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Is this fossil wood if so, any possible Id on species? This comes from the Carboniferous coal deposit on seaham's blast beach
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One from the collection of specimens gathered about 4/5 years ago. I can't seem to find anything that might be a good candidate, so I throw it out to the wisdom of you guys. Small rock from a Carboniferous Duckmantian deposit. Locality: North Wales, UK Appears to be a collection of plant material. Also present are small possible pieces of brachiopods/bivalve shell and this small spherical object (there is also a possible smaller secondary one above the larger). It is very polished/shiny compared to the surrounding matrix and seems to be almost perfectly round, judging from the exposed portion. Any clues as to what the spherical object may be? Thanks!
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I visited family in Oklahoma and collected some cool Stigmaria fossils and around 1500 lbs of rock for landscaping.
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I recently stumbled across a piece of shale and it looked like there might be a carboniferous fern fossilized in it. I am not sure so I would like someone with a more trained eye to weigh in and let me know if this is actually a fern or just a mark in the shale.
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Found this piece in the same piece of limestone that my last questionable piece was in. It's a Gastropod for sure. It was split within two separate planes of rock. There wasn't any detail within the split, so I just glued the two pieces back together. I've found lots of gastropods in limestone, but they are usually really tiny. This one was a full size for once. Glued back together using Paraloid B-72. As close as I can say, this limestone is approximately 305 million years old. I've considered both Donaldina and Meekospira. Last Questionable Piece:
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Not a worm infested dinosaur egg...
TqB posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
UPDATE: I politely messaged the seller with the correct ID and have received a very friendly reply thanking me and that there was no intent to deceive. They say they'll change the listing when back from a foreign holiday. UPDATE 2: 3 June 2019 This has now been correctly relisted as a coral - at a much, much lower price (but still a lot more by several times than I'd be prepared to pay if I wanted it, which I don't! - it's a common species). ORIGINAL POST:Described as a dinosaur egg with worm infestation, and with a very high price tag! It's obviously a coral colony, probably Diphyphyllum sp.
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I am nearly sure the top piece is Metacoceras. The middle is a clam, but what species? Perhaps Astartella concentrica? The bottom, what is that thing? 6477/6478 show it in detail. I find these a lot. Are they brachiopods? Not shown, but there is a horn coral on the back of the piece in a cross section.
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With the Belgian Asociation for Paleontology we made an excursion to the quarry at Soignies. The rock exists out of mixing layers of hard limestone and softer claystone. The quarry is rich in carboniferous fauna with corals, brachiopods and two species of trilobites. When entering the quarry we were welcomed by a young peregrine falcon who was flying next to the high stone wall, which was awesome. It was beautiful weather and the quarry contains a variety of fossils. I'm happy I was able to collect a diversity of organisms that represent the Tournaisian periode. I also found more trilobites on this day than in my whole carreer as a fossil hunter... I found exactly two pieces Caninia sp. (Michelin, 1840) Cummingella belisama (HAHN, HAHN & BRAUCCKMANN, 1985) Leptaena analoga (Phillips, 1836) Michelina favosa (Goldfuss, 1826) Calcite? Cummingella belisama (HAHN, HAHN & BRAUCCKMANN, 1985)
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Hey! I just made my first actual painting, and I decided to paint a Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) swampland/forest. I’m really proud of it, and I would like to hear what you guys think!
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References: Matveeva (1958). Palaeoniscids from the Izuik-Chal horizon (L. Carboniferous) of the Minusinsk Basin. Vop. Iktiologii. Akad Nauk SSSR, No. 11, 154-161.
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I posted this find in my trip report thread http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/95184-51319-oglesby-il-roadcut-pennsylvanian-shark-bits-brachiopods-and-more/ but I thought I would put it here too to get some more eyes on it. This piece is from the Pennsylvanian LaSalle Limestone member of the Bond Formation, collected on 5/13 and prepped some over the weekend. At first I thought it was the root of a shark tooth, but as I prepped and revealed the multiple "teeth" on top and the ratio of root to teeth it did not match up. That makes me think it is possibly a part of a jaw with teeth in it, but I have never found anything like that at this site before, nor have I seen any reported from this formation. Any ideas? The scale below is in CM.
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Not my best photos, but a quick dimensional Wilkingia that I found over the weekend. Identification is likely but not solid.
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Kicking rocks near Spanish Point Ireland and ran across this item. I believe the area is Carboniferous but not sure where some of these rocks rolled in from. What is this barrel looking item hiding inside the large rock? Geological with some odd features?
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Pseudorthoceras is a bit of a mystery locally for me still. They are probably the most common straight shelled cephalopod I find. I also found at least one Mooreoceras. From what I understand, Mooreoceras and Pseudorthoceras are both classified under the Pseudorthoceratidae Family
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Am curious if this is fossilized wood or something geological? Found near Spanish Point just outside Miltown Malbay in Western Ireland.
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Hello, Yesterday we went on a fieldtrip to the carbinoferous of Soignies Belgium, see other topic: I had the luck on my side and found 2 shark teeth. Helodus and/or Psammodus? So this morning i started the preparation I forgot to take pictures at the start of the prepp of this one There was only a little glimp to see at this one, so i was pleasantly surprised The second one (it's a huge one) i started but not finished yet
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Hi. I’ve been going through and preparing some old fossils that I’ve had. I got these about 20 years ago at a rock show so sadly I don’t have much info. The seller said they were found near a fish skull I’ve also been working on. When I got them there was just a small patch showing. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. There was also what I believe to be a small amphibian jaw in the matrix also.about 1/2”-1” long that you can’t see in this pictures. But that’s for another post LOL!
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From the album: Massachusetts Fossils
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From the album: Massachusetts Fossils
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From the album: Cory's Lane, Rhode Island Fossils
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On finding a Megalichthys scale fossil from the Late Carboniferous in my local stream I designed, carved and printed a lino-block of the carnivorous freshwater fish. In the same slab of rock that the scale was found were Lepidodendron and Calamites fossils that would have been deposited at the bottom of the coal swamp. I would like to have thought of this fish hiding in the murky waters alongside these plants and I based my reconstruction on this. I plan to do a series of three including Rhizodopsis and Rhabdoderma, alongside their respective surrounding vegetation. Credit where credit is due the general proportions and pose of the fish are based on a reconstruction by ДиБгд as seen on Megalichthys' Wikipedia page.
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Looking for help identifying what I believe are trace fossil found on the cliffs in Kilkee Ireland. The area is Upper Carboniferous if I am reading the map correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hey everybody! Welcome to my Mazon Creek thread, where I’ll be posting pictures of various Mazon Creek finds! I’ve been hunting there for upwards of 10 years, so I have piles of uncracked nodules just waiting to be opened. So as they open, they’ll find their way here! Feel free to jump in and add your own and keep this thread going! And I’m sure there are many that have gone unidentified, so I’ll probably need some help from the experts!
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Today we had a fieldtrip organised by our local paleontology club to one of the quarries of Soignies in Belgium. Here they exploit the dense limestone full with crinoid particles. Althought the weather forcast predicted rain, we had a very beautyful and dry day Natalie made her best find after 10 minutes in the quarry, she spotted a huge Helodus sp. tooth in the rubble. the rest of the prospection that day delivered a few trilobite parts, isolated pygidiums and cephalons for us, but a few lucky collectors did fint complete specimens. We had also the oportunity to meet an other TFF member @gigantoraptor
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Calisto, V. and Piñeiro, G., 2019. A large cockroach from the mesosaur-bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte (Mangrullo Formation), Late Paleozoic of Uruguay. PeerJ, 7, p.e6289. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330484562_A_large_cockroach_from_the_mesosaur-bearing_Konservat-Lagerstatte_Mangrullo_Formation_Late_Paleozoic_of_Uruguay https://peerj.com/articles/6289/?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_campaign=PeerJ_TrendMD_0&utm_medium=TrendMD Yorus, Paul H.
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