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The Brachiopod here is Gigantoproductus giganteus - well named, as it is the largest species in my extensive collection. The coin is about 2cm. in diameter. The age of this fossil is Lower Carboniferous ( Mississippian).

Just saw this an auction. Too good to be true? Seller claims it has "minor root restoration".

From an old collection we got this strange Trilobite. I think it was found and imported to Germany around 1980 - 1985. Should come from Yunnan-Province in China (I only know it comes from china, did some research in the net and think it is a Yunnan-one). Lenght is around 18 cm (7"). Has short spines at the end of the pleural segments. The cephalon has been badly prepared, surface is a bit destroyed but the rim fits. Pygidum looks rounded, but under a microscope I could see, the end is not prepped and under the surface. Will do the work on it next time... What do you think about the genus? Before I start the prep-work I love to know if it has spiny ends, Looks not easy to prep... thanks for comments!

I don’t know from which locality this specimen originated. I found it among my late grandfather’s property. From what I can gather, this is an extremely large specimen of amber. It weighs approximately 110 lbs, measures approximately 22” x 18” x 11” and features many interesting inclusions from what i can see. I’ve performed a scratch test, hot needle test, acetone test, smell test, saltwater test, UV light test, and specific gravity test… all of which seem to confirm its identity as amber. If this is true, however, based on the information I can find, it would seem that I’ve come into possession of one of the largest pieces of amber on record. You can imagine my skepticism at having made this discovery in a small neighborhood in southern Indiana… I haven’t a clue what to do next—please help!

If I come across a rather large cache of various fossils in an undocumented area, do I need to report it? More context. They are all "parts and pieces". Scutes, teeth (no sharks), jaws, bones, fins, crushing teeth etc. They were in a branch of a stream that also held the first unearthed Hadrosaurus about a mile away. They were all on the surface within about 1/2 mile from one another. Most are pretty river worn but there are also a lot of keepers and even a few potentially museum-quality pieces. Should I report my findings or quietly open up a new web store- Thagomizers, etc.® (It's mostly osteoderms) Thanks in advance for your help.

Here is a link to the story run by Utah State University: "Jaws of Death" LINK to original post about this discovery. Here is my story: My name is Gary Thompson, when I was a young boy our class was learning about fossils including some of the terrain and ground indicators for finding fossils. We took a field trip into the Escalante Canyon between Delta and Grand Junction Colorado. During this trip we were told that people have found dinosaur bones and petrified dinosaur dung in the canyon. During that trip I found a few interesting pieces. It was that experience that intrigued me and began my fascination for interesting rocks and fossils and started me hunting for them every chance I got. The year mom and I were about to move from Colorado to New Mexico I wanted to fossil hunt one more time before we left. I had been fishing in the Surface Creek many times in the past and was familiar with the terrain in that part of town. I asked my mom to drop me off out near the rodeo grounds where I thought I could do some good rock and fossil hunting. There was a road that goes up the side of the mesa were you could see layering exposed on the hills beside the road. Down at the bottom of the mesa where she dropped me off at Main and Cedar Mesa/Surface Creek rd there is an area that had loose dirt where I began to scan the area for anything that looked interesting. I noticed a darker dirt layer edging the top of the cliff like hill side. I climbed up towards the darker top edge and noticed some rust staining in the lighter soil layer right below the darker layering, which I had learned about in science class could be an indication of good fossil possibilities. In that lighter layer facing, I could see roundish oblong fossils with a segmented fern like fracturing pattern with a kind of caramel coloring. Some side views and some end views. I began investigating and digging out that area finding more shell fossils and the other fossils I later learned where called Baculites. After I got tired of that area I started walking up the road along the side of the mesa, scanning the edges for anything interesting. About half way up, I noticed an area a little bit back from the road with some mounding dirt that looked interesting. I walked back into that area and began inspected the ground for rocks and fossils. I was looking through the dirt and I happened to notice some scattered rock fragments on the ground that stood out to me. I have always had a knack for seeing differences and things that seem out of place. I began picking them up and inspecting them. After examining them more closely I noticed that they had a certain look, color and texture that indicated to me that it might be petrified wood or bone fossil. I continued to pick up and inspect these pieces when I found a little piece about 1 ½” wide and kind of oblong that had a more defined shape to it that looked like the end of a bone, looking at it as if it were sectioned, and you could see the circular bone outline of a marrow middle . I gathered up those pieces and then with my hands and a rock I started scraping the surface of the area to try to find more like those. As I scrapped and dug around I began to find what looked like long oval bones about an inch across and maybe 8-12 inches long, that kind of resembled rib bones. At that point I was certain it was bone fossil. I followed along that bone line clearing the dirt around the edges with my hands and a little stone. That section ran into what I could identify as large vertebrae about 6in across. It was then that I realized it was not a rib bone I had started out following but a part of a very large vertebrae. I excitedly began digging and clearing the dirt off the vertebrae section. In my child’s mind I was excitedly thinking I might have found a dinosaur. As I removed more dirt I exposed more vertebrae and it began to curve back into the mound of dirt a bit. I dug about 4 and a half feet of it out , leaving it in the ground but clearing the edges, revealing more of the vertebrae with the extending bones. At that point I realized that it was a very significant find I had made and that I needed to stop digging and report it. Because my mom and I were getting ready to move to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico that week, I did not want to leave it exposed and unprotected without telling someone about it. I felt that my science teacher Mr. Jones could help me contact the correct people so it could be protected, excavated and taken care of properly. I did gather up a few small samples, and I found some plastic garbage along the side of the road that I used to cover the bones that I had exposed. I then put dirt on top on the plastic to protect and hide my find. I walked home with my little bag of fossils and shared the exciting discovery with my mom Helen Louise Moore and showed her the samples I had collected. The next morning I brought the samples to Mr. Jones seeking his advise and help with the proper course of action. Mr. Jones was extremely curious about the samples I had found and what I describe to him. He kept the sample pieces and he asked me to take him to the site. I believe it was the same afternoon after school that Mr. Jones and I went back to the site in Mr. Jones’ vehicle. We parked near where I had found the shell fossils and walked all the way up to the large bone fossil I had begun to excavate and reburied previously. When we reached the site I began to carefully re-expose the bones I previously found. Mr. Jones could see there was something significant that I had discovered and excitedly began helping me pull the dirt back out from where I had previously dug and replaced it. When we had re-exposed the 4 1/2 feet of the fossil vertebrae that I had discovered and cleared previously, he confirm to me that it was a very important discovery. At that time we covered it back up with the plastic and dirt and Mr. Jones took me home. The next day I returned to school and I remember Mr. Jones was telling the class how I had found the bone fossils and he was talking about them to the class. My mom and I moved a few days after I discovered the bones and showed Mr. Jones my discovery. Before we left Cedaredge we had visited my grandparents to say goodbye and I told my grandmother about my exciting discovery. I left Cedaredge knowing that Mr. Jones verified my discovery and believing he would do the right things with my discovered bones and that they would not be destroyed. I was a kid at the time so I did not know how to follow up with the teacher or the project. Sometime later I received an envelope from my grandmother, Helen Moore that contained a Delta County Independence newspaper that had an article written by Muriel Marshall. She had written the story about the activity at the site and that I had discovered the fossil. It was very satisfying to see my name in the article and to know Mr. Jones had spoken with her verifying my find. In this article I also learned that my discovery was a really significant and exciting find and Dr. Jim Jensen (dinosaur Jim) from BYU was excavating the site and that he had not yet been able to identify it but thought it could be a new species of some kind. I was happy to learn that my discovery was so significant and relieved that my discovery had been properly reported by Mr. Jones to Paleontologist ‘Dinosaur Jim’ of BYU and that it was being properly cared for. But, I was also sad that I could not be there to be a part of it. The article also told of the school kids taking a field trip to the dig. It had talked about the young Scheetz brothers who had been helping Dinosaur Jim at a previous dig site, and had come to help him and Mr. Jones at the Cedaredge site as well. Upon detailed research of the mosasaur’s skeleton and a phylogenetic analysis, Joshua Lively PhD determined the BYU specimen is not closely related to other species of the genus Prognathodon and needed to be renamed. He reclassified the mosasaur as Gnathomortis stadtmani, meaning "Jaws of Death", and reports his findings in the most recent issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Hi all! This time I'll show you a very special site, located on the Volga river near the city of Rybinsk, 250 km north of Moscow. The site is famous for its huge Volgian ammonites, the biggest in our Jurassic (big Cretaceous ones are no surprise). The largest ammonites here reach 70 cm, they are inflated and surprisingly common. If you find an ammonite in concretion, it will most likely be big and whole (but often broken inside). The main outcrops are situated by the village of Glebovo, they occupy about 6 km of the shore. Glebovo:

Hi guys, Could Any one help to ID this ammonite? It Is from Baja California, México. It measure 500 x 450 mm. It weights over 60 Kg. I bought it, so i have no More data than the state, sorry... Thank you!! Regards!

A huge Hungaiidae trilobite from Hunan Fenxiang Formation, Lower Ordovician. Part of gut is preserved due to infilled sediment.

Hey all! I’ve never considered buying a fossil when I can go outside and find some but I might change my mind for this one. What would you guys think if you saw this at an antique store?

About 3 or 4 years ago I made a trade with a guy from New Zealand. Today I received the last part of the trade. Apon opening it up I knew immediatly that it was broken!!! After taking off the bubble wrap my heart just sank and I could see it was in many pieces! Im going to have a very hard time sleeping tonight. This thing was HUGE!!! Just glad no one is here to see me cry. RB

Hello! I am looking for buying these two great teeth of carcharodontosaurus. The seller assures that they are not restored. I think they are of good quality and have good enamel and good serrations. Do you think they are of good quality? Is it possible to get better pieces? Thank you very much for your help. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N__GZroIEmRJ2VHlUzf8YvgeQbacdhfr/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Ft6XS2bwSgrG63tuUipBwDKM4fC-w-d/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Na_iaYfJz7w-OK8S6pqLRmp0Y8DDSmRn/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IT7SQNWcuU746VL6rGoVF_ZJrq-qotla/view?usp=drivesdk

Hello hello. I'm new to this whole fossil thing! although this forum community has informed me with so much more then I could ask I still have some silly questions. Should i clean shark teeths? And how can I decide what condition my shark teeth are in? Also here are some interesting finds I found on Englewood beach, Florida. Super early on 2/20.... oh and could someone give me a run around on different colors? Like blue,orange,black, sometimes yellow. Does that go about age or shark?

At over 4" across, this is the last few chambers of by far the largest diameter belemnite phragmocone I've ever seen. (If anyone has one from a Megateuthis, I'd love to see it! - they don't seem ever to be preserved.) Given to me by a friend, it is in a nodule from the Jet Rock (Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic) of Port Mulgrave, north Yorkshire coast. It must have belonged to an exceptionally large Acrocoelites trisulculosus which is probably the only belemnite to occur in this bed. It's a large species anyway - typical rostra of it are 5 - 7" long but about 9" has very rarely been recorded so a bit longer may be possible. Photo 6: Not having such a large Acrocoelites in my collection, I've done a conservative mock-up of it with a smallish (9") Megateuthis and another piece of phragmocone which is my second largest... A total length of 20 - 24" seems about right. Photo 7: For comparison , I have a complete but crushed example of A. trisulculosus about 12" long, the rostrum being 6.5". 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) This should probably be stretched more... 7) A normal size Acrocoelites trisulculosus with crushed phragmocone (the strange ridged structure on top of it is a crushed on-edge Harpoceras shell mouth)

Get a load of this Bivalve!!! I used to find a few of these back in the day. These come from a very private property that was located in the Falore formation in Northern california. I was lucky enough to be privy for collecting. No more of these will ever be collected. Sad. But what a super cool mussel shell!!! And quite HUGE!!! RB

https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-dinosaur-footprint-discovered-mongolia-desert-073559045.html

Does anyone have any idea what type of dinosaur bone this may be? Its extremely heavy and about 40 inches or more long.I. was thinking it may be a humorous bone (upper arm)but I really have no clue. Any knowledge would be greatly appreciated

Hello, I am back! If you didn't know, I buy fossils on the internet sometimes. On EBay, I found a cheap vertabrae. It was only worth 5$ and they said it seemed fossilized, so why not buy it. I got it now, and it definitely is fossilized, just I have no clue what it belongs to. If anyone knows what it might be, tell me. Bye! -Con

Here are some photos of a tooth found in the Atlantic ocean off Eastern NC. When I was cleaning the bunch of teeth I had this tooth stuck out immediately. I have heard some arguments for both a very large mako and a worn meg....although no one can produce a meg that looks like this yet for comparison. Measurements : Side 1 = 4.10 inches Side 2 = 3.86 inches Width = 2.72 inches What do you think?

Found this big boy today. Any ideas what it is?

Is anyone can help me to exam this fossil. is it real? or man made. if it is real, how many percentage of repair. thank you so much for the help.