FossilHunter99 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Hi! I want to start a collection of pleistocene raptor fossils, I've already ordered my first fossils (a partial femur, a claw and a phalange). It would be awesome to add a teratorn fossil to the collection but I've found none for sale, are they hard to get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Hi! ... It would be awesome to add a teratorn fossil to the collection but I've found none for sale, are they hard to get? Yes, Teratornis material is very rare. I apologize for the poor image "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Is that from the Auspex collection? Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilHunter99 Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Nice piece Auspex... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Is that from the Auspex collection? 'Tis indeed. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I have to agree with Auspex but might say super-rare instead. I have seen a lot of tar pit fossils at shows and in private collections plus a lot of unprepped tar matrix with bones in it but not one teratorn bone. I have seen some large fossil raptor claws (probably eagles) and a few large bone ends recognizable as bird. I did once see what appeared to be the distal end of a large tarsometatarsus poking out of the surface of a large chunk of tar pit matrix (Kern County site, California). The owner was going to get around to prepping it out to see what it was but I don't know if he ever did. It was maybe 2 inches across the end - easily the largest piece like that I'd seen. You don't see as much tar pit material as in the past (used to see more in the 1980's-1990's). At a show a friend once pulled out a beer flat full of bird bones, asking me if there were any teratorns in there. A paleontologist happened to be visiting and he was also looking at the variety of partial and complete bones in the box with none larger than what would fit in maybe a raven-sized skeleton. He said, "Are you kidding? Teratorns are huge!" Hi! I want to start a collection of pleistocene raptor fossils, I've already ordered my first fossils (a partial femur, a claw and a phalange). It would be awesome to add a teratorn fossil to the collection but I've found none for sale, are they hard to get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 ... I did once see what appeared to be the distal end of a large tarsometatarsus poking out of the surface of a large chunk of tar pit matrix (Kern County site, California). The owner was going to get around to prepping it out to see what it was but I don't know if he ever did. It was maybe 2 inches across the end.... If it was indeed a tarsometatarsus, at that size, there is nothing else it could have been but Teratorn. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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