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An acquaintance of mine found this material in a river bed here in Dane County, Wisconsin. Most of the locality bedrock is Ordovician or Cambrian limestone, sandstone or dolomite. This area is also glaciated, although you don't see a lot of till or erratics right around here. Any suggestions what this might be? It was initially suspected as fossilized wood, although that seems unlikely.
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SW Wisconsin, most rocks being Ordovician to Silurian in age. None found in situ
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Found on a railroad track with other Paleozoic fossils
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Landscaping rocks. Paleozoic.
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3 and 4 were found in the Devonian milwaukee formation.
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Found in the stone steps at estabrooke park quarried from the Devonian Milwaukee formation.
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Found while splitting fossiliferous rock
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Genuinely lost as to what this could be. Found in Paleozoic gravel
SilurianSalamander posted a topic in Fossil ID
any ideas?
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Found on my way down to my usual fossil hunting beach (Devonian) I’m pretty sure these rocks were brought in to prevent erosion though. Late pre-Cambrian - Devonian rock for sure
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Found in a culvert outside of fast food place. Paleozoic limestone of unknown age. Help!
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- cephalopod?
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Last weekend I had the opportunity to collect in a quarry in southern Wisconsin. It appeared to cut through the Upper Ordovician Platteville, Decorah, and Galena Formations, although only the Platteville rocks were accessible. It was not the most productive trip but it was a new spot for me and I had a good time. Here's a site shot plus a couple photos of large hash plates I did not collect. The quarry was swarming with these baby frogs – I easily saw several hundred. Here are the finds I kept. Eoleperditia fabulites - giant ostracods A large cephalopod fragment (probably Endoceras) coated with pyrite crystals A nice slab of mollusks, including a very nice example of the curved cephalopod Beloitoceras
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Found in some Paleozoic chalk and limestone gravel along with crinoids and brachiopods.
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Tiny crinoid columnals. Coming back to the same beach with a sieve tonight.
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Never seen this texture on a brachiopod or bryozoan before. Found in Wisconsin gravel.
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How rare are phragmocones from cephlapods? Are they something you need to get into a quarry to find, or can you recover them out of roadcuts? This is for the Midwest, like Illinois, Wisconsin etc.
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Trilobite cephalon? Brachiopod? Devonian find from the Milwaukee formation
SilurianSalamander posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Hello, We found this in western Wisconsin in a dry run. We're thinking possibly some kind of coral? Complete N00b here The whole piece is about 5.5" long, the striated part that we believe is fossil piece is approx 1 inch long. Thank you so much for your help!
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Can anyone ID this? Looks weird to me because I’ve never found anything like it before.
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Pet wood? Found outside of a fast food place in Wisconsin. Most rocks here are older than trees but this was in a gravel pit.
SilurianSalamander posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Found this fossil in a gravel pit. Paleozoic. Never found anything like this.
SilurianSalamander posted a topic in Fossil ID
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I'll be straightforward and say I don't know all of the exact rules of a post, so I hope I'm doing this right. I'm Jonah, an undergrad at the University of Oshkosh up in Wisconsin. I've been fossil hunting since 2020 but have loved prehistory all of my life. I'm looking for new contacts and to hopefully network on this site. I live in Wisconsin and have had poor success in my home state. However I have been across multiple other states from Florida to South Dakota, all with much better success. My purpose here is to seek community and new possible places to explore and hunt from. I'm always ready to learn and divulge my own information when I can.
