N., Mayda, S., Titov, V.V., Stoica, M., Charbonnier, S., Abels, H.A., Tesakov, A.S. and Moigne, A.M., 2019. An integrated reconstruction of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey). Geobios, 57, pp.77-95. Pasini, G. and Garassino, A., 2011. Unusual scaled preservation samples on freshwater decapods (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pleistocene (Late Cenozoic) of Turkey and Kazakistan. Natural History Sciences, 152(1), pp.13-18. Yours, Paul H. -
Adventures in Balance. A Peace River fossil journal.
MarcoSr replied to Balance's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Is this the tip of an Aetobatus arcuatus lower mouth plate? From an Aetobatus lower dental plate, may or may not be the tip. Can they be this small - 18 mm wide? Yes Is the protuberance at the front of the tip Normal... It is from the tooth in front. Can't tell for sure from the picture. Looks like part of the overlapping root of the next tooth. Marco Sr. -
I agree with it being the tip of a tooth and I also think the colors are cool!
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I am right there with you Randy.
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Carboniferous Pennsylvanian Sigillaria fossils
ntloux replied to ntloux's topic in Member Collections
Thank you folks for all of the suggestions. I expecially wish to thank whoever edited my submission and corrected sigillarius to sigillaria. Nick -
Found at a local Thrift Store with newspaper clipping taped to it suggesting it is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil.
jpc replied to TimWaits's topic in Fossil ID
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After the OP’s complaints I was convinced I wouldn’t reply to this topic anymore. However the other members are having a reasoned and polite discourse so I’m keeping up with it. Well done all! Now here's my problems with them being bone. 1) pictures are not clear enough to conclusively say its bone. 2) if they were basically the same bones with basically the same wear then you should be seeing the same “spongy bone” texture showing in roughly the same spots. 3) none of the pictures are showing the possible foramen holes as being more then just surface divots. 4) matter of fact the below example is actually shown as shallow and I’ve never seen a foramen with a rim. It reminds me of a partial geode in a rock 5)even if they do go deeper to me the angles look like they are pointing in different directions… Now personally, I don’t have a horse in this race. I’ve been wrong before and will be again and I would be more then overjoyed if I'm proven wrong, as long as I learn something during a COURTEOUS conversation. But I’m not seeing enough proof for me to say oh yes! I see it now! So I’m still seeing a few rocks one with a bryozoan wich also grew on rocks I believe. Let’s keep the convo going!
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Is this something you own, or are considering buying? Could be, but the pictures are not very good.
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I would agree with @Tidgy's Dad, it does seem like tabulate coral. If it is not tabulate, it seems to be some sort of coral imho
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Yet another mystery bone from the boulonnais (France)
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon replied to ADfossils's topic in Fossil ID
My first thought is distal end of a pliosaur propodial too, not only going by shape, but also frequency of their finds in this region. These propodials can have varying shapes depending on species, with some the distal end in some species being somewhat offset from the central axis. In plesiosaurs, in contrast, the flares on either side are usually more equally balanced, yet not typically rounded, as in pliosaurs, since in plesiosaurs the paddle digits interlock with the propodial. (source) Also compare with these paddles on display at the Paläontologische Sammlung, MUT Tübingen. All this having been said, I'm very interested in what exactly you mean with "are chunky on one side and flatter on the other side"...
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