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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’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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Can anyone tell me which type of coral I have? (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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My husband found this while we were fossil hunting today. I’m hoping someone can identify it for me. The area is Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone.
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Hello all! I had an opportunity to get out several weeks back to fossil hunt. I came across a washed out area on site that was solid layers of stone above a large coal seam. I removed some of the soil covering the stone face and found several cracks and fissures in that stone created by rainwater, heat and cold expanding between the layers making it easy to split. With chisel in hand I pried up several slabs containing these fern hash plates, fern fronds and Trigoncarpus (seed pods). Some of the slabs were fairly big so I had to downsize them to fit in my bucket. The two hours I was there, my bucket was filled to the brim and then had to call it a day. All the unwanted excess stone and soil was placed back. What a great day! Can't wait to get back soon.
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My husband and I decided to go on a quick fossil hunt this morning. The area is Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone. I was delighted to find this small, square chunk of rock right away. It almost appears to be a shadow box for the lovely little fossil embedded within it. I am wondering if it is a tentaculite?
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Found these at Point A Dam today!! Can anyone ID?
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I found this guy along with a bunch of crinoid stems in a creek in Huntsville AL. I believe it to be some type of coral. Nearby is Bangor Limestone and Hartselle shale. I can’t seem to ID this one.
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Hello all! I went fossil hunting several weeks back in-between all this rain we'd been getting and found a few nice samples of Carboniferous Flora here in Bama. This particular spot has produced some quality detailed preservation on fossils I've never seen before. The weather hasn't been that cooperative of lately but glad see toward the end of the week it will be gorgeous so another trip to this site is in the works! Pic# 1 not sure what this is but it looks like a christmas tree. Pic #2 is fern rachis with fern fronds Pic #3 is a Nueropteris hash plate. Pic #4 and #8 are Lycopodiates. Pic #5 is a Mariopteris fern frond with a Peripteris leaflet. Pic #6 are Fern Rachis with Nueropteris fern fronds. Pic #7 is a Calamite impression I've never seen before...this one in particular has these huge node imprints on the impressions. Pic #8 is Trigoncarpus (seed) Pic #9 Mariopteris fern frond hash plate. Stay tuned more to come!
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Me and my husband found some really cool items in an creek in central al but we are puzzled as to what these things are. We found lots of sharks teeth and echinoids.
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I am retired military, my wife is a career school teacher, and my son wants to be a paleontologist when grows up. I'm looking for a location that we can turn into a weekend "working" vacation and find some fossils. Not looking to find anything huge or an unknown, just something like sharks teeth. Any help will be appreciated and thanks in advance.
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I'm assuming that this is fossilized coral. Found on mountain shelf in Alabama. Thoughts?
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Hello all. I had recently made a post needing to repair a fossil of ferns (Lygenopteris hoeninghousi) and an unknown branch. It is now repaired and I wanted to get a proper ID on the branch specifically and see what you all think it is from. Do you believe it is also from Lygenopteris hoeninghousi? I think the preserved hair like spines along the branch are particularly interesting. It was found in a coal mine in Alabama and is in shale. Thank you all.
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This 1"x1" piece is from a creek in west Alabama which has late Cretaceous and Pleistocene fossils.
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Hello all! We've had a considerable amount of rain in the deep south for several months which means lots of erosion from the rock wall. Here are few samples found in the piles of stone at the bottom of those walls. This site produces a lot of small ichno fossils that I find fascinating, hopefully some day I will find some of the track makers? Both pics I guess would identify as Diplichnites. The first pic looks like the organism has some spiral movement to it??? Both of those pics are resting traces of some type of Arthropod? Both pics are some type of 3D burrows, pic #1 is a type of siphon burrow? Pic #2 has a textured surface as if the organism creating the burrow left it's tracks? Pic #1 Feeding traces? Pic #2 another textured burrow. Pic#1- impression of something, insect or feeding trace? Pic #2- Ichno expert suggests a stick, piece of wood created this impression? Pic #1- Close up shot of a resting trace. Pic #2- Scorpion that didn't want to be bothered... It's that time of year for the Creepy Crawlies, always check under the stone and on it before picking it up!
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Hello all! I got to go fossil hunting today after work before the storm rolled in. I'm familiar with most Carboniferous Flora but these two finds. Is the fern frond and leaflets called Peripteris or something else? The second and third pic looks like a Calamite? It has ribbing but no nodes present? Could this be a leaf of some type of Lycopod? Any help would be appreciated. Carboniferous Period, Pottsville Formation, Alabama.
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Hello All! It's been quite sometime since I last visited the fossil fern honey hole. Having to work the weekends and not having enough daylight to hunt fossils was a bummer for at least 7 months! Now that spring is in the air, temperature is getting warmer and there is more daylight I had to take advantage of a late afternoon hunt with a lil' extra daylight on hand.
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I’m hoping someone can tell me which type of fossil(s) are in this? Bryozoan? Brachiopods? It looks different from the brachiopods I found in Tennessee. I was inordinately pleased to find this little rock while my husband was building our deck, as this is the first fossil I have found in my yard since our move to Alabama. Woo-Hoo! (Mississippian, Tuscumbia Limestone)
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Which type of mineral is this? Are the brown areas simply discoloration of the stone or some type of fossil? (It was purchased in an antique shop near Cullman, Alabama.)
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I found this at an Alabama creek recently, among Cretaceous marine fossil deposits. I can't figure out if it is a fossil or not. The scale is in cm. Two pictures of the top, third one of the bottom. What do you think?
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Greetings folks! These are a few shark teeth my grandson and I obtained from creeks out of Alabama. About One hour due east of Birmingham. Just outside of Talladega Alabama. I the the bigger ones are Sand sharks, just a guess, but I'm not sure if the other ones are or not. And trying to figure out the age, I think may may be cretaceous period. Could someone please verify, or correct my thinking in these matters. Any information would be great. Thanks Joe
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Hello All! Ichnology has to be a fascinating field of study. I don't know bout you guys but as a citizen scientist/ fossil collector I definitely find them fascinating and when I post them on The Fossil Forum or the other social networks. I enjoy hearing the different discussions about them. Alabama is known for it's fossil diversity and these are no exception. The samples presented here are overshadowed by the specimens coming out of the Union Chapel Mine northwest of the my present location. http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/apsmono1/paper19_APS_MONO_1_Hauboldetal.pdf Union Chapel produces all sorts of tracks from tetrapods, horseshoe crabs and a plethora of insects as well as plants specimens. Not to say the site I visit is the same because it's not but still provides a glimpse into an ancient mudflat during the Carboniferous Period teeming with life. Thanks to all the professionals who have help me identify some of these trace fossils. My goal and hope will be to eventually find impressions of the track makers. I have been visiting this site for over ten years and it still eludes me!
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