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This is the second one, two pieces which look to be the same type
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Hello all, i recently purchased a group of Hjoula, Lebanon fish fossils that came unidentified. I tried searching them up but couldn’t match any of them. Any help in ID’ing their genera would be greatly appreciated. I will upload each in its separate thread. Here is the first one Thank you
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Question about dark fish fossils
Clay man posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi all In trying to build my collection(and knowledge), I am seeing one site in particular is selling fish fossils that does not really seem to be high quality, but it does look coloured. Especially one insect fossil looks quite badly drawn on. I own a few fossil fish and they all look sort of natural, these ones are particularly dark without a lot of fine detail. Is there a method where the fossil gets coloured in order to bring it out, or should I steer clear? I do prefer to pay more for a higher quality fossil that looks natural. Thanks guys. -
A few more Riker mount displays with macro specimens from the Miocene of Virginia
MarcoSr posted a topic in Member Collections
Below are some more of my macro fossils that I’ve recently put in 16”X12” Riker mount displays. All of the specimens in these displays come from the Miocene of Virginia. The first display with shark/ray specimens, the second display with bony fish specimens, the third display with marine mammal specimens and the last display with reptile specimens. I'm getting some more Riker mount displays Saturday and I'll post some more displays with more of my macro specimens from the Miocene of Virginia. To see a previous post with Riker mount displays with macro specimens from the Paleocene Aquia Formation of Maryland and the Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia check out the below link: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/101415-a-few-riker-mounts-with-specimens-from-the-aquia-formation-of-maryland-and-the-nanjemoy-formation-of-virginia/ To see a previous post with Riker mount displays with macro specimens from the Miocene Round Mountain Silt Formation of California, the Eocene/Oligocene Chadron/Brule Formations of Nebraska, and the Miocene of Virginia check out the below link: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/101441-a-few-more-riker-mount-displays-with-macro-specimens-from-the-round-mountain-silt-formation-of-california-the-chadronbrule-formations-of-nebraska-and-the-miocene-of-virginia/ Display with shark/ray specimens. The top of the display has shark vertebrae. Then there are Otodus megalodon teeth (for size reference the largest megalodon is 4.75” and the smallest is .625”). Then there are some Hemipristis serra shark teeth. The bottom has two eagle ray barbs and pieces of eagle ray dental plates. Display with bony fish specimens. The top of the display has bony fish vertebrae with a Wahoo jaw (6.5” long for size reference), a hypural fan, several bill fish bills and two small fish jaws. Then the middle has lots of fish jaws with some black drum jaws on the far left and most of the other jaws to the right being red drum. The bottom has ocean going sun fish bones including three jaws and there are some more bony fish vertebrae on the far right. Displays with marine mammal specimens. The top and middle of the display has Cetacean bulla and periotic ear bones (for size reference the largest is 3“). The bottom left has Cetacean vertebrae, flipper bones and two small jaw fragments. The right contains Cetacean teeth. Display with reptile specimens. The very top has two coprolites most likely crocodile. Then some crocodile jaw pieces with a number of crocodile teeth and a crocodile scute (for size reference 4.5” by 3.25”) on the far right. The bottom has turtle caprice/plastron pieces and a good number of leatherback turtle carapace bones. Marco Sr.
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Age: Eocene Aprox. 40 million years ago. Location: Western Washington Puget Sound area. First two photos have bad lighting but are just to show size. Second photos have higher quality. I believe this is a tooth. This trip I pulled out a shark tooth as well today (last photo) however this is more round than the usual shark tooth. I suspect fish or reptile but wanted further confirmation. If anyone has any ideas, they are welcome to comment
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Here are some fish vertebrae from the Isle of Sheppey, UK, which I would like to trade. They are from the London clay (Eocene aged). I have collected on the Isle of Sheppey a few times and have never found any fish fossils anywhere near as good as this. I am interested in anything from the upper Carboniferous of the UK or the USA, or Dinosaur teeth from any location. Thanks, Daniel
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Here are some of the fish fossils I have found, the first picture are some bones that I was hesitant to call fossils at first because they where scattered on top of a pile, but after find several other clay pockets ful of these I feel pretty good about them being gar fossils. Can anyone confirm, the internet is not being super helpful on this one? The next two are encased in a calcite geode i picked up while picking through the overburden, I didn't even see the imprints until i had washed it at home. Any ideas of what they are? From what i can barely tell, there are more in the geode, just not in convenient positions, and i don't want to break it to find them, a bird in the hand kinda deal.
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Over the past year, I've become fascinated with the often bizarre fish and sharks of the Pennsylvanian. Fortunately, my home state of Illinois is a great place to hunt for such fossils. I've shared several of these in other posts before, but wanted to put everything together in one thread. Probably won't have much to post for a few months after this, but once summer rolls around, I should hopefully have plenty of new finds to share. I would say there are three major settings in which you can find fish fossils in Illinois: Mazon Creek, black shales, and limestone. I have not had luck at Mazon Creek yet, but hopefully that will change. So I'll start out with the black shales. These specimens, my first fish fossils, were collected in August 2019 from the Mecca Quarry Shale exposed at a clay quarry in Utica, IL. This shale directly overlies the Francis Creek Shale (i.e. Mazon Creek) at this location. The three specimens below are stomach ejecta from some kind of fish, and are composed mostly of partially digested fish scales. In addition, I found this very nice pair of associated acanthodian fin spines. The top fin has an area showing damage, possibly due to predation.
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Hello together, there is a type of fossil from kem kem I have seen several times now under different descriptions in the net: It is either called a pterosaur wing claw, or an undescribed pharyngeal fish tooth. At least to my eye they look like the same structure. The number of specimens lets me think its rather fish than pterosaur, but I´d like to hear your opinions please. Here is an example: Thanks, J
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Some of my latest finds from the Wealden strata of Sussex (135 MYA approx). Bexhill and Hastings. Hope collecting is going well for everyone. Quite rare and a very nice specimen of a Sauropod pes fossil footcast. 20cm. Nice curved gaff claw toe.Lateral view.
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Hi there, Could you please help me identify this fossil fish? It’s from the Vallecillo formation in northeast Mexico. Late Cretaceous. The fish is approximately 93 cms long and the head is 32 cms long which I found as a strange proportion. It lacks of vertebrae. I’m clueless with this one.
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Anyone knows the name and age of this fossil? Overall size about 22X16 cmX5 Recently purchased in Taiwan
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Help request! I am putting together a tool for judging rock age based on very crude, whole-rock, hand-sample observations of fossil faunas/floras -- the types of observations a child or beginner could successfully make. I view this as a complement to the very fine, species-level identifications commonly employed as index fossils for individual stages, biozones, etc. In this initial framework, vibrant orange indicates times in earth history to commonly observe the item of interest; paler orange indicates times in earth history to less commonly observe the item of interest. White indicates very little to no practical probability of observing the item of interest. Please keep in mind that the listed indicators are things like "conspicuous horn corals," purposefully declining to address rare encounters with groups of low preservation potential etc. Got additions/amendments? Toss them in the comments below! Thank you for your insight and assistance..... -
Hi there! Now that Christmas and New Year's are done, I'm trying to continue organizing and labeling my fossils before I head back to work on Monday. I'm hoping I can get some help from you regarding the identities of 2 specimens: Specimen #1: a brachiopod from the Miocene (Burdigalian) of Sesimbra, Portugal: Specimen #2: two fish from the Eocene Green River Formation of Kemmerer, Wyoming: (fish on the left:) (fish on the right:) Thanks in advance for your help! Monica
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So, apparently I started an account on this site back in 2015 but never posted anything. Not sure why? I guess I was in college and working and didn't have time to post. Anyway. I'm here and definitely want to start posting about my own collection and whatnot. I am still and always have been into fossils and really anything science. Biology and comparative anatomy was my first love. I do have some questions about some of my fossils and want to share my enthusiasm for paleontology. Thanks
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Greetings, I recently bought a fossil vertebra from a moroccan seller who claimed it was a Plesiosaurus vertebra, and through I did not believe him I made a deal with him and I got the fossil for a cheap price. My guess it that it belongs to an Otodus chark or an Enchodus fish, is a quite big vertebrae anyway... What do you think? Thank you very much in advance.
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Parasemionotus labordei Priem, 1924 Lower Triassic Dienerian Ambilobe Madagascar
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Pteronisculus cicatrosus WHITE, 1933 Triassic Sakamena Formation Ambilobe Antsiranana Province Diana Region Madagascar- 1 comment
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Australosomus merlei Piveteau, 1934 Lower Triassic Dienerian Sakamena Formation Ambilobe Madagascar
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Tharsis dubius Tithonian ,upper Jurrassic ,Solnhofen, Eichstätt, Germany
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I was wondering if a complete or fairly complete placoderm skull/head has ever been found at Arkona? I am just curious as what this would look like, and because I have a few placoderm bits and pieces myself, pictures of such a fossil could possibly help me to figure out where these pieces came from. (This is mostly out of curiosity though because I know small placoderm bits are basically impossible to identify)
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This fossil is present on a block containing what seem to be Elonichthys scales. I found it in the coal measures of Fife (Scotland). Am I correct to think this is a fish jaw? Thanks, Daniel
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