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Carboniferous Welsh coal field teeth and lots more if I’m right
Ihopeitsnotarock posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone! if I could first stress I have been wrong about a lot of suspected finds so I’m hoping I’m not seeing things in the rock again!! I found these in a rubbish pile in work and assumed they could be coalfield fossils. If I’m wrong I apologise for wasting your time. There are a of these to get through If my suspicions are correct but I’ll start with 3 to see if im on the right track and refer to them as A,B, and C. I was told vertebrate fossils from the Carboniferous time period are rare so I wanted to make sure I haven’t got something that needs a more professional hand as some of them are very fragile and require stabilising and some TLC. I would also take any advice going please. Thank you so much in advance for any and all advice and opinions. subject A first 6 pics i believe to be a sharks tooth in a jaw (X2 I won’t insult you by hazarding a guess as to what species) subject B the next 6 pics i believe to be some form of icthyosaur tooth and there are loads more but just included 1 for now. subject c I believe to be part of an icthyosaur jaw. I am sorry if Ive wasted anyone’s time in the past and again if I have now but if vertebrate coal field fossils are important It’s worth the risk. There are around 2 bin bags full so I will happily make a donation if anyone is interested. let me know what you think please and I’l catalogue the lot after treating them. There are some larger pieces too which look very much like a skull. As I said I need help with them if they are fossils, and what to do about reporting them if required. hopefully they are not convenient water marks All the best
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Hi guys what do you think these are?
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Wondering what these are, i have some ideas but need your expert opinions, as always greatly appreciated
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Hello dear fellow forum members, I just acquíred what I believe to be a moulted piece of Arthropleura armor. The Information I got was "carboniferous near Saarbrücken, Germany". Can I assume that the species is A. armata then? Best regards, J
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From the album: Cory's Lane, Rhode Island Fossils
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hi guys , another one for you experts, i dont have a clue what this might be, hope you can help
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Need some help with identifying these specimens. Are they a fossil or not? Carboniferous fossils from RI
veenasaur posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey there!! I’m back with a few more pictures of my finds from Corys Lane in Rhode Island. Being a beginner I’m slowly getting a hang of fossil hunting but sometimes you always find some cool looking rocks that convince you otherwise and you hope they’re a fossil. So help me out to determine if these ones are maybe a fossil or just a cool find. Also this trip was very fun and the most productive so far. The weather was cloudy accompanied by a cool breeze, not too many people on the beach during low tide. Only a few fishing hobbyists very curious about what we had caught in our buckets. They were a bit confused when they saw that we caught rocks. We had a laugh about it and spent some time walking along the train tracks before calling it a day which is something I would highly recommend. TIA
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I just don't know what this thing is. It's from the Glenshaw Formation of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Some is below the matrix, but what is showing is about 1 cm top to bottom and 1.5 cm across. I believe it is Brush Creek Limestone and it looks like part of a fish spine to me. As always all help is appreciated. Thanks.
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I gathered these fern fossils from Cory’s lane in Rhode Island recently. Need some help with their identification. My guess is they look like Pecopteris but any more specific identification would definitely help.
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Hello! I think I've just about tapped out most of my local hunting spots. Yet a week ago I found a couple fossils that look like teeth. Please let me know what you think. They are 1.5 cm wide by 1 cm long, Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous), Glenshaw Formation and from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Help identifying a large fossil Ctenacanthiform Shark tooth from Late Pennsylvanian rocks in Illinois
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in Fossil ID
Sometimes it could be accurately said a fossil hunting trips most intriguing finds are discovered after bringing the fossils home. That's exactly what happened after my Sunday/August/19/2023 trip with @Tales From the Shale at some Late Pennsylvanian rock formations in Illinois. Lots of brachiopod, bryozoan, and pretty awesome Chondricthyan teeth were found on this trip. But it was at home that I accidentally uncovered a pretty remarkable find I would like help getting a Proper ID for. On Wednesday around 10:00PM EST, I decided to break open with a pretty large hammer some of the large rocks I collected to get rid of excess materials around the fossils. When I got to a brachiopod encrusted rock, I decided to split it down the middle to avoid damaging the top. As a precaution (which I'm super grateful now I still do) I always check the fragments with a flashlight to see if I missed something. This time, I checked extra hard and discovered a very fragmentary cladodont tooth tip!!! I was glad I found it, but kinda kicking myself knowing I may have accidentally smashed to bits the rest of the tooth (the tooth was not even remotely visible on the rock's surface and was hidden in the middle of the rock itself). Fortunately, I searched the surrounding fragments and found the rest of the tooth! I looked at and measured the cladodont tooth fragments more the next morning!! The tooth specimen is definitely from a pretty large Ctenacanthiform Shark! I think (based on the number of lateral cusps) it could be from a large Gilkmanius, but I'm not 100% sure!! What do you guys think? @connorp @deutscheben @Tales From the Shale What do you think?
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Mazon Creek Formation (Fossil Identified) Lepidostrobophyllum
TheGoblinKing posted a topic in Fossil ID
My great grandfather majorly shaped who I am today by getting me introduced to biology, paleontology, and earth sciences at a young age. He left me with many fossils that he had gone out and found himself, picking about in the Mazon Creek Formation of the Carboniferous. Among the ferns and leaves I had found this one, it looks a lot like a negative impression of an invert to me, although I could also see it being a leaf impression. I'm pretty immature so I'd appreciate any help, thank you
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Help identifying some fossil brachiopods, bryozoan, and Chondrichthyans from Late Pennsylvanian rocks in Illinois
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in Fossil ID
On Sunday/August/19/2023, myself and @Tales From the Shale went fossil hunting at some Late Pennsylvanian rock formations in Illinois! It was a pretty productive trip! We found lots of brachiopod fossils and an awesome amount of Chondrichthyian fossils! There are some fossils though that I'm a bit confused on their exact ID and I would like help identifying them? I put and photographed some of these specimens under a microscope and dissecting scope to help with species/genera identification. Here are the various and pretty awesome specimens from the trip I would like help Identifying: Unknown Specimen 1 (A Posible and partial Ctenacanthiform tooth) Unknown Specimen 2 (A Peripristis tooth but not 100% sure of exact species ID) Unknown specimen 3 (I think either Deltodus or another type of Petalodontid) Unknown specimen 4 (@Tales From the Shale helped me identify it as a bryozoan, but I forgot what type/genera he said it was (though he said it was pretty rare), I found at least 2 specimens of this type on this trip) Unknown Specimen 5 (Found on the same piece of matrix rock as Unknown Specimen 4, I'm not 100% sure what it is) Unknown Specimen 6 (some other type of bryozoan, I have no idea what could be it's exact ID) Unknown Specimen 7 (Found on the same piece of matrix rock as Unknown Specimen 6, some other type of bryozoan but I have no idea what could be it's exact ID) Unknown Specimen 8 (some other type of bryozoan, I have no idea what could be it's exact ID) Unknown Specimen 9 (A Possible small Petalodus tooth) Unknown Specimen 10 (A Possible small Deltodus tooth)
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I was walking in a sandstone quarry in south wales when the following suspected fossils caught my eye. The last pics of the black fossils are from a wall in work. I suspect the same animal to be the culprit. Any input would be greatly appreciated thanks!!!
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Hello everyone! I've been inspired by so many good Mazon Creek topics in this forum, I thought I would start my own. I'll post my own finds, which so far don't include anything as exotic as a Tully Monster, but maybe I'll get lucky on page 134 or so... I have to credit my kids with getting me interested in fossil collecting. I was always interested in rocks and fossils but when my 10 year old son had his dinosaur phase it really sparked my interest again. I wondered if an ordinary person like me could go out and find fossils? So I Googled fossil collecting and found out that not only could I search on my own, one of the world's best sites for amateurs was just 3 hours away! The date I discovered Mazon Creek existed was 9/10/2017. I know that date because earlier in the day was the last ESCONI trip to the Braceville spoil pile for the year - I just missed it! So in May 2018 I finally went on that trip and was hooked. Since then I've gone to Braceville several times, the I&M Canal trip once, and a handful of trips on my own into Pit 11. I want to thank too many people to list for helping me learn about this new hobby. Everyone I've met on the field trips has been so friendly and helpful. And if you have posted something about Mazon Creek on this forum, I've read it. Special thanks to Nimravis for his Sometimes You Have To Whack It thread, which he started the day after my first trip to Mazon Creek - it has taught me so much and I'm so impressed at what a genuinely nice person he is. And Andrew Bach's book from his American Fossil Hunt site is wonderful, so so helpful. With that, onto the fossils (and lots of questions from me). I thought to start I would show some of my jellyfish, all Essexella asherae, I believe. I find it interesting that they are all so different, although they tend to fall into various "types" - some have a distinct "head", others are just faint outlines, some are just cylindrical shapes. #1-3 below are all from Pit 11 - the first two have a distinct head and the other is more cylindrical. For anyone who hasn't heard of Mazon Creek, these fossils are found in siderite concretions from the mid-Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period, from roughly 305-310 mya. Cheers! Chris
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This afternoon I headed to Cory’s Lane for some digging. I unfortunately completely forgot about the tide, but thankfully it wasn’t very high when I arrived. A group of four was already there, and they said they didn’t find much “except for maybe a piece of grass.” The shale is very crumbly and oily, and virtually blank most of the time, so my hopes were not very high. I did find some decent, albeit very badly preserved ferns. Identification of these is very much welcomed, as I don’t know much about these. Rhode Island Formation, partially metamorphosed. My first find, Crenulopteris? Weird fern that was at a different angle to the bedding planes. Very badly preserved. A decent fern. Another I think of the same species, split from the first block. Some weird rusty things. Macrospores? The day’s haul. It was quite fun, the shale did split easily, it was just quite dirty and greasy. I should return again at a later time and hopefully find better material.
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From the album: Plants
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I'm happy to announce i possibly found the most complete Listracanthus to date. And we may finally get a proper ID for this strange creature. I thought this was regurgitation, but while prepping i believe i ran into cartilage. So i will stop prepping and give this to a professional, or at least let someone with more experience look at this. Unfortunately the rest is in a giant wall of black shale that i won't be able to get back to until next Spring/Summer. The denticles are up to 6mm thick and associated with smaller denticles. I will get more pictures under a scope when i get a chance. God willing i will recover the rest of this creature in 2019. Happy hunting! Possible cartilage
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Iwent to a new carboniferous hunt today with a very nice Lepidodendron cone,Eusphenopteris,Mariopteris and Pecopteris in the bucket nice day
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Now the area I've been fossil hunting is carboniferous Pennsylvanian but another timeline might be there due to the petrified wood. But won't know anything till geoscientist gets back to me on results. My first guess was a calamite fossil but now unsure. The neat part is whole fossil is iron preserved way. Next thing was the oddities in the fossil itself I couldn't add up for a simple calamite looking fossil. It probably is just a calamite but need to double check and maybe it's just a specific area of a calamite? Let me know thanks.
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This is a little oddity I found today. It looks like coprolite to me based on shape and detail. I think it's from a fish rather than a creature. Opinions?
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The first Palaeozoic spider (order Araneae) from Germany
paleoflor posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
L.S., It has been almost four years since I found an unidentified arachnid fossil in the Westphalian D (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany. The little critter received a warm welcome here on TFF, being awarded the July 2019 IPFOTM and later even given the honour of 2019 IPFOTY. At the time, I was happy to announce that the specimen had gone to dr. Jason Dunlop of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (an expert on fossil arachnids) for further study. Today, I'm thrilled to give another update! Yesterday, the detailed study by dr. Dunlop culminated in a really nice open-access publication in PalZ, which can be downloaded HERE. The Piesberg-fossil turns out to be a new species and the first "true spider" from the Palaeozoic of Germany (so a spider from the order Araneae as opposed to early spider-lookalike arachnid groups such as the trigonotarbids or phalangiotarbids). The fossil (now a holotype) has been donated to the Museum für Naturkunde, where it is conserved under repository number MB.A. 4298. This has been a great experience, as I learned a great deal about arachnids and spiders and spinnerets along the way. Hope you'll enjoy reading dr. Dunlop's paper as much as I did! Kind regards, Tim Reconstruction of Arthrolycosa wolterbeeki Dunlop 2023 Reference: Dunlop, J.A. (2023) The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany, PalZ, published online 16 July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00657-7
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Hi. We recently underwent some renovations on our house and after wiping off plaster dust on our fireplace slate slab, the following prints were discovered. These are depressions and not handprints from oily skin. The slate slab, more than likely, came from Vermont. My research suggests that slate takes around 300M years to form. Any thoughts on what creature may have created such prints? It is difficult to chalk the prints up to random coincidence, yet the time period for slate to form would suggest early tetrapods. Has anyone found similar prints? Does anyone have any thoughts on what it might be? Appreciate the feedback. Luis
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