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Hi y'all! A few little things that I would appreciate some help figuring out what they are! 1. Eagle Ford Formation Size aprox 1/4 inch. It looks like a tiny jaw? But I've not seen anything like this: 2. Another from the Eagle Ford Formation Size Aprox 1/8 inch 3. Aguja Formation Size Aprox 1/8 inch Seems fishy to me... 4. Wolfe City Formation Pretty sure is a fish tooth based on it being flattened, not round. But any ID of genus would be great. Size aprox 1/4 inch

Unidentified finds in northeast Arkansas on Crowley‘s Ridge.

Howdy all, I'm a pretty new fossil collector (but experienced GIS user) who has been doing some remote scouting of Mazon Creek locales based on some internet scrubbing. I will be heading to Pit 11 on Thursday. Would any of you more experienced collectors be willing to critique my marked spots via DM? I want to make sure I make the most of the trip!

Hello! Help please with identification. Height - 3 mm. Age - uncertain: Early Eocene or Middle Miocene. Location - Ukraine. Thanks in advance!

Went up near Calvert for a couple days hoping to strike some gold and find a big Meg but the water wasn't cooperating and I didn't have the right gear for the water temps to get into the good rock beds. But a storm rolled in over night so the next morning or was teeth galore washed up. Nothing big but some good makos and a bunch of smaller teeth. Did find one strange fossil if anyone can't figure out what this is let me know? Looks like tooth enamel on top(two rounded sections)? Girlfriend found a rock in the shape of a heart along with that strange fossil below. Anyhow we found over 400 teeth so it was a very good adventure. Still no big Megs.

Found around the yard. I had thought it was some old concrete they had dug up. I hadn't really noticed the one out front till tonight, and then I noticed the pebbles? sitting on top of it and I remembered reading about them eating pebbles. What does anyone else think?

I'll start it off, with South Carolina. Left to Right: Otodus Megalodon Isurus Hastalis Isurus Desori Hemipristis Serra As a bonus; the day after I started this thread, I received some new specimens, and could have shown a representation of North Carolina fossils too. So just as a bonus:

So not too much was found this past weekend, but those trips happen every so often! Still found a couple cool things - almost compete Hubbell Meg, a gorgeous large hammerhead tooth, a pathological tiger shark tooth that’s in beautiful condition, and a thresher shark tooth. Also found a couple Holemsina osteoderms, and a small 3-toed horse tooth. Hopefully this weekend results in better finds!

Anyone know if the fossil dealer Bernard Stürtz (1845-1928) from Bonn, Germany had a fossil catalogue.

This was found in the mountains on the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. My research leads me to believe it is horn coral that lived over 400 million years ago when Tennessee was under the sea. What do you think?

At least 415 individual shark teeth; although many are very small and / or broken. None are pristine; but they are fossils, and all were found in a few hours, by little ol' me. I hunted until I was worn out, from walking and bending over to pick them up. A few tiny pieces of ray plates, too.

The Photos attached are the last of the 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has also been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. I like this fossil a lot, as you can see the exposed bottom of the fossil, as well as the exposed side of the fossil, with the rest trapped in the rock. Any thoughts on what creature this could be? Perhaps a muscle or large barnacle?

This is number 4 of 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. The pictures don’t show it terribly well, but the flat base of this fossil/rock appears to be a large coral like shape that looks like it was circular shape but has been slightly eroded to give this 2/3 of a circle coral type shape. The material is raised slightly on the grey parts within the white part, and the white part is more depressed in/less raised.

Hi. New to forum. I am new to fossil hunting. Have been to Peace River and to Calvert Cliffs. Planning trip to Big Brook this weekend. My question to this group... Where do you park? Access points? (I'm am not asking for secret locations or the such). I'm generally fascinated by the fossils...the hunt, the find, and then the identification. Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to access the brook and any tips. Thanks I'm advance! Candace

I found these on the beach in The Netherlands. I would appreciate if someone would tell me if they are fossils or just rocks and what they are, if fossils. In the case of the sand dollars, I don't know if they are skeletons or fossils. They are hard and I can't break them. Thank you so much!

Perhaps the most definitive, lasting project I've had during my short time in paleo is the excavation and study of a basal mosasaur skeleton my step brother and I found in September of 2021 (If you missed it, it's in my blogs on my profile). The site is on a fairly inconspicuous outcrop of the Eagle Ford formation, in a zone that's atypical for the upper eagle ford, as the rock itself is very condensed compared to what is usual for the upper kef. Notably, while Mosasaur material is very, very rare in the kef (kef is an abbreviation for the Eagle Ford formation), it pokes out with greater frequency here - I have found two other Isolated Mosasaur teeth there before. Both @LSCHNELLE, a geologist who is very familiar with the Eagle Ford, and a paleontologist that I'm working with have made this observation about this atypical site. Between the three of us, we weren't sure there was another exposure like it elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over spring break, I was in need of some good luck (after losing the transmission in my new car ), so, finding myself back using my parents car, I made a drive to spot I had scouted a year ago, expecting to see the massively steep Ozan exposure I had spotted from a distance before. Upon arrival, I was greeted with those gorgeous grey shales in all their glory. Upon closer inspection though, I was surprised to realize that things weren't as they seemed. The shales were lighter than the Ozan, and physically much harder. I was suppressing exciting pangs of recognition for a few seconds, but it soon became very clear that this massive vertical exposure was an outcrop of that same lithologically atypical zone of the Eagle Ford that produced our Mosasaur. What's more, this site is many miles away, and mapped as a completely different geologic group. It appears that through upfaulting, a cross section of this zone shot through the layers of earth above it, standing as an Island of the Turonian in a sea of much younger rocks. One feature of the Eagle Ford (or any formation for that matter) is that the bulk of the rock is barren, only interrupted by small intervals of great fossiliferous accumulation. This stood to be true at this site as well, so I set about chasing those shelly lenses that caught my eye and changed my path of life over a year ago. It didn't take long before I came to a shell lens a couple inches thick. One con of this site being a vertical cliff is that I can't peel slabs up as I can at its sister site, so I had to slowly chip into the lens, one piece at a time. Here are some finds that resulted: Small shark vertebra Fish vertebra An oddity, insitu in the middle of the shelly lens. Try your guess first Upon removal: A really lovely Ptychodus tooth that I suspect is the unpublished species also found at our mosasaur site. Since the species has not been described yet, I can't fairly quote any exact morphological features to cement my ID, but I've seen enough by now to "know the look", and have had several of these teeth confirmed by Shawn Hamm. This tooth was one of the best fossils I could find to confirm the comparison to the atypical kef mosasaur site. Here's another view: Shortly after, I distracted myself from hammering out small chunks of the lens and took a peak under the one tiny 3D protrusion of the lens that there was. Under a ledge only a few inches wide sat a fossil that made my heart skip a beat: The tip had fallen off, likely from hammer vibrations since I chiseling not far away. But, undeterred, I extracted the slab and was met with an imperfect, though still beautiful sight. To find a mosasaur tooth after removing what was in total less than a gallon bag of slabs made for an exciting day. Though broken, a basal mosasaur is a basal mosasaur, who can complain? I was especially excited that this lightning fast find came from a new site - meaning there might just be what I'll happily nickname a "Kef mosasaur lens" that transcends beyond the boundaries of our original site. Any trip where you walk away pondering those things is a good one

Hello, I was recently searching for arrow heads in my creek that goes through my residence in Medina county Ohio. While searching I found a small multi colored brown, black, and red rock with many holes and patterns. I picked it up and on further inspection I found the rock was actually covered in hundreds of fossils! The rock has multiple holes as well. If anyone has an idea of what this would be called or identified as much appreciated!

Thanks for allowing me into the group. I recently move to Florida and live on the Withlacoochee river. I’m only a a 10 min kayak ride the the general area where fossils have been found on the beautiful river. I’ve joined this group in hopes of getting informed ideas about what I’m finding. I was on this group many years ago and met a lot of great people but had to start a new account because of changed on email. I look forward to making new friends and hopefully reacquainting with some old ones. some of my hobbies besides fossils are kayaking, hiking, shooting, fishing, family, God, and my job as a glass artist. Thanks again for allowing me into the family. Joe

Hello everyone, I've been trying to gather a list of fossils for a wishlist for the upcoming September show in Denver. I've been looking in the fake/real section in the forum and it's seemed to sway my confidence for picking out real vs fake fossils in person. Is there any fossils or regions where fakes are common, or that I should avoid purchasing? Thank you for any help!

So, I thought I would start a similar thread to the "Fossil from Each of the 50 States" thread. But one for the UK. Show a fossil from each county in the UK - England,(48), Wales (22), Scotland (33) & Ireland. And for Ireland, we can include Northern (6) and Southern (26).

Hello everyone, I bought a few nice fossils from the KemKem , some of them have some glue remnants and some small dirt or matrix parts still on them. They also have a very matt looking patina. I was wondering what products to best use to clean it up as best as I could do , and perhaps give them a bit more shine ? Looking forward to what others suggest thanks

Hi all ! Figured I should check in with the experts before our visit. Amateur fossilers here, our usual haunt is Monmouth Cty, NJ and have been to Central-ish PA for shale ferns before they closed the site. I pretty much love anything old that sparks the imagination, and dh loves teeth. We get particular enjoyment out of finding things new to us. So anywho, we are heading to Arcadia, FL for 9 days next week to see what we can find. I have been researching many websites, forums, etc and have gotten our licences. We are familiar with what to bring but will mostly walk banks or shallow river beds to get to a good spot as we will not have kayaks unless we rent, but dh has bad shoulders, a bad back, etc. So I guess really, a big question of mine, since I don't want to get arrested or eaten by alligators is, where there are bridges crossing the river, can we pull off the road and walk in to the river from the bridge? Looking at sat images all the way to Bowling Green, it looks in many spots like people have done this. And is it kosher to go to someone's door and ask if we can access the river from their property? Also, are there other areas within an hour or so of Acadia that are worth us checking out? Other than the Gainesville area, I'm not seeing much info. Would like to check some of the beaches but am aware of the red tide and seaweed issues. Will post some of our Jersey finds when I can figure out how to make the pix smaller. Thanks for any and all wisdom you can share !

I have 3 foot unguals that I'm struggling to identify. All are from the Hell Creek Formation in Fallon County, Montana.

Hello everyone, I just came back from a short trip to Florida to visit some relatives who recently moved out there. I knew very little about fossil hunting in Florida but with the generous help of a number of forum members got to learn a lot. On one of the days while visiting, we decided to visit Venice. While there I did end up picking up some tiny shark and ray teeth, interesting modern shells but nothing particularly special, once we got off the beach, though, I noticed a pile of shell material in sandy matrix near the parking lot I initially thought it was just the same modern stuff as on the beach but closer inspection showed that these were definitely fossils, they had a different texture, coloration to the modern shells, were more chalky and fragile and we're covered in matrix inside and out. I didn't take any in situ pics as I had no phone on me but here are some photos now that I have them home. Also, I'm trying out a new photography technique using an elevated glass pane I saw here on TFF, and I think it looks quite nice, really makes the fossils pop. I don't remember the name of the topic but if anyone wants to link it below, I would appreciate it as I think people may find it quite useful. Olive shells: Next to a modern lettered olive I found, interesting to see the morphological differences side by side as although they are similar the form of the shells is different Other gastropods: Bivalves: These two were connected when found, but split apart on the way home, revealing some interesting fossils inside. Two oysters, not sure if they're the same species, they look pretty different, the smaller one is complete while the other is only one valve Some tiny gastropods and bivalves, the gastropods were found next to each other in the matrix while the bivalves came from the larger bivalve that opened up finally, this I thought was really cool, it's a tiny barnacle, also from the bivalves that opened up, it's preserved in beautiful detail, you can see some very intricate details of the shell on the top and bottom of the specimen This was my first time in Florida, and my first experience collecting such young fossils, it was very enjoyable and I hope to find more stuff on later adventures. I have pretty much no idea as to the IDs of any of these fossils, so if anyone knowledgeable has any suggestions, I'd be very interested to hear. Thanks for looking! Misha

So this past weekend was another very successful weekend. Didn’t have quite the volume of finds, but the things I did find… So starting off… found in 2 pieces and put back together with epoxy - a lower left M3 Columbian Mammoth molar: Following that with 2 chunks of the lower right molar and a chunk from one of the uppers - all found within a ~8 foot circle: A 2” long, the biggest I’ve ever found, gator tooth, 2 other smaller gator teeth, and a decent gator osteoderm: 13 Glyptodon and 2 Holmesina Osteoderms: Megs - including one 2.1” gorgeous Meg: 1 lower Equus tooth, 1 broken 3-toed tooth, the tip of a capybara incisor, and an Equus carpal/tarsal bone: And finally - a Dugong thoracic vert, a camelid sacrum, and 2 small mammal verts: Can’t wait to get back out this weekend and find even more!