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Greetings from North Alabama! Thank You for the welcome. I have a ton of questions but will do my best not to aggravate. Seriously though, I will probably be here a lot. I look forward to great conversations and solving all my backyard/ riverbed mysteries!
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Any sites in NE Mississippi or NW Alabama. Preferably Cretaceous or Carboniferous. Thanks.
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Hi Everyone! I'm Wes, from the Montgomery, AL vicinity. I'm a complete newbie to fossil hunting, though I've long enjoyed hunting for shark's teeth on beach trips with my kids, albeit with extremely limited success, ok no success in the last several years. Looking to find some good places locally to hunt, especially for some shark teeth since apparently when we moved here 2 years ago were moved to a hotbed of fossils. Glad to be here and looking forward to learning all I can! Wes
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I picked this up in a second hand store of all places her in south(Coastal) Alabama, so I don't know where it originally came from. I've never seen anything even similar around here. It's a decent size...about 4.5" x 2.5" x 3.75" (114mm x 63mm x 95mm) and seems heavy for it's size...21.6oz (614g). Whatever it is, it appears to have petrified bones or fragments (looks more like whole bones) inside it. It's asymmetrical in shape with a textured outer surface and some holes that show some of the inside. The coin in some of the pics is 1 inch(25mm) across and some of the photos were taken of the item wet to show color better. I have a lapidary saw and was thinking about cutting it open, but I'm afraid I'd ruin it if it was a fossil that was better left intact. I know I don't have much information to go on but any help identifying it greatly appreciated.
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This 7/8" fossil was found in a creek in west Alabama with lots of Upper Cretaceous fossils
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Hello! Just found this forum, happy to join. I’m a geologist who does environmental work in Texas, mostly Beaumont Formation. I don’t do much work with rock but I got an opportunity to drill in Alabama and took it. Luckily this happened to be in my core. We’re drilling in the Tuscumbia Limestone which I understand to be Mississippian. Hoping someone can help me identify this fossil. Let me know if you know what I’ve got here, and I’d love tips for cleaning it up for display. Thanks!
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Hello, I found this rock in Alabama (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) and have been trying to figure out what is all over it. After searching the forum and the internet, the closest match I could find is it possibly being a stromatoporoid, showing mamelons? If not, can anyone tell me what it might be? (My husband says it looks like melted plastic to him. I’m really hoping he isn’t correct. Lol) Thanks!
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Hi, I’m hoping someone will let me know which type of fossils are in this rock. I found it in Alabama. (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) Thanks!
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Found this in 2012 somewhere in northwest Alabama, while tromping around. I've no idea what it is, but it looked like some kind of tooth in bone. The big protrusion looks rough and kind of like cement, but looking closer it appears to go into the "bone" area, like a regular tooth. I'm more of a rockhound, but this was too unusual to not pick up. Any help with identifying it would be greatly appreciated.
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My trip to W.M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park
Sasquatch1112 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
On our way to Gulf Shores Alabama we decided to stop at this wonderful location. It was a blast. We started slow because we dug around the concretions near the ground of the park. Then I wondered off and found a place near another concretions with a lot more gravel around it. This one had a couple fully intact teeth, but I went over to a pile of sand near a submerged concretion and this is where almost of the sharks teeth came from. Over all I was really impressed at this awesome location. We are still her in Gulf Shores looking for things to do, if anyone has a place ether here of in Birmingham please PM me or just say in the forum. Thanks! ( could I also get help on ID’s, Thank you)
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Does anyone know where I should hunt for fossils in the Cahaba River? We are going to Alabama on Vacation and are thinking about stoping, but we don’t know where. If you could tell me that will make our family’s day. Blaine H
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Hi again! Two more ID requests - this time they're from the Bangor Limestone in Alabama, USA (Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian). Specimen #1: An orthoconic nautiloid - could it be Brachycycloceras sp.? Specimen #2: A blastoid - Pentremites sp.? Thanks for your help! Monica
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While out fossil hunting in Alabama (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) earlier this week, I found a hash plate full of crinoid stem segments which also has a small fossil on it which I cannot identify. Is it a bryozoan?
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Our family went on a day trip with the Alabama Museum of Natural History to Trussell's Creek recently... It has a loads of Cretaceous shark teeth... when you sieve the gravel bar in certain spots, every load will bring up a couple of teeth. Most broken though! Here are some of our finds (mine and my youngest son). Mostly shark teeth, but I did find some bits of bone, baculite parts, and a fish corprolite. My daughter found a cepahalic clasper from a shark! (It went to the museum).
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First time taking kids to look for shark teeth was wanting direction and is it too late in the year to go will it be overgrown and direction getting there or any other location to take 12yr old. Never been hunting myself.
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My daughter found this at Trussell's creek in Alabama; the site is full of Cretaceous marine fossils (80 MYA). It has gone to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, but I don't know what it is.... anyone recognize it?
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Hi everyone - I'm a relatively new member here. I live in the MD area and frequently visit the Calvert Cliffs and Potomac for fossil hunting excursions with my two daughters. We even ventured down to Aurora, NC for the Fossil Festival this year and had a blast. My oldest daughter will be attending the week-long Space Camp in Huntsville at the end of August and thusly I will be in town while she is there. I've poked around in the forums and found this question asked before, but without a lot of specifics outlined. I'm looking for specifics on hunting for fossils solo in the area. I have no delusions of finding something remarkable simply laying on the ground, but I'd prefer not to have to spend a week chiseling at bedrock Any suggestions or simply pointing me to better resources would be appreciated. Note: I found the Alabama Paleontological Society's page but there doesn't seem to be any contact form there.
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These two teeth are from Greene Co Alabama, Selma Chalk is the formation according to the seller. I believe one is a Cretalamna and the other might be a Protolamna. I am nowhere near confident in my ID's hence the post here. Any help would be appreciated. The only size reference I have is the gem jar is 1 1/4" so these are small teeth.
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I found this today in Monte Sano Park off the Sinks trail. The area is known for Mississippian fossils, but I have no clue what this could be. The rock that it is in is unfamiliar to others I have seen in the area. I can tell if it looks marine or something else. The park is right in Huntsville. Maybe somebody here has seen something like this before.
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I found this while searching for fossils in Alabama this week. Can anyone identify it for me? (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone)
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I am wondering which type of fossil I found. Is it a type of sponge? (Tuscumbia Limestone/Mississippian)
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Can anyone tell me which type of coral I have? (Tuscumbia Limestone/Mississippian)
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I’m wondering if this is some type of fossilized plant fragment? If not, can anyone tell me what it might be? (Tuscumbia Limestone/Mississippian)
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While searching for crinoids a few days ago, I found two items which I thought were especially interesting. Can anyone identify them for me? (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone)
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I was given some Archimedes bryozoans and I was told they are from a Mississippian exposure somewhere in Alabama. I'm afraid that's all I know so far. They have a feature I'm not used to seeing. The only ones I have found consist of just the central axis support, or "screw." These do not show that part at all but they have just the outer edge of the fenestrated portion exposed the whole way around the specimen like this. Using only hand tools I started trying to expose the fronds to see if that is even possible and had some pretty good results. I will try to either saw or sand one of them down to see if I can expose the central axis and maybe prepare the other side like I'm doing this one. I can probably manage that part okay but exposing the edges is very tedious. I may have someone with air abrasion tools see if they can't do a better job than what I am managing. @Ptychodus04 ? Want to trade some labor for a couple of these?
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