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Hi! I found these unusual looking pieces of flint on the Thames foreshore. Is this pitted flint (and is this the right term for it)? I have read online that pitted flint was formed during the last Ice Age, but does flint require permafrost conditions to experience pitting like this or can it form under normal Winter frost conditions (I live in London, England BTW)? Thank you for your time & any help is appreciated!
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Hi, can anyone tell me if this is a tooth please? Found amongst the gravel in our drive. Thanks.
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Hi I live in the UK near the coast in devon and my bro found this. Its strange as its in flint stone and has a strange pattern !?
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Hi Firstly location, I live in South Norfolk. Recently, when rotovating my garden, the blades split a piece of flint and one half had the impression shown on the attached photo. It looks a little like a worm but that’s the guess of a novice. Can more enlightened forum members suggest what it could be. Regards Les Wilcock
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I’m really new to fossil identification but my nearly eight year old grandson’s recent passion has sparked my interest and we have been going through some of my beach stone pick ups I’ve always picked up interesting looking (or interesting feeling)stones and what I thought were shells- turns out I have quite a few fossils. The flint photos below were found on Whitstable Beach in Kent England. I joked and called them witches fingers but now I’m wondering… are there crinoids on the surface or just marks. The second stone I can remember one of the grandkids giving to me as it looked like a bird it is probably from Whitley Bay or Roker beaches in Tyne & Wear England I wondered again about a fossil either sponge or coral. From what I’ve read I’m assuming the 3rd stone is a sponge? Again just picked up and pocketed as it felt nice and looked different. These are just a few of my finds, it’s amazing what you can find when you are not looking. thank you for any help you can provide.
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I found this on top of the ground while mushroom hunting. I have collected arrowheads, fossils, and other odd/cool looking rocks for a number of years but have never seen anything like it before. I found it a few miles south east of Calhoun,Missouri close to Henry county road NE 300, and a few yards from Tebo creek. I appreciate any help identifying what it is and approximately how old.
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Hi guys I was wondering what your thoughts on this flint echinoid were, is it too worn to be identified?
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So I went to a new site nearby me where I heard there were shark teeth and while I didn't find any shark teeth I found flint(?) fossils, that, unlike my previous flint(?) fossils, which I believe were deposited by glaciers, I think these ones are native to where I found them, which is an old mine overburden pile (the rock above the ore they're mining for), my evidence for this was the presence of many iron rich rocks that was in the same pile, pictured I have what I believe is botryoidal hematite, which hematite is what they mine here. Also the fossils in these new specimens are different to my glacial ones, which mostly have crinoid stems and brachiopods, here I've got spiral shells and other clams. Also they're much bigger and in much better shape. The Coleraine formation (cretaceous) runs just south of where I live according to a bedrock map, and another nearby mine tapped into it years ago (Hill Annex) and is fossil ferric, the bed rock map shows it doesn't quite reach the mine I live next to, but I'm doubting the map is perfectly accurate since the mine I live next to has dug up sharks teeth, fish vertebra, and saw fish saw teeth. (MN Discovery Center has some on display). Anyway, any help identifying these and what possible time period? I really hope they're native fossils and not glacial.
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Apologies...I should have introduced myself just so everyone would know that I have A Lot of ignorant questions! I arrowhead hunt in Kansas but don't know much about the other strange things I find while doing so. Please forgive the many pointless questions that I have... There is no one that can tell me or has knowledge in most of the exciting things I come across out here!
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Keep finding bone and tooth shaped flint while collecting plastic
Greenfingers85 posted a topic in Fossil ID
I've been collecting plastic from around thanet beaches and started noticing fossils in flint so collected some stuff up to find out more ..and also about what can and cant be found in flint form, Keep finding bone and tooth shaped flint and also some strange textures on some too ..I have a very keen eyes so I'd like to tune out useless stuff ..Thanks in advance
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This is full of crystals. Crinoid? Belemnite? In flint rock, shape is approx 10cm across. Jurassic Coast, UK. Thank you.
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My friend found this fossil about 35 years. Can anyone identify what it could possibly be?
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Mammoth graveyard: Fossil hunters describe thrill of discovery (Wiltshire, England)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Fossil discovery of 5 mammoths along with Neanderthal tools reveals life in ice age By Ashley Strickland, CNN, December 29, 2021 Mammoth graveyard: Fossil hunters describe thrill of discovery (Wiltshire, England) BBC News, December 30, 2021 Yours, Paul H. -
Hey, hey, hey! I’ve had this chuck of flint for nearly 3 years and have always forgotten to ask about it here. I’m fairly certain I picked it up on the beach in Happisburgh, England. It’s almost 10cm long and 6cm wide. It has 4 depressions that give it a ripple-like effect. I had tried to search rippled flint but didn’t get far at all. I’ve seen flint do all sorts of weird and interesting things, but I haven’t seen this before. What could be the cause for this? It reminds me of the ancient sea floor impressions I’ve seen, though I doubt that’s the case for this one.
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Found this in gravel - at least it has some impressions on it but it looks like it could be coprolite...
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Hello all... can you please help me to identify this... found on Climping beach, West Sussex.
Sarah Rosamond posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello all. We found this today at Climping in West Sussex. 7cm long, 5cm wide and the break indicates that it may be 2cm deep. Thank you to anyone who might be able to help identify it! Sarah.
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Can anyone help me identify this structure inside a flint stone?
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I have found several very similar to this.
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Hi all, Harwich in Essex, U.K. is mostly famous for The Mayflower but it does have a small beach on which sharks teeth can be found. My wife and kids were lucky to find some but I was not so lucky. I did however find this. Could this possibly be an inclusion of a piece of coral in a flint nodule? If so is there any way to determine species and a possible age? Thanks in advance!
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Hi, I found this flint stone close to the ocean south of Gothenburg,Sweden and it really looks like a tooth. The measurement on the pics are in cm. 3,5cm (1,38 inches) x 4cm (1,57 inches)
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While flint knapping, I found some fish scales inside the flint. The flint was a nodule inside a miocene conglomerate in northern Israel. The flint is most likely to be Eocene flint that rolled its way from a distance. Specimen A is one centimeter long, B is 5 mm and specimen C is aprox 2 mm. I hope some of you can help me identify the fish species or families. Thank you!
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Hi all, I collected this piece of rock from Saundersfoot beach last week. Because it was loose on the beach, I don't have much indication of formation or age, but I'm aware that the majority of rocks in that area are Carboniferous, and I'm also aware that Carboniferous chert does exist in the Pembrokeshire region. I'm not sure where it could have came from otherwise. The fossil in question is a scoop-shaped, hemispherical mold in chert which features two discontinuous troughs running down its centre. Upon closer inspection, the surface of the mold furthest from the camera is lined with dimples (seen on the second and third image) The near side of the mold is also textured with dimples which are somewhat larger and double-ringed, however they do not show up well in images. I've made a cast of them using blu tack, which better shows their texture. To me, the dimples are reminiscent of either a trilobite cephalon or an echinoid test, though the shape of the overall fossil doesn't seem to match. Any ID or suggestions would be much appreciated!
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Found this piece yesterday...unique piece of chert / flint...and....don't know??? Any thoughts??
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Hi all, I run a rock and fossil shop in the UK and I had a customer come in and tell me about finding a tooth on holiday in the Isle of Wight in the 1970's he has now emailed me a few pictures over, I was wondering if anyone could help me to help him? I am inclined to think it is flint but I don't want to say that yet as he has fond memories of finding it and its not nice to squash them. So any pointers would be great. He found it in Alum bay
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Found this at a Danish beach with chalk cliffs. About 5 cm long.
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