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I’m not exactly sure where it comes from but I found it in paved gravel in association with chert that likely came from the Knox Group in Northeast Alabama.
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From the album: My Collection
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These are two specimens I have found that I can’t confidently identify. I don’t know exactly where they are from but the sedimentary rock they are preserved in is likely from the Mississippian. I live in Northeast Alabama where there are quarries that extract shale and limestone from the Mississippian. Since I don’t know the exact locality they came from I cannot provide an exact time period. One is a white, wedge shaped fossil that I speculate might be a leaf. The other I am unsure of if it is even a fossil but it appears to be a fish, but it could just be crystals that formed in the shale.
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New to hunting fossils/shark teeth and found this unknown object, was thinking maybe a tooth or claw but some buddies say maybe bone carved spear tip or something. Found it in a river in southern Alabama with what they tell me is a Eocene formation on the river bank.
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Hello, I’m hoping someone can tell me whether or not this is a crab pincer? If not, what could it be? I found it in Alabama on the Tennessee River. (Mississippian) Thanks!
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I’m hoping someone can identify this for me. I found it in the Tennessee River. (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) Thanks!
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I can't figure this one out- we found it in Limestone Creek in Alabama. The formation is Tombigbee Sand. Cretaceous ~83 MYA. What do you all think?
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Hi guys, recently bought these teeth as I hadn’t seen this preservation from Alabama before, I was wondering if anyone knew which formation they came from. Supposedly the site was accessible in the 90s thanks
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Can anyone tell me what is protruding from this small rock? Is it some type of coral? I found it by the Tennessee River. (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) Thanks!
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Hunting 80-million-year-old shark teeth in Alabama’s Black Belt
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Hunting 80-million-year-old shark teeth in Alabama’s Black Belt Alabama Museum of Natural History, August 5, 2021 Yours, Paul H.- 2 replies
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Hello, I found this small rock on the Tennessee River. (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) I’m hoping someone can tell me what all is in it. Thanks!
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Hi, I’m hoping someone can identify the larger fossil bits on this rock. I found it on the bank of the Tennessee River. (Mississippian/Tuscumbia Limestone) Thanks!
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Hello Everyone, I found this fabulous rock which is chock full of brachiopods on the bank of the Tennessee River today. When I first broke it open, the brachiopods were all relatively intact. Unfortunately, several split and/or started crumbling off while I was trying to gently clean off some of the river grime. I’m hoping someone can tell me the simplest way to go about cleaning/preserving these brachiopods with the least damage? Thanks!
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Good evening all, I recently moved to southern Alabama, Enterprise area, and was wondering if any of you guys have some good suggestions on where my son and I could do some fossil hunting. Distance isnt a big deal right now. Thanks in advance
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Hello! I’ve been a shark tooth hunter for several years now and have tried to find places around the South to keep my mind going and I found a newer spot for me in Andalusia, AL. And along the way I have found a few teeth styles I haven’t seen before and was looking for any kind of help identifying. Thanks so much for any help!
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Found this in a creek and was wondering what kind of vert it was. It is rather fragile and is about the size of a nickle.
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I found this tooth in a creek over the weekend. Next to it I also found what appeared to be just a piece of bone until I looked at it further and saw that the end resembled the tooth I found just before. The larger of the two is very worn but you can still see the details on the "bite" sruface. I have included a picture of the two side by side for comparison. We were thinking the smaller tooth was that of a prehistoric horse maybe??? Any help in identification would be wonderful. Not that this helps, but on the same day in the same spot a friend of mine found a piece of a mastodon tooth.
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We've found so many things latent, especially in a old bauxite mine that's been that's been closed for many years. I'm not sure if these are concretions or what but this one looks like a cocoon. I have many things that I need help with so hopefully it's okay for me to post often. We're new to this forum. We're in Henry county Alabama (Southeastern AL.) ~Jessica and Cam.
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I found this in St. Clair county, Alabama. The area is near strip mines, so this may have come from tailings. I think it was uncovered when I dug a pool several years ago, but just recently found it. Thanks for any help!
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Classic Localities in the Alabama Cretaceous and Paleogene
MikeR posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Going back several decades I have attempted to have an annual extended field trip; call it a fossil collecting vacation. Some years this happens, some it doesn't but this past November I had the opportunity to spend several days in the field visiting some of the classic Cretaceous and Paleogene river sites which abound in Alabama. Since I haven't had the opportunity to post much in my blog, I decided to post pictures from that trip here as I have time. First up are pictures from the lowermost Maastrichtian (~70 mya) Upper Cretaceous Bluffport Marl Member of the Demopolis Formation. The Demopolis Formation for the most part is a Campanian aged chalk however the Bluffport Marl Member which defines the upper portion of the Demopolis is a molluscan rich sandy lime lying within the Exogyra cancellata zone. Aragonitic shells have not been preserved however calcitic oysters are abundant including Exogyra cancellata, Pyncodonte convexa, and Paranomia scabra. Rarer elements include Exogyra costata and iron/hematite(?) pseudomorphs of Trigonia sp. Temperatures were near perfect in the lower 60s and when not collecting it was a joy to watch the ever present barges on their way to Mobile.
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I just wanted to say howdy. Been lurking for a while and thanks for lots of good information. I'm a green rookie. Me and an old (he's older than dirt, really!!) friend went shark teeth hunting a couple of times and we're hooked. We're old salamander-catching, skinny-dipping, bicycle-riding, sneak-smoking friends that grew up together and who have started back riding around and hunting rocks. Being down here in south Alabama I call it the land of muck and mud...not many rocks.<duh> Then a few weeks back we stopped by a creek and decided to hunt some shark teeth. And by George, we found a few!! We got a couple of little screens from Wallyworld and went back and found a few more. We're hooked.<grin> Only been hunting twice so far, but found a few teeth, some ray plates, a few tiny vertebra, and some coprolite. Pretty much Eocene stuff I think. Anyhow, I'll still be lurking mostly 'cause I really don't know what we're doing or the terminology involved. But, just a couple of trips under our belts and we're having fun...just a couple of old....friends. Anyhow...howdy! Ed
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Hello, a friend of mine found some kind of large fossilized creature in a cave on Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama. It was buried in red clay. The rocks containing fossilized bone are broken into many pieces; he has collected hundreds of small to medium sized pieces and there are many larger ones still at the site. Most of the creature is still there. The rocks are a sandy yellow color and unusually light weight. I washed one of them (#28) and there was a lot of tiny bubbles forming in different places, showing that the rock is porous. Three of the pieces (see pic below) he assembled into a complete joint. The creature may have been 20+ feet long, and I would guess it's a sea creature, given that the imprint of a seashell is found in one of the fossil rocks. The complete archive of images is here: http://grow.game/files/fossil-pictures-lowres-2021-05-26.zip These are pics of only 32 pieces of the hundreds he's collected. Notes on individual images: #20 appears to be some kind of iron ore. It's unusually heavy. There is another piece just like it also. Could be a clue to the geology of the site. #27 note the shell embedded on one side. #28 looks brilliant orange because it's still wet after washing some dirt off. This is the one that was bubbling in different places.
