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My new neighbor (mile away but still the closest) rented an end loader and volunteered to move two of my biggest rocks! Both safe in my collection. And even better, went up the side of the wash about eight feet and found tracks. Could be the edge of the undisturbed fossil layer.
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8’ long, 32” wide. Excellent sets of tracks. Need a backhoe to move this one. Late in the day so pics are a bit shaded, sorry.
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Found this yesterday. It was a bit out of the water flow so it hasn’t been eroded much. Nice distinct prints.
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Nicely defined toes with claws. I guess you could call them sandy claws. Catch me at your local comedy club! Second picture is taken under a rock I’ve tunneled underneath but I have no idea what the print is from. It’s about 2”.
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One summer, tons of sand and rock and twelve pairs of gloves later. Should have just moved the house to the fossils.
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Found a nice set of front and rear, left and right chirotherium prints. Couple pictures of what the site looks like - I move one and hit two more. Currently have over 100 rocks with footprints.
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The first picture is a Rotodactylus that has all five toes. The little one at the bottom center is sort of oval shaped and sticks out an angle. Second picture I have no idea. The print on the far right center looks like it has stubby little toes.
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Found this rock with some nicely defined footprints. The first two pictures are of the same print - has a great impression of the ball of the foot.
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This rock has a nice variety of prints with varying number of toes. The bottom center has two toes, the left has three. The upper right is a very distinct print but I can’t tell if there is is a fourth toe to the right of the three long ones.
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Here are some closeups with scale (inches). It looks to me like there are some two toe and some three toe prints u
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The first picture looks like a different print than what I’ve found before - the toes are much wider spread than the chirotherium and there seems to be only three toes, not four. The second picture shows an interesting pattern in the rock. The third has front and rear prints.
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The rock I recovered today has a new type of footprint I haven’t seen before (first picture) as well as a couple of nice chirotherium.
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Over 30 big slabs recovered now. Found a nice one with three Chirotherium strides - front and rear feet.
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Hello every one, Found this on the beach while gossil hunting. Can any one please tell me if they are prints? Thanks, Mike
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Grallator tracks
PrehistoricWonders posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints
Owl_Roker posted a topic in Fossil News
Hello Fossil Friends, You might have already known or been aware, but I came across this in the news today and thought I’d share it with you. I note that these fossils are not a recent discovery—most just had not been scientifically described, hence the recent publication. ******************** Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus—now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The discovery came in University of Queensland research, led by paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio, which analyzed southern Queensland dinosaur footprint fossils dated to the latter part of the Jurassic Period, between 165 and 151 million-years-ago. "I've always wondered, where were Australia's big carnivorous dinosaurs?" Dr. Romilio said. "But I think we've found them, right here in Queensland. The specimens of these gigantic dinosaurs were not fossilized bones, which are the sorts of things that are typically housed at museums. Rather, we looked at footprints, which—in Australia—are much more abundant." He explains, "These tracks were made by dinosaurs walking through the swamp-forests that once occupied much of the landscape of what is now southern Queensland." Most of the tracks used in the study belong to theropods, the same group of dinosaurs that includes Australovenator, Velociraptor, and their modern-day descendants, birds. Dr. Romilio said these were clearly not bird tracks. "Most of these footprints are around 50 to 60 centimeters in length, with some of the really huge tracks measuring nearly 80 centimeters," he said. "We estimate these tracks were made by large-bodied carnivorous dinosaurs, some of which were up to three meters high at the hips and probably around 10 meters long. To put that into perspective, T. rex got to about 3.25 meters at the hips and attained lengths of 12 to 13 meters long, but it didn't appear until 90 million years after our Queensland giants." He says, "The Queensland tracks were probably made by giant carnosaurs—the group that includes the Allosaurus. At the time, these were probably some of the largest predatory dinosaurs on the planet." Despite the study providing important new insights into Australia's natural heritage, the fossils are not a recent discovery. "The tracks have been known for more than half a century," Dr. Romilio said. "They were discovered in the ceilings of underground coal mines from Rosewood near Ipswich, and Oakey just north of Toowoomba, back in the 1950s and 1960s." Most, he said, hadn't been scientifically described, and were left for decades in museum drawers waiting to be re-discovered. "Finding these fossils has been our way of tracking down the creatures from Australia's Jurassic Park." Source: Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints ******************** Below are a few links to related news articles: Tracking Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaurs From Australia’s Jurassic Park Footprints reveal giant carnivorous dinosaurs the length of a bus wandered Australia And, if you’re interested in reading the research paper, which has been published in Historical Biology, the information is as follows: Anthony Romilio et al. Footprints of large theropod dinosaurs in the Middle–Upper Jurassic (lower Callovian–lower Tithonian) Walloon Coal Measures of southern Queensland, Australia., Historical Biology (2020). DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1772252 Thanks, Robert -
Mososaur jaw, grasshopper + footprints
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Hello everyone! Being the type of person I am with I won the following items at an online auction. These include the following (hopefully real) items: - Two Mososaur jaws, one with significant restoration - A fossil grasshopper - Ampibian footprints If possible, please help me understand whether any of these are real or if elements of them are. Further images will be provided in replies to this topic. Let me know if you require new pictures to get a better judgement. Thanks in advance for any help! All items Mososaur jaw #1 - front view. Claimed to be a lower jaw section of Mosasaur Prognathodon from Khouribga, Morocco. 19cm (7 1/2"). Mososaur jaw #1 - back view. Significant work done to restore the jaw or combine multiple pieces.Mososaur jaw #1 - top view Close-up flash shot of tooth (?) coming through- 8 replies
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Amazing new Fossil find!!! or just another interesting rock :-)
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LOCATION Turon River, Hillend, NSW, Australia GEOLOGY I don't know how to find this, the rock has quartz in it, I would appreciate a link or further reading if you have any. FORMATION Grey with shiny quartz particles ASSEMBLAGE No other fossils observed at this site, it was found next to a fresh water river that had recently had a flush of water through it. It may have washed down from another site. DISCOVERY It was loose beside the river beside a rock I was sitting on, I looked down and saw this rock and thought "that looks interesting" CHARACTERISTICS I think it is a trace fossil of seeds and footprints. The "seeds" are the same shape with a slit in the middle of the shapes. The seed shapes are smooth on the surface beside the splits. They measure 8 mm x 12 mm. There are also shapes that look like trace footprints with three toes. These are all a similar size of about 8 mm to the middle "toe" and 8 mm wide. What confuses me is they are all over the rock top and bottom and sides. The whole rock is 23 cm x 14 cm and is 6 cm thick. The pics show Side A Side B Close up Close up- 6 replies
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Footprints of early Pterosaurs showed that they were good walkers
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An article describes some rare finds of non-pterodactyloid pterosaur footprints. It was thought that earlier Pterosaurs (long tailed Pterosaurs) were poor walkers since footprints of these early Pterosaurs were rarely found compared to some later Pterosaur. However these new discoveries have shown that the earlier Pterosaurs were quadruple and had five toes on their hind feet (compared to four for the later Pterosaurs), and the researchers believe that this is evidence that they were also good walkers and not clumsy on the ground. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/footprint-find-could-be-a-holy-grail-of-pterosaur-research/- 2 replies
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Back in 1989 I stopped at a rock shop outside of Parrsboro NS along the Bay of Fundy and bought a couple of fossils. Unfortunately I didn't much information with them and I'm hoping you guys might be helpful in some IDs. One was labeled as "Dinosaur" footprint Batrachopus sp. Jurassic Period 180 million years old from New Jersey. Can anyone verify this one. Also, there are two other ichno foot prints from the Parrsborro area, one of which I was told was an amphibian footprint and the other a set of turtle footprints. The gentleman did fossil in areas along the Bay of Fundy. If anyone can verify this information and possible identify the footprints and the geologic formation, that would be great.
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