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[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

9 hours ago, Mart1980 said:

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

 

So you managed to win that jaw! In had planned to bid on it, but then forgot and arrived just a minute late! It's a lovely piece with that rooted tooth lying next to it! Very unusual presentation... 

 

9 hours ago, Mart1980 said:

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

 

You sure that's Mastodonsaurus? The teeth look so different from what I used to seeing... Then again, those teeth as I've seen are probably the fangs/canines, as most Mastodonsaurus-teeth are actually very small. Never seen jaws for sale before, though... Very cool! 

[Mart1980]

I was happy to win the Ichthyosaurus communis tooth. A beautiful one indeed. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Lost myself yesterday with an offer on a coveted tooth.

 

The jaw parts are from a classic location and I have no doubts about the dimensions either.

for comparison some teeth I currently have in my collection. And indeed @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon, as you can see, the canines are quite large in size.

 

for comparison, squares in centimeters:

 

The first small tooth comes from Vellberg-Eschenau in Germany (Keuper layers).

 

And again the jaws from Bauersbach, kupferzeil, Baden-Wüttemberg, Germany.

 

The last tooth comes from the 'Sandige Pflanzenschiefer' (lower Keuper), Zwingelhausen quarry near Backnang, Germany.

Edited May 26, 2022 by Mart1980

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

40 minutes ago, Mart1980 said:

I was happy to win the Ichthyosaurus communis tooth. A beautiful one indeed. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Lost myself yesterday with an offer on a coveted tooth.

 

Yeah, I'm it too sad about losing it, as I've got multiple nice pieces already. It's just the tooth that makes this particular one a beaut

 

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The last tooth comes from the 'Sandige Pflanzenschiefer' (lower Keuper), Zwingelhausen quarry near Backnang, Germany.

 

 

Yeah, the latter type of tooth is what I'm most familiar with myself, as I also have a tooth from that quarry (and have seen various others). But the ornamentation of those teeth is completely different from the smaller ones in the jaw, from what I can tell. That's kind of what threw me off, as, like I said, I haven't seen jaw pieces like this on the open market before

 

And just in case anybody wants to initiate these teeth and the jaw sections, here's the underside of a Mastodonsaurus giganteus from the Museum am Löwentor in Stuttgart:

 

[Nanotyrannus35]

On 5/26/2022 at 2:00 PM, Meganeura said:

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:

 

Nice meg! I also like the other 2 bone valley teeth.

[thelivingdead531]

On 5/22/2022 at 3:25 PM, Nimravis said:

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

 

 

 

 

Valdosta, Georgia isn’t a town you hear about too often. I lived there as a little kid because my dad was stationed at Moody AFB in the mid 90s. I had no idea such interesting things could be found there!

[Paleorunner]

This is my last entry in the mailbox.
A Manticoceras from Devonian, southern Morocco, 22 cm.

 

[PR0GRAM]

After it visited more US states than I have I fortunately received these today! Sicyophorus Rara (Protopriapulites haikouensis) Cambrian fossil from Chengjiang.

 

 

I also got and cleaned up a bit a carbonaceous Algae from Guizhou. Edicaran fossils like this are very hard to ID but I believe it's Gesinella Hunanensis.

 

  

Edited June 3, 2022 by PR0GRAM

[Rock Hound]

I wanted to grow my shark tooth collection, so I turned to the very interesting and fairly priced Otodus Obliquus teeth coming out of Morocco.  A nice, quick splurge.  No rhyme or reason to the picture, just examining what came in the mail.  These should compliment the Otodus teeth I already had.

 

Edited June 7, 2022 by Rock Hound

[Mart1980]

New arrival, Nuominerpeton aquilonaris from the Guanghua Formation (Cretaceous Period), Inner Mongolia, Northeast China (classic location). Happy 

[Paleorunner]

On 6/7/2022 at 11:24 AM, Rock Hound said:

I wanted to grow my shark tooth collection, so I turned to the very interesting and fairly priced Otodus Obliquus teeth coming out of Morocco.  A nice, quick splurge.  No rhyme or reason to the picture, just examining what came in the mail.  These should compliment the Otodus teeth I already had.

 

 

These teeth are sure to be military, they parade very well in formation. 

[Yoda]

This arrived for me today 

10cm across

 

 

[Marco90]

Directly from France: a partial jaw with teeth of Merycoidodon culbersoni and a nodule of Pecopteris villosa,

 

 

 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Haven't posted an update for a while, so here's a batch of some new fossils I received over the last few weeks:

 

A beautiful brachauchenine pliosaur tooth of Upper Cretaceous, Lower Turonian age from the Akrabou Formation at Asfla near Goulmima, which I got from TFF's own @Haravex! While it does have a repair and some compression, at 5.2cm tall it has amazing ornamentation all-round and is one of the best examples I've seen in a while. I'm delighted to be able to add it to my collection!

 

 

 

I'm also very excited to finally be able to add my first piece from Solnhofen to my collection, a ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur tooth with wonderful ornamentation. Dating to the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic, the tooth can probably be ascribed to the platypterygiine ichthyosaur Aegirosaurus leptospondylus, the only ichthyosaur species with valid name standing recognized from the lagerstätte, even if the enamel folds on this particular specimen are a lot better defined than is typically the case for the monospecific genus.

 

 

 

 

From Newark in the UK comes this tiny plesiosaur paddle bone that dates to the Rhaetian stage of the Triassic.

 

 

Back to the Cretaceous, here's a mosasaur paddle bone - from what I can tell a (left) ulna - that comes from the same supplier and fits beautifully with the paddle bones I posted earlier. I comes from the Smoky Hill Chalk member of the Niobrara Formation in Kansas, as does the plioplatecarpine mosasaur quadrate below. Although I got my first quadrate not too long ago, I didn't want to pass up this opportunity, as quadrates are highly diagnostic of mosasaur species, it's a great specimen, and I wanted another example to help familiarize myself with this particular aspect of mosasaur anatomy.

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, I got myself a pair of Pleistocene rattlesnake vertebrae from Florida, which I got for their great similarity to mosasaur vertebrae (I hope to add some python ones at some point, which should have an even closer phylogenetic affiliation) and thus for reasons of comparative anatomy.

[FF7_Yuffie]

2 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

 

From Newark in the UK comes this tiny plesiosaur paddle bone that dates to the Rhaetian stage of the Triassic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From very close to where I'm from. All the quarries have been filled in from Newark as far as I'm aware, unfortunately. A shame, the few bits of material that comes up for sale is usually in good condition. They were blocked up before I started collecting and going fossil hunting, so I never got the chance to go myself. 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

13 minutes ago, FF7_Yuffie said:

From very close to where I'm from. All the quarries have been filled in from Newark as far as I'm aware, unfortunately. A shame, the few bits of material that comes up for sale is usually in good condition. They were blocked up before I started collecting and going fossil hunting, so I never got the chance to go myself. 

 

Yeah, I believe this specimen is also from an older collection and has passed hands a couple of times. Material from Newark does come up for sale occasionally, though. But getting your hands on an interesting specimen is more difficult.

 

I know your feeling about having been unable to hunt at these quarries, though. I've been to a couple of quarries in the Netherlands as a kid, even found some vertebrate material in one of them. However, as my father was not a very skilled or patient preparator and I didn't have the skills myself at all yet, most of what I have isn't the best quality material. I'd love to go back one day and try my hand at it now that I'm more experienced - and apparently this is still possible. But I'll first need to build a new stable life with our family after the move before I can even consider something like this. I really hope that the options that are available now will still be around then...

[Paleorunner]

And finally this little gem arrived.
A Cyphaspis cf. Khraidedensis of 3 centimeters. Devovic

 

And the bell a day later... 

 

 

 

 

[Kane]

Very cool idea with the bell jar!

[Paleorunner]

Just now, Kane said:

Very cool idea with the bell jar!

Those fragile spines had to be protected, and it's the best thing I could think of.
Take advantage of the anchoring () of the packaging with which it came, to screw it from below to the cork of the hood.

[Misha]

A few new additions to the collection from this week:

First is my second Verulam Formation Pseudolingula coubourgensis, Ordovician, ON, Canada.

This one is on a nice piece of matrix with a multitude of other organisms that I might try and prep in the future.

 

Next is an exciting one for me, it may be my largest inarticulate brachiopod, and it's the only one I have from this continent. Anomaloglossa porca from the Late  Ordovician Malongulli Formation in NSW Australia.

Overall a very interesting fossil, with different preservation from what we usually see on similar ones. I'm not sure what the person preparing it was doing with the matrix in the corner, when I find my Dremel I'll have to smooth that out.

 

And finally, another exciting piece. A plate of various brachiopods and bryozoa from the Waldron shale in Indiana. This one has a few very interesting brachiopods, although from what I see, none of them seem to be labeled correctly, I'll split this off into a different topic soon as I think I've identified two of them, but I'm not sure about the others.

[FB003]

Very happy I managed to pick up this little guy.  Carter County, MT.

[indominus rex]

A beautiful and chunky Brachauchenine Pliosaur tooth from Russia. It is Cretaceous in age and is approximately 2.6 inches in length, one of the larger ones I’ve seen from Russia.

[Rock Hound]

4 hours ago, indominus rex said:

A beautiful and chunky Brachauchenine Pliosaur tooth from Russia. It is Cretaceous in age and is approximately 2.6 inches in length, one of the larger ones I’ve seen from Russia.

 

 

 

 

That's a dandy!!!

Edited June 18, 2022 by Kane

[Steph]

Phew! I thought you were asking to see the number of unread emails  - maybe b/c we were rock hunting - I guess? 
 

I hadn’t considered buying fossils before - mainly bc I wouldn’t know if legit. However, it would actually be very useful to a newbie like me to buy some basic ones for comparison.   

[Kane]

19 minutes ago, Steph said:

Phew! I thought you were asking to see the number of unread emails  - maybe b/c we were rock hunting - I guess? 
 

I hadn’t considered buying fossils before - mainly bc I wouldn’t know if legit. However, it would actually be very useful to a newbie like me to buy some basic ones for comparison.   

If in doubt, we have a thread you can post on with photos so that we can assist to ensure what you are buying is the real deal. 
 

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/forum/190-is-it-real-how-to-recognize-fossil-fabrications/

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

7 hours ago, indominus rex said:

A beautiful and chunky Brachauchenine Pliosaur tooth from Russia. It is Cretaceous in age and is approximately 2.6 inches in length, one of the larger ones I’ve seen from Russia.

 

I've said it before, but that's an awesome tooth!  Haven't seen too many Russian pliosaurs come onto the market too, in recent years, so don't are to admit I'm a little 

Edited June 18, 2022 by pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon