Any Have Fossilized Snake Verts?

[Roz]

This is the closest I have come..it's modern though.

Was wondering if any collectors on here have

found fossilized ones?

If you posts some pics, that would be great...

[PaleoRon]

Here is a big one from the Eocene Muddy Creek site near Fredericksburg, Virginia. I have quite a few but this is huge compared to most.

[Carl O'Cles]

Here's a link to a few of the ones my family has on our website Snake verts

These are all Eocene, i had some from Florida for about a day or two but when i flew home they lost my luggage and when i finally got it most of the stuff i had found was crushed

[Roz]

Thanks for posting those pics and the link.

I have never found a fossilized one. Are they rare?

[Carl O'Cles]

I would not consider them rare in my area or at least the sites where i know they can be found in my area. I have found four of them in my last two trips to one of the sites i collect. That's not to say that they are not highly uncommon where you collect

[Roz]

Well found the modern one in AR and in Texas

have never found or seen one from here.

Now I know what they look like, I will hope to

find one ....one of these days, maybe after I find

my mammoth tooth..

[Haizahnjager]

Funny you should mention this; I found a snake vert yesterday. It is from either the Chandler Bridge Formation (Oligocene) or an unidentified formation (Oligocene to Pleistocene) of South Carolina.

-HZJ

[Roz]

Haizahnjager, that is most cool. Bet you loved finding it!

and Paleo Ron that is a large one, must have

come from a huge snake. I don't guess there is a way

to tell what kind of snake it came from either?

[Auspex]

I would not consider them rare in my area or at least the sites where i know they can be found in my area. I have found four of them in my last two trips to one of the sites i collect. That's not to say that they are not highly uncommon where you collect

Given that snakes aren't (and presumably weren't) rare in any suitable habitat, and considering that they are basically loooong strings of verts, I think that any scarcity would be due to lack of preservation (terrestrial deposits, small and fragile) and/or lack of discovery (again, small).

[Guest N.AL.hunter]

We find them at Point-A dam in Alabama. Eocene. But ours are not in the fantastic condition that Haizahnjager's is.

[Carl O'Cles]

We find them at Point-A dam in Alabama. Eocene. But ours are not in the fantastic condition that Haizahnjager's is.

I agree Haizahnjager's is pretty sweet. The ones i found in Florida were just as nice before the return flight but i must say that i think they are way more common in florida then south carolina, i've only ever seen one other from south carolina and that was eocene

[ShadyW]

Here's mine... well, I think it's a snake vert.

From Post Oak Creek in Sherman, TX. My daughter found it about three years ago.

[PrehistoricFlorida]

Here's mine... well, I think it's a snake vert.

From Post Oak Creek in Sherman, TX. My daughter found it about three years ago.

That's not snake.

I've found literally thousands of snake verts, as well as small amphibian verts. Yes, they are readily identified with the right resources.

[ShadyW]

That's not snake.

I've found literally thousands of snake verts, as well as small amphibian verts. Yes, they are readily identified with the right resources.

Hmm. So, any ideas what it is?

[PaleoRon]

There is quite a bit of information available on fossil snakes if you dig deep enough. No pun intended. As far as Eocene marine snakes go there doesn't seem to be a lot of variety. The vert that I posted is from a Palaeophis. Three species have supposedly been found in the Nanjemoy formation. They are P. virginianus, P. toliapicus, and P. grandis.

Haizahnjager, that is most cool. Bet you loved finding it!

and Paleo Ron that is a large one, must have

come from a huge snake. I don't guess there is a way

to tell what kind of snake it came from either?

[Carl O'Cles]

Hmm. So, any ideas what it is?

Post some pics from other angles and we might be able to help id it