Jaimin013 Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 20 hours ago, Mart1980 said: One word; WOW Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daze Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Edmontosaurus jaw section from the Hell Creek Formation, Dawson County, Montana. Beautiful and large piece. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted August 7, 2023 Share Posted August 7, 2023 Got this recently, not my first time receiving these fossils in the mail as they were generously sent to me by @connorp earlier this year, but I had some sent out to be prepped up a bit more and I think they turned out beautifully! I also sent in a fossil Bothriolepis I found from the Catskill Fm. Unfortunately, that piece was not preppable as the individual who was doing that work said that when the tools got down to that layer the bone immediately turned to dust. Unfortunate, but what can you do Hopefully I'll be able to find another good specimen of that species eventually. All from the Waldron Shale in St Paul Indiana 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyb135 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Tyrannosaurid Indet. Hill County Montana Judith River Formation 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPrice Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 A small box from the Yorkshire, England Jurassic Coast. Ammonites - Dactylioceras. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Got something pretty exciting to add to the collection today. This is a plate of fossils from the late Emsian Jiucheng formation in Yunnan, China. On it are two specimens of Wudinolepis weni, a pretty rare microbrachiid antiarch placoderm, one is preserved with ventral side up and the other dorsal side up, which makes for a nice piece showing off a good bit of the whole fish. They are very small, smaller than I initially expected, both individuals are about 1cm in width and only a little longer than that. This makes them pretty hard to photograph properly while showing off all the fine detail preserved. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FF7_Yuffie Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) A few Wealden fossils. 1 - claw - raptor/Nuthetes? 2 - bird claw 3 - Mammal jaw 4 - Unknown claw Edited September 3, 2023 by FF7_Yuffie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyb135 Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Argentine Carcharodontosaurid The previous owner had this tooth for a considerable amount of years and the owner before that obtained this prior to any export bans. image next to my other Argentine Carch tooth too. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daze Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) Edmontosaurus chevron (tail bone) from Hell Creek Fm, Carter County, Montana. 10 inch / 25 cm Edited September 13, 2023 by Daze 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 On 9/2/2023 at 6:16 PM, Misha said: Got something pretty exciting to add to the collection today. This is a plate of fossils from the late Emsian Jiucheng formation in Yunnan, China. On it are two specimens of Wudinolepis weni, a pretty rare microbrachiid antiarch placoderm, one is preserved with ventral side up and the other dorsal side up, which makes for a nice piece showing off a good bit of the whole fish. They are very small, smaller than I initially expected, both individuals are about 1cm in width and only a little longer than that. This makes them pretty hard to photograph properly while showing off all the fine detail preserved. Congratulations on a great addition to your collection, Misha! Very rare and well preserved, indeed! Thanks for sharing this with us. 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...
Mart1980 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Newly received two Belgian Mosasaur teeth. From the old quarry of Ciply (near Mons) one Mosasaurus lemonnieri and one Hainosaurus bernardi tooth. Both from the Ciply Formation / Tuffeau. Ciply's Tuffeau is a white-yellow marine calcarenite, porous and friable, with locally varying levels of silicification. The calcium carbonate content is very high and often exceeds 99%. The thickness of the Formation reaches about 20 m in the Ciply quarries and sometimes just over 30 m in drillings. In the outcrops, located on the territory of the village of Ciply, the Tuffeau of Ciply starts with a conglomerate, consisting of rolled elements, resulting from the dismantling of the underlying Formations of the Tuffeau of Saint-Symphorien and of the Phosphate Chalk of Ciply (Late Cretaceous). One finds brown and perforated boulders of the phosphatic hardground, a few mm to several cm in size, together with broken or whole fossils, more or less rolled and phosphatized, which also come from the underlying Cretaceous Formations. The whole is a few cm to several dm thick and known under the name of “Poudingue de la Malogne”. The teeth specifically come from this layer. The Ciply Formation is of Middle to Late Danian age, based on planktonic foraminifera. Which means that these teeth date specifically from the Middle Danian. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mart1980 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 On 7/1/2023 at 10:04 PM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: I finally managed to obtain one of these myself as well Westbury Formation of Aust Cliff. Did you manage to put a species name on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 7 hours ago, Mart1980 said: Did you manage to put a species name on this one? While I've yet to check the literature due to lack of time, I'm not aware of the species of these particular teeth having been described. And while I'm aware that Eurycleidus arcuatus occurs in these deposits, of which I've got several specimens - including some recently large but fragmentary additions - the ornamentation on those teeth precludes this particular one from belonging to the same species. 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praefectus Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 10 hours ago, Mart1980 said: Newly received two Belgian Mosasaur teeth. From the old quarry of Ciply (near Mons) one Mosasaurus lemonnieri and one Hainosaurus bernardi tooth. Both from the Ciply Formation / Tuffeau. Wow! Those are nice teeth! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielb Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Giant sloth tooth Florida Megalonyx jeffersonii 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 I don't' normally buy fossils or receive them in the mail very often so I seldom have anything to add to this thread, but I do enjoy seeing what others are getting. Today, however, I received a great mail delivery!! If one is a member of the Paleontological Society, a relatively recent benefit is in print volumes of the Treatise On Invertebrate Paleontology for a ridiculously cheap price (PM me if you want more details). Members have always had access to the online Treatise, but I find it much more useful many times to be able to flip through a book, especially when trying to find a match for some specimen. I received 11 volumes for less than what one would normally cost and nearly quadrupled my collection of the volumes. While some of these volumes are a bit dated, the bulk of the information in them is invaluable. Lots of fun reading ahead!! 5 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 On 9/2/2023 at 3:16 PM, Misha said: Got something pretty exciting to add to the collection today. This is a plate of fossils from the late Emsian Jiucheng formation in Yunnan, China. On it are two specimens of Wudinolepis weni, a pretty rare microbrachiid antiarch placoderm, one is preserved with ventral side up and the other dorsal side up, which makes for a nice piece showing off a good bit of the whole fish. They are very small, smaller than I initially expected, both individuals are about 1cm in width and only a little longer than that. This makes them pretty hard to photograph properly while showing off all the fine detail preserved. What are we looking at here? Looks like two Fs back-to-back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 7 hours ago, ClearLake said: I don't' normally buy fossils or receive them in the mail very often so I seldom have anything to add to this thread, but I do enjoy seeing what others are getting. Today, however, I received a great mail delivery!! If one is a member of the Paleontological Society, a relatively recent benefit is in print volumes of the Treatise On Invertebrate Paleontology for a ridiculously cheap price (PM me if you want more details). Members have always had access to the online Treatise, but I find it much more useful many times to be able to flip through a book, especially when trying to find a match for some specimen. I received 11 volumes for less than what one would normally cost and nearly quadrupled my collection of the volumes. While some of these volumes are a bit dated, the bulk of the information in them is invaluable. Lots of fun reading ahead!! Nice! Looks like it would take up a a fair amount of space, but it would be good to have for reference as you say, and I'd love to go through it to see what is represented from my collecting area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Some corynexochid trilobites from China and Morocco. 9 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Wrangellian said: What are we looking at here? Looks like two Fs back-to-back. The two Fs are just a mark of the person who did the prep for the piece, Freitag Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 (edited) It's been a while since I last posted my acquisitions, both because of time constraints as well as due to TFF's limited availability. So here's a big batch of them, all at once The first is a batch of marine reptile teeth from different ages across the Jurassic. Starting with two teleosaurid crocodile teeth from the Bathonian, a metriorhynchid crocodile and cryptoclidid plesiosaur tooth from the Callovian, all of which from the UK; and then a set of five Kimmeridgian crocodile and plesiosaur teeth from the Lindener Berg near Hannover in Germany. Bathonian Macrospondylus 'Steneosaurus' bollensis marine crocodile tooth from Woodeaton Quarry. Bathonian Teleosaurus sp. marine crocodile tooth from Ardley Quarry, with interesting similarities to the later machimosauridae, including the durophageous adaptation of thickened enamel near the tooth apex. Callovian metriorhynchid marine crocodile tooth from Must Farm, Whittlesey, Peterborough, cf. Gracilineustes leedsi (based on degree of labiolingual compression and remnants of striations). Callovian Tricleidus seeleyi plesiosaur tooth from Ardley Quarry. Kimmeridgian plesiosaur tooth from Lindener Berg near Hannover, cf. Tricleidus seeleyi. Kimmeridgian plesiosaur tooth from Lindener Berg near Hannover, cf. Tricleidus seeleyi. Kimmeridgian thalassophonea indet. pliosaur tooth from the Lindener Berg, cf. Liopleurodon ferox. Machimosaurus hugii marine crocodile tooth, Lindener Berg, Kimmeridgian. Another Kimmeridgian Machimosaurus hugii marine crocodile tooth from the Lindener Berg, Hannover, Germany. Next I acquired this rooted Thililua longicollis polycotylid plesiosaur tooth on matrix from Goulmima. While the crown is crushed and preserved little of its original subtrihedral shape, the pattern of striations is quite telling, and I still love the overall look of the piece. Finally, here's a couple of early russellosaurine mosasaurid teeth from the Kamp Ranch member of the Arcadia Park Formation of Ellis County, of Turonian age. The shark's tooth is a Squalicorax sp.. Edited September 23, 2023 by pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon 7 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielb Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Two drotops trilobites from Morocco. I bought these at the Denver gem show. -Middle Devonian This one is 5.2 inches This one is 4.5 inches unenrolled - Close up of the eyes 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 20 hours ago, Misha said: The two Fs are just a mark of the person who did the prep for the piece, Freitag Fossils I thought it might be something like that, but I had never seen a prepper sign their work before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Today I received a package in the mail and it contained a great book. A book that I already own, but I would not mind owning several copies, plus I got it for $13.11, an unbelievable price. It is the 1958 edition of George Langford’s “The Wilmington Coal Flora from a Pennsylvanian Deposit in Will County, Illinois “. If you are not familiar with it, it was the main reference book for Mazon Creek fossils. It contains 360 pages of information. It was published by ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) and all Mazon Creek collectors wanted this book and his follow up edition that contained more Flora information and added Fauna. The condition of this book is excellent, and to be honest with you it looks like it was never even used. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyb135 Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Sauropod indet. (Most likely a Brachiosaurid) Brightstone Bay Wessex Formation Isle of Wight 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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