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Found at about 6,000 ft above sea level, although the pic appears to stick up, it is an imprint. Each imprint is approximately 1/2” deep (5 holes total), found in a piece of mudflat. You can see my hand in the right side for scale purposes. Any information is appreciated.

Found this while combing the beach of the mighty Columbia River - I’m on the island that separates Oregon from Washington. My usual finds have been agates

Hi all! Today I'll show you a site which is quite similar to the subject of the Frozen Fossils topic, but somewhat opposite of the latter, as it's only accessible in summer (end of July- beginning of September). It's situated in the historical city of Vladimir on the Klyazma river. The banks are overgrown with vegetation, no movement whatsoever on the river and very few people visible. Occasional ducks and herons, fish splashing nearby.The bridge is the only reminder of civilization. The river bed is surprisingly formed of solid clay you can confidently walk on. The age of this clay is Lower Kimmeridgian (mostly the 1st bauhini/baylei zone which is pretty rare in European Russia)

Hi, my family stumbled across these (and hundreds of others like them) along a creek bank. Would love and appreciate some help identifying them.

Hello all – Stumbled across this great site/forum after rekindling an interest in fossils and minerals from my youth. I was able to visit a spot I spent a lot of time in summers as a child with my own children and looking to get them interested as well. Location: Southern Ontario on Lake Erie After doing a little research, according to this map (https://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/pub/data/imaging/M2544/M2544.pdf) from the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, the bedrock is Middle Devonian (from the Detroit River Gp.; Onondaga Fm. – I assume these are the formations?). Though with the glacial activity I don’t know if the rocks below are consistent with that and how that impacts things. 1) Does someone know what the spherical depressions/imprints in the large rocks are? As a young child, I always pretended they were dinosaur egg impressions. I understand now that isn’t the case but they still strike me as interesting I am curious if they are imprints or some sort of naturally occurring phenomenon in the rocks. Given the size and location of some - it would seem they are not strictly erosion activity but no expert here :-) 2) Relatedly, I am curious what the black sections of the one rock might be (red arrows in the picture below) - just another type of rock that settled when the surrounding rock was forming? To my recollection (and other pictures I have) these black "inserts" were not in other similar rocks nearby. These are large rocks 2-3 ft wide x 2-3 ft long or larger – sorry but took them before learning the ways to try to provide scale on the forum and sorry there are not more/closer pictures - I didn't know a community like this existed when I took the picture. I have included some pictures of fossils found nearby. I think they are fossilized corals and a horn coral. The imprint fossil I think is a leaf? I understand that this area was likely a tropical climate 400 million years ago so that would make sense I think. Many thanks in advance! While I don’t have much to share knowledge wise – I do have much to learn and appreciate the community!

Could these be compression fossils of Paleozoic invertebrates (such as someone of the strange shrimp-like creatures)? Crane Hill, AL Carboniferous Thanks for looking.

Scientists discover 'ghost' fossils beneath a microscope By Ashley Strickland, CNN. May 19, 2022 'Ghost' fossils preserve haunting record of ancient life on a hellish Earth By Joanna Thompson, Live Science, May 20, 2022 Scientists Discover “Ghost” Fossils – “Completely Unexpected” University College London, May 20, 2022 The paywalled paper is: Sam M. Slater, Paul Bown, Richard J. Twitchett, Silvia Danise and Vivi Vajda, 2022, Global record of “ghost” nannofossils reveals plankton resilience to high CO2 and warming. Science. 376(6595) pp. 853-856 Yours, Paul H.

Hello everybody! In continuation of the Frozen Fossils and Frozen Fossils II topics this report covers fossil hunting in real winter, with excavating fossils from under the snow (@JamieLynn might be interested). The trips took place this week when we had a thaw with temperatures raising to +1-2 Celsius after a long period of frost (so that digging became possible). This time I visited the same site as in FF2, which is MUCH poorer than the one covered in FF1, but MIGHT yield more diverse fossils (which was unfortunately not the case).

About 18 years ago, when I was on holiday with my family in the Cevennes in southern France, I found lots of ammonite fossils near a rivier. I also picked up this slap of stone with strange imprints in it. Tracks of a sea creature like a worm or arthropod? On the other side are the imprints of something that looks like a starfish. It has been a mystery for me since the day I found it. Any suggestions/ideas what i can be?

Found this rock in a stream bed, so I can't define what "layer" its from but Pennsylvanian throughout Kansas City.....any help appreciated as always!... Bone

Yesterday I stopped at a road cut that I had seen on the internet. The road cut is located on Dug Gap Mountain Road in Dalton, Georgia. To be honest, I do not know anything about this the age of this formation or the shell imprints that are in the matrix, which I believe to be a mudstone. The only thing I found were imprints of small shells and a live Georgia scorpion. If anyone has information on this site, I would appreciate it. Here are some pics of the area , the scorpion and my finds.