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Stumbled across this nice smoky quartz cluster in a Lower Carboniferous amygdaloidal lava flow over the weekend that outcrops on a hillside just out of town while prospecting for fossils. Most vugs in this formation are filled with calcite but they sometimes go to quartz, mostly clear but sometimes smoky or amethyst with nice big crystals if they had the space. Whole specimen just under 10cm across.
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Hi Everyone, I found this fossil in Bearreraig Bay, Skye, Scotland. The fossil is quite heavy for its size which im guesing is because of the stone that surrounds most of it. The specimen is about 10 cm tall and the top is just over 2 cm wide. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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From the album: Bobby’s ammonites
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Hi experts, my daughter is going through a Dinosaur phase so i took her to Kingsbarns beach in fife, Scotland to hunt for fossils. Alas we did not find a an intact tyrannosaurus or a complete fish fossil, however we did pick up a couple of potentially interesting rocks. I would be most grateful if you could advise what they are. The first one (2 photos) we hope might be a tooth and the 2nd possibly a fern root (i did a wee google,). Thanking you in advance for your time and knowledge, the forum is a wonderful resource, thanks for sharing, regards Scott.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6078665/First-dinosaur-footprints-mainland-Scotland-left-Long-necked-sauropods.html https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-dinosaur-footprints-are-first-evidence-of-prehistoric-beasts-on-scottish-mainland_uk_5b7ac640e4b018b93e95fd96?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cDovL2MubmV3c25vdy5jby51ay9BLzk1MDk4Nzc5MT8tMTcwMTI6MzE3Nw&guce_referrer_cs=IiuhhI65aC5Eez4WyhZbfg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-45246169
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Hi, I found these while pulling apart loose shale eroding from the rockface at the Lady's Walk Shale, Scotland. Be interested for any thoughts...! Can upload better pics if needed.
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Fossil Hunting, North Dakota and Scotland's Isle of Skye
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Isle of Skye, Scotland Fossil hunting on Scotland's Isle of Skye – the "real Jurassic Park" CBS NEWS, June 21, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dinosaur-fossil-hunting-in-scotland-real-jurassic-park-isle-of-skye/ Dickinson, North Dakota Public has fun in the dirt at public fossil dig in Dickinson, North Dakota. By: Steve Kirch, My ND Now, Jun 23, 2018 https://www.myndnow.com/news/dickinson-news/public-has-fun-in-the-dirt-at-public-fossil-dig-in-dickinson/1257277888 North Dakota Geological Survey Paleontology 2018 Fossil Digs https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndfossil/digs/ Fossils in North Dakota (FIND) Newsletter https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndfossil/kids/ Yours, Paul H.-
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On the last day of our Scotland tour we were in Glasgow so naturally I had to check out the Hunterian Museum located within the University of Glasgow and Fossil Grove in Victoria Park. The museum isn’t just a natural history museum but it had quite an impressive collection of smaller fossils (it’s not a large museum at all). Fossil Grove was very interesting, though I wish it was a bit bigger and had a couple of souvenirs we could have purchased. I think I spent maybe 10 minutes in the building, which was cool and damp and a nice respite from the heat that was building up outside. It was fun to imagine the whole city once being covered by these trees and the giant creepy crawlies that would have inhabited the forest.
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Total amature here. Found this unusual stone in a local field in The Scottish central belt area near a river. It is a heavy stone with weird curves on either side and a sort of glaze on these side surfaces. Seems a bit weird and unlike any stones I have seen in the area. It is reasonably symmetrical but not 100% - but wondering if some of that could be down to erosion . The outer side has a few unusual small pits. Interested to hear any opinions. Fully prepared to just go back to my day job. :-)
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Hi, everyone! Got a strange one for you and would appreciate any helpful advice! Found in a cave in Scotland. Would have normally considered it a cranial fragment due to the rough texture on the flat side, but the strange, raised honeycomb/chain pattern on the other side is throwing me off. Not necessarily versed in fossils so figured this would be the place to go just to check for that. Photo is a bit misleading, btw - it’s a dark brown colour. Sorry for the lack of photo scale, used a 1p coin which was all I had on me.
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Scotland has a lot to offer including good Scotch but when it comes to dinosaurs it's close to the bottom of that scotch barrel. The attached article reviews the meager and extremely rare middle Jurassic remains that exist. The Isle of Skye is the only place that have produced these remains. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/2/53/htm
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60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Ejecta Discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye
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Alien Minerals Discovered at Ancient Meteorite Strike Site in Scotland by Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2017 http://www.newsweek.com/skye-meteorites-alien-mineral-749103 60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Zone Discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, Sci News, December 15, 2017 http://www.sci-news.com/geology/meteorite-impact-scotlands-isle-of-skye-05539.html “A team of geologists has found 60 million-year-old ejecta from a previously unknown meteorite impact on the Isle of Skye, northwest Scotland. This is the first recorded mid-Paleocene impact event in the region and is coincident with the onset of magmatism in the British Paleogene Igneous Province.” The open-access paper is: Drake, S.M., A.D. Beard, A.P. Jones, D.J. Brown, A.D. Fortes, I.L. Millar, A. Carter, J. Baca, and H. Downes, 2017, Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G39452.1 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/525169/discovery-of-a-meteoritic-ejecta-layer-containing Yours, Paul- 1 reply
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Lit.: Cater, J., Briggs D. & Clarkson E. (1989): Shrimp-bearing sedimentary successions in the Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) Cementstone and Oil Shale Groups of northern Britain. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. Issue 1, 1989, p. 5-15 Schram, F. (1979): British Carboniferous Malacostraca. Fieldiana, 1979, Vol 40, p. 1-129 Volume 16: Fossil Fishes of Great Britain, Chapter 9: British Carboniferous fossil fishes sites Site: CHEESE BAY (GCR ID: 2916) Clark, N.D.L. (2013) Tealliocaris: a decapod crustacean from the Carboniferous of Scotland. Palaeodiversity 6:107-133 Jones, W. et al.(2016) The Proof is in the Pouch: Tealliocaris is a Peracarid. Palaeodiversity 9(1):75-88. 2016 https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v9.a5
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Saw this on a well known auction site, described as a dinosaur footprint from Scotland. Is it such a thing? I can't see anything that looks remotely like a footprint, I'd have dismissed it as geological, but this isn't my area of interest. Any thoughts?
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Hi, I recently found this in Fife, Scotland. The stone was already damaged when found, is this fossil or natural? more views will be uploaded
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Hi All. I just got back from a trip to the Isle of Skye where I went looking for fossils for the first time in my life despite always having an interest, I found a few ammonite fragments and some fossil shells It was great fun and am just wondering about other sites in Scotland for me to visit (I'm in Glasgow). I have found a few places from https://ukfossils.co.uk/category/scotland-south/ First place I might try is Trearne Quarry - I have read that you need to get permission from the foreman of the quarry but can you just show up at the quarry and ask? or do you need to make prior arrangements? Are there any clubs/groups in Scotland who get together to organise trips/hunts? I have already found some good advice on this forum and hopefully I will be able to contribute in future in a positive way cheers everyone! Alex
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Life reconstruction of Lasanius problematicus, from Wikipedia Commons, own work of Nobu Tamura. References: Brugghen, van der G. (2010). New observations on the Silurian anaspid Lasanius problematicus Traquair. FossilQuarry Articles No.1. www.fossilquarry.org, May 2010. Lasanius problematicus.pdf Volume 16: Fossil Fishes of Great Britain Chapter 2: Silurian fossil fishes sites of Scotland Site: BIRKENHEAD BURN (GCR ID: 394) Fossils from Lesmahagow
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Lasanius problematicus TRAQUAIR, 1898 - Silurian fish
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From the album: Vertebrates
Lasanius problematicus TRAQUAIR, 1898 Middle Silurian Birkenhead Burn Lesmahogow inlier Lanarkshire Scotland UK New observations on the Silurian anaspid Lasanius problematicus Traquair.pdf BIRKENHEAD BURN GCRsiteaccount394.pdf Fossils from Lesmahagow -
Originally described as Thelodus scoticus Traquair, 1898. Taxonomy from Märss & Ritchie 1997. Revised diagnosis from Märss & Ritchie 1997, p. 150: "Scales medium-sized (up to 0-6 mm long), made up of crown, neck and base. Rostral scales not distinct. Crowns of cephalo-pectoral scales are rounded to rhomboidal with notches around the crown margin or only anteriorly; postpectoral and precaudal scales rhomboidal becoming more elongated posteriorly, median crown plate flat, smooth or with a notch anteriorly which becomes a furrow on the posteriorly situated scales. Beneath the median plate, the longitudinal ridges on the postero-lateral portions of the crown converge in the posterior crown apex. There are two types of pinnal scales. The scale crowns of the leading edges of all fins are flat, smooth and with two notches antero-laterally. The scales of the trailing edges of lateral and caudal fins are cuneiform. Neck of the scales is as a shallow groove, base rhomboidal with moderate spur anteriorly." Traquair's original reconstruction in dorsal view: Identified by oilshale. References: Traquair, R. H. (1898) Report on fossil fishes. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom for 1897, 72-6. Volume 16: Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Chapter 2: Silurian fossil fishes sites of Scotland. Site: BIRK KNOWES (GCR ID: 359). Žigaite· Ž. & Goujet D. (2012) New observations on the squamation patterns of articulated specimens of Loganellia scotica (Traquair, 1898) (Vertebrata: Thelodonti) from the Lower Silurian of Scotland. Geodiversitas 34 (2): 253-270. Märss, T., & Ritchie, A. (1997) Articulated thelodonts (Agnatha) of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 88(03), 143–195. doi:10.1017/s026359330000691x
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Many important collections of Silurian arthropods and vertebrates have been made near Lesmahagow since the mid to late 1800's. The Lesmahagow Inlier is a block of Silurian sediments surrounded by sediments of Carboniferous age. The inlier consists of shales and sandstones with occasional pebble conglomerates of a lagoon or lake. This fish is from Slot Burn SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), now off-limits to all collecting due to overzealous collecting. Taxonomy from Blom et al. 2002. Diagnosis for Birkenia elegans from Blom et. al 2002, p. 277: "Small species of Birkenia, up to 10 cm long, with double-headed mid-dorsal spine; dorso-lateral scales inclined to the anterior anteriorly and to the posterior posteriorly; whole body covered with similar, regular granular to finely tuberculate sculpture; mid-part of lateral scales, double- headed dorsal spine and scales on anal fin, showing regular dorso-ventral arrangement of sculpture; lateral scales towards articulation sockets show similar regular but not linearly arranged sculpture as do all ventral and dorsal plates, and rostral and pineal plates of the head; sculpture in anterior- posterior arrangement on pineal plates and postbranchial spine." The Anaspida were small marine agnathans (Greek, "no jaws") that lacked paired fins and often scales. They first appeared in the early Silurian and flourished until the late Devonian. Birkenia was a derived form of anapsid that grew to a maximum length of about 10cm. The Anaspids were simple dorso-laterally compressed fish that probably led a bottom-dwelling existence. It was adapted for active swimming and had a sucking mouth that was terminal rather than ventral. Birkenia has a characteristic row of anterior and posterior pointing dorsal scales. The gills opened as a row of holes along the side of the animal, typically numbering from 6-15. The tail is hypocercal which means that the lower lob is the longest. Traquair reconstructed Birkenia upside down because he never met this condition in a fish before. Line drawing from Stetson 1928, p. 468: Identified by oilshale. References: D.L. Dineley: British fossil fish and amphibian sites, Chapter 1 GRC site account Slot Burn GRC site account Birk Knowes GRC site account Birkenhead Burn Stetson, Henry C. (1928) A Restoration of the Anaspid Birkenia elegans Traquair. The Journal of Geology, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 458-470. Blom, H., Märss, T. and Miller, C. G. (2002) Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92, 263-323, (for 2001). Blom, Henning. "New birkeniid anaspid from the Lower Devonian of Scotland and its phylogenetic implications." Palaeontology 55.3 (2012): 641-652.
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References: Volume 16: Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Chapter 6: Mid-Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland. Site: JOHN O'GROATS, CAITHNESS (GCR ID: 353) Long, J.: Origins of copulation - ancient Scottish fishes did it sideways, square-dance style.
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Hi all, am a total novice - but I found this in a place called Dalmellington in Scotland, its known for Fish teeth, coprolites, scales and bones, plants and shells - a real mixture. My question is - is it fish scales or perhaps shark skin (the pointed scales look like shark skin)? I also found what I think is a shark tooth too. Thanks in advance Alex
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Hi New to the forum Have enjoyed reading a few posts I have attached a few pics of a stone that I found many years ago when I lived in Scotland It's quite unusual,slightly smaller than a golf ball and feels solid stone Parts of it look like leather Don't know if a fossil or some petrified poo,lol or just a plain old stone. Appreciate any feedback Thanks Fitzpm
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Hi, Can anyone identify these fossils? I found them in the west of Scotland on an old coal bing there are loads these were just some seen within 20 minutes of walking along the rocks at bottom of bing.
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