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I have many items that need identifying but will only post three. Note: The left side of the ruler is in inches in all pics. The first item I assumed was petrified wood, but have been told it may be something completely different. This was found in the San Gabriel Riverbed, above Azusa, Ca. The second item appearing to be bone was found on the shoreline of Lake Mohave, on the Nevada side, between Searchlight and Laughlin. This lake is formed by the Colorado River. The third item appearing to be bone was found near the second. Wood, Bone, Rock...Any ideas? Any info is very welcome.
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Hello everyone, I figured I'd introduce myself now that I've finally made an account after years of reading this forum to hear about everyone's fossil finding adventures, learn about and help identify fossils that I've found, and get tips for planning my past (and future) fossil hunting trips. I've been interested in fossils ever since I was a kid, but didn't start to actively look for and collect fossils until just a few years ago. A big catalyst for my current fossil finding obsession is due to my current job which involves hiking miles through southern California creeks for surveys (and noticing the various fossils that the creeks expose). I'll probably be posting some of my more interesting creek finds soon!
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Hello all! Figured id introduce myself. I'v always been interested in fossils since i was a kid. The interest is still there and i am really eager to get out there. Im located in Mass. Im looking to learn more about fossils and where i can find them. Id like to take my kids on some fossil hunting adventures.
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This next fossil is long and thin, with lots of detail on each side. It has a slight bend and distinct marks on one end that made me think it might be a tooth of some kind, but maybe not from something in the ocean/sea. Any thoughts?
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I'm starting to get into mechanical prep seeing as with the quarantine I have extra time on my hand. My equipment arrived before my projects did so I've been practicing on this invert I had on hand. I believe this is a gastropod? Or is it a bivalve? I can never keep them straight in my head. Anyways, I forgot to take a before picture so I apologize for this awful photo as it was the only one I had: And this is it currently: Obviously not done yet, needs some more work and then some serious clean up to make it look nice but I'm thinking to put it aside for a while. The matrix is very annoying. There is less than a millimeter of rock covering the left side but as I learned the hard way on a small section, haste leads to immediate damage of the fossil. Prying upwards is great for chipping the rock away quickly but wants to take the fossil with it I'll finish it eventually but it will be slow, slow going. On a more exciting note one of my real projects arrived today. Here in a bit I'll draw up and post a plan of attack and tomorrow I'll probably get a start on it. My hope is that with this thread I can get your guys' opinions and advice to help prevent me from adding another cautionary tale on the bungled extractions thread
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Hi everyone, Wanting to get out and explore. Looking for people or groups to go on field trips and learn about fossils. Looking forward to hearing from you. mark
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From the album: Misc. Cenozoic Specimens
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From the album: Misc. Cenozoic Specimens
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Hi all, I haven't been on the forum recently, which is a terrible shame, but I will make much more of an effort to be online in the future! I am currently sketching out a small project that, in part, addresses why people collect fossils. At this point I am mostly interested in very brief, oral-history style vignettes on what kinds of fossils you collect, your self-assessment of you collect them, and your knowledge of and experience with fake fossils. If anyone is interested I would love to hear from you!
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I hope its okay for me to ask for a few IDs before buying fossils. Here they are. With the lot with a lot, I see the nautilus shell is a cool buy and adds value to the lot. But I am unsure if the rest are cool fossils, or just some modern day horns and bones. To me it looks alot of modern stuff. Thanks for the help guys. Lately, just been buying some collection pieces while im stuck in quarantine :).
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Some fossils have finally made it into the living room.
Ludwigia posted a topic in Member Collections
Not too long ago I purchased a very nice Campanile giganteum gastropod, something I had been wanting for a long time, and shortly thereafter I also acquired an Encrinus liliformiis crinoid, also a long-held wish from me. My loving wife liked these so much that she suggested herself that I place them in a prominent place in the living room. Needless to say, I was extremely pleased with this new development, not only because of the fact that I was starting to run out of space for new acquirements in my display room. Since there was also an extra shelf underneath the place next to the TV we had chosen for these fossils, she even came up with the suggestion that I could put a few more on it. So without further ado I went about selecting some of my favorites which I thought to be passing for the ensemble. I found none of these myself, although they are either gifts or acquirements from friends and colleagues who gave them to me in raw condition for preparation. They are from left to right: Procerites hodsoni, Scyphocrinus elegans, Stephanoceras humphriesianum, Cockerellites liops, and Coroniceras rotiforme.
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Sorry dont know location or anything Is the big thing even a fossil???? Is the second possibly a partial hadrosaur tooth? Thanks again.
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Fossil "Gifts" from Mother Nature! What did YOU get?
JamieLynn posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
There's no title I could think of that didn't sound odd....Show us your Nature's Gifts! Have you been Gifted by Nature? Show us! Yeesh. WHAT I MEAN IS HAVE YOU BEEN GIVEN A "GIFT" BY MOTHER NATURE!??! In other words...show us your fossils that were just LAYING there...waiting for you to notice them! In perfect or almost perfect condition, highlighted by a little sunlight (or not). literally just sitting there waiting for you to pick it up! Most of the time we hunt, scrounge, dig, scrape or otherwise discover fossil finds. Other times they are there just for the picking up, but SOMETIMES....it seems there is just a little extra something, a special fossil that seems like it was just placed there for you to find. I have had this happen so many times it's just WEIRD and I just figure they are Gifts from Nature! My absolute favorite is this honking Cretodus Shark tooth. I stopped by a creek in downtown Dallas while there for a convention and just thought I'd see if there were any fossils there. Nothing to be found AT ALL until I went up the bank and I swear this monster was just sitting there looking just like this. Clean as could be. I seriously thought maybe someone had dropped it. Maybe they did. But I found it. Cretodus 2 inches Most recently were these two echinoids from Bell County, at two different localities. The one Leptosalenia mexicana I'd been TRYING to find for some time. I hunted around for about an hour, was getting hot, so turned around to head out and there the little bugger was, just sitting at my feet all pretty like. . Same for the Phymosoma. Had wandered around finding not much except a few nice gastropods and then boom....this pretty thing sitting right out on top, nicely cleaned up and everything! There's about a half dozen other things...a couple of ammonites, some gatropods and a Pennsylvanian brachiopod that was actually catching the sunlight while stuck in the crevasse of a rock that caught my attention Fun stuff. So what has been your "gift" from Nature?
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Hi, just wondering what you guys use to extract fossils from shale thanks.
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Part the Third of the Hunting from Home series! The Texas Aguja Late Cretaceous formation Matrix from PaleoTex LLC! While i have been to West Texas MANY times (Big Ben National Park is kind of my second home) I've never had a chance to go fossil hunting there. So when I found out the Aguja Formation matrix was available, I was excited to see what I could find. So here are my little tiny finds! So far my favorite find is these tiny tiny shark teeth - Onchopristis dunklei (thanks Trodon for the ID!) They are about 1/16th inch (2mm) Next is a surprise find - a mammal incisor! 1/4 inch And thanks to another forum post, I was able to ID this tooth as Paronychodon : 1/4 inch Some cool little crocodile teeth I sure wish I could have found more of this Hybodont Spine, but at least it has some of the barbs on it. I love the translucence of this gar tooth: And here is a little montage of various Gar Scales An unknown tooth: I think the above is different than this one, but it might be the same. This one is another Gar Lepisosteus 1/4 inch Some neat vertebra (all are 1/4 to 1/16 Another Tooth...possibly Hybodont? And lastly, some random spines:
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Hello I am new to the Fossil Forum, I started collecting fossils about 5 years ago and joined the NC Fossil club. I have been on several digs in Eastern NC, the Peace River, SMR mines in Florida and Holsmaden. I have found a few fossils in Virginia and Minnesota too. I have joined the forum to help identify some of the Cretaceous fossils I have acquired from Morocco. Looking forward to an education and making new friend. Mark
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Today I was trying to learn more about Mammoths and Mastodons found in Southern Ontario because of my spearhead in my other topic that my grandpa gave me, and also I don’t really have much Cenozoic fossils in my collection. So when I was looking I found a page made by the University of Waterloo which is about 5 hours from my home town, and it had a page about Mammoths and Mastodons of southern Ontario, it also had a map out of all the finds from these animals in Southern Ontario. So I looked and surprisingly there where two sites just North of my hometown of Dunnville, which where both about 12 minutes from my house. I found the location odd because mostly every rock in my area is Devonian and Silurian, but that area is an exception. So in that area North of Dunnville in 1869 and 1911 two Mastodon skeletons where found, so sometime this Month I’m going to see what I can find in those places, as they haven’t been touched in for 100 years because of all the fossils hunting is done in the fossil filled Devonian and Silurian deposits of Dunnville. I will post what I find there, and below is a link to that website and a photo of a description of one of the specimens from 1869. The website https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/resources/ice-age-mammals/mastodons-and-mammoths The photo of the description of one of the specimens.
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Hi all, Found this in the gravel during my sifting. Very curious about this as the circular hole in it is perfectly circular... Any ideas?
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I'm fairly new to the area down here, and have been collecting fossils since I was a kid. I'm just trying to figure out the area here, and came across this forum. Glad to be here!
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Found on Jurassic coast in Osmington Bay.
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Found on Beach bear Antalya Turkey.
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Found in a stream in Gloucestershire. note: does not carry on on other side.
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Hello there, I'm joining this in hopes of learning more about fossils, identification, and historical ecology. I'm dad to two young kids interested in nature and dinosaurs and this will support our learning together. I know a fair amount about extant plant and animal identification (I'm a landscape architect) but almost nothing about fossils and the lifeforms that they register. I'm hear to change that! We luckily live close to the Mazon Creek beds and my kids' interest in the Tully monster, noting the byline of where they were found, and some googling has led us out there to collect nodules. It has brought us alot of fun during the COVID lockdown to freeze, thaw and refreeze our rocks, peeling through layer by layer everytime we thaw them back out. So far we've found two fossils and looking forward to posting those for help ID'ing. Kris
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Hi everyone! I am new to this since covid gave me a lot more time, and it has been great! I have found lots of teeth but being new, even though I have looked at all the identification pages, I am having trouble figuring out some things and wondered if you could help. Thank you!
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Any help is appreciated, thanks guys. Monmouth County, NJ. Numbered 1-9. Fossil #1
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