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  1. Below are some of the slabs/slices/limb casts of petrified wood from my collection. I'll post more pieces in latter replies. I especially like very colorful pieces and unusual pieces like Teredo bored pieces or pieces with fungus. I have hundreds of close-up pictures. If you would like to see close-up pictures of a particular piece, reply to this post with the number/numbers. If you want to see close-up pictures of some of the petrified wood pieces from this thread, check out my TFF thread at the below link: 1 Petrified Wood botryoidal agate golden calcite insect borings ostracods Eocene 50 MYA Green River Fm Blue Forest along Lake Gosiute Sweetwater County Wyoming 1.2 lbs 8.25 x6x.38 inches 2 Petrified Wood conifer Araucarioxylon arizonicum fungus Polyporites wardii early Permian late Triassic 295 to 201 MYA Chinle Fm northern Arizona 3.60 lbs 10.25x8.75x.5 inches 3 Petrified Wood Triassic 225 MYA Chinle Formation near Holbrook Arizona 745g 160 x200x12mm 4 Petrified Wood Seed Fern Rhexoxylon Triassic 220 MYA Ambilobe Madagascar 136g 3.75x2.50x.375 to .5 inches 5 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Acondromen Madagascar 575g 145mmx95mmx18mm 6 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Acondromen Madagascar 182g 4.25x3.5x.31 inches 7 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Acondromen Madagascar 201g 4.25x3.5x.375 inches 8 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Acondromen Madagascar155g 4.25x3x.375 inches 9 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Acondromen Madagascar157g 4.25x3.25x.375 inches 10 Teredo Bored Petrified Wood Slab Paleocene Epoch Canon Ball Formation North Dakota 2,150g 10.25x9x.625 inches 11 Petrified tree fern Tietea singularis Permian 275MYA Motuca Formation Parnaíba Basin in Filadélfia Tocantins Brazil 340 g 8 x 4.75 x.25 inches 12 Petrified Wood encased In Algae-Laurel Eocene Bridger Formation Blue Forest WY 1802g 9.5x7.75x.625 to .75 inches 13 Petrified Replacement Wood Eocene 34 to 40 MYA Clarno Formation Hampton Butte central Oregon 484g 7 x 5 x .44 inches 14 Petrified Wood Slab Woodworthia Triassic Chinle Formation Winslow AZ 408 g 5.5x4.25x.43 to.5 inches 15 Agate Petrified Wood Turkey 253g 6.25 X 3.25 X .31 inches 16 Petrified Wood Slab Cedar Miocene 15.5 MYA Wanapum Basalt Formation Saddle Mountain Washington 228g 5.5x4.25x.25 inches 17 Petrified Wood Slab Miocene 15.5 MYA Wanapum Basalt Formation Saddle Mountain Washington 361g 5.75x5x.44 inches 18 Petrified Shrinkwood Miocene Fleming Formation Live Oak County, Texas 176g 4.25x3.5x.375 inches 19 Yew Taxus sp. in Stromatolitic Algae Miocene Tonopah Nevada 3.25 x 2.5x.19 inches 20 Teredo Bored Petrified Driftwood Middle Miocene Saltos Shale Member Monterey Formation Santa Barbara Canyon near Cuyama CA 6 x 4x.625 inches 21 Petrified Wood Araucaria conifer Monkey Puzzle Tree Triassic Age 200 to 250 MYA Madagascar 572g 5.75x4x.7 inches 22 Hematite Replaced Teredo Bored Petrified Wood Eocene Yegua Formation or Cretaceous 40 to 50 MYA Lake Bryan TX 288g 7.25 x3x.44 inches 23 Petrified Wood Log Miocene Jarbridge Ryolite Formation Hubbard Basin Elko County Nevada 1061g 4.25x4x1.75 to 2.75 inches 24 Petrified Wood Triassic 225 MYA Chinle Formation Arizona 1186g 8.25x6.75x.625 inches 25 Petrified Wood Sycamore Platanus sp. Miocene Bopesta Formation Horse Canyon near Tehachapi Kern County California 271g 4x3.5x.75 inches Marco Sr.
  2. Alston Gee

    Dolichorhynchops tooth from Kansas?

    I recently came across a "Dolichorhynchops" tooth listed for sale by a US seller. However, I am unable to personally verify its identity due to my limited knowledge of polycotylid teeth. Based on the provided pictures, the tooth fossil exhibits a strong curvature and appears to have ornamentation solely on its lingual surface. Do these characteristics suggest that it belongs to Dolichorhynchops?
  3. Hi everybody! This my dinosaur collection. This is my Hell Creek and Judith River shelf. It's a bit empty but I'm working on getting more fossils. I also have a replica Triceratops skull that I had 3-d printed. This is my tyrannosaur tooth fragment from the Hell Creek fm of Harding County SD. I'd gotten a bag of micro-matrix from hell creek and I got some ossified tendon fragments A partial Pachycephalosaurus? caudal vertebra from Harding County SD A jaw fragment from an indeterminate hadrosaur from the Judith River fm of Hill County Montana And an Edmontosaurus spitter tooth from the Lance fm of WY And now onto the Moroccan fossils I have a spinosaur tooth and some mosasaur teeth, the biggest of the mosasaur teeth being 2 inches. A Spinosaur indet. too
  4. A recent article by US law student, Bridget Roddy, published in a Texas A and M law journal proposes model laws severely controlling fossil collecting on private land in the US. Be on the lookout for states trying to implement these or similar laws. Aside, a good way to read articles is to read the abstract/introduction and summary/conclusion first, then look at the rest. On page 505, she says, “This model law would (1) vest all paleontological resources on state-owned land to the state; (2) allow the state the opportunity to take possession of fossils found on private land within the rights of the landowner, namely just compensation as described in the Takings Clause of the Constitution; (3) apply monetary penalties to any destruction of private land in search of fossils or the destruction or defacement of the fossils themselves; and (4) require state approval for any excavations on private land through permits requiring individuals to be qualified to conduct a search and provide extensive context for their finds so that their research can be reproduced.” Regarding point (1) of model law: states already control the fossils on their state-owned land. Some allow casual collecting of fossils, others don’t. Regarding point (2): the “Takings Clause of the Constitution” is also referred to as eminent domain. The government can take private property under certain conditions and must compensate the owner. In addition, Roddy proposes that fossil sales to private individuals could be heavily taxed. On pages 497-498, she proposes that states including New York State impose additional taxes on fossils sold including those sold at the large auction houses. New York State can have taxes up to 100 percent of the value of the item. The tax could be waived if a museum bought a fossil. The net result could be to drive down the price of fossils and to make it cheaper for a museum to buy them. She proposes on pages 504-505 that laws in states such as Alabama and New Mexico that protect antiquities and archeological resources on private land could also be used to protect fossils if the term paleontological resources were added to their laws. Be wary of governments adding paleontological resources or the like to their existing antiquities laws in order to control fossils on private lands. Please be civil with your comments, no libelous remarks since we are discussing an article written by a law student. Roddy, Bridget. 2022. Can You Dig It? Yes, You Can! But at What Cost?: A Proposal for the Protection of Domestic Fossils on Private Land, 8 Tex. A&M J. Prop. L. 473. Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/JPL.V8.I4.3 https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=journal-of-property-law
  5. Dnj

    Coral or worm colony?

    Hi everyone, first post here after a trip to the Outerbanks (Corolla), North Carolina US. Found washed up on the beach, approx. 11 cm long. I can’t find anything here on this forum or various googling that looks exactly like this. Based on what I’ve seen as a total newbie, I’m thinking either coral or worm colony or sponge - your thoughts are very much appreciated!
  6. ...especially Europe - North America. I read very often here on the forum about the high costs of sending parcels from the US to Europe. I am very interested in the real price of that. In the different direction, the price for sending parcels, for example, from Austria to North America is: Up to 2 kg: Euro 25.29,- Up to 4 kg: Euro 37.64,- Up to 10 kg: Euro 71.64,- These are the prices of the federal postal service (www.post.at). At the moment, you have to multiply the Euro with about 1.13 to get the price in USD. Would someone like to tell us shipping costs from the US to Europe? Thank you! Franz Bernhard
  7. nala

    US fossil Wood

    I obtained this slice of polished fossil wood labelled from the USA,is it possible to know the ID?location and the stage? thanks(UV lght on the second picture)
  8. I am considering letting go a few of my mammal fossils but want to know the ins and outs of the shipping process. What’s the best and safest shipping, fed ex, ups etc.
  9. I'd really like to put together a collection of shark teeth of my own finds from as many geological periods as possible. It seems that it is pretty hard to find older teeth, however, so I am hoping people here might be able to point me towards some locations where I might be able to find jurassic, triassic, permian, or even carboniferous shark teeth. Not asking for anyone's secret spot, but general areas/formations would be great to know about. Thanks in advance!
  10. Mishmash

    Big Brook, NJ

    Hi everyone! I found these at the Big Brook Preserve in Colts Neck, NJ in May of 2020. This was my first fossil hunt so I'm pretty sure I was at the wrong exact location but I was nearby. I found them directly in the creek and had to use a sifter. This was also after a rainstorm. I'm not sure if anything here is a fossil, but I figured I'd ask the experts! Please let me know if you want closer pictures or other angles of any of them. Thanks for taking a look! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
  11. Fossil_Adult

    Trip from corolla beach, NC

    Ok so to start off with this, I’m going to post my finds from a recent trip to the outer banks of North Carolina. I was very disappointed to be going to this location at first, because I had no idea of its fossil significance. I wanted to go further down south where the sharks teeth get huge, but the cases further down for Covid 19 were very high and I didn’t want to risk catching the virus so the whole group (who were all my neighbors) decided to head here instead. The first day on the beach, I found a lot of fish fossils (including those vertebrae’s) but it was the second day that was the best. I came across a canine jaw! With the teeth still inside it. It was just sitting in the gravel where I searched for shark teeth and I was so happy of my find because I knew it was something good. As the days went on, I kept finding more evidence of land mammal fossils here, including an astragalus, a scute for a mammal of some sort, crab fragments, fish bone, and a lot more! I have to say, in my years of collecting North Carolina I’ve never come across such an abundance of land mammal fossils in one week. The one question I have, however, is if there is any way you guys could help me identify the species of the jaw? I tried to look for fossil formations off shore but I can’t find any links leading to what this came from. I tried looking at land mammal fauna’s of N.C. but it pulled up nothing. Is there any way to get a specific ID on this jaw?
  12. Greetings everyone! I'm hoping someone might be able to help ID something that is not in the best of condition/shape. It's quite unusual from what I typically see/find here in Eastern NC - at first I was thinking the root of a whale tooth but it's not like any I've seen/found myself before. So, I'm hoping someone might be able to give direction if this is a tooth root or maybe even a small tusk root, possibly? There is only a tiny bit of enamel present on the tip where the tooth would be and the texture on the "inside" is somewhat similar looking to what I'd see in whale or maybe even a sliver of mastadon tooth but not quite - I tried to get as clear of images as I could but if different angles are needed, just let me know! Any help is greatly apprecaited! Found: Eastern NC - outside of Greenville - in a River- items commonly found in this same area (within the gravel deposit)/around it are large chunks of whale bone (Ear bone, rib, skull and verts), Great White, Giant White and meg shark teeth, and some shell concretions. I've found nothing indicating there is cretaceous within this small area to date and cannot recall finding any other mammal material within this location, either.
  13. Hello again, while looking for more preserved dinosaurian remains I found this: It is from a bequest/inheritance so little is known by the family selling it except that it was bought at an auction in the US and properly declared to customs. It was told to be a pelvic bone of a juvenile triceratops. It measures roughly length: 25cm, width: 18cm, width: 8 cm and the weight is roundabout 2.5 kg. If it is a real pelvic bone to me it looks very worn or in a bad shape. What puzzles me is the black part of rock you can see in the bottom right corner of some pictures... On the other hand it is the first complete/intact pelvic bone I was able to find... What is your opinion on this piece? Is it real or a concretion? Is it a pelvic bone and to which species can (if even possible given the poor information) it be narrowed down? Is it worth to be collected? Thanks in advance!
  14. nala

    US Brachiopods ID

    I received from the states these brachiopods,but no ID and without the site ,perhaps it's a kind of Platystrophia?
  15. Hello everybody, I'm looking for the official excerpts of laws that stipulate that a fossil found on a private land in USA is the property of the landowner who can legally keep it, sell it or export it. Do you know where can I find these documents ? If I'm right, the fossils found in US are not considered as cultural heritage. It that right ? Thanks for your help, BR, Yann
  16. Hi sometime later this year I will be going out West in Alberta, B.C and Saskatchewan. And I will be going down to Montana for 2 days to collect fossils since I can’t really do that in Alberta. I am wondering would I be able to bring those fossils into Alberta and then fly with them, and take them back to Ontario? Thank you!!
  17. nala

    French or US Plate?

    Ihad this plate labelled Fish from the tertiary of France ,i had this typical Dapalis Macrurus from the Oligocene of Aix en Provence at the same time;but i had a real doubt about the multi-fish plate.Oilshale was very kind to help me and he think it could be US
  18. https://us.cnn.com/2019/07/24/us/triceratops-skull-discovery-trnd/index.html
  19. The British are coming to the badlands The project has been dubbed "Mission Jurassic" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47684989
  20. https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-52-million-year-old-bird-fossil-lake-earliest-ancestor-robins-1321857?piano_t=1 https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/52-million-year-old-bird-holds-clues-to-perching-evolution
  21. Hey! I have kind of an odd question. I am purchasing a fossil for a friend as a birthday gift -- between a tip of a mammoth tusk, or a section of mosasaur jaw with teeth. What makes this unique, however, is that we are traveling to the British Virgin Islands (from the United States) for said birthday and I would like to be able to gift the fossil on the birthday instead of waiting until she returns home as we live in different states and I would only be able to ship it to her house and not be there. I am concerned, however, about bringing the fossils with me on the trip as I have heard nightmares about customs causing long hold ups or seizing fossils. Does anyone have any advice on this? Thanks!
  22. So I have a kind of big problem and really hope anyone from the US can help me with that. I've ordered some fossils form an US onlineshop. It's a big online shop from Washington I'm pritty sure everyone knows. It's selling fossils worth thousands of dollars and has daily updates with fossil from all over the world. I won't name it, because I don't know if this is allowed, even though I don't blame the shop in any way. If you want the name -> PM me. I already ordered two times at this shop. Shipping to Germany was no problem and the package arrived as planed. Very well and professional packed, all was perfect. Now I orded a third time at the shop and here is where the problem began. They shipped it and gave me as usual the tracking number. But now the packages seems stuck/lost/hold or whatever in Los Angeles for nearly 2 weeks now. So the tracking page is stamps.com and then USPS Package Tracking. This is the current status, nothing else happend since: It still hasn't left the US apparently. The last two times I orderded, around 3-4 days after this status it gives a new status stating that it's in Germany now. But not this time. I already worte an E-Mail to the onlineshop. They responded immediately, but didn't understand why it wasn't shipped to Germany neither. And that's the part I'm most scared about, as it seems this is an unusual problem for them. They promised me to investigate and answer me within one or two days, but I haven't received any massage for 4 days now from them (I understand it's weekend now). I don't really know what to do and what happened. I'm scared my package and more importantly my money I paid via credit card is lost. I'm not familiar in any way on how the US postal system works. Is stamps.com or USPS a private company? Is there a standart insurance for all international shipping? Is the seller responsable for that as long as it happened within the US? Is it my job to contact the post company? How do I get my money back if the package is lost? Or is it something diffrent? Customs maybe? We're talking a few hundred dollars here. But the last two orders where also a few hundred dollars and there was no problem with US customs. Any advice or any help is very welcomed. Thank you so much! Again: Not blaming the shop in any way, still hoping the package is not lost.
  23. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-horned-dinosaur-crittendenceratops-arizona.html
  24. ElToro

    Megalodon tooth from US 1 (back)

    From the album: Megalodon tooth with unique colours.

    Back of a Megalodon tooth from the East Coast of the US. Found by diver.
  25. ElToro

    Megalodon tooth from US 2 (front)

    From the album: Megalodon tooth with unique colours.

    Front of a Megalodon tooth from the East Coast of the US. Found by diver.
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