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Hi. Need some help with this one because I usually only collect shark teeth. I was at Big Brook in NJ and a came across this. I feel like it is something but I have no idea. Thank you in advance for any feedback.
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Found while digging in the badlands of Montana in Glendive, in the very corner of the Hell Creek formation we found this single flat piece. At first I only noticed the one hole in the front, but upon closer inspection I discovered a partial second hole above the first, and one side has a structure visible inside the bone. Just wondering if anyone has any clue what it could be! Thanks for any input in advance.
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Need help with this bone
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Hello again! I also found this yesterday It was weathering out of the ice age clay along the Yorkshire coast. Definitely rock and as I've cleaned the clay off it's resembling bone - but I'm a totes newbie, so it could well be a geologic quirk! What are your thoughts? Once again! Thank you for the advice! This forum is awesome.
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Another find from Helmsdale, Scotland (Jurassic). Looks kind of familiair but I wonder between some kind of fish bone or maybe turtle? Also there seems to be a tiny surprise next to the bone.
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Hello, This was found in Helmsdale, Scotland. Jurassic sediments. Tiny bone wich apears to be hollow (filled in sediment). What do you think?
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Hello - l just found this amongst the loose rocks on the beach. It's a small village on the coast of Yorkshire. And isn't accessible except by scaling the cliff or walking a few miles along the beach. The cliffs here are made of clay deposited during the last ice age clay - so they're a real mix of rock types. This block was pre broken. I saw some light shapes on the reverse and found these when I flipped it over. I want to believe these are vertebrae so bad! But I turn to the immense collective knowledge of the fossil forum What have I got here?
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Hi Bone Gang, So awhile back someone posted a picture of an unknown that looked similar to alot of bone pieces I have and that made me go back and take a look at a bunch of them even closer and a couple questions arose about one particular bone scrap. I was looking around for answers about it and ran into this recent book title and am considering getting it...may check it out thru one of the libraries....looks fascinating.. 1) Does anyone happen to have it/have used it and would recommend it? Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) 1st ed. 2016 Edition by Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo (Author), Peter Andrews (Author) So here's a quick pic of some of the types of plain old fairly small chunks of bone that are fairly common from around here in central Florida--Miocene/Pliocene/Pleistocene in age. The Florida folks see em quite a bit. Most are very dense and darker in color from our creeks/rivers ranging from brown/black to a creamy white at rarer inland locales and are heavily mineralized. Some show minor porosity and some have very distinctive longitudinal cracking and others very polished and smooth. Many are dugong rib fragments, probably at least the left 2 in this picture above and some may be from other land critters and be other skeletal parts. Occasionally you see bite marks and borings. There are other hunting areas where the bone fragment finds are more exclusively marine and its common to find other thinner flatter fragments that have more and wider areas of porous bone on the interiors, probably whale or other marine mammals. Here are 2 specimens showing their exterior weathering: Some longitudinal cracks and and an irregular rippling/undulating/uneven surface Some longitudinal cracks and exfoliation.. Here's the one specimen below that I am particularly curious about and looking for your thoughts as it exhibits a number of different features all on the same bone. Seems to pretty water worn and smooth overall, exfoliating a bit but does show some internal details in various places. Thinking it might be a dugong fragment although it doesnt show any characteristic banding in the end view and in one area seems very spongy/porous. Couple of general views showing the longitudinal grooves. A closeup of the dendritic like grooves/structures---maybe the vascular system between the pores? You can see some minor cracks/exfoliation also occuring in spots in the top and lower left.. A 2nd closeup showing a couple of grooves that seem to loop and overlap? Top back edge views showing a rounded now polished cancellous area. A back view showing a .5cm outer layer that has been broken away showing some internal porosity. An end view showing that same porosity. 2) I'm mostly wondering about the longitudinal grooves/lines and whether they are simply water worn/weathering of cracks in the bones or perhaps a polishing of the internal vascular bone feature, some bioerosion activity or maybe both or something else? 3) What do you think about those little grooves with the possible loop or two? Bioerosion? Welcome all explanations/ideas...maybe some simple weathering that I'm just trying to make more complex and am wondering about out loud! Thanks! Regards, Chris
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Hello! Help with identification please. Western Ukraine (Neogene or Cretaceus). Which bone it could be anf drom which animal? Thanks in advance!
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Hello! Today during a bath I found this bone: it was in the sea water near Gela, a city in the southern coast of Sicily. Near the place where I found it there are some little rivers, so, maybe it was a land animal’s bone. Can you help me with the identification? (Sorry for my English)
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Hi, I was given a big bucket of miscellaneous minerals from the rock shop. They’re nothing too special and nothing they can really sell. This piece is I found in the bottom of the bucket and it’s a little odd to me. Is this bone or petrified wood? It’s pretty solid and heavy. Are there any tests I could do to determine? Thank you all for the help
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Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any help or ideas. Earlier this summer my friend moved to South Dakota and purchased a home. A few days ago he was cleaning out a shed on the property and found a cardboard box filled with the fossils seen below. It is unknown if the prior owner had found these on the property or if they had been purchased elsewhere. So unfortunately he has no idea where or when these were originally found. Neither of us have much experience in this but obviously fossils such as these catch your attention! If anyone wants or needs additional pictures let me know and I will see if he can send more. I have included mostly pictures of the skull and teeth as I figured they would likely be most helpful for identification. It is assumed all these pieces belong together but it is possible it is just a random collection. The pictures in order are: skull facing front, skull bottom, skull side (close up), three different angles of the jaw/teeth, and then one pic of all the pieces together with a ruler to get a ballpark idea of sizing. Hope you guys enjoy the pics and hopefully someone out there has some guesses. Thanks!
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Any ideas? Out of the eagle ford of north Texas. 85-90 mya.
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So yesterday I was out looking for quartz in Mt Ida and happened across this interesting piece of fossil. Anyone have any ideas? I sifted through some pages online and didnt come up with anything that resembled it's relatively small size and pointed spine features on top.
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I recently got this lovely mess of bone, which is a mostly complete hadrosaur right humerus that only requires some assembling. I actually bought this with the idea that it might be a fun project. But then it broke even more in the shipping. So I have my work cut out for me. It's from Judith River formation, Montana. It's hard to tell at the moment, but it seems to be a rather slender humerus. So that would make it more likely to be from the saurolophinae subfamily. But I will look into that some more when I have it assembled. So I will be doing lots of reassembling on this piece as well as prepping away some excess matrix that's still present. Besides the obvious problems, the bone itself is actually in very nice condition with some really smooth cortical bone as well as some lovely visible muscle scars. This is how it looked when I first opened it. Quite a mess. Also a drawing of what it should look like in context. And here I have slightly ordered the pieces. There's 5 big main pieces, three medium pieces and a whole bunch of tiny chunks. One of the bigger pieces that includes the ulnar and radial condyles. The shaft of the bone has had a pretty bad recent fracture. This is also where most of the smaller pieces come from.
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Can anyone identify these as spinosaurus bones. Ive come across these pictures with very little information, other than apparently spinosaur bones from Morocco. I think the verts look clearly spinosaur, but I'm not very familiar with spinosaur long bones, although they immediately struck me as looking a little off. Maybe them being flattened is throwing me off. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for not just help learning spino long bones, but also while dealing with details like that, which can interfere with "standard" identification. In the 4th picture, the fossil on the bottom right--is that a vert with a long bone next to it? It's positioned like the sail of the vert, and seems to be attached to the vert but something about the bone looks wrong for part of the sail, to me...maybe that it looks like it's rounded along the length's edge, which I thought was not how they were shaped(if I'm wrong, I could also be just picturing dimetrodon sail spines...well, or just plain wrong, of course)? ...As well as looking just like the other long bones present. Thanks for any and all help!
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My family was given fossils from one of the Phosphate mines in Polk county many years ago and I just kind of inherited them. I know not much about them just the history of who when and where they came from.
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From the album: Holzmaden
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Hello! Help with id, please. Is it part of bone..? It was found in Western Ukraine, neogene or cretaceus. Thanks
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I found this on the bank of the Red Deer River in Alberta Canada. I have no idea what it's from. I have never found a fossilized bone before. Does anyone have any ideas? Not sure if it could be from a Dinosaur or a mammal like a young mammoth or something. I would love to get some ideas on this one. I am willing to answer any questions or take new photos if needed.
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I recently bought a box of fossils from @Bone Daddy that included a "grab bag" of items found in the Peace River. One of them is odd looking, at least to me. 6.5 cm long x 3.75 cm wide x 2 cm at its thickest. Its got enough curves & slopes that my camera wasn't sure where to focus & I have no photo stacking software, so please bear with me. Not sure if it's just really odd weathering or how this particular bone looks normally, but the under side has sort of ripples running the length of it, all joining at a "point". Pics are of the top, bottom, both sides & 2 of the butt end, 1 of which is a close up. No idea if this is anything special or not, but that's why I'm here. Awesome or dud, either way, it's mine & special for that. So now.. on with the pics. Not sure why 2 of them rotated, but..
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Hello! I found this on the beach while looking for sharks teeth. Any ideas on what it is?
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This is a find from Big Brook, NJ. Its about 15mm long and 10mm wide at the end. Could it be a salmonoid Jaw fragment? Like these http://www.njfossils.net/salmon.html
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These are some fossils that I couldn't quite identify while out looking around an area of land in the Nottoway river drainage today. The first appears to be some sort of bone, my guess is a vertebra potentially belonging to a crocodile, though I am very new to this and am quite possibly incorrect in this guess  Next up is a decent sized fragment of a shark tooth that I initially thought to be a young megalodon, but then wasn't quite so sure after noting the presence of what appears to be a slightly weathered cusp on the side of the tooth that is still present, alongside the fact that the tooth appears to have a slight curvature to it Any insight is well appreciated, thanks! 
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Given my location, North Central Indiana, is it likely that this is some type of fish skin? Or not skin at all? It
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