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Whether true ammonite or not
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Hi. I'm a new member. I love to collect different types of river stones but never found a true fossil. Recently I bought two supposedly ammonite fossils from a small shop at Manali, Himachal pradesh, India. Can anyone please help me identify whether they are true or fabricated?- 6 replies
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This small piece of fossil found while digging up under water during low tide , probably around 200 to 300 meters from the sea shore Near Gokarna India. Could anyone help finding what this is? VID-20231115-WA0003.mp4
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A newly published sauropod-related paper is now available online: Bajpai, S., Datta, D., Pandey, P., Ghosh, T., Kumar, K., and Bhattacharya, D., 2023. Fossils of the oldest diplodocoid dinosaur suggest India was a major centre for neosauropod radiation. Scientific Reports 13. 12680. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39759-2. The discovery of Tharosaurus constitutes the first occurrence of a diplodocoid from India and also the second record from India of a neosauropod (the other being fragmentary macronarian remains described by Moser et al. [2006]), filling yet another gap in understanding the early paleobiogeography of diplodocoids in the Middle Jurassic. Several months, I happened to learn that Rivera-Sylva and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (2020) described diplodocid remains collected from the Bathonian-Callovian age Otlaltepec Formation in east-central Mexico, and those remains constitute the oldest record of a diplodocoid from North America and demonstrate that eusauropods dispersed from South America into western North America by the Middle Jurassic. Therefore, Tharosaurus indicus demonstrates that the oldest diplodocoids originated in southern Gondwana while the remains described by Rivera-Sylva and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (2020) show that eusauropods immigrated to western North America from Gondwana by the beginning of the Middle Jurassic as North America began separating from South America. Moser, M., Mathur, U.B., Fürsich, F.T., Pandey, D.K., and Mathur, N., 2006. Oldest camarasauromorph sauropod (Dinosauria) discovered in the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of the Khadir Island, Kachchh, western India. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80 (1): 34-51. Rivera-Sylva, H. E., and Espinosa-Arrubarena, L., 2020, Remains of a diplodocid (Sauropoda: Flagellicaudata) from the Otlaltepec Formation Middle Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian) from Puebla, Mexico. Paleontologia Mexicana 9 (3): 145-150.
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Hi everyone! My son was curious about fossils in India, since we are visiting to see family. All of our knowledge about palaeontology is limited to North America, so India is completely unknown for us. I am aware of some Indian dinosaurs thanks to Prehistoric Planet and a local museum, and dinosaur egg finds published in local newspapers, but nothing else. I am pretty sure that India was once covered by a sea at some point in time, so maybe there are shells and ammonite beds in the country? If anyone can let me know about anything palaeontology related or fossil related in India, it would be greatly appreciated!
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From the album: My Echinoid Collection
Gongrochanus herscheliana Kallakurichi Formation Maastrichtian Age, Late Cretaceous (~70 Ma) Arialur, Tamil Nadu, India Acquired from online, July 2023 A fairly uncommon echinoid (and location), it's similarities to Hardouinia piqued my interest in the genus. The test has a rather unusual shape, it vaguely resembles the shape of a hard hat when viewed from the side.-
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A geode in the London NHM collection discovered to be titanosaur egg.
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It was in the minerals collection for 175 years before it was recognized. Might be another good reference for when "Is this an egg?" shows up in Fossil ID Statement from London NHM: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/titanosaur-dinosaur-egg-agate-museum-discovery.html -
Agatized dinosaur egg from India recognized in museum collection
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Sparkly Rock in Museum Turns Out to Be 60-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg In a remarkable find, a lustrous mineral formed inside a fossilized titanosaur egg. Gizmodo, Natural History Museum of London The first known dinosaur egg? A new discovery from the Museum's collection Josh Davis, Natural History Museum of London. Yours, Paul H. -
Ammonites as sacred objects, Shaligrams, India - podcast
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Ammonites as sacred objects, Shaligrams, India - podcast "Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers." The book is: Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas by Holly Waters. Amsterdam University Press, IBSN 9789463721721 Your, Paul H. -
Dickinsonia fossil discovered in India turns out to be bee hive remnant.
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https://www.iflscience.com/-fossil-that-rewrote-indian-geologic-history-is-actually-a-very-recent-beehive-67370 Original Dickinsonia article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X20303038 Tongue in cheek retraction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X23000254- 4 replies
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New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy (link to PLOS ONE) Franz Bernhard
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Hi, my name is Karthik and im a 11th grader living in India. In the past I used to go to Big Brook New Jersey to find shark teeth, hardrasaur teeth, etc. Currently, im now living in India, specifically the outskirts of Hyderabad. Theres a lot of farmland but thats about it. India was a subcontinent in the cretaceous times I believe so im sure theres no marine reptile fossils or anything like that. Would it be possible to find any fossils in the area or is that not possible. Next month I also am going to a place called Kakinada which has many beaches nearby (its right next to the ocean). Could there be marine reptile fossils there?
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I was going to classify my fossils according to period but I was having trouble figuring out when my coquina jasper from the Indian Himalayas should go. The Himalayas were underwater until India hit Asia around 40 million years ago but I've read that supposedly there are trilobite fragments in the stone (which would make it significantly older). However, most information about seems to be more focused on spirituality rather than science. Has anyone heard of any scientific research on the stones or the shells therein?
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From the BBC https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220113-why-indias-fossil-wealth-has-remained-hidden
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I found this fossil in the thar desert near jaisalmer india Is it a worm or corals or any other prehistoric marine creature I found this near akal fossil park , sam sand dunes Please help me identify it Moreover I also found a ammonite fossil near it.
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This Chennai girl is India's youngest paleontologist and she's collected 136 fossils in four years. We speak to Aswatha Biju, who embraced paleontology at the age of 10. Today, she delivers lectures on the subject to her peers and adults too Bidushi Das, Edex Live, India 12-Yo Chennai Girl With 79 Fossil Specimens Is India’s Youngest Palaeontologist! What started as a fascination for Aswatha Biju after seeing a picture of an ammonite fossil in encyclopedia soon turned into a passion that had no plans of dying done. The Better India. Yours, Paul H.
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I found many fossils recently while on a vacation. These were found on a beach in coastal Maharashtra, India. The beach was also full of banded agates and quartz. There are many more, but I didn't want to present too many and get confused. I think the red and white tubes and chips are agatized coral. The flat bigger pieces look like poor quality petoskey stones and the brown ring and tube looks line fossilized crinoid stem segments in mudstone. But I can be completely wrong about these. Please help me ID these finds 20210402_123443.heic 20210402_124651.heic 20210402_124555.heic 20210402_124523.heic 20210402_124922.heic 20210402_124523.heic 20210402_124922.heic 20210402_123306.heic 20210402_124651.heic 20210402_124555.heic
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Hi, recovered these from conglomerate horizon in jurassic strata near jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. My guess is they are osteoderm of some sort. Looking for some more educated opinions.
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Indian fossils support new hypothesis for origin of hoofed mammals Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology November 6, 2020, Indian Fossils Support New Hypothesis for Origin of the Horse, Rhino, and Tapir Yours, Paul H.
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Hello, This was found in Ariyalur, India, the deposits are Cretaceous age marine sedimentary deposits. The specimen itself appears to be some sort of branching coral, but I am unable to find any suitable references of collected specimens that look like this. It was found alongside ammonites, sea urchin fossils etc. I am a little puzzled by how "neat" it looks. I'm not looking for a specific identification necessarily, but a general pointer in the right direction would be appreciated. The piece is roughly 6 inches long/ 3-4 inches deep and has lots of interlocking "coral branches".
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I found these Jurassic fossils in the Jaisalmer Basin, Thar Desert, India. Belemnites (left), brachiopods of various sizes (center), ammonite fragments (top) & 3 small whole ammonites (lower right). Quarter coin shows scale.
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Split ammonite saligram from India
Roodahg posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I am taking time during the lock down to have a declutter and I came across this small ammonite in two halves I purchased in India some years ago. I have no clue about its authenticity but I seem to remember the seller telling me it came from a riverbed in Nepal. Let me know what you think, I believe it is a lovely little object - perhaps a paperweight if nothing else! It was bought in a not particularly touristic town in Karnataka state, in a shop selling religious artefacts - take from that what you will.