bruce Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Three Myliobatiformes vertebrae Astoria Formation - MioceneFound on the north shore of the Columbia River at Knappton, WA Given to Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, 2013 Dr. Michael Newbrey was interested in studying them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deutscheben Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Arachnid (possibly Curculioides sp.?) Energy Shale - Pennsylvanian Vermilion County, IL Donated to the Illinois State Museum, September 2015 This specimen was found on state land and arthropod fossils are rare from this deposit. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/60016-pennsylvanian-arachnid-donated-to-illinois-state-museum/ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediospirifer Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Here's my contribution: Pathological Glyptorthis insculpta Ordovician, Cincinnatian series, either Waynesville or Liberty formation (surface collected from an area with both exposed and weathered loose) Roadcut near Brookville, IN Orton Geological Museum Ohio State University) The brachiopod specialist who examined my specimens, David Wright, said he'd never seen this kind of pathology and was interested in further study. Linked page: Pathological Brachiopods! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) More vertebrate bits (shark teeth, chondricthyan cartilage, fish jaws, fish scales, coprolites) from Texas and Oklahoma added to the AMNH collections. Numbers pending. TFF members Carl (and my wife Fiona) and dinodigger in attendance. Age: Early Permian Localities: Seymour, TX & Waurika, OK Donated to: American Museum of Natural History Edited December 31, 2015 by Carl 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Crockhey Opencast had finished and I had a surplus of fossils after sorting through what I actually wanted to keep and decided it would be a good idea to donate some to a museum rather than have them all just sat in a box somewhere..... A friend felt the same and we had been doing the rounds of the museums with the best fossil displays all around the country and were very impressed with Lapworth Museum part of Birmingham University....we were so impressed by the old style hardwood victorian display cabinets (It was like walking back in time) that we decided to let them have a good representative sample of what fossils were found at crockhey for 2 reasons 1. The material would be viewed and hopefully used by students being a University Museum and they also had a recent acquisitions display cabinet where stuff was put out on display.... 2. They already held an important upper carboniferous collection from Cosley in Staffordshire and we thought it would be good for them to have similar material and preservation to compare sites….. The biggest piece of fern donated to Lapworth Museum Birmingham University…. Paripteris gigas.... Upper Carbonifereous..... Westphalian... Crockhey Opencast Wigan.... Along with this they had my best tree trunk cast and a large representative sample of siderite nodular plant and animal fossils to be used by students for research and education.... I received a very nice letter of thanks for the above at the time... Anyone passing through Birmingham UK try and make sure you visit the museum.... Some fabulous fossils.... 5 Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Marine Coprolites Eagle Ford Formation Lewisville, Texas University of Colorado, Boulder I had received a donation of approximately 89 coprolites from a gentleman in Texas when he learned that I enjoyed studying them. Because they had all been found in close proximity, had diverse morphology and significant inclusions, I felt they would be better suited for study in an academic setting. So after analyzing, photographing and documenting each to the best of my ability, they were sent to the University of Colorado where they will be used in a comparative study of marine coprolites from another region. The photos below are of some of the more interesting specimens. Sorry, there is no scale on these photos, but the following ranged in size from 3 to 4 cm. Since they were donated mid-2015, no study has yet been published. 6 Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterrack Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 This was found in Jefferson Co. Ms. it is a ground sloth(Paramylodon Harlani) humerus. It is the most complete specimen of it's kind and one of the most complete Paramylodon bones ever found/reported in the twin states of Ms.& Al. Three such humeri were found in the Black Prairie of Alabama in the 1970 & 1980, but none were complete as this. I donated it to the Ms. Museum of Natural Science in Jackson Ms. so it can be studied by George Phillips and put on display. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Peradectes gulottai (marsupial) Early Eocene, Nanjemoy Formation Stafford County, Virginia Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC The specimen was donated so it could be studied and described. It was a new marsupial species. Marco Sr. 8 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 A new genus and species of a flightless penguin-like seabird or plotopterid, is described in the May issue of the Journal of Paleontology, was donated to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. I found three concretions in a slide above a remote area in the Lincoln Creek Formation in Washington State in 2012, and sent them to Dr. Gerald Mayr, fossil bird expert. The bones date from late Eocene or early Oligocene are the first documented bird fossils reported from the Lincoln Creek Formation. This find was also unique in that it contained the first and only complete right tibiotarsus ever found. When asked about the size of the bird, Dr Mayr replied, "Olympidytes thieli may have been about the size of a larger extant penguin, such as the Emperor Penguin” (average height four feet). Plotopteridae have only been found in North America and in Japan. Contained in the concretions were both femora, both tibioitarsi, two caudal vertebrae, and a pygostyle (tailbone). Not shown are a partial patella, parts of two sternal ribs and two gastroliths. The original concretions were re-assembled to show the position in where they were found in 2012. Here is part of one of the hollow bones that was protruding out one end of the concretion that indicated it might be from a bird. This is the same hollow-bone concretion, partially prepared being examined by Jim Goedert and compared to a cast of plotopterid bone Jim received from Japan. The matrix was hard to separate from the bone, without damaging the surface and fine features such as muscle connection points, so mechanical preparation was stopped it was sent to Germany for acid preparation. The largest concretion when broken showed several bones inside. References: Gerald Mayr and James L. Goedert (2016). "New late Eocene and Oligocene remains of the flightless, penguin-like plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) from western Washington State, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1163573. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 This tooth was donated to the Smithsonian on 28 May 2016. It is from the Oligocene of North Carolina and specifically from the Belgrade Quarry. The donation was made at the Aurora Fossil Festival. There is a full post about this in this same Forum. 7 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Also donated at the Aurora Fossil Festival and in the same detailed post as the above tooth, to the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History at the College of Charleston is this tooth. Also from the Oligocene of North Carolina and Belgrade Quarry. Initially ID'd as Odontocete indet. 7 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 A couple years ago I donated a partial brissid echinoid and partial crab carapace to the UF/Florida Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL. Early Oligocene, Suwannee Formation, Vulcan Mine, Brooksville, FL http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/37642-vulcan-mine-brooksville-another-echinoid-id/?hl=vulcan http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/44747-vulcan-mine-brooksville-fl-partial-crab/?hl=vulcan 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Pristichampsus ToothAquia Formation, Potomac River, MD. First published record of this species at this Paleocene site on the Potomac river. Donated to the Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Pennsylvanian period Eudora shale Wyandotte county, Kansas USA Actinopterygian - fish jaw Found - September 2015 Donated to American Museum of Natural History in New York Link to original thread - http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/57812-upper-penn-eudora-shale-nodule/ 8 1 Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan from PA Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Pachycephalosaur Cranial Spikes Hell Creek Formation Harding County, South Dakota Donated to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada to be studied by Dr. David Evans 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony G. Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Flower Green River Formation, Parachute Creek Member Douglas Pass, Colorado. Radar Dome area. Denver Museum of Nature and Science. When I first saw this flower, I walked right past it thinking it was a dead flower laying on the rock. I'm glad something in my head made me go back and take another look. I realized that this specimen was rare and asked the Denver Museum if they were interested in it. They were, and the donation was made. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Cookiecutter Shark Teeth (Isistius sp.) Hawthorn / Okeechobee Group Okeechobee Formation / Peace River Formation Sarasota County, FL Pliocene/Pleistocene (likely) or late Miocene (possibly) While checking with Dr. Richard Hulbert of the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) about the possible stratigraphy of the locality in which these tiny and delicate shark teeth are found (the beloved and renown "Cookiecutter Creek" as it is known on this forum), I asked Dr. Hulbert if they had any specimens of this species in the museum's collection. He answered back that the museum presently did not have this taxon in their collection and so I pulled out my finds from their little container and mailed them up to Dr. Hulbert. I was hoping to hand these over in person but Hurricane Matthew had other plans and canceled the volunteer dig at the Montbrook site last week so they went off in a padded envelope by post instead. After getting a tour of the collection up at FLMNH it seems hard to imagine that they lack anything that has come out of the ground here in Florida. I was glad to learn that I had something that could fill a hole, albeit a micro-hole, in their collection. These are not the most common of fossil shark teeth so I was glad that I was able to provide a nice assortment to the museum for anybody wishing to study the fossilized teeth from one of my favorite shark families. Maybe one day someone will be able to say with certainty which species of Isistius we are finding here in South Florida (Isistius triangulus or Isistius brazilienses or Isistius sp. nov.). Funny how seeing these specimens off to a good home in an important collection is just as much fun as finding them in the first place. Cheers. -Ken 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dre464 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Plethodid Fish Mouth Plate Atco Formation (Lower Austin Group, Early Coniacian [Late Cretaceous-Approximately 89 MYA]) Martin Marietta Cement Plant - Midlothian, Texas (Field Trip) Donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York I posted a question about this strange specimen I found on a field trip to the Martin Marietta Cement Plant in Midlothian. JohnJ suggested, based on pieces that he has found, that it could be an uncommon plethodid mouth plate. He suggested that I send a message to Carl for confirmation. Carl was happy to confirm that he thought it was a plethodid mouth plate as well. He requested that I think about donating it for study, since a few other specimens are being examined right now. I jumped at the chance, since it would only gather dust in my garage! Specimen is below. Scale is in centimeters... Thanks JohnJ and Carl for the help! Daniel 6 "Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator." - C.S. Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Undescribed Fossil Leaf Eocene (50myo) Green River Formation Lincoln County, Kemmerer, WY Donated to the Fossil Butte National Monument The museum is interested in this piece because it has the vein system of the leaf preserved down to the third set. This makes a definitive identification possible. This is my first donation to the FBNM. Hopefully of MANY! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I donated over 80 Eocene bird bones from Virginia to the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Germany about a year ago. The below post contains pictures of forty three of these donated bird bones: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/41375-some-eocene-bird-bones-from-my-collection/&page=1 Below is a link to a paper written by Dr. Gerald Mayr on these bird bones. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-016-0330-8 One of the bird bones was described as a new species: Eostrix gulottai (Owl) Early Eocene, Nanjemoy Formation Stafford County, Virginia Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt Germany The specimen was donated so it could be studied and described. It is a new owl species. Below is a display of pictures of Eostrix gulottai that my wife made for me. Marco Sr. 8 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 First record of the Lower Jurassic dragonfly Protomyrmeleon brunonis Geinitz, 1887 from Charmouth, UK donated to "Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart" in Germany. Three wings super-imposed, without body. So far only known from Dobbertin in Mecklenburg, Germany. Lit.: F. E. Geinitz (1887): Beitrag zur Geologie Mecklenburgs. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 41:143-216 8 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&context=csh_etd Link to a paper about a bunch of Codell Sandstone stuff my family and I donated not too long ago. I posted about this last summer, but I don't see it in this thread, so I thought I'd add it here. There is also a new species of shark named "Squalicorax deckeri" in honor of my family. Ramo 10 1 For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_gotta_rock Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Isognomon sp. Miocene Era Calvert Cliffs, Calvert County, Maryland Delaware Museum of Natural History, Greenville, Delaware, USA Donated for study because of its unusual quality. Most specimens are only found as thick hinges and flaking bits of mica-like glitter in the sand. There are some in the museum that feel that Maryland Isognomons, though long identified as I. maxilla based on and Italian holotype, are a different species. This shell is intact enough to describe that species if they are different enough. I'll keep you posted if I hear anything! http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/71525-donating-my-beauty/ 5 I refuse to give up my childish wonder at the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Megactenopetalus sp. crown and root Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) Pennington Formation East Tennessee, USA 2016 Roughly 1cm per crown Donated to the American Museum of Natural History: AMNH FF 21096 http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/71674-donation-megactenopetalus-sp-chimaera-tooth/ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsailor Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Name: Ctenecanthus fish spine Age: Devonian Location: Gilboa NY, USA 2017 American Museum of Natural History They asked me if I would be interested in donating the specimen as it was rare and need professional study and I said "sure, but could you send me an official looking piece of paper from the museum because this is a pretty big deal for me and it made my year". 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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