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Found in a creek bed on the north side of Cleburne, Texas. It had recently fallen from a bedrock exposure. About the only guess I can come up with is large thin shelled bivalve. Am I even close?

So to piggy back on my ID post, I did a door knock and got permission to dig in a creek on an expansive cattle farm, this was a trip just to scope out the lay of the creek using my 👀 and it totally didn't disappoint. Deer Pedicle Tooth/Frag of unknown origin Fish Vert perhaps? Creek worn Horse tooth Holmesina scutes? Broken posterior meg Honker of a puffer plate

Has anyone ever been fossil hunting in oak creek near peace river in Hardee county fl. Thinking about going down there to scout wondering if anyone has ever been down there? Thanks

Went to scope out a private creek that i permission to dig, just looking for eye finds.. Safe to say this is petrified wood..or something else?

Found both these teeth near the peace river i've never found this kind of tooth shape. Im pretty sure its a type of mako but was wondering if anyone could an ID it or give any type of information.

Found this tooth near the peace river it looks like a hastalis tooth but the root is very wide and its much more girther than any other hastalis tooth ive ever found. One of my friends told me it could be a transitional fossil but I was hoping for more opinions on it.

Poking around a local creek, found a beautiful meg with some root decay (such a shame) and what looks like a fossilized cat turd or peanut ... any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all. I'm hoping to find out if this is a rock or a fossil. I found this in a creek in western kentucky.

I found this tooth in the peace river it seems to just be the Crown since the majority of the root is broken off. Wondering if anyone knows what it is. Looks like some type of cetacean tooth, but im hoping for mammal. If anyone needs additional photos please just ask. Thanks

I found these two teeth in a creek near the peace river pretty close to eachother. Not really sure what they are was hoping someone could ID them. They are listed as find 1 and 2 respectively.

Hey guys! I'm posting here again about another strange fossil I found in the Toronto area. Found on the side of a river ravine where other paleozoic fossils are very common.

I found both of these in a creek near the peace river just wondering what they were? Find 1 I think is a camel tooth, or cow but im not entirely sure especially since its some what white near the top. Find two im hoping is a sloth tooth but i don’t have enough experience to be sure. Any help would be appreciated.

I had a nodule that I picked up at pit 11 a couple of weeks ago split open, however basically everything about it has me stumped. There are tiny dark speks that are iridescent, some turn blue, others green and one of them pink with different light angles. Are these bits opalized? I'd like to know before doing anything else to prep it since opal can be sensitive to moisture. I've heard of iridescence in a lingula specimen, but other than that I'm unfamiliar with any mazon material having iridescence, and I'm wondering how that could happen inside a concretion. Furthermore any ideas what it is? random plant matter? coprolite? blank with mineralization?

Hello! This is my first post. I'm from Nebraska and while out walking a creek I found what I believe is a bison. It was about 6 foot down on the side of the bank of the creek. Could anyone please verify that it is a bison and age.

Found these two in south carolina near the Summerville and Charleston area, im fairly certain one is a tusk but if anyone could give more details on which type on elephant it could’ve been since im not familiar with the area. The second one is a horse tooth (I think) but I am a primarily florida hunter so I would like to know if its a three toed horse or another species since it looks different then the ones ive found down here.

Just posting for those who wanna see cool teeth. This is my best megalodon tooth and my second largest meg being 4.5-4.6 inches. Found in a florida creek during my last trip.

Found this tooth on my last trip in a creek super small find but still curious on what it is. Found it near the peace river. My thoughts are that its mammal maybe tapir or deer.

Found this fossil in a creek during my last trip my guess is that its a whale tooth or some kind of tooth. But I was wondering if anyone knows what it is? Along with possibly how old it could be? I found it on a creek near the peace river.

Another Northern KY fossil find from a few years ago. I always assumed coral.

I know its small but I found this tooth a while back and had forgotten about it so while looking through my trips smaller teeth I found 3 Carcharoides totuserratus which i didn’t know were rare until watching one of blackriverfossils videos. So I was wondering what kind of tooth this is and if anything rare? The last photo is the Carcharoides totuserratus I was talking about.

I recently found this partial tooth in Florida and I really think it’s dire wolf. It looks exactly like the upper carnassial dire wolf teeth online. The only measurement i have is that the thickest part of the enamel from top to bottom is 17mm thick, not accounting for wear. Can you guys confirm/deny? Thanks! filtered-3F76D20A-199B-4B93-8957-ACB17287FC39.mp4

A short while ago I unintentionally stumbled across a poorly preserved carbonized plant fossil at one of my favorite fishing streams - a place that I had never imagined would hold fossils. I posted an image of the specimen in the Fossil ID section where several members of the forum kindly confirmed my suspicions that it was a plant fossil. Here is the link to the original post in Fossil ID: @patelinho7 and I have been jointly looking into the Culpeper Basin (a Triassic rift basin within the Newark Supergroup) and its potential fossil content, and it seemed to the both of us that this could potentially be Culpeper Basin material. There were some red sandstones present that seemed to have originated from the Manassas Sandstone (a formation - or member? - within the Culpeper Basin) and the map that I inserted into the original post indicated that Bull Run Formation/Manassas Sandstone was exposed in the area where the specimen was found. However, further exploration of the site has led me to believe that the fossil originated not from the Culpeper Basin, but from Potomac Group (Early Cretaceous oxbow swamp deposits in Maryland and northern Virginia) sediments. From what I know, this could be very intriguing since the locality is in an area quite far from the traditional Potomac Group outcrop belt. However, I hope that this post and interpretations from more versed members of the forum will help establish whether these are indeed Potomac Group fossils. As a small forewarning, this will be a rather picture-heavy post. Aside from including a plethora of specimen images, I have also included images of rocks found at the stream locality in case they may help to interpret the site. Based on what I have gathered from the site thus far, my current working hypothesis is that I have found an area where a formation within the Potomac Group (hopefully someone more experienced with these fossils could shed light on whether they originate from the Patuxent Formation, Patapsco Formation, or Arundel Clay) overlies strata from the Culpeper Basin. However, this hypothesis is based solely on my observations and my limited stratigraphic knowledge and any revisions are very welcome. Before diving into the report itself, I want to thank everyone that has helped me thus far and that comments on this post. Your help and comments have greatly helped me on my quest and I would still be very clueless if it were not for this forum! To begin, I have included images of a few loose clasts that I believe may originate from the Culpeper Basin (from the Manassas Sandstone, specifically). The first specimen that I would like to mention is a piece of red, fissile shaly mudstone. The fissile nature of this specimen interested me most since most rocks I have encountered have been massive, often without clear bedding planes visible. Due to the locality being in close to the Manassas Sandstone according to the map in Dr. Weems's article (see map in the original Fossil ID post) I automatically assumed that it was one of the red sandstones from that formation. However, I have next to no experience with Potomac Group sediments and cannot say whether this may belong to the Potomac Group. Above are images of two more stones that are pretty good representatives of the general rock type found at this locality. The bottom one is another fissile mudstone much like that shown in the first image. The top specimen is a relatively flat slab of stone that seems to represent some sort of bedding plane. Loose flat slabs that resemble bedding planes are relatively common at this locality. Now, for a very shocking find! In my explorations I came across a very rare specimen of a fossilized Shoppingia cartdumpites. Unfortunately this specimen was what might be called a leaverite as it was far too large to take home and was located in relatively deep water . On a more serious note, I came across a specimen of very fissile red sandstone/siltstone. The thin layers of stone easily came apart, revealing very dark red stone within the specimen. The presence of this specimen seemed also to indicate that the Manassas Sandstone could be present at this particular locality. Now, for something a bit intriguing that could potentially represent a fossil. Unfortunately the lighting was not very good at this time of day, but there was an interesting inclusion in this piece of stone. Now, for a few more photographs before the fossils. They are a bit difficult to see due to the glare on the water, but these may be the source beds from which many of the flat bedding planes and perhaps where the fossils are coming from. I plan to add to this trip report as I continue to explore since there were a number of intriguing features that I did not photograph on my last outing. Here are a few additional things that could be important to note: 1.) When some of the rocks shown in the above photographs were flipped over, they bore a very dark red coloration. This reminded me of the oxidation that is present on some ironstones found in the Arundel Clay. 2.) Farther downstream there was a thick clay layer on the bank. This clay layer, which was composed of a whitish grey clay, was positioned between a layer of strata that coated the stream bottom and Pleistocene/modern soils. Now that I have posted some intriguing geological features, here are some photographs of the fossils that I decided to collect. Specimen 1: This is the original specimen that I posted in the Fossil ID section. Other members confirmed that it is a piece of poorly preserved wood. Specimen 2: More poorly preserved plant material. It is very hard to tell from the first photograph, so I have outlined the approximate shape of the plant fossil in the second photograph. The third photograph shows some carbonized material on the edge of the specimen. Specimen 3: An example of a stone containing a few carbonized plant elements. Stones with a few scattered plant elements are relatively common, though from my current explorations they seem to occur in rather localized areas. Specimen 4: Another indeterminate carbonized plant fossil. It is a bit larger than most of the specimens that I have found and the shape is rather different from that of most of the plants. Specimen 5: Three views of the fifth specimen: front (top image), bottom (middle image), side (last image). Specimen 6: This specimen probably represents one of the best preserved plants that I have found. However, I am not sure whether the specimen in the top image is preserved well enough to be identifiable. On the other side of the specimen a compressed plant specimen is preserved. It is difficult to tell from the photographs, but the fossil cuts diagonally across the bottom of the specimen on the lower image. Specimen 7: This plant hash plate is one of my favorite specimens of those that I recovered. Again, not sure if any members would be able to tell what these specimens may be. Specimen 8: I am entirely unsure what this specimen may be. I do not know whether these are fossils, impressions, mineral deposits, or some sort of sedimentary impressions. At any rate, the colors and depressions made for an intriguing rock. Specimen 9: A very large slab with some of the best preserved plant remains that I have recovered at this point. On one side of the slab (the first few photographs) an articulated plant seems to be preserved. This one is pretty intriguing... would any plant or Potomac Group experts have any ideas on what it may be? The other side of the slab (the last photograph) seems to contain what might be a poorly preserved plant.

Found this hastalis shark tooth in a florida creek was just wanting to share, but also wanting to ask whats the biggest lesser great white tooth people have found or personal found. Ive only been fossil hunting for two years but this is my personal best hastalis tooth its about 2.7 inches.