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Victor Perez joined the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 2 years, 2 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Fossil- Vetebral Body from what? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 3 months ago
2 years, 3 months ago2 years, 3 months agoHi Todd,
My best guess would be that it is either an ichthyosaur or dinosaur vertebra, given that the Cretaceous interior seaway cut through Phillips County, Montana.
There is a small museum you could visit/reach out to for more information: https://mtdinotrail.org/phillips-county-museum/
Best,
Victor
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Are these teeth? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 4 months ago
2 years, 4 months ago2 years, 4 months agoI don’t think they are teeth. It looks like you’ve got a conglomerate, which is a rock composed of rounded grains of varying sizes.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic What kind of Sharks tooth is this?? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 4 months ago
2 years, 4 months ago2 years, 4 months agoHi Nathan,
This tooth is from an extinct mackerel shark, Otodus obliquus. It is likely around 60 million years old and is the ancestor of the popular megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon.
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Eleanor Gardner and Dale Heinrich are now friends 2 years, 4 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic This is Fake isnt It? Take a Look. in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 7 months ago
2 years, 7 months ago2 years, 7 months agoI don’t really know what you mean by real or fake. It’s a real rock… Specifically it’s chert (a variant of quartz).
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Can some one help identify these from Penarth? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 8 months ago
2 years, 8 months ago2 years, 8 months agoHi James, thanks for sharing your finds! Unfortunately, these all appear to be rocks rather than fossils. The one you thought is a coprolite is actually a rock called breccia.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Is it a tooth? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 12 months ago
2 years, 12 months ago2 years, 12 months agoHi Patricia! This is a Sheepshead fish tooth. The genus is Archosargus.
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group What is it? 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoHi everyone, I am cleaning up our database and ran into a name I couldn’t find but the specimen is recorded as being from the Miocene of the Calvert Cliffs so I wonder if @vperez or @bill-heim may recognize a typo that is causing my google searches to fail… It is likely (but not necessarily) an invertebrate: Cordula idonea
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Hey Jen! Can you send a link to the specimen in question? I don’t recognize the name either, but may be able to recognize the specimen if I saw it. When I search myFOSSIL for Cordula no results come up.
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Hi Jennifer- could it be Bicorbula idonea?
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@vperez – this is a specimen in the UMMP database, not myFOSSIL – should have specified, sorry. @cindy-lockner – I think you got it! Someone must have dropped the bi- prefix. Thanks for your insight!! Sometimes the typos are just enough that googling simply doesn’t provide any results!
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Thanks for catching that. I was starting to go through my invertebrate references. Fortunately, I took the time to mask up and decontaminate with plenty of sanitizer afterwards.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Cetacean Fossil in Elsmere Canyon: Transverse Process? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoHi Bill,
I know both Jorge and Austin, and I agree with their comments. It seems you’ve found some fossil whale bone, but unfortunately it also seems to be pretty heavily weathered. I cannot confirm which bone(s) you have or the species.
Cetaceans are known from the Towsley Formation. A skull was described in a paper by Barnes in 1977, “Outline…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Found on Hove Beach in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoMy best guess is that you found some echinoid (sea urchin) impressions in a chert nodule.
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Victor Perez posted a new specimen. 3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago3 years, 2 months agoVictor Perez has contributed specimen mFeM 95233 to myFOSSIL!
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Jennifer Bauer joined the group Mesozoic Memorabilia 3 years, 6 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Does anyone have an idea that this might be? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoVery cool find! <span class=”atwho-inserted” contenteditable=”false” data-atwho-at-query=”@mackenzie”>@mackenzie-smith</span> may be able to help with this.
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoNew Life through the Ages digital dioramas are available on UM Online Repository of Fossils (UMORF). Paleozoic & Mesozoic dioramas are up and in the beta-testing phase so please send along constructive feedback!
https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/ #fossil #event #collectionsite
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Very awesome! I didn’t have much time when writing this so I just looked at the Devonian one and it was great, but I feel like it should have more weird and wonderful fish in there like Bothriolepis (or maybe there was a Bothriolepis and I missed it). It is the Age of Fish after all. Still amazing job, I’ll make sure to check out the others whe…[Read more]
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Thanks @daniel-park! These are relatively old museum dioramas that were made into 3D so we didn’t have much say on the animals! Cenozoic dioramas coming eventually!
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@jbauer Looks like you got to have some fun over the summer! 😊
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The dioramas look fantastic!!!
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Victor Perez's profile was updated 3 years, 7 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic "Ears" on side of Chubutensis root in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi <span class=”atwho-inserted” contenteditable=”false” data-atwho-at-query=”@james-e”>@james-ellsworth</span>, I see what you are referring to now. I have certainly taken note of this feature before and I know others have as well; however, as far as I know, no one has really provided an explanation for this feature and I don’t think there is any…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Mammal Tailbone/coccyx?? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoNo problem, thank you for sharing your find!
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Mammal Tailbone/coccyx?? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi Amber, I’m still confident that this isn’t bone. If you are interested in searching for fossils, this may be a fun place to check out https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/ancient_fossils_bring_coastal_tourism_opportunities_to_life_in_michigan
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Mammal Tailbone/coccyx?? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi Amber, this does have an odd shape, but it is not a fossil. It’s likely either sandstone or ironstone that has been weathered into this peculiar shape by water flowing through it. Bone has a very distinctive porosity, which this lacks. I hope this helps!
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