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I'm going MAD trying to figure out what is covering this crystal rock! I have google lensed EVERY ANGLE of this rock & find absolutely nothing like it online! Matter fact google tries to tell me it's bread or cave entrances & dirt most of the time. It is SO STRANGE I have never seen anything like this, and I have a site that I dig crystals up endlessly at & that is where I pulled this one up at. It's from Hoschton ga. I have found obsidian several times, I find every different faced crystals (3, 5, 7 faces) & type (rock crystal, clear, milky, agate crystals) , tourmaline crystal, pineapple, candle, castle, dogtooth, calcite..... Something guite monumental had to have happened at my site a long time ago, for there to be such an endless supply of crystal. From my pinkie nail to size of my fist easy & just perfectly formed. I have found a thousand easy in the few yrs I have been digging there. Could coral have been crystalized by lava or from water put to a boil in a snap of a finger?

Location: East Missouri Being a really new hunter, this is only the 10th or so actual fossil i've ever found, and it's a doozy. A large death plate that I stumbled upon, that I want to do some prep work on to try and uncover and identify what appears to be some actual fossilized bone. Or even if not, just uncover some of the depth. There's a ton of surface cracks here that i've been gently tapping to work some of this plating off, but i'm more super curious about the general structure here. I've highlighted a few areas that I'm concerned about touching, and would love some feedback. What's my concern? I've noted in the below pictures below, but there is a highlighted area that has a suspiciously smooth texture that makes me worry I am actually going to work on top of or chip away a larger set of fossil. So long as what i'm working with here is just some common fossil of no historic value, I have less concerns, but the size of the mass on the lower right has me concerned to work on this specimen at all rather than turning it into our local Science Center for management. I'd love some opinions here on what exactly i'm working with, and any other general conversation Note: I've pushed the contrast on the fossil-overlay image to help show some of the detail on a hazy day photo. I have included both an overlayed image with some text and the full RAW image from my camera with higher resolution for examination.

Hello all Fossilcollectors! I went fossil hunting in Late-Cretaceous sediments of Limburg (NL). I found some belemnite rostra (Belemnoidea, family Belemnitida, Belemnitellidae) species Belemnitella cf. minor II (Christensen, 1995), Belemnella (pachybelemnella) sumensis/cimbrica, Belemnella (pachybelemnella) obtusa (Schulz, 1979) and (possible) Belemnitella junior (Nowak, 1913). These 'squid-pens' are made of calcite and formed a important part of the animals internal skeleton. Many of them are broken, but also some (almost) complete ones. One is embedded in chalk (with glauconite traces but not 100% sure) and others with chalk remains. Found from the above mentioned species never a complete phragmocone (still two almost complete or molds) or parts of the pro-ostracum (not one, very thin and brittle apparently). Also found one very small belemnite (juvenile?). Other then belemnites, I found a Steinkern of a sea-urchin (Echinocorys sp.) in a stream of water. All of the above mentioned fossils are 72-66 (broader indication) or 70-68/70-67 mya (exacter indication for some layers), years old. Late (late) Campanian, early Maastrichtian. For American collectors: you can collect the Cretaceous belemnite species Belemnitella americana (Morton, 1830) in New Jersey and/or Jurassic belemnites in Wyoming. For British collectors: many places to collect Jurassic belemnites like Cylindroteuthis sp. like places along the Jurassic Coast (Charmouth, Lyme Regis). Important: only search if allowed and follow the regulations. For collectors who are more interested in these ancient squid-like creatures and have some belemnites in their collection: see my written article in the latest number of The Ecphora. http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter

Hello everyone, to get straight to it...I’ve recently moved to southeast Missouri where I’ve rebuilt a home near Kimmswick Bone Bed, and what seems to be a fossil rich, clay and stone formation. I have found numerous sea fossils washed out from the hills after rains. One of my most interesting unconfirmed conclusions is that the Native Americans who once inhabited the area had also enjoyed these imprints and fossils and had incorporated them into their stone tools. I look forward to seeing and hearing from everyone and I’m eager to get some outside opinions.