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Hi, I dug this up from the ground while working today, any ideas on what it is.
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Hi The following tooth was found on Lee on Solent beach in the UK, I'm struggling to identify it, please could someone assist?
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Can anyone help identify the fossil found in this pebble found on the beach Nr Newhaven?
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Hi, I live near the Kent coast (UK), an area of which is good for shark-teeth hunting. I'm not so experienced with identifying anything else though! I found this today; any ideas? Thank you!
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From the album: Micros from the Triassic of Aust Cliff, UK
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Good afternoon, whilst digging out the garden we have found this perfectly round rock, looks a lot like orange skin and even has a core. I was curious to see inside so broke into the rock to find a crust on the outside. (I kind of wish I didn’t) Is anybody able to confirm my suspicions?
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Where are all the British mosasaurs?
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hi all, While I'm aware that current Cretaceous exposures in Britain are largely restricted to the south and east coasts of the islands (see geological map below; source), significant marine deposition is said to have taken place across much of Great Britain from the Aptian onward (source). As such - and especially considering the richness of the record of the marine ecosystem during the Jurassic- one would expect an abundance of marine reptile remains to be known from British Late Cretaceous sediments as well, the epitome of which, of course, would be the mosasaurs. However, whereas finds of remains of ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs have been reported (see, for instance, Fischer et al. 2014 or Madzia 2016) - albeit from somewhat older strata than from which one might expect mosasaur remains to show up - very little information actually seems to be available as concerns this highly diverse group of marine squamates. When browsing the literature, for example, I've only found limited references to mosasaurs in Britain, most notably in Benton and Spencer's (1995) "Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain", in which the authors (p. 221) observe that Some further mentions of mosasaurs are made in this work on pages 264-265, which include lists of marine reptile finds at various locations across the country, as well as page 270, which describes St. James's Pit in Norwich, Norfolk, purportedly "Britain's best mosasaur locality" (ibid.). The pages have been reproduced below for ease of reference: Some material is also illustrated and described by Milner in "Fossils of the Chalk, second edition" (Smith and Batten, eds., 2002), but again minimally so: Plate 64 3) Leiodon anceps, Campanian, Norwich, Norfolk; 4) Clidastes sp., ?Upper Turonian, Dorking, Surrey; 5, plioplatecarpinae incertae sedis, Upper Chalk, Sussex Plate 65 1) Clidastes sp., Upper Chalk, Sussex; 5) cf. Tylosaurus, Santonian, Forness Point, east of Margate, Kent Outside of that, over the past couple of years I've only bumped into some loose specimens here and there being offered at auction sites, such as the below batch of alleged mosasaur teeth from Worcestershire, purportedly once part of the prominent Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd collection (at the resolution provided and in their state of preservation it's hard to make out whether they are indeed mosasaurian, however); or the mosasaur lumbar vertebra of unknown origin. It was actually these specimens that first attracted my attention to the existence of British mosasaurs, since so little has been reported on them elsewhere: an internet search doesn't result in anything fruitful, for example, nor have I come across any mosasaur material listed in museum collections. I would therefore be very interested in hearing what you all make of the above specimens, as well as the apparent paucity of British mosasaur material either in museums or published literature. Is this just the outcome of a collection/research bias, lack of suitable accessible exposures, or could there be another reason... @Praefectus @JohnJ @caterpillar @Welsh Wizard @paulgdls @DE&i and others
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My daughter found this on the trail that runs along the cliffs. When I turned it over, I was amazed to see these tiny fossils. Any information on what they are would be helpful. Thank you!
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Found this today along a beach in Weybourne, UK. Appears to have the shape of a bone, but I am no expert. Any ideas? Thanks for the assistance
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Found by a riverbank of the river Tees (UK) Might be a pseudofossil? But I'm not qualified to guess - make sure to let me know if I should delete the post, thanks :))
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Dear FossilForum members, I'm an aspirant fossil hunter and thought I'd reach out to you to possibly help identify this recent find (7 images attached, approx. 21cm x 7,5cm x 2cm), found in an Eocene layer (UK, Hampshire Coast)...flat, curved and ‘channels' running down the center of (concave) back (image 02)...could it be a rib? Any (comparative) insight you may provide would be much appreciated. Regards & thanks
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Some sort of tube worm maybe - Isle of Sheppey, United Kingdom
ChristopherPaulHammond posted a topic in Fossil ID
Was just lying on the beach at low tide. Not sure what it is. Thx.
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Hi all. I'm new to this forum. I would like some help with this little fossil I found. I have been doing some research on this lovely fossil I found in the UK. Without having it cleaned and inspected properly, I think I have a Bothriolepis from the Devonian period. What is you opinion? One day I will get this properly looked at and cleaned as I think I may have something special.
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I was at a metal detecting rally near Sudbury (near Colchester) in the UK and while scanning the ground noticed an unusual but regular pattern in a flint rock. So picked it up, showed the organisers and took it home. July 2023. It looks like a long shell, but if you zoom up onto the "balls" there appear to be legs attached, centipede, or just a shell? Never seen one in flint before. Photo before and after washing with water.
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Hi, I have just come across a box of trilobites for my kids section in my shop and I have no idea what they are. Could someone help with at least a name so I can make a little info label for the kids? I think they are from Wales in the UK. Thank you.
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Hi, found this fossil at work the other day (sometimes as archaeologists we are on sites and that have fossils lying around in the geology, I always like those ones). It was found in north-east Leicestershire (UK). The geological maps say the bedrock geology there is 'blue lias formation', but the 'superficial geology' is something called the 'Oadby Member' (BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units - Result Details) (which I suspect this might be from I think) formed in the quaternary but has Jurassic and cretaceous fossils churned up in it. From colleagues I have heard suggestions it might be a tree branch or coral, personally it looks to me a little more like coral. It's pretty big and potentially quite a diagnostic piece so perhaps this could even be narrowed down further? I don't know though I am certainly no expert. The sort of 'pockmarked' features on the narrow sides (I figure the wider sides have just had these eroded away?) are what makes me think this is a fossil at all, it also curiously seems to have a hole going through the middle of it, I do not know if this actually goes all the way through as it is packed with mud and I do not have a good implement to get it out, but I suspect so.
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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Shark Pseudorhina sp. Jurassic UK Oxford Clay
JamieLynn posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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