The Fossil Cache Of A Singapore Collector

[fossilsonwheels]

43 minutes ago, -Andy- said:

Been a while since I updated!

 

Armoured Jawless Fish
Victoraspis longicornualis
411.2 - 407 mya | early Devonian
Strypa member of the Dniester Formation
Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

 

Ginsu Shark associated verts
Cretoxyrhina mantelli
87.3 - 80.6 mya | late Cretaceous
Smokey Hill Chalk member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation
Trego County, Kansas, USA

I love the verts. Great addition Andy

[lexandc]

I love your collection Andy. It is really awesome. I wish i can have a collection as diversed and cool as yours someday. 

[Runner64]

On 9/8/2019 at 11:36 AM, -Andy- said:

Been a while since I updated!

 

Armoured Jawless Fish
Victoraspis longicornualis
411.2 - 407 mya | early Devonian
Strypa member of the Dniester Formation
Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

This is incredible Andy!  Nice add 

[Bobby Rico]

On 16/03/2019 at 1:54 PM, -Andy- said:

This ichthyosaur seemed to be a lost cause as he'd gone through grinding "prep" which takes away important surface detail. Thankfully, @steelhead9 was up to the task of prepping him to expose whatever bone detail was still present. I'd say he did a great job.

Looks great I think and @steelhead9 did a fine prep job.

[-Andy-]

On 09/09/2019 at 1:19 AM, fossilsonwheels said:

I love the verts. Great addition Andy

 

Thank you. Always wanted a set of verts from that badass shark

 

On 19/09/2019 at 6:17 PM, lexandc said:

I love your collection Andy. It is really awesome. I wish i can have a collection as diversed and cool as yours someday. 

 

I believe you can. Just start building up your collection today

 

On 27/09/2019 at 12:13 AM, Runner64 said:

This is incredible Andy!  Nice add 

 

Thanks!

 

On 27/09/2019 at 12:30 AM, Bobby Rico said:

Looks great I think and @steelhead9 did a fine prep job.

 

I agree. It was this forum that recommended him

[-Andy-]

Three fearsome predators today! First up, the biggest lizard of all time. This guy took me a long time to find:

 

Megalania tooth
Varanus prisca
50,000 - 40,000 years old | late Pleistocene
indeterminate formation
Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia

 

Ichthyosaur tooth
Ichthyosauridae indet.
183 - 182 mya | early Jurassic
indeterminate formation
Nancy, France

 

Metoposaur tooth
Koskinonodon sp.
221.5 - 205.6 mya | late Triassic
Redonda Formation
Quay County, Eastern New Mexico, USA

Note: May be from another related formation. Dealer provided this formation name but I couldn't find any info about Koskinonodon from there 

[-Andy-]

Collecting has been slow this year. I am pleased to finally obtain a Mini Museum: Age of Dinosaurs to my collection!

 

[FF7_Yuffie]

23 hours ago, -Andy- said:

Collecting has been slow this year. I am pleased to finally obtain a Mini Museum: Age of Dinosaurs to my collection!

 

 

 

 

Wow! I really like that. I've found the site selling them and added one to my list of fossils to buy.  It's a very cool display.

[-Andy-]

 

Spinosaurus rooted tooth

S. aegyptiacus

99.7 - 94.3 mya | late Cretaceous

Kem Kem Beds

Taouz, Southeast Morocco

Comment: I've posted this tooth before in its rough state. I recently prepped it again.

 

 

Pterosaur tooth

cf. Rhamphorhynchidae / Wukongopteridae indet.

166 - 157 mya | middle-late Jurassic

Yanliao Biota

Yixian, Liaoning Province

 

 

Plesiosaur tooth

Elasmosauridae indet.

100.5 - 66 mya | late Cretaceous

Gaysky Quarry stratigraphic unit (unnamed)

Gaysky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia

[-Andy-]

Haven't updated this for a very long time. Here's a few updates

 

Stegosaur spike

cf. Adratiklit boulahfa

168 - 164 mya | late Jurassic

El Mers Group

Atlas Mountains, Boulemane

 

Dinosaur vertebra

?Theropoda indet.

221.5 - 205.6 mya | late Triassic

Bull Canyon Formation

Quay County, New Mexico, USA

 

Wing feathers

Avialae indet.

120 - 113 mya | early Cretaceous

Jiufotang Formation

Chaoyang, Liaoning Province

 

Europelta scute

E. carbonensis

112 mya | early Cretaceous

Escucha Formation

Ariño, Teruel, Aragon, Spain

[-Andy-]

Psittacosaurus juvenile

P. mongoliensis

121 - 119.6 mya | early Cretaceous

Jiufotang Formation

Liaoning Province

 

[FF7_Yuffie]

Wow! That Psitaccosaur looks amazing. 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

On 10/6/2019 at 6:34 PM, -Andy- said:

Three fearsome predators today! First up, the biggest lizard of all time. This guy took me a long time to find:

 

Megalania tooth
Varanus prisca
50,000 - 40,000 years old | late Pleistocene
indeterminate formation
Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia

 

Ichthyosaur tooth
Ichthyosauridae indet.
183 - 182 mya | early Jurassic
indeterminate formation
Nancy, France

 

Metoposaur tooth
Koskinonodon sp.
221.5 - 205.6 mya | late Triassic
Redonda Formation
Quay County, Eastern New Mexico, USA

Note: May be from another related formation. Dealer provided this formation name but I couldn't find any info about Koskinonodon from there 

 

Wow! Those are some amazing teeth! Megalania has been in my list for some time now as well... But with access to Aussie-fossils being so difficult (from what I've found out so far), this is likely once that will never be checked of the list...

 

The ichthyosaur-tooth from Nancy is also very rare. Hard to come by, especially this size. Would still be on my list as well. Looks like a Temnodontosaurus cf. platyodon, by the way

[-Andy-]

7 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

Wow! Those are some amazing teeth! Megalania has been in my list for some time now as well... But with access to Aussie-fossils being so difficult (from what I've found out so far), this is likely once that will never be checked of the list...

 

The ichthyosaur-tooth from Nancy is also very rare. Hard to come by, especially this size. Would still be on my list as well. Looks like a Temnodontosaurus cf. platyodon, by the way

 

Thank you for the kind comments. I didn't think I could ever get a Megalania but the fates aligned for me and I was fortunate enough to get this one

 

Thanks for the info on the ichthyosaur tooth! I will do more research on this genus to see how my tooth matches up

[Troodon]

Nice Psittacosaurus I like the way it was mounted.  Did you pick it up that way or do it yourself.  I also have a small one might consider something similar.  Are the bones affixed to the matrix.  

That scute is nice from Spain you don't see many.  Good fortune picking up that Stego spike

 

 

[-Andy-]

3 minutes ago, Troodon said:

Nice Psittacosaurus I like the way it was mounted.  Did you pick it up that way or do it yourself.  I also have a small one might consider something similar.  Are the bones affixed to the matrix.  

That scute is nice from Spain you don't see many.

 

 

 

Thanks Frank. I picked it up that way from another Singaporean collector who got it from Mike Holmes many years ago

 

The bones are affixed to the matrix. I like it this way as the tiny bones are rather fragile

 

Yes, Spanish dinosaur fossils don't come by everyday

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

9 hours ago, -Andy- said:

Thanks for the info on the ichthyosaur tooth! I will do more research on this genus to see how my tooth matches up

 

To me the first clue is the tooth being rather sizeable and robust for an ichthyosaur. The second is that, as far as I'm aware, apart from Temnodontosaurus, only stenopterygii and eurhinosauridae had unornamented teeth like this, but their teeth are much smaller. The teeth of Temnodontosaurus, on the other hand have carinae, which I can't quite make out whether this one has, although T. platyodon seems to have had weak rudimentary plicidentine enamel folds in some smaller specimens.

 

Have a look at this recent thread for comparison:

 

I really like your Gaysky elasmosaur-tooth too, by the way...

[-Andy-]

14 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

To me the first clue is the tooth being rather sizeable and robust for an ichthyosaur. The second is that, as far as I'm aware, apart from Temnodontosaurus, only stenopterygii and eurhinosauridae had unornamented teeth like this, but their teeth are much smaller. The teeth of Temnodontosaurus, on the other hand have carinae, which I can't quite make out whether this one has, although T. platyodon seems to have had weak rudimentary plicidentine enamel folds in some smaller specimens.

 

Have a look at this recent thread for comparison:

 

 

My tooth has a gentle carina which I can only see under strong lighting and a loupe.

 

The tooth is similar to the very last tooth you posted in the below thread, though my tooth has weaker enamel wrinkles and is smaller. If your last tooth is a Temnodontosaurus platyodon, then mine could indeed be a T. cf. platyodon

 

 

I tried finding more info about ichthyosaur from Nancy but all I could find was this: http://fossilworks.org/?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=68316

 

14 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

I really like your Gaysky elasmosaur-tooth too, by the way...

 

Thank you. I had to snatch one while I could since they don't come everyday

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

5 hours ago, -Andy- said:

My tooth has a gentle carina which I can only see under strong lighting and a loupe.

 

The tooth is similar to the very last tooth you posted in the below thread, though my tooth has weaker enamel wrinkles and is smaller. If your last tooth is a Temnodontosaurus platyodon, then mine could indeed be a T. cf. platyodon

 

Both enamel folds and carinae can be weaker on these teeth, if you compare them to those of Mary the Temnodontosaurus (platyodon) found by Tony Gill from Charmouth, shown in this post:

 

 

And while I haven't quite been able to rule out these teeth belonging to T. eurycephalus (there's just no good reference material available), the NHM in London has some specimens in their collections which they identify as such. For the time being, and to the best of my knowledge, I therefore consider these teeth T. platyodon. With yours looking very similar, even from the photographs and more so from your description, I'd feel safe sticking the T. cf. platyodon label on them. They're much more like this species, than any of the other temnodontosaurids I've seen...

 

 

5 hours ago, -Andy- said:

I tried finding more info about ichthyosaur from Nancy but all I could find was this: http://fossilworks.org/?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=68316

 

Yeah, it's an unfortunate but well-known issue that the material found at Essay-les-Nancy have been poorly described. Based on word-of-mouth from befriended palaeontologists working in the region, even plesiosaur teeth have been found here - but, again, never described. I myself have some marine reptile teeth from this location in my collection, as outlined in the post below. The Toarcian date seems to be correct, however, which puts them in par with finds from the Posidonia Shale exposed at sites like Holzmaden and Dotternhausen in Germany, and therefore slightly younger, but with comparable fauna to that of Lyme Regis.

 

 

[vietnamfossil]

Very wonderful collection Andy! It my dream to make fully like you. 
I’m Le. Nice to see you in TFF.

[-Andy-]

I am not much of a trilobite collector but once in a while, nice ones do come my way

 

Asaphiscus (top) & Elrathia (btm)

A. wheeleri & E. kingii

507 mya | middle Cambrian

Wheeler Shale

House Range, Millard County, Utah, USA

 

Redlichia
R. chinensis
516 - 513 mya | Cambrian Series 2
Balang Formation
Xiangxi, northwestern Hunan Province

 

Cambropallas trilobite
C. telesto
516 - 513 mya | Cambrian Series 2
Jbel Wawrmast Formation
Tinjdad, Morocco

 

On 8/30/2021 at 1:58 PM, vietnamfossil said:

Very wonderful collection Andy! It my dream to make fully like you. 
I’m Le. Nice to see you in TFF.

 

It's good to see you here too, Le Quoc

[-Andy-]

A few aquatic reptiles today

 

Hyphalosaurus

H. baitaigouensis

123 - 122 mya | late Cretaceous

Yixian Formation; Jingangshan Bed

Wangjia Ditch, Yi County, Liaoning

 

Plesiosaur tooth

Leptocleididae indet.

98 - 92.5 mya | late Cretaceous

Kem Kem Beds

Taouz, Southeast Morocco

 

Nothosaurus tooth

Nothosaurus sp.

236 - 235 mya | late Triassic

Glaukonitbank, Oberer Muschelkalk

Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Edited October 14, 2022 by -Andy-

[Troodon]

Nice adds congrats.  A lot easier to manage than that mosasaur

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yes, there have been some very nice additions since I last saw this thread. 

Amazing 

[rocket]

I love the Hyphalosaurus, really nice addition! Collection grows and grows