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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
Prep on turtle is currently underway at the Charleston Museum...will update once prep is finished. A big thank you to @sonickmonx for doing all the hard work... obtaining permission, excavating, taking it to the museum, doing all the donation paperwork, and doing the prep! -
Hello everyone Below are some finds from my last trip to a dredge spoil island that has Miocene to modern marine and terrestrial fossils. The dredge and river action unfortunately beat up the fossils and make it hard to ID. The scale on the white graph paper is 1" for the boxes. Photo quality a little off due to the poor winter sun angle. Large Un-numbered Bone: Possibly a mammoth or bison femur? Weighs more than 3.5 pounds. It looks like the head of a femur and a heavily worn limb bone. May be too far gone to ID. #1: Two small mammal (likely cetacean) periotics #2: Edge of a Turtle shell? Just didn't see the typical interior turtle shell texture #3 Broken coprolites? Interesting interior compositions on them #4 Worn turtle nuchal shell? #5 Wild guess-fish tooth in jaw? Has a smooth enamel on the pointy end that tapers on both sides to a broken point #6 No idea-Probably unidentifiable? #7 Small broken horse scapula? Thanks for looking. Hopefully the photos stay in order, with an outdoors photo followed by another photo indoors due to the outdoor light this time of year. Be happy to add better photos if requested.
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Hi I think I’ve found a small turtle or tortoise but I could be wrong, any information would be appreciated
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Hi All, I have this small turtle skull (preserved looking at the palate), and I was wondering, what were your thoughts re prep? do I prep it out totally? or leave it as it is? looking forward to your thoughts Rodney
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Thought I’d start a thread documenting the preparation of a large Testudo tortoise we collected in Eastern Wyoming this summer. We were guided by expert @jpc I highly recommend hiring him as a guide not only for his knowledge and talent, but because he’s a really good guy and fun to collect with. Here are a couple of shots of the excavation and flipped plaster jacket.
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Testudines Peace River (Wauchula), FL Peace River Formation Miocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Testudines Peace River (Wauchula), FL Peace River Formation Miocene -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Testudines Nanjemoy WMA (Purse), MD Aquia Formation Paleocene -
Ok, two fossils here. I think the first is a crocodile vert - found in the Aquia formation or Purse/Nanjemoy in Maryland. Is that right? Any suggestions on how to clean it or whether I should? Not sure what the other piece is, but I would guess it is turtle shell. Found in the same general spot. Can someone help with the ID? Thanks, folks!
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From the album: MY SE TEXAS FINDS
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From the album: MY SE TEXAS FINDS
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From the album: MY SE TEXAS FINDS
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: My best finds (so far)
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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Recently I took a trip to a new spot in the Maastrichtian of Maryland. I did not manage to recover too much vertebrate material, though I have been quite intrigued by one piece that I collected. The main question regarding this piece is whether it is bone or whether it is simply a suggestively shaped rock. If it does turn out to be bone, would it be possible to determine what it may have come from? The main marine reptiles that are recovered from these deposits are mosasaur and marine turtle. A few photographs of the specimen in question. If better photographs are needed/photographs from a different angle, I would be more than happy to attach some to this thread. Thanks in advance for all suggestions and opinions!
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Chinese turtle fossil
Microraptorfan posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This real?
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From the album: Vertebrates
Yeholochelys lingyuanensis Shao et al. 2018 Early Cretaceous Albian Jiufotang Formation Sihedangzhen Liaoning PR China- 1 comment
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I think it could be a fossil of a turtle shell possibly. Maybe scales. But I obviously am unsure. It does show alot of similar features to the top and the bottom parts of a turtles shell of a fresh water turtles I have been researching for the area. I found this near Frenchman Coulee along the Grand Coulee Canyon area in Washington. A location where many ice age floods have accured. It has faint crystalization on one side of the piece.
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I found this in Sarasota county Florida. Is it a rib or maybe a piece of turtle shell? Can someone help me?
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Hell Creek Dromaeosaur or Troodon Partial Humerus.... OR plain turtle?
rkfrace posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello beloved community. Anybody able to weigh in on this specimen's ID. It was labelled as "Dromaeosaur or Troodon Humerus, Hell Creek, Harding County, South Dakota. 1 and a half inches" My hope is that the ID is correct, and the humerus belongs to a baby. My fear is that it's 'just' a Hell Creek turtle humerus. All insight deeply appreciated!
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Found this fossil at the Zandmotor beach close to The Hague, the Netherlands. Can anyone ID it for me? I thought it might be turtle shell. However, the pattern on the inside throws me off. It is 2,5 cm wide and a little over 2 cm high.
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