Ceratopsian frill section

[Ninjafossils]

To start off my postings of my collection of dinosaur fossils, here is a nice section of ceratopsian frill found in the hell creek of South Dakota. Probably belonged to a young triceratops.








Notice the large lines in the bone. That is where large blood vessels would have been to supply blood to the keratin covering the frill

 

[old digger]

Thats is a COOL Find! Was the rest of the gone?

 

[Ninjafossils]

the deposit where it was found was an ancient river channel. The pieces break up and flow miles apart from each other, if they even survive.

 

[Jason in Enid]

That's a very nice find! I love the Hell Creek formation and plan on being up there this spring.

Was it found in matrix or free?

 

[Ninjafossils]

it was found in a sandstone that had a constancy of rough beach sand.

 

[Jason in Enid]

it was found in a sandstone that had a constancy of rough beach sand.

They call that "mudstone". Sounds like you have a nice spot that warrants a lot more investigation. You know that is the same formation that "Lucy" the T-Rex came from.

I have a nice collection of BOBs, along with some Edmontosaur ligaments, gar scales, tricerotops and edmontosaurus ribs, along with a very nice full Tricero tooth and a T-Rex tooth. All of it from the Hell Creek formation.

 

[Ninjafossils]

It's where most T.Rex skeletons come from....and it was not mudstone. It was sandstone.

 

[Jason in Enid]

It's where most T.Rex skeletons come from....and it was not mudstone. It was sandstone.

Interesting then.... I haven't seen those come out of sandstone (but then I'm not a paleontologist)

I was present when a segment of T-Rex femur was found just washed out from a mudstone formation. I saw it laying there and thought it was a log! That thing was MASSIVE!

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

NINJA im curious is there any way to findout what dinosaurs actually sounded like?

 

[TJE]

Very nice!...Ninjafossils.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

Very nice!...Ninjafossils.

i agree