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Hiya, found this in Southerndown, Wales. I think it could be bone but I dont know. And even if it is bone, I've no idea what animal it'd be from. This site is jurassic 200-190 myo. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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Hi, At Trefil quarry, Wales, I found these. They were found very close to one another. This site was a carboniferous coral reef. If anyone can ID, or point me in the right direction, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello all, Today I found many trilobites from a locality called Gilwern quarry in Wales They are from the Ordovician period. Here are 2 of my best finds. I would love to get an ID on them! The complete one (~2cm) I don’t know what it could be , the second one (just the head) ~1cm is probably Trinucleid? Kind regards Thomas
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Hi, we come across this pattern on a hike in Wales that didn’t seem to match the rest on the rock and were curious, does anyone have any suggestions?
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The thread http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/84678-adams-silurian/ was getting rather enormous, so I have decided to leave that one to deal with the Llandovery and Wenlock and put my specimens from the Late / Upper Silurian here, though I don't have a great deal of material from the Ludlow and Pridoli yet. However, I do still have some jolly nice specimens to show off here. Here are my other collection threads for the Cambrian and Ordovician ; http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78887-adams-cambrian/&tab=comments#comment-832018 and : http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78974-adams-ordovician/&tab=comments#comment-832912 In the mid 1980's, on the way home from one of my annual visits to the Hay-on-Wye second-hand bookshops, I managed to persuade my girlfriend at the time to take a bit of a detour and stop off at a roadcuttting just outside Aymestrey,, Herefordshire in the Welsh Borderlands. The rock here is the Aymestry (sic) Limestone Formation, part of the Upper Bringewood Beds and is Gorstian, Lower Ludlow in age, so about 426 mya and a little younger than the Much Wenlock Shale Formation. Many species of coral, trilobites and brachiopods found in the formation are the same as those found at Dudley, but the bed is noted for its massive numbers of the brachiopod Kirkidium knighti (was K. knightii),a lovely, large pentamerid. In fact, during my hour or so searching, I found almost nothing but this species, the only exception being a couple of Atrypa reticularis. The problem was that this limestone is thick and seriously hard, even the broken bits are generally huge, but I managed to obtain half a dozen reasonable specimens and about the same number of fragments. Over the years I have traded, given away or sold them, so that now I only have the best one left. Here is Kirkidium knighti : It's a shame the tip of the beak is broken off : I make index cards for all my fossils, this is the one I made for the specimens at the time, back in the mid 1980's : And today's version : There was a minor extinction between the Wenlock and the Ludlow, known as the Mulde event and it is often said to have primarily effected graptolites and conodonts, but it seems to me it had a massive impact on the bryozoan faunas of the time too. Gone are the varied stony stick and mound trepostomes that made up such an integral part of many faunas from the Middle Ordovician through to the Middle Silurian and even cystoporid groups such as the Constellariidae became extinct at this time. Trepostomes and cystoporids did survive until the end of the Triassic, but were never as important again, the bryozoan faunas would start to become dominated by fenestrids in the Devonian, though they reached their peak of diversity and distribution in the Carboniferous. I will look closely at my limited number of rocks, but I don't think I have a single Late Silurian bryozoan. I know our friend @Mainefossils studies the Late Silurian Leighton Formation in microscopic detail, but I can't recall him posting any bryozoans. Are there any, Asher, old chap? Interesting.
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Sorry that the pictures aren't the clearest, they were the best I could get. I found this rock about 10 years ago on a beach in South Wales, and I was never able to figure out if it was a fossil or why it looks like it does. I would be interested to know what caused this. It has ridged spike-shaped marks on it, which are raised on one side (photo 2) and dip inwards on the other (photo 1). Thank you!
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A rangeomorph holdfast trace fossil from the Ediacara formation, Rawnsley quartzite of the Flinders Range, South Australia. This specimen is Medusina mawsoni, so called because it was until recently thought to be a jellyfish, but is now believed to be the attachment point of a fractal rangeomorph as Charniodiscus is the point of anchorage for Charnia sp. This one may have been the holdfast point for some species of Rangea. The diameter of the outer circle is 1.5 cm and the fossil is estimated to be 555 million years old.
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Race to find world's oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in United Kingdom
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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. -
Hello Again. Today I would like help with what I think is called a concretion that I found in Llantwit Major, South Wales on the beach on Saturday 16th Sept 23. There is something inside like a Nautilus, I think. I had a go at it with a rotating Dremel and a chisel and hammer, but I scratched the fossil, so I stopped. I have bought a Dremel 290 Engraver that is reciprocating, but I haven't used it yet. I wanted to get some advise first. So if you know what this is, I would love to hear from you. I also nearly broke my back retrieving this, so I want to get in right.
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Can anyone ID this fossil shark tooth I found on a beach near Rhossili, Wales, UK?
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Photo attached. The fossil is above my boot at the bottom. I originally took this photo of the dead Northern Gannet and only just looked back on it to see the seemingly huge shark tooth lodged in the rock by my foot. My boots are size 9 for reference if that helps. Thank you! -
Hi, I have just come across a box of trilobites for my kids section in my shop and I have no idea what they are. Could someone help with at least a name so I can make a little info label for the kids? I think they are from Wales in the UK. Thank you.
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I thought I’d start this thread of any non-Yorkshire ammonites that I find. It might be quite short but here we go. First up is a small Androgynoceras sp. from Charmouth, Dorset, that I found last week. The ammonite is about an inch.
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So, I thought I would start a similar thread to the "Fossil from Each of the 50 States" thread. But one for the UK. Show a fossil from each county in the UK - England,(48), Wales (22), Scotland (33) & Ireland. And for Ireland, we can include Northern (6) and Southern (26).
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Ordovician opabiniid-like animal from Welsh Sheep Field (United Kingdom)
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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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Just wondering if anyone can identify if these are just stones or possibly have fossils in them? Found at Llanddwyn beach, Angelsey in North Wales yesterday. Thanks! Rock 1 - darker rock with jagged-edged lighter parts Rock 2 - Sandstone rock with light coloured lines in
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Found on Llanddwyn beach in North Wales, is it colonial coral? Would it look even cooler if I cracked it open or would it ruin it? There is what appears to be sand in the rock, but I’d like to also know what kind of rock the black part is. Thanks for any help! Desperate to know! IMG_5385.MOV
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Hi to all, first time poster here. I have recently returned from Anglesey with a handful of finds in tow and would like some ID if possible. This is a find of 2 fossils on the same rock, I was thinking some sort of coral....
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Upper Carboniferous (Duckmantian) Fish/shark tooth from coal measures. N. Wales.
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Hi people! I'm a PhD student studying a Duckmantian fossil forest in North Wales. I have found these phosphatic fish/shark? teeth and scales I need an ID on. I suspect they are Adamantina Foliacea (Cuny and Stemmerik 2018) but that is a marine shark and this sequence is almost certainly completely freshwater and thought to be an upland swamp. I'm currently doing isotope work on the nodules and plant fossils and that appears to be confirming this is a completely freshwater system. Anyone have any ideas? You'll have to click on the images again once you've opened them to zoom in! Sorry for the poor quality! Thanks, Tom -
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Trinucleus fimbriatus (Murchison) Trilobite Ordovician period, Llandeilo series, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales.- 1 comment
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