foxik Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 three years ago, I started a career as a barkeeper in Oxford, UK. because of my hobby, I visited few sites nearby, and the best one was Woodeaton. one day, me and my friend Luke, we were searching for brachiopods and bivalves, in this quarry and nature called me, so I went to a rock wall and when I was doing my thing, I saw few brown sticks popping out the rock. first I thought, I found fossil wood, then, when I came back next weekend, a big bone changed my mind. now I have this beautiful collectin, home. I found bones of two dinosaurs, an unknown stegosaurid (probably one of the oldest in the world, because the age of the rocks is middle Jurassic - Bathonian) and Cetiosaurus oxoniensis a very common sauropod in English midlands. enjoy. 1.tibia of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis 2.acetabulum of ilium from the stegosaurid 3.partial ilium from the stegosaurid 4.partial ilium from the stegosaurid, other side 5.unknown bone from the stegosaurid 6.osteodermal plate from the stegosaurid 7.osteodermal plate from the stegosaurid 8.unknown bone from the stegosaurid 9.bone fragments from the stegosaurid 10.osteodermal plate from the stegosaurid 11.osteodermal spike from the stegosaurid 12.distal epiphysis of femur from the stegosaurid 13.unknown bone fragment from the stegosaurid 14.unknown bone from the stegosaurid 15.osteodermal plate from the stegosaurid 16.ribs from the stegosaurid (the last one on the right side is from Cetiosaurus) 17.unknown bone from the stegosaurid 18.osteodermal plate from the stegosaurid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Excellent finds! Were the stegosaurid remains associated? "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...
foxik Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Excellent finds! Were the stegosaurid remains associated? yes they were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 yes they were With such an early date, and a chance they are form an individual animal, this might be an important find! "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...
piranha Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 With such an early date, and a chance they are form an individual animal, this might be an important find! They certainly could be very important. Associated Stegosaurus elements are probably a high priority among dinosaur paleontologists and even more so if they are in fact the bones from a basal lineage. Hopefully good field notes were taken that the necessary stratigraphic context is intact should anyone wish to further describe and research this discovery. Have these elements actually been confirmed as an undescribed Stegosaurus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxik Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 when I found them I was collaborating with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and there wasn´t a paleontologist, who could work with them, so I talked to Angela Milner, the famous paleontologist, expert in Thyreophorans, from British Museum of Natural History and she told me, that there were some problems with the ownership of the quarry and none of the material can be studied, util this problem will be solved. she recomended, that I should keep the stuff, or leave it in the hands of Oxford University Museum. I moved back to Slovakia a year ago, so I took the stuff with me, nobody contacted me, but if, I will give it for studying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilshk Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Oh, good finds!!!!! Dinosaur Fossil Lab http://www.fossilshk.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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