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Following up on a recent trip report of mine from Big Brook with some unknown fossils. No experience in this area form me, help is greatly appreciated. Tried to approximate as well as I could 1. has these surface striations that do not appear to be patterns, rounded on one end. My hope is coprolite. 2. has one similar striation across the middle. Bottom of this specimen looks like it has been sharpened to a point Pretty unsure about all of these, but all of them have some surface marking/feature that show it is a fossil. 7. very weathered but appears to be a tooth 8 & 9. Appear to almost fit together, a feature like a straight line runs down the side of these pieces 10. smooth, but comes to a point on the ends, not sure if this is a fossil 12-14. Rock or bone fossil?
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I want to show you some rare small opalised fossils. they are from Lightning Ridge NSW Australia
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Hi , i am showing some strange opalised fossils I have little clues about what they are. the first one on the right it’s opal replacing what ever ? on the left I splited that rock and it look like in the center a type of Gypsum ! The next picture i think it’s a pieces of coral , so rare we can see a tiny white eggs in stony opalised coral preserved next picture, just splited opal next picture it look like a Dinosaur opalised toes bones. the last picture split opal
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We are western New Yorkers but with family in Texas ~2 hours from the North Sulfur river we decided to go fossil hunting. We hired a guide for the first time and fit one more trip in before coming home. The guide was super nice and gave us a number of his finds and we ended up with mosasaur vertebrae, a camel toe bone, fossil wood, exogyra shells, etc. I have some questions. In the 1st and 3rd pics, #1 is an unknown to me. The brown area is shiny like the enamel of 2,3,4. Our guide gave us 2&3 explaining that 2 is mammoth and 3 is mastodon. I found 4 and it is similar to 3. Are there a great differences in how bits of enamel look? Is mastodon enamel always thicker and is 2 a random shape or not. 5,6,7, 10 are unknowns. Does someone know what type of bivalve 8 & 9 might be? In picture #4 do all of the pieces look like fossil wood? There is an end shot of the piece with the pink on top and I wondered if it could be palm wood and is it possible to know what other types of wood are found in this river? I am guessing that the teeth in the next pic are from cows not bison just because they look newer. Is that reasonable to assume and maybe not big enough? in the 2nd pic, the largest bone is mosasaur. It has layers that I wondered about and is that a common presentation? The smaller bones don’t look like the mosasaur bones we have. Can you say by looking at them that they are not? Thank you for taking the time to look at all of these. Patti
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Hi all, I thought I see if there were any hunches on these three bones I found in Lance formation sediment from Weston, WY. I'm posting them together because they all were pieces I thought at one point were frill/osteoderm/surface bone because of a veiny side, but then the opposite side has cavities that seem like skull or something. Please let me know if they resemble anything to you. Thanks! 1 2 3
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A few rare opalised bones A Hornithopod Dinosaur cervical vertebrae from Lightning Ridge A small bone from Lightning Ridge A Belemnite and fish cartilage next to it embedded in matrix from Coober Pedy Three bones from Plesiosaur in Matrix opal from Andamooka A precious opal belemnite A plesiosaur femur ball joints was treated matrix opal A Dinosaur Limb bone splited internal bone marrow in precious opal Ornithopod bones
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Not sure what it is. Found in north central Florida. 2 1/2” long 3/4” width 2” diameter at the thickest point. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Need some help with these, but I think I know the answer already
Bone Daddy posted a topic in Fossil ID
I had two oddballs here. I don't think either can be authoritatively identified due to their incomplete nature and my chronically-subpar photos. But, I figured if anyone could ID them, that person is in this forum somewhere. So please have a look and let me know what you think. One appears to be part of a skull and the other is a tiny piece of jawbone. I thought the jaw was a shark tooth at first and then I noticed the teeth sockets. Maybe it's something small like a rat or pocket gopher? Any help would be appreciated.
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New to the group, need your help. I found these items March 11th at Edisto Beach, South Carolina. I'm hoping my pictures are good enough to ID what I found. Each square on the grid is 5mm. Thanks in advance!
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Hi guys, I was digging in my backyard and found a lot of bones (at approximately 40-50cm). I think it’s from a wild boar but I really want to know if that is correct. 100 years ago my backyard was a Forrest en most likely a place for hunting thanks! (i hope this topic is in the right place)
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Here are a few more finds from sifting. #1
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I'm going to need ids as I go through this sediment here are some things to start
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Hello, everyone! I went hunting along the North Sulphur River yesterday (before today’s nasty weather), and I found some fossils and what I am almost positive is an artifact. Could someone please help with IDs, if possible? Pictures #1 and #2 are of the same bone; I found the circular striations in the 2nd picture particularly intriguing. #7 (the artifact) is broken at the base and is fairly thick at the point where it is broken.
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Hi all - as I was looking along a stretch of creek in Northeast Austin, TX today, I saw a section with a bunch of bones eroding out of the creekside. I’m not sure how to tell if they are something fossilized or old and worth looking at, or just modern bones of some animal that somehow got buried in the strata. The loose piece I picked up did feel pretty lightweight, but other than that I couldn’t tell much. Any ideas if these are fossils or recently deposited bones, and what they might be? Thanks!
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This was found in my backyard in Waco, Texas. Its heavy, has petroglyphs and bones. Looks like a human skull. Strangest thing is there is piece of metal embedded in it.
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Hello dear fellow forum members, I have been offered a bundle of bones and teeth from one of the formations subsumed under "kem kem", although the more blackish ones seem to be of a different preservation than the "classic". There are quite some interesting pieces in there, amongst some turtle bones I think. I would be grateful for any hints on ID you can give me. first some of the tentative turtles.
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Hi, I would like to buy this fossil, but I don’t know if it is a real fossil because I am not expert, it is a spinosaurus claw. can you please help me ? thank you very much
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Hello again forum! Remember that bucket “goodie bag” I took home from the torn up Post Oak Creek a few months ago? I finally went through it and found some excellent stuff! (Im actually wow’d with some of this stuff because I’m just an amateur!) Surprisingly- I found tons of other stuff that ARENT shark teeth for once! I grabbed a 5 quart bucket and took a big shovel scoop of gravel/mud from various parts of the entrance of the creek where the construction was and some from the first sandbar. Im working on an educational frame display I might actually eventually donate (there IS a massive park being built there for tourism !) and wanted to label found bones correctly. You’d think because I come here SO often I’d be an expert at the finds here but I’m not a real paleontologist or biologist, just an outdoorsy lass who can find fossils and loves learning about ancient animals. I tried my best to ID some of these finds myself, however I just found myself stuck and not very confident with IDing these bones. Because there’s so many mammal remains found here as well I wanted to ask you guys for help- and give me pointers how to ID cretaceous reptile bone, fish bone, and mammal bones. (Teach this woman to fish metaphorically. ) Unfortunately my bone finds are worn and some are tumbled fragments which make it harder for a novice like me. Any help appreciated, and happy to learn! Post Oak Creek is in Sherman, Texas. Cretaceous, Eagle Ford and theres also “Ice Age” fossils and even more recent fossils found here too. Everything here I can confirm is fossilized and very much stone. I also added in 3 bones from last trip than need ID’d plus a few other cool things. ***I took a TON of pictures and have to load them on seperate posts-please be patient! I will add captions to them all as well so wait until I post “Done!” Sorry for super dry hands. The process! The Finds: all spread out! Ruler is in MM (milimeters). I labeled them by letters and there’s some bonus things in there to ID! These are the bones Im most curious about! (More photos below) These are more recent fossils, I feel confident at least that G, I, & J are turtle shells. No idea about H or K but might also be turtle? M & L look and feel lighter but are still very much stone- maybe mammals. Someone already helped me ID that N and O are fragments of mammoth teeth but what the heck is P!? Could it be a pig tooth or even…human!? * Bonus Round! * ?1 I think is the tiniest ptychodus tooth ever! I have no idea of the species however it’s probably one of the tony teeth in the outtermost bottom part of the jaw (the teenie long ones!) ?2 I think is some sort of spine? It almost reminds me of a belemnite or sea urchin spine. Its definitely organic and not man-made. ?3 I THINK I FOUND A NATIVE AMERICAN CLAY BEAD! I find a few of these every once in a while there, usually small. Are these little Cretaceous sponges?
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Possible Minuscule Vertebra from the Woodbine of Denton County, Texas
Aidan Campos posted a topic in Fossil ID
I would really appreciate suggestions on the ID of this microfossil (vertebra?) from a portion of what appears to be a coprolite originating from the Woodbine Group (Cenomanian) of Denton County, Texas, USA.
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Hello. I found these on a Croatian island - they don't strike me as one of their regular Jurassic finds, as it appears to be more inside a fault of petrified red soil amidst the abundant limestone. They look kinda "new". Can anyone tell me what they are? I found them on two locations. Not a geologist, so no idea. Whale and other large marine life bones? Polished by the sea? After some seizmic event?
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When I go home to Venice, FL I love to look for teeth and fossils. here is some of what I found I either can’t identify or desire validation! thank you 68426771997__5583E755-C0FD-4396-A04A-2F9E53A72A4A.MOV 68426792269__A09ADDCB-E33C-4D7F-88C4-CF73B34B434D.MOV 68426811878__150BA012-C156-445C-AD0D-BD3797AA4993.MOV 68426832807__D54E3555-54E4-468C-8970-64518085AFF6.MOV 68426858651__539C17A0-7384-474E-AC0F-B69A84A6B412.MOV
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spent 3-4 hours and got a decent haul!
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Hello TFF, I'm very curious about these two tiny bones. Does anyone recognize them? Thank you very much . Ps. Sorry for the samples being between my fingers, but it was the best way to solve the excessive reflection. Nº1 Nº2
