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Hi everyone, my name is Lee and I'm new here .Ive recently started my new career at an above ground mining facility located in South Texas. I was wanting some tips for hunting on my free time *dos and do nots*.I appreciate any advice and will share what I find ,thank ya'll!

Can someone help me figure out what this is?

Hi all, I have always had an interest in fossils and I am currently working on a project through my college, sifting through microscopic materials, and trying to identify them. Our college just upgraded to better equipment which is making our job a lot easier! I collect fossils, and hope to be able to go out and find some over the summer. I do have a certification in southwestern archeology, and can try and look at anything that might be man made, but anything outside of the southwest I cant guarantee.

In my collection I have an Enchodus marchesettii, but in doing more research I am unsure about the relationship it has to other Enchodus, and it's spread as there seem to be very very few specimens, and most are mislabeled Eurypholis or Spaniodon. I am just very interested if anyone has any papers on Lebanon fish.

Howdy folks! I recently had a family trip to Ontario, and found a few rock exposures throughout Kingston to rummage around for fossils. I was digging into the Ordovician aged Gull River Fm, which has chert-like rock that I still find somewhat difficult to process. I managed to snag a little bit of rock to add to the weathering pile, and today I’ve found some interesting specimens. I’m looking at two unidentified pygidiums, and I believe I’m looking at half a Cephalon on the final slide. If anyone has literature they don’t mind sharing on the formation I’d love to read up, and I’d appreciate a little help ID’ing especially the Cephalon in question.

Please can someone identify this fossil?

So I'm looking for any information on this beauty. It is part of my late husbands collection. Info: Location: Unsure but I'm guessing Texas because my husband never traveled outside of Texas. Colors: white/grey black Gold/copper (solid) Gold (semi-translucent) Metallic silver Dimensions: (approximate, please see pictures) Smaller diameter- 2.5 cm Larger diameter- 5cm Height-4.25 cm Width-3.5 cm Length-4.5 Key details: It looks like a elephant foot to me. On the smaller circle (top) it looks like there is a smaller triangular-ish circle. There is a opaque goldish/copper color on several spots , they seem somewhat like veins. On the larger circle (bottom) there is a semi translucent goldish color. It seems iridescent when the light hits it. Thr metallic silver color is on different spots all over it but seems to mainly be where there is a nick on the rock. When dry it is a white/gray color but when wet it has a yellow/tan-ish color. It is not magnetic. It sparked while I was cleaning it. I have added many pictures. If there is any info I missed or any pictures of the rock you may need, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thank you all for any help you can give and any info about it.

I have what i think is a crocodile tibia but i am not sure. I have spoken with some people that sats it’s not from a crocodile. I wonder if anyone could help me tell what it really is. All the info i have on it, is on the picture (the paper)

Microslides, micropaleontology slides, paleontological microslides, plummer slides, plummer cells, franke cells (foraminifera.eu) nice link

Came across this one and wondered if it was fake or doctored. I have my suspicions - for one, the legs look disproportionate, but I wouldn't know. I wouldn't mind having one of these if it's real and the price is right. This is the only pic available... maybe not big enough to tell anything for sure? but I know some of you have a pretty good eye!

Hello, I just found this forum a couple days ago and have been reading it every moment that I have not been working. I have one question that I can’t seem to find any info on anywhere online even though it’s a very basic beginner question. So... how do you select rocks to try to split open? I know to look for certain types of rock like limestone and shale but when looking over a pile of dozens of suitable rocks but none have anything obvious in them do you just start splitting at random and hope to win the lottery? Or is there certain indications that you look for that say that there may be a fossil deep inside this rock? 2nd question, If possible could somebody give me a basic rundown of what’s going on in this forum, I apologize if I’m posting this in the wrong place or if my atrocious spelling and grammar is a problem but if anyone could give me a little time and set me straight I would greatly appreciate it.

I'm going to a family reunion in Tennessee in 2020. Somewhere around Murfreesboro. Is there anywhere to go looking for fossils while I'm down there?

Does anyone know? I hear there's many fossils there. On all of the maps, though, there's no name for the creek. I know it's random, but I just want to try hunting there with a friend. Thanks! ~RiseOfTheExtinct

I never go out to just fossil hunt but always pick them up when I see them. KY has an abundance of springs and creeks, so there is also fossils everywhere. I recently found one about 100 yds from where a spring started and formed a small branch. Do I post pics on this thread or in another forum? I've not seen one like this before and after an hr of net search I got lucky and found this site.

The fossil record suggests specialist species are most vulnerable to dramatic ecological shifts, whether geologic and climatic in nature. Photo by Arjen de Ruiter/Shutterstock BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Which species are worth saving? Which species will survive global warming? Which will thrive? Conservationists are facing hard questions and tough decisions as they anticipate a warming climate. Some scientists are looking to the fossil record for help. Recently, a team of paleontologists led by Alycia Stigall set out to mine the fossil record for clues as to the future challenges of conservation. Specifically, researchers wanted to know which species are most vulnerable to environmental shifts. To find out, scientists studied the effects of significant climatic and geologic shifts on biodiversity throughout evolutionary history. Their analysis showed ecological changes mostly benefit generalist species, while hurting specialists. Generalists are most successful among large landmasses, where they can spread out across a variety of environs and take advantage of an array of natural resources. Specialists thrive within regions with highly differentiated habitats. Through geologic time, the division of landmasses into smaller islands promoted specialization, while the adjoining of islands into larger landmasses benefited generalists. Because specialists occupy small ecological niches, competing for slices of a relatively small resource pie, their presence corresponds with more rapid speciation and greater biodiversity. The fossil record suggests shifts enabling the territorial expansion of generalists coincided with a reduction in speciation and biodiversity. Given the opportunity, generalists invade the niches of specialists and diminish biodiversity. Naturally, generalists make for the most destructive invasive species. Unfortunately, ecologists expect global warming to encourage the spread of invasive species. The new findings -- recently presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America -- suggest specialist species will need the most help surviving climate change. "Places that are tropical and stable, regions that have similar climate year-round, will likely be impacted the most by invasive species," Stigall explained in a news release. "Data sets for modern species are usually limited in terms of the number of species and years available when talking about biodiversity, so hopefully we can use the fossil record to expand our knowledge and use the past to make informed decisions about the future." http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/09/27/Fossils-are-informing-the-future-of-conservation/9631475010661/?spt=su&or=btn_fb

I have been trying to find out some info about the tooth I have. As far as I can tell it's an alopias grandis, and much bigger than others I have seen online. I'm mainly trying to find out what it may be worth and/or where I could sell it.