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First time fossil hunting. Are these anything? Found in Big Brook Preserve, NJ
Noodleslurp posted a topic in Fossil ID
I just started learning about fossils and fossil hunting. Both of these were found in Big Brook. I think the larger one might be a deer bone? I'm not sure if the smaller one is even a fossil. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Hi Everyone! I'm new to the site. I have been fossil hunting for just over a year. I would love if you could help Identify these 3 pieces. I labeled them with numbers and letters to help keep track of them. Thanks in advance for your insight.
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Hi, So I recently went fossil hunting in Big Brook New jersey and I found these 2 objects. I'm not sure what they are. They could be rocks but they didn't look like it to me. I would love to know if these are just rocks or something more. thank you
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Hello all, The following photos are from my most recent trip to Big Brook, NJ. For anyone unfamiliar with Big Brook, it contains late cretaceous fossils (approximately 65 million years old). From my understanding in descriptions of formations, I recovered these from the Mt. Laurel formation. I have made better finds than this, but I wanted to share this due to its recency and the fact that I had found my favorite tooth (so far). The first Image is everything I've found, which includes mackerel (C. appendiculata), goblin, and crow shark teeth (S. pristodontus). I remember at least one S. kaupi, though it is difficult to see the enamel notch in the photo I took. In the lower right corner are an Enchodus petrosus (salmonoid) fang (in rough shape) and an Anomaeodus phasolus (early drum fish) crusher plate. Above the salmon fang are two snail shell casts and a partial cast of a snail shell. The top right corner of the overview has a mammalian tooth, not fossilized. The land in the area was once used as farmland, so that tooth may or may not be related to that. The second picture is a Cretolamna appendiculata tooth (my favorite kind of mackerel shark tooth), and the third a close up of it. The close-up was taken by using a jeweler's loupe to view more detail. The last picture is the snail shell next to a dime for scale. My sources for identification are: Joe Cocke's "Fossil Shark Teeth of the World: A Collector's Guide" (used for the Shark teeth) and NJfossils.net (for cross reference for shark teeth identification, and non-shark fossils). If anyone has any clarifications or corrections for me I am always open to learning. If I have the time I'll do a "year in review post" of some of my best finds to share with everyone. Thanks for viewing. Happy to participate in the community. - Steve
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·Big Brook, NJ, USA ·Panned fr brook bottom w marl+ ·Miocene form. overlaps Late Cretaceous? .Attach: images of 2 fossils .(found pre-2020) I assume these (3+1) fossils may be from the "same" species, two diff. animals? No outstanding horizontal/diagonal "veins" from the prominent central ridges. Rookie request to ID b4 summer trip to c Dr. Parris, NJ St. Museum, Trenton. Thx
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Found this in August of this year in Big Brook NJ. What is it?
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Hello, I'm new to the group and to the world of fossils. My husband and I recently took a trip to Big Brook NJ and found some interesting items, but we are ignorant in this field and are unsure what they could be. Any help to ID them would be greatly appreciated, even if it turns out they are not fossils. We are hoping to go to another site in a couple of weeks. It is really neat and I think this might turn into a really cool pastime for us. Thanks!
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Hi, I'm new here. I am an amateur collector. I found these two bones in Big Brook NJ and I'm really excited. Can anyone shed some light?
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So I found this in a stream in New Jersey. Fossil shark teeth are common, along with Mosasaurs teeth, although they are less common. Dinsosaur bones are a rare occurance in this location. I think it is a Mosasaur tooth fragment and it’s large size (probably over 2 inches if complete) would put it in the range of Mosasaurs hoffmani, a species that has been found in the area but is very rare. It could also be a bone of some sort and not a tooth at all. I was hoping someone with more knowledge on the subject could shed some light on this find.
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Hello my name is Andrew Fredericks. I am 14 (turning 15 on July 29th) and live in New York. I’ve loved extinct life all my life, but I only started collecting fossils a little over a year ago. Last summer I spent my money made from mowing lawns to buy fossils online (something I wanted to do for a long time). The prize piece of my collection is 5.51 inch Megalodon tooth that cost $250. This summer I went fossil hunting myself for the first time with my mom at the Mahantango formation (PA) and again at Big Brook (NJ). The reason I started an account here is because I think I found something quite rare at Big Brook NJ. I think I found a Mosasaurs tooth fragment, however it is 2 inches long and could be close to 3 inches if complete. I did some research and apparently this is really big for a Mosasaur, and fits the bill for Moasaurus maximus/hoffmami, which can be found in the area albeit very rarely. So I figured I’d use the forum as a starting place to identify what I hope is a rare fossil.
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among the norm I found today,some teeth,partial mosasaur tooth,drum fish tooth,fangs,and saw fish, if anyone has any input on pics 2/3 and 4/5 bottom and top pics...don't know if fragments of something or nothing,,,any help? thanks
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Hello all, Went fossil hunting in Big Brook NJ recently and found what appears to be a small section of vertebra and what I think is a coprolite (not sure though, never found a coprolite before). Any conformation of this would be helpful and if anyone knows what type of bone I found that would be interesting to know. Thanks! Here's a different angle on the bone.
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I'm assuming first is a shark vert, amy help on species or size of shark? and also not sure what the second item is...thanks
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This one my wife found....unsure if we have something here or what....thanks
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I'm assuming its a worn crow tooth......just looks a lot different then all my others,,,
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is this a ray tooth and scute and also any help on what appears to be a tooth......
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well the collection is growing as picture shows.....today along with a few nice teeth added to the picture are a couple questions...........
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please if you guys could help id thank you....
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Please help identify the attached finds. Thanks! I hope to learn much from this forum!
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Thanks to all for the help! The outer two seem to look like fossilized teeth.
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Some additional finds that I hope someone can identify Thanks!
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Thanks for the help!
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