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  1. Hello everyone, I am currently staying at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County Virginia doing research on evolution (on living animals not fossils) and yesterday I decided to take a walk around mountain lake. This lake and the hotel next to it was actually the location that the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed in but due to natural geological processes the lake is now almost completely drained. This draining has revealed a lot of the sandstone and limestone that once made up the lake bed. I was not going here looking for fossils but when I sat down to rest I saw the Pygidium of a trilobite! I am pretty sure that this trilobite is probably of Silurian age but could also be from the Ordovician. I am not sure if its genus can be identified but I thought it was a cool find nonetheless and worth sharing. I will be returning to the bank to see if I find anything else and will post them in this thread if I do.
  2. Hello, I am going to be spending most of my summer at a biological research station near Blacksburg Virginia. I was wondering if there were any good locations to go fossil hunting within a relatively short drive. I know about the Lost River site and other places in that area but I was wondering if there were any sites closer by, I have a good amount of experience fossil hunting in the northeast and mid Atlantic but am very unfamiliar with the area so any info would be very appreciated. Sincerely, Caleb.
  3. Blue Ridge

    From the Blue Ridge Mtns of Virginia

    Hello, I live in the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and find an amazing variety of rocks and stones on my property. I am no geologist but am deeply curious about the kinds of rocks I collect. I’m going to post photos of two here that I recently picked up, and am hoping someone can share their wisdom with me on what they might be! Thanks.
  4. J.D.

    Semi Hemi?

    Need some help confirming what type of tooth this partial specimen is. I found it along the Potomac in Virginia. I think it is a snaggletooth, but something seems weird about that diagnosis. Thanks!
  5. J.D.

    Skull piece?

    Any ideas what type of bone piece this is? I am inclined to say it is a skull piece from a whale. It is heavy - seems too heavy to be a vert fragment. Found it in the Potomac near Stratford Hall and the Horsehead Cliffs. (VA/MD)
  6. Happy to share a moment I’ve been waiting a long time for… FullSizeRender.MOV
  7. Shawn022

    Strange tooth ID

    Hello all! First post here. I have lurked in the past. I am a avid shark tooth hunter in Virginia. Today I picked up a small shark tooth and then about a foot away I found this. I don’t have a clue and have searched online to no avail. Originally I believe I was looking at it upside down. I was thinking canine. But I now believe what I thought were the teeth are actually the roots. Any info is greatly appreciated. This came from the rappahannock river in the tappahannock area.
  8. Pickings at the beaches are still slim lately (a few coprolite burrows), and I haven't been out as much as I would like. Here are some of my findings from my last four trips or so to the fresh water creek I hunt. There is at least one weird thing that I will probably post in the ID section; not sure it's a fossil, could be part of a leaf or an arthropod, looks fragile. My prizes are a 2"+ mako (blade is in good shape, root is there but rough) and another cow shark tooth (I thought I counted 7 points but not clear in the photo. Several angel shark and drum teeth. A few rough teeth, bones (maybe Tilly bones in a few cases). A skate scute and two small vertebrae. A bunch of small spikes (a couple with matrix attached?) and triangular teeth. Always nice to be out. The water's super cold from the snow melt but NO competition, and always great to be out in the woods.
  9. Frank Eaton

    Beautiful Bryozoan or coral colony

    This is one of my favorite oddities: it’s a spherical colony of bryozoans from the York River of Virginia. You’ll see from the closeup that’s it’s layers upon layers of colonies. There’s no telling how deep they go… is there a pebble at the center? Anything at all? Specimen is 7cm. It’s tricky to find ID’s for these, but I’m curious if this is an encrusting bryozoan or a coral. Also, it’s just neat and wanted to share. Frank
  10. Are there any fossil hunting sites within an hour and a half’s driving distance from Charlottesville, Virginia?
  11. BriggyG

    Potomac Fossil ID

    Any ideas ? No (visible) foramen. Approx 1” x 1.5”
  12. Rock-Guy-17

    New to shark teeth, ID Help?

    Hi folks. I've had some of these for a while and have tried to ID them using the resources referenced by the forum. Did not want to post without trying to see what I could ID first. Appreciate the help! Also unsure of the ages if anyone knows. Guesses for Image 1 from left to right. Locality, Myrtle Beach, SC Row 1: Tiger? (It is thicker than the rest); Great White; Auriculatus?; Requiem?; Sand Tiger Row 2: Sand Tiger; Bull?; Lemon; Short-fin Mako?; White Shark?; Mako? Guesses for Image 2 from left to right. Locality: Potomac River, VA Row 1: Requiem Shark?; Snaggle?; Big Lemon? Row 2: Hammerhead; ??; Mako; Lemon? If I stare at the small ones too long they all start to look like lemon shark teeth. A friend told me the tooth in photo one, row one right next to the penny is a baby meg, but I think it's too small.
  13. Hi all, went on a fossil hunting trip recently and I found some things I'm unsure of. these were found off of Route 60 in the Reedsville formation. My best guess ( assuming this isn't concretion of course) was this may be some sort of horn coral. there was another splinter of rock that looks like it could be a cluster of brachiopods but what kind I have no idea.
  14. fossil_lover_2277

    New Castle VA Devonian Ostracod?

    Hi all, I collected this fossil a while back, I’m wondering, is it an example of a large ostracod? The fossil is from the Devonian Chemung/Foreknobs formation near New Castle, VA. I have no idea what it is, but ostracods are known from the area, and I could see them as a possibility. Any ideas? *fossil is 3cm in length
  15. Philip A Good

    Crustaceans in Sandstone

    This is a fossil of what I think was a small crustacean. It was found in a tributary very close to the Shenandoah River. It is sandstone. The view in 1 is the best example however in 6 there are what appears to be the noses of other specimens sticking out of the matrix. Oddly enough they all seem to be facing in the same direction, perhaps a feeding pattern. I would sure like some help identifying and dating this specimen. I'm sure there are more where this one came from. Thanks in advance, Phil Good--------Northern Va.
  16. wellwellwell

    Oligocene cetacean bulla?

    Hello! With the extension of warmer and calmer weather in my area, I have recently taken to the dark arts of sifting gravel beds in search of fossils. Previously I have avoided this because it’s a lot of work, but I have been enjoying finding the higher quantities of fossils and other things... I know there are a couple of different exposures on this river’s banks, a marl with fresh shells and Miocene vertebrate material, and a reworked gravel layer with a bit more worn mixed material including either angustidens or ariculatus shark teeth. Pictures included. These are usually very worn. The gravel beds in the river below such deposits have been where I sift... In one such area I find a rich diversity of shark teeth and cetacean fossils(mostly bones chunks, earbones, and a few teeth) the whale material is the most interesting to me... I think I found a partial tooth from a heterodont whale, it is broken and worn, consistent with the older shark material. I hope the pictures tell the tale. My post is about mammal earbones that have been quite frequent and show a consistency of wear with the older material. They also have a consistent form, though worn, that is quite different from Miocene earbones that I’ve found here and elsewhere. I’m wondering if these are identifiable to oligocene cetaceans? I Have included 3 pics of what I think is the heterodont cetacean tooth 2 of the older sharks teeth 2 photos of the what I think may be the older earbones (The group of 3) 2 photos of what I think are Miocene earbones All of these fossils were found in the same bed of gravel along with many more sharks teeth and whale bones and a few more recent whale teeth(they look like what I have found at other Miocene formation sites) I’m curious if this rings any bells, I totally understand if they are to worn for an id of any specificity. I know there are some experts on this forum and I appreciate anybody’s opinion/ thoughts! thanks!
  17. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Ammonoid in mudstone collected from Devonian Foreknobs formation sediments of the Jefferson National Forest near New Castle, VA.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  18. Some of my recent finds. Four ray stinger pieces, a dozen drum teeth. Four angel shark teeth (just to the left of the vert piece). Unusual for me, two small tiger shark teeth (i think the small part of these teeth must break off often); scanned most of the small teeth I found. Broken cowshark and parasymphyseal sand tiger. And a bunch of sand tiger and grey shark teeth.
  19. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Ammonoid in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  20. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Cephalopods in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  21. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Cephalopod in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  22. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Cephalopod in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  23. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Ammonoid in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  24. From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Ammonoid and cephalopod in mudstone collected just outside New Castle, VA in Jefferson National Forest from Devonian sediments.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  25. Hiked up to some Devonian Foreknobs Formation exposures yesterday on a mountain in the Jefferson National Forest in Craig County, Virginia. Found some awesome and beautiful ammonoids, cephalopods, and more!!! Now I’ve just gotta find some trilobites and crinoids...lol Some of the better ammonoids I found in some mudstone: Some of the different types of cephalopods along with some brachiopods: And 2 unknowns, not a clue in the world what these are:
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