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Carboniferous fossil identification if anyone could help much appreciated!
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Hi I'm back again, I'm stuck identifying a few fossils and was wondering if anyone knows what any of the images exactly are? I think I've finally narrowed it down to them being of the following: coradite, neuropteris, alethopteris and pecopteris I don't know if information on sizing would help work out but if anyone knows? Thanks youu
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Liopleurodon ferox tooth Oxford Clay, Orton Brick Pit, Peterborough, UK Identified by Dr Adam S. Smith (Author of The Plesiosaur Directory) as belonging to Liopleurodon ferox due to the distribution, length, spacing of the ridges which is typical for the species
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Can anyone identify? And if so, what gave it away? Are there any keys I could use? All I know is that it's Carboniferous.
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Hi all. First time poster. My wife believes this may be a tooth that we picked up whilst hunting on the beach in Lyme Regis today. It is approx 7cm long. If you are kind enough to give your opinions it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
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Hi there, I recently found this on the beach in North Yorkshire UK, I believe it’s a fossil but I’m not too sure of what kind. What do you think?
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Isle of Wight: Enormous fossil ammonite dug out from boulder
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Huge rare fossil in fallen block discovered on Island Liam Chorley, Isle of Wright County News, November 2023 Isle of Wight: Enormous fossil ammonite dug out from boulder BBC News, November 2023 Other Isle of Wright ammonites Huge Isle of Wight ammonite fossil discovered in Chale Liam Chorley, Isle of Wright County News, June 2023 It's all right with ammonite as student pair discover 96kg fossil Dominic Kureen, Isle of Wright County News, June 2020 Miscellaneous BBC article Jurassic Coast cliff falls tempt fossil hunters BBC News, September 2023 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Race to find world's oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in United Kingdom
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Race to find world's oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s PhysOrgCom, October 10, 2023 The open access paper is: Benton, M.J., Gill, P.G. and Whiteside, D.I., 2023. Finding the world’s oldest mammals: sieving, dialectical materialism, and squabbles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlad089. Yours, Paul H. -
Britain’s elite fossil hunters on their finds of a lifetime
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Britain’s elite fossil hunters on their finds of a lifetime Country Life, United Kingdom, September 18, 2023 Yorus, Paul H.- 2 replies
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Fossils: Boy finds 200-million-year-old ammonite on beach at Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
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Fossils: Boy finds 200-million-year-old ammonite on beach By David Grundy, BBC News, United Kingdpm, March 30, 2023 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Why Is the Isle of Wight Rich in Dinosaur Fossils? Some of the first-ever dinosaur bone finds occurred on this British island. Now, researchers are discovering even more. By Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover, July 14, 2023 Yours, Paul H.
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Found this at a beach near Dover, UK does anyone know if it’s a fossil or just a cool rock? Has a cool pattern on the back with two distinct white patches on each end. Found on a rocky beach looking out onto the English Channel
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Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain. - Carboniferous - United Kingdom
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
A 319-million-year-old brain has been discovered. It could be the oldest of its kind By Amarachi Orie, CNN, February 2, 2023 Scientists Discover 319-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Brain Amada Kooser, CNET, February 1, 2023 The paper is: Figueroa, R.T., Goodvin, D., Kolmann, M.A. et al. Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the rayfinned fish brain. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05666-1 Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Ordovician opabiniid-like animal from Welsh Sheep Field (United Kingdom)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Scientists Just Uncovered Fossils Of An Unknown Prehistoric Creature In A Welsh Sheep Field By Kaleena Fraga. Alls that Interesting, November 23, 2022 Fossils found in Powys sheep field by researchers BBC News, November 16, 2022 Welsh 'weird wonder' fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution ScienceDaily, November 15, 2022 The open access paper is Stephen Pates, Joseph P. Botting, Lucy A. Muir, Joanna M. Wolfe. Ordovician opabiniid-like animals and the role of the proboscis in euarthropod head evolution. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34204-w Yours, Paul H.- 5 replies
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What genus of ammonite is in this news picture? Evesham, United Kingdom
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil ID
What ammonite is in the news article image? Link to image of ammonite in news article The news article is: Suspected Roman ford unearthed near Evesham during waterworks BBC News, BBC West Midlands, October 6, 2022 Another link to news article. Yours, Paul H. -
100's of fossils - I don't know where to start
DavidPepper posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi everyone, My uncle passed away near the start of the year sadly. He was an avid collector of fossils and he has left 100's behind. I have photographed them all in their draws but there is that many I cannot even begin to take individually photos. What is the best way to offload these without being taken advantage of, due to my lack of knowledge? I am based in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom. -
Hi all, this is my first post on here, but defnitely won't be the last. I'm newly returned to fossil hunting after a multi-decade absence, and I'm very glad to have found this forum! The teeth in the images came from a Pleistocene deposit overlying the London Clay of Essex. I'm tentatively going with deer for the small ungulate tooth, but no clue with the other rooted molar. You might be able to see that a third root has broken off. I've done plenty of searches along the lines of 'ice age mammal tooth ID guide', but could do with some help on the molar - and pointing towards any online/published ID guide! Thanks all.
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I will do these over a few posts. The site is Jurassic Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member, c.163 ma at Yaxley in Cambridgeshire. Any help would be greatly appreciated! The scale is in mm. The first I thought was Genicularia Vertebralis, but it looks a bit different from the others I've found, and has three distinct lines at the bottom of an unusually straight column.
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Just published a paper that describe a new dromaeosaurid, Vectiraptor greeni from the Barremian Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight. Very cool Paper is paywalled but looks like its just vertebrae and partial sacrum that were discovered. Posted it to get in on record since we have many collectors that have material from this locality. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667121003712
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My Jurassic Park now heads across the pond to England and Germany. Dinosaur material from these countries is not common like North America and in fact very difficult to obtain. Theropod material is extremely rare and most remains are fragments. Most of my material from England comes from the coast of two areas The Isle of Wight and East Sussex. Material from these area comprises the Wealden Super Group (Hasting+Wealden+Weld Clay) and is early Cretaceous from the Valanginian to Barremian Stage (140-125mya). Yellow - Hasting Group , Green - Weald Clay Red - Wealden Grouip Theropods Baryonyx walkeri My collection includes two examples of this Spinosaurid from England. One tooth is partially rooted. Megalosaurus bucklandii One of the large theropods of region. This tooth was found encased in a block and the tip was restored based on the matching blocking Dromaeosaurid indet A very cool small theropod tooth. May not have yet been described.
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A new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose from the Isle of Wight
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
An overlooked fossil turned out to be a new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose Brighstoneus simmondsi has a big lump around the nostrils, like a chunky alligator. By Philip Kieffer, Popular Science, November 10, 2021 The open access paper is: McDonald, A.T., Barrett, P.M. and Chapman, S.D., 2010. A new basal iguanodont (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of England. Zootaxa, 2569(1), pp.1-43. Researchgate PDF Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Please help me identify these finds from the bottom of a clay cliff in Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey a - 0.5cm thick, almost flat, smooth on the other side b - i think this is not a fossil but a handle of an old knife c - round in cross section d - this is hexagonal in cross section the remaining ones are all of the same kind and the beach was full of them, i guess they may not be fossils either but what are they?
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Somerset fossil hunters 'need to be better informed' BBC News, July 27, 2021 United Kingdom Fossil Network Yours, Paul H.
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Amateur fossil hunters get record haul of Jurassic starfish and crinoids in Cotswolds, United Kingdom
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Largest find of Jurassic starfish and relatives ever discovered in the UK excavated by Natural History Museum British Natural History Museum Part-time adventurers’: amateur fossil hunters get record haul in Cotswolds More than 1,000 scientifically significant specimens taken from former quarry after discovery. Miranda Bryant, The Guardian, July 20, 2021 Yours, Paul H.- 9 replies
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Hi Guys, First of all, I'm not a fossil hunter, so forgive my vagueness. I stumbled across this about fifteen years ago whilst exploring an abandoned quarry in the North East of the UK. I can't remember exactly where it was, as I was only 15 at the time and had quite a poor sense of direction! It's quite interesting as it seems to have scales, and arm and a claw. Let me know what you guys think!
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