New Pics Of Badland Fossils

[RCFossils]

A partial skull of the entelodont Archaeotherium mortoni.

[32fordboy]

Fantastic specimens! Both the insectivore and the Archaeotherium are stunning.

[RCFossils]

Skull and partial skeleton of the Caenopus occidentalis (sub hyracodon)

[RCFossils]

Thanks Nick!

I think I may have owned your titanothere skull. I am going to have to look through some old pictures and compare them to your fossil.

[32fordboy]

Wouldn't doubt it. It's a small world in this hobby.

[RCFossils]

I have posted this specimen before. This is the largest cat skull that I have ever seen from the White River Formation. Unfortunately it is a partial but this was an enormous animal. The skull is similar in size to some of the Smilodon material I have seen.

[RCFossils]

Here is the Titanothere skull that I had. It does look similar to yours

[RCFossils]

Palaeolagus haydeni (rabbit)

[32fordboy]

Looks very similar, but definitely not the same. The brownish patina on yours is something I've not seen on a Brontothere. Thanks for sharing!

[mikeymig]

RC that Leptictis is a little gem. Complete skulls with the tip of the snout still intact is not common. Do you have any pics of it unprepped? The cat skull is something else! Could it be a Eusmilus?

Thanks for adding your specimens!

Mikey

[busyeagle]

Awesome specimens all around, thanks for posting.

[mikeymig]

Heres a rare one from the Badlands of China. I bought a huge lot of teeth back in the 90s that I was told was the accumulation of several years of collecting for a village in that area. There were hundreds of horse teeth/ gazelle teeth in this lot. There were also other things like rhino, elephant, hyeana but only one tooth like this and thats why I kept it. I posted a few pics of this tooth awhile back on the forum and I found out that its a shansitherium.

thanks

Mikey

[Auspex]

Oh! International badlands!

How 'bout an Ostrich skull from from the Early Miocene Shangzhuang Formation of the. Linxia Basin in Gansu, China:

[mikeymig]

Oh! International badlands!

How 'bout an Ostrich skull from from the Early Miocene Shangzhuang Formation of the. Linxia Basin in Gansu, China:

Ostrich.jpg

Now that is cool! Whats the size of this skull?

mikey

[Auspex]

...Whats the size of this skull?

It measures right at 4 inches.

[mikeymig]

This is a composite skull of a rare Peccary I put together and mounted on acrylic. I bought the lower jaws from someone who had them labeled Oreodon (I think I paid $20) and the upper skull was bought in Tucson back in 1998.

This is my last Badland fossil but I still would love to see more from the rest of you so keep em coming.

Thanks

Mikey

[mikeymig]

It measures right at 4 inches.

I have a feeling you like birds. I could be wrong cuz like I said it's just a feeling or hunch.

Mikey

[Auspex]

I have a feeling you like birds...

I like all fossils, but can only make space for bird fossils

[jpc]

auspex... do you have any White River birds in your little collection?

[Auspex]

auspex... do you have any White River birds in your little collection?

Not yet...other than the eggs.

Got any leads?

LINK

[Ray Eklund]

Auspex... the "pond" on Shalimar has some low laying badlands around there. Bird Eggs. Might have been a place to find any bone material if they existed. I think you could easily confuse a loose bird bone with a rodents... so it would take some looking very close. Never found any "bird skull". But never stopped looking. Bathed in that pond twenty years ago! Worst idea I had come up with. Lost one of my "flip flops" in the Gumbo bottom while trying to get out and I looked like I encrusted with calcite.

Some very nice specimens on this post! For every ten to fifteen oreodont skulls.... one something or other than oreodont... Back in the late 1960's, even at Lloyd Arner's place you could still find complete weathered out skulls and tortoises sitting on pedestals of badlands. Some of the best looking finds were naturally weathered... in the under 12 inch lengths.

The specimens shown are the unusual finds and less than 10% of all finds where just a bit of bone is showing. They make people think that is how you find them every day... I wish. If you see the engravings of specimens found during the 1848 to 1860's specimens when you could pick fossils up by the ton already eroded out... most look terrible. And... they also had free reign of the South Dakota Badlands. I still believe that the Nebraska specimens are better fossils overall.

Seeing these specimens sure brings back the memories of the wide open days in the Nebraska Badlands!

Edited February 11, 2014 by Ray Eklund

[mikeymig]

Ray I swam in that pond due to the fact that the day I was collecting there the heat index was 115. I took my glasses off of course and as I was reaching the other side of the pond I saw something brown near the shore but half in the water. When I got closer I find out it was a dead cow. I often wondered how many fossils were at the bottom of that pond. I found a huge turtle near the shore when we took a walk one evening after dinner. It took me 8 hours to dig him out the next day and it was complete.

Mikey

Edited February 12, 2014 by mikeymig

[barefootgirl]

Great specimens, I always enjoy seeing other peoples finds from different regions.

[32fordboy]

Leptomeryx and rabbit skull, along with a Titanothere tooth that got sold. The Leptomeryx came with a partial skeleton. The fossil is ever-so-slightly blue-hued (can't tell in the photo).

[mikeymig]

Good idea Nick!

Here are a few that I sold from my collection over the years.

mikey