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Hey guys and girls. I’m so sorry if this is a common thing, I don’t hit the beaches often. but I just couldn’t wrap my head around what this is. first I assumed coral, then thought maybe the inner part of a sea snail shell? sorry for sounding silly. Just curious and it’s late and this seems to be the only thing I can focus on, hahaha
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Hello, I have personally collected these far from perfect samples on some hiking trips and from around the field I work in. I have included a Die in each picture that is 2cm³, and have the corresponding number on the die to each specimen/picture. Any help with ID would be cool! Thanks in advance! 1. Stromatolites? Devonian - Palliser FM. 2. Bryozoan? Devonian - Palliser FM 3. ?Buchia? Cretaceous - FM unknown could be Three possibilities and I am not familiar enough with how the formations lay for the elevations I was at. Bivalves were found in two very different locations but still I believe Cretaceous.
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Found it in Belgium
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Hello! I'm asking for another person who found these fossils in southern Sweden (Kristianstad). There is sites around this region which have fossils from the cretaceous period so Im thinking it is plausible that these also are cretaceous. I've numbered each fossil to make it easier to talk about them and to id what type of fossils they are.
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Hello Fossil friends! I have a couple fossils(?) I'm going to see if I can get help identifying. I found all of them in the same local area of a river shore in northeastern Kansas, so I'm assuming Pennsylvanian time frame. I have some fossils that are obvious shells and coral, but these I'm not sure and would like your input! If you need more photos or angles, let me know. #1 I think is a fish vertebrae that's slightly flattened. It's about 1 cm x .3 cm.
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I'm looking for assistance identifying a large fossil that was in with skids of limestone rockery from the Niagara Escarpment. I have uploaded a series of pictures to Flickr https://flic.kr/s/aHsmTVvrFN and attached one image. It looks like a type of coral. There is lots of texture on the surface. When opened up, it is full of long columns. Thanks.
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Tube-shaped marine fossil/junk/artifact from Brazos feeder
jtangandgorditi1994 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found this on the surface in a Brazos River feeder creek near Houston. It was not near any known exposure, but the Brazos itself transport marine Eocene and Paleocene from up north. It also erodes out Pleistocene bone pretty often. The bank of this feeder creek was sandy with clay underneath. One end of the cross section appears to show something organic within. When looking in from the empty end, the cavity wall is rough but doesn't look like bone-porous. Lick test of the outer surface is positive, noticeably, which makes me think this is marine. Overall, the segment is 1" in (outer) diameter and 1" long. I am still novice at fossil hunting, but this is entirely unfamiliar to me. I would guess baculite or horn coral, but only the because of the shape Any ideas appreciated!!!
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From the Uni collection, found in a box with other assorted random fossils. sorry, no location data available
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Heya! This is a spherical convex structure found in the South of the England. Unfortunately, as I found it when I was very little, I cannot seem to recall the exact location, and, thus, the age. Originally, as a child, I crudely assumed it to be a mushroom... Ah, the wonders of child's minds... More recently, I conducted a study upon it, and, due to the septa and mouth-like crystalline structure at the top, I identified it as a polyp cup of a Rugosa coral. However, I am still unsure as to what it is. Any input would be greatly appreciated, cheers!
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Found in Locust Fork, Blount County, Alabama at Low Water Bridge in creek bed. IMG_4992.heic
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I found this in my backyard. Is it fossilized coral? western Colorado
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I found this coral several months ago in the Late Mississippian Mauch Chunk Group of West Virginia. I admit that it is a worn example, but it is the only Carboniferous tabulate coral that I have found so far. My initial guess is Michelinia sp. Is there enough there to make an identification? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I found this a couple of years ago with no resolution or thoughts on what it might be. It is astoundingly close to circular. 6 feet (1.83 meters) in diameter. Dark brown in color but with color variations. Unfortunately, I did not get any close-ups of the orb itself. It seemed fairly indeterminate as to any pattern such as corals might make. The formation it is in is full of crinoids. The brown orb seems to have a radial pattern. Again too dark to get a decent shot while I was there. I am sort of thinking this may be some sort of reef material? Giant stromatoporoid?
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Asexual reproduction in Scleractian Pattalophyllia corals. Eocene inf. Ilerdian from South Pyrenean basin. the beginning: Diferent intermediate stages: The end:
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Hi. Could I have help with ID on these. they are all from the same small patch beside the road at the eskine range. WA.
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Is this a fossil and if so what is it?
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Is this coral or something else?
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Found in Seminary Mississippi (south) in a gravel pile. What kind is it?
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Below are three recent finds from Maryland's Calvert Cliffs (Miocene) that have me stumped. I'm not sure if they're all fossils, but hopefully you can help me figure that out. Thanks in advance for your thoughts! #1 - This looks like possibly coral to me, but is very different (and much smaller) than the Astrhelia palmata coral fossils that are pretty common from this spot. #2 - I have no idea on this one, but the lines on the sides made me think it could be a fossil. #3 - I wondered if this might also be some sort of coral ... or maybe just a volcanic rock? Whatever it is, I haven't seen anything similar from this area before.
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Any idea what this could be? I found it in a creek bed in Central Texas Hill Country. Fossils around here are mostly marine, so I'm thinking coral or fish tooth maybe? The hollow center is closer to one side than the other and appears to have been worn open rather than broken. One end seems to have a ring and the other tapers to a blunt point.
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This is a coral fossil found in Myloi Gorge, in Rethymno area. I can't identify it, but i know its epoch is Pliocene because in that area were found fish fossils in matrix dated from the Zanclean subepoch( subepoch in Pliocene). Please, can you try to identify it. Thanks.
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4 inch long picked up on a beach on the New Jersey side of New York Bay. Presumably not fossil but I’d still like to know what it is. I am also including a photo of something that I picked up on the beach that I had never seen before and I had no idea what it is. Turns out to be a Caltrop seed pod
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Hello! My daughter found this in the "xeriscaped" front yard, and we were excited to have found a fossil It's just landscaping stone. The area we live in has a lot of basalt/lava and sand (Petroglyph National Monument). The other side of the city is against the Sandia Mountains, mostly granite, limestone, metamorphic rock. I suppose this could have been quarried from that area...I don't know. I'm thinking it may be coral? The image shows the largest occurrence, but there are a few other smaller versions of the same thing on the back of the rock. Thanks for any info you may have! -Brendan
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The attached photo is a group of Thamnopora corals found in the Devonian Martin formation - dolomites of central Arizona's Verde Valley. There is also a group of tabulate corals that I suspect are Syringopora sp.. but some collection notes by others don't show this genus, but they do show Aulopora sp. as found in the same location. See the small worm-like cluster near the center of the image. Can any of you confirm which genus is in the image?
