Pilobolus Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Post 'em if you got 'em... An armored jaw-less fish...obviously. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire01 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Part of an ichthyosaur skull: But that might just be because I stink at fossil ID 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire01 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 (edited) It's just part of an ammonite. But it wasn't until I got it home and cleaned it up that I was able to see the suture lines. Edited September 19, 2014 by claire01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 A friend of mine sent me this photo and was hoping it was part of a pelvis: I replied that it was really a clutch of raptor eggs: one missing, one (on the right) intact, and one (on the left) broken with the baby raptor still curled up inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Lower Carboniferous jellyfish, actually just a compaction cone complete with radial striae (and brachiopod fragment), had me wondering for a while though... 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 In Indiana I came across a creek bed that had cut into some limestone strata. I immediately saw a "skull" that had me going for a while, but then looking around I realized that this eroded limestone was making all kinds of interesting convoluted shapes. I collected "vertebra", "limb bones", and "ribs", and then I put them next to the "skull" to make a "deer". It was pretty awe-inspiring from 20 feet away. I wonder if anybody found that critter, and reported it to the Smithsonian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Juvenile theropod skull found in a dry wash in Keystone, Colorado, 1997. Note the fabulous (and rare!) soft tissue preservation of the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 I hesitate to put this one in here as I think it might be a worked piece of cherty material. When I nabbed it, on-edge, it looked clam-like tho' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) “Chrysanthemum Stone” (celestine) from Yonghe in China. Dendritic pyrolusite on Late Jurassic limestone from Solnhofen in Germany. This fascinating moss was the principal nesting material for the Archaeopteryx found in the same strata. “Desert Owl” (gypsum concretion) from Tunisia. "Zebra Stone" (sedimentary quartz with cerisite) from the east Kimberley, Western Australia Pyrite “egg” from Hunan, China (layed by a goose, obviously) Edited September 24, 2014 by painshill 1 Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire01 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I have to say, though, that "chrysanthemum stone" is lovely, painshill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Those are some lovely examples painshill...love the owl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 300 myo "Peace sign", Mazon creek nod. A primate ear cleverly disguised as a Fiddlehead. Very rare! 1 2 ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Lower Carboniferous jellyfish, actually just a compaction cone complete with radial striae (and brachiopod fragment), had me wondering for a while though... IMG_1518 - Copy.JPG IMG_1517 - Copy (2).JPG What is a compaction cone, pray tell?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hi, “Chrysanthemum Stone” (celestine) from Yonghe in China. Chrysanthemum Stone.JPG What it is really? Some time ago, I saw many photos of that... Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Cool topic. Some of these objects would definitely give me a heart attack if I saw them in the field, especially that "placoderm skull". Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 . . . Dendritic pyrolusite on Late Jurassic limestone from Solnhofen in Germany. This fascinating moss was the principal nesting material for the Archaeopteryx found in the same strata. Pyrolusite.jpg . . . Apparently these are manganese dendrites, but not pyrolusite. MINDAT.ORG Pyrolusite Rutile Group Usually found as matte-black powdery to fibrous crusts, sometimes in botryoidal aggregates or columnar, more rarely as druzes of small prismatic to tabular, dark grey metallic crystals. NOTE: No valid pyrolusite dendrites are known. Supposed specimens of pyrolusite in dendritic form turn out to be other Mn-oxide species (e.g., minerals of the cryptomelane group, birnessite, nsutite, todorokite, etc.) upon being examined in the proper laboratory setting for characterizing these difficult to identify minerals. See Potter, R. and Rossman, G, 1979, Mineralogy of Manganese Dendrites and Coatings, American Mineralogist, v. 64, p. 1219-1226 3 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 (edited) some kind of bird-billed camel. Edit: with the flaming hair and wedge-shaped tail, I'm sure it is with the Paleo-Pokemon lineage. Edited September 29, 2014 by Pilobolus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 some kind of bird-billed camel. Edit: with the flaming hair and wedge-shaped tail, I'm sure it is with the Paleo-Pokemon lineage. This Pokemon was called "Pi". "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...
Pilobolus Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 This Pokemon was called "Pi". Took a while to dawn on me, but at least it wasn't 3.14159 days before I caught on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My 400 million year old Fossilized Golf ball. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My 400 million year old Fossilized Golf ball. Silly you... golf wasn't invented until the cretaceous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 For comparison: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/image/22057-dasyclad-green-algae/ http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My 400 million year old Fossilized Golf ball. 400MYA - Fossilized Golfball-1.jpg I have a few that look almost identical from the Silurian Waldron Shale. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 My 400 million year old Fossilized Golf ball. 400MYA - Fossilized Golfball-1.jpg I have a few that look almost identical from the Silurian Waldron Shale. Yes, Favosites from the Waldron Shale. Don't miss the old marbles in the back ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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