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  • #36293
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Congrats on the beautiful symphyseal cow shark tooth!!!

    #33977
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thank you for listing these books!  I look forward to checking them out.

    #25126
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thank you Bill @bill-heim,  I am attaching some larger photos of some of the nurse shark teeth.

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    #24426
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thank you for the information on the nurse shark teeth at the Belgrade Quarry.  I would like to label the nurse shark teeth that I have collected at the quarry, do you think all of these are Ginglymostoma?

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    #24425
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thanks for the pictures and video.  I found myself panicking just watching the video, I don’t think I will be doing any blackwater diving anytime soon!  Yikes!

    #24340
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thank you!  I am so excited to have found one!

    #24128
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Thanks everyone, I have never collected trilobite fossils before and really appreciate your help.  I was wondering if the pygidium is a Thaleops ovata?  The cephalon sure looks like the ceraurine-Ceraurus.

    <post bump> Any ideas, @jeff-nolder, @asa-kaplan, @jkallmeyer?

    #24041
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Such a thoughtful and beautiful gift!

    #23691
    Julie Niederkorn
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    I’m sorry, I wish I could help.  I agree with the others, the photo is just not detailed enough to identify the piece.

    #23070
    Julie Niederkorn
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    It was great to see you there.  Looks like you found some great fossils.  George Powell’s collection is amazing!

    #21305
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Sorry for the late response, I was on vacation and did not have access to the internet.  I have many fond memories of the PaleoBlitz!  Meeting so many wonderful people with similar interests, the tours, the collecting in the creek, it was all terrific.  The PaleoBlitz has encouraged me to keep better records, and inspired me to do more outreach activities.  I hope to see you all at the Aurora Fossil Festival!

    #18705
    Julie Niederkorn
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    @cgrant

    That sounds terrific!  How big will your complete Orca be?  Can you please post photos when you are done?  Thanks

    #18458
    Julie Niederkorn
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    @egardner Here is a group shot of the fossils that I collected at Belgrade on January 20.  I didn’t take any closeup shots but can if anyone wants to see something specific.  Sorry, no new land mammals.

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    #18348
    Julie Niederkorn
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    Hi Eleanor,  I just saw your post.  I went to the Belgrade Quarry on January 20th for their quarterly fossil collecting day.  About 30 people showed up.  That is a large crowd!  I didn’t find anything too unusual but was happy with my finds, including a crock tooth, two cow shark teeth, two beautiful nurse shark teeth, a great white(missing root), some partial phalanges (dolphin?), petrified wood and a nice collection of the more common shark teeth, ray mouth plates, shark and dolphin vertebrae, turtle fragments, etc.  I have a couple of things that I still need to identify. Belgrade recently pushed a lot of dirt on top of some prime fossil collecting areas, so sad to see such a big area covered up by non-productive dirt.

    #15702
    Julie Niederkorn
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    @vperez Thank you for your post on how to determine if a bone is a fossil.  I still have some questions.  Is there a different set of diagnostic tests for individual mammal teeth?  If the item is a mammal tooth with enamel, and the enamel is still partially white, does that rule out the possibility of it being a fossil?  Would the burn test be used?  Weight would be hard to compare because enamel would be heavy to start with and the “tap” test seems like it would be dangerous to use on enamel.  What tests would you use?

    Also, I have a question about the nomenclature of the word “domestic” when used in the identification of a fossil.  I found a tooth in Greens Mill Run several months ago and was told it was probably a Sus scrofa premolar or a domestic pig premolar.  Does the “domestic” title mean domesticated by humans or domestic by location?  Fossil or not fossil?  I have so much to learn!  Thanks for your help!

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    #15219
    Julie Niederkorn
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    I was going to guess “Big Foot”  until you mentioned the family Ursidae.

    To make my pumpkin I attached the teeth with stiff wire bent like staples.  No tooth was harmed :).  I didn’t use my best teeth just in case someone decided to smash it.

    #14852
    Julie Niederkorn
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    That fossil was one of my many favorites at Gordon Hubbels’ house.  I don’t have a spooky fossil but I do have a spooky fossil pumpkin.

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    #11227
    Julie Niederkorn
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    I’m going with the one on the right for the real one.  The replica is amazing, which ever one it is.

    #10698
    Julie Niederkorn
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    @llundgren, Thanks for the videos and link.  How long did it take to print and put together?

    #10694
    Julie Niederkorn
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    That is the coolest thing ever!  Great job!

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