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Found at bottom of cliff near a lot of crab concretions and other shallow water coastal marine fossils. Oligocene, late eocene. Polypytychoceras?
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Found this in the rocks used to repair our road. Larger and narrower than any of the brachiopods I've found so far. Is it even a brachiopod at all? I assume the rock originated in the same formation as what I've found around the railroad tracks and in my driveway gravel, which I've been told came from the Slade Formation (Mississippian).
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Is there any way to identify what animals these mini marine fossils from the hell creek formation belong to? 1.
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Found this critter in what I believe to be the Brush Creek Limestone. It is Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian), Glenshaw Formation, and looks like a nautilus to me, so I'd guess Solenochilus. Thanks for the help.
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Hello everyone, Following the previous posts about other fossils found in the same marine upper cretaceous sediment (campanian), here are two very intriguing finds I could not classify at all. Does anybody know what they may represent?
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Hello everyone, I visited a beach in the Netherlands and I collected some things that I thought had the chance to be fossilized. I want to ask if the next specimens in the pictures I will post are fossilized seashells, modern ones, just rocks? And what kind of seashells they are in case they are fossilized. Thank you! I will post them separately in the replies.
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This is perfectly circular in cross section. I am fairly sure this is a Tentaculitoid, but I've never really identified one before. These are somewhat rare where I fossil hunt. I've seen a few bits and pieces stuffed inside of gastropod shells. This one was fairly long, with at least another 1 cm of material broken off when I cut it out of the parent rock. It is mostly white in color, but that is more shell preservation at this site rather than an important attribute. Most of the Tentaculitoids in books I've seen have ribbed ornament, whereas this has lengthwise ribs. CG-0616—Unknown Scale bar = 5 mm.
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Hi all! Newbie here, Washington state. I've been collecting fossils since finding them in the gravel road waiting for my brothers during summer baseball practice (primarily crinoids)... years ago... Since then, I've had the opportunity to collect fossils from the Midwest, Texas, and West Coast. My most recent finds are from coastal beaches. My favorite finds are agatized univalves (marine snails) from Oregon and ammonites from Texas. I'm a marine/aquatic biologist. In addition to research I've always worked on science-based outreach /education. I'm in an in-between knowledge place RE: fossils, and I look forward to learning and sharing a lot more. I'm looking forward to getting to know this community!
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Hello everyone. I'm trying to figure out what these things are. I find them very regularly looking for shark's teeth on SE Florida beaches near Jupiter and Juno. My posted image has the front and back of a few different specimens, stark white and some grey. Does anyone know what these are? Thanks, TWB
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I've found lot's fossils of, I think are teeth, in a site with also many shells located in Portugal. They have different sizes and are cilindrical and straight. Can someone identify what was the animal that had these teeth. Thanks
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Howdy! I found a beautiful pseudorthoceras last week and last night I noticed a tiny white organism on the rock. It looks like several "Vs" strung together. Fossil is 0.5 cm, is from the Glenshaw Formation and likely Brush Creek Limestone. I have no idea what this thing is. Thanks for the help.
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It was found in a ravine in sedimentary rocks from the Upper Jurassic, in Spain. The rock surrounding the fossil is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, and clay. The fossil is approximately 2 centimeters long and has an irregular cylindrical shape. It is brown with some darker parts. One of the edges in its transversal section has shiny white spots as if it were crystal. The outer layer has a texture like veining along the cylinder. It may be a fossil of a marine creature that lived during that time, such as a mollusk shell, a shark tooth, or a fish backbone? Belemnites: These are fossils of prehistoric squid shells that have an irregular cylindrical shape and veined texture. They may also have mineral inclusions that give them white or iridescent shine. Gryphaea: These are fossils of oyster shells from the genus Gryphaea, which also have an irregular cylindrical shape and may have a veined texture. They are often found in sedimentary rocks from the Upper Jurassic. Shark teeth: Shark teeth are common in sedimentary rocks from the Upper Jurassic and may have an irregular cylindrical shape. However, they are unlikely to have mineral inclusions that give them white shine. Fish spine: The spinal columns of some fish have an irregular cylindrical shape and may have a veined texture. They may also have mineral inclusions that give them white shine. But this is less common than the other fossils mentioned. Thanks!
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Hi, I found this bone embedded in a exposed layer in a cliff on the surf coast, in Victoria, australia. It was in a red sedimentary layer just above the 26Mya volcanic basalt layer. Some of the bone can be seen still embedded in the cliff (see center of last photo) Fossils of Miocene marine mammals (primitive whales etc) have been previously found in the surrounding region. Could that be what this is? Cheers, Oli
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Howdy! I'm finding some beautiful stuff digging in the Glenshaw Formation of Allegheny and Beaver counties. Hoping to find out/confirm what they are. The limestone finds I believe are from the Brush Creek Limestone. As usual, all help is greatly appreciated, thanks! Side view of Wilkingia? Never saw round leaves before Spiropteris? Sigillaria bark? Some sort of bone or root of a Petalodus tooth?
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Hello, on A trip back to capitola CA I found another bone jutting out from the cliffside about 5 feet from the ground. Easily excavated (though it cracked in two) it is definitely a fossil, but to what animal? Perhaps a smaller marine mammal? Any help with ID is appreciated @Boesse you were very helpful last time with ID, how about this one?
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My husband and I like to go on walks along the wooded dirt trails behind our home. Last winter, we stumbled upon a particular stretch of path. It was constructed using refractory bricks smack dab in the middle of the woods. It wasn’t until recently when we decided to revisit the area. One does not simply stumble upon an old brick path in the middle of the woods. It had to have once led somewhere. We did, in fact, find an old stone well nearby. Across from the well, there’s the foundation of a house that’s nothing but rubble. I also found an A&W Root Beer can amongst the rubble. It was the 1968 to 1995 A&W logo. Most of the bricks were branded, but I could hardly make out the wording. The name Louis was clear as day on quite a few of the smaller fragments, but the more intact bricks had lettering that was harder to read. I managed to find a single brick that wasn’t so weathered. I knelt down to read what was branded on it, but this little coral fragment caught my attention. It was wedged between the bricks in the center of the path, almost as if it were placed there intentionally. I don’t see how else it could have gotten there. After further inspection, the coral (a honeycomb coral) appears to be fused to an unidentifiable species of mollusk. Fossilized oysters and clams are common finds in my area, but this is the first fossilized coral I’ve found. FullSizeRender.MOV
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Hello all, decided to pop over to the Santa Cruz Coast in CA to see if anything notable was churned up by the recent storms we've had. A couple brachiopod fossils turned up, but this is what really caught my eye as I was perusing the beach. Fossil whale bones have been found in the area before and I'm wondering if that's what I have here. Very porous looking structure but definitely made of stone, with striations all going the same direction. Thanks in advance for ID help.
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Well we all know its not a giant dinosaur gamete fossil but I could not resist with the title or eyes in one photo. Best guess poopy is a coprolite but the extremely smooth surfaces and fact that its so strait make me wonder if this was fossilised when still in the intestinal chamber. The other option is that it is geologic in origin but the shape. Found in the toolebuc formation of central Queensland Australian - marine cretaceous formation. length of specimen 110 mm and 30 mm at widest point. There are also has striations visible in several sections and there are no inclusions
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Hello, I found these a while ago on Jebel Jais (part of the Hajar mountain range) in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. I can't find much information on age... I am writing something about the fossils of the UAE, but I don't have much to say about these fossils, as I do not know what most of them are! Any information will be helpful. I have found solitary coral, like this one, at the location before.
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Hello, everyone. Recently I received an interesting fossil, like a pile of marine invertebrates. It is very hard and heavy. The seller said that he was not sure about the source information. I hope someone can help me identify it. Thanks
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Hi all. I was was hoping to get help with this one from the community. It was found in-stream near an outcropping of Pittsburg Bluff in Clatsop County, Oregon, and downstream of some Astoria Formation, both marine sediments. I have found mollusks and arthropods in the same collecting area, usually in very hard concretions. To my knowledge no marine vertebrate fossils have been found within the Pittsburg Bluff Group so if it is vertebrate I'm thinking it came down from the Astoria Formation southwest of the area. It looks and feels like bone, and is extremely porous (tongue sticks). Or it may just be a pseudofossil. Either way, thank you for the help.
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Hello All I have found this small bone in marine Cretaceous material from NW Queensland. It is very small less than 5mm long it doesn't appear to be fish in nature( could be wrong thou) and seems very small to be turtle. Does anyone have any thoughts? Update thanks to some great help it now appears that this is a small turtle phalange. Cheers
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Bit of a long shot this one, but here goes… My daughter has recently been given a small collection by a colleague of her mother who heard she was interested in fossils. The previous owner had clearly done a bit of collecting around Lyme Regis and also bought a few pieces. There’s a few Moroccan pieces (low grade trilo, some Mosasaur tooth crowns), an insect in amber and some Madagascan stuff. By far the most interesting piece though is this fish; it has no label and I have no idea where in the world it could have come from. Can anyone shed any light on possible provenance or even identify the species? Many thanks for looking
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Looking through my usual matrix I came across this partial vertebra that has me stumped. Both sections were sitting together in the matrix so assume they are part of the same vertebra. Definitely not fish so some type of reptile ? Hopping the process end is diagnostic enough to determine species. Second piece in post below Mike
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