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Hello everyone. I am new to your site. Came across you all while doing a Google search to identify a find today. I am not an avid fossil hunter, just a beach comber. After spending sometime on Google and then searching several of your forum posts I have been unable to find an answer. Some friends think I have found a bone, others say fossilized coral. Here is what I can tell you: Found along the York River shoreline during low tide (west of the Coleman Bridge) Was not attached to anything but simply lying on top of the sand about 3-4' out from the marsh grass. It is heavy. btw: I did not know I picked up a shell with a living snail it - which attached itself to the barnacle during transport. You may be happy to know I returned it to the shoreline. Yes, I am one of those who puts spiders outside too instead of stomping on them as well. Sorry about the hand pics. Noticed you all recommend not including hands for scale purposes (after taking said pics). Thank you in advance for any insight you may provide!
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Hi everyone I have this shell fossil I found that I can't ID does anyone know what it is?? I would like to have as much help as I can get and thank you to anyone who leaves a post and here is a photo
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Hi! I dunno if someone can help me. This coral was found a year ago with several other still with no ID aswell. The outcrops are aptian in age. Can you give him a name?
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This is my round 2, of things i found, and helping me properly name and catalog them. First picture, i think is some kind of coral? 2nd picture - Coral also maybe? kinda looks like little suction cup suckers? 3rd picture - Some kinda spiral shell? 4th picture - Another type of shell 5th picture - probally some type of clam shell, i was excited at first and thought it was a crab top shell. 6th picture - I find alot of these types, a shell of some kind? 7-8-9 - This one is weird, looks like some kind of shell, but then looks almost like it has teeth or little legs. Really want to know what this is? (Deer Lake, Pa.) 10th picture - I found this in a secret spot in St Clair, Pa., looks to me like a segment of a fossilized tree, its round, totally flat on top n bottom, and looks like striations lines in bark? if im right anyway knowing type of tree? Thanks in advance to anyone who helps out, i'll just list round one and two for now, till i get some answers, and if i get anywhere with answers i will post some more, thanks all. Paul.
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Hi all, I'm fairly new to this forum and fossil hunting in general. I need help identifying these, idk if they are coral, sponges, posibally bone or what. These were found in NE Kansas, in a rock deposit full of bryzoans, bivalves and other oceanic fossils. I do know the majority of these fossils here come from around the Cambrian through the Permian periods, however there have also been a few ice age fossils in the area, so that may help. Thanks a lot!
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I would like to ID a few fossils. I will post this one first. We found this in the flower bed of a home we purchased in KY. There were two coral fossils and numerous round "rocks"-that we presumed were geodes. Can anyone give give me more info on what this is?
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Ordovician Stewartville member of the Galena Formation SE Minnesota, USA I was out fossil hunting today and found this, which I believe is a worn hexigornian (sp?) coral. BUT I could certainly be wrong, so I thought I would post it for ID. As far as I know, a hex has never been found in this location, although hexs are known to be in this member of the Galena not too far away. Thoughts?
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Hi, my brother sent me this stone that he found on a beach in sicily (taormina) can this be a fossil coral? or its just volcanic stone?
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Found this on my farm on a pond bank. Looks like a bivalve shell, but it comes to a point on one end and I can't make out a central fissure. Any help is appreciated. Ste. Genevieve county, MO.
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Wife found this coral at a roadcut NE of Cincinnati in a Silurian outcropping. Any Ideas?
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Well today was nice up in the snow at the brook and even running into frank and shane forum members there..and then another couple as my wife and I were leaving.....among some decent shark teeth always find some other interesting things, I'm assuming that the first pic is a sawfish rostral tooth and with talking to shane and frank at the brook possibly coral on the next pics? anyone with info on it and time period.
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Hey all, I unearthed this nice piece of fossil coral again from my collection. I got it a long time ago, and I don't have any info on it whatsoever (no location nor age). But I think it might be possible to put a species on this one. And with some luck (actually a lot of it), maybe we can guess where it came from and what it's age is! Any help appreciated! Max Top: Bottom:
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Hi everyone this is Matt again today I have a white ammonite I got from a friend a few years ago here is a photo of the ammonite I have
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Unfortunately I've no description for this coral what so ever , only to say its from the UK. Any help from TFF would be great.
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Here is a trip report from an area that rarely is mentioned in this forum. Last December we had a family trip to the islands of Lifou and Mare in New Caledonia, in the south west pacific. These islands are raised coral atolls, and due to their location at the point where the Australian Plate meets the Pacific Plate the islands experienced an uncommon amount of uplift, leading an unusually large amount of exposed underlying limestone. Lifou is the world’s largest raised atoll, it is about 80km/50mi long, Mare is slightly smaller but is probably the second or third highest uplifted atoll reaching up to 138m above sea level. The other unique thing about these islands is the abundance of living fossils, in the form of Arucaria trees. The Arucaria genus dates back as far as 200 million years, of the 19 species remaining today, 13 are only found in New Caledonia. These trees give a distinctly prehistoric feel. New Caledonia is also the only place in the world were the Amborella plant can still be found, it is the closest and oldest relative of the very first flowering plant which emerged about 160 million years ago. The uplift took place between 7 and 2.5 million years ago, and as far as I can tell most of the marine fossils were deposited between about 5 and 2.5 million years ago. The uplifting and changes in sea level were sometimes quite abrupt, leading to distinct boundaries between different epochs of coastline. The eroded section on this cliff shows where the sea once lapped the shore, and then in a short period the land rose or sea fell by about 15 metres leaving the former shore high and dry. This formation runs like this for at least 40km along Lifou’s east coast. On Mare the abrupt sea/land level gave rise to this “wedding cake” formation where 2 former coast lines can be clearly seen above the present one. In areas where the limestone is weaker and the weathering gentle the preservation can be remarkable, such as this clump of corals and shells which was under a ledge protected from direct rain and sun. It is hard to believe these are probably around 3-4 million years old. In some places entire corals remain in their original formation, such as this example which about 1m wide and 1.5 m high. In places on the rockshelf fossils have been naturally polished by the sea. I didn’t have any tools and was not sure if I should be hacking into the rocks so I just collected a couple of items that were lying around, but they give an idea of how much fine detail was preserved.
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I found a nice fossil coral today in the creek
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
hi everyone this is matthew again today I went to the creek to look for fossils and came across this syringopora fossil coral it is very big and here is a photo
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Found a large amount of these up in the mountains in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, near Laguna de Magdalena, approximately 3,200 meters above sea level. Immediately assumed it was a type of coral, especially considering the area was at the bottom of the ocean 300+ million years ago. Does any one have any idea what this is? Is it in fact coral? Any idea what kind, if so?
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The following set of photographs is of a roughly 5-inch x 5-inch x 7-inch limestone fossil. I found it in Eastern Anatolia along the Turkish-Iranian border near the village of Uzengili. It exhibits striations from what I call "top" to "bottom", although there are some (only 2 or 3) horizontal striations that seem to have a replacement material akin to quartz, in that it appears clear (but very thin). At first I thought this was a coral, but I am beginning to wonder if it is a Stromatoporoid Sponge... however, it could be something entirely different, and that I why I am presenting photos of it in this forum to see if anyone recognizes this morphology. The following photographs show the fossil in rotations of 90 degrees (which I have labelled North, East, South, and West for reference). I also have a "top" and a "bottom" view, although what I label as the "top" may actually be the "bottom" if it turns out to be a sponge and not a coral. Of note are some tiny features along the "bottom". These features may be part of the fossil, ore perhaps they are growths of some other material that has leached out of the soil and onto the fossil. These features seems quite well integrated with the rest of the limestone. What is curious is the fact that the "bottom" looks like it is a fracture, in that it is smooth with few features other than some parallel striations. To have these intricate features survive on a fracture plane seems odd to me and that I why I am suggesting that they may be leached material. I am an engineer and not a geologist or paleontologist, so some expert identification help would be appreciated.
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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