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Concretion, I think. Not seeing any real claw morphology, and no bone texture.
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Last week I posted the first of the brood 19 periodical cicadas that have emerged. Since then, I've only seen a half dozen a day while walking the dogs around the neighborhood. Last night around sunset I saw a newly emerged cicada crawling up a tree in my backyard. Within minutes there were a couple dozen more emerging from the ground and crawling up the trees. After a while I went to my front yard and was surprised to see around 30 on the front of my house. It was getting dark but as I stood there, I could hear others crawling through the grass.
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I have seen that specimen. It is amazing. Texas Through Time is a cool little museum and Andre, the directer of the museum, is a great guy.
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I could be wrong but it reminds me of a piece of civil war grapeshot. They were made out of various metals or stone and in assorted sizes and fired out of cannons like a giant shotgun shell….
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9- Look mostly like blastoid internal molds. Possibly something like Globoblastus.
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Great topis, could be added by other "digital technics" are Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) or Seismic Reflection to search the bigger ones there was a long an interesting discussion at Quora about this Can we use any technology to scan the underground to find fossils? - Quora
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It’s Scapanorhynchus texanus.
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I think this is the carapace, not the underside.
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Not really sure what this is but it resembles a dinosaur claw to me. This was found in a creek bank in New Jersey. Whatever it is, I'm sure its been on this earth longer than I have. My dog chewed it but i was able to get it away from him.
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It certainly is an extremely interesting looking sample. I've been collecting fossils and minerals for over 30 years now and have never seen anything quite like it. Have you considered the possibility that it might be something man made? It may also be some kind of artifact. If no one else can come up with any more ideas, I would suggest you take it to your nearest natural history museum or university geology department and show it to the resident geologist/mineralogist/archaeologist for their opinion.
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Looks sorta like a trilobite pygidium, but when looking closer, the grooves appear to have been carved.
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Are any of the following fake?
M3gal0don_M4n posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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I agree with the counter septarian idea on 6. It may also be a piece of a straight nautilus, although we would need back and side views in order to either confirm or negate my suspicion.
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Probably just some kind of conglomerate, but to be sure you could prep out the darker blobs in the middle and study them, since there is a possibility that they are fossiliferous.
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Mammal incisor (?) Found at Big Brook, New Jersey - any chance it's pleistocene?
TRexEliot replied to TRexEliot's topic in Fossil ID
I left the tooth with Dana at the NJSM to show to Dave Parris when he has a chance, so hopefully Dave will have some ideas when he has a chance to take a look. I'll try to remember to update when I hear more! -
Some time ago i made an ammonite for a cinematic production but i was not sure it may be used, i thing they are using it in a new season of Life on Earth: A New Prehistory This is a short teaser posted by https://saint-thomas.net/ 67497FC0D16F81A5D9415FFC7799579C_video_dashinit.mp4 This is the model i made, it looks like they used different arms and animation that works better for their project but it's encouraging to see it's being used
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Where should I look for fossils near me? (Australian coast)
Yoda replied to Rhysand4rch's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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Where should I look for fossils near me? (Australian coast)
Rhysand4rch posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi! I'm brand new to the world of fossils and was wondering if anyone had any pointers on where/how to look for fossils? I live on the central coast, which is about 1.5 hours north of Sydney. I've been trying to do research and looking at geology maps, but just cant seem to understand where the best places would be. I found this Geoscience Australia interactive geology map that seems useful but there's so much in it, it's a little overwhelming. From what i have gathered, I live on triassic sedimentary rocks that as far as i can tell haven't yielded very many fossils, though I might be mistaken. However, further north in Newcastle there are permian age rocks that are known the yield abundant plant fossils. I have tried to just google fossil hunting sites in NSW, but that has proved unhelpful, with most being very far away. I've hit a bit of a dead end with figuring out where to go, does anyone have any tips? Where should I be looking for this kind of information? Also, what kind of fossils would be easiest for me to find as a beginner? Thankyou for any help -
Trilobite of the week #374 is Micragnostus chiushuensis of Late Cambrian age, from the Sandu Formation at Jingxi, Guangxi, China. This is a tiny trilobite, about 3 mm long. The Basilicus weighed about 3 million times as much. As is often the case with agnostids, I'd give about a 50% chance that I have this one shown heads up.
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Went out for a couple of hours, and need help!
DPS Ammonite replied to Newbie_1971's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
You are mixing your stratigraphic terms. Early, Middle and Late refer to Ordovician epochs, not series. Epochs are divided into ages and not stages. The Cinncinnatian Epoch and Richmondian Age are local terms and not used in newer stratigraphic charts such as the one from the GSA:
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#1 could be some kind of tusk shell fossil, but I can’t tell exactly just trying to help.
