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Sadly this fossil comes with no information on find location. I can only say UK. All thoughts welcome! It seems vertebra-shaped to me, but ichthyosaur doesn't seem quite right. The piece is about 6cm thick so the hole through the middle doesn't seem like erosion through the thinnest part of a biconcave disc, I don't think the concavity that remains is pronounced enough. The hole is definitely more like a 'channel' - maybe 3 cm long.
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From the album: Texas Eocene
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Hello, I just saw this "Theropod" vertebra from the Ouled Abdun basin, on Facebook today. Is this really one ? If this is really one, I would use the pictures of this specimen to find missidentified Plesiosaur, crocodile, and mosasaur vertebrae that are really theropod. Thanks !
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From the album: Neutache Shoreline - Sharks & Fish
3/11/2024 Thanks to @Al Dente for pointing out that is in fact a bony fish vertebra, not a lamnoid shark vert.© CC BY-NC
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I found this Monday in Greensmill Run in Greenville NC while looking for sharks teeth with friends. It looks like a vertebra but I’m not sure what it’s from. I added as many angles as I could to the image section.
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Trying to figure out what I found on the beach. Location: Charleston, South Carolina seems most like a sawfish vert based on some of the illustrations I found, but there are less images Online of those than shark and other fish.
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Hi everyone, I'm still new to this forum, so please correct me if I make any inappropriate comments. I just saw this vertebra fossil for sale, which comes from the Kem Kem Beds in Morocco. Based on its appearance, I suppose it might be a caudal vertebra, likely from the distal end of the tail. However, I'm curious if there is a certain species that this vertebra can be assigned to. I would love to hear your opinions. Thank you very much!
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Here is a small vertebra I found on the coast of Hilton head South Carolina. It seems relatively complete and while I’m pretty sure it’s a fish vert, I can’t find an exact Match, so if anyone knows for sure it’s from a fish I’d like to know! Also if anyone knows where on the animal this would be found, that would be super cool! IMG_0526.mov
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I'm trying to ID this for a friend. She found it at the FIsher-Sullivan site in Virginia, from the Virginia Eocene. It's all marine, but there have been snake found there. It's ridiculously small at 4 mm!
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Pretty sure this is a hadrosaur dorsal but I’m not 100% on that, I’ve never found one this big and most of the hadro verts I’ve found are boxy. Let me know your thoughts. Dinosaur park formation
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I found this vertebra while collecting seashells along the Persian Gulf in 2012. It is not a fossil and I am not an expert in identifying vertebrate remains. The size suggests dog, but the shape, at least to me, does not. Any ideas from the vert people? Thanks Mike
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Found in Polk County, Des Moines, Iowa USA
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It has been 11 days since I last went hunting. Hunting partner chose a spot that we had not visited in 5 years, It used to have Megalodons and Hemipristis , colorful like Bone Valley mines. I wondered if they were still there. I found an Equus tooth just before I reached this mostly Miocene Location... The Hemis were still there. Unfortunately broken A look at everything I found, Not a lot of variety. Sting Ray teeth, shark teeth, Those worm like (seashells??) transformed to Silica... Here is one up close. But then I find a clump together also, I find modern versions of these called Worm Shells, but modern ones are smooth lacking the horizontal banding. Possibly @MikeR can add illumination... especially on approximate age. The other odd one is this broken Vertebra: I wondered 2 things: Is this indicative of a missing epiphysis? and could I connect this Vert to Dugong? Have not completed the 2nd task. Jack
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ID Help Needed - Cretaceous Vertebra - Monmouth Co., NJ (Wenonah Fm.)
Masonk posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi All, I found this Vertebra in Monmouth Co. over the weekend. Original assumption was Mosasaur, however @frankh8147 suggested it could possibly be another marine reptile. I'll happy regardless of the outcome because it's my first large vertebra from NJ. I'm sure Frank will weigh in here or on FB, however thought I'd throw it out to the forum for opinions. If any additional photos are needed, please let me know. Thanks in advance! I took photos with and without magnification.
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Hi guys, I'd love help IDing this vertebra and what formation it likely came from. I know that's difficult, but I figured this would be worth a shot. It was bought at a mineral and gem show on Long Island in New York about 20 years ago with no information about it except that it was labeled "sauropod vertebra". Dimensions: About 5" wide at widest, about 7" long at longest, and about 4" tall at the tallest. Measurements were taken while the specimen was laying on its side.
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Edmontosaurus vertebra
palochris68 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This is an Edmontosaurus vertebra, or at least that's how it was sold to me. Can you confirm this? Do you find it to be of good quality, with visible red flags? Which part of the body would it belong to? caudal? dorsal?
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Found these on a gravel bar in Eastern Ks. and I don't know if anyone can id them but I figured it was worth a shot. I have done my own research and with fish verts they seem to all look VERY similar, thank you all for your help! @hemipristis could you help with these? Thank you!
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Charleston, South Carolina Shark Teeth and Other Finds
JessicaCharleston posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello! I am a novice in Charleston, South Carolina primarily interested in shark teeth. While I have a few fossil books, I am not a very visual learner so I struggle with some of my identifications. I wanted to create a key for myself with my actual finds, so I can compare future finds to my physical specimens instead of printed pictures. I was hoping to get confirmation or correction on my bigger/better teeth and other beach finds that I have. I've also included a picture of teeth I'm not too certain on, as well as a number of finds that I'm nearly certain are rocks but I can't convince myself to toss them. Please help me put these rocks out of their misery! I've included an anterior and posterior picture. Thank you so much for your help and expertise! Hopefully creating this key for myself will help me be more self reliant in the future! Close Ups: Oops, top right is a ray mouth plate I think.
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Rain is in the forecast for SW Florida for the next week. One of my favorite locations has been too deep to hunt for weeks but had come down a little. I decided to push the limits with luck and go hunting today, in anticipation of deeper water for months to come. The deep water took away many locations that had treated me kindly in the past. As a result I was not finding very much and was trying to get as close to that deep water and fast currents without actually falling in. Well, I did fall in, donating another baseball cap and a shovel to this location. The shovel is about 7 feet down in fast water and it would not have been wise for me to try for it today. I will retrieve it when the waters recede , likely in September. I did get the sieve back... it floats. Not very much for my favorite location, but I paid the price for hunting in deep water. There are a couple of interesting finds here. The Tigers tend to be significantly larger than those I find in Peace River proper. This one is a good example... I have found some Tridactyl horse fossils here. The most common find is Nannippus peninsulatus. This VERY beat up upper horse tooth may be a tridactyl. I am thinking that @fossillarry has identified to species on a lot less than this. Maybe he can pull some magic here. I do not think this is Nannippus. For one thing, the size. Am I imagining an isolated protocone there ? Here is another Oddity... This is kind of unique in terms of wear pattern that I have not seen previously. But my question is about the interior bone. Less than a week ago, I found a Whale Pelvic bone where the interior looked almost exactly as this bone looks. So I am developing a Hypothesis that ONLY marine mammals can have porous bone that looks like this, not land mammals. Numerous TFF members are familiar with both marine and land mammal bones. This Hypothesis should be easy to prove/disprove. I am taking a poll. All Comments and Suggestions appreciated , Jack
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Today I finally got back out to my Dimetrodon site to see if spring storms revealed anything new. After several hours sweating my butt off, I spied the edge of a vert peaking out of the ground! Not only was it a great find, it was still in situ, which means I have a horizon to excavate! This make 2 verts very close together and many sail spine segments. Fingers crossed there's more waiting to be uncovered. My attempts at identifying it, looks like it might be the axis vert. It appears to to have a very pinched line down the center, not a base for a sail spine. Although I'm not hopeful that there is a skull there, I should have already seen major parts on the surface. Sorry, forgot to include, this is upper Wellington fm, Noble county, OK, USA
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Found on a sand bar in E Kansas. I have no idea what this goes to… its odd shape is throwing me off. Thank you in advance for any help/pointers! Measurements are in cm/mm
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Didelphis virginiana - Opossum Cervical Vertebra
Jaybot posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Neutache Shoreline
Opossum cervical vertebrae can have unique, 'thick' neural process. Found in Glacial deposits, E Kansas #VL29 5/19/24© CC BY-NC
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Over Memorial Day Weekend I was lucky enough to find this beauty in the surf off the New Jersey Shore. Judging by the size I'm thinking its a whale vertebra, but I'm no expert. Any ideas?
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Found on beach at Runswick Bay in Yorkshire UK. It’s about 15cm long.
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Found this recently in glacial till material in E Kansas. What I find unusual is the rather thick neural process- I’ve personally never seen anything like it. Any ideas, suggestions, or corrections are greatly appreciated; I’m trying to learn more about iding vertebrae. Measurements in cm/mm As always thank you everyone!
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