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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!
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Some unknowns from a few hours on the river yesterday..I have ideas of what they are but something makes me second guess myself on each of the four finds. First I think I found a piece of whale tooth? This may be one of my new favorites ( @Shellseeker I see where your interest comes from with these if it is indeed a whale tooth - it’s so beautiful inside that I at first thought it was an agatized coral finger). what is the piece protruding from the side? Part of root? Next, I’m pretty sure this is a fish scale, but I’ve found a lot of them in the past and none of them look this symmetrical or are this fat. Is this something else? Or a special/rare one? Or have I just found smaller, thinner ones in the past? This one…I want so badly for it to be a piece of newborn mammoth tooth that I can’t see anything else even though things are telling me it’s not what I want it to be. Break my heart gently please haha. and then there’s this fragment of a tooth…I thought it was a piece of horse tooth when I picked it up but it’s got growth lines (I can’t remember the scientific word) like a beaver or sloth..but it doesn’t resemble my capybara or sloth teeth…hmmm… As always, thanks for taking the time to read my post. I appreciate all of your expertise and guidance
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Found in Kane County, IL. Never seen anything like it before around here, found buried in dirt near the fox river with few other pieces that had broken off.
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I recently found my first unerupted beaver (Holmes capybara) incisor chunk: I hadn’t previously held one. Now that I have, there a couple unidentified things I’ve been saving that may possibly be beaver tooth. This first one - could it be the top of an incisor? Or am I way off and it actually belongs to a tapir? It doesn’t photograph well so I added lots of pics and a video - it matches up with my capybara chuck pretty closely. Piece#1: Piece#1 next to capybara chunk: IMG_6128.MOV The 2nd piece is small but someone may be able to tell what it came from piece#2: IMG_6128.MOV
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Giant beaver upper incisor chunk? Peace River Florida ID help, please and thanks!
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Hey everyone! I found an exciting array of unusual things in the river today. At first I thought I had a baby sloth tooth, but after some research I believe it’s a giant beaver incisor! @Meganeura you posted something that HAS to be the same as what I found. But can anyone explain why mine has a hole down the center? The shape looks like a sloth tooth to me but the enamel says it’s not sloth, right? Looking for ID confirmation as well as explanation for this hole thank you! …And disregard the sand and dirt still in my nails haha it was a fun day! (Let me know if measurements or better/more pics are needed)- 6 replies
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@RCFossils @stats @connorp @Mark Kmiecik Here are a couple more that I put to the side and do not recall if I looked for ID’s in the past. I just can’t feel comfortable with an id on this worm, what do you think? It is a cutie. 1. 2. This is reminding me of an Octomedusa, but do not recall seeing one with this type of preservation. 3. Here are Three Amigos- any ideas?
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