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I wanted to join the squad of great Mazon ID threads we have had in the last week. These two were found split on my opening day trip to Mazonia-Braidwood/Pit 11. I only found half of the first one. It doesn't look like much, and it may be nothing, but its worth asking! The second one was split, but both halves were present. It is much more clearly something, but I'm not sure what, as there are not any clear features, although it is preserved with good definition and a nice contrasting color.

we've aften seen this buckhorn shape stuff a lot . cannot help asking what it might be, branch or root of some genus. it is Later-Carboniferous-Early Permian stratum. the scale is cm-mm.

As some of you will know i have been showing some of my uncommon find from my years of collecting from opencasts in Derbyshire,UK. This find is from the coal measures and is in coal shale that produced fish teeth , fish scales and bivalves it is 18mm long 5mm wide. I have posted it before along time ago can you give me your opinions of what you think it is Thank-you. 18mm x 5mm Cheers John

I took a much needed break this morning and went fossil hunting for a couple of hours. I decided that I wanted to go back to the same water eroded hill that I made a quick stop at the other day. It rained last night, so the place was a muddy mess, but I had a good time and it took my mind off of things. It's supposed to rain here for the next 2-3 days. Can't wait to see what else is revealed afterwards. I'll stop in again. Preferably after it dries out for a couple of days. Here are pictures of the hillside that I have been working. The red clay is littered with rocks and fossils that have been weathered and washed out of the hill by runoff. Fragments of the rugose coral Acrocyathus floriformis litter the ground. Thanks to @Jeffrey P for help with the ID! Unless you look 5 feet one way or the other... The next picture was taken 5 feet away from the spot in the above pic. It seems that the fossils were very localized. I made multiple stops at different hills like this in the same area. I found 1 other that had a good amount of fossils in a small section. Most were fossil barren, or had very few. Still, there was plenty to keep me entertained. When I took a gander past the coral fragments, I was able to find a few more gastropods. The biggest thing I had to watch out for was my own pareidolia. The geology of the area can really trick you if you are not careful. There are also more modern evidence of creatures, and some areas where fill rock has been brought in; presumably to help with erosion. Below are a few things I had to look out for... Here are a bunch of eroded limestone fragments mixed in with coral fragments. They can definitely trick the eyes at first glance. Coral/Bryozoan fragments, or water eroded and shaped limestone? Unfortunately, limestone. At first glance I thought I was seeing the internal structure of a coral colony. Maybe a tabulate coral? Nope. Another look alike. A modern gastropod. Once I got home I cleaned the mud off with water and a soft brush. Not a bad haul for a few hours. I took quite a few pieces of coral. Some I will give to my son, some will go in my collection, and maybe, just maybe, some will end up in an auction lot to support the forum (once all this virus stuff blows over). I'm actually sorting through my collection and will hopefully have more to add to the auction pile, but that's a discussion for a different thread. Towards the end of the hunt I was on the lookout for anything branching, or that resembled a coral colony. I was hoping to find a relatively complete coral head, but alas luck was not with me. I was still able to find some nice pieces though. Here are some of the better ones with multiple coralites. A few gastropod steinkerns. This one I really liked. It's a little over a centimeter in height, and still stuck in the matrix. And last, but not least... I always pick up a few geological pieces that catch my eye. My twin is more of a rock hound so I always let him take a look. If he doesn't want them. The "cool rocks" go to my son. If all that fails, I have a "cool rock shelf" that gets the left overs. That's it for now. I had an enjoyable time today that gave me a much needed break from all the happenings in the world. It was nice to dig in the mud and forget my troubles for a few hours.

I found this fossil in a County Mayo in Ireland. I looked over a geology map of the locality and best I could deduce is that this maybe from the Carboniferous. Any thoughts?

With all of the recent field trip reports being posted I have been that I haven't been able to get out there yet myself. The weather has been warmer than usual, but it’s also been rainy. Today I had very little time, but on my way home from giving my father-in-law a helping hand, I was able to make a quick stop at a local Mississippian site that is 5 minutes from my house. I believe it is St. Louis Limestone, but need to verify. I was only at the site for 20 minutes or so, but I picked up a handful of things. I didn’t get any pictures from the field as I was in a rush, but a few of the finds are below. I’ve known about this spot for a while, but it’s the first time I have stopped there. I think that’s because when I get a chance to go hunting I want to go to a place that it a little farther away since I have the extra time. I have been telling myself “It’s close. I can stop there any time...” I finally took the time, albeit a short amount, and I’m glad I did. The site is a low road cut. Well... it’s more of a water eroded slope on the side of the road than an actual cut. Little bed rock is exposed, except fragments mixed in with the soil from erosion. The dirt in the area is locally called red clay. With the recent rains, it was very muddy and the red clay tends to stain whatever it touches. You can see a reddish orange hue to the fossils. This was after a cleaning with water and a brush. I haven’t had a chance to try and ID these yet, so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to throw them out there! The area is littered with pieces of this rugose coral. This picture of a calice is a little more out of focus than I realized, but you get the idea... EDIT: Swapped the out of focus picture with one that is a little less fuzzy. This rock is full of these little gastropods. They are only about 1cm in height. I also found this gastropod and brachiopod. A close up of the gastropod. I like it. Hopefully this quick stop will hold me over until I can get out there for a long relaxing hunt.

From the westphalian of Northern France,I would trade these large plates for other fossils i still not have:) A Lepidodendron trunk imprint and a stem

Not sure what these are. There was loose shale near where I dig scattered on the ground. It had different things in it than I’m used to seeing. Maybe it was dumped from a different part of the strata, but shouldn’t be much further away. I’m not great with fish parts, are they maybe fish parts? Should I scratch them out or maybe some vinegar? There are a few other pieces that look tooth/horn shaped.

Here is #5 in my seed pod ID verification request effort. It was listed as Cardiocarpon rare seed fossils, Carboniferous, Upper Silesia, Westphalian "C", Poland. It contains two seed pods. Is this description correct?

About a year ago, I took a trip to go collect at Corys Lane, Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Today I was super bored so I decided to finally unwrap and photo my collections! I have a vague idea of some of these, but a lot of them are well beyond my experience. I have positive/negative of two of these pieces. Any input on genera etc is welcome i have larger filesize photos of all these but i had to ensmallen them to fit here

Found at Betteshanger, a Carboniferous area. About 4-5 cm in height. Leaves are less that 1 cm.

Betteshanger a Carboniferous area

I went in my fav sites to look after new carboniferous plants

Good morning folks. I have a Dolorthocera pseudorthocerid, nautiloid cephalopod. It's Carboniferous period from Serpuhovian Stage, Brontsy quarry, Kaluga region of Russia. Can anyone confirm the ID or provide a link where I can perform some additional research? Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone! During the X-Mas/New Year holidays my family and I went to Dublin (Ireland) to celebrate the New Year there (we don't enjoy NYE in The Hague much lol). Obviously, seeing opportunity to go hunt at a new location, I did some googling around and found an accessible location not far away from Dublin: Malahide Beach. LINK It's a Carboniferous location, an age that I'd never hunted before and had very few fossils of, so I was looking forward to it. We got there in the early afternoon and started looking for stuff immediately. The spot where we arrived didn't have any of the rocks that I was expecting, so we couldn't find any of the Carboniferous fossils just yet. However I noticed some small dark-grey cliffs further along the beach, so we decided to head there by walking along the coastline where there were a lot of shells to be found. While most of them are definitely modern, some of them remind me of the fossil specimens that are found in Zeeland (namely some of the Arctica islandica fragments). Here's our shell haul of the day: I don't think any of them are actually fossilized, but I'll do some research just to make sure. From approximately left to right, we have: Pecten maximus, Nucella lapillus, Dosinia exoleta (?), Euspira catena, Spisula solida, Cerastoderma edule, Gari fervensis, Aequipecten opercularis, Scrobicularia plana, Mimachlamys varia, Ostrea edulis, Lutraria lutraria, Zirfaea crispata, Acanthocardia tuberculata, Arctica islandica, Anomia ephippium, Buccinum undatum, and some kind of fish bone (skull piece?). I was particularly happy with the Gari fervensis, I have a bit of a soft spot for that species As we were collecting shells the sun was quickly setting on us, so at some point we decided to hurry up if we wanted to actually get to the fossiliferous spot of the beach. We got there when it was already getting kinda dark...

I'm working on my fossil limestone sink and there are a handful of fossils showing up in the polished bowl. Most are horn corals or shells, but this particular one caught my eye. It might just be a shell or something, but I figured I'd let trained eyes give it a shot. It's about 1inch long.