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Found several bone like fossil in some stone whilst building a wall. The fence stone was cut from a quarry just north of Austin Texas. It’s a sandy limestone that I was told from a layer just above the Austin chalk formation. Is it plant or animal?
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs
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Found both these teeth near the peace river i've never found this kind of tooth shape. Im pretty sure its a type of mako but was wondering if anyone could an ID it or give any type of information.
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Well this was recently gifted to me from a friend whom was told by her late husband it may have been a dinosaur bone. Location of where he obtained this is unknown. It's very smooth not one hundred percent sure if it is even bone. I am wondering if anyone recognizes it. I have read and asked many others who collect historical artifacts and they can't make sense of it
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Found in the Lower Members of the Chinle Formation, Emery County, Utah, USA.
CannonCougar posted a topic in Fossil ID
A family member found this on public land while camping in the San Rafael Swell of Utah. They brought it back to their trailer a short distance away. I told them to take some pictures of it with a ruler and then put it back where they found it just in case it is a vertebrate fossil. I cross referenced the location of the find with the Interactive Geologic Maps on the Utah Geological Survey website and have confirmed that it was found in the Lower Members of the Chinle Formation. The person did put it back where he found it and has since gone home so these are the only photos that were taken. We are really curious as to any thoughts or ideas as to what this might be. Thanks in advance.
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I found this in Glen elk section of Clarksburg wv.. anyones opinions are welcome.. I would love to id it
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Found this tooth near the peace river it looks like a hastalis tooth but the root is very wide and its much more girther than any other hastalis tooth ive ever found. One of my friends told me it could be a transitional fossil but I was hoping for more opinions on it.
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Hi there! I just found this forum while searching for information on Cervalces scotti fossils, and it looked like a really neat forum, so I wanted to join! I hail from north-central Oklahoma, and I've been a bit of a fossil fiend since I was a little kiddo. I had wanted to become a paleontologist once upon a time, but life had different ideas. Nowadays I'm a farm foreman and a freelance artist with lots of hobbies. Somewhere in my totes I have a couple trilobite fossils and an ammonite fossil I traded for a long time ago. I recently found some crinoid stem fossils near my creek, as well as a teeny-tiny piece of some sort of leg fossil, and it has quickly reignited my love for fossil-finding. I was curious about stag-moose since I seem to be in the southern range for them and, as you can probably tell by my username, I'm a bit obsessed with all things cervine. Megaloceros giganteus is my favorite prehistoric deer but stag-moose are pretty cool too! It would be an absolute dream to find something from a stag-moose one day. Anyway, nice to meet you and I hope to see you all around! -drowsy
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Was fossil hunting in WV, found this weird fossil with bulb looking things?
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I was searching around the Lost River Quarry in West Virginia when my dad found this weird looking fossil. It has little bulbs and stuff can anybody tell me what this is?
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Fossil identification help please! Peace River Formation Venice, FL area
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Hello fellow paleontology buffs! I have recently returned from a trip to the Venice area where I did some surface/ beach sifting for fossils. I need to get out and dive there next time. I would love to have some help identifying fossils that are tripping me up. I recognize that there are a LOT of them. Sorry!!! I organized them on to a PDF because there were a lot to look at, but please let me know if it does not open up and I will upload them as images instead. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
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Am new to this forum and hoping you can help me, please. My son found this rock behind our garage. Am not sure if this rock was formed at our home in Maine or was laid down from quarried rock as a base for construction on our property. There are numerous quarries near my home where the rock may have been taken from. I live in the Downeast part of Maine, there was a glacier here , as well as volcanic eruptions. Searched my rock identification book but found nothing like this. Searched the internet and found similar looking rocks that were from Canada and England. They were identified as Chrysanthemum Stone, Fossilized Coral, Fossiliferous Coral, Carboniferous Tabulate Coral. Coral seemed to be the repeating identification, although each identification varied slightly from the others because there were different samples on the internet. Thank you for your time and help with this identification.
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Hello! Found this while digging in our yard. Not sure if it's anything, but my son is convinced it's a dinosaur tooth so I told him I'd try to find out. Anyways, we live in Anne Arundel County in Maryland and this was found only 2-3 feet down in very sandy soil. Any insight is appreciated! Lauren
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I found this buried in the ground about 2-3 feet deep in Pulaski County, Missouri USA
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So I found a few things at Myrtle Beach and I'm looking for some help in ID'ing them. I love looking for fossils but am not sure on things and I love the help I've gotten on this site so far. And any help with these is appreciated. The ruler is in inches. . . . 1: I thought this looked similar to a whale ear bone? Admittedly it could just be a rock but I wanted to post here and get some opinions. Getting photos of something black and shiny can be difficult but I could take more if needed, and maybe find better lighting. 2. At first I though alligator tooth but then I learned that mosasaur teeth have been found in this area also, so now I'm not so sure. Either way I love it. 3. I was thinking dolphin tooth but obviously it's broken so I'm not entirely sure. 4. And I thought I'd throw this one here too. When I saw it in the water I thought I was going to be picking up a cucullaea steinkern, but this is what it was. I thought I remembered seeing something like this online somewhere but I really have no idea, unless it's just a piece of some bone. So there they are. Any information about any of these would be much appreciated. And I could post more photos of any of these.
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Found on the coast of Hilton Head South Carolina USA. I am quite unsure of what this is, it’s very eroded and might ether be unidentifiable, or just a funny looking rock. However, I find it looks very tooth like, with one wide end, and one pointy end, as well as a cavity that is open at the wide end and gently tracks further into the “tooth” My first thought was a premolar of some sort of primitive whale sans the roots. But that seems unlikely. Please share your thoughts! I’d love any sort input and if you would like a better picture of a certain angle, let me know! Here are the pictures 1. Front side 2.Back side 3.Right side 4.left side 5.Top side 6.Bottom side And here is a video of the specimen rotating! (ignore the sparkling putty, it was the only option I had to get it to sand up nice while still being visible at all angles) IMG_0199.mov
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I found this vertebra fossil in North Carolina. I understand that vertebrae can be hard to identify, but if anyone can help me out, I greatly appreciate it! Sara
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I found this on my property (in Missouri), in a hunk of clay about a week ago. I spent up until now searching the area for other pieces, however, alas... nothing. Any information you may have is appreciated. This last image (below), I enhanced a bit to bring out details. Thanks for looking!
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I don't have much info on this as I am purchasing it from someone who has no info on it, is this bone? What bone could it be if it is bone? Unknown location and size other than photos. Sorry
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After being closed to the public for the last four years for renovations and expansion, Yale University's Peabody Museum recently reopened to the public. I was able to revisit the refreshed museum and took several photos of the paleontology exhibits. Hope you enjoy the photos! Captions below are from the labels at the museum. Ammonite: Placenticeras sp., 84 to 66 mya, Alberta, Canada Ammonite: Placenticeras sp., 84 to 66 mya, Alberta, Canada Ediacaran organisms (cast), 635 to 539 mya, Newfoundland, Canada Radiodont arthropod: Anomalocaris canadensis, 3x life size model Radiodont arthropod: Anomalocaris canadensis, 508 mya, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada Early arthropod: Opabinia regalis (2.5x life size model and fossil), 508 mya, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada Heteromorph ammonite (I forgot to photograph the label) Trilobites (I forgot to photograph the labels) Trilobites (I forgot to photograph the labels) Sea scorpions: clockwise from top-left: Eurypterus lacustris (Ontario, Canada), E. remipes (New York, USA), E. dekayi (Ontario, Canada), all 427 to 419 mya Sea scorpions: The specimen on the right is Acutiramus macrophthalmus (New York, USA) and has the label: "This is the largest complete eurypterid ever discovered." The specimen on the bottom (Ontario, Canada), from the same species, is "from the trunk of a sea scorpion that would have been at least 8 feet (2.5 meters) long." Both 427 to 419 mya. Placoderm: Bothriolepis canadensis (life-size model and fossil), 419 to 359 mya, Quebec, Canada Mosasaur: Platecarpus tympaniticus, 90 to 66 mya, Kansas, USA Mosasaur: close-up of the skull from the above X-Fish: Xiphactinus audax, 94 to 72 mya, Kansas, USA X-Fish: close-up of the head from the above C Ceratopsians: left: Torosaurus latus, 68 to 66 mya, Wyoming, USA; right: Torosaurus prorsus, 72 to 66 mya, Wyoming, USA Tyrannosaurus rex (cast), 72 to 66 mya, Montana, USA Brontosaurus excelsus, 164 to 152 mya, Wyoming, USA Stegosaurus ungulatus (composite specimen) Part of The Age of Reptiles mural by Rudolph F. Zallinger Additional photos to be added shortly below...
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Just curious on how long it takes for things to crystalize such as this little turtle I found in a creek somewhere north of Seneca, KS.
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Hi! I recently found a lot of various items in Peace River in Florida. There are a few of them that I wanted to find help with, so I attached them below and numbered each of them so the pictures would be less confusing. I wasn’t sure if this would be easier than creating separate threads, but if it would be better to split them up I can do so. The first specimen is the main item I would like help identifying. I believe it’s a body of vertebrae but I was hoping to find out what animal it could be from. If there are too many in one, I am content in receiving the identification for the first item alone. All measurements are in centimeters but inches is on the bottom of the ruler. I’m very new to all of this so your help and kindness is greatly appreciated!
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I live across the street from the Middle fork reservoir here in Richmond, Indiana and earlier today I was looking where the poor off is where the reservoir releases the water and it's a waterfall. I found this. I don't know what it is. Trying to get some help to figure it out
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My 14 year old daughter has been on a quest for the last 6 years to try to collect a fossil in every state in the US. Our family is planning a trip to the New England states this summer and I have a plan for most states, but Connecticut has me flummoxed. I've searched this site for any tips and have gathered that there aren't any GOOD fossils in the state. We are just looking for ANY fossils. I'm hoping someone can help me out with a road-cut or beach where we can find anything long-dead to check this one off the map.
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Found in top a hill in the forest last year was far to interesting to leave!! Very Heavy for its size has a small piece of petrified wood sticking out the side. To me resembles a hip bone or shoulder. Found in Higbee, Missouri.
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