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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
11mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
15mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
15mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
20mm on the slant Collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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These were all collected last summer, from the Smoky Hill Chalk in Northeast Lane County Kansas. Any help/suggestions/corrections would be much appreciated. 1 12mm Long Enchodus? 2 13mm Long Enchodus? 3 20mm across Gillicus arcuatus? 4 Entire piece put together totals 48mm in length. Not sure on the genus. Better pictures to come. 5 29mm long Stratodus? Seems to bear some resemblance to strato2.jpg (790×562) (oceansofkansas.com). The other possibility I thought of was a damaged Cimolichthys. 6 12mm across Perhaps a member of the Plethodidae family 7 20mm long Apsopelix? 8 3 out of 4 associated vertebrae. All about 11mm across x 11mm long 9 Group of associated vertebrae. All approximately 12mm across long way I expect Pachyrhizodus. I've got a couple more, but it seems I need to re-take the pictures of them.
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
5mm long Collected in the Niobrara Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS. Suggestions/corrections on the ID are welcome© Isaac Fox
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From the album: Kansas Cretaceous
30mm long. Collected in the Niobrara Chalk in Northeast Lane Co. KS© Isaac Fox
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We have been collecting for our first year 4H exhibit. These were all collected in Kansas in the Smoky Hill Chalk and also in Southeast Kansas around Greenwood, Elk, and Chataqua counties. We are looking for some concensus on our identification. We have had a hard time this year due to Covid. When we used to do this 15 years ago we would go to big meetings where we would get help identifying things. This year it was all identified on site and the leaders were very busy helping many people as best they could. As you can see we have already caught quite a few errors ourselves so we are pretty reluctant on the others. I couldn't get my camera to focus on the label and specimen at the same time so sorry for the fuzzy labels. I am helping my neice with her project. She is 7 and just learning about geology but has been picking up rocks and bringing them home for years. Seems like shark teeth are her favorite like alot of others here on the forum. We really want to get east in Kansas and find some carboniferous stuff.
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I collected this a couple years back, from the Topeka Limestone in Elk Co. Kansas, and it was identified as Archimedes. Is that correct? it doesn't look quite right to me (in fact, I think it looks more like Penniretepora, but I could be wrong). The specimen is 18 mm long. I apologize for using the penny for scale, the picture was taken before I started using a ruler as the scale in my fossil pictures, and my camera is having problems right now.
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We found this near Eureka Kansas in association with Americus Limestone. It is my first time finding more than a fragment. We were wondering if a genus could be narrowed down. I don't have any items for scale yet to put in the picture but it is approx 3/8" across. At its widest.
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We found this yesterday outside of Sedan Kansas on a 4-H Geology field trip. It was with a thinner layer of sandstone just below a thick layer of Ireland sandstone. One of the leaders thought it was ripple marks. I also thought it looked like ripple marks but wanted a second opinion. We would hope to be able to display this in her geology exhibit as a fossil if it is truly ripple marks.
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Cretoxyrhina mantelli Ginsu shark Niobrara Fm., Gove Co., KS (leftmost 2 teeth) Eagle Ford Group, Sherman, TX (largest tooth) Eagle Ford Group, Dallas, TX (rightmost 2 teeth) A collection of teeth from a formidable Late Cretaceous lamniform shark. This species competed with other sharks and marine reptiles in the Western Interior Seaway ~ 90 Ma. It likely filled a similar niche that the Great White Shark does today. The ginsu was on average larger than the Great White. Oh, it also ate dinosaurs.-
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Found it in northeast kansas cant find it on any chart
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Hi All, A family member sent me pictures of a bone they found in a creek bed in La Cygne Kansas. It isn't fossilized. I have no idea what it's from, any ideas? Thanks!
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/ox7hnAzkQHLQKUhy6 here is the link to the photos thx found at blue riiver in kansas city
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My Mom (being the totally awesome Mom that she is) took me on a fossil hunting trip when I was thirteen (way back in 2003) out in the Smokey Hill Chalk of Kansas with a group of students. We got to dig on a private ranch and I found this specimen splitting a layer of the chalk. I learned really quickly to follow an older gentleman that was one of the organizers of the trip and he'd tell me about the layers we were digging in and of past finds which I found very interesting. When he found a string of fish vertebra sticking out of the chalk I asked if I could dig into the hill beside him. He said yes and a few minutes later I'd found this (and he had an entire two foot fish tail) It's about 4.5 cm long and I think it's a tiny enchodus skull but I'd love some feedback on what y'all think it is? 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: Thanks, - James
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Hey gang! Im on location at the C2T ranch. I’ll be updating this thread over the weekend as I stumble on new stuff. base camp is set. Snow melted. Rain quit. 3 hours before dark. already a bonanza. this is the fire pit at my campsite:
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Hello Gang! Been Missing in Action for a bit as I was out doing some field work hunting worms. While looking for a place to camp out in the middle of nowhere, I ended up finding a private ranch along the saline river which made my jaw drop (See Photo pulled from their site). Sadly, it was too short of notice for me to check it out in person and the weather was getting epic. However, it turns out they not only allow camping and fossil hunting for a small fee, they encourage it as they are very interested to learn about what they have on their property. They know nothing of the geology beyond this: The Saline River is hiding nearby. There are "shells and stuff" in the limestone. This is in Ellis County Missouri. I plan on spending a few days there exploring in the very near future. Anyway, to my question- Anyone familiar with this area? I am having difficulty finding much information on what the formation is.
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I've started my journey into finding places to hunt along the KAW. With advice from people here and some research on my own, this week I've done some "test pits" where I'd take an hour or less before work testing out via walking around a site and see what I can find, to see if it's worth returning to. And so far I've had great success. I've found multiple pieces of bone, teeth, shell and marine animals (Fusulinids, crinoids, bryozoans, etc). I made a longer visit to the best site I've found yet and recovered more pieces. It's all been just surface searching, with only minor digging in for partially exposed pieces. I've still got to take more photos, but I wanted to share some of my recovered pieces thus so far. I've not yet identified the animals to what I believe to be pieces belong to, but they're still exciting for me. Long curved tooth is some rodent, probably muskrat. I've been trying to identify what kind of turtle the fragment belongs to. The rib and vertebrae, I'm unsure what the animal is from the fragments. Looks like some large mammal tooth or horn fragment. I've been pretty excited about the large amount of biodiversity I've uncovered in the small areas I've visited. I'm looking forward to more trips into the field.
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Hi guys! I am looking for new areas to hunt for rocks and fossils around the KC area. I have been to the Blue river, Kansas river, Cedar creek, Tuttle creek, Perry Lake, Mill creek, and abandoned quarry areas. Anyone have any general locations of where I can find some stuff? I am an avid hunter for all sorts of fossils and rocks (rockhounding is my favorite past time)! I've had the most luck at the Kansas river and Perry lake. Some of my finds include cow skulls, cone coral, shells, agates, vertebrae, and a bunch of druzy quartz geodes and chalcedony. I have included pics of some of my finds - the petrified wood was sanded down and polished up to 3000 grit. Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!!!! Much love KC!
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Hello, Just wanted to hear your thoughts on this element. Collected from the upper Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation in Logan county, Kansas. Let me know if you need more info or pictures. In my heart I want this to be a hesperornithiform, but I'm also getting the "turtle vibe" from this piece. Let me know what you think!
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Hello Fossil friends! I have a couple fossils(?) I'm going to see if I can get help identifying. I found all of them in the same local area of a river shore in northeastern Kansas, so I'm assuming Pennsylvanian time frame. I have some fossils that are obvious shells and coral, but these I'm not sure and would like your input! If you need more photos or angles, let me know. #1 I think is a fish vertebrae that's slightly flattened. It's about 1 cm x .3 cm.
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Identification: ginsu teeth have broad lingual dental bands, rounded root lobes, a strong lingual protuberance in the roots of anterior teeth, smooth crown faces, and no nutrient groove. Notes: Has damage on the lingual side, perhaps a self-inflicted gash as the tooth fell out of the mouth. Otherwise, a perfect tooth with a very sharp point.
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