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Hi all. I don't really know anything about fossils. I have always been fascinated by them, but have no real knowledge. I found this in a lake in Central Saskatchewan. Someone on Reddit suggested it's a vertebra. How do I go about identifying which animal it may have come from? It's 5x7 cm
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Thanks in advance. Any help you can give this newbie will be appreciated! I found this on east coast of central Florida, about a mile west of the Indian River Lagoon. It weighs about 10 grams. Most of the vertebra is hard like stone. Except on two of the sides, those cream color areas are like very densely packed powder. I've scraped away a lot of it and am wondering if I should try to clean it all out. Does an ultra sonic cleaner help with an item like this? Also, the concrete like deposits that are filling the openings. Can I aggressively clean those holes out? Any chance it's a xiphactinus?
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Howdy Everyone! I found this batch of fossils (maybe a rock or two) in Myrtle Beach, SC. Any assistance in identification is greatly appreciated, GOOD LUCK! (Apologies if these photos end up out of order)
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Found these and a few other things, including petrified wood, modern bone, old looking mineralized bone and new looking mineralized bone, and brachipods in small chunks of limestone. All found in a streambed in Ames, IA just north of Des Moines. Vertebra is flattened, and I'm fairly sure the thing in the middle is a crushing shark tooth. New to the area, geologic map said pleistocene deposits only. Thank you
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Need help in IDing … Located on Holden Beach, NC In second pic I placed item beside a Great White Shark tooth for reference. Has designs in side of vertebra.
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Here is another set of beach finds I need help pinpointing. The small round one is a shark vertebra I think. The larger black one is a vertebra of some kind but I have no idea what from, I know it is highly weathered. These were both found on the beach in North Carolina, near the Fort Macon area. The one with all the holes I am guessing is a fragment of a dolphin jawbone, but If I am way off here or if you can pinpoint it any further let me know! This piece came from a sample of a tailings pile from the Aurora phosphate mine in NC. Thanks again!
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Hello everyone! I've found quite a number of interesting things at Holden Beach, North Carolina since the replenishment project last year. Most of the stuff I've found I was able to identify fairly easily as I started to learn more (A big thanks to a large number of people on this forum, I did a lot of browsing here over the last year), but this vertebra is one thing I haven't pegged down 100% that I've been curious about. I found it back this April one morning, barely exposed in a tide pool. The area currently has things from Cretaceous to Pliocene washing out, but I think it looks fairly young as far as fossils go. The spinous process looks like it was broken off more recently, possibly due to the replenishment project; it wasn't a very gentle procedure for any of the fossils or seashells! I've heard from a couple of individuals that it may be a worn down manatee or dugong vertebra, which I am leaning towards myself, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to get additional opinions on it before the upcoming Aurora Fossil Festival. My phone camera is iffy with focusing, so sorry if the labels look to be somewhat blurry! I've included a couple of bonus pictures from the day I discovered it (I dropped my poor phone in the tide pool while I was snapping shots of it). It looks to be around 11 cm (4.33 Inches) across the transverse process, around 7 cm (2.755 Inches) long overall, and around 7.8 cm (3.07 Inches) wide on the body.
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This is a vertebra that was originally marketed as that of an iguanodon. This, quite frankly, is almost certainly not true, and I judge it to be that of a fish- but of course I am no authority on this matter, so I thought I'd put it to you guys to make sure. If you could, would you be able to identify down to a family or genus (or better yet a species, but I imagine that would be incredibly difficult) as well? Thanks in advance for any proposed IDs Othniel
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Found these two vertebrates today. Quite the opposite. The big one I'm leaning bison cervical vertebra...it is 4.5" x 6" top to bottom with what's available. The small one is .75" across and 1" top to bottom. It's in pretty decent shape and was sitting on the edge of the river water and sand barely exposed. Whatever it's from is pretty small. Can't be deer this time ( or could it?) Even small animals like possum, armadillo, raccoon all seem larger than this unless it's a juvenile vertebra or a rat, house cat or squirrel? No clue. Could be modern or could be older. Pleistocene deposit finds here all the time.
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Below are some micro vertebrae from the Hell Creek formation. Any idea what they came from? 1. 2.
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I recently added this Palaeophis snake vertebra to my collection Looks real to me. But I am not convinced the data (formation & age) are correct Any comments appreciated Thanks
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Hello . Recently got this caudal vert from Hill county of judith river formation . Is this a hadrosaur or a ceratopsian vert ? Best Regards Guns
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Found what might be a vertebra yesterday- let me know what yall think with these photos! It looks like it’s about 2 and a half inches tall, or about 6.35 centimeters. It looks like it’s 2.56 centimeters long. Both are just my closest estimates, so take them with a grain of salt-
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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Curious about a couple of the fossils I found today, the first one I’m not sure what it might be, second one a hadrosaur vert but I’m wondering if the damage to it isn’t simply from erosion. Maybe bite marks or some pathology? dinosaur park fm
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Dear All I've discovered the following which I believe is a tail vertebra approximately 100 m west of Brook chine, Isle of Wright, UK. Is there any of you who can narrow down what it is specifically e.g. animal and body part. I froze my off for four hours in downpouring rain with bone-chilling winds with all my clothing 110% soaked (only gonna make the mistake of forgetting rain clothing and wellingtons once) in the hunt for this one so I praise myself quite lucky for finding this and not catching a cold . When I went to the local pub afterwards my hands were that numb that I couldn't even lift my glass of soda, had to use both hands!
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This vertebra was found on a NJ beach. It measures about 2.75 by 2.5 inches in size. It appears to be a bone and not a fossil. Just curious what it is from. Thank you in advance.
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Hey everyone, I have a vertebra I just finished preparing that I was looking for an ID. It was found in the Hell creek formation near Ekalaka Montana. It is a little crushed and not complete unfortunately but the centrum looks a little geometric to me so I have a tentative ID of a dorsal hadrosaur vertabra. It is 10.5cm long by 15.5cm tall by 6.5cm wide. I would appreciate confirmation or to figure out if it's something else as always thanks for your time and expertise.
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After finding my pyritized ichthyosaur vertebra in the Grayson Formation last Friday, I decided that it was time to revisit previous exposures I had first discovered three years ago with a fresh set of eyes. I made a trip to several of those spots the following Saturday and one of the fossils I found is another vertebra. I initially wrote it off as a fish vertebra because it was so thick, then decided it wasn't flaky enough to be fish and the two holes on one side meant it must be a shark centrum, then thought maybe it could be an ichthyosaur caudal, and as of now I think it might be a plesiosaur caudal. As you can probably tell, I can be pretty indecisive! I also promise that the grooves on the face of the vertebra going towards the center weren't slips with the dental pick I was using; they were already there. It's about half an inch in diameter and a quarter of an inch thick. Let me know what you all think. This thing has me stumped!
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Can anyone help me identify this vertebra I found at a beach while sea shell hunting?
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I already wrote about in a previous trip report back in September, but I thought it worth posting here as well (I'll link the original trip report below). I'm proud to say that as of last October I was able to donate my first fossil to science - a life-long goal of mine since I was a kid! The mosasaur vertebra I found has the potential to be one of the oldest known to science, or at the very least one of the oldest found in North America. I donated it to SMU's collection after correspondence with Dr. Mike Polcyn as it only seemed right that one of the leading experts on early mosasaurs should have it. Alongside the vertebra I also donated two Ptychodus teeth found within the same shale layer to assist in the dating process. Basal Mosasaurid (anterior caudal vertebra) Upper Cretaceous (Middle Cenomanian) Lake Waco Formation Central Texas - found on September 15, 2022 Donated October 14, 2022 to Southern Methodist University ^ @Jared C and I recently returned to the site to collect unweathered bentonite to assist in the dating process. I haven't taken the several bags we filled up to SMU to deliver to Dr. Polcyn yet but plan to do so soon.
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