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Hey everyone, I found this rock the other day when fossil hunting at Beaumaris Bay in Melbourne. The site is well known for late Miocene echinoderms, cetaceans etc. and recently some lobster burrow trace fossils have been described. If anyone has any idea what it might be I'd really appreciate the input!
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So I found this bone like fragment at the fossil bay in Beaumaris, I’m pretty new to this stuff so it could also just be a weird rock but thought I’d ask anyway IMG_0276.mov
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A nice Dictyonema flabelliforme dendroid graptolite from Oslo Fields in Norway. It's Tremadoc, Lower Ordovician in age and is thus maybe around 480 mya. Another angle :
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Hi all, I found a small fossil bone near Airey's Inlet. It was located in the scree slope ~3m above the beach, in material that appeared to be eroded from the sandstone cliff (mixed in with fossil shells, sea urchins and sea urchin spines - one of these is pictured). It looks like there is also a possible bryazoan or sponge on the surface of the bone. Thoughts on ID/age? Cheers Oli IMG_9484.HEIC IMG_9496.HEIC IMG_9493.HEIC IMG_9491.HEIC IMG_9500.HEIC
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Hello everyone! I have always been fascinated in paleontology and have recently started searching for my own fossils. I don't have much experience in fossils as my main interest is in minerals. I was wondering where I should go to look for small fossils like starfish or teeth, and how to find these fossils. I've been to Beaumaris (of course), found a mammal bone, 5 teeth, some urchins, fish grinding plates and some more things. I also know of Allestree in Portsea and have heard rumours about fossils at Clonbinane. Where abouts in Clonbinane are these fossils though? And how do you find them? (digging, chiseling etc) Any new sites or help is greatly appreciated! Thanks Manfi
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From the album: My Echinoid Collection
Clypeaster gipplandicus Bairnsdale Limestone Middle Miocene (16-11 Ma) Nowa Nowa, Victoria, Australia Acquired from a collector during a local trade show, September 2023 This specimen has some nice plate division, but most of the apical disc is missing. This specimen is almost twice the size of my first specimen of this species.-
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Lower Cretaceous Pterosaur from Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia
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107-million-year-old fossil pterosaur bones found at Dinosaur Cove oldest ever discovered in Australia Anna Salleh, ABC Science, May 31, 2023 These magnificent 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones are the oldest ever found in Australia The Conversation, May 30, 2023 The open access paper is: Adele H. Pentland, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, Samantha L. Rigby & Stephen F. Poropat (2023) Oldest pterosaur remains from Australia: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) Eumeralla Formation of Victoria, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2201827 https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2023.2201827 Yours, Paul h.-
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Had a good time with my club yesterday when down at Batesford Quarry and got a nice haul for a first time down there. Not to many larger shark teeth in the piles but there were millions of regular fossils (mostly spines) but always a welcome sight to behold either way
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Houston Museum of Natural Science + T. rex Victoria - July 2021
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I was in the area, so I made a very brief stop by the HMNS. I'll state up-front that this will be extremely dino-centric. What I saw was really great, they have a chronologically-organized display of animals from stromatolites to humans (I only made it to the Cretaceous). The lighting is very dramatic, so seeing it in person is much better than the dark photos portray (I did edit a few of them to enhance visibility). Lots of dynamic posing which is nice compared to other museums. Also, most specimens aren't behind glass, and you can get really close. I believe most of the skeletons are casts (except for a couple of exceptional ones), but they're done well and don't disappoint. They currently have Victoria the T. rex as a traveling exhibit, although I think it has been recently moved and reduced in size to make room for the new traveling exhibit. She's one of the most complete individuals of T. rex and only slightly smaller than Sue (12' tall, 40' long, ~10.5 tons). Victoria was found in SD in 2013. She died sometime in her 20's (?), possibly from an infected bite on her lower jaw from another T. rex. Various elements: I think the feet aren't original. Coracoids, furcula, gastralia: Caudal vertebrae: Cervical vertebrae, some are fused: They had one of her femurs and her skull displayed separately: -
Hi ive planned to head down to the beach at Torquay in Australia I’m im just asking what would I be looking for I know the general shapes and such for fossils laying about or in sand but I’ve seen some videos of people going through slate and sand stone and finding fossils inside and since I’m in Australia I was wondering if there is a specific type of rock or formation to look for since different countries and beaches have different geological layouts and such Thanks
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I have just researched what to look out for when hunting ammonites and other fossils and I read that they can be found in and around the Great Ocean Road but does anyone know any spots that had a high concentration of them?
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Fossil Hunting Holiday at Beaumaris, Australia - Dec 2018
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As the year comes to a close i decided to do a bit more collecting at one of my favourite Australian sites: Beaumaris near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Once again i travelled down and stayed at a motel near the beach for three days (27/12/18 through to 29/12/18). This trip is a sequel to the previous two trips i have made here which are also posted on the forum: Jan 2016 trip: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/61248-fossil-hunting-holiday-in-victoria-australia-dec-2015-jan-2016/ Feb 2017 trip: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/71996-fossil-hunting-holiday-at-beaumaris-australia-feb-2017/ Beaumaris is a significant site with both marine and terrestrial fossils from the latest Miocene aged Beaumaris Sandstone Formation (5 - 6 million years old), which crops out in distinctly red-coloured coastal cliffs and also in offshore rocky reefs. An impressive diversity of both vertebrate and invertebrate fauna occurs here, and the Melbourne Museum has put together a neat PDF of the fossil diversity for those unfamiliar with the site (https://www.bcs.asn.au/fossils_of_beaumaris_2015-02.pdf). My plan was to collect every single low tide across these three days, and sleep during every high tide. Yes, this meant going out collecting in the middle of the night too! My main interest was to collect shark teeth, however they can be tough to find here and are certainly not as common as at many other sites internationally that the people on this forum would be more familiar with. This often seems to be the case with Australian vertebrate fossils. It does however make it quite rewarding when you do eventually find them! The first day of searching (27/12/18) proved to be rather disappointing. I finally got to try snorkelling for fossils, which is a popular method here for finding things exposed along the seabed, but alas after about 3 hours in the water i had not found any bones or teeth. I was unable to locate the nodule bed where most of the vertebrate fossils originate from, which i think played a part in my lack of success. The seabed was also quite sanded over and it was hard to see much. I was definitely out of my element here, but it was also a lot of fun to get close to some of the local marine life, including stingrays! I decided to return to land collecting after not doing very well in the water and when i did so my luck changed greatly. The next two days and nights of land collecting (28/12/18 and 29/12/18) proved to be much more successful and i even got to meet two TFF members on the beach (coincidentally)! @Echinoid and @Tympanic bulla were also out looking, and we had a nice chat before they headed off to continue snorkelling. I then spent most of my remaining time on the beach flipping rocks and examining the pebbles up close, ultimately finishing the trip with a total of five shark teeth which i was very happy with! Carcharodon hastalis tooth as found. 24mm long. Large Carcharodon hastalis upper anterior tooth, as found at 2 am (with a head-torch) on 29/12/18. Measures 56 mm long. I had long been waiting for a tooth of this size! Carcharodon hastalis posterior tooth as found. 15 mm long. Another Carcharodon hastalis posterior as found. 13 mm long. And a small fragment of cetacean bone. Worn pieces like this are the most common vertebrate fossils at Beaumaris. Pictures continued in the next post- 17 replies
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Hi all you dirt under the finger nail fossil maniacs you…. Hi I’m Skye, Mornington located, fossicker who would love to connect with others who would like to hunt together …. Ex student to the late and great prof. Neil Archibald…my spark started when someone gave me 1988 - Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Dougal Dixon for maybe my 6 bday…. I still have my ratty copy….and then prof. Archie rocked my world when he took us on excursions… have spent many, many years trying to find my old journal entries with location but alas I fear they are gone. Have free dived my way around Port Phillip picking up bits as I went…. Beaumaris, Mornington, lilydale ….I would love to make friends, maybe find where it was that I was finding bits as my twin toddlers can spend 7.5 hours scouring the beaches with me hahaha…. Covid has killed my mojo but I want to find my groove again…
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Well my first fossil hunt at this beach…. While dragging toddler twins around for 7.5 hours the hawk isn’t too bad but I may have tossed back an inner ear drum from a dolphin as I’m a dummy and doubted myself. item 1 : image 1-2 coral??? item 2 : images 3-4 I would love to say egg wishful!!!! item 3 : image 5-6 vertebrate??? item 4 : images 7-9 no clue item 5 : images 10-11 wishful crustacean?? item 6 : images 12 oyster items 7 : mixed tube like some very smooth items 8 : bivalve items 9 : lovenia I just want to say if there’s anyone who would like to go out with me that would be amazing …. Fossil hunting seems to be a little lonely hobby.
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Hi everyone, My names Lachlan and I'm a university student at RMIT. I've had a long love of paleontology since I was a child, going around Victoria with my family visiting all the various dinosaur museums and reading tons of books. Although Im studying for my degree, I really want to pick up fossil hunting as a hobby along the side as well as reigniting my passion for learning about the past. I'm not sure if dinosaurs is the right term since when I say that since I think of large reptiles when I say it but Im interested in finding anything and everything there is to know about them. I really appreciate the significance of every fossil thinking that the item thats in my hand was once part of a living creature and the fossil surviving millions of years is just astonishing. It's hard to conceptualize how old fossils really are but when you do, you develop a really deep appreciation and wonder for them. I do love a good shark tooth or vertebrate fossil but finding anything is a gift. I decided to join this community to propel my knowledge of local fossil areas and of the facts about the fossils much faster than I could researching alone. It would be awesome to team up with a few knowledgeable people and go fossil hunting together too!
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Fossil Hunting Holiday at Beaumaris, Australia- Dec 2020
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Hey everyone, i've just yesterday returned from another four day fossil trip to Beaumaris: a coastal suburb in Melbourne, Australia with fossiliferous exposures of the Beaumaris Sandstone Formation. The fossils are about 5.5 million years old (latest Miocene) and comprise an extremely diverse range of both marine and terrestrial animals. A great overview of the Beaumaris fossil fauna is provided by this PDF, for those unfamiliar with the site: https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/beaumaris_fossil_book_museum_victoria.pdf In short, everything from sharks, rays and bony fish to whales, dolphins, seals, birds, echinoids, gastropods, corals, bivalves and others can all be found. It's almost like you need a checklist when collecting here, to mark off the faunal groups that you find one by one. Which makes the collecting rather exciting as you never know what might turn up! Loose fossils can be kept, but the cliffs and foreshore are protected so no excavating or digging of anything in situ is allowed. But this is fine as most fossils are loose on the beach or adjacent shallow seafloor. Lots of people that collect here do so by snorkelling the shallow waters just offshore, and i also brought my wetsuit, snorkel and fins on this trip to search underwater which was very fun. As well as fossils, the waters are rich in modern marine life and it's fascinating to see them up close. The snorkelling and beach collecting proved very successful! The location: Marine mammal bones (whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals): A selection of indeterminate bone chunks. Small pieces of bone are fairly common finds. A small mammal vertebra (caudal?), probably from a dolphin or porpoise. Shown in front and side views. Bony fish: Right and left fish lower jaws, probably from the same species, but found separately so they're not associated. What luck though to have both matching sides! Although the left jaw is from a smaller individual. Crushing toothplate from Diodon formosus. Continued in the next post... (sharks, rays, invertebrates) -
Hello everyone! This is a small fossil I found months ago in the Beaumaris Formation, Victoria, Australia. I've looked through the Fossils of Beaumaris PDF but cannot find anything similar. The measurements are as follows: - 2.5 cm L - 2.4 cm W - 1.2 cm D I have attached some images below which will hopefully be of help!
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Hello everyone! Today I went to Mentone, Victoria (Australia/Down Under) and found what I think + hope to be marine fossil specimens. I was hoping to get your views on whether they are real or pseudofossils. I have looked at information regarding fossils from the nearby Beaumaris fossil site but am unsure. Any help is appreciated! Whale ear bone (?) - L: 8 cm W: 5 cm H: 2.5 cm
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Hey guys hope you're well! I wanted to show you the amazing lovenia woodsii clusters I found today at Beaumaris, and ask for some advice. These are lovenia woodsii. Some still retain amazing detail, like the final pic! Do you guys have any recommendations for coating the sandy matrix the woodsii are sitting in? I would like to prevent them becoming too brittle upon drying out.
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Hey everyone! I was wondering if you could please help me identify these items and whether they are worth keeping! I found these three today at Beaumaris. The first one (pictures 1 + 2) appears to be some odd, fortuitous weathering of sandstone? In the second (picture 2) it seems that there may be some possible gastropod remains in there? The third item - the baguette! (pictures 3 + 4) It caught my interest due to the ridges on the top and flat base. I assume it's likely an sandstone concretion? It feels like rock on the outside and isn't as heavy as ironstone. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Hello everyone! I went for my first fossicking adventure at Beaumaris, Victoria late last week. I was hoping you guys could please help me ID a shark tooth (Image 1) and some other items that I cannot identify (Images 2+3). The dark, cylindrical items in Images 2+3 are hollow inside, which you can see in Image 3. All were found underwater in Beaumaris, Victoria just off the jetty.
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Thought Id as for help, recently found on the beach in gipsland, Victoria, Australia. Not sure if its a tooth or claw, area it was found in is well known for fossil finds. Thanks in advance for any help. Daniel
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Hi guys I recently found these boomerang shaped teeth/shells at one of the beaches at Wilson’s promontory, Victoria. Could someone help me to identify what it is? Thank you!
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Hello everyone! My name is Jasper and I live in Vancouver Island in Victoria. I’m very very new to this hobby, but am really enjoying it! I’m hoping to make some friends and learn some cool things. I would love to be able to go on adventures with some like-minded folks.
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Opal-Filled Fossils Reveal Timid, Dog-Size Dinosaur That Lived Down Under By Laura Geggel, January 17, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/64522-opal-dinosaur-fossils-in-australia.html https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gorgeous-opalised-fossil-turned-out-to-be-an-unknown-species-of-dinosaur Bell, P.R., Herne, M.C., Brougham, T. and Smith, E.T., 2018. Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ, 6, p.e6008. https://peerj.com/articles/6008/ Yours, Paul H.