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Hello! I hope it's okay to post several photos. I will do front and back with letters to mark each one. These were found over the years in Virginia or Maryland. The possible parks in VA would have been Caledon, Westmoreland, and York River. I also frequented Purse State Park in Maryland. I'm sorry I don't recall where each are from. I just found this forum and am grateful for your help! I'm a beginner as far as knowledge goes and am eager to learn! I'm most interested in B and D. I think E may be fossilized wood?
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Unknown Ordovician fossils from the town of New Castle in Craig County, VA
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi all, this past Sunday I went fossil hunting in the Jefferson National Forest near New Castle VA and found an unknown compression fossil. The pic of the unknown fossil doesn’t have a scale, but the fossil is 6.4 millimeters in length. Any help IDing it would be appreciated! Btw I also found several plates covered in mineralized and carbonized brachiopod compression fossils on the trip, but these were in mudstone sedimentary rock...fossiliferous shales and limestones are known from the area, but I didn’t see anything on fossiliferous mudstone (gray-brown claystone to be exact) based on the publications I read through. I’m not an expert in Ordovician fossils/rocks, can someone comment possibly on why I might have found fossiliferous mudstones, if you are familiar with this area? Also, can anyone comment on possibly the genus/species of brachiopods these might be? Thanks!!!- 8 replies
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Ordovician brachiopods galore from New Castle, Virginia
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Spent a few hours earlier today fossil hunting Ordovician strata in the Jefferson National Forest near New Castle, Virginia in Craig County for the first time. Was well rewarded with several plates covered in brachiopod compression fossils. Also found what I think is some sort of burrow. Also found an odd fossil that I can’t identify, I will post it in the ID forum later with a higher resolution microscope pic and a scale, but for now I will post what I have..-
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Yesterday, I found what I think may be a little Pristichampsus tooth. It is from the Aquia formation on the Virginia side of the Potomac. It looks unusual for a croc tooth for being so laterally-compressed. I can't tell whether it ever had serrations at the base. They may have worn off but there are no obvious ones. Also, this tooth would match the short piece of juvenile croc jaw I found elsewhere in the Aquia last year which had a similarly-shaped (unerupted) tooth. Any thoughts?
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Hi guys, I have this serratolamna from muddy creek, now s,gafsana is described from here but apparently this looks more like older serratolamna teeth. The age of the formation here is ypresian, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any older underlying strata that may be able to produce an older serratolamna or if this one is just an odd ball thanks
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Bitten coprolite and other coprolites
MarcoSr posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Dr. Stephen Godfrey, the Curator of Paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum, has a special interest in bones and coprolites with bite marks. I recently found the below fish coprolite (20 mm length) with bite marks in the Eocene, Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia and donated it to the Calvert Marine Museum. Some bite marks are infilled with Pyrite. It is by far the nicest example of a fish coprolite with bite marks that I’ve seen from the Eocene, Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (I’ve collected over 50,000 fish coprolites (shark, ray and bony fish) from the Nanjemoy Formation over the last 25 years or so.). When I sent the bitten coprolite to the Calvert Marine Museum, I also sent along a donation of a gallon bag of regular fish coprolites from the Nanjemoy Formation. Below is Stephen’s acknowledgement of the coprolite donation in the Ecphora newsletter. Marco Sr.- 14 replies
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
Echinosphaerites aurantium Middle Ordovician Benbolt Formation Scott Co., Virginia, USA-
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I thought I saw another post with something similar to Items #1 but I couldn't find it. They look like parts of a vertebra, but can someone share their expert view? Item #2 seems definitely half of a larger vertebra. Any idea what kind of animal? All were found on a beach in the Northern Neck, Virginia.
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One more plea for help - and apologies if this is obvious to all the folks here who know their stuff. Found this on the Potomac River near Montross, VA (the Northern Neck area as it's called). Any help or guesses would be very appreciated.
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Again being a newbie to this, I quickly realize that it's not easy to know what you found. This seems like it's a fossil and not geologic - but a tooth? Part of a bone? It measures just under 1" in length. All black. Found on the Potomac River near Montross, Virginia.
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Hi All! First time posting after my young daughter and I tried hunting for shark teeth (and other fossils) for the first time - on the Potomac near Montross, VA. We'd be grateful for any help.
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I found this vertebra sitting in the creek, washed down I guess. It is 4" long, and roughly 3" wide (at "top" and "bottom") and heavy for its size. Sides look like they may have had "wings" that were clipped off? Two pairs of closely set protuberances in the center of one "face" with almost diagonal depressions on the side. Two pale depressions at one end of the other face, with black depressions to the side above (below?) where the wings attach. Dried for over a week. Used to see a lot of big verts in the creek thirty years ago, this one is the only one I've found recently. Makes a nice paperweight. Anyone with any idea what part of the spine this came from? Thanks for any help! Sides first two photos, protuberance face next, then depression face, the a few held:
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My father, now deceased, found this on a mountain in Southwestern VA in the Roanoke, VA area many years ago. He always wanted to identify it, but we were never able to do so My mother would very much like to know if this is a fossil and if so, what it is. Does anyone know what this is? Thanks. Karen
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Some oddities while metal detecting can anyone help me ID this its like nothing else Ive ever seen before thanks!!!
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Hi All, Some of you helped me ID some fossils a few weeks ago, and I've been browsing around the forum learning lots ever since. My mother-in-law really enjoyed seeing the fossils I found, so this morning she hiked out with me on our first official fossil hunt. We found tons of crinoids and lots of great brachiopods, and a few mysteries that I'm hoping someone here can help us ID. From looking at area geological maps these are from the Devonian period and the Foreknobs formation. The first one here I am pretty sure is an intact crinoid, but would like confirmation: Second: this textured area... coral? bryzoan? It's in a couple of spots on this rock. And mystery number 3 - another weird texture area: Thanks for any help!
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Total fossil newbie here. A few weeks ago while running, I randomly noticed a weird rock that I thought might be a fossil, and some nice folks here helped me ID it as crinoidal sandstone with a few brachiopod impressions. I figured it was a one-time thing, but when I ran the same route today, I could help but keep an eye out and was shocked to find , now that my brain is primed to see them, that the ground in that area is just littered with crinoids and brachiopods. I've been running right over them on almost a weekly basis for a couple of decades without ever noticing. I know these are probably boring fossils for most of you, but I still find them fascinating. I have a couple of questions about a few details on these that I hope someone will answer. Here's a few general photos of them. I know the one is crinoid pieces. I think the other is a brachiopod - is this correct? And the few details: is this part just a side view of a crinoid stalk, or is it something else? And this - another part of a crinoid? Or something else? And finally, from the one I think is a brachiopod, it looks like there might be an impression of something else just above it (closup below). Is this something? Or just a feature of the rock? Thanks for any help!
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Two separate trips (Stratford hall and Douglas Point)
Fossil_Adult posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I hit the Potomac yesterday after a long hiatus for some Paleocene sharks teeth. I also decided to include a few of my finds from the recent Stratford hall trip, which was pretty decent. I always go to Douglas point for my Paleocene teeth because it’s just a good area and I almost always come back with a complete otodus. This time, that didn’t happen, though I did find a few broketodus teeth so meh. But I did come back with some good stuff, including a monster croc tooth, and a gigantic goblin sharks tooth. I also got a fish jaw with a lot of teeth in it and some other nice stuff, in addition to what I think is either a tortoise or turtle leg spur, which I thought was a large worntodus on first glance. On the Stratford trip, I got some cool Snaggles (not pictured below) some makos, and a drum fish jaw with two teeth on the side that came right out the clay. 6 people walked right by it! Plain as day I don’t even know how they could not have spotted it the thing was very obviously exposed! Anyways, here’s all the spoils. -
Went at low tide to a small public beach on the Rappahannock. A few people laying on the sand soaking in the nice weather. One guy raking the sand, looking for shark teeth, fossils or maybe beach glass. I walked along in the water looking for teeth with faint hope, but was lucky! Although mostly just long rusted and tide- and sand- burnished metal bits, I did find some teeth including two NICE cowshark teeth (perfect compared to the broken rootless ones I'm lucky to find usually). Also found an interesting skate scute (small enameled spot in the center), a reddish sand tiger spike, a thresher shark tooth(?) plus another gray, requiem shark tooth and what looks like a flattened conical tooth. Lots of small fossil bone ("whale bone") but nothing obvious to ID. Very happy with the cow shark teeth, and a nice return on an hour walking a public beach!
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This tooth was found last week as float while sifting in this Lower Calvert formation member. All of the other finds were of marine origin, shark teeth, shark verts. , ray plates, etc. Many thanks for your input!
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I found this while I was out running the other day - it was near the top of a mountain in Southwest Virginia. Is this a coral fossil? Could the thing on the end be a brachipod fossil? Sorry my measuring tape only had inches, but I figured it was better than nothing!
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Nice to be out before the mosquitoes, but the pollen is a pain. Worked a spot with lots of gravel. Expected drum teeth (found), angel shark teeth (two) and vertebrae (one and pieces). Except for cowshark teeth (no roots), nothing really special. But lots of small teeth (many broken).
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Not sure what this is? I find a lot of what could be teeth, but this is relatively well preserved, much enamel and a striking cross banding (growth rings??) It is hollow on the root end. Unusual for me, but probably common in other areas, so hoping for a quick ID.
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For the past few days I’ve had very little sleep. I thought that I had messed up sleeping way past the low tide time, but in hindsight that Meg was gonna be mines anyways so it really didn’t matter. It’s been a while since I’ve collected some good material, It’s been a bit of a hit and miss so far but I think my luck is finally starting to turn over. I’ve been going to this Paleocene spot a lot lately so I figure it would be nice to change thing up a bit. Anyways, from the title you guys can probably infer that I’ve found my first Meg of 2021 which I’m pretty happy about because I found none last year. Anyways, I also found a posterior mako, some nice snaggles, a thresher, croc tooth, puffer fish mouth plate, a retroflexis mako tooth, my largest bull shark tooth to date, and a crab carapace to top it all off. Probably one of my most productive days on this small stretch of beach, I’m really looking forward to April 17 when I can go past the ropes (on a guided trip I don’t do trespassing) here’s the spoils from yesterday: Here’s all the stuff from this beach. Without my large screen I’d get maybe a quarter of this.some of the best teeth I got from this small beach. Biggest tooth by far is that gigantic bull shark.pictures of the mini megalodon. Yes, I know it looks like a bull shark tooth but the root is thicker than the bull sharks I found today and it has a very worn bourlette on it. But I assure you it’s a Meg (unless it isn’t and I’m told otherwise) good trip all around! Can’t wait to come back here soon.