Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2022!

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

55 minutes ago, FF7_Yuffie said:

Arrived a couple of days ago,  but finally just got round to photographing them. A set of nice microteeth from Hell Creek. The smallest--the 1st pic, is just 1mm. They are all tiny--most under 5mm.

 

I like the speckled one--it's a weird shape. I am wondering if that one could actually be a bird tooth. It definitely stands out among the rest. 

 

 

 

 

Nice teeth, Jack! Very cool!

[Guns]

On 5/13/2022 at 11:02 PM, Kikokuryu said:

I wasn't going to buy that much since I was running out of space, but there was too much stuff I wanted. I probably need a 3rd Fabrikor or Detolf, and that's with 6 shelves per display case. I need to get these labeled up and displayed before something unfortunate happens and things get mixed up. Hopfully I don't get any of the provenance wrong since this is also good extra reference for me if I lose my notes.

 

If anyone wants me to get specific measurements on the dino teeth for reference and stuff, I can try my best. Or make a seprate post and do measurements on every single Jurassic tooth. But I'm honestly not that good at getting good measurments.

 

1. Suchomimus tenerensis - Elrhaz Formation; Gadoufaoua, Niger (Something about Suchomimus I love. I only have like 5 KK Spinosaurids by comparison.)

2. Theropods (Eocarcharia?) - Elrhaz Formation; Gadoufaoua, Niger (Although some of the red-ish ones I feel are Jurassic-ish, but I could be wrong.)

3. Theropoda indet. - Grès supérieurs Formation; Savannakhet Province, Laos

4. Eocarcharia dinops - Elrhaz Formation; Gadoufaoua, Niger

5. Chenanisaurus barbaricus - Couche III; Oued Zem, Morocco

6. Kryptops palaios - Elrhaz Formation; Gadoufaoua, Niger

7. Theropoda indet. - Lourinhã Formation; Lourinhã, Portugal

8. Ichthyovenator laosensis - Grès supérieurs Formation; Savannahkhet Province, Laos

9. Crocodylomorpha indet. - Peterborough Member, Oxford Clay; Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England

10. Paronychodon caperatus - Hell Creek Formation; Powder River County, Montana, United States

11. Nanotyrannus lancensis (?) - Hell Creek Formation; Garfield County, Montana, United States

12. Nanotyrannus lancensis - Hell Creek Formation; Powder River County, Montana, United States (These were auctioned as Rex, but I'm pretty sure they are Nano.)

13. Gomphotherium angustidens - Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

14. Rhizodus hibberti - Newsham, Northumberland, England

15. Ceratodus kaupii - Sarrebourg, France

16. Jurassic Theropods + Sauropods - Irhazer Group; Marandade, Agadez, Niger (I don't really know where Marandade is supposed to be if anywhere. Looks like the typical Tiouraren preservation, but I'm not super familar with it.)

17. Asteracanthus magnus - Great Oolite Series; Rushden, Northamptonshire, England

18. Mosasauridae indet. - Blufftown Formation; Russell County, Alabama, United States

19. Diplocynodon ungeri - La Guimardière and Pelmer; Noyant-sous-le-Lude, Touraine, France

20. Diplocynodon sp. - Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais; Verberie, Oise, France (I can never understand French locales so the formation might be completely wrong.)

21. Sagenodus sp. - Archer City Formation; Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, United States

22. Necrolemur antiquus - Quercy Phosphorites Formation; Bach, Lot (Quercy), France

23. Ceratodus phillipsi - Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, France

24. Tissotia tissoti - Abu Roash District, Egypt

25. Partschiceras monestieri - Beraketa, Madagascar

26. Calliphylloceras sp. - Perugia, Italy

27. Phylloceras isotypum - Bereketa, Madagascar

28. Oecoptychius refractus - Deux Sevres, France

29. Castor canadensis - Suwannee River, Dixie County, Florida, United States

30. Diprotodon sp. - Glen Innes District, New South Wales, Australia

31. Arthropleura armata & Lonchopteris rugosa - Upper Silesia Coal Basin; Czerwionka, Rybnik, Poland

32. Jurassic Theropods + Sauropods - Irhazer Group; Effonfone, Agadez, Niger (Similar to the other locale, I don't know where that is, but the preservation seems different. My guess is that mabey the 1st one is Tiouraren while this is Irhazer Shale II.)

33. Ziphodont Crocodylomorph (?) - Irhazer Group; Effonfone, Agadez, Niger

34. Thescelosaurus sp. - Hell Creek Formation; Powder River County, Montana, United States

35. Deinosuchus sp. (?) + Crocodylomorpha indet. - Cape Fear River, Blade County, North Carolina, United States

36. Laevaptychus sp. - Altmühltal Formation; Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany

37. Platypterygius sp. - Seversk Sandstone; Stary Oskol, Belgorod, Gebiet, Kursk, Russia

38. Abelisauridae indet. - Kem Kem Group; Taouz, Morocco

39. Dipterus valenciennesi - Achanarras Limestone Member; Achanarras Quarry, Caithness, Scotland

More closeups on some of the specimens.

Indeterminate Laos Theropod

Chenanisaurus barbaricus

Jurassic Sauropod (?)

I think this is Theropod, but I'm not 100% certain.

Elrhaz Tooth, probably Eocarcharia?

Monster 6cm+ Afrovenator with the classic jank preservation

Jurassic Theropod, but I'm not sure what it is

Super Nice collection ^___^

 

Guns

[ThePhysicist]

I've been traveling (museum tour posts coming soon) and came home to some really nice teeth I spent too much on. A couple more are scheduled to arrive Friday.

 

My white shark game has been weak, so I decided to work on it:

 

Carcharodon carcharias 

Atacama Desert, Chile

1.75"

 

A superb tooth from when the GW had probably recently evolved (I also got a C. hubbelli a while ago to go with this one, I'm working on a lineage display for the white sharks). Besides the fantastic preservation, this one has a bite mark - three closely-spaced parallel grooves on the root from serrations - the shark bit its own tooth on the way out! Bite marks are uncommon, and super cool to have on this already sweet tooth.

 

 

I also got probably my nicest rex tooth so far - the enamel is perfect with that lovely satin sheen.

 

Tyrannosaurus rex

Hell Creek Fm., Harding Co., SD, USA

 

 

[Troodon]

8 hours ago, FF7_Yuffie said:

Arrived a couple of days ago,  but finally just got round to photographing them. A set of nice microteeth from Hell Creek. The smallest--the 1st pic, is just 1mm. They are all tiny--most under 5mm.

 

I like the speckled one--it's a weird shape. I am wondering if that one could actually be a bird tooth. It definitely stands out among the rest. 

 

Love these small teeth but given the strong serrations all look like a Theropod.  The only exception might be the fourth one down the white/black speckled tooth.  Hard to see if serrations are worn or not there.

[lesofprimus]

Newest additions just came in..

 

A nice 3 toothed jaw section from a Prognathodon anceps with 2 un-erupted teeth...

A Mosasaur premaxillary snout from a Halisaurus arambourgi...

2 x very large Otodus obliquus teeth measuring 3.47" and 3.29"...

My 3rd largest Great White tooth measuring 2.36"...

A crazy looking Pathological Paleocarcharodon orientalis tooth...

2 more Dyrosaurus phosphaticus teeth, both measuring over 2"...

 

[Coco]

4 hours ago, lesofprimus said:

 

I find it odd that the non-emerged teeth are not in the same direction as the large...

 

Coco

[FF7_Yuffie]

16 hours ago, Troodon said:

 

Love these small teeth but given the strong serrations all look like a Theropod.  The only exception might be the fourth one down the white/black speckled tooth.  Hard to see if serrations are worn or not there.

 

Cheers

 

I had a look at number 4 again with my microscope. The side is a bit worn, but there are a couple of serrations left. Which I think rules out bird, so it's a theropod microtooth.

Unusual little tooth though with its shape. 

 

 

Edited May 20, 2022 by FF7_Yuffie

[Kiros]

After a long period without new addition. I finally received this Creodont mandible from the upper Eocene of the phosphorites of Quercy. Based on morphology and dimensions is probably Cynohyaenodon 

[fossilhunter21]

On 4/20/2022 at 4:38 PM, lesofprimus said:

A few more fossils just came in...

 

2.61" Great White Tooth

Alligator Snapping Turtle Claw & Digit

1.96" Rooted Elosuchus cherifiensis tooth

Those are all some very cool fossils! That turtle claw is my favorite. 

 

-Micah

[fossilhunter21]

On 4/24/2022 at 3:16 PM, thelivingdead531 said:

I won this fish in a small bidding war on a popular auction site. The seller didn't have any information on it, but it appears to be a Vinctifer comptoni from the Santana Formation in Brazil. Seller said it was from a collection that was handed down to him. The fish is approximately 16.5 centimeters long. You can see a hint of one of the pectoral fins, which is exciting to me. 

Wow! That is a nice score! I really like how well preserved it is.

 

-Micah 

[fossilhunter21]

On 4/25/2022 at 7:25 PM, lesofprimus said:

Just received these 3 Xiphodolamia serrata shark teeth yesterday...

Those are some awesome shark teeth! I really like that last tooth. It looks very well preserved.

 

-Micah

 

 

[fossilhunter21]

On 4/25/2022 at 8:02 PM, Misha said:

Received two very exciting parcels today with a bunch of amazing fossils. The second I will have to post later as I still need to organize, clean, ID everything but this one is much smaller and still very interesting.

This lot consist of three different brachiopods of different ages, from two different places.

The first one may be the one I am most excited about, but I am not sure, I love them all.

This is a Scaphicoelia boliviensis, a Mid Devonian terebratulid brachiopod from the Sica-Sica Fm. in Bolivia. 

This formation is pretty well-known for it's wonderful trilobites like Eldredgia, Dipleura and others which often come in nodules, but brachiopods are not seen as often from here, and this one of the best examples I had seen for a really good price so I knew that I had to get it. Not only is it a beautiful piece, with some great internal preservation, from a really interesting location, I believe it is also the first Devonian Terebratulid to be welcomed into my collection which just made that much more excited. When it arrived I was really surprised by how large the fossil was which you can see in the comparison with the scale cube below:

This next one, I believe is from the Upper Devonian, but it is a bit more of an enigma for me at the moment.

The brachiopod is from the Guangxi province in the Great People's Republic of China, something I was also excited about as this is an amazing country with incredible fossils that I have very few of in my collection. The label it came with states that the brachiopod is Tenticospirifer sp., but from all my researrch I couldn't come up with much and looking at other examples of that genus they seem to look quite different. First of all, this fossil has a much more strongly curved pedicle valve, while Tenticospirifer seem to usually have a fairly straight one along the back, the overall shape of them aslo seems to be a lot more triangular than what this piece exhibits. These differences may be down to the different species but I am just not sure, I wondered if it may be another Upper Devonian relative, so far the closest match I have is Cyrtiopsis sp., but I haven't found many resources so I am unsure. I'll tag @Tidgy's Dad, @piranha, do you have any ideas on what this one may be?

The final brachiopod is from the lower Devonian, also Guangxi province of the People's Republic of China. This one seems to have the correct ID which is Acrospirifer sp.

This one also ended up being a lot larger than what I expected, and looks much better in person than I had expected from what I saw in the photos.

Overall, very excited with these new additions to the collections. Some really unique, interesting and beautiful fossils I'll be happy to have.

Thanks for looking!

Very cool scores! I don't really collect brachiopods, but those are really cool.

 

-Micah

[fossilhunter21]

On 4/30/2022 at 10:59 AM, Jaimin013 said:

Chenanisaurus barbaricus tooth

Maastrichtian Phosphate Mines in the Ouled Abdoun basin, Morocco, North Africa.

Size: 81mm (3.189 inches)

 

Been wanting one of these for ages and finally found this really lovely rooted tooth. Crazy to think that Chenanisaurus is one of the last dinosaurs in Africa before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs! Mind blowing!

 

 

 

 

Wow! That tooth is just awesome! You sure don't see many teeth that are this complete and well preserved. 

 

-Micah

[Rock Hound]

Green River Formation

My favorite fish, so far.

 

[Rock Hound]

My first Mako Tooth.  I decided to start with one I have no hope of finding in Mississippi; the Hooked Mako, found only in the Pacific region.

 

[Rock Hound]

[Nimravis]

After getting back from vacation I found a box waiting for me, it was a nice piece of agatized botryodial coral from Valdosta, GA.

 

 

 

 

[digit]

Yup. That's the good stuff from there.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[fossilhunter21]

On 5/2/2022 at 10:50 AM, lesofprimus said:

Newest additions this weekend... 

 

A really nice Sperm Whale tooth from the Yorktown Formation in North Carolina 

 

2 very large Galeocerdo cuvier teeth, measuring 2.9 and 2.7 inches... my biggest examples of the species to date 

Those are some awesome specimens! That sperm whale tooth is very cool! I really enjoy seeing cetacean fossils. The Galeocerdo cuvier teeth are very large! I don't think I realized that they got that big. 

 

-Micah

[lesofprimus]

On 5/23/2022 at 4:05 AM, fossilhunter21 said:

Those are some awesome specimens! That sperm whale tooth is very cool! I really enjoy seeing cetacean fossils. The Galeocerdo cuvier teeth are very large! I don't think I realized that they got that big. 

 

-Micah

Here's the 3 biggest, measuring 1.29", 1.27" and 1.24"...

[Ironhead42]

My anniversary gift!

 

 

[Mart1980]

This week the postman brought some nice stuff.

2 Mastodonsaurus giganteus jaws from the classic location (now the German highway A6 ), Bauersbach, kupferzeil, Baden-Wüttemberg, Germany.

1 Machimosaurus huggi tooth from Lourinhã formation, Santa cruz, Torres Vadras, Portugal

Some small Ichthyosaurus communis jaw parts with teeth from the Jurassic Coast beach of Charmouth, Dorset, UK

It made my week again

[digit]

14 hours ago, Ironhead42 said:

My anniversary gift!

 

 

Layer cake? 

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Ironhead42]

4 hours ago, Mart1980 said:

This week the postman brought some nice stuff.

2 Mastodonsaurus giganteus jaws from the classic location (now the German highway A6 ), Bauersbach, kupferzeil, Baden-Wüttemberg, Germany.

1 Machimosaurus huggi tooth from Lourinhã formation, Santa cruz, Torres Vadras, Portugal

Some small Ichthyosaurus communis jaw parts with teeth from the Jurassic Coast beach of Charmouth, Dorset, UK

It made my week again

That is a nice week! Great additions!

[Meganeura]

So I know this is relatively mundane as far as fossils go, but living in Florida I knew the chance of me finding a large Meg is pretty slim. I've only been fossil hunting for 2 months now, so there's PLENTY of time to find huge Megs, but... I wanted to treat myself cause they're just SO cool to me. 

 

So here's my new 5" Megalodon tooth:


And compared to my biggest Meg I've actually found which is 2.5", as well as a posterior baby Meg to showcase sizes: