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Sorry I don't have better info or more pics, but my friend found this on the Blackfoot rez in Montana this summer. He said it was "about the size of him", he's around 5' 10". I'm thinking coral or crinoids, but I'm not very knowledgeable about inverts. Any insight is appreciated!
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look at this beautiful coral fossil from the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Guess what I found today in the creek? I found this huge coral fossil. I just finished polishing the coral today . Here are 2 photos:
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Picked this up in creek where I find turtle shell fossils, Cretaceous Eagle Ford and QAL mix, thought that's what this was until I washed mud off, then thought it was cement, looks like it and sounds like glass, but it has hexagon shapes all through it. Thinking shape is coincidental and it's Favosites?
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take a look at this coral fossil I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek fossil hunting I found this cool coral fossil. Here is a photo :
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Hi all. I spotted this in a load of 1 inch gravel I purchased from a landscaping company in Cincinnati, Ohio. My first thought was that it is a fossilized mushroom, but I'm no expert in identifying mushrooms or fossils. After reading through some of the other posts in this forum, I've learned they are extremely rare and are usually identified as coral. I now suspect that I have an eroded solitary rugose 'horn' coral based on the "A Mushroom??" topic also in the Fossil ID forum. The appearance is similar and it was found in the same'ish area, but I didn't want to just sit on it without at least having a more trained eye take a look. I hope this doesn't get tiresome for you, but what do you think, another coral specimen?
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Hello, I am an active crazy lace agate & fossil hunter who has many specimens that I hope can be identified. Please help identify my precious findings so I can rest assure at what they really are. Found in Coldwater, MS in a Gully I visit often.
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I have discovered these in Coldwater, MS in a nearby gully I frequently go to for these amazing finds. If Anyone has some great insight into what they are for sure, I would greatly appreciate knowing how much or if they are worth anything ?
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Hello again, I have some more photographs of fossil specimens that I am unsure about or looking to confirm. Appreciate the help. 1. Devonian, Genesee Formation from around Dansville, NY. Agonatite? Gastropod? 2. Also Devonian, Onondaga Formation I believe, Erie Co.. I am not great at trace classification ID beyond that it looks to be a trace burrow 3. Devonian Moscow Fm., Erie Co. The little fossils on the left side of image? Can't find any sources on these. Neat trilobite eye in the rock. 4. Rugose Coral, Devonian Livingston Co. What is the fossil attached to the coral body? 5. Irondequoit Formation I believe. Definitely from Lockport, NY. These Bryozoa or some type of coral?
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Hello I found this coral in a marine quaternary deposit I’ve also found living ones in the sea this was found in Jeddah Saudi Arabia I would love to know this species mid possible thank you soo much
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Found in the Lee Creek spoils pile. Is this some sort of coral or a cast of a burrow? The item is tubular and was hollow at one point and filled with something that looks like obsidian or flint. Or maybe it was the other way around and the "filling" was covered by the material surrounding it? Maybe something geologic and not even a fossil?
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Fossil ID: Needmore formation Devonian fossils ( Lost River)
Rexofspades posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, As a follow up to my previous post, I wanted to see if anyone can help me Identify some of the things I found or confirm my suspicions. all material was found in Wardensville, part of the needmore formation in the Lost River quarry. #1 lets start with the biggest stumper, I have absolutely no Idea what this thing is or even if it is a fossil. my best guess is a possible trilobite feeler, but even then I am not familiar enough with their anatomy to make that call. failing that, some sort of soft bodied invertebrate perhaps? #2 I believe this to be a small branch of Trachypora coral. the fossil was longer than is pictured, but it unfortunately broke off as I extracted it. I have heard that you can restore this coral to its truer color by using a very weak acid, is that true? #3 some crinoid stems with what I believe to be a fossil of something on the top right rock. the formation was littered with these rust colored veins of sorts, I dont know if it is simply a concretion, or a type of life. nothing on the ID pages I used seem to reference this. #4 I'm reasonably confident now that this is in fact a trilobite head sticking out of the matrix, if anybody has worked in or knows any resources on preparing fossils from this WVA formation please let me know.
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This past Sunday, I had about 2 hours to spare, and wanted to look for fossils. I obviously couldn’t go far, so I decided to see whether I might have any luck fossil hunting along the Iowa River right in Iowa City. The exposure there is from the Coralville Member of the Cedar Valley Formation, which is mostly Devonian limestone and Dolomite. The faunal diversity in this strata is not great - some solitary and colonial corals, a smattering of brachiopods and bryozoans, and a few small crinoidal columnals. I had time to check out two locations very near downtown Iowa City, and both within two miles of my house. The banks leading to the river in this area are relatively short (~10-15 feet), but can be steep and/or blocked by dense vegetation. The first location allowed access to the river via a small boat launching ramp. The river at that point is not scenic and the brief stretches of shoreline contain a surprising amount of large discarded slabs of concrete. This must have been near somebody’s favorite fishing spot, as I saw a chair perched neatly on the stones of the shore. I poked around for a bit and found quick collection of some species of the colonial coral Hexagonaria. I assembled the finds for this photo. They are not that well-preserved. I did find it interesting that some pieces are brownish and contained open corallites without intact septa. These were all thin sheets about 10 mm thick. Other pieces were thicker and larger, grayish stones whose corallites were filled in. I didn’t find much else there other than a small patch of some species of the Bryozoan fenestella a beat-up brachiopod and an even more beat-up solitary rugose coral. With only 45 minutes left, I went about ¾ of a mile north, where there’s a rough, worn-out path to the river; a path likely made by people going down to fish. Here I had more luck, finding a place I’ll return to later when I have more time. I almost immediately found two very large rocks with plenty of brachiopods in them. Unless you zoomed in very close to where my fingers touch the rock in the second picture, you are sure to have missed my favorite find. Here it is zoomed in more closely. Both valves of a fairly large Platyrachella iowensis. I was in a hurry and at first was not going to try to get it out for fear of damaging it in my rush. But with just a little gently prying with the pick tip on my rock hammer, the specimen popped out quite nicely. Here are some pics of it after I got it home: I then found a palm-sized chunk of solitary rugose coral. I’ve read that a common genus of this coral in this strata is Cystiphylloides, although I have no real basis to ID this as such. I still had about 10 minutes to pry open a few pieces of one of the large, brachiopod-filled rocks and got what I think is a species of Vinlandostrophia, as well as a few, small brachiopods that are not identifiable (to my unskilled eye).
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Hi, I'd be grateful for a ID on this fossil, found today at Worbarrow Bay on the Isle of Purbeck, UK. I can't see anything similar online but my best guess would be coral. Would be very grateful for any deeper insight!
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Hello everyone. I have come across these in my collection and could someone gives me info at all. Possibly just the common name and maybe a rough time period.
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek I found a rock with 1 nice horn coral in it and another coral on the right that I am not sure what it is ? Here is a photo :
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Hi all, Harwich in Essex, U.K. is mostly famous for The Mayflower but it does have a small beach on which sharks teeth can be found. My wife and kids were lucky to find some but I was not so lucky. I did however find this. Could this possibly be an inclusion of a piece of coral in a flint nodule? If so is there any way to determine species and a possible age? Thanks in advance!
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neat rock with a ton of corals and bryozoans in it
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, this is Matt again. Today I found a fossil with a nice favosites coral in it and a lot of bryozoans also in it. Here are a few photos :
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Picked up while beach combing. Thoughts?
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
Fossil Coral - Indeterminate species Devonian Bull River site Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada-
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Hey all! I took my little brother out fossil hunting on the lakeshore, I myself am no expert but it's been a lot of fun- we found a number of crinoid and brachiopod fossils and some cool rocks besides. Theres a couple that stumped us though, I've been googling references but nothing looks similar to me. It looked to me like some kind of coral, the second one might just be a rock with some holes in it, but they appear in a fairly regular pattern that intrigued me. Any input is appreciated!
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Found along the shores of the North Channel at Little Current, Manitoulin Island. Slightly domed. Knobby outside, crystalline (calcite?) inside.
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These are all from my gravel drive. Please, educate this novice!
