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Found on the bay while vacationing near Cape May NJ. Possibly identification was a stromatopotoid sponge fossil. I was also curious what the spherical structure imbedded could be. Thank you!

Found this tooth 7/19 on beach in water, Cape May, New Jersey. Sunset Beach on Delaware Bay/ Atlantic Ocean. Need help with ID and authenticity. Thank You.

Hi all, I was looking over some finds from Sunset Beach when I reexamined this and thought it looked organic. Sticks to my tongue, feels relatively heavy. Is this a fossil bone? Sunset Beach is awesome and I definitely recommend the visit, especially before the shipwreck is fully lost to the sea. Fossils seem really rare there, but the colorful quartz and minerals polished by waves make up for it.

Hello everyone, I apologise in advance for the lower quality photos, my phone is quite old and the camera is going. Anyways, I was down in Cape May this past weekend and I decided to beach comb on sunset beach. i found several interesting items, and I was wondering if I can get some input regarding what they are. The first two images seem to be a similar type of fossil (if it is one). I am wondering if it could potentially be Paleozoic (if anything?). However, I am not sure exactly what it is, nor the material that it is made of. The third image I think could be coral, but I am not sure what type or how old given that it is out of context but any info would be appreciated. The last two images involve an interesting one. Now, for context, I have a background in Paleoecology and Taphonomy, and have had to id thousands of bones that date back as far as the Pliocene. While this could undoubtedly be a rock, (it always can!). However, for me...it really, really, looked like water rolled bone. In the last image, you can see that it is quite porous (in a way that looks more like cancelous bone) and the rock in itself is quite light. If it is bone, it would be quite old...but still, i am undoubtedly open minded that I could be wrong and it could just be a rock! What do you think? Anyways, thank you so much for taking a look!

Heya~! I recently returned from a trip to Cape May, NJ and spent most of my trip on Sunset and Higbee beach picking through the rocks and shells looking for cool stuff. I really want to get into rock hounding/fossil collecting, but I didn't really know what I was looking at so I just grabbed a bunch of stuff that I thought looked neat or interesting. I'm really happy with my haul but I was wondering if any of you nice folks could tell me if I have anything of particular interest? This photo has two that I'm sure are coral fossils, but I don't know what species. The other things looked interesting but I'm not familiar enough with types of rocks to know if any of them are something special or just a cool looking weather worn rock: In this photo, I have some that I thought may be fossils, or that at least had interesting patterns on them: In particular I thought these 3 seemed interesting: Lastly, a few with cool patterns on them. I don't think any of these are fossils but I was wondering if some of these may be petrified wood or something else interesting? Bonus! Rocks, shells, and sea glass that I just thought looked neat! I don't necessarily need an ID on these unless you see something of interest; just wanted to share~! I'm not expecting anything to be mind blowing but if anyone is able to help me identify some of these, or point me towards resources I could use to do it myself, I'd really appreciate it! Like I said I'm very new to all of this so I'm not totally sure what I'm looking at. Really, any help at all is SUPER appreciated. Thanks in advance! PS: I can definitely take more angles of some if you need! I had so many that I didn't want to take pictures of all of them.

Hello, I found this while looking for fossils/artifacts along the Jersey shore. Does anyone know what it might be? Strange concretion?, fossil?, thanks for looking. Bill

Hi everyone! My kids and I came across this while walking and looking at rocks on sunset beach in Cape May. Anyone have any idea what it is?

Hello everyone, I recently found this at Sunset Beach in Cape May and do not know what it is. Any help is appreciated.

Hi everyone, My niece found this item in Cape May NJ. During the years, I have found many Bryozoan pieces as well as many Tabulata and Rugosa. She thinks its a tooth... to me it looks like a colony of horn (Rugosa) corals.... what do you think? Thanks Pedro

After waking up to snow in our yard back home in Massachusetts my wife and I are enjoying a week of great fall weather on our New Jersey vacation. Since nobody in their right mind would vacation without a bit of fossil hunting we threw a few shovels and sifters in the car before we left and stuffed a pile of ziploc bags into our suitcases. We waded through Big Brook yesterday and made few finds, though not as much as we had hoped. I'll post these soon. We spent the previous day at Cape May, enjoying the warm weather strolling along a sandy beach near Cape May lighthouse ... ... and picking through the surf-tumbled stones of Sunset Beach. We found one large coral on the sandy beach and several water-worn corals among the rounded stones of Sunset Beach. While there are Pleistocene formations offshore, I believe these corals are from a much earlier period and transported later by glacial activity and runoff. Correct me if I'm wrong. Just off the beach sits the wreck of the SS Atlantus, a concrete ship built at the end of WWI and later grounded by a storm as it was being towed to Cape May in 1926. There's not much of it left anymore.

I was at Cape May NJ recently right before the Labor Day holiday for a couple of days. managed to squeeze in some time looking for stuff on the beaches. One day we were at the beach in Cape May and another day we were at Higbee Beach for a couple of hours until the biting flies chased us off. I found a few things, nothing major. I did find a really interesting shell that has what looks like plant impressions on the inside of the shell.