Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2022!

[TOM BUCKLEY]

That is really nice. I especially like how some cuts were  made following the sutures. Very unusual.

 

Tom

[RJB]

  For me, a crab concretion guy, this is a site to behold!  Just arrived in the mail. 

 

RB

[Paleorunner]

2 hours ago, RJB said:

  For me, a crab concretion guy, this is a site to behold!  Just arrived in the mail. 

 

RB

 

That's a big bunch of easter eggs...... 

[fossilhunter21]

6 hours ago, Paleorunner said:

Well, here is my last entry.
A Cleoniceras sp. polished 14 ctms. from the Lower Cretaceous of Mdagascar.

 

Very nice ammonite! Those sutures are very beautiful! 

 

-Micah

[fossilhunter21]

3 hours ago, RJB said:

  For me, a crab concretion guy, this is a site to behold!  Just arrived in the mail. 

 

RB

Nice! It looks like you will be be busy for a while! 

[lesofprimus]

Bunch of new teeth came in today, including 2 huge Carcharodon hastalis measuring 2.95" and 2.88" and a very rare Alopias palatasi,  making it 9 species of Thresher sharks in my collection.....

 

Added to those are;

3 x Galeocerdo aduncus 

Cretoxyrhina vraconensis 

Cretoxyrhina denticulata 

3 x Isurus oxyrinchus 

Isurus escheri 

3 x Carcharhinus leucas 

Prognathodon solvayi 

Zarafasaura oceanis 

 

[Kiros]

4 hours ago, lesofprimus said:

Bunch of new teeth came in today, including 2 huge Carcharodon hastalis measuring 2.95" and 2.88" and a very rare Alopias palatasi,  making it 9 species of Thresher sharks in my collection.....

 

Added to those are;

3 x Galeocerdo aduncus 

Cretoxyrhina vraconensis 

Cretoxyrhina denticulata 

3 x Isurus oxyrinchus 

Isurus escheri 

3 x Carcharhinus leucas 

Prognathodon solvayi 

Zarafasaura oceanis 

 

You'll soon need a new table

[lesofprimus]

7 hours ago, Kiros said:

You'll soon need a new table

In the process of reorganizing my shark table now... had to shelve a few Megs, carcharias, hastalis, hemis and cuvier teeth...

[TOM BUCKLEY]

3 hours ago, lesofprimus said:

In the process of reorganizing my shark table now... had to shelve a few Megs, carcharias, hastalis, hemis and cuvier teeth...

 

I assume that you have no cats?

[lesofprimus]

13 minutes ago, TOM BUCKLEY said:

 

I assume that you have no cats?

Hell to the NO! Lol

[Nimravis]

You have to check out the cool items that I received in the mail today from Forum member @Misha. I had seen that he had used one of them in a recent post and I thought that it was really cool. He was kind enough to make a few for me and they will get great use. Now here is what I am talking about- photo cubes.

 

 

As you can see from other photo cubes that I have, they match perfectly.

 

 

Thanks again Misha, it is much appreciated.

[Misha]

1 minute ago, Nimravis said:

You have to check out the cool items that I received in the mail today from Forum member @Misha. I had seen that he had used one of them in a recent post and I thought that it was really cool. He was kind enough to make a few for me and they will get great use. Now here is what I am talking about- photo cubes.

 

 

As you can see from other photo cubes that I have, they match perfectly.

 

 

Thanks again Misha, it is much appreciated.

Glad that these will go to good use!

[Nimravis]

Just now, Misha said:

Glad that these will go to good use!

They sure will- look for them on some trips that I have coming up. Thanks again.

[gigantoraptor]

On 3/29/2022 at 1:21 AM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

The pieces I'm probably most stoked about, though, are these two plesiosaur teeth from the Kem Kem Group. A couple of them have shown up on the forum before (here and here), but with how rare these are (albeit possible due to frequent misidentification), I've had to wait a long time to get them. The teeth have fine striations lingually, with some extending distally. However, neither tooth apex nor labial side bear any ornamentation. The teeth are elliptical in cross-section - with one taking on an almost triangular shape, reminiscent of the plesiosaur tooth from the Cenomanian deposits at Boujdour shown here - and both are mesially monocarinate (with the carina on the more conical tooth, however, only present apically). This carination gives the teeth a mildly subtrihedral cross-section, like a watered-down version of what is encountered in certain polycotylid teeth from the younger Akrabou Formation (near Goulmima), possibly foreshadowing what was to come, as both ornamentation and carination correspond well to teeth found at that locality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To my knowledge it's still unknown from which formation in the Kem Kem Group these fossils derive. But based on the colour and coarseness of grain size still adhering to some of the specimens and following Ibrahim et al. (2020), it seems possible they derive from the Gara Sbaa Formation, and, thus, are early Cenomanian in age, from a time when aforesaid authors postulate the palaeoenvironment in the Kem Kem to have been deltaic rather than the low-energy coastal environment proposed for the younger Douira Formation. Such seems confirmed by the presence of a polycotylid plesiosaur in the assemblage of the likewise early Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in Egypt, which, however, represents an entirely different ecosystem - a lagoonal.

Wow, two of these at once. Nice find I've been trying to find one for a really long time, but so far no luck.

Edited April 1, 2022 by gigantoraptor

[Yoda]

I don’t have many teeth in my collection. 
But this seems unusual. 
 

 

[Paleorunner]

Yesterday the trilo that was missing arrived, it is actually a mortality plate of Agerina quadrata, 1 ctm the largest.
Lower Ordovician, Fezouata Formation, Zagora region. Morocco.

 

And according to the vendor, on the left is an Asaphellus.

 

[Jaimin013]

Received these three dinosaur teeth from Isle of Wight UK today.

 

First is a Hypsilophodon tooth then two Sauropod teeth - one that is just the tip and the other which is more complete but fairly worn but has some enamel present.

 

I've been looking for these teeth for some time now and a sauropod for ages so glad I finally have two! 

 

Edited April 2, 2022 by Jaimin013

[Misha]

4 hours ago, Paleorunner said:

Yesterday the trilo that was missing arrived, it is actually a mortality plate of Agerina quadrata, 1 ctm the largest.
Lower Ordovician, Fezouata Formation, Zagora region. Morocco.

 

And according to the vendor, on the left is an Asaphellus.

 

That's a beautiful piece!

[piranha]

5 hours ago, Paleorunner said:

Yesterday the trilo that was missing arrived, it is actually a mortality plate of Agerina quadrata, 1 ctm the largest.
Lower Ordovician, Fezouata Formation, Zagora region. Morocco.

 

Agerina sp. from Morocco has not been formally described yet in the literature. Congrats on this excellent assemblage!

 

Karim & Adrain 2022:

 

Chatterton and Fortey (2008) have illustrated large clusters of articulated specimens from the Zini Formation (?Floian), Bini Tinzoulin, north of Zagora, Drâa-Tafilalt Region, southern Morocco, which they assigned to a species of Agerina. This taxon has not been formally described.

 

Martin et al. (2016) noted that a species of Agerina was a common component of trilobite faunas of the Fezouata Biota (Fezouata Shale (Floian part only), Zagora area, Drâa-Tafilalt Region, southern Morocco). They named one of their three newly identified biofacies the “Agerina biofacies” and identified the species as Agerina quadrata (Dean, 1966). This is in keeping with their assignment of several other Fezouata taxa to species described from the Montagne Noire, but as yet much of the Moroccan fauna, including the Agerina species, has not been described, so the assignment cannot be evaluated.

 

Karim, T.S., Adrain, J.M. 2022
The Phylogenetic Affinity of the Ordovician Trilobites Agerina, Forteyaspis gen. nov.,

and Related Genera, with New and Revised Species from Canada and the United States.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59:156-179

 

Chatterton, B.D.E., Fortey, R.A. 2008

Linear Clusters of Articulated Trilobites from Lower Ordovician (Arenig)

Strata at Bini Tinzoulin, North of Zagora, Southern Morocco.

Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 9:73-78

 

Martin, E.L.O., Vidal, M., Vizcaïno, D., Vaucher, D., Sansjofre, P., Lefebvre, B., Destombes, J. 2016

Biostratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental Controls on the Trilobite Associations from the

Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 460:142-154

[Paleorunner]

1 hour ago, piranha said:

 

Agerina sp. from Morocco has not been formally described yet in the literature. Congrats on this excellent assemblage!

 

Karim & Adrain 2022:

 

Chatterton and Fortey (2008) have illustrated large clusters of articulated specimens from the Zini Formation (?Floian), Bini Tinzoulin, north of Zagora, Drâa-Tafilalt Region, southern Morocco, which they assigned to a species of Agerina. This taxon has not been formally described.

 

Martin et al. (2016) noted that a species of Agerina was a common component of trilobite faunas of the Fezouata Biota (Fezouata Shale (Floian part only), Zagora area, Drâa-Tafilalt Region, southern Morocco). They named one of their three newly identified biofacies the “Agerina biofacies” and identified the species as Agerina quadrata (Dean, 1966). This is in keeping with their assignment of several other Fezouata taxa to species described from the Montagne Noire, but as yet much of the Moroccan fauna, including the Agerina species, has not been described, so the assignment cannot be evaluated.

 

Karim, T.S., Adrain, J.M. 2022
The Phylogenetic Affinity of the Ordovician Trilobites Agerina, Forteyaspis gen. nov.,

and Related Genera, with New and Revised Species from Canada and the United States.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59:156-179

 

Chatterton, B.D.E., Fortey, R.A. 2008

Linear Clusters of Articulated Trilobites from Lower Ordovician (Arenig)

Strata at Bini Tinzoulin, North of Zagora, Southern Morocco.

Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 9:73-78

 

Martin, E.L.O., Vidal, M., Vizcaïno, D., Vaucher, D., Sansjofre, P., Lefebvre, B., Destombes, J. 2016

Biostratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental Controls on the Trilobite Associations from the

Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 460:142-154

 

I'm glad you like it, and thank you very much for the information. 
Well, meanwhile I'll leave her as she is, and I'll wait for her formal name to be assigned. 

[Randyw]

I got these in today! Somewhere in these 5 piles of rubble are 5 oreodont skulls! It should be quite the interesting challenge seeing what i can recover/save!

and from a different seller I’m getting an oreodont skull and a rabbit skull as soon as he sends me a total! It may be a good month after all!

[Nanotyrannus35]

9 minutes ago, Randyw said:

I got these in today! Somewhere in these 5 piles of rubble are 5 oreodont skulls! It should be quite the interesting challenge seeing what i can recover/save!

and from a different seller I’m getting an oreodont skull and a rabbit skull as soon as he sends me a total! It may be a good month after all!

 Nice! Are you going to make a prep thread about this?                

[Randyw]

I recently had surgery so i won’t get to work on them or look at them closly until next week. If they seem worth it then I will probably add it to my previous oredont prep post. Wich I just realized I need to remember to update sometimes!….ooops

Edited April 2, 2022 by Randyw

[digit]

9 minutes ago, Randyw said:

I recently had surgery so i won’t get to work on them or look at them closly until next week.

Heal up well and then we'll look forward to what's inside all this tin foil--hoping it's not really really old baked potatoes.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Paleorunner]

Get well soon, and well, you'll be informing us. 
Good luck with those stacks.