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These are all from my gravel drive. Please, educate this novice! Let me add (I'm new here so bear with): I found this bad boy in my driveway right after I moved here I had no idea what I'd found. But, after that, I was hooked!!!
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I found this under a few inches of dirt in my yard. I've lived here since 2004 so surprised to find it. This novice is curious to figure out what it is, how common this is to find, possible age... I'm about 5 miles from the Puget Sound outside Seattle and at 500 ft above sea level so guessing it was brought to where I found it. Can almost make out tiny shells in some of the holes. It's quite heavy and slightly larger than a football. Thanks community!
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Hi all I have over the past month been treating this vintage engineers drawers for Woodworm. I added new legs and it is clear now of them pests . When you live in an old house woodworms can be costly. The draws have been out of use for sometime now . So today was it was great to get to fill them right up. Here is some of collection of corals and other bids in their new home. Because of my dyslexic I will not even go there, regarding adding the coral info . I would be in a world of confusion, sorry. thanks for looking Bobby.
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I found this in gravel at Burger King (!). I really don't know what it is and would love for someone to please educate me! The whole "blob" is about 3 inches long and 2 .5 inches high.
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Hello everyone. My daughter found this today on a beach in Alpena. We know it’s a coral, and so far, two folks suspect it is possibly Heliophyllum. I’m unfamiliar with that species and have nothing to compare it to. Just wondering if anyone else has seen something similar?
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I found what looks to me to be a coral fossil in a stream in Kent county Maryland and I would like some help identifying it. I tried to make my pictures as clear as possible but the fossil is really small. If a picture from a different angle would be helpful please let me know. Thanks in advance!
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Went out to a railcut that slices through upper Racine formation. This locality is only 10 minutes from my house. I almost never visit it because of scarcity of fossils, however I was reading a paper that mentioned forams in chert and decided to take another look. Here you can see the beds dipping gently to the east. This is interreef strata. Closeby is/was a huge reef, now filled with garbage. Here is a chert nodule to be sliced up. Also, found a silicified coral and packed in my bag. Disturbed this guys slumber. Silicified Favosites coral slice. Interesting to see sediment infilling. Microscope pics showing tabulae. These are just quick slices using a tile saw and submerged in water to bring out detail. Chert slices magnified. It appears to be echinoderm debris and possibly some coral spicules? (Correct me if I'm wrong about the spicules...) Columnal with spines. And finally, I believe this is a foram, the only one I could find. Difficult to photograph. Thanks for reading.
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I found this about 8 years ago in a dried up creek bed behind my house in the hills of Hayward, California in the San Francisco bay area, USA. We dug it out of some dry but soft sediment and I assumed I found a fungus/mushroom of some sort but now Im not so sure. I am a hobby collector and love it no matter what it is but I would love to have an actual identification. Thanks!
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Check out this coral/sponge I broke out of a rock today with a hand sledge hammer today in the creek
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek, I found this big rock with a great looking fossil sponge/coral in it. I some how got lucky when I hit it with my hand sledge hammer , when the fossil coral/sponge came out complete from the rock. Here are 2 photos:
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cool favosites coral I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Take a look at this great looking Favosites coral I found in the creek today Here is a photo:
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Hi! I work at a children's museum in Tennessee, and we go out to local elementary schools and teach science lessons. One of them is on fossils... how they form, how they are found, what they can tell us about life in the past, etc. I have been tasked with organizing our materials for this particular lesson to give to our new teachers. In cleaning out some bins, I found the fossils I have attached below. I have no idea where the museum got them, but my feeling is they have been in our possession a while. I would really like to attach a name to these fossils, what the date range might be, and any other information that would bring these fossils to life, so to speak. Kids love this stuff and I feel they need to be told all the information we can possibly give them, rather than just "it's a fish." Generally I have a plant (?), a fish, and a complete mystery (to me)...coral? sponge? If you need better images, please let me know. So, wonderful Fossil Forum, please do your thing! I and many children thank you in advance! Karla
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Hi, my son was desperate to find a fossil.while on holiday. Can you help identify the 2 things we found? A geologist friend suggested one is coral. The pitted texture seems to go right through to the other side. Thanks for any help. Aileen
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek, I found this odd coral or sponge fossil. Does anyone know what one it is ? Here is a photo:
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Found these at Salt Point beach of Cayuga lake. Are these rugosa corals? The length range is from 0.5 cm to 2.5 cm. Thank you!
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The James river was not what I had expected. I was hoping to find a meg the size of my hand, but that didn’t happen. No worries, I had a lot of fun. I saw a river otter, a lot of osprey, eagles, and more wildlife which was fun to look at from a distance. The first day of the trip, we went over the east over formation, I collected mostly whale bone from that day and nothing else spectacular. It was only when we went to a Yorktown exposure on the last hour of the trip that I found three stunning chesapectens, including what I think the biggest one to be a jeffersonius. Later that day, I went to a nearby creek in Williamsburg where I found the large red ecphora from. The third day, I found some beautiful Gastropods including another ecohora, a whelk, and a beautiful olive shell with a nice gleam on it (no I didn’t apply anything it’s naturally shiny). And besides the olive, the best finds of the day include the large coral and the large colonial wine bottle bottom, which is one of my favorite artifacts I have even though it’s incomplete. Anyways, enough talking, here’s some of the photos from that trip. the total haul: whale bone and gastropods: gastropods. The red ecphora was found in a creek and the olive shell is one of my favorite gastropods found that day. It’s definitely a stunner! here’s the chesapectens I found, including what I think is a jeffersonius on the top left. large piece of coral. colonial wine bottle bottom. This was found near nathaniel bacons castle so maybe nathaniel bacon and his posse of evil doers came through this area? It’s a stretch but that’s my hypothesis. Next week I’m taking some kayaks out and I’m getting a large megalodon tooth. I can’t keep festering in my squalor knowing that I don’t have a large tooth in my collection this year yet. It just isn’t right.
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A recent find. Has a texture that could be bark, but I am leaning towards coral.
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I read recently that some reworked devonian corals can be found mixed in with the fossils at big brook, and I wanted to post this old find to get people's opinion. Kind of looks like a lot of devonian corals I've found, but I had just assumed it was cretaceous because of the location.
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A few curious things from Cretaceous Eagle Ford/QAL mix I can't quite put my finger on, first one looks like burrow but up close it's very different from other burrows I've found. Next I'm wondering if it's coprolite, then possibly rugose? Last one i have no clue just didn't think it looked geological. Forgot the end shot of burrow so added it at end.
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I found this little piece In a gravel bed on the Kansas River outside Kansas City. Does anyone have any ideas? Could just be a weird shaped rock or coral?
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Howdy! Found this little piece in an area where I have found quite a bit of coral. It is a bit different than previous coral finds, but does have similarities. It is just a "finer" grain of striations and pores and not quite as regular as other coral finds. So it is making me question whether it really is coral or perhaps rudist or just geologic. It is in an area of Georgetown and Buda Formation Undivided with some Glen Rose Formation upstream in Hays County. It is 1 1/4 inch. Thanks for any help! Three sides: Coral from same location: Size 3 inches Size 1 1/4 inch
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I found this interesting piece in a gravel pile in Kansas City. The gravel had a ton of different rock in it, including what looked like marble fragments, so I’m not sure if it came from somewhere else. I’ve included pictures below, some kind of coral maybe?
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I found these 5/10/21 around Elko Nevada Nevada in an area rich with coral and Brachiopods. Any help identifying theses so appreciated! Ty!
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I found this on a sandbar along the Kansas River in Shawnee, KS. I found a collection of aquatic fossils on the sandbar that look like they had been washed up. I don't know what this is, it appears to have small bone or cartilage fragments imbedded in it (I'll take some close up pictures and upload them if needed). The top face has irregular divots while the back side is more smooth. The whole piece is hard and heavy (best I can tell, it's has a 7 or so on the hardness scale). I haven't really seen anything like this before.
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Edit: This is a duplicate don't reply I found this on a sandbar along the Kansas River in Shawnee, KS. I’m not sure exactly what it is, it appears to have small bone or cartilage fragments imbedded inside. The top face has irregular divots while the bottom side is smooth.
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Can anyone help me identify these potential fossils that I found at Sunset Beach in Cape May, NJ?
Suchascenicworld posted a topic in Fossil ID
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!
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