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Hi, This little sea urchin is too globose for the species I mentioned. Sorry, I can’t help any more. Coco
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All I can say is that it doesn't look like the marine mammal bones found there. Perhaps a terrestrial mammal. With the ends in such poor shape, it may be hard to tell.
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Dino Eggs from Asia
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The texture seems to indicate that it could be a burrow cast. It's hard to be sure of it though.
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I'm also not seeing evidence of bone.
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Thanks very much for sharing. Too bad that Ridgemount is no longer accessible.
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My thoughts exactly. Thanks for reinforcing it!
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I dont think its a bone. I dont see there any bone texture, structure, and shape. So it migth be just a curiously shaped rock.
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I just went fossil hunting today and found this. Is it a bone or just a rock? If so what is it? It is found in Beaumaris in Victoria. A majority of fossils are 6-5 million years old. I have theories as to what it is if it is a fossil, but I am unsure. I was thinking a an extinct penguin upper wing bone or a Pelagornis shin bone, maybe even a seal metatarsal. This is a link to a list of fossils found in Beaumarishttps://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/beaumaris_fossil_book_museum_victoria.pdf Personally, I am sceptical as to whether it is a bone but my Mum and Dad believe it is.
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thanks everyone for their advice! I think the photos inserted by you have too powerful lighting from above, I put an example of a seabed at 15m depth: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moorea_Aito_Depth_15m_Samuel_Etienne.JPG I could imagine a light facing the viewer that illuminates the scene, preserving the closest warm tones and then gradually disappearing. Probably increase the texture of the terrain, general contrast, darken,...
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Mosasaurus skull -- fake or real?
FF7_Yuffie replied to FF7_Yuffie's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Baby Mosasaur
SPrice replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Obvious clue it isn't real...the teeth should be 'baby teeth' instead of adult teeth. Not gonna fool anyone with that cuss word mistake! And talk about robust...this critter is so heavy it would be slithering through the seabed mud, imo. -
The seller describes this as Rare Natural Untreated Madagascar specimen. Sure looks unpolished to me.
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Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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All fossils have been collected and prepared by myself from the east coast of ireland. Carboniferous limestone makes up a good portion of the Malahide formation which yields good specimens of different species of Brachiopods, Bryozoans, both solitary and colonial Corals, Gastropods, Bivalves, Goniatites, both coiled and orthoconic Nautiloids, Crinoids, and if your lucky, Trilobites!- 9 comments
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I see. Eventually I will upgrade my tools, maybe I can give it a shot then. Thanks for the responses.
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Is this a real spinosaurus foot claw?
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Just got back today from my first trip to Mazonia-Braidwood (pit 11) this year! I unfortunately couldn't make it on the opening weekend, and was afraid we won’t find anything this late - but I ended up being pleasantly surprised. By this point I ran out of concretions to freeze-thaw from last year, so I’m very excited for the next few months We decided to go back to the Tipple hill area. Here is what it looks like now - open, barren fields of rocks 99.9999% of which are not what we are looking for. What I found especially challenging about this area, is that there are numerous concretions that have perfect shapes, but are not actually the right type of rock - yellow/light orange. I haven’t seen them at other places within Mazonia. I tried cracking a few last year, but they just have quartz (?) crystals on the inside. I guess they are not actually from Francis Creek shale? I forgot to take pictures, but would be curious to hear from people familiar with this. And of course, here are a few dinosaur eggs (the right type of rock) in situ Here is the total haul. Probably not a lot for this site, but this is definitely the most productive pit 11 trip I’ve had so far. Even better, unlike my previous visits, this time I found quite a few fossils in already open concretions. Here is a shrimp molt Both halves of a Calamites I think this is a Cyperites leaf These two halves of Annularia whorls cracked on the drive home And, of course, a neat anemone - Essexella ascherae. Surprisingly, this is the only one we found (so far). Will keep this thread updated with new fossils as I freeze-thaw the remaining concretions. I will also be back to Mazonia this weekend, but will probably go to a different site. I’m hoping this will become a mega-thread of all of my future Mazon creek trips. Out of all of the fossil sites I ever collected at, this is genuinely one of my favorites, if not the favorite - amazing fossils you can’t find anywhere else, plus instant gratification from finding concretions is always followed by delayed gratification over months of opening them. Here are my past trips to Mazonia and Braceville in 2023:
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Thank you @Doctor Mud! I agree it was a good experience.
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Could we get more angles of 9 please I suspect it is a carcharias but need to have a closer look at other root angles
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Looks great! Much nicer to look at, and close enough to the original color to look good, but different enough to show what is original and what is restored
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Doctor Mud replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Got me thinking from what is a baby Mosasaur called….thought should be what we call its closest living relative. Snakes and monitor lizards - hatchling. But did mosasaurs lay eggs? https://eartharchives.org/articles/a-new-beginning-for-baby-mosasaurs/index.html# A tangent but - that’s how my brain works sometimes! Especially after coffee -
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Finished! I'll start with saying of all the arts I'm bad at painting so going into it I really just wanted to highlight the texture, that being said I still think it turned out good. all in all I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out it is obviously restored but I think it helped a lot from the base clay. All in all it was a great learning experience thanks for tagging along!
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Doctor Mud replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
It must be all good it’s sitting on a field jacket. And the Mosasaur younglings had no need for ribs or flippers, better defense . Just solid vertebra all the way! What do you call a baby Mosasaur? E.g. a baby cow we call a calf. I guess this one is a mess-osaur overall -
Nice find! We can be spoilt by seeing the multitude of Mosasaur teeth coming from other places in world - but in some places they are a rare treat.
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