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Hey y'all.... One more piece from Peace River, Florida... Can't find anything on books. Thank you all for your time.
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Hey y'all... I found this in Peace River, Florida... What fossil are these???
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Hi everyone, recently I took a trip out to upstate New York in search for eurypterid and trilobite fossils. The first spot I took a look at was in Herkimer, where lots of Eurypterids and Stromatolites can be found. Whilst there, I made my best fossil find to date. A partial Eurypterid! After this spectacular find, I made my way up to Utica to check out a spot that I had found multiple Triarthrus beckii heads and pieces, along with a ton of marcasite-diseased cephalopods. Unfortunately when I reached the spot it was completely flooded with water. Oh well... After this, I headed to another spot I Herkimer that a friend of mine recommended that I check out. One area near this spot is completely covered in posted signs, however I managed to find a spot that had no signs. Once there, I was finding T. beckii heads and bodies all over the place! The first T. beckii I found at this spot ^ 2 very nice T. beckii body segments Lots of graptolites at this spot! Another T. beckii head A huge multi plate of T. beckii heads and bodies A partial T. beckii body A possibly enrolled T. beckii? Not sure if it really is enrolled. This spot is insanely good, but unfortunately I didn't find any completes. After spending a couple hours in that area, I headed back to Herkimer to check out the eurypterid spot again. The best find I made from the second stop there was this plate with multiple attached segments, along with some stromatolites. 3 eurypterid segments Multiple stromatolites That concludes my post for this trip, hopefully I can head back out there soon!
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Hello again! Help pleas to identify it if possible Length ~5 mm. Age - most probably Eocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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I'm a girl with a ton of rocks and fossils and hopefully some dinosaur bones . Can't for the life of me get help in identifying ! Please help . Posts to come .
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I can't find much history or geological information of the Seattle area in Washington State before the people started settling there. I get lots of history about how everyone settled, who they were, dates of events, and the beginning of industries. Is there a easier way to find out through other resources about actual formations of the land and geological events that have happened in the past throughout the centuries? Is that made available to the public for research in their findings of fossils? There's more then I thought to learn about when it comes to fossils, and when it comes to fossils being found in or out of profound areas where you don't know how it may have got there, takes you more on a history hunt for answers to the how? question, and the when? question. Finding a fossil in someplace that makes you scratch your head???.. I'm sure this has happened many times. Hasnt it?.. Ocean animal fossils no where near the ocean? I believe that would be evidence of a past tsunami. Could there be any reason why sea fossils would be found in the middle of a populated city not really that close to a Ocean but close to a man made lake. Half salt water half fresh water. I think there should be a key importance to explore more of city populated areas before major construction. Seattle is a place that has never been explored geologically so much other then the beach along the coastlines. I find no evidence of geological history of Washington but of our volcanoes, not so much tsunamis at all. Seattle has just been built on top of so quickly, that Seattle hides a whole lot more beneath the high rolling hills and valleys surrounding then we think. There are less and less places to explore in a growing city and I'm not a expert, but when I can notice something out of the ordinary and you know it's of importance, how can it not excite you enough to find out more about it! So who's the first one I would call to report a geological formation of importance? How are those steps determined in the concept of discoveries ownership and so on? The laws are so twisted and much goes into it. The reward it's self in fossil hunting or just stumbling upon one is the past answers they give us, but they are our future answers too!
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It's been a rainy week in Texas and today is no exception....so I am spending the day working on a new thing.....a collection database! @erose Erich gave a great presentation at the last Paleontological Society of Austin zoom meeting on Fossil Collecting - what to do with your collection once you've collected it! I bought the Trilobase software (a download) and am having a great time organizing and entering my collection. It's quite a process....I keep rearranging how I want things represented! I've decided to go with date collected. It's made me be a bit more thorough in my info too, looking up Order and Family to go with Genus and Species. It's also made me realize... I have a LOT of fossils....... So how do you organize/present your collection?
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/bze5UrEDs6gxf4GKA I need help with identification thx I found these at blue river in raytown mo my pics wont go through o 8 included a link to them
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Are these just bivalves. is the old red sandstone not quite a high energy environment with big clasts for preserving fossils. Orroland member Dumfriesshire southern Scotland.
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Hi, I found two larger than usual teeth (for me...) just wanna make sure what they are also some other interesting stuff that I can’t figure out all found in Big Brook NJ thanks!
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Hello! Help please identify tooth. Is it some genus of Orectolobifores? Length - 4 mm. Age - Eocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hi everybody, thank you so much for all the information you share on the site I’m so happy to become a member and hopefully get a lot of my questions answered. I’m relatively new to trying to identify everything I find and I’m so grateful that there’s a community out here that can help me.
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Hello wonderful fossil-people! If you and you're gang enjoy solving a groovy mystery, I have a post for you! This rock was found in an area of Northern Arizona that is very well know for producing lots and lots of bryozoan, brachiopod, and crinoid fossils, as well as crystals and geodes. The bit of rock in question was found in the side of what appears to be a broken geode. There is a triangular fragment of stone that does not match the material surrounding it. There is also a white discoloration encompassing the triangle that I've highlighted in green on one of the photos below. The colors in the 3rd photo are a little more true to what it looks like in real life. The geode is kind of a pink-ish color and the triangle "fossil" is a dark brown/reddish color. Given the abundance of marine fossils found in the same location, I wonder if this is also fossil. It just seems so out of place in this rock. I have oodles of bryozoan, brachiopod, & crinoids that I've found in the same location and I can share pictures of these, if it somehow helps So what do you think, fossil or random bit of stone? If it is a fossil give me your best guess as to what it might be... or even give me your worst guess. I'm not picky lol.
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Ive been slowly working on our house these last 3 months or so. Yesterday the misses and I went out to the big garage to find certain things to do some white washing. I was looking around seriously and the misses was just looking around. Here is what she ran into! Not a clue as to why these were with all the paint stuff but Id say it was a purty good find. Not sure what I'm going to do with them, they all need some clean up, prep, sandblasting and or repair. I remember buying these sometime in the 1990's. Must have somehow put them with all the paint stuff when we moved to Montana. If my wife who doesn't care about fossils can find something like this in my garage, I'm wondering if I should start selling fossil hunting tickets? RB
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Hi everyone! I know that there is a lot of dredging going on in the Charleston harbor right now. Does anyone have resources you could share about where I may be able to hunt these dredge piles? Are they dumping on beaches or anywhere accessible? Is there any schedule to them? Unfortunately, I no longer live in SC or else I would do more first-hand scouting/observing. But I plan to take a trip down in mid-May to see what I can find. I have never hunted dredge piles, but have heard of people having success at such sites. Thanks in advance!
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Hello, I have been going through some fossils that I bought a while back. I came across this agatized snail from Morocco. I’ve tried to find more information on these agatized snails, but have been unable to find much. Some sellers online say that they come from Assa, Morocco, while others say they come from the Dakhla region. I’m also wondering what species this little guy belongs to, and a more precise age for these gastropods, although I’m pretty sure they are Eocene. Does anyone have any information regarding these agatized snails?
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fossils from my trips to the bogue chitto river and a really cool petrified wood
LSUWIL posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
fossils i found on the bogue chitto river , since i cant go rock hunting because the gravel bar is flooded under 5 to 10 feet of water with all the rain we had lately , im posting some of my finds here in louisiana we dont have a lot of fossils but i found a few
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Hey gang! Im on location at the C2T ranch. I’ll be updating this thread over the weekend as I stumble on new stuff. base camp is set. Snow melted. Rain quit. 3 hours before dark. already a bonanza. this is the fire pit at my campsite:
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Heading down to Charleston SC, can anyone share locations or spots where I have a good chance of finding a Meg ? I can’t scuba dive so that’s out of the question. I was just in Florida and we only found some fragments in the Peace River :/
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Hello all, Found these really cool fossils (some weeks ago). The fossils are from the Cretaceous period (shallow marine environment covered Limburg - part of the Netherlands). The fossils are from the upper upper Campanian and lower Maastrichtien (73-69 and/or 72-69 and/or 72-68 mya). I and my girlfriend were searching for fossils and walking in a forest when we found two VERY LARGE echinoids (Echinocorys scutata (Leske, 1778). These are really big and the best ones I have in my collection (one is 9 a 10 cm). The other one is also really big, somewhat flatter, but not complete (missing parts and bottem damaged, also the details are not that really good preserved but overall, the specimen is a very cool and good find). My girlfriend found the biggest belemnite specimen I have found in the Netherlands (one 10,5 cm Belemnitella/Belemnella sp.) (big belemnite on the right). All in all a really cool trip!
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Hello! Help please with ID. Squatina or some Orectolobid species? Length - 4,5 mm. Age - Cretaceous - Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hello again! Help please identify. Height - 4 mm. Age - please probably Middle Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys! I’m going to be in Arizona for a few months and need to get my fossil hunting itch scratched! I’ll be viewing the petrified forest (and not taking anything of course), but I wanted to know where I could go to find some fossils. I will be getting a permit. As someone who hunts heavily in Florida I can’t wait to see the difference in Fauna and age in Arizona! let me know what you all recommend.
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Hi everybody. Im a bit slower than most when it comes to technology. Ive just started to watch fossil prep and other fossil video's on YouTube. I do have an account but for the life of me I can not figure out how to leave a comment!!! Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you How im going to figure out how to upload one of my own video's I do not know. RB
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