Kurufossils Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Here is a thread to share some of your rarest partials that if whole would've been incredible specimens, but you know how it is sometimes... Yet they still amazing to own a piece of. I will start off by sharing a piece of the tail of a Probolichas Kristiae, an incredibly unique looking rare lichid trilobite from Oklahoma that would've of been incredible if whole of course yet this piece still has amazing detail and I am more that happy to own 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 This is my treasured specimen, s small and not perfect partial but very rare from this location a Coloborhynchus from Bexhill Wealden UK . Coloborhynchus was a giant pterosaur flying reptile and the largest toothed pterosaur. Size of tooth: 1 cm in length. 12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carboniferouspat Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 That trilobite must have been huge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 This is part of an unidentified species of Cidarid urchin from Central Texas Cretaceous. Apparently only one whole one has been found. I was super lucky to find three partials. Maybe someday I'll find a whole one. 7 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurufossils Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 Wow this thread is already starting off good, nice specimens so far! I wonder what more will be seen as this grows. I'll contribute another rare trilobite partial measuring at 5 inches from a large Megistaspidella Gigas from Sweden. I have never seen a complete one but looking at its smaller Russian counterparts of Megistaspidella sp. If this was complete this would've be an absolute monster of the species. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Certainly not as visually impressive as the spectacular offerings here, but rare partials nonetheless... Odontocephalus sp. -- Cephalic brim (a rare specimen for Ontario, found near my house). Two examples of Terataspis grandis, another very scarce trilobite, also found near my house. A pygidium partial and a hypostome. Two pygidial fragments of Echinolichas cf. eriopis, another pair of finds near my house. I've not seen a complete example of this species in the literature, and neither of its other cousin in this material, Acanthopyge contusa, of which I find plenty of pieces of. These are truly known exclusively from fragments alone. 8 1 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 The biggest are not the rarest. Garumnaster michaleti from lower thanetian of southwest France. 26mm I found this half of a specimen this year. Only one specimen was found in the world in the 19th century and deposited at the MNHN in Paris 9 1 http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Pieces of the Early Jurassic coelacanth, Diplurus longicaudatus. Of the 4 species of fish found in Connecticut, (Shuttle Meadow Formation, Hartford Basin, of the Newark Supergroup) D. longicaudatus is by far the most rarely found. In 25 years of fossil hunting, I have only found 6 or so partials/pieces of this illusive fossil. 11 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 I wonder how many fossil hunters have wished that what they have found was complete? and some nice stuff here by the way. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 4 hours ago, RJB said: I wonder how many fossil hunters have wished that what they have found was complete? and some nice stuff here by the way. RB Oh I know i have, many times. 1 1 Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Here is a couple of the rarer specimens I have found. Undescribed ophiuroid and a partial enantiornithine humerus Mike 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 How about a quick game of Pac-Man. To interesting to throw away .Missing area shows Septal architecture. Rare ammonite Tiltoniceras Transition Beds Nottingham, uk 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Nautiloid partials can be interesting. Here are a few septa from the phragmocone of a very large Cenoceras with part of the siphuncle remineralized as barite on its lap. And here's a Plagiostoma bivalve and colony of tube worms sitting on part of the living chamber of another Cenoceras. 8 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 23 hours ago, Bobby Rico said: How about a quick game of Pac-Man Looks more like the alien from the movie "Alien". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 This has always been a favorite of mine- a partial Megistaspidella gigas trilobite and a partial cephalopod from the Ordovician of Sweden. @Ryann10006 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 On 12/7/2019 at 3:28 PM, Mike from North Queensland said: Here is a couple of the rarer specimens I have found. Undescribed ophiuroid and a partial enantiornithine humerus Mike That bird bone is indeed a drool worthy fossil ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Probably my favourite partial, and very rare. The many armed starfish Plumaster ophiuroides (or maybe murchisoni), from near the Lower/Middle Lias boundary, Lower Jurassic of the Yorkshire coast, UK. The London Natural History Museum will get it eventually - they have one or two others but this shows the remarkable arm ossicles unusually well. (Prepped with a modified dental descaler under a microscope - about 150 hours but worth it!) 12 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 The kids in the classrooms we visit would probably pick the partial Diplodocus bone we have but my favorite partial is a Pteranodon wing bone from Smoky Hill Chalk. It is one of my favorite fossils. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, TqB said: many armed starfish Plumaster ophiuroides That’s incredible both the specimens and the prep work. Great great find Tarquin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurufossils Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 @Nimravis Awesome to see another! I wonder if a whole one will ever turn up one day all I've seen are tail end partials. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Both might be missing their processes, but I find these Eocene seasnake vertebrae pretty cool. They are somewhat uncommon in MD. They now reside in the Calvert Marine Museum Collections. Paleophis sp. 7 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruger9a Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Here's one of my favorites. Trilobite - Conolichas eichwaldi, (Nieszkowski,1857) Upper Ordovician (Katian) Pechurki quarry, Slantsy, St Petersburg region, Russia 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Definitely does not look like amazing fossil but it is incredible rare in the U.K. it is part of an old museum collection, a tip of a tusk from a Straight Tusk Elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) . From the the Middle and Late Pleistocene found in Tornewton cave Devon UK. On a very silly stand I made. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mioplosus_Lover24 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Definitely the fossil bird I found in the Greenriver Formation last summer! It is still 75% complete but it is sadly missing parts of it's leg, but it has a skull! Can't wait to get this thing fully prepped out next year!!! 10 3 "Life is too complex for me to wrap my mind around, that's why I have fossils and not pets!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Mine is certainly the holotype of Flexomornis howei. The initial discovery was a scapula, partial carpometacarpus, partial tibiotarsus, and possible partial humerus. A second specimen I collected from a different site yielded a coracoid, sacrum, ulna, and partial scapula. 11 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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