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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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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 all! I’m looking for some help identifying the specific animal this tooth came from. I know it’s camelid but that’s about it. Measurements are in last images. Let me know if you need more. Thanks!
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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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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!
Amarykah posted a topic in Fossil ID
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)
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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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Negotiating on terms to buy this T rex Claw. Does it seem smaller than usual in size? How much do this run for? I am new to collecting. Thank you
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Hello everyone, I posted this before but I decided to make its own post to bring more focus to it. Found on the beach in the Netherlands. Can anyone tell me more about it? Terrestrial Vs marine, what bone segment, etc Thank you!
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My winter has been spent thinning and organizing some of my fossil formation collections. The Platteville Formation has been one of my favorites as it produces that occasional spectacular trilobite. My biggest problem has been with some brachiopod identification. Thankfully, @Tidgy's Dad,s Ordovician post has made it relatively easy with the more common brachiopods. Finding great sources for the Platteville is hard. Many of the specimens shown today are MUCH smaller than the normal brachs from this formation. All are numbered and my measuring device is worn and didn't show through too well, so I added sizes. 1 is Campylorthis like but not the same as my others. 2 is similar to Hesperorthis but the valve appears too round. 3, 4, and 11 are plump Strophomena like brachiopods with the height maximum midway, not toward the back as my other Strophomena are. 5 is a confusing Strophomena like brachiopod. It is deeply concave, not showing up well on this photo. It is opposite of the Oepikina which is convex. But their hinge lines are similar. Rafinesquina was a guess but no listing of it in the Platteville. 9 is very ornate! 12 reminds me of Zygospira but can not find mention of it in the Platteville. I considered Rostricellula but a sulcus is not present. 13 is deeply concave, not captured well in the picture.
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Hi guys, found a big hunk of fossil something this morning on the beach. Flat on one side, porous on the other, eight inch fragment of something. Is it wood, turtle shell, a weird rock? Tried to get some good images of the texture of the flat side. I imagine the textures are totally recognizable to someone in the know.
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Looks can be deceiving. Is this a chunk of sloth tooth? Looks similar to my other chunk but not quite the same. Found in Peace River (FL). TIA!
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Good day on Peace River yesterday…did I find what I think I found? I’m sure I did, but I’ve also been sure before thanks in advance!
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I'm sorry for the blurry pics, I don't have the specimen with me and my mom had to take these pictures. I have this mineral, and am not sure if it's black tourmaline or aegirine. The cross section of aegirine should be square-ish and black tourmaline's should be triangular and bulging. I'm looking at it and I still have no idea. If someone has experience and can separate the two, please let me know. Don't know the location.
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Hello everyone, I recently bought a box set of 50 minerals and I am having a very hard time identifying them. I can't find an active mineral ID forum and the ones that I tried didn't provide an answer. I know this is a fossil forum, and I usually do post about fossils, but I thought I'd try my luck with the minerals here, I thought someone must be knowledgeable about it. If you guys aren't ok with this, just let me know, and I won't post about it again. Or maybe the mods can delete my post. Also, please let me know of a mineral forum you know or if maybe I can message someone in private about this? Either way, here are the minerals. (Most of them come from Namibia, but not all, and I don't know which, so that might be useless info)
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Below are five shark teeth I am trying to make sure I have identified correctly. Teeth 1-4 were found in North Myrtle Beach, though I do not know where tooth 5 is from. I believe that #2, #3, and #4 are C. Appendiculata, but am not confident in that. I wonder if #1 is as well, the shape seems a bit different in my opinion. Thanks!
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There are a lot of submissions to identify dinosaur material and a good number do not have enough information or its the wrong type of to assist in identification. Some posts are great. So I've prepared this for what I'm looking to help in this process. What is needed: An accurate provenance is the most important item required to obtain an ID. 1) USA & Canada Formation State or Province County or Nearest Town (a MUST) 2) Other localities Country Formation Nearest Town, Area 3) On Jurassic Theropod teeth I need measurements and serration density shown in the illustration (CH, CBL, CBW and Density). With Cretaceous teeth just need Crown Height - measured from the distal base to tip. If more is required I will ask. For herbivores All I need is CH. 4) Photos Tim @Fossildude19 always post this image to get the best overall photos. Additional requriements: Photos need to be sharp and HD. Out of focus images are useless Avoid holding anything, use some support like the putty (what I use - Fun-Tak) or plastic holders. Tak is just a temporary support not good long term and don't press hard No HANDS I do not want to see fingers in any photos. Your hands shake and fingers hide some of the specimen. There are a few exceptions when photographing the base of the tooth or articulation surface of a claw. No OBTUSE photos unless asked for. All straight in shots On Theropod Teeth these are examples of the ONLY 4 photos needed to start. With herbivore teeth I just need one image of both sides. Both Sides Base Mesial Carina May require an angle view to see distal characteristics like texture, undulations, blood grooves BUT not needed at first. I may require a close up of the serrations to see the shape of the denticles. If you plan to be a long term collector I do recommend purchasing a Digital USB microscope. They are relatively inexpensive and go a long way to help in identification. Otherwise sharp HD closeup photos would be needed. Not needed initially. For Claws I just need 5 photos, straight in shots, no obtuse angles. Length measurement Examples of all sides needed and measurement (red line) - I use putty under the claw to make it square to the camera lens For Phalanges need views from all sides Reminder just because all the information is provided it does not guarantee an ID especially from material outside of the US and Canada.
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Found in Peace River. This one has me completely stumped!
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I thought it was a pen cap when I saw it found at peace river. I know it’s a vert, but could you please help me learn which animal it came from? The condition is the best I’ve seen.
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Found in Peace River. Stumped again.
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