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While visiting friends, they showed us a gift they'd received from a relative. I asked if they'd like to know more about their decoration piece and they said yes. I'd be grateful for whatever identification can be provided. It appears Moroccan and, maybe a possible fake? Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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Recent ammonite find and noticed the associated shelly fossil. Suspect most likely a pelecypod but has different crystal and growth pattern so wondering if it is possibly an aptychi? How can you tell the difference? Any input is much appreciated. Thanks.
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I go on walks with my 5 yesr old and sometimes with a friend that likes to ride her dirt bike on the BLM land next to me. I was going to see the area where the turtles were found many years ago way before I was out here.i found some rocks that looked really pretty and was told they might be more. Then again she thinks the rocks on the hill behind my house looks like Dinosaurs. Only one of them looks like anything to me. (I think she is playing the shapes of clouds with rocks). So there are black, pink, and white. All found on a hillside that trespassers like to try and camp. This year's snow here was crazy and the melt off made the road give out and go into a seasonal stream. That stream was 3 times bigger then normal and blocked us in for 2 months. Thankfully I stock up on everything for the just in case. So here are the black ones
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Hi, I inherited this from my uncle a few years back. He had found it in the early 50's To this day no one has been able to identify it. It is 3" long and 1.5 inches wide. The unusual part about it. Is it shakes (like something is inside of it). I am clueless. I hope this Forum can help me.
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Hi, I'm new to the forum and relatively new to fossil hunting. I've been collecting rocks for years, but only last year realized how easy it is to find fossils in my new state. I'm hoping the folks around here can help me identify what I find! I'll start with a nodule I collected at Mazonia-Braidwood State Park (IL) yesterday. Three views of the same fossil. Any thoughts on what this is?
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Hey all! I found this on a recent trip to Peace river and still have been unable to ID it. I first thought it was a glyptodont tail spike but friends say it’s not “holey” enough. I don’t think it’s tortoise spur but may be wrong. Any help with ID is greatly appreciated! @Meganeura @Shellseeker @Harry Pristis @digit
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Hello! I’m new to the forum and come across fossils and interesting rocks regularly. I would love to learn more about my findings from anyone here that has a keen interest in helping someone like me expand my knowledge! These photos are of my most recent finding, but I don’t know what it is/ where it’s from/ when I dates back to.
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Found this strange fragment of cretaceous cephalopod- i found many others today, and in the past as well. However this one had a strange fragment that has been fossilized within. I cannot identify it, nor figure out why it is inside this small bit of cephalopod cast. It is rock hard, and i cannot break or bend the bits off that are sticking out.
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Hello! I have a hunch that this is could be bone but would appreciate the expert identification and advice that comes from this forum's members! Found in South Texas, USA near the San Antonio River. Thanks!
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Hi all! New to the site, new to fossil hunting, and new to the UK! I was taking a walk earlier today at Shingle Street, not looking for fossils. I happened to look down and found this gem! Can anyone help me identify it and tell me how old it is? Thanks!
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Please help identify. Found in a South Texas field. Tooth? Fossil? Bone?
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Hello! I found this in a field in Southern Texas. To me, it looks like a tooth....but now I'm beginning to think I've got tunnel vision. Please help me identify this mysterious rock....or fossil....or tooth. Thanks for any insight! -
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Found in the North Sulphur River. Cleaned up a little with soap and water and scraped away some limestone(I think?). 1 1/4” x 1” x 1/4”. Any identification help would be appreciated.
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Found possible fossilized fish / turtle head in S. Nevada.
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Hi y’all I just visited an abandoned mine here in Nevada, and found a crystal covered rock, or so I thought. it’s from a local manganese mine and found at the shore of the lake . I 1/4 of this was sticking out of the ground. when I took it home and cleaned it up a bit I noticed weird “sockets” and what looks like either a fossilized fish fin or some sorts. maybe my imagination playing tricks on me . Maybe you can help. I also think I may have found a dinosaur egg that I first thought was a geode. IMG_6828.MOV- 16 replies
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Hello all, I just found this bone/fossil in big brook NJ. It is about 3 cm long. I originally thought it was a modern bone, still a neat find, but then after further inspection I found it was not porous and thought it might be a fossil. Anyway any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!
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I may have posted this before but its been a while. To start off, I've had this in my collection several years now and have always been unsure about what it was. My first guess had always been petrified wood but then recently I watched a video about mastodon tusk that had been found to the east of where I found this piece. The material looks very similar. I know it doesn't look the best, but preservation here isn't the best. Anyways, let me know what you guys think.
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Hey there I wanted to introduce myself because I'm completely new to not only the website but also the field or any field entirely. Many many props to you paleontologists and archaeologists and scientists because I would consider myself have a fairly intelligent individual in general but trying to self teach about fossils when you don't know the first thing is not the easiest LOL I've always been pretty outdoorsy and love the idea of fossil hunting and always have but it wasn't until recently that I moved to one of the most perfect places for it... Northern Colorado. To be honest it took a few years before I even had a clue that rock hunting is even a thing though. In the past two or three years I've gotten more and more fascinated with Mother Nature and her ability to create things far more beautiful than I could even imagine. For the most part I've collected cool rocks I've seen here and there but because I've got an 8-year-old that loves to follow suit, it can be tricky to remember 100% where these rocks have come from. I can tell you for sure most of them if not all of them I would bet money came from the same place which just happens to be what I would imagine is as perfect as any for something like fossils really be at. So I've gone back and forth saying that it's totally possible to find a kick butt fossil but then I tell myself there's really just no way I'd be lucky enough and all I've got is a really pretty Rock I can put my garden. In the back of my mind I've wondered though for a long time now and so I thought that I'd come on here and ask for some advice from some of you guys if you wouldn't mind. I'm making three posts of my number three favorites I think is what I'm going to do and then cross my fingers. I'll expect there just rocks for my garden and hope for the best. If you could please let me know if you have any idea for sure if this might be any kind of a fossil or even maybe a semi-precious Stone or interesting mineral. Anything would help at all and thank you for your time
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Hi, i'd like to request an id of this speciment that i collected in a quarry in Solnhofen. At the beginning it looked like a fish part (only 3x3mm was exposed), but during the preparation it started looking more like a shell. Then a strange striped black "horn" popped off during preparation so i stopped my work to know better what it is before doing some damage while cleaning. Do you have any suggest about it? The total length is 17mm. I don't know if the black part is something related to this animal or an extra object to remove... Sorry, I'm a complete beginner Thanks a lot Paolo
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Been working the the Peace pretty hard this year and have some unknowns I'm trying to figure out. I'm about 3 years into this hobby and learning but can use all the help I can get. Thanks in advance!
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Hi Forum, it's me again i was cracking at home some raw stones i collected from the ohmden (DE) quarry (180 million years old) and i found this tooth. At the beginning it was all cover by rock, it was exposed by 20% so i decided to do my very first preparation (with a lot of fear). It took me 3 whole hours but i managed to not break or damage it, so i'm pretty happy of the result, fear defetead! I will not dig more at the moment to avoid to damage it, i'll probably will perfect this preparation when i will gain more experience in the future, for the moment it is way better than the expectation, so i definitively take it story apart, it is very small, 0.6cm long. My 3 guessing based on the location are 1- Ichthyosaurus (i would not bet on it because the tooth look to thin and the stripes look different) 2- Steneosaurus (i prefer this option) 3- Plesiosaurus but all this suppositions come from my no experience mind Thanks a lot for your help Paolo
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A large broken bone...this belonged to a fossil collecting neighbour here in the UK. It is huge but sadly broken into 3 pieces. It is approx. 20 inches long and 7 inches at the widest point. I don't know where it is from. I'd love to know what it is and if I should just leave it as it is or repair it in some way. Someone suggested that it might be a mammoth humerus. Many thanks!