Roz Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I found this yesterday on a hunt at the North Sulphur River, which would be coming out of the Ozan formation (pretty sure). I was wondering if it is possibly the short neck type? Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Wow Roz, I'd consider that coffee can vert to be a find of a lifetime. And to think I talk down on the NSR because it gets so much collecting pressure!. Don Fagerstrom with the DPS might be able to help you with ID if nobody else can. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Beautiful! I'm still amazed that we've found two large verts at the NSR in areas where hundreds of people have hunted (both were found less than 300ft from one of the major bridges). Are you sure it's a Mossasaur vert though? The ones I'm used to seeing are concave on one end and convex on the other. It looks more like the large fish vert that I found on my last visit, although mine was less than half the size! Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I found this yesterday on a hunt at the North Sulphur River, which would becoming out of the Ozan formation (pretty sure). I was wondering if it is possibly the short neck type? Nice find, congratulations :Thumbs-up: http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 Thanks MB, love finding reptile!!! I thought it is a plesiosaur, but you think it might be fish? Well, now I don't know which then. Call me slow, Shady W, just figured out who you are... Dan, I think I will email to find out which it is. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Great specimen, it was an amazing find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 Thanks Nicholas.. I just got an ID from Mike E. " It's a plesiosaur vertebrae, probably an elasmosaur from the proportions. Note the two nutritive foramina (openings) in the ventral side as shown in the first picture... The dorsal processes have been broken off.." YIPEE, YAY that is what I was hoping cause I love that reptile! Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Owens Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Congrautations Roz! That is the largest vertebrae I have ever seen come off the NSR! I found some mosasaur that size, but they came from Bear Creek. That looks like it came out recently. I would continue to keep going back to that area if I were you. Again. great find! -----"Your Texas Connection!"------ Fossils: Windows to the past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Thanks MB, love finding reptile!!!I thought it is a plesiosaur, but you think it might be fish? Well, now I don't know which then. Call me slow, Shady W, just figured out who you are... Dan, I think I will email to find out which it is. Whoa! That's weird... you may have figured out who I am... but who are you?!? Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Whoa! That's weird... you may have figured out who I am... but who are you?!? Well, I thought you were Wes? He is a hunter from Plano. He hunts there all the time.. Can u post a pic of the vert u found? Would love to see it! ******************************************************************************** **************** Thanks Mike! I just wish it wasn't hours away Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Well, I thought you were Wes? He is a hunter from Plano. He hunts there all the time..Can u post a pic of the vert u found? Would love to see it! ******************************************************************************** **************** Thanks Mike! I just wish it wasn't hours away Nope, I'm not Wes. I'm Daniel, also from Plano. I should probably try and meet this Wes though! I'm posting pics of my two NSR verts (one fish, one Plesiosaur) to my gallery now. Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 ShadyW, I emailed Wes last night and gave him the link to this site.... Thanks for posting your pics. I agree the one to the left is a fish. I am by no means an expert (so anyone please correct me if I am wrong), but it looks to me like the Xiphactinus audax. Do you have the book, "Fossil Collector's Guidebook to the North Sulphur River"? What I am looking at is Chapter 4 .. plate 10. I am not the best with Id's though. Cool finds! I love river hunting! There are some great books for Texas hunters, some are written by DPS members (Dallas Paleo Society). Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 WOW!!! Great find Roz!!!!!! :Thumbs-up: :Thumbs-up: :Thumbs-up: It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 Thanks Worthy! One of my favorite finds... Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Just wanted to confirm that this is indeed a plesiosaur vertebra, and quite a huge one at that! Awesome find! As the axial face of the centrum looks round rather than kidney- or heart-shaped, I'd say there's a good chance this is a polycotylid vertebra, making this extra cool! 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 anyone know what happened to Roz? She hasn't been here for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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