New Pics Of Badland Fossils

[mikeymig]

Heres a few more Badland fossils I have sold from my collection.

The Beardog was from my buddy Allen Graffham.

mikey

[32fordboy]

It's official. The bear dog is my fovorite specimen of this thread. Wicked.

[PRK]

Hey mike---any updates on Allen. We were buddies back in the '70 s and 80s but lost touch since

[mikeymig]

Hey mike---any updates on Allen. We were buddies back in the '70 s and 80s but lost touch since

Allen passed away in 2009. I regret not seeing or talking to him much after 2002.

Mikey

[PRK]

So sorry! Thank you for your update.

[jpc]

Not yet...other than the eggs.

Got any leads?

LINK

Nice link...

No leads, though. That egg was found in the same area nando and diana found their pair of eggs when I took them out. I have yet to find one. I do have a nodule with a small carpometacarpus and femur. Not yet prepped.

[mikeymig]

Thank you for the link Auspex, it help me finish my new pic of my last Badland fossil.

I gave this egg to my daughter Becky a couple of years ago. She has always admired it so I gave it to her on Easter.

Mikey

Please keep adding pics everyone and it doesnt matter how complete or common your specimen or specimens are.

[32fordboy]

The footprint is from a Brontothere and shows the rear/front foot overlap. From Wyoming, if I recall.

The Poebrotherium and Oreodont are from Colorado. For our location, these would be considered among the best (by a long shot), hence the relative disappointment with our location...everything there is badly fractured.

[32fordboy]

More common doodads:

An Oreodont skull from South Dakota (found in 1942)

A Brontothere lower molar...South Dakota or Nebraska. It's long gone.

[PRK]

Acquired this sweetie in a trade. Anybody?

Edited February 15, 2014 by PRK

[mikeymig]

Acquired this sweetie in a trade. Anybody?

That is sweet! Upper teeth to a Brontothere with very little wear. Lucky!

Mikey

[PRK]

Thanks mikey! Any idea of age, and general locale?

[mikeymig]

More common doodads:

An Oreodont skull from South Dakota (found in 1942)

A Brontothere lower molar...South Dakota or Nebraska. It's long gone.

Nick that Oreodon is just the way I like em, no restoration. Is the base plaster or a piece of natural matrix cut into a square? Do you still own that skull?

Mikey

[mikeymig]

Thanks mikey! Any idea of age, and general locale?

It's from the Chadron formation, Upper Eocene in age and prob from Nebraska.

Mikey

[PRK]

GREAT! It's nice to finally have some solid info. Thank you, I appreciate your time mikey

[32fordboy]

Nah, Mikey. This one sold a while back. It looked like the base was plaster. It was a nice skull.

PRK, are you sure those aren't rhino uppers? I'm having a difficult time seeing Brontothere in them...not to say they aren't, of course.

Nick

[PRK]

HUH? I was asking the question.

[32fordboy]

Oh, gotcha. Sorry. A bit of a long day in the shop. The screen is starting to blur a bit. Haha.

Edited February 16, 2014 by 32fordboy

[PRK]

Hi 32--- here is the other side. So what do you think?

[32fordboy]

Rhino, in my opinion. If it's from the White River, it would have to be Subhyracodon. Mikey's locality info would most likely be correct.

[32fordboy]

Here are some Hyracodon uppers for comparison. Hyracodon was much smaller than Subhyracodon.

[mikeymig]

Hi 32--- here is the other side. So what do you think?

Now in this photo they look smaller so Nick is prob right that this is to a Rhino, a large Rhino like Metamynodon.

What do you think Nick?

Mikey

[32fordboy]

That may very well be. Totally forgot about Metamynodon, of which I know little.

[Redlichia]

My favorite Nebraska Oligocene specimens:

Bird Eggs Olig. NE 1.jpg

Very nice eggs, congrats!

a old pdf about the White River and also the eggs:

https://archive.org/details/whiteriverbadlan00ohar

[jpc]

Here are a few pix of one of my bestest White River Fossils. This is the skull and a few post-cranials of a beast called Epoicotherium. It is a small burrowing animal somewhat related to sloths. As far as I know, this is only the fourth skeleton known of this guy.

First a side view. Skull is sticking straight up in these. The lighter colored roundish thing in the foreground is the disconnected auditory bulla. It is very very thin. This whole thing was prepped with an air abrasive under the ole microscope, allowing me to not blow through too much of the bulla.

And now from the other side. The skull is more complete on this side.

And here it is looking at the chewing surface of the teeth, as well as the pile of bones at the base. Epoicotherium and its close cousin Xenocranium were voracious diggers and probably rarely came aboveground. They had a flat shovel-like snout, which was eroded off by the time I found this guy. Speaking of which, I found this in a roundish nodule with only a few scraps of bone exposed on the surface, one of which was the snout. The letters refer to the following:

A the skull

B and C two ends of the distal humerus, which is incredibly wide. Another adaptation to digging.

D, E and F... parts of the scapula. E is the glenoid fossa, where the humerus attaches. D is the huge olecranon process. This is usually a little nub on most mammals, but this huge thing shows that he had huge digging muscles going to the humerus. F is the blade of the scapula... not completely preserved.

G is the end of a series of fused cervical verts which are better seen slightly out of focus in the second photo. The fused verts give the neck great strength, again for digging and using his snout as a shovel or at least as a tamping bar.

I think I have shown this before, but it fits in this discussion. Enjoy.

Edited November 10, 2014 by jpc