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Hi, this isn’t a fossil but is there any bone experts here? I found this in the silt of a river so it’s probably been preserved and it looks pretty old as it’s heavy, feels more like a rock than a bone, solid, and just has a shiny old look to it, how old could It be what could it be from?
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So I was out for a walk the other day, i found myself wondering across the shore of a big reservoir that is maybe about 20ft shallower than normal. I ended up finding a thin fossiliferous layer exposed, no sign of fossils above or below this particular layer, which as far as I could tell was just a few inches thick. Question is, how could I get a date? I have spent ages looking at geological pdf's found on Google, can't find anything about a layer of marine fossils this far inland. I am in South East Wales. Thanks, Mark
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I am fortunate to have a copy of Erich Rose's New York Paleontological Society Fossil Collecting Primer. In it is a detailed section on how to correctly name your fossils according to accepted taxonomic nomenclature. A question I have had is the correct way to name a fossil which includes the author's name and date. Gypidula coeymanensis. Is Schubert, 1913 placed right after the species name, separated by a comma such as Gypidula coeymanensis, Schubert, 1913? And what if the genus was authored by someone different? Would this be appropriate? Gypidula, Jones, 1910 coeymanensis, Schubert, 1913. Tom
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I picked this one up this morning, it was to nice to pass up and first one I ever seen local. My question is can you date these by the outer shell and how they are made up? Smooth or with ridges Etc
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I thought I was joining my husband in his kingdom of Pareidolia when I thought there were mold or trace fossils, which I now know as ichnofossils, on some of my sherds from time to time. I have no idea how long it takes for such fossils to form, and I often don't have a guess as to how old a sherd might be or how long it could have been in the ground or water, but I am changing my mind. I see fossils on my sherds and I'm not crazy (well....)! I hope these examples are photographed well enough for you to see them, too. I'm very curious if this is common and if I can date the sherds according to the fossils.
