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I think I finally did it. I think I may have found a Kansas trilobite.. by accident. We tried a few spots I'd found and just found a few things but my wife directed me to a closed road with significant road cuts. While it was getting dark and we could barely see I grabbed a few things using my phones light (need to get a proper flash light/lantern for next time). Back at home, looking at a larger piece I had mainly grabbed because of it's impressive limestone weathering, I discovered the below pygidia admixed with bryozoan fragments. I additionally think I found my first kansas crinoid spines and calyx fragment yesterday in a Pennsylvanian deposit (yes, I am jealous of you guys with intact crinoids). Could this be Ameura or Ditomopyge? Around 1 cm across. I know these probably aren't identifiable but these are my first (tens of thousands of crinoid stem segments and these are my first spines/caylix, no arm segments yet).

Found in or near Ellis County, Kansas. No depth to it. I thought maybe a fish scale but doesn’t match “fish scale fossil” results in a search. thanks for looking

Hi this is my second preparation project I’ve ever done, I also need some help identifying something. Original fish vertebrae Finished Original mosasaur vertebra, but might need help on ID Finished. Original, and finally my favorite. A Mosasaur jaw with mosasaur bone. Finished. here are the tools I used

Back in April I did a four day trip hunting the Fort Hays Limestone and Blue Hill Shale along the Saline River in north-central Kansas. Had a blast! Always enjoy the alien looking giant septarian nodules of the BHS. Actually found a few cincretions containing well preserved rudists. (not pictured) Scored some incredible inoceramus stienkerns, photographed tons of ichnofossils, and after years of trying a near complete cremnoceramus and its matching stienkern! Most of the cremnos in the area are busted up into small pieces and coated with small oyster analogs. For reference: my hand at the knuckles is about 100 mm.

I’m not sure what the fossils are. The last picture shows other fossils in the same formation. Found south of Lawrence Kansas. I would appreciate any help with identification!

Was jogging on trail in NE Kansas today near areas we found Crinoids, brachiopods, fusulinids prior. The hole in this rock caught my attention. Looking closer, it has the shape of a jaw and it looks like teeth. It reminds me of the shape of a Xiphactinus jaw. It’s probably nothing. But what if ? Whether it’s “just a rock” or not, there are some shapes on this that looks like teeth or bone joints. Does anyone see anything in these pictures? my 6 year old daughter says, “it’s never just a rock Dad”. What are your thoughts???

Both of these verts have been identified as Pachyrhizodus and were found in the Niobrara Chalk of Gove County, Kansas. Needing a second opinion.

Hello all. I'm a newbie and artifact hunter. I pick up interesting "fossils" on my hunts and know nothing about their origin or identification. Here is what I think is a knuckle bone of some kind maybe from a sloth or other animal. It is mostly fossilized (I think). Found on the Kansas River. Appreciate any and all input. I'm going to post another interesting fossil that I think is a horse leg bone & hoof. Many thanks!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nnaj7Yi3i124zN6R9 This link will take you to the original pictures I took the day of finding the items. If someone would like more, please just let me know and I will take newer pictures to post. Thank you in advance!

The wife surprised me with a trip to Kansas City this weekend for my birthday. We stopped at a road cut on the way out of town headed home and found some fun specimens. My neice and mother stopped at the same location a few weeks ago as well. We are excited to identify the finds for my nieces 4H geology project. I always wonder about some of these specimens if they are just the larger and smaller varieties of the same fossils. Here is a shot of the road cut. Here is an overall of our finds from the day. We think these are all Worthenia despite the large variety of sizes encountered. These look like Turritellas but not sure or confident what they are quite yet. need to research some more. The turritellas I am familiar with are from Kanopolis and smoother than these. We found this one that has an angle between a worthenia and all of the smaller ones. It also has smoother and rounder coils. It's the only one that looks this way. It's not as narrow as the turritella shaped ones, and not as wide as the worthenia shaped ones. Lastly we found these small bivalves from what it looks like. My wife was particularly handy at finding these. Overall it was a blast and a great stop and addition to my birthday weekend!

Hello I found this and some other clusters and other fossils in another area. I tried to find one like it but all this other snarge comes up and with out a reg computer it's really faustrating, This cheap phone that red cross gave me after the fire really doesn't take good pic The other items are I believe is sandstone but this person's here says they look like concrete. Thanks I hope the pic are fine

Location: Cherokee County, Kansas, at the edge of Shoal creek. Found this in most most extreme southeast corner of the state.

Found these today and was wondering if you guys could identify them. Pretty sure it is a horse skull just wondering about the age? I appreciate the help -Kirk

One of my Pennsylvanian crinoid stem hash plates had a couple of pieces I didn't recognize. I think the first may be an echinoid spine, the second, diamond shaped one may be a calyx piece (it would be the first one I've found). I think the last two are bryozoan. All the fossils are approximately 1 cm in greatest dimension (hard to get a ruler in the picture when that small).

We were digging a trench and came across some fossilized coral while digging around there we found this laying in the side of the bank. Is this just a rock, or maybe even a claw

My son found this in the creek near our home. Any idea what it is?

Found this in a creek bed here in NE Kansas, feels heavier than a fresh bone should (though it was buried in the mud) and the black color reminds me of other ice age finds (if it wasn't for the color I would have assumed it was dog/cat). *Edit* after cleaning, what I thought were nutrient canals are connected and completely lined by cortical bone, like true foramen of skull or sacrum. Our bedrock is Pennsylvanian but I know that ice age bones (mammoth, etc) have been found at the Kaw/Kansas River (which the creek feeds into about 1 km/ 0.6 mi downstream). Looked at my pictures of the KU Kaw River exhibit, apparently the bones can be upto 30k years old. The exhibit included mammoth, dire wolf, musk ox, etc. I'm guessing this was a much smaller animal. *edit* Not sure it's a hip bone anymore, animal bones aren't shaped like humans. *edit2* added info from KU exhibit on the area and changed title now that I'm more confident it's not a dog/cat bone that's been stained by river mud.

My Daughter found this in a Rock bed next to a parking lot in NE Kansas. Is this a shell? Any feedback? thank you!

29 in x 19 in x 9h approx Heavier than 100lbs. Dense Ha(d) a fingernail thick crust...u see where he's gone medieval on it. 20 years of thinking it was an ammonite due to spinesque looking structure...please help b4 it is 10 million pieces....he is about to. Lol

Found this in NE Kansas while hiking. For a while I thought it could be some type of corral or sponge. But someone mentioned it could be a meteor. it does seem heavier than a rock. IMG_5027.MOV IMG_5029.MOV Any thoughts or tips?

In NE Kansas while hiking in trail after recent rain, saw what look like tooth/ claw/fossil? ? ? Any ideas? Found other interesting items that stood out, Find a lot of things that seem like they could have been used as tools. the items in the picture were not all found at one specific spot. Found them throughout the trail. IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4209.MOV

I have recently found this fossil in north western Kansas (graham co.) I don't know if this is a shark vertebrae/cartilage disk or just a basic fish vertebrae. (Don't mind my bad prep work. I just started peeping fossils recently.)

This is a tooth I found in Northwest Kansas (Graham Co.). It is 100 percent complete. It looks like nothing I have ever seen before. It has cerrated edges which leads me to believe it is Squalicorax Sp. but I am not sure because of its odd and blunt shape.

Went hunting in the Tuttle Creek spillway which was mostly a bust (though I may be biased by my every-other-rock experiences at Lawrence and Lake Shawnee). Aside from fusilinids and a couple of indeterminate shells I found a rock with multiple smooth flat round structures (3-4 cm across). The rock had fallen down the side of the spillway so age is likely somewhere in Carboniferous to Permian. It broke apart when I pulled it from the ground. Any have any idea what these are? This shows the side view of one of the structures (top edge on the left side)

Hello, I have a whole bunch of unidentified crinoids I'd like some help identifying. From my guess on the species and the fact that there were all together (as well as the other specimens that came with it), my guess is that these are Pennsylvanian or Permian-aged crinoids from Texas or Kansas. I'm hoping narrowing down the ID would better pinpoint the provenance for them. Here goes. The calyxes all range from 1-2 cm wide. I did attempt to ID them, using resources including this by the forum's @Missourian: #1-#4 I think are all of the same species or at least genus. I'm inclined to say either Delocrinus or Graffhamicrinus, which are similar-looking genuses. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. This one is a bit unusual in that it seems to have some arm bits preserved, which look like thick spikes. It's a bit crushed but I think based on the calyx pattern it could still be a Delocrinus or Graffhamicrinus. 6. This one has a basal plate pattern like Delocrinus or Graffhamicrinus, but has unusual spines coming off of the radial plates. The following 3 specimens (#7-9) look similar to the above calyxes, but I noticed they somehow seem more globular and rounded. They may be the same genus/species and just variants, or a different genus/species. For instance, if the above are Delocrinus, perhaps these are Graffhamicrinus? 7. 8. 9. The following four (#10-13) are clearly different from the above. Each has a clear infrabasal circlet and stem attachment, plus the calyx expands towards the top, which gives it a more cone-like appearance. These may be Bathronocrinus according to this: http://inyo2.coffeecup.com/kansasfossils/crinoids2.html 10. 11. 12. This one has some proximal arm bits still attached. 13. This next one has very bulbous/swollen calyx plates, which are especially noticeable from the side view. Perhaps a Galateacrinus according to Missourian's diagram? 14. 15. The plate structure is harder to tell on this one, but it has slightly swollen basal plates that form dimples/notches where they meet the radial plates. This is clear on the side profile. I honestly have no idea what this one could be. 16. This one has no plating texture, and I'm thinking it looks like the basal plate of the floating crinoid known as Paragassiocrinus, which is known from Texas. If so, and it is specific to Texas, perhaps I can attribute all these specimens to the Pennsylvanian of Texas as well. 17. An odd specimen, might be a set of basal plates. 18. This seems to be a stem and basal plates. 19. These seem like spines from the anal tube or "umbrella" of a crinoid such as Plaxocrinus (https://www.google.com/search?q=plaxocrinus&sxsrf=ALiCzsbwpZnGPNxgLHUJ4758h1D4GTNkKQ:1669188769957&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM5sjd5MP7AhWmKkQIHb3vAIkQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1257&bih=764&dpr=2#imgrc=atyg4qzOxLWjRM). 20. I'm unsure if this is from a crinoid, but it might be part of a spine. 21. This one I placed separately because the color of the calyx and matrix are different from all the rest, and so it may be from a different locality. Species-wise it looks similar to the first 9 specimens I posted, so it may be a Delocrinus or Graffhamicrinus.