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From the album: Neutache Shoreline
My first non-ptychodus shark tooth. Unique shape on these 'Crow shark' teeth. 3/10/24 #VM1© CC BY-NC
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From the album: Neutache Shoreline
My smallest shark tooth to date. E Kansas. 4/5/24 #VM12© CC BY-NC
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From the album: Neutache Shoreline
More info about this remarkable specimen here: NOTE: I did not find this specimen, nor do I own it. I am posting this here on behalf of my colleague that found it. 2023© CC BY-NC
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Just curious on how long it takes for things to crystalize such as this little turtle I found in a creek somewhere north of Seneca, KS.
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Hi everybody! My name is Rachel. I joined awhile back, but this is my first post. @Bullsnake is my husband. After a lot of encouraging he finally convinced me to post. Even though it isn't fossil related, we spent the afternoon enjoying the partial eclipse from our locality. I will post pictures on @Missourian's thread "2024 Total Eclipse". Hopefully soon i can post pictures of our fossil hunts!
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Another hunt recently with more E KS ‘glacial’ material. Posting this on behalf of my hunting partner. My novice guess is equus, but I’m not sure. If it is equus, got any species ideas? Thank you so much, I really appreciate the help!
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Found in glacial deposits E Kansas. Originally I (naively) thought this was a shark dorsal fin spine- after a few minutes of research I found I was mistaken So, I now (fairly confidently) am believing this is a fish pectoral fin spine. I'm no expert on fish material, but one guess of mine is this is some sort of Catfish spine... but I don't know what other fish have pectoral fin spines. Any thoughts? As always, thank you- I appreciate the help Side note: used Paraloid B-72 to painstakingly piece back together Here is a in-situ shot (river gravel bed):
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I found this mandible last year, and have been trying to id it. I think it's squirrel, but I'm not sure. Difficult for me, since it's just a partial. If it is squirrel, genus/species ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Glacial deposits, E Kansas, USA Has no teeth. Missing lower and rear section of mandible.
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I found some interesting specimens as I was probing soft reddish colored Rock (sandstone?) that had been dumped in a field near my house Atchison Kansas. I could be wrong with my assumption is that it's from the nearby Missouri River. A handful of interesting observations pictured here but I'm not sure about. 1) The hard oozy substance on one rock. Is that amber? 2) the half dollar sized impression that looks like it's an Amber upon another rock. Could that be some kind of plant? 3) one rock has a thin black band across it. Wondering what ancient event might be known to cause that? 4) most interesting, I found a few Trilobite looking figures. From what I've dug into so far, looks like they might bea Carolina praying mantis oothecas. I have read that these can be hard, but they feel hard like the rock, or at least close to it. Nearby I did see s momome cotton-like material that look like it could be another stage of this creature. But then again it wasn't very thick and just a little bit of cotton material there. I have the suspicion that perhaps these were more ancient oothecas partially fossilized. But that was only a wild guess. Any insights into any of the above would be most welcome. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Anyone know what this might be? I think maybe a tooth of some kind.
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I found this last year, just now got to it. While I put fish fossil in the title, I don’t really have any ideas on this one. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Pleistocene Glacial material of eastern Kansas, USA. Measures roughly 21 mm long. Possibly vertebrae?
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Tooth Identified: Rare mega-marmot, Paenemarmota molar discovered
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Last month I posted an Id request for 3 molars, and two were identified as Peccary. Just to be clear, I personally did not find them, as I was requesting an id on behalf of others. The third tooth was left unidentified, and I was recommended by Shellseeker to contact a museum for help. If you would like to read the original post, and view photos, here it is: I eventually contacted the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and David Krause of their Paleontology department sent me this: ''Hi 'Jaybot' –– No worries. Thanks for getting back to me and for confirmation about the scale bar. The fact that your scale bar was in centimeters helps to confirm Kristen's (cc'd here) tentative identification that your tooth is that of a Plio-Pleistocene mega-marmot, the genus name of which is Paenemarmota. The largest species is Paenamarmota barbouri (close to modern beaver size) and your specimen seems to be in that approximate size range, although precise measurement is warranted. After Kristen's tentative ID, I reached out to one of our Research Associates here, Greg McDonald, who is another expert on Plio-Pleistocene mammals, who, in fact, has recently published on Paenemarmota (see attached file). He tentatively confirmed Kristen's identification and further identified it as a right lower third molar.'' Here is the paper he attached in the email: McDonald et al. - Paenemarmota from NM - 2022.pdf This is very interesting to me, and I figure that y'all might enjoy this as well. I would never have guessed mega-marmot I'll tag everyone in the original post so they can find this: @jpc@Danielb@Balance@Shellseeker@dries85@CDiggs@Harry Pristis Have a great day!
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Picked this up at a rock shop over the holidays. The label only said “Permian, Kansas”. Permian material is new to me. A bit of looking around and I came up with Cladodus occidentalis. Thoughts? The tooth is almost exactly 1 inch (2.54 cm) in max dimension. The perky box top is that size. There are striae on the primary blade. It has one to two cusps on the shoulders but I cannot discern whether they too are striated. The third photo is view is from the base up. The 4th photo is a C. occidentalis from the Oceans of Kansas website. Any help would be appreciated.
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We found this nice tooth on the Kaw River (Kansas) this past summer. Permian glacial material has been found there. When we found it, we assumed that it was from a camel. I’m not so sure anymore, as it has a stylid, and resembles a white tailed deer tooth we found, only much larger. Any ideas?
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Well, after a year of searching, I finally found my first trilobite! They are relatively rare in my area (KC), so I’m pretty ecstatic. Decided to take this prep nice and slow, here’s the bug how I found it: Rock is thankfully not really sticky, was able to spend 40 min on this yesterday: As you can see in the last photo, I used my chisel tip to scribe excess material from above where the head might be. I took it down as far as I was brave enough to do so, because I’m worried that the head might be curved upward. I’m no trilobite expert, so any premature guesses on the species? Update possibly coming tonight. Have a great weekend everyone! -Jay
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Hello y’all! Since my last brach prep thread, I have actually prepped another brachiopod that I intended to make this thread about, but it turns out that it had been crushed prior to fossilization. I decided that it wasn’t worth writing home for, so I present to you: Project Sticky! Here it is before any prep: Now, the name is self explanatory: the matrix is so sticky, it’s pulling off a layer of shell with every rock flake!!! You can see an area where it pulled off much more than everywhere else: I decided that while this one will be a rough brach, I might as well finish it. I’m still trying to learn, so really this is partially a practice prep. Anyways, here it is after a total of 40 min prepping: Still far from done. Aaand, when I went to hammer some of the excess matrix, this got exposed: Looks like this rock will have a double brach prep. Should make it look more eye-appealing when done. Anyways, I did all this yesterday, and it took about 1 1/2 hours. Didn’t take any pics, but I did paraloid the exposed parts of the main shell. Next update may come tonight, or tomorrow morning. Hope y’all enjoyed this, have a great day!
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Well, I’m stumped. Can’t find anything like it in my references. Was found in KC area, likely Pennsylvanian. Thank you so much in advance everyone!
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Hello all, I found a handful of fossils in the same general area in the sandy riverbeds of the Kansas River in Douglas County, Kansas, USA. I am new to finding fossils of this size so I don't really have any initial guesses. Looking forward to hearing what these might be although I realize a lot of these may be in too rough of shape for identification. The bone fragments in d and e have a different texture/color in the places where the darker surface layer has broken off. Does the dark surface layer indicate that it is fossilized or at least partially fossilized? I want to be sure I am able to distinguish fossilized bone from just old bones found in the same area. Thanks in advance.
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I recently came across a "Dolichorhynchops" tooth listed for sale by a US seller. However, I am unable to personally verify its identity due to my limited knowledge of polycotylid teeth. Based on the provided pictures, the tooth fossil exhibits a strong curvature and appears to have ornamentation solely on its lingual surface. Do these characteristics suggest that it belongs to Dolichorhynchops?
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Hey all. I recently purchased these associated pieces of mosasaur jaw from Kansas and was wondering if someone might be able to ID them. I have a few ideas as to what it might be but I’d like some second opinions. The only information I from the seller was that the specimen was from Phillips county and it was found in the Pierre Shale formation. There was also a small chunk of mosasaur jaw that I got for free as well (last two pictures), but I doubt that can be identified since it is in pretty rough shape. Let me know if I need more pictures and thanks in advance for any and all help.
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Found these on different sand banks along the Kansas (Kaw) River east of Lawrence. They are definitely fossils, and I believe they are some sort of tooth or molar, but I am no expert. Any ideas or positive ids appreciated! ps: this is my first post measured in metric in photos
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I think I finally did it. I think I may have found a Kansas trilobite.. by accident. We tried a few spots I'd found and just found a few things but my wife directed me to a closed road with significant road cuts. While it was getting dark and we could barely see I grabbed a few things using my phones light (need to get a proper flash light/lantern for next time). Back at home, looking at a larger piece I had mainly grabbed because of it's impressive limestone weathering, I discovered the below pygidia admixed with bryozoan fragments. I additionally think I found my first kansas crinoid spines and calyx fragment yesterday in a Pennsylvanian deposit (yes, I am jealous of you guys with intact crinoids). Could this be Ameura or Ditomopyge? Around 1 cm across. I know these probably aren't identifiable but these are my first (tens of thousands of crinoid stem segments and these are my first spines/caylix, no arm segments yet).
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Found in or near Ellis County, Kansas. No depth to it. I thought maybe a fish scale but doesn’t match “fish scale fossil” results in a search. thanks for looking
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Hi this is my second preparation project I’ve ever done, I also need some help identifying something. Original fish vertebrae Finished Original mosasaur vertebra, but might need help on ID Finished. Original, and finally my favorite. A Mosasaur jaw with mosasaur bone. Finished. here are the tools I used
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Back in April I did a four day trip hunting the Fort Hays Limestone and Blue Hill Shale along the Saline River in north-central Kansas. Had a blast! Always enjoy the alien looking giant septarian nodules of the BHS. Actually found a few cincretions containing well preserved rudists. (not pictured) Scored some incredible inoceramus stienkerns, photographed tons of ichnofossils, and after years of trying a near complete cremnoceramus and its matching stienkern! Most of the cremnos in the area are busted up into small pieces and coated with small oyster analogs. For reference: my hand at the knuckles is about 100 mm.
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