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Questions about Paleocene records of the Bird Asteriornis
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I'm researching bird fauna from the Danian Paleocene era recently and I have some questions about a particular bird, Asteriornis maastrichtensis. It was discovered in late 2019 in Maastrictian deposits of the Maastricht Formation, Cretaceous dating 66.8-66.7 Million Years ago in what is now Belgium and was pretty small in size, about the size of a small duck and weighed only 394 grams when alive. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2096-0 Asteriornis is the earliest confirmed Neognathae (a group of birds of which the majority of birds alive today belong to) and it's oldest remains date to just around One Million Years before the Cretaceous-Paleocene Astroid impact wiped out that last of the non-avian dinosaurs. I've seen a lot of people say that this bird species survived the Cretaceous-Paleocene Extinction event into the Paleocene. It's small size and diet of seeds make it a good candidate to have survived the event, but I haven't found any definitive records yet of Asteriornis from the early Paleocene. What I'm wondering is did Asteriornis survive the Cretaceous-Paleocene Mass Extinction Event 66 Million Years ago and are there any records of Asteriornis that date definitively to the Paleocene era? -
Hey, been a while, so i decided to start a new topic for the new year. Headed out on Thursday 25/01 to the river shores in Antwerp again. First hunt of the year since i've worked non-stop so far and a contractor is rebuilding our house.. It was great being out again so i was already pleased on beforehand, finding some nice teeth made it even better 😁 here's some in situ pics.. Rolled C. hastalis C. hastalis in excellent shape my first Parotodus benedeni ever, not in great shape but an awesome find anyway 😀 Finally a complete 6cm C. hastalis VID20240125131132.mp4 And some random mammal teeth Had a great first hunt of the year, and I already feel like going back! oh yeah, here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Surprised about how many different species i got covered this time 😄 Grtz, Dries
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Hello to everybody! I'm kinda new here, but before I start I must say I really love this forum! It has really great vibes and you instantly can tell that this is a good and friendly community! So, I am ziggycardon, I live in Belgium, close to the border of the Netherlands and when we start speaking geologically, I live on the same cretaceous sediments as where the first major Mosasaurus discoveries where done! Unfortunatly I have never been on a fossil hunt myself and everything currently in my collection was bought or given to me. But I hope to change that soon, as I am dying to go hunting myself. Maybe the Chalk sediments 3 km from my home would be a good place to start! For the rest, my job, my major hobby and my other main interest besides fossils are living animals. I currently work as the head of terrarium & aquarium in 3 different pet stores and I have quite a collection of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and tropic fish myself. In my spare time I often take my own living animals along with my fossils and other educational natural history material to schools so I can teach kids about nature and it's history and hidden mechanics. For the rest are my other hobbies mainly based around movies and televisions as I collect a lot of stuff drom my favorite franchises like "Lord or the Rings" & "The Hobbit", "Game of Thrones, "Pirates of the Caribbean", ... And I also attent a lot of comic cons and other events related to those franchises. But then this topic! In this topic I will show my collection of fossils (and also minerals, stones and meteorites) as it is right now and then I will highlight each group of fossils bit by bit. I am currently starting with a own specialized fossil room, so ofcourse the progress and end result will also be posted here! And ofcourse when something get's added to my collection, I'll show it here as well. Sometimes a photo of my "special" pets or taxidermy specimens might pop up, but this topic will mainly be about the fossil room and my fossil collection. For the rest, if you have any comments or questions about the collection or about me or about anything, feel free to ask! I'd love to reply!
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My Hunting trip to Eben Emael (Maastrichtian of Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, From now on I will post my hunting trip reports to Eben Emael as I often forget to make separate posts for them. I visit the Romontbos Quarry in Eben Emael multiple times a year with our fossil club, the BVP (Belgische vereniging voor Paleontologie). It's one of the last active locations that's still accessible in the Maastrichtian Type Location that allows hunting, and the quarry is only a 20 minute drive away for me, so that's ideal. DISCLAIMER: For all new fossil hunters: This location is off-limits for individual people! You cannot go hunt there on your own. The quarry is very strict and does not allow trespassing. This is an amazing location with great fossil finds, so I cannot stress it enough to not enter this place illegal as it could put a stop to fossil hunting for everyone here. If you want to go on a fossil hunt here, join the BVP! They are the only ones with permission to access the quarry, and they organize multiple excursions to the quarry each year under strict safety protocols. If we behave, and no one blows it by trespassing, we should be able to have access to this quarry until the year 2043. Now that's out of the way, let me introduce this amazing location which is my favorite place to hunt! The Romontbos quarry in Eben Emael is part of "Mount Saint Peter" which lies on the Dutch/Belgian border and is home to the so called Limburg/Liege chalk also know locally as "Limburgse mergel" which was often used as building blocks in the past which is why you can see serpulids, oysters and urchins in the stones of old buildings in the region. The quarry is located only a couple of km from the city of Maastricht and "Mount Saint Peter" is the location where one of the first biggest fossil discoveries has been made, a skull of Mosasaurus hoffmanni A.K.A "The Beast of Maastricht" back in around 1766. The layers of Eben-Emael are part of the Maastrichtian type locality dating back to around 70 - 66 million years ago, during that time this area of Belgium and the Netherlands was part of a shallow tropical sea. The layers in the quarry have a very rich fauna and floral list: You can find many bivalves (Acutostrean Agerostrea, Pinna, Neithea, ...), Gastropods, Brachiopods, Serpulids, Belemnites, Crustacean claws (Mesostylus faujasi), sea urchins (Hemipneustes striatoradiatus, ...) and shark teeth (Squalicorax, Pseudocorax, Palaeohypotodus, ...). For the microfossil lovers there is also oportunities to collect Bryozoans and Forarminifera There is also fish material like fish teeth and the odd scale or vertebra to be found, or if you are very lucky you can find fossils of one of the many species of Mosasaur and Sea Turtles that swam in this shallow sea. But also plant material can be found like Sea Grass (Thalassocharis) of which this quarry is one of the only places in the world where you can find sea grass. But also Conifer material has been found regulary at past excursions. Also known from this location and other localities in the Maastrichtian type locality but exceedingly rare are ammonites, crab carapaces, sawfish material, Elasmosaur material, dinosaur material (Betasuchus and Hadrosaurs), marine crocodile material and bird fossils. It is in this same quarry that "the wonder chicken" Asteriornis maastrichtensis and Janavis finalidens were found. Should you see me on one of the excursions, feel free to say hi and come for a talk! Also feel free to share your own fossils from your trips to Eben-Emael, the more the merrier!- 36 replies
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Fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (BE & LUX)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, Two months ago our fossil club the BVP (Belgische Vereniging voor Paleontologie) orginized a fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (Both in Belgium & the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) during the 13th & 14th april 2024. The first day we visited the Socogetra quarry in Sampont, Arlon, Gaume region, Luxembourg, Belgium. The layers in this quarry date back to the early Jurassic, the sinemurian to be exact, around 200 million years ago. While not an extremely rich quarry when it comes to fossils, potential finds are Bivalves like Pinnidae, Greslya, Cercomya and Cardinia. Currenly there was a temporary exposure where some Gastropods were to be found, which were my personal favorite finds in the quarry. Besides that there is a chance to find ammonites (though very rare) as well as sometimes shark teeth (even rarer) and Brittlestars (very rare). The most common finds are crinoïd stems. Day 1: Sampont, Belgium - 13 april 2024 We met in the morning at a forest road which led to the quarry where we met with the quarry owner who told us a bit about the quarry itself. I soon met with my friends Tom & Tineke who I hang out with most during our hunting trips, and we were joined by another girl called Anne who was new in our club but who decided to hang out with us the entire day. While the finds where sparse and not always of great quality we all did go home with some nice gastropods and lots of Crinoïd stems. But most important of all, we had a fun day with great weather and amazing company! Some people were lucky enough to have found some decent ammonites. This was the spot where we started and ended as it seems the best fossils were to be found here. Full of Crinoid stems and if you started sieving the sand you could find the gastropods. We first searched the surface. Lot's of pieces of Crinoïd stems on the sand. After doing some surface hunting we went to a higher level of the quarry. Here we found some bivalves (though not of great quality) as well as some partial ammonites, though other members managed to find complete ones. Partial weathered ammonite block with Bivalves Me & Tineke After finding not really much at the higher level we went back to our original spot but started sieving instead, it was then that we found some of the nicer gastropods. Cardinia sp.
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Het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen in Brussel heeft 1 van de grootste museumzalen ter wereld die volledig ingericht is aan dinosauriërs en vooral bekend is om hun grote collectie van iguanodons. Deze zijn in 1878 in een steenkoolmijn in Bernissart, België gevonden. Men heeft daarvan een 30-tal exemplaren. In die tijd dacht men dat de rechtopstaande houding correct was, tegenwoordig denken we dat ze zich op 4 poten voortbewogen. In Brussel blijven ze echter in rechtopstaande houding staan, omdat de botten te fragiel zijn geworden om de houding nog te veranderen. Verder zijn er talloze zalen met opgezette dieren en zijn er regelmatig tijdelijke exposities. Met hun grote collectie van zowel echte geraamtes als replica's is dit museum zeker een bezoek waard voor elke liefhebber.
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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Hi everyone! I acquired these in a batch of cow shark teeth from Antwerp, Belgium. I think they're symphyseal, but they're all incomplete so I'm not 100% sure. What do you all think? Any insight is greatly appreciated as always!
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Hi, I found this fossil in our basement and I remember that we were told as kids that it’s a mammoth tooth but now I don’t think so. It was found in Belgium I believe.
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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Hi everyone, I'd like to know your opinion on an item I found during a trip to a former (since turned into a museum) coal mine in Belgium, near the Liège (Luik) area. The coal that was mined there was created during the Westphalian. Massive amounts of waste from the mine were dumped out near it and fossils can be found there. Among this rubble I found an item that I suspect to be an imprint from a plant or tree but it could also be a pseudofossil as I have no idea how to properly id it. Any help on getting an id would be greatly appreciated! To be clear: the units on the ruler are millimeters and not centimeters. For this next image I held the item at an angle to get better lightning so the grooves are more clearly visible: Finally, the last image is the underside of the item, which is how must of the usual rubble at the mine looks: Thanks in advance!
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
