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Chinese Ichthyosaur Paddle Triassic
Lucid_Bot posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Howdy! I've seen this ichthyosaur paddle for sale for a while. I don't know enough to say that it's real. If it is, I'd love to have it. Geological information: Triassic Guanting Formation, Ghizhou, China. Any help is appreciated.
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Hi all found In sw Florida while diving just off shore by Venice. I’m guessing it’s a astragalus but what animal? thanks
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I just inherited these. All I know is that they came from the Clarno beds in central Oregon. The label says 40 million years old. The beds are Eocene. I am thinking they are from a large herbivore like a teleoceras. Possibly a tibia, tarsal and metatarsal but it is hard to find comparative references on the web. I'm hoping someone can offer some some insight on an ID.
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Hello everyone, got a wierd fossil here of which i have no clue what it is. Currently focusing on dino and reptile bones i am maybe a bit biased towards thinking this is a plate with ichtyosaur bones that needs some prepping. But it could also be burrows. Perhaps its not a fossil at all. at the back is something that looks a bit like a vertebra. But could also be something else. at the front it has a calcium vein which reminds me of the veins found in keichosaur skeletons. Maybe it because more prepping is needed but the bones are not very clear. there is no info where its from, the plate is 30 by 15 cm.
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I found this interesting bone and I'm just wondering if it's a fossil of some sort. I don't know a lot about bones so it way be a deer bone for all I know lol
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Greetings to all. Found broken pottery and numerous bones. In the past few years river bottom was esu avsted to increase the depth. On the shores I found numerous bones and pottery. Please help to identify.
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Hi everyone, this is my first post here, I recently found photos of a keichousaurus fossil, I would like your opinion on its authenticity or not. I know it's an extremely counterfeit type of fossil, so I'm a bit skeptical
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Hi everyone ! Can someone help to identify sommes bones from Morocco, kemkem ? I think it's croco bones and you ?
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Here's a few samples of things I've discovered while diving over the years. On the wall is an epoxy river table I created to display the teeth. On the shelf below it are my best finds from the Meg Ledge offshore in NC. The other pics are various pottery pieces, whale fossils, colonial era clay pipes, uncleaned teeth from NC, and various bones I never ID'd. Enjoy!
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Real pterodactyl? Or a cast? What to look at?
AlexamenosWHG posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello friends! So, this seller is, well, selling this pterodactyl fossil. You friends taught me how to identify trilobite fossil casts so I'm here with hopes you can help with this one. Thank you in advance!.thumb.jpg.4b7ff0f0b203e0090e7487bdb727f56c.jpg)
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Hello everyone ! I hope you're doing well ! first of all I apologize for my English I have to use a translator. Here I found an old box containing fossils from Kem Kem, in a flea market. There are a lot of spinosaur, crocodile and onchopristis teeth but there are a few pieces where I have a little doubt. Could you help me ?
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Hello everyone Please help me identify this bone. It was found in a layer of Cenomanian sediments of western Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak peninsula). According to the description of this area, there are fossils of plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and sharks of the Cretaceous period. There are a lot of finds from this place that I periodically post on my Instagram account. Later I found another fragment of the same bone, but twice as large and it was just fragments of something whole. I looked through almost the entire forum carefully, found nothing or was inattentive..
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Are these fossil Fish Rakers or mandible material in fish vomit? (Missouri)
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
Location: Missouri Age: Pennsylvanian Lithology: Muncie Creek Shale Hello! I am starting to officially dive into fish anatomy to better understand the nodules I had collected from several years ago. I saw this structure in one of my fish regurgitates and I was wondering if these were in line with gill rakers or some sort of piece from a mandible that got broken up a lot. I don't think it's teeth as they look too thin and rod-like, along with being spread apart. If these are indeed gill rakers I hear that these are good for species identification and classification but I do not know if that rings true on fossilized fish. If that is the case I may need to email the people I sent my braincase to 5 years ago. Let me know what you guys think! I always called these fish prey species A because their scales end up being present in a lot of fish regurgitation.
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Hello, if anyone could give me a general idea of what these are, that would be super helpful. Thanks so much & these are from east tn near the smoky mountains or Appalachia
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Hi, Yesterday I found an unusual rock at our local beach and I think it might be a fossil. The lighter parts are raised from rest of stone. But being a beach rock it is quite smooth and worn in general. The size is about 5.8cm by7.7cm by15.3 cm. Banana in photos for scale. I'll also include screen shots of GPS cords and satellite of exact location I found it. Thanks in advance!
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I'm curious if anyone has any good papers or resources for identifying bones such as vertebrae or teeth between the various Bison species. Here on TFF, I have seen the paper that @Harry Pristis has linked in other threads, which helps in identifying the skulls... but how can I identify other bones? How do online merchants, and other papers know that the specimen they are displaying is Bison priscus for example? I'm sure there is a paper somewhere, but I can't find anything. I'm hoping some of the experts here can refer me to some handy reference material Thanks in advance.
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Could anyone help me to identify these bones or provide any other information such as likely age? Found in the river in central Alberta
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I spent the day yesterday along Calvert Cliffs. It was a beautiful sunshine day and the water was crystal clear. I was pretty shocked at how many people were out on a Monday, normally there aren’t many people to talk to and it was a nice change. Even with so many people out and letting some kids pick some from my stash, I still managed to walk away with a decent take for the day. Bone fragsCoralShark teeth, ray plates, and miscWell worn dolphin tooth?shark vertebrae
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How do I know if this is bone or rock
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These pieces were found at an Estate Sale in Florida, Treasure Coast area. The woman said she collected these over the years. I have no idea what they could be. Any help would be appreciated. thanks!!
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Edit* Title changed to say shark skeletal elements ( previously said bones). This is an interesting topic that was brought up by my mentor and vertebrate paleontology professor during a lecture about a year ago. He mentioned that for some reason there seems to be a higher occurrence of shark bones and relative scarcity of teeth in the Astoria formation. That is the verbage he used. I am willing to bet this is some kind of collection bias where people just aren't recognizing the teeth as often as skeletal elements for some reason. I haven't been able to find information on Google scholar or really anywhere else that has provided information on depositional environments that would favor the preservation of shark skeletal elements over teeth, especially where there are plentiful well preserved invertebrate shells. Most of the fossils are locked in concretions or embedded in concrete-hard sandstone. There is intermittent softer sandstone and siltstone, but seems like most of the vertebrate and invertebrate fossils occur in the harder layers. This is something that has interested me as a research topic, but I haven't been able to make it out in awhile to do any collecting of my own. It would be interesting to set up a transect say from Newport to Lincoln City, take a group out and just collect fossils over a period of time across the transect to get an idea of fossil type, frequency, etc. And see if there really is something lending itself to a higher frequency of shark skeletal elements. On a side note it does seem like there is an usually high occurrence of young vertebrates such as pinnipeds and whales in the sections of the formation I've collected. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the matter as well as any additional insights you may be able to provide. What do you think?- 11 replies
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Does anybody else go to mines in the summertime because of the river levels are too high
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Hello all, I posted a tooth yesterday that you kindly identified for me, and I have a few more fossils that I found that I would really appreciate an identification on. All found on Zandmotor beach, The Netherlands. There are four specimens: 1 A bone with a hole in the middle, seems like a vertebrae(??). Any idea what fragment it really is and maybe what kind of animal it came from? Length: 2.5 cm 2 A bone that I would also like any information about, although it might be really hard to identify. - 4 cm 3 Small, flatter bone. - 4.5 cm 4 Are these petrified wood by any chance? They do feel like a rock and also sound like such when I gently hit them with another rock. There are 3 pieces in total that I have shared. - around 6 cm.
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