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My granddaughter is in 4-H Geology and has found these two items and no one has been able to ID either one. She found both items at a local sand pit. The first one was in one piece until she accidently dropped it. When it landed it broke open and the white areas were inside. One side feels kind of chalky and the other is feels pretty smooth but has ridges. Any help would be greatly appreciated as she is trying to get her exhibit box ready for the Fair. Thank you, Mari
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Found by a friend in a creek near KC, Kansas. Never seen anything like this. Also, I'm new to all of this so I don't have the slightest clue what I'm looking at... Is it even real????
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These are two rocks / fossils I found in the smokey hill chalk of Kansas they may or may not be fossils.
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I bet you will not believe me but I when to McDonald's to get an ice cream cone and when I was walking back to the car I looked in a rock bed that they had brought in for decoration. And I picked these three up. There are many more there and I don't know if I should go back for more ?
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Hi all, I was walking around NE Kansas when I started finding a bunch of coral pieces, neospirifers, neochonetes, derbyia, chinois stems and various other parts and pieces when I found this. I was wondering if it is some kind of plant or what? I initially thought they were small fusulinid imprints but I could be wrong. Any help is welcome. PS the pictured piece is approx 6 inches wide
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First, I am clueless as to what this is. I am guessing whale because the vertebral body is concave on one end and convex on the other. It is pure stone, and I am wondering if it could be hadrosaur based on some pictures I saw. Cretaceous is just a guess as most of what I found was from that period. I bought it from the son of a fisherman who found it on the banks of the Kansas River in the Kansas City area. Any help is really appreciated. My dream as a child was to be a paleontologist so this is specially cool to me.
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I found this tooth and about 4 outlets like it in the chalk of Kansas today. It almost feels square and like a bone .
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I found this jaw bone in the chalk of Kansas and I have no idea what it came from .i am pretty Shure it's a fish as I only really find fish bones out where I hunt. Let me know what you think. It is hard to see but there are about 8 tooth studs in the bone.
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Can anyone tell me if this is a mosisaur tooth or if not what time of tooth it is it was found in the smokey hill chalk of Kansas
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I found these jaw pieces with tooth stubs in them ,I can't tell what they are from (I think mosasaur)
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I think this is a vertebrae but of what I do not know I have no clue on this one.
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I have stumbled upon a mosasaur skeleton (or at least I assume so ) it is in pieces and I have so far found 3 ribs and 3 vertebrae and it keeps going back into the chalk that it is in . It is in the Smokey Hill Chalk formations in Kansas. It is in many pieces each rib is in about 5-12 pieces and vertebrae are mostly intact
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This is from the Wabaunsee Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Virgilian]) Includes: Wood Siding FM, Root Shale, Stotler Limestone (base ST), Pillsbury Shale, Zeandale Limestone (base Z), Willard Shale, Emporia Limestone (base E), Auburn Shale, Bern Limestone (base BR), Scranton Shale, Howard Limestone (base H), and Severy Shale. Found these unknown objects attached to the interior of a myalina clam shell. This is a marine environment but I'm not sure which layer of the Wabaunsee Group this is from. I've never seen this before so would appreciate any help with ID. I'd be happy to furnish more photos of layer and fossil. Thanks
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Over the past 2 to 2 1/2 years I have been assembling this collection of Cretaceous set. I was directly inspired by TFF user Andy, who made a set of the apex predators of the Cretaceous seas and waterways with many of the same species featured in this collection. I would like to give credit to him for this collection idea. Obviously I couldn't travel to Niger, Morocco, or even Kansas, travel is expensive and time is limited. I will plan to go to Kansas one day as my dream location, but for now, Ohio will do. While this isn't complete, I added fossils from some of my favorite prehistoric creatures. As a fossil hunter/collector, I find that marine reptile and fish teeth interest me the most. The species are as follows; Onchopristus numidus Tegana formation, Kem Kem Beds, Taouz, Morocco. acquired in the summer of 2016. This is the only piece of mine that has any repairs. In the future I'll search for one without repairs.
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Found this earlier yesterday in NE Kansas. The color, weight and consistency of the specimen is very similar to bone fossil fragments I've found in the area, but the weird shape and lines on the inside say otherwise. It's about 4 inches long and seems not to be broken recently, so I was thinking it was a petrified stick or something of the sort. I'm not really sure of what it is, so do you all have any idea? Thanks.
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Two questions here, what are general things to look for when deciding whether a fossil is fake or real? Guidance asked for especially when it comes to Moroccan imports, and mosasaur anything, crinoids, and trilobites, as well as pleistocene mammal fossils. The latter question, is there any massive list of information sort of like an identification guide for fossils? I saw this massive list fruitbat had and its very impressive and I shall put it to use, but i feel it's almost a little bit beyond me at certain times, is there any just general all encompassing guide to identification?
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I collected this after the grass burned, on a hilltop in NW Greenwood County, KS. I've not seen this before, but the chert has such detailed fossils that I expect someone will recognize this. Except for a couple of shark teeth (cladodus), I've never found a fish part. This reminds me of gills.
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Here are some of the various genera of fusulinids present in the Midcontinent Pennsylvanian. I must admit I have no idea how to examine these to identify them down to the gereric level. Instead, I 'cheat' by poring through publications and finding certain stratigrapic horizons -- sometimes at specific localities -- that are dominated by one type of fusulinid. After that, all I have to do is show up and collect chunks of limestone or shale. Eowaeringella ultimata Bethany Falls Limestone (Missourian) Clay County, Missouri Loose: In matrix: Beedeina sp. (girtyi?) (edit: Some Fusulina have been reassigned to Beedeina) Higginsville Formation (Marmaton Group, Desmoinesian) Henry County, Missouri Loose: Beedeina sp. Higginsville Formation Bates County, Missouri In matrix: Kansanella tenuis Island Creek Shale (Missourian) Stanley, Kansas Loose: In matrix:
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Kansas Pennsylvanian Fusulinids Of Mysterious Geologic Derivation
Virgilian posted a topic in Member Collections
Several years ago, while hiking over a dam in eastern Kansas--which revealed abundant aggregate obviously quarried from the local Late Pennsylvanian Shawnee Group limestone--I happened to spot abundant, quite showy fusulinids among the chunks of riprap. I managed to secure two or three representative hand-sized samples. Not so sure I should have been doing this, actually...state property (perhaps even federal, come to think of it) and all; but, what the heck I reckon in retrospect. It was a one-off collecting experience along that dam. A photograph of one of those samples I've included herein. The fusulinds are Triticites, I'm fairly certain. In some respects, to my eye anyway, they certainly rival the justifiably world-famous Triticites fusulinids from the Kansas Upper Pennsylvanian Beil Limestone. True, these don't demonstrate the uniform cute "plumpness" of the Beil specimens, or the outrageous engorged profusion of fusulinid tests so evident in the Beil, but--wow--the examples I collected during that lone hike over that dam sure dazzle, to my eye anyhow. And here's where a mystery begins. What geologic rock formation did they come from? Some rather involved internet research disclosed that most of the aggregate/riprap used for that dam came from the Upper Pennsylvanian Clay Creek Limestone--but, the brownish coloration makes me think of the geologically older Upper Pennsylvanian Toronto Limestone of the Shawnee Group (which has also been quarried extensively for aggregate in eastern Kansas). Anyhow, if anybody recognizes the specific eastern Kansas geologic rock unit that produces such distinctively preserved fusulinids, be sure to let me know. I never did run across any surface, or even quarry, exposures that resembled this kind of fusulinid occurrence in eastern Kansas.
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Here are a few fossils I found a couple of years ago in Kansas, and I'd really like help identifying them! I found them in Riley County, KS in the Flint Hill area. The geological information is as accurate as I could be. I'm not the most educated in this field, so the information is from geological maps of the area. The first pictured fossils I found in Terrace Deposits or Glacial-Fluvial. The following two fossils were found in "Wolfcampian age with the Pennsylvanian/Permian boundary placed at the base of the underlying Admire Group." (According to what info I could find).
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Hi all, Could you help identifying this fragment? I know that is a pretty vague question to ask, but it is probably from the Pleistocene, but I don't think it is fully mineralized yet. This was found near Fort Riley, Kansas by the Republican River. Any help would be appreciated...Thanks! Cole
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Hey all, I need help identifying these. I don't have a good idea of what they are, so I could really use your guys' help identifying these. Thanks a lot!!!
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Found this in a pile of river rock here in Kansas. It's heavy like a rock. I'm a newbie so need some help. It looks like a humerus to me and you can even see the different colors that show the marrow. From surfing the web I've seen very similar shapes of fossil humerus of porpoise, whale and alligator. Should I get back to that pile and keep looking?
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I found this near a construction site in northeast Kansas. It was near a pile of broken rocks that also contained lots of fossils like shells and some geodes. BTW it is definitely rock, not mud.
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Hi guys, I found these earlier today on a creek bed in NE Kansas. I think it's a somewhat old bison upper jaw ( part of it broke)...but it could be an old cow as well. There was also another interesting thing I found, in not sure what it is. I'll try upload more pics later.
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