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From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
Unionoid mussels are very common in this riverine deposit. They preserve the original nacre and are iridescent. Because they are so fragile, and given they were preserved in a river, they are never complete.-
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Hello all. 👋 Looking for some advice. I have some hell creek fm dino bone I would like to clean up but it has spots of lichen and iron. I tested some hydrogen peroxide in a small area and it seemed to clean up the iron. My question is if it will react with the "bone" material. Maybe soak it in HP or even Iron Out? Been a while since I took chemistry so I'm not sure about the interactions. Also, what is the best way remove lichen? Thank you in advance.
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From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
Acheroraptor was a small theropod (dromaeosaurid) "raptor" that lived in the same paleo-ecosystem as T. rex. Its blade-like serrated teeth possess diagnostic apicobasal ridges.-
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From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
Gars are predatory fish, armored with diamond-shaped scales coated in a hard enamel-like substance. -
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Myledaphus (a guitarfish/ray) teeth are quite common, as expected for a riverine deposit. -
From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
Sections of ossified tendons from ornithischian dinosaurs. Especially in an energetic channel environment, these fragile structures are broken into pieces. You’ll notice the surfaces and ends of several of these are rounded from river transport prior to final deposition. -
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A fragmented piece of fiery orange amber. Most amber from the HCF is quite small, this one was only a few mm in diameter -
T. rex or Nanotyrannus tooth?
Tressmeister posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, I am trying to identify if this is a T. rex tooth. It's described as "natural juvenile Tyrannosaurus tooth". Location: Hell Creek Formation, Montana. Dimensions: Height: 4.3 cm Width: 3.8 cm I've read this awesome post by troodon, and I'm leaning towards T. rex ("fat" and rounded tip) - but looking forward to seeing your opinions as well. Thanks and have an awesome day ahead!- 25 replies
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From the album: Hell Creek Formation Microsite
A large hadrosaurid (Edmontosaurus annectens) dentary tooth, recovered from a channel deposit in Montana.-
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Cartoon illustrating differences between lepisosteid and other holostean ganoid scales.-
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ah so hello friends its been a while I recently bought and found a whole bunch of fossils
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I do have more, but I can't upload them all; it's a decent bit of stuff. Also, I want to know if I should give any to researchers. Most of these are either from the Morrison Formation or Hell Creek. also 1 is from NY in these few anyway- 20 replies
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Sellers says this is a Trex vert from the Hell Creek Formation. Any way to tell the difference between a Trex and a Herbivore? @jpc @hadrosauridae
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Distinguishing Borealosuchus and Brachychampsa teeth
Othniel C. Marsh posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Is there actually any means of distinguishing Brachychampsa and Borealosuchus teeth, particularly those from the Hell Creek Formation? Insofar as I can see Brachychampsa teeth tend to more globular than those of Borealosuchus, but I have noticed that some Brachychampsa teeth, particularly those closer to the back of the jaw, can be quite elongate, so is there an identifying feature besides shape?- 2 replies
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Hello,everyone. May I know what dinosaur species this claw belongs to? Ornithomimus or Dromaeosaurid? It comes from the HellCreek Formation. Thank you!
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Hello does this look like ankylosaur armor? Seller says it's from Hell Creek @jpc @Dino Dad 81 @hadrosauridae
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From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
Tyrannosaurus rex Hell Creek Fm., Garfield Co., MT, USA This is from the right maxilla of a juvenile individual (note the lingual wear). Art by RJ Palmer- 1 comment
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A small Acheroraptor tooth with diagnostic longitudinal ridges. Found in a channel deposit.-
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Found in Garfield Montana Unsure if this is a foot or hand claw even after reading Troodons guide multiple times. I want to know if it's foot or hand What digit If it's a Dromaeosaur Thank you!
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During my trip to the Hell creek formation of South Dakota last year, I found this large rib weathering out of a hillside ("cliff side" is a better description). I jacketed what was still in situ, and collected all the surface float at the site, and at the bottom of the cliff it was in. The length in the jacket was 32 inches. Can't determine which species this rib belongs to, most likely from Edmontosaurus or Triceratops, but it will have to remain indeterminant. After removing the excess matrix in the jacket, I discovered that the rib was far more fractured than I thought. Because the rib ended up being pinched by the jacket, I had to remove it in sections instead of a single piece. That worked out for the best anyway, for prepping it in my blast box. I have 40 hours into the removal and gross cleaning of the sections. Another 10 hours and still counting for separating all the breaks and cleaning out all the matrix in between bits so that everything can be reassembled properly. It looks like the rib has a healed fracture, but of course, one of the modern breaks goes through the remodeled bone. The jacketed portion looks to be the main shaft of the rib, only missing a few centimeters of the distal tip, based on the the end has thinned and flattened. The collected float should be the majority of the head, but reconstruction of that will be much harder. I wish I had a cast of a complete rib head to correlate the bits of float to their original position.
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From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
A pile of hundreds of small Myledaphus teeth, recovered from a channel deposit in Montana.-
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Hi, thoughts on this? The base looks Rexy, but the tooth is quite thin rather than fat, so I am thinking it might be Nano, not Rex? Any thoughts would be great. 1.2 inches, from Powder Rivery County, Hell Creek
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Hello, I am interested in this. A Ilium bone from south Dakota. 23 x 10 x 5 cm. Is anyone able to tell that it is a Pachycephalosaur or is it a different dinosaur? thanks
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Howdy all, I've had this salamander vertebra from the Hell Creek Formation for quite some time now, and I was wondering if there would be any way to place an ID. (I've been told it could be either Scapherpeton tectum or Habrosaurus dilatus)
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Is this a Triceratops Partial Horn? If so is it nasal or brown? Hell Creek Formation South Dakota 10 inches long
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From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
This rare theropod tooth was found via screen washing matrix from a channel deposit. It's large for the species and from the front of the jaw. All of the denticles are intact - a spectacular specimen. Pectinodon (meaning "comb-tooth") is a tooth taxon, since no remains attributable to the genus beyond teeth have been found. Pectinodon seems to be a rare member of the Hell Creek fauna, with their teeth being fairly uncommon (though being so small, I'd guess that few people actively search for them). It was a small Troodontid theropod, with teeth that couldn't handle stresses as well as their Dromaeosaurid and Tyrannosaurid cousins (Torices et al. (2018)). This coupled with their small size suggest that Pectinodon was a small/soft prey specialist, preferring the rodent-sized mammals of the time, lizards, insects, etc. Some researchers have proposed omnivory as a possibility for Troodontids (cf. Holtz et al. (1998)). Troodontids famously are regarded as among the most intelligent dinosaurs for their large brain size / body size ratio. This notion serves as fodder for speculation that had the dinosaurs not gone extinct, Troodontids (Pectinodon being (one of?) the last) would have continued to grow in intelligence and develop sentience and civilizations. Troodontid teeth like Pectinodon can be easily identified by their small size, exaggerated, triangular, apically oriented posterior serrations.- 1 comment
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