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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 8 months, 1 week ago
8 months, 1 week ago8 months, 1 week agoSpecific Epithet is only one word
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 8 months, 2 weeks ago
8 months, 2 weeks ago8 months, 2 weeks agoBull shark
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 8 months, 2 weeks ago
8 months, 2 weeks ago8 months, 2 weeks agoAfter the teeth have been in the water for a while they turn black or steel gray. This is probably the original color.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 8 months, 3 weeks ago
8 months, 3 weeks ago8 months, 3 weeks agoFor all those who ask if this is an egg they found. Look closely at the pictures, this is what a fossil egg looks like. Note the texture on the outside and the flaky layers.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 8 months, 3 weeks ago
8 months, 3 weeks ago8 months, 3 weeks agoYou need to fill in a lot more of the data that you know. Is the location correct as where it was found, as it shows it in a parking lot near the Coosa River? Need an image with a scale next to it (a ruler would do fine). Also take some measurements. The reason I state this is because of all the dozens of round or oval rocks I have seen, this…[Read more]
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months ago
9 months ago9 months agoScapanorhynchus does not occur outside of the late Cretaceous.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months ago
9 months ago9 months agoNo scale, no size. Need a side image.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 1 week ago
9 months, 1 week ago9 months, 1 week agoBased on the area stratigraphy, and the older age of the Ashley formation, I admit to correcting my assessment. Basically an ancestral silky shark.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 1 week ago
9 months, 1 week ago9 months, 1 week agospecific epithet is one word
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 1 week ago
9 months, 1 week ago9 months, 1 week agoNeed a location in lat/long
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 2 weeks ago
9 months, 2 weeks ago9 months, 2 weeks agoI don’t know where you come up with these species names. This is a silky shark, C. falciformis. gibbesi is from the Eocene
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 3 weeks ago
9 months, 3 weeks ago9 months, 3 weeks agoworn Striatolamia. Anomotodon are much finer teeth. Worn teeth often are missing key identification criteria which is why I recommend against posting them.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 3 weeks ago
9 months, 3 weeks ago9 months, 3 weeks agoYou need to work on your species: speyeri is listed as Odontaspis, volgnsis is russian made up nonsense as they love to create new species regardless of any previous references, lerichei is Brachycarcharias. It doesn’t have the long cusplets or the overhanging labial enamel of Odontaspis. It is also missing the little enamel basal cusplets that…[Read more]
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 4 weeks ago
9 months, 4 weeks ago9 months, 4 weeks agoAlopias With a precise location, I can mark it research grade.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 9 months, 4 weeks ago
9 months, 4 weeks ago9 months, 4 weeks agoNot to worn. It’s a lower tooth and with a few exceptions they can’t be reliably tied to a particular species.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
10 months ago10 months agoYou don’t have to be exact. Just make it a 4 digit coordinate and drop off the rest. You have a specimen number is that yours or has it been deposited in a collection?
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
10 months ago10 months agoThis is a fossil site, not a mineral site. There are plenty of mineral sites on the web.
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
10 months ago10 months agoWould need to see more sides with better lighting
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
10 months ago10 months agoMan made objects are not fossils
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Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
10 months ago10 months agoSorry, just a rock
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