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Here's a nice little display I put together with from my weekend finds down at Folly Beach (SC).
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This is an interesting shape find. It is about 1 1/2" at it's widest point. It has a round crater in the middle with coral polyps marks and circular bands around it. I see microcrystalline when exposed to the sunlight. I think I found this on one of the small islands in Dunedin Florida, boating. I've seen many forms of corals but I never seen one like this. What do the experts think? Thanks!
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very big fossil shell I found in the creek today 5/18/2018
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek when I was fossil hunting I broke open a stone and found this giant clam in side it came from the kennedy N.Y. area which is all devonian I think ? here is a photo
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productella lachrymosa fossil find from the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
hi everyone this is matthew again today in the creek I found a fossil called Productella lachrymosa it is from late devonian and is found in New York and the Appalachians here is a photo of the fossil
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I found these today in southeastern Montana. I am located right on the edge of the Fort Union and Hell Creek formations. I am pretty sure the one on the left is an ammonite. What about the one on the right? Is that just a chunk of coral?
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I've been collecting rocks and seashells on the beaches for 17 years in Florida and never came across anything like this. It was covered in lime sediment which I washed off. It is about 5 inches long and is heavy, weighs 13 ounces. It appears to have calcium spots on it. Can anybody identify this???? Thanks!
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I found this different looking rock in a pile of gravel. It appears to have a very different texture and I'm thinking it may be a fossilized coral. I'm new to fossils so feel free to educate me! Thanks!
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Found Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cretaceous, Pliocene, and Pleistocene aged material can be found there. Is this some sort of soft coral or some other aquatic plant? Not sure if a species can be narrowed down from such a small chunk but I’m open to suggestions. Help appreciated some of these pictures are taken under my cheap microscope hopefully they show enough details.
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Hello there, I have found very interesting pebble in quartenary river deposits and I was wondering whether anyone could help me with its identification. I do not know how old it is, I do not even know coral anatomy. I just found it interesting, rare (never seen it there until now) and decided to bring it home. I live in Czech republic, central Europe. Here it is (captured wet to highlight the structure). Silicified coral pebble (wet to highlight the structure), possibly Fungistraea cf. blaburensis (Hexacorallia) by Petr Hykš, on Flickr Field of view: 65 x 40 mm The pebble appears to be some kind of silicite, possibly chert (there are some tiny quartz crystals further on the left.. but maybe its calcite, I do not really know even though I definitely should! The rock just appears like a silicite to me). I am not an expert on corals, so I have done just a quick search and found out that similar, negative imprints have been found in jurassic of Štramberk - Fungistraea cf. blaburensis (Hexacorallia). See this image: What do you think?
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Greetings All, Need some help identifying this fossil. I live in Pompano Beach, Florida. I found it perfectly perched between the roots of a tree, pushed up from underground. Dimensions: weight 71 grams LxWxH 50mm x 37mm x 34mm Thanks!
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Hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek I found a nice crinoid fossil when I took the photo I had a hard time getting it to show up good and here are 2 photos of the fossil
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this is not a fossil but I don't know what it is ether ??
matthew textor posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
Hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek I found this strange rock with red dots all over It dose anyone know what this rock is ??? here are some photos
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Hi Everyone, This is my first time posting on any kind of fossil forum, and I was wondering if someone could help me ID something that was given to me years ago. Unfortunately I have pretty limited information, but a friend found this while motorcycling from Sturgis, SD back to Ohio. I think he said he found it along the road while still in SD, but it’s been so long I’m not sure. It’s 6.5in length and weighs about 3lbs. When tapped it almost has a ceramic sound in some places. The angle of this pic is looking down through the tubes (some of which you can see straight through). Some tubes are larger but most are 1/16in in diameter. A side angle would show that most of them are straight and run in the same direction, kind of like a bundle of straws. On the insides of the larger tubes, the walls are lined with even smaller tubes. I’ve been able to find one other pic of something similar (from northern Texas), but it was also unidentified. I thought it looked like coral or maybe even worms of some sort, but I don’t know much. Maybe it’s not even a fossil!
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Finding a lot of fossil wood this past week. Agates to for carving. The bedrock underneath the gravel at Stillwell Ranch is limestone packed with fossils. Mostly Rudist. Then there are enigma. This stone has the blue infill, I associate with one type of fossil wood preservation. I thought it was a cluster of horn coral initially. But they don't pack up like this. No septa at all. Just finger length long ovals, width of your big toe...........The best detail are the onion layers which are micro crenelated. The end photo seems to have bisected a number of the lobe features. I think they were long and egg shaped un-eroded. With a hollow cavity in the center that was filled with blue & white chalcedony. Chime in if you have a good idear or two of what this is.:
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Returned from Singapore (where I gave a young teacher my collected teeth for the last few years). The area where I had been hunting had been covered by a sand-fall. I worked a bit trying to uncover, hoping for some interesting treasures but only came away with the "usual" and the small teeth were more broken and more slanted to triangular bull/ dusky triangular than the more common sand tiger 'spikes'. Some round drum bones, imperfect ecphora, skate teeth and small turtle(?) pieces. Nothing exciting, but good to be out again.
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I found this in my yard while cleaning up rocks. I dont know anything about fossils, but this looks like it was alive once. I live near the Chesapeake bay in Maryland.
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I've posted this same coral some time ago, along with a bunch of other finds from the same locality, but it's identity is still bugging me. In my search, I've narrowed the potential genus down to either Cladocora or the montlivaltid Thecosmilia. The locality is the Čerevićki potok fm., Serbia, Maastrichtean. In the Paleobiology Database, only Thecosmilia has been reported in the locality, but Cladocora was also apparently reported in the relative geographic vicinity. View of the entire colony: View of the entire colony(up close): View of the corallites: Album link: https://imgur.com/a/vtWMX Here's the descriptions of both genera, from Corallosphere: Cladocora Thecosmilia So, what's your judgment? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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if anyone can help share some info on the following.this is a cretaceous stream but I'm assuming maybe glacier brought in the coral and any info on it and age and any info on the others...thanks
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I found these two fossils at my camp in munising, Michigan thinking that they were horn coral fossils. But now I am having doubts and am thinking they might be calamite fossils (or some sort of plant fossil).
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Hello! This coral is from Aurora, NC area. I THINK it is Solenastrea hyades - Is that correct? My sister sends these, bless her.
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Hello all! It's a dreary day, so I'm trying to organize some of my fossils into my new display cabinets, and I was hoping to get some help with identifications. All of the fossils below were found in the south pit of Hungry Hollow near Arkona, Ontario. The age is mid-Devonian. Thanks in advance for all of your help! Monica Photo #1: Definitely a coral, but which one? A type of Favosites, perhaps? Photo #2: Another coral - perhaps Alveolites goldfussi? Photo #3: Still another coral - perhaps Platyaxum frondosum? Photo #4: I have no idea what this brown thing is - help! Photo #5: A trilobite pygidium - can anyone tell which trilo? Photo #6: A brachiopod - no idea which one... Photo #7: Three brachiopods - again, I don't know their identity/ies Photo #8: Two brachiopods - I used to think they were both Devonochonetes scitulus, but up close they appear to look a little different to me - what do you think? Photo #9: The back of the rock from Photo #8 - any idea what those black fragments are?! Photo #10: A pyritized bivalve (thanks, Adam @Tidgy's Dad!) - again, I'm at a loss as to what its identity is Photos #11 and #12: A Mucrospirifer brachiopod, but I'm wondering - is that the lophophore that I see inside of it, or is it just the valve that's been crushed inwards?
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They grayish color makes me think it could be fossilized?
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Does anyone jnow if this is a coral fossil or just a coral skeleton?
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Any ideas on this guys? I guess it's some type of bryozoa/bryozoan (dunno if it's one beast or lots of 'em) It's like an undulating mat. The 'mat' varies in thickness from, I guess, 2mm -5mm. The round things are in relief not indented. Era: Silurian Location: Wrens Nest, Dudley, UK @TqB
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Yesterday, I visited the famous Moenkopi Dinosaur Tracks site. The lady to guided me pointed out shiny rocks, which she said were jasper fossil corals. She let me collect them while I was being guided. I'm sure the pieces are jasper, but I'm not sure of they're pieces of coral. Are they? In addition, there were some other things she pointed out, such as dinosaur eggs, skulls, coprolites, and vertebrae. I already knew these were suggestively shaped pieces of sandstone. I'm sure this misinformation wasn't on purpose, though.
