trilobites_are_awesome Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Those drotops are beautiful. 1 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 Gyroptychius agassizi This is a really cool sarcopterygian fish, close relative of Osteolepis sp. And found in the same deposits though much larger and with slightly different morphology, especially visible by things like the fins. I couldn't afford a complete specimen and don't think I will for a while as they go for really large sums usually but this partial was in good condition and decently cheap so I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Mid Devonian, Scotland 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 Nice fish! 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 I recently got this mostly complete ceratopsian braincase from the Hell Creek formation. Quite the prep project. It's still unclear if it's Triceratops or Torosaurus. 3 9 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielb Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Paralejurus Trilobite 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 It was my birthday for most of the last week. Here is wifey's present to me. The inarticulate brachiopods Lingulella sp. and Monobolina plumbea from the Mid Ordovician of Shropshire. A Mid Silurian hash from the Much Wenlock of the Wren's Nest, Dudley. (they sent the wrong label) The usual mix of corals, bryozoans and solitary and colonial corals, but notable for a nice base of a crinoid calyx. And a Late Silurian dendroid graptolite from the Czech Republic, positive and negative. 1 7 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echinoid Express Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 I've gotten a number of neat things in the mail and trade sectors recently, but I have a few I though were especially interesting. These are two black shale plates containing small Diademopsis crinifera, the largest of which is around 1 cm (.3937 inches) in diameter. As of right now, this species is the closest that I have to a Triassic species, as the genus is though to have existed only from the Late Triassic to the Early Jurassic. I am hoping to acquire a Triassic Period specimen eventually, as it was an unusual time for the evolution of the echinoids, not to mention a majority of all life during that time, due to the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event. However, like a lot of pre-Jurassic echinoids, they seem to have very few localities, so it may be a bit difficult to come across one. I've hopefully got a lot of time left yet still to search for one, though! Aside from sea urchins, I've finally been able to acquire a decent Asteroidea sea star, which I got at my first fossil trade show. I'm not sure if my next fossil display will be as heavily focused on echinoids, as I've been wanting to show off some more of my personal North Carolina and Virginia finds from the past two years, but I'd like to have a small display of other echinoderms to show people their relatives. And on the subject of fellow echinoderm relatives, I was able to snag this nice Achistrum sea cucumber nodule from Mazon Creek online recently as well, which was one of the last major echinoderms I was missing. I've seen a lot discussion on Mazon Creek before and have seen some of the finds from the area, but until recently I don't think I fully appreciated how diverse and well preserved the fossils are from that site! There are some really cool things in those nodules, and I hope one day I can get up there to look for some myself. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Really nice starfish. i am sure the person who found it was not on Mt. Disappointment. 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Received some wonderful scale pins in the mail today made by forum member @Bobby Rico These are some fantastic scales and being pins I think they will be super convenient to pin on every bag I collect with and make sure I always have a scale with me in the field 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotelus2883 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 I just got a Naraoia sp. and Maotianshania cylindrica from Yunnan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Traumatocrinus sp. from the early Late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation Guanling County (South China, Guizhou Province 1 10 1 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 hours ago, hemipristis said: Traumatocrinus sp. from the early Late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation Guanling County (South China, Guizhou Province OMG!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 hours ago, hemipristis said: Traumatocrinus sp. from the early Late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation Guanling County (South China, Guizhou Province Superb ! 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 hours ago, hemipristis said: Traumatocrinus sp. from the early Late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation Guanling County (South China, Guizhou Province Absolutely stunning! 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 WOW! 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimin013 Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 (edited) Two fully rooted Madagascan sauropod dinosaur teeth Edited October 14, 2023 by Jaimin013 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 WOW cool saurapod teeth. 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I am super exited about these and wanted to share them. A Eldredgeops from sylvania Ohio a anataphrus from Fayettc Iowa 3 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielb Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Love the Eldredgeops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobites_are_awesome Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) Thank you! Its about a Inch and a half. If outstretched it would have been 3inchs. Edited October 18, 2023 by trilobites_are_awesome 1 Cheers! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 4:40 AM, hemipristis said: Traumatocrinus sp. from the early Late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation Guanling County (South China, Guizhou Province Stuninng ! 1 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 10/14/2023 at 5:14 PM, PetrosTrilobite said: A sauropod tooth from Maevarano formation, maybe Rapetosaurus. Very large (1.25 inch) for a max. 15 m. sauropod, i think! And a Jurassic theropod tooth fron Isalo III formation Thank you @Kikokuryu! Petros, you rock ! "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) On 10/17/2023 at 4:10 PM, trilobites_are_awesome said: I am super exited about these and wanted to share them. A Eldredgeops from sylvania Ohio a anataphrus from Fayettc Iowa On 10/18/2023 at 12:06 AM, Danielb said: Love the Eldredgeops Very probably Eldredgeops rana. Edited October 19, 2023 by fifbrindacier 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 10/14/2023 at 6:23 PM, Jaimin013 said: Two fully rooted Madagascan sauropod dinosaur teeth My goodness ! 1 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) My birthday was on September the fifteenth (a few days before @Tidgy's Dad's, ), i offered to myself those little whooly rhino teeth and received a fourth one but not from the same animal, Pleistocene of Russia : Edited October 20, 2023 by fifbrindacier 9 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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