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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Found this in Goshen Oregon, not sure what formation it falls under, I have only heard it referred to as North Goshen Flora. I have read it has been dated to the Late Oligocene. Wondering if anyone recognizes what it could be. I know Pinus, Quercus, Hydrangea, Acer, Plantanus, Cinnamomum, and Sassafras have been identified in the formation, perhaps it is a seed or flower from one of those? Thanks for any help. Please be kind, I'm new and just looking to learn.
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Request for identification of Oligocene fruit or seed from Aude (France)
aldo66 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I am counting on your knowledge because I cannot identify this fruit or seed found in the oligocene (site quite close to Armissan - Aude) in the company of many plants. Size 33mm Thanks in advance
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I recently saw a 1.2cm long Oligocene mammal jaw from South Dakota, judging by the coloration of the specimen from the Brule Formation, up for sale. The jaw is referred to as Leptictis haydeni, but the description states it to be from a primitive weasel. Moreover, I have never seen any Leptictis material for sale and the dentition looks as much like that of the relatively similarly named but much more common Leptomeryx than any leptictid. Thanks in advance for any guidance Othniel
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I recently saw these Oligocene canid teeth up for sale, found somewhere near Brooksville in Florida, but they were not identified to a genus or species level. Thanks in advance for any proposed IDs Othniel
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"Wie het kleine niet eert, is het grote niet weerd!" goes the Dutch saying (who does not appreciate the small, isn't worthy of the big). Three small fossils, any help with the ID's? The brown one looks like a bulla to me, from a dolphin maybe? No idea about the other two. All found on the Dutch coast, on the same location. Mammal bones on this location are from the pleistocene and holocene, shark teeth and bones from fish and sea mammals (dolphins and whales mostly) are from the eocene-pliocene.
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My younger son Mel just led his first fossil trip of the year on our Eocene/Oligocene M&M Ranch in Nebraska last week. My sons, Mel and Marco Jr., are starting to get back from their prepper some of the fossils that they found on our ranch in 2018. Not all fossils go to the prepper. Mel preps some of the specimens himself. Below is a picture of the specimens Mel found in 2018 that he will prep. Here are a few pictures of 2018 specimens just back from the prepper. Mel found another saber cat in 2018 that is in prep. Below are a saber cat skull found by Mel and saber cat skeleton found by Marco Jr. in previous years on the ranch. They have found seven or eight so far on the ranch. I'll probably be going out to the ranch a couple of times this year. However, I spend most of my time at the ranch taking matrix that contains micro squamate, bird, amphibian, and mammal specimens. I'm currently working with seven researchers on this micro material. Marco Sr.
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Hello everyone Couple of unusual finds for me from diving in the Cooper River, near Charleston, SC. This river cuts through Oligocene to modern deposits so it can be tough to ID finds. The first looks like a Castoroides sp? broken beaver tooth? The shark tooth has a U shaped root, no serrations on the blade, and has cusps that appear to have a gap between the root and blade. Looks like a cusped P. Benedeni or possibly an upper lateral sand tiger (based on looking through elasmo.com). Doesn't look like an O. Angustidens or A. Grandis to me? I've seen a few cusped Benedeni's identified on the forum and was curious if that is what I found Thanks for looking
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As a professional woodworker I have a soft spot for anything "tree" but this might take the cake. Not 100% but this does seem to be a petrified burl, I have never seen such a thing but me and my woodworking buddies have fantasized about it more than once. Any input to confirm or deny would be appreciated, though this is one of those cases I'd almost rather believe regardless of the reality, call it my Santa burl. Came out of oligocene deposits near Eugene Oregon
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Hi all! I love W.R and Oligocene fossils. Both prepping and looking at them. So i thought maybe its time to see what everyone else has collected out there. So let’s see pictures of what you’ve got! Heres a few of mine!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I found two fossilized jaw segments yesterday that I need help IDing, please. I believe the first is either barracuda or wahoo, but I've done a little research and am still not sure how to tell them apart. My guess is wahoo, based on the tooth thickness increasing as it gets closer to the root, but some descriptions I've seen of wahoo teeth describe them as "needle-like", which these are not. Jaw section is 50mm long. Tooth goes from about 1 mm thick at the point to about 5mm at the base. Found in an area that is heavily Oligocene but with a small amount of Miocene (coming from an overlying Pleistocene lag deposit). Jaw #2 I believe is cetacean... something like an echoventator. I previously found a similar one in the same creek, but the spacing between those teeth were greater (both have the double-root teeth). This creek is also Oligocene with some Miocene from overlying lag deposits. 62mm long and 32mm tall. Wet to show the double-root tooth sockets better: New jaw on left, other from same location on right: I hate to @ people if I don't have to but, from reading old posts, I think @Al Dente and @MarcoSr can probably ID wahoo vs. barracuda. Thanks so much!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Here's an aturia angusta nautiloid with some chunky calcite from the Lincoln Creek Formation in Washington state, US. Also, a recent paper on a bivalve of the same location, pliocardia? guthrieorum, named after my wife and myself by the author. We're aggressively searching for late Eocene and early Oligocene cetaceans, especially the odontocete variety. Maybe this will be our lucky year!
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It's not much to look at, but I finally got one! It wasn't in a concretion, so happening upon it was sheer luck.
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I had a pretty good day of hunting yesterday and am planning to do a trip report, but I need help IDing one item first. When I first picked it up, I thought it was a odontocete tooth. Once I got home and cleaned it up, it looked like parts of it were peeling and there was white underneath. I have tried to peel it more, I have tried the flame test to see if it would melt or smell, but nothing seems to affect it. Any idea if this could be an odontocete or other tooth, or if it's man-made? Found in the Summerville area in a black-water river offshoot, where everything gets a black covering, but it doesn't normally peel like this. Have previously found odontocete teeth in the exact spot where I found this one. 16mm total length, "crown" is about 2mm thick. Thank you!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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