fossilselachian Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I have a few specimens of Edestus heinrichi in my collection and attached is a pic of the best - enjoy! This is the nicest example of Edestus heinrichi that I think I have ever seen in someone's private collection. Without checking my literature sources (too lazy) I seem to recall that many (all ?) of these teeth come from a coal mine in Illinois. I have also seen another species (very small) reportedly from the Ace Hill Shale of Nebraska. Do Forum members know of other US locations of E. heinrichi? Marcel: What was the location of the large Edestus you posted? We certainly see some wonderful shark teeth posted on the Forum!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybodus Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Thanks! I can dig for my Edestus specific list, but for the for the Family Edestidae, including Edestus, Syntomodus, Helicampodus, Parahelicampodus and Lestrodus: North America: Colarado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Greenland. Europe: Germany, Russia, England. Asia: India, Pakistan The specimens I have in my collection are all from a mine near Sparta, Illinois, Labette Formation, Late Pennsylvanian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 For me, it would be this trilobite. Mainly because it is the only one that I have ever seen from anywhere around that location and I never found one while I lived there. I found it while visiting my parents about 10 years ago. After I get in some practice with the tools, I will finally be able to clean him up a bit. For Solius, the location was Franklin County at the border of Woodford County, near Old Crow. From the top of the hill to the bottom, there is the Upper part of Lexington Limestone, Tanglewood Limestone Member 2, Brannon Member, followed by the Lower part of Lexington Limestone. Based on the geo map, I believe it either came out of the thin layer of the Brannon or washed down hill from the Tanglewood. For the rest of you, that should make it Lower to Middle Ordovician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 very nice trilobite, i know how it feels to find something and think you have the only one from that location, just a week ago i found a land mammal tooth in delaware on a beach with 100million year old fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Nice. It is a Gravicalymene sp. It probably didn't come from the Brannon mb; the Brannon is sparsely fossiliferous(it is that bluish, dark grey limestone and shale). The lithology looks similar to some kind inter tongue(Tanglewood ?) of this stuff I have found in the Millersburg mb. The Lexington Lm is Mid Ord(most of it is late Mid Ord). As a kid, we used to swim at the Old Taylor/Old Crow distillery. Those pics from the other day were taken in Woodford Co. down by Clifton near the river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isurus90064 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 This is the nicest example of Edestus heinrichi that I think I have ever seen in someone's private collection. Without checking my literature sources (too lazy) I seem to recall that many (all ?) of these teeth come from a coal mine in Illinois. I have also seen another species (very small) reportedly from the Ace Hill Shale of Nebraska.Do Forum members know of other US locations of E. heinrichi? Marcel: What was the location of the large Edestus you posted? We certainly see some wonderful shark teeth posted on the Forum!!! I'll find out ... btw haven't heard from D. Ward yet. Fossil shark teeth from all over: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/2380-extraordinary-common-teeth/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Nice. It is a Gravicalymene sp. It probably didn't come from the Brannon mb; the Brannon is sparsely fossiliferous(it is that bluish, dark grey limestone and shale). The lithology looks similar to some kind inter tongue(Tanglewood ?) of this stuff I have found in the Millersburg mb. The Lexington Lm is Mid Ord(most of it is late Mid Ord). As a kid, we used to swim at the Old Taylor/Old Crow distillery. Those pics from the other day were taken in Woodford Co. down by Clifton near the river. Thanks for the ID. Next time I go there, I will have to check the layers more carefully to see if I can actually identify them. I have some other fossils from farther down that hill, but who knows what box they're packed in. Close to home, no wonder it looks familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilselachian Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I'll find out ... btw haven't heard from D. Ward yet. Marcel: Many thanks for the update. FS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 What a nice Edestus heinvich fossil! What it really is? Someone said coal mean Pennsylvania and other said Ordovivian that's mean it live from Ordovivian until around Pennsylvania or Permian? Maybe I get chance to find it in Illinois.....your Edestus is dark then is it from dark shale? Eddie.....what a nice BIG shark tooth!!!! I can get picture myself if I find it in old quarry....WOW! How big the shark it is..? I know it is much bigger than the big Great White Shark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 What a nice Edestus heinvich fossil! What it really is? Someone said coal mean Pennsylvania and other said Ordovivian that's mean it live from Ordovivian until around Pennsylvania or Permian? Maybe I get chance to find it in Illinois.....your Edestus is dark then is it from dark shale? Eddie.....what a nice BIG shark tooth!!!! I can get picture myself if I find it in old quarry....WOW! How big the shark it is..? I know it is much bigger than the big Great White Shark! here is how you can find out the size of a megalodon from the size of the tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robii Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 this is my favorite... Mesosaurus tenuidens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 this is my favorite...Mesosaurus tenuidens Wonderful! I have a huge soft spot in my heart for articulated skeletons on a slab "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilselachian Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 here is how you can find out the size of a megalodon from the size of the tooth. Let's call it an "estimation" guide at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Let's call it an "estimation" guide at best. its all we can do we might never know really know big they were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 this is my favorite...Mesosaurus tenuidens very nice, its sad the head is gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robii Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 very nice, its sad the head is gone yeah unfortunally, also a bit of the tail.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrified Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Heres my favorite fossil. These are chrinoid columns. Definition of a fossil= Love at first site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Your pictured treasures seem so familiar; seeing them takes me back to my childhood, when fossil hunting the Allegheny Plateau was a big part of visiting Grampa. Thanks! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 very nice, now do you think they are all from the same crinoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 ...do you think they are all from the same crinoid They are so disarticulated, there is no way to know; pretty high-energy depositional environment. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 They are so disarticulated, there is no way to know; pretty high-energy depositional environment. i just dont see any other fossil material like shell debris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rfossile Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Here my favorite fossil It is a tooth of small dromaeosauridae of Berriasian of France. It measures 4 mm Romain http://www.ouest-paleo.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Here my favorite fossilIt is a tooth of small dromaeosauridae... Ah! Sister group to Aves. Dromaeosaurs were kissing-cousins of the birds (though not exactly your park-pigeons). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 very cool tooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 In one of the areas I collect along Calvert Cliffs I find pine cones here and there. I don't have any in my possession now but if I find another I will let you know. Wow! Are they in situ when you find them, or loose float? I ask because, in the marine environment, it's possible for a pine cone to go to sea, but several in the same spot seems like several too many. If not in matrix, they could be Pleistocene. I do know where, south of Westmorland, I could find wood weathering out of the cliff at eye-level; it was essentially lignite, and could be made to burn, but was otherwise very poorly preserved. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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