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Victor Perez replied to the topic Who can tell what I’ve found? in the forum What Is It? 2 years ago
2 years ago2 years agoI think this is a chunk of dolomite, possibly from the Eocene Avon Park Formation. The molds/impressions seem to mostly be bivalves, but the second photo you posted looks like a partial echinoid (sea urchin). I don’t know the invertebrates well enough to give you any species names.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Ancient wolf? Found in Michigan in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 1 month ago
2 years, 1 month ago2 years, 1 month agoHi David, Rachel is 100% correct. What you are seeing is a calcite vein within the rock.
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Victor Perez joined the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 2 years, 1 month ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Fossil- Vetebral Body from what? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 2 months ago
2 years, 2 months ago2 years, 2 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, 3 months ago
2 years, 3 months ago2 years, 3 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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Victor Perez replied to the topic This is Fake isnt It? Take a Look. in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 6 months ago
2 years, 6 months ago2 years, 6 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, 7 months ago
2 years, 7 months ago2 years, 7 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, 11 months ago
2 years, 11 months ago2 years, 11 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? 2 years, 12 months ago
2 years, 12 months ago2 years, 12 months 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 ago
3 years ago3 years 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, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoVictor Perez has contributed specimen mFeM 95233 to myFOSSIL!
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial 3 years, 3 months ago
3 years, 3 months ago3 years, 3 months agoI cannot remember if we decided to have our meeting today, or not. Regardless, I will connect at 1:55 to see if anyone is on, and then we can go from there. If you want to connect, please use the same Zoom as before, …9588.
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial 3 years, 3 months ago
3 years, 3 months ago3 years, 3 months agoConfirming our meeting this afternoon at 1:55. Please use my Zoom account that ends in…9588.
Mackenzie will do her presentation today.
Other business–discuss the combined class presentation for VP.
Other, time permitting.
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial 3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago3 years, 4 months agoTo confirm, no meeting today. We will meet next week and Mackenzie will give us her presentation.
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Belgrade Mine 3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago3 years, 4 months agoI’ d be interested to know if anyone has been back to the mine in 2020 to collect, and if so what have you found?
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial 3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago3 years, 4 months agoLab meeting today, same URL as below. Let’s talk about Molly’s request.
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Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial 3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago3 years, 4 months agowe will be having our regular meeting at 1:55 this afternoon at
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/6308489588
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Thanks for the reply, would the Avon park formation reach into southeast Alabama?