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From the album: French ammonites
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From the album: French ammonites
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From the album: French ammonites
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From the album: French ammonites
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From the album: French ammonites
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I bought this ammonite at the MAPS fossil show recently and I'm going to make a unique display for it. The old label that came with it is what caught my eye at first then I picked it up and held it up to the light. The calcite filled chambers are translucent and "glow" nicely when back-lighted. I have a few ideas on how to display this guy but would like some input. I will post pics to this thread when I have started to work on this so stay tuned. Thanks mikeymig
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https://www.popsci.com/butterfly-fossil-wing-color?dom=rss-default&src=syn https://www.sciencenews.org/article/colorful-moth-wings-date-back-dinosaur-era
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I took a walk over the fields yesterday in the Wutach area. The farmers are preparing their acres again, so it was time for a stroll. The sun was shining, so I didn't get all that much muck on my boots, but nevertheless, I'm having to vacuum the driver's side of the car today. There wasn't all that much worth keeping this time around, but I did hang onto this one. A Myophorella clavellata bivalve with a length of 8cm. They're not at all common in our area at this particular Bajocian stratigraphic level, so I was glad to have found my third and best preserved one in about 10 years. It's missing a bit from the end, as indicated in the second photo, but that's not so important. The second one is a recent gift from a friend who says he has enough of them, but I just can't say no to a nautilus, although I already have about 50 of them. It's just the very inner whorls of what probably had originally been a pretty large Cenoceras sp. from the Sinemurian, but I think it's pretty cute at 5cm. diameter.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-43652968 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5578443/Eight-tiny-fossilised-embryos-inside-180-million-year-old-ichthyosaur.html
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They keep finding great things on Skye! http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43620237
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Some cool findings from the Isle of Skye: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43620237
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I found this in Jura, Switzerland, near Courtedoux, about a kilometre from one of the sites where dinosaur tracks were discovered in 2002 (https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/dinosaur-traces-courtedoux.html). I was wondering whether it was a fossil of something, and if so of what?
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At over 4" across, this is the last few chambers of by far the largest diameter belemnite phragmocone I've ever seen. (If anyone has one from a Megateuthis, I'd love to see it! - they don't seem ever to be preserved.) Given to me by a friend, it is in a nodule from the Jet Rock (Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic) of Port Mulgrave, north Yorkshire coast. It must have belonged to an exceptionally large Acrocoelites trisulculosus which is probably the only belemnite to occur in this bed. It's a large species anyway - typical rostra of it are 5 - 7" long but about 9" has very rarely been recorded so a bit longer may be possible. Photo 6: Not having such a large Acrocoelites in my collection, I've done a conservative mock-up of it with a smallish (9") Megateuthis and another piece of phragmocone which is my second largest... A total length of 20 - 24" seems about right. Photo 7: For comparison , I have a complete but crushed example of A. trisulculosus about 12" long, the rostrum being 6.5". 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) This should probably be stretched more... 7) A normal size Acrocoelites trisulculosus with crushed phragmocone (the strange ridged structure on top of it is a crushed on-edge Harpoceras shell mouth)
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Hi - just introducing myself. I live in the UK , near London, luckily with family on the Jurassic coast of Dorset. Ive always been into fossils. My interest is in searching for reptile remains when down at Lyme Regis or paleosculpting things when im not there!
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Hi, We found this at Port Mulgrave today and are not sure what this is? Can anyone help? Sorry if this is obvious but we are new to fossils and do not have a lot of experience.
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Insect non det Upper Jurassic Daohugou Nei Mongol China -
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Decided to add some dye to this track for contrast. Was nervous but I think it came out okay!-
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Hi guys/gals, found this huge Nautilus this Saturday, still unprepped and I'm still in a bit of shock, once prepped I think it will be unreal... thanks, Alan.
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Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’ ( United Kingdom )
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’ Part #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okjpbpD_My0 Fake or Fossil? UV exposes plaster Part #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCss3BWohPI Dean R. Lomax - Life as a palaeontologis https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuR8gNE-GXYyiA8eE-5p2w A published paper about composites is: Massare, J.A. and Lomax, D.R., 2016. Composite skeletons of Ichthyosaurus in historic collections. Paludicola, 10, pp. 207-250. PDF file at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303932537_Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judy_Massare http://www.academia.edu/26087070/Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections http://brockport.academia.edu/JudyMassare “…we describe nearly complete skeletons of the Lower Jurassic genus Ichthyosaurus that are probably composites or that, at least, require further examination to assess their authenticity.” Yours, Paul H. -
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Salamander non det. Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation Hebei-
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Out hunting Jurassic coast yesterday, found this nodule containing what looks like the underside of a skull, symmetrical on both sides apart from one side is worn, if it is I was thinking croc or possibly Plesiosaur but it looks fish like to me, either way there is a lot of bone in there, any suggestions ? Thanks, Alan.