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Hey everyone! As the title says, I’d really love to see your displays where risers are used. The cabinet I use to display my fish is getting a bit crowded but has a lot of space to utilize vertically. I know I want risers, but I’m not sure what direction I want to go in just yet. So, give me some inspiration! Here is a photo of my cabinet (the doors/windows are open to show just how much unused space I have). Sorry for the blurry picture, my iPad isn’t good at photography.

Any ideas what this baby theropod tooth could be from? Seller doesn’t have any ideas and says when she found it and looked at it she didn’t see any serrations

Hi guys been going through some matrix and found some oddballs wondering if anyone could help, thanks 1.looks crocish? 2.looks almost like a worn pufferfish mouthplate? No idea though 3. Not really an oddball but wanted to show the wonderful purple colour 4 some kind of fish tooth?

Found these in the peace river, it's really giving me lots of fun and exercise during my time off work, #1 I think it looks like poop, #2 like a small egg (I did read the post about "if you think you found a egg" and the 3rd a tooth. The last one I posted turned out to be a rock but this one is definitely a tooth. I have looked and many alligator/croc images and I don't believe it belongs to either, looking forward to your opinion, thank you! Peace River Formation is middle Miocene to early Pliocene

So awhile back I picked up a rock at a creek and their was all these tiny little white ball looking things stuck to it and I wondered what they were, some were broken open and I figured they might be eggs of some kind. Well I found another rock the other day that had the same white things on it but also in this eroded part of the rock were several tiny little snails and a bunch of these little white things, so now I figured they must be eggs of the snails and I put it in a bucket and brought it home. When I got home I got to looking at the rock and none of the snails had moved, I wondered after awhile of the rock sitting on shelf if the snails were even alive? I got my 25x eye piece out and took a better look and they are covered with the same stuff that makes up the rock it looks like......so my question is are these snails fossils and are these pretty common to find like this if they are? This isn't the same rock but similar with the snails, I'll put pic of the other one with the white balls on it if y'all want to see it because I'll have to dig it out from a bucket of rocks. Southwest Missouri is where I found them also

Hello! Help with ID please if possible. Scale in mm (cm). Western Ukraine, Miocene.

Hi everyone I am very new to the fossils world. I have always loved history and the idea of fossils, but until the quarentine of the world I hadn't really looked for some. My 2 yr old granddaughter loves to throw rocks into the creek while we were there I found a Braciopod fossil and since I have been down at the creek looking for other fossils.

I found an old box of fossils I had when I was a kid. I dont remember where I got it from but I would appreciate it if someone can I.D the shark teeth from or or the brachiopod.

A few more of my recent photos of odds and ends, bits and bobs. Microscope Celestron photos of minis! All Cretaceous of Texas (except the trilos which are Pennsylvanian) Two trilo bits from Mineral Wells TX 1/4 inch Crab Claw Pagurus banderiensis 1 inch Ammonite unknown 1 inch Balanocidarid Spinie 1 Inch Three gastropods in cross section. I like how all three are slightly different: Phymosoma echionid with pyrite and small spine. 1 1/4 inch Coral Parasimilia: I inch Gastropod Cerithium bosquensis 3/4 Inch Oyster Illymatogyra with Pyrite 3/4 inch Ptychodus Shark tooth 1/2 inch Heteraster texana echinoid 1 inch: Bivalve Arca texana 1/2 inch Echinoid Spine 1/2 inch

Found this lot of Abelisaurus Teeth What’s everyone think? Nice or not?

Hello all, I've been an avid arrowhead hunter since I was a kid and I've picked up fossils that I've found in the fields over the years. Last summer I started making an effort to find fossils when I don't have fields to walk. I have a lot to learn! Keith

Found this on our favorite site what’s everyone think?

These egg shells were found at a site in Montana with some troodon teeth are these possibly troodon egg shells? There around 1mm thick with a smooth surface

Still having fun with my Microscope camera.....giving me something to do to keep my mind off the "future". . I am finally getting around to photographing my finds from England. So many tiny ammonites from the Jurassic Coast! And crinoids and belemnites and a tiny gastropod! Plus a few little worm tubes from inland. I can't believe it took me this long to get around to taking photos of the littles! All the ammonites are around 1/2 inch. Tiny Pyraatized gastropod 1/4 Inch Isocrinus Crinoid segments : 1/4 Inch Belemnites: One Inch Worm Tubes :

Hi Could you please identify these fossils that I found at Beltinge Beach? I think they might be shark teeth, I would really like to know what shark teeth they are. Appreciate the help. Kind regards Lil' Tooth

Me and my fiance headed into Wauchula this afternoon to try to find some good gravel spots at the behest of @Shellseeker and his helpful advice given to me on my last post. I have been to the Peace a total of 4 times, all within the span of a month or two because these water conditions are just way too good to pass up. Every time I come back to the river I have a new game plan and every time I actually get TO the river the plan goes out the window. Today's adventure was no different. We pulled up to Wauchula Riverside Park (Crews Park?) and were pleasantly surprised with the condition of the park. I had read about some sketchy things happening in that area and while we were unloading our gear a police cruiser circled the lot twice, it made me feel safe about leaving my vehicle. The park seemed newly renovated so I was assuming these past cases of break ins and theft occurred before then. We walked over to the boat ramp and prepared to search for a gravel bed north of the park; that is until we came across a friendly kayaker and her son. She noted that down the river a little was an island that her fossil hunting friends liked to dig at but had to swim to get to it in higher water season since they didn't use kayaks. We were not prepared to swim but the thought of a glorious "fossil island" that my fiance can set her chair up on and watch me sift gravel for 8 hours was just too enticing and we abandoned our upriver plans and decided to head down towards the bends. We found a small sandy trail to take us as far as we could on dry land before we had to make any attempts into the river, there were many downed trees and root systems that would make walking the dry area pretty difficult. This trail lead us into some of the highest and thickest grass I have walked in. I felt like I was going to be attacked by a pokemon... or a snake... but we were lucky and did not have any issues. I think this is a trail in the Peace River Park. Anyhow, we found a nice spot to cross the deep part of the river and found ourselves on the opposite side of the bank, it only came up to our thighs but there was zero visibility in the water. Then suddenly, a dad and his kids make an appearance with their fishing poles... After a quick chat we learned he was heading to a similar spot around the bend to fish a hole... You should have seen the look my fiance gave me. How in the world would we be able to dig for fossils in the same area that this guy is fishing in deep holes?! WHERE IS FOSSIL ISLAND? My hopes were dashed, my fiance wanted to go back to gardner, and there was a huge downed tree in the middle of the river with no gravel in sight. TFF what would you have done?! I continued on. Luckily it paid off. We hopped up on the legal side of the bank and walked 20 feet further to the end of the first bend. It was there! Sticking out of the middle of the river like a huge zit ready to burst with meg teeth WE FOUND FOSSIL ISLAND! We hopped back into the river and crossed the deepest part to get to fossil island, it was about knee deep and the entire bottom sounded crunchy which my trusty fence post confirmed to be a pretty significant gravel layer. Fossil island was pocketed with holes from other diggers but I was more interested in the deepest part off the side of fossil island. I figured when the water level is up this deepest spot will get un-diggably high but since it is so low right now I can get 2 to 3 feet into the gravel before the water started getting too deep for my shovel. At this point the JoshRockz excavation project was in full swing. I was digging in this layer and in the first couple sifts we were already finding larger than our usual size teeth. We got about a foot down before my fiance decided to go surface collect and I was getting alot of clams in my shovel loads but not alot of teeth, I widened out my hole and noticed I was pulling out chunks of matrix as shown in IMG 6228. I will be displaying this piece, I have not encountered the hard rock matrix; I have only really encountered the thick clay in the deep areas of Gardner and I imagine this is how it weathers out of the walls of the peace. Around these pieces of matrix I started to pull up many megaladon frags and hemis along with smaller teeth of other variety and quality. These are the largest teeth we have found thus far and I am so happy with our first dig in this location! The only downside was that this area in general has alot of broken glass that fortunately did not harm me but definitely made me reconsider not wearing gloves in the river. I also pulled up about 15-20 iron nails that were at times in a pretty dangerous condition and large. Tetanus city. This was 2-3 feet down into the gravel I was pulling these nails out so I am a little intrigued as to where they came from. All in all I will be returning to Wauchula in the future and I cant thank Jack enough for his advice. Oh, Turns out the largest hemi (also) the largest intact tooth that we found (second left in 6226) was surface collected right on the top of fossil island by my fiance. Strange are the ways of the peace river... ps I am going to get a kayak because all of this could have been avoided and we could have been there in 5 minutes if we had one.

Found these in a large deposit near road cutaway.

hi guys and girls i would really appreciate some help identifying these ammonites that i've had sitting around for a while now the first one comes from the inferior oolite of burto bradstock and the second could be lissoceras oolithicum,??? oborne wood, sherbourne. dorset, jurassic, inferior oolite, polygyralis zone

Hi everyone! I am a long time lurker of this community, I browsed these forums endlessly on advice, pictures, and video from many members who made me feel really confident in going out and actually getting into rockhounding. Me and my fiance wanted to document our trip to the Peace River in Florida. So we did. This is our first upload to our channel, and hopefully we will be uploading more as we go on more adventures. My goal with this video was for people to be able to see what it would be like to pull up to a boat ramp and go look for sharks teeth. We found a really nice young whale or dugong vertebrae, its a beautiful peace . We have only been hunting these past couples weekends as the water level has been the lowest its been since we've start this hobby and we have been pleasantly surprised with the kindness of the people around us, but also the success we have had in the river. We found our first juvenile meg tooth on our first dig in the river near the brownville boat ramp. It was super fun and now im really hooked on this river! I have attached the video below, let me know what you think? Youtube Link!

Was wondering if anyone has experienced any shipping problems with the whole lockdown thing going on? Having a package shipped from Europe soon and was worried it would be held at customs for a long time due to shutdowns everywhere.

Alright, these are from an area I frequent. I get all sorts of different kinds depending on how high or low I search. I’ve taken some to a professor around me and he said the red material is hematite. I’ll add them in the comments

I had the time to made a trade list with the samples i have for exchange for other brachiopods or shells fossils i still not have,all the pictures of the species are in my TFF albums,of course the result of a possible trade will be send as soon as the quarantine will end(very soon;i hope) ,I will add few echinoids , gastropods and Ammonites soon in my list .And i have still good carboniferous plants in my boxes Brachiopods Cyclothyris vespertilio Santonian Sarthe France Burmirhynchia decorata Bathonian Ardennes France Cheirothyris fleuriausa (d'Orbigny 1850) Oxfordian Rè Island France Rhynchonella cuvieri Turonian Ault France Rugitela subrugata, Deslongchamps 1859 Callovien Normandy Loboidothyris ingens (Rollier) Aalenien Calvados Torquirhynchia inconstans callovian Calvados Septaliphoria mourdoni Callovian Calvados France Zeilleria quadrifida cornuta (J. DE C. SOWERBY, 1824)Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian)Calvados France Digonella digona Bathonian Luc sur mer Normandy France Rhynchonella bouetti Bathonian Luc sur mer Normandy France Quadratirhynchia quadrata Bathonian Luc sur mer Normandy France Eudesia multicostata Bathonian Luc sur mer Normandy France Cererithyris intermedia Bathonian Luc sur mer Normandy France Gibbithyris semiglobosa Turonian Ault France Aulacothyris impressa Callovien Villers sur mer Normandy Septaliphoria orbinyana Oppel 1856 Jurassique moyen (Callovien) Courgains Sarthe France terebratella santonensis campanien Charente maritime Sphaeroidothyris uretae Upper Aalenian Muros de Aguas near Burgos Spain Musculina sanctaecrucis, Hauterivien, Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland Sellithyris sella Bedoulien Massif de la Clape Aude France Tamarella chloris Bedoulien Massif de la Clape Aude France Tamarella tamarindus Bedoulien Massif de la Clape Aude France Kingena lima Turonian Le Tréport Normandy France Kallirhynchia cf. yaxleyensis (Davidson)Bathonien de Domfront (Sarthe) France Eleutherokomma diluvianoides mid Dévonian ,Eifelian Skaly, Holy cross mountains, Poland Primipilaria primipilaris mid Dévonian ,Eifelian Skaly, Holy cross mountains, Poland Shells Shells from the Eocene of Paris region France 1 Natica noae Bartonian 2 Bayania lactea Bartonian 3 Rimella fissurella Bartonian 4 Sycostoma bulbus Bartonian 5 Ancilla obesula Bartonian 6 Lyria turgidula Lutétian 7 Mitra elongata Lutétian 8 Cryptoconus denudatus Lutétian 9 Venericardia planicosta Lutétian 10 Chama sp Lutètian 11 Mactra semisulcata Lutètian 12 Cerithium filiferum Lutètian :Potamides tricarinatus 2 : Pugilina palissyi 3 : Potamides Marinésien, Bartonian La Chapelle en Serval, Oise France 13 Cubitostrea cubitus Lutètian 14 Clavilithes scalaris Eocene- Le Guépelle France Gastropods Amphitrochus subduplicatus. (D'Orbigny 1850). Jurassique inférieur (Lias).Toarcien supérieur de l'Aveyron.Riviére sur Tarn

I am just having too much fun with my Celestron Microscope camera. While "sequestered" it's been a great thing to keep my mind off the uncertain future. At least fossils are certain! While i am finding some drawbacks to the machine (depth of field, it's a bit difficult to really do fine adjustments without overshooting and really it's only a 5 megapixel)...it's still allowing me to get better photos than I could otherwise I found a decent downloadable free program to overlay images to get better depth of field (Picolay...it's German but most of the command prompts are in English). It has worked nicely, but the images have to be SPOT ON in the same place in the pic for it to work. But it has worked well on the round echinoids. So here are my favorites of late. Cidarid Plate 1 inch: Hyposalenia phillipsae 1/4 inch (just realized I did this one before the photo stacking program...will have to reshoot it!) Loriolia (I love the color striping on this one) 1/2 Inch Echinoderm Madreporite 1/2 Inch Heteraster texana 3/4 Inch: Pygopyrian hancockensis 1 Inch Leptosalenia texana 1 inch Loriolia 3/4 inch Crab Claws Pagurus banderiensis all 1 Inch Ammonite Submatelliceras 1/2 inch Unknown Ammonite;1/4 inch Ammonite Mariella; I Inch Crinoid Isocrinus fragments 1/8 inch Gastropod Nerita 1/2 inch Gastropod Gyrodes 1 Inch Bivalve Ostrea carinata 1 Inch Coral Parasimilia 1/2 inch

Hi everyone! Well, the time has come to show you what my fossil display area looks like! The two cabinets were gifts from my mother-in-law, the two side tables with shelves and the bench (which has a storage area inside) and the ammonite artwork were gifts from my husband, the linocut prints are by the extremely talented @Bobby Rico, and the Burgess Shale toys and under-cabinet lights and labels were bought by me. I put as much information as I had for each fossil on the labels, as well as an explanation of how I acquired each fossil so many of you may notice your TFF names on the labels The four empty shelves will be for displaying Viola's fossils - that'll be a project for the summer, so when that part is complete I'll update this thread with additional photos. But for now, please enjoy the little tour of my basement fossil area: The whole area: The shelf that has Precambrian and Cambrian specimens: The cabinet that has fossils from the Ordovician to Carboniferous Animals: The cabinet that has Carboniferous Plants to Oligocene fossils: The shelf that has Miocene to Pleistocene fossils: Thanks for having a look! I'll tag a few people who might be interested in seeing these photos: @caldigger @Nimravis @Tidgy's Dad @FranzBernhard @Wrangellian

During this fine pandemic, I thought I'd post some of my sweet fossils for your enjoyment! Besides basic corals, arrowhead (NICE), petosky stone before ocean tumbling and one after, chain coral, hexagon coral, weird exploded "rock", shells and crinnoidy things, I don't know their names (and I'm okay with that!). If you want to tell me, cool, if not, tell me if you like them! Beside being sick, raking, having the kids at home, I'm going cuckoo. I've always loved pretty sparkly rocks and nature, and the naturally occurring structures of nature. Plus, they're cool.