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Heya. Recently found this rock (or bone?) in glacial till, about 2 or 3 feet down in a hole. Not sure exactly if it’s bone or not so I’m posting it on here. It’s about 2 inches long and about an inch or an inch and a half wide.
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Found this on our small kettle lake shore in southern Minnesota. We occasionally find sea life fossils here, but this is a first for us. Can someone identify? Thank you.
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Hi, I recently found several small stromatoporoid fossils while hiking in an area of glacial kames, NE Illinois. The fossils I find here have been buried in silt, sand and clay for about a hundred thousand years, and they're sponges! But I love them! They're entirely silicified, vinegar, clr, and muriatic acid does nothing to them. They aren't in matrix, they're just very, VERY, dirty. I may have to accept some as they are, but was hoping a could do more for the ones that are less porous. Already soaked them in SIO and it did whiten them a bit. First pics are before SIO soak. I've been reading about oxalic acid, boiling, chlorine bleach, H2O2...not sure if anything else will work besides patience and a toothbrush... *Also, this is just a hobby so I don't have any equipment other than a dremel, some picks and wire brushes.
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I am wondering if the larger fragment is a fossil, possibly half of tooth, found about 8ft down in glacial till, during a pond excavation, smaller tooth is probably shark, but may be bony fish. I have collected cretaceous sharks teeth and ammonites from a local source ( about 6-8 miles away) removed from an iron ore mine in the 1930's, so I suspect these are of that age, picked up and moved by glaciers during last ice age. So is the larger piece a fossil or odd shaped rock?
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Hi I’m not knowledgeable in fossils, but I have quite a few I have found while mineral mining. I have come across my first bone fossil on one of our clubs private leases and wanted to share with you all to see if anyone could get me close to an ID. It was found on private property and is obvious it was pushed with glacial till in a creek in north central Ohio. We all usually find marine fossils and this one is not an ordinary find. Thank you all and enjoy the pics. David
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I can't really give time frames on these but odd they are. The first 2 items are odd maybe eggs? The last item can't figure out because has black hair in object. The first two are seven centimeters. Last other one is five centimeters. Inputs and of course enjoy. Thanks. The first picture was supposed to be fourth picture ugh.
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Toe and an unsure bone area but think might be finger or toe. Input?
Petrified posted a topic in Fossil ID
Interesting pieces I found not sure on other piece but would guess either arm, leg, toe, or finger. The toe piece is 7 centimeters long. The other piece is 2 inches long. The toe part is cool for I think the creature stubbed his toe a little to hard . These were both found in glacial till in northern Pennsylvania. Any idea on toe specie and other piece what part of area? Thanks..thumb.JPG.8b8f837a81a29bff2f0bada3f8ccac53.JPG)
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Hello, I have found a good number of marine fossils in an Illinois river near Champaign which was created by glacial runoff. I was wondering if there was any sort of guide or useful papers for identifying them anyone would recommend, especially since very similar fossils seem to occur throughout the Midwest in other areas that had glaciers. I'm not so curious about these specimens specifically, just thought it might be nice to post some pictures, although I don't know what the middle one is. A bryozoan? I would just like to learn a bit more information in general. Thanks!
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For those of you that hunt rivers and creeks in the Midwest how often do you find horse remains? These three humeri were all found within a 2-mile stretch of a river within about a two year period - along with many other random tarsals, a femur, multiple tibia, and several teeth...
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Sponge? Stromatolite?
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Unknown Fossilized jaw found on nemaha river in southeast corner of Nebraska
LAKERS posted a topic in Fossil ID
I was recently collecting down on the south fork of the nemaha river, looking through the glacial till gravel, and discovered this very well preserved jawbone. I am unsure of its age or species. Any information would be great to have. I can post other angles of it if needed
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Greetings... Assuming this thing is in fact a fossil, I hope someone might be able to tell me what creature it is, and from what general time period. The rock comes from deep in glacial till at Groß Pampau in Schleswig Holstein, northern Germany. Thanks!
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Hey all, I found this in a creek in southeast Nebraska today while looking for geodes and although I wasn’t sure at first I’m fairly certain it is at least partially fossilized. (Waiting for it to dry out completely for a more definitive answer on that front). I was pretty sure it was bovid, but am having trouble matching it to a specific vertabra of either modern cow or bison. Since I believe it to be fossilized I thought maybe I should explore other possibilities, but haven’t had any luck. Any input would be appreciated.
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I found this on the surface in Westfield, ny about a mile away from lake Erie. This area is all glacial till. Most of the sedimentary rocks strewn about here have fossils, trails, and or ripples. Anybody recognize this?
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My five year old son and I have been digging in the our backyard looking for agates (found a few) and ran across what I suspect are fossils but have no clue what they are. They were both found in glacial till at about a depth of about 4-5 feet from the surface. The mystery item on the left side of the image is nothing like the usual material I see while digging through gravel/sand mix. The item on the right looks like a small fossilized seed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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OK, I am new on this forum here, and here's a thing that I found and can't figure out. This is a round, flattened hemisphere about 2.5" in diameter that appears to be half of some kind of concretion or nodule. I'm not sure about the stone it's composed of (forgive me, I'm a complete amateur and not a great geologist) but it feels flinty and shows faint concentric rings on the exterior/rounded side. The interior/split/flat side is a dark charcoal color, more porous than the exterior, and in the center is a vaguely triangular patch that is lighter in color and rougher/more irregular in relief. each corner of the triangle appears to have sort of a conical prong. I have no Idea what I'm looking at: I'm not even sure it's biological, but it looks like it might be. I did not split this concretion open - I found it as the half you see here, already split, presumably by natural means. I found it on the surface in a ravine in a bluff here in Peoria, where the surface most places consists of glacial till piled pretty deep, so this thing's original placement is unknown. You see all sorts of rocks eroding out of gullies around here, up to big granite boulders that didn't originate anywhere nearby and that probably got bulldozed all the way from Canada by glaciation, so unfortunately, even though I know where I found it, I have no idea where it came from. I looked all around for the other half, but couldn't find it. Here are some photos and flatbed scans of it. The file "hemisphere2.jpg" is a larger file, but I thought it would be good to include a "detail shot" for sort of an amorphous blob. Thanks Chris Hutson
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