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Hello everyone. I began working in my backyard and discovered numerous interesting rocks and shell fossils. As a kid I collected rocks, but as I grew up my interests changed and I ended up an ESL teacher I don't know much about fossils and so I decided to join this forum with the hope of learning more. My house was built in the mid 20's and was previously grazing land near a creek (that at the turn of the century was dug into a man made lake). Please forgive me in advance for my lack of knowledge in this subject area. The photo I attached in something I dug up today. Those curved lines in the center are interesting, but I'm not sure what could have created such an impression. I'm just hoping to learn more and keep my inner child happy. Planting and looking at rocks also affords me the chance to spend more time under the Texas blue sky I love.
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Hello! I am Davidm from Johnstown, Pennsylvania (a good fossil area for marine & plant fossils). When I was a boy, I hunted and collected fossils. Now that I am retired, I am back to it! However, I am a bit "rusty" - I have bought some fossils from some very nice dealers... and found some as well. One of my marine fossil sites is now OFF LIMITS - SO I need to find a new exposed site. My question concerns a fossil GIFT. One of the dealers has gifted me with the attached fossil trilobite... but no identification for it. It is from the McKay Group Formation in the Bull River Valley, British Columbia. I have tried to identify it, and suspect it is Labiostria westropi. Can anyone confirm or help here? I have not done this sort of thing for 50 years. I know my LOCAL fossils pretty well... but I like to be sure of my specimens! Many thanks in advance! I am sure I will have other questions.... I feel like I'm 15 again! Dpaul7
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So I bought one of those small abelisaur teeth that came from kem kem that everyone keeps falsely calling raptor teeth. Does anyone know any more information on it? Abelisaurs have small teeth compared to their heads so the creature probably wasn't too tiny. It's about 1.5 - 2cm with even serrations. As i understand it not much is known of this animal but anything you guys know would be appreciated! -Tom
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I need help identifying this. It was in my childhood rock collection. It looks a LOT like some of the corpolite pictures I see online. Does it look like that to you all? It probably came from central North Dakota since that was where I lived, but even that I'm not sure about because we did go on family trips to Montana, and sometimes South Dakota. So it could possibly have come from those states as well. Anybody have any ideas what it is?
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I found this digging in Gainesville and I have no idea what it is
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I found these fossils in Gainesville. Could anyone tell me what they are?
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Hello everyone! I found many fossils in my last trip to a mountain in Valencia, Spain (as far as I know the strata in that mountain are Jurassic/Cretaceous) but I can't identify these 4 fossils displayed in the pictures below. I would appreciate any help, thanks!.
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I was out in my backyard digging a hole to fill in some loway spots, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a tooth that I had dug up. I picked it up, and went inside to wash it off. I looked on many websites but no luck. please help
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This is something I picked up walking in a park about three years ago, and I felt it was Something, but Just Do Not Know What. Any guesses? Any stab at it would be a help!
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Hello, we spent the day yesterday at the North Sulphur River. We needed help identifying some of our finds. I also wanted to ask if anyone has ever encountered the mineral Pyrite while exploring NSR. I tried to include pic also
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Can someone please help me identify this vertebra. It was found in north Mississippi in a creek with shark teeth, coral, shells and other items. It is 9" tall, 5" front to back and 4" wide. I'm not having great success finding someone that can identify this. Or much success uploading the pics so I might have to do it in separate posts. Thank you for any help received.
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Greetings. I have a few trilobite fossils that I do not know the scientific names or proper identification for. I could google image search but that might take forever :). If anyone can help with any of them, i'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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Hi y'all. I'm new here, so I hope I'm doing this right. I have a bunch of found artifacts that interest me. Most were found near Myrtle Beach or Edisto Beach, SC. Help identify? Mike
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I was wondering if anyone could help me ID what my father found on Tuesday in the Speeton clay (Reighton Gap), Yorkshire. It seems to be a jumbled mess of all sorts... scales, teeth, jaw/pincers, and at least one small vertebra. Ive only just started cleaning it up so theres probably lots more to uncover yet. Not sure which bed it came from but my guess is it was from the upper half of the cliffs; the recent wet weather has caused much of the upper cliffs to sludge down to the bottom which is where it was found, lying on top. The block itself is around 12-13cm in length and is mostly being held together by hard clay. At first, i got excited and thought it could be part of an ichthyosaur but after cleaning and closer inspection, it looks more to me like a fish, crab or lobster. I imagine its a bit too large to be a shrimp? I really hope someone can help identify what it is as my father has never found anything like this from Speeton before, in all his 55 years collecting from there! Attached a few photos but i have more if required. Thanks all!
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Hi, found this site while trying to identify a fossil I found and was intrigued enough to join. I'm a strictly amateur geologist, my degree was in geology but my career was unrelated. Now retired and spending a bit more time on leisurely interests. I live in Northumberland UK. Steve
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Wondering if this shape is specific enough to identify who might have lived in this. Ideas? ~caroline
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Greetings once more, This is my second posting and has a direct correlation to my opening post. As previously stated the fossil/geode, displayed in the photos, has been in my possession since my father's passing in 2004. I have no idea as to where or how he obtained but will say that he was a traveler and collector of various items from around the world. The identity of this item has been the topic of many discussions between my wife and kids (now grown). They both still ask me as to "What is it?". So I humbly call upon the members today; What is it? FYI, I will be posting several high resolution pics (11) for your review Regards Mark
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Can someone please help me figure out what this is? I found it a couple days ago at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, California. I am not a fossil collector, I was just taking a walk, picking up shells and I came across it. I tried to get some idea by searching online. But, I couldn't find anything like it. TIA
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Hi guys. Recently found around 10 fossils at Filey Beach in the UK. Most are easily recognisable. This one has intrigued me though, I believe I can see a small ammonite or something on the front, but the objects around it interest me, there is also part of an ammonite on the back also, can anyone identify the objects around the front ammonite as anything, maybe a tooth or something? or is it just nothing, thanks. Hope the picture quality is alright.
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I went to Myrtle Beach, and found these teeth when they washed up to shore. Identification would be greatly appreciated. I can provide closer ups as well. Thank you! (The 3rd, 4th, and 5th are serrated)
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Good afternoon! On a recent trip to Lake Bastrop in central Texas my dog dug up this rock along the shore. It's a very clay/muddy lake with plenty of greenery, it seemed pretty run of the mill at first with some broken shell fragments but an odd hole on one side with markings around it was confusing. I'm definitely new to this so forgive me if I don't know the terminology, but the hole is about 3/4 inch deep. There are what look like scales at various points around the rock. Thank you!
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This is ridiculous. Ive been trying to upload my pictures for over an hour. This site will not upload. Anyone care to take a look through another media?
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Hello all, got this really interesting trilobite in from one of my sources that was unattributed. Any ideas? Also, is there a good source of information on how to attribute Moroccan trilobites? Thank you!
