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[Lyme Regis, UK] What's this and how to prep? UPDATED: reverse side of specimen
Omono posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hi all! I've just found this curious stone on the Lyme Regis beach, during a low tide, between some other rocks. I was trying to crack it open but I had to stop as it looked to be containing something more delicate. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. It has a thin layer of grey stone on the top part, and underneath it there is a golden patina that reflects the light mixed with a brownish sort of varnish (similar to when fossilised bones are prepped, that sort of texture). It has a circle of a different colour on one of the shorter side that reminds me of a sectioned bone or similar. Now, do you think is worth to prep this stone? Is it even a fossilised something? If so, how would you prep this? Many thanks, I know this is a tricky one... at least for me. Cheers.
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Hi all, Spirals here. I'm from the UK, living in London at the moment. Mostly collecting from the Jurassic coast in Dorset these days. I just finished a trip and found an exciting iridescent ammonite which i'm looking forward to sharing with you all once I've prepped it! It's got some beautiful blue and green hues to it. Looking forward to meeting you all in due course
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Hi everyone! I got those ammonite from a friend but he don’t know the species and exact locality because he buy from a shop. These from UK and likely Jurassic age. Does anyone have information about these ammonite please help me ID it. Thanks
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I've been seeing picture of small Iredescent purple pyritic ammonites found the in UK, I've looked unsuccessfully for a location online. Can anyone help? Thinking south space, maybe Somerset as the colouration is similar to those found in Watchet. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, picked this up at Aust today, only looked twice after seeing a video on icthyosaur coprolites found at charmouth. It has a lot of material in and the same pear shape, hard to identify anything expect for one possible shell.. Any help appreciated thanks. Happy new year!
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hi i found this today in northumberland in carboniferous rock. could this be a trilobite?
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Hello, I wanted to ask about this partial claw I came across, identified as a Nuthetes destructor dromeosaurid hand claw found in Hastings, Wealden of Sussex of the UK. It measures 0.5 cm. From what I can tell this species has only been described from teeth and partial jaw fragments, and @Troodon told me that Nuthetes being a tooth taxon is not even described from this locality. He also wasn't confident that it is even dinosaur/theropod. What could it be?
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Hi, I live on the Isle of Wight which I know has a good reputation for fossil finds so I want to make the most of living here and get out looking for some. I was just wondering if there are any laws regarding fossil hunting like if I find something am I allowed to keep it or do some things have to be declared if found in certain areas. I know with metal detecting there are some regulations that can catch you out. Thanks.
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Hi everyone. I've recently discovered that I'm absolutely fascinated by the fossils and associated Geology of the UK. It started with a visit to Kimmeridge bay with my 8 year old Son, where we saw the large ammonite impressions on the foreshore. I've also been fortunate enough to visit rarely seen fossils through my passion for Caving. I live close to Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, where I've found dozens of fascinating little treasures from the Jurassic mud spring there. I'm also within striking distance of some superb locations in Somerset and Dorset. Although new and naive, I am keen! So much so that I've set up a little fossil prep workshop in my shed, complerte with air scribe, dust removal etc. Very early stages of the apprenticeship though!
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New member and new to fossil collecting. Always been interested in nature and wildlife with a passing interest Palaeontology. A few weeks ago I was walking around a town near to where I live. There was antique shop with some fossils in the window. I went in......and bought myself a few bits and pieces. A few Ammonites, a Trilobite and a fossilised fish. I can see myself getting hooked Been having a look on the internet. A lot of the online shops are selling expensive museum grade specimens. I am happy with the ones I got from the shop. They still seem decent quality to me. Will be going back in the next few weeks.
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Hi, can anyone help with an ID here, found in Dorset, UK. Its big, 10" across.. Thanks in advance!
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Hey everyone!! I sent pictures of my fossil, that I found on a Devon beach a few years back, to a museum in the UK to see if they could help me identify what it was! I personally thought it looked like a claw! And my sister thought a mussel! Turns out it was neither! I have attached the lovley little reply I received from the gentleman at the museum so you all can read too! It’s a Horn Coral! Which is a solitary coral, that became extinct many MANY years ago! Pre-Jurassic Period! I'm posting here in the hopes that anyone else might have any more information to add about this? I’m quite excited, and I’m ready to put it in a little frame somewhere so it can stay safe. Any and all input is appreciated! Thank you guys! Abby C FullSizeRender.MOV
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Hi all I was out with the kids and found this ,is it a leech ?
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I have come across these 2 fossils whilst digging a trench in work, I'd be grateful if anyone has any information for me, these where in the same rock/stone. Thanks Also I'll get better photos when home.
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Hi people, I have a query regarding the contents of some siderite nodules from a Duckmantian fossil forest site in N Wales for my PhD project. I had thin sections made of parts of several nodules and they all seem to have an abundance of 'faecal pellets'; rounded, often curved (banana-ish) shaped, mostly stratified pellets. These pellets have been replaced by siderite (FeCO3) and sometimes include pyrite and seem to have been the locus for early sulphate reduction by bacteria before conditions arose for the siderite precipitation. I've attached SEM images of the thin sections showing some of these pellets. We have only found a couple of fragments of crustaceans (Euproops I believe) and the host sediments were fine sands and silts. All the images show individual pellets with scale bars but "pellet5" is a zoomed out image showing the abundance of the pellets. They are all replaced by an Fe-rich siderite and are all quartz free. "pellet6" is different with a mottled texture and some potential apatite mixed in. Let me know if anyone has seen similar textures before and/or what could have made them! The palaeoenvironment was purely freshwater with meandering river systems, with a dynamic lycopod dominated fossil forest ecosystem. pellet3.pdf pellet2.pdf pellet1.pdf pellet5.pdf pellet4.pdf
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Found this on the beach in Essex, UK. Can anyone help with IF? No idea at all!
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Is this a real Liopleurodon tooth? Forums, please let me know. I appreciate everyone's help! thank you! Scientific name: Liopleurodon sp. Origin: Cambridgesire, England Stratification: Oxford Clay Formation Period: Callovian-Middle Jurassic Size: 31.7 x 19.9 (mm)
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Is this a genuine Baryonyx tooth? Unfortunately this tooth is currently sold out. Information is located Brook Bay, Isle of Wight, England Formation Wessex Formation - Wealden Group Size is 1.08 inches long. If anyone knows, please let me know. I appreciate everyone's comments! Thank you very much!
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Is this a genuine Baryonyx tooth? If anyone knows, please let me know! I appreciate everyone's comments! thank you very much! Information will be posted later.
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Found this at my local river near Manchester in the UK close to a recent landslide, it looks like a tree bark or something to me and is a foot long. Any help to identify and date would be appreciated.
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Found in Stroud, Glous, UK Its very faint, but I think I can see 6 segments from the top view (image 2), but it also might be my imagination. The piece of rock is quite regular shaped, almost a perfect dome-shape. It does have a bulge on one segment, which to me looks like its excess rock that I could attempt to clean off... but also mixed in there might be part of the better preserved outer-shell as I can see what appear to be patterns emanating from the centre... either that or they are bits of other fossils that got stuck inside this one. Bottom: Top: Side:
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Anyone recognise this? Phosphatic nodule, Brigantian (U. Mississippian) marine shale, Co. Durham, UK. Nodules from this bed often contain fish bits, as well as cephalopods, inarticulate brachiopods and (rare) conulariids. Not cleanly broken but the shape is ringing a bell... concave counterpart
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Hi Guys, I’ve been doing a bit of hunting this summer and thought some of you might like to see what I have found , this trip report is mostly going to focus on finds as in the moment, I wasn’t great at taking photos now I’m not very organised so we aren’t doing this in a chronological order, I’m just going to describe each site separately the bulk of my hunting occurred on the Isle of Wight, so it is only natural that we start there, I’m going to start with one of the less interesting sites, whale chine (an image from the internet) , I stopped here on the way to the needles for an hour and a half, so not long enough to find much. the beach wasn’t scoured so the famous lobster beds were not exposed and I went in not expecting to find much, this was correct but I loved the scenery I started by finding the bone bed that crops up here and at yaverland( I had had success at yaverland before this trip) as this wasn’t so dependant on a good tide, this material is made up of oysters and is supposed to constrain a lot of vertebrate remains. however, I found it far less productive than yaverland so after an hour of splitting bonebed, I checked out some lower greensand boulders, which were rich in shells and other fossils which I mostly left there for others to see. Anyway onto the finds this pictures spans about 60 cm, sorry for lack of scale 1. corals from the greensand boulders, any IDs are welcome 2. Various fish scales from the bonebed 3. a tooth leading into both sides of a rock, requires prep 4. a strange tooth in a different type of material, i am dissolving some of this to see if it is dense with vertebrate remains 5. A hybodont fin spine in cross section ( I have both sides so requires prep) 6. Ignore, it’s a tooth from yaverland 7. a strange tooth in cross section, not sure what I’m going to do with this 8. A croc tooth, very well preserved, needs some prep though, Anyway I’ll check in with more as we continue through the summer, I might want to get some pieces prepped and I am prepping some myself hope you all have a great summer
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I have searched the site and had a read of a few threads regarding Riker boxes in the UK dating back to 2017. I have dealt with Just in case for a few years now and they have decided to call it a day since the increase in shipping costs recently. They might start up again if the costs come down. So this leaves me a problem as I sell all my fossil teeth etc in Riker boxes, I bought all his remaining stock but that wont last long! Did anyone in the UK have any luck with finding a supplier? I might end up going down the import route, if so I will have an ask around on here to see if I can get sizes that would be helpful to UK people on here and see if it might be viable to help everyone out at cost price. I have spoken to Riker direct and they pointed me to their online site for overseas but on their online it comes out to roughly £9 for a small one (120, 4x3 inches)which is stupidly high, so I will see what I can work out!
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