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Hi all: excited to be a part of the group and get some help identifying some previous and future finds. Hoping for as much detail as possible on the enclosed tooth i found this year. I suspect some sort of whale tooth, maybe. Location: Jekyll Island, GA (shorline). Thank you all in advance! Jesse Brown

My Aunt recently found this fossil vertabrae in the marsh/beach area in Brunswick GA. Can you help me identify what animal it came from? Thanks.

Can anyone identify this? It was found on a dirt road in SE Georgia near the coast. Dredgings from the shipping channel are used to fortify dirt roads. I know it's difficult to do using pictures alone so I'll include as many clear shots as possible.

First of all I would like to thank yall for taking time to help me.

I've been looking into northern Georgia for quite awhile now. After the closing of Tibbs, I've been trying to find other locations, I've found one other locality that was covered. My question is, is there any other locations that people have had luck at? I've tried Floyd county but I've only been coming up empty. Any information helps.

I found these in a washout in a tree trunk on the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. I'm just curious if it's bones of some kind.

Hi Found this large rock In middle Georgia. It has Holes in it that dont look natural to me but I could possibly be wrong. Just wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Sorry the photos arent better. Where it was found a lot of artifacts are found because had Indians living here for 12,000 Years.

From the very moment we wrapped up at that Conasauga Formation fossil hunt at the spot I'd never heard of before, I was itching to get back there. I guess that's what going for years without hunting half-billion year old bugs does to you. Well, this past Sunday I had my opportunity to get another bug hunt in. It's a good thing I brought my water boots with me, because the spot was quite a bit wetter than the previous time I had come, with some really large puddles at the foot of the hillside I'd get to work in. After a good while of splitting, I had myself yet another selection of Conasauga trilos Of the specimens I collected this time around, I picked up some really interesting and precarious pieces, most notably this one: If this was all there was to this Aphelaspis plate then it'd be a really nice find, but it wouldn't have controlled my attention in quite the way it would have if it didn't also have this: Apparently when this piece split, it split into 3 pieces, not 2, with the 3rd piece actually being the exoskeleton of the larger individual in the split. How it hasn't broken/crumbled into a million pieces by now is beyond me especially considering how thin it is, though I'm definitely not sure how I want to approach it as a result. I'd love to be able to bring out the rest of the detail in it, but with how fragile I know these exoskeletons to be, I'm not even sure it's possible to do much of anything, at least not with what I have on me. It goes even further too, as on the opposite sides of each of the main 2 pieces, there's another 2 trilobite individuals, one on each plate! The split that keeps on giving, that's how it tends to be with this Conasauga material, even when you're splitting at home! With that collective piece, I think I'll nickname it "Frankenbug". Will definitely be open to ideas on how to approach it! As for the rest of my finds, they may not be quite as remarkable as the piece above, but as per usual you get all your Conasauga Cambrian goodness!

First time posting….so I apologize if I’m not following correct formatting. Not sure if this is anything, but was found on Tybee Island. Can anyone help with identifying it? Thanks!

Found in Dahlonega, Georgia. Original origin (if different) unknown. Before I realized it was a fossil, I had aggressively scrubbed the stone with a denture brush in hopes of cleaning off the deep dirt stains. It worked, but I'm not sure if it damaged it at all. It doesn't look noticeably damaged, if it is, but I figured I'd bring it up. This rock is *most likely?* limestone & quartz but I'm not terribly confident in that answer. Any help GREATLY appreciated!! The fossil appears to be a mix of star shaped and column shaped indents, with what appear to be shells as well. There may be more (as there are a lot of similar indents that look more like closely packed dots) but I'm not sure. P.S.: If anyone has tips to safely remove the iron stains, let me know! I'd rather preserve the fossil than remove the iron, but I figured I might ask.

Found on the beach this evening and curious as to what it is.

I was wondering if anyone had a good list on different species found in the Conasauga Formation? I've found a few references to trilobites, but I was especially curious about non-trilobite species such as brachiopods, sponges, non-trilobite arhtropods, etc.

Grandkids found this and we have no idea what it is. Dogs dug it up

If you have ever looked through my post history on this forum over the years, you'd know that the Cambrian age Conasauga Formation has been one of my favorite formations to hunt, being the best formation to hunt for trilobites in the state of Georgia that I know of. Unfortunately for those of us that came to enjoy the abundance of trilobites the formation provided, the main site in Murray county that had become widely known by the time I had visited it a few times had attracted some...shall we say...less than intelligent guests to the area, resulting in the site becoming fenced off. For quite a while now I'd been trying to find another good exposure of the Conasauga to search. While I was able to find mentions of exposures further west in Floyd county in the literature, my scouting trips to see what was there up to this point have been swings and misses. Cue me receiving an email from my local paleo association (Paleontology Association of Georgia for any interested in joining) that we were going on a field trip to hunt for trilobites near the Resaca area. I looked it up, and while I ultimately found one other mention of a separate group going there, I have yet to find literature mentioning the site, and it was quite a bit further south than I was expecting a Conasauga exposure to be (if anyone has said literature, I'm all ears). As you could imagine, I'm pretty excited to learn of a new exposure to a favorite formation of mine. This past saturday, we met up in a gas station parking lot for a quick association meeting and then we were off. It wasn't too long of a drive until we came upon a roadcut that exposed that beautiful Conasauga goodness, an exposure that is much more easily accessible than the Murray site was. It wasn't very long before I spied the first find of the trip: Before too long I had struck a groove with splits in my little corner Here's a montage of what I found over the course of this little expedition. Not the most I've ever picked up from the Conasauga in one go, but it's definitely great to get back into the swing of things with this formation. As for IDs, my prior experience with this formation has me thinking Aphelaspis brachyphasis such as the many pieces I already have in my collection, though this exposure seems to have greater diversity in terms of species when compared to the Murray exposure, and admittedly distinguishing between Aphelaspis and Elrathia antiqua is not my strong suit right now. (I could also use some tips on how to clean some of them up, as some have a bit of gunk on them and I know that they can be pretty fragile)

Found this in the Olcmulgee River shed after lots of rain from up North so I'm in Middle Georgia it's possible it could have come down from further north. Background in last picture is a standard index card for true size comparison

Hi, I think I found another fossil. You guys are awesome with the information on my last one. And, was hoping for help with this possible fish fossil. If you need more images, please don't hesitate to let me know! Thank you, J

Piedmont Georgia creek find.

Recently just got back from a trip on Tybee Island! During this trip I went out looking for shark teeth several times a day, and even did a tour with Sundial Charters! Overall in 6 days I found over 150 shark teeth and countless other fossils! I'll be posting them on here! Here's the coolest tooth I found actually on Tybee, I believe it's a Great Hammerhead.

I found what appears to be some sort of bone while on Shark Tooth Island off the in the Bull River/Savannah River in Georgia. Does anyone have any insight into what this may come from? Horse, or some sort of cetacean?

Here is my shark teeth collection. photo 1 Species: Carcharocles megalodon Age: 2,6-15 million years (Miocene-Pliocene) Size: 9,5 centimeters Localisation: Georgia River (Georgia) Formation: Hawthorn photo 2 Species : Isurus hastalis Age: 9 million years (Miocene) Size: 4,8 centimeters Localisation: Copiapo, Chile Formation: Bahia Inglesa photo 3 Species: Squalicorax pristodontus Age: 70 million years (Upper Cretaceous) Size: 2,9 centimeters Localisation: Morocco Formation: Kem Kem Beds photo 4 Species: Carcharodon carcharias Age: 3 million years (Plocene) Size: 4,6 centimeters Localisation: Ica region, Peru Formation: Pisco

Does anyone know any good- well honestly any accessible fossil formations in northern Georgia? Looking to set up a fossil hunting trip (haven't been able too because of school) and I have a few spots in mind. Though, I was wondering if anybody had tips or locations. Thanks- Logan

Prehistoric wild dog found at iconic human fossil site Micheal Greshko, Science News, July 29, 2021 "Research reveals two highly social mammals crossed paths at Dmanisi 1.8 million years ago: our ancestral human cousins, and a pack-hunting canid." Lucenti, S.B., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Martínez-Navarro, B.,Palmqvist, P., Rook, L. and Lordkipanidze, D., 2021. The first hunting dog from Dmanisi: comments of social behaviour in Canidae and hominins. Scientific Reports. Published July 29, 2021 Research Square webpage Yours, Paul H.

I had the opportunity to visit another Silurian site in the northern Georgia/southern Tennessee area. This is now the third such site I've visited, but the first in the Rockwood Formation as opposed to the Red Mountain Formation. As far as I can tell there's very little different between the two lithologically and paleontologically, with the Rockwood and Red Mountain occupying pretty much the same stratigraphic position. The difference seems to be that the TGS prefers to use the term "Rockwood" to describe it's Niagaran Silurian system and the GGS and AGS prefer the term "Red Mountain", mostly because the unit is more differentiable in Tennessee whereas in southern NW Georgia and Alabama it is less differentiable. However, the GGS does use the term Rockwood in some of it's reports, and there are some lithological differences between the more southerly and easterly exposures and the more northerly and westerly ones (most notably in the thickness of the hematite beds), so I'm going with Rockwood Formation for these specimens. I had some difficulty in telling the age of the rocks at first. The geologic map I was using wasn't very accurate, and had both the Rockwood Formation and some upper Ordovician units within close proximity to each other. As you'll see with some of the fossils, there are some forms more associated with the Ordovician, such as Isotelus and Vinlandostrophia (Platystrophia), but at the same time I couldn't help but notice there were some similar characteristics between this fauna and the Rose Hill Formation, such as the calymenid molt fragments, and prevalence of Leptaena, which I did not find in the nearby upper Ordovician rocks (not to say it doesn't occur in the Ordovician, just that I didn't find it). Combined with the presence of Eospirifer and the thin beds of iron-rich sandstone and ferruginous limestone, this site is most likely in the Silurian Rockwood Formation. However, in my opinion, it appears to host an earlier, transitionary fauna than the Rose Hill. The collecting itself was pretty easy. The weather was nice, the site not too hard to explore, and the fossils easily extracted from the rock. Most of the exposure was unfossiliferous, however every now and then I'd come across a little part where there'd be a densely packed assemblage, with some loose specimens scattered about. The shale and thin limestone were the most fossiliferous. The first up are some of the brachiopods. A couple of different species it looks like, both tentatively of the genus Dalmanella sp. The report I'm basing this on is pretty old so that name probably no longer applies, however. These are pretty good examples of the more Ordovician forms present at this site. Although Vinlandostrophia (Platystrophia) sp. does occur in the Silurian as late as the Waldron Shale, it is definitely more common in the Ordovician, where V. ponderosa forms veritable coquinas in the upper Leipers Formation. It's a bit hard to see in the bottom one, but it does have a sulcus, unlike most of the Dalmanella sp. present. A few Leptaena sp. Although it is known from the upper Ordovician, I have not found it in the Ordovician rocks nearby and have found several in the Silurian Rose Hill Formation. It is interesting to note that there are such similarities between the two early Silurian fauna across such distances. One characteristic I quickly noticed was that a lot of the specimens in this area occur as loose shells, whereas in Maryland and Pennsylvania they're often internal molds wedged in rock. It makes for easier collecting, and more photogenic fossils! I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is Dalmanella elegantula(?) Pretty good preservation on this one, but I'm not quite sure about it's ID. Maybe some kind of Chonetes (?) sp. Eospirifer sp. with crystalline preservation.

Found this in the shipping channel between SC and GA. Looks like a fossil of some sort to me, but I am not an expert. Hoping someone can tell me if this is something of importance or just a really interesting shaped rock. Any input is appreciated!