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Help with Bone ID and Turtle Shell, nice shark teeth photos
hokietech96 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi. Miss everyone. Hope all well. It’s been way too long. Went out twice last month in northern NJ. Felt so good to be out in the creeks in nature and get away from all the life snarge. Two finds I need help with and some nice teeth I found. Hope everyone is well. Miss everyone! -
The pictures are bad, besides it is an opal, which was probably photographed wet. However, maybe you would be able to suggest something by its shape? It is from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Thanks!
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Hello - This is my first post here. When I first saw this, I immediately thought it might be a tooth or some sort but dismissed it as a rock once it dried. I took a closer look the other day and noticed it did have spongy bone like texture at the ridges, and under magnification I noticed more bone like characteristics. I can't find anything like this shape anywhere. None of the teeth I've seen have roots like this, and there aren't any claws that have such a big bulbous end. Although it looks like a tooth, I don't see any straight lines/enamel like textures. This was found at a beach in Santa Cruz, Ca. This measures 4" long x 3" wide and 2" thick. It is very symmetrical. The pics represent this fossil both wet and dry to see various details. Any assistance is very much appreciated. THANK YOU!
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I found this concretion with something inside, looks like half of a nodule with something bone alike. Found it while sifting for Miocene shark teeth in a clay quarry in the Antwerp region in Belgium. I think the gravel i'm sifting is Pleistocene with reworked Miocene as i've found pieces of Mammoth bark in it as well. This piece leaves me clueless tho.. The concretion measures 9cm x 5cm sorry about the poor quality pics, that's the best i can get out of my smartphone... Thx!
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Recently found this quite large and heavy (piece of) bone by the Schelde river shores in Antwerp, Belgium. Most pieces that wash up here are Mio/Pliocene but actually most Neogene layers are represented in the area as well as Pleistocene and more recent. I'm thinking whale because of the size, but honestly i don't have a clue. Measurements are 22cm x 10cm x 5cm thanks in advance! Dries
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Hi! I found this bone this morning in Ramanessin Brook, Monmouth County, NJ and was hoping to get ID. I also have photo to show the teeth I found as well. Thanks a lot for your help.
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Hello, This specimen comes from the Pennsylvanian Period of Allegheny County, PA. It is from the Glenshaw Formation and is probably Brush Creek Limestone. The texture appears to be bone. Thanks for the help.
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Hi, I found this in Barstow, CA, south of Rainbow Basin, in a wash, on private land. I have been told this is fossilized palm root and also a bone fossil. I'm hoping with the attached images, someone can confirm which one it is. I am relatively confident this is not, simply, a rock. This is heavier than any rock of similar size, sticks to my tongue a bit on the open side. Under UV light, the piece fluoresces orange and a deeper orange/red. Thank you!!
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Hello! I found this possible fossil in Omaha, Nebraska in Ponca Hills. I went out to my chicken run and found this nestled on the surface of the ground. Please let me know what you think. Thank you!
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Found this digging in the sand at rollover pass texas. It's very heavy and I have never seen anything like it. I have found wild hog, camel and horse bones but this doesn't look anything like them. I used Google lens and it wasn't much help. Can anyone help?
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Hello everyone. I'm a collector from MS. I have a fossil that I believe is a vertebra but not sure of what.
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Would love to gain some insight on these bones I recently found on an exposed river bank (east Texas) after a few weeks of heavy rain. Note: Vertebrae specimen measures approx 3x3.5 inches. Also wondering how ya'll differentiate between fossilized bone and modern bone specimens? Can modern bones change in appearance/feel and be confused with fossilized bone due to exposure to various elements? Thank you!
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Hi Everyone, I am completely new to the forum but have loved fossils since I was a kid holidaying on the Jurassic Coast in the UK. I was searching for potential fossil sites in the Netherlands and went to Zandmotor (Den Haag, Netherlands) hoping to discover a complete Mammouth Skull. Sadly this hasn't happened yet, but I found numerous interesting finds (which I photographed below). My girlfriend and I have managed to identify most of them however I am having trouble identifying the second picture of the (brown pointed pieces). I think they could be fossilised wood (they look wooden to me but then part of me thinks they could be bone - ribs perhaps). Of course, they could just be nothing at all. My Girlfriend's 9-year-old daughter now has to know what they are, so I thought I would ask some experts. I would love any input on this as this is not something I have encountered before. Any help would be gratefully received. Many thanks in advance Mickey
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Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Help with finds from Charmouth, Dorset, UK
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Greetings, I have 4 pieces from Charmouth on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset that I am having trouble identifying. They were found during a fossil hunt led by the Charmouth Heritage Coast Center when they brought us to a stretch of beach between the Centre and Black Ven to the west. We would have been looking through the Black Ven Mudstone 'Shales with Beef' portion on the foreshore, which is from the Jurassic (no surprise, given the name of the area) period. Here are my best guesses: A = rolled bone, B = crinoid stem or coral, C = multiple bivalves and ammonite impression in matrix, D (the unlabelled one) = wood As always, corrections/confirmations/clarifications are much appreciated, as is your time for reading my post! -
Found this bone in the Kansas river on 2-18-24. 2-3 inches long. Was found near the Shawnee riverfront park in the sandbars. River is currently pretty low.
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This was found recently on South Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. It looks like a bone but the curvature is more pronounced than what we usually find. It also has one end with more of a point. Any insight appreciated
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A surface find in an Upper Cretaceous area of northwestern New Mexico, about 3 1/2 inches tall, 5 inches wide and long.
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This is a re-submission of my post from Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 with the addition of a short video of the specimen. The photos just didn't make as much sense since it was hard to follow orientation. The bone was a surface find in northwestern New Mexico and is about 5 inches wide, and 3-1/2 inches tall. 20240216_133319.mp4
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