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Hi everyone, I just got to spend a couple days looking for fossils at Lake Michigan and came across a few that I couldn't identify. In addition to loads of Petroskey stones and Charlevoix stones, I came across the attached rock. Any thoughts on what may have been captured here? The stone is about 4 inches across at the longest (top to bottom in the figure). Location: Charlevoix, Michigan.
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Relevant info first: This was found in Petoskey Michigan while looking for Petoskey stones. It was found in partially buried in sand. It is quite large and rather heavy. As pictured in picture 5, there is some sort of opening at the end? I can't get a very good picture of the inside, it's hard to get light where i need it and take a picture. the hole looks to maybe be about a 1/2 mm deep, and less than that wide. I took to reddit, albeit with less detailed photos and was told it was a straight shelled nautiloid cephalopod from the paleozoic, and that it was a brevicone, which I'm hoping someon
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Hello again! I received another trade today and was told this was a fossil found at Lake Michigan. I'm not entirely sure it's actually a fossil and I definitely don't know what it is if it does happen to be a fossil. I couldn't capture it with the camera but when I rotate it there are tiny glittery areas on some of the surface.
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Last week we took a ride to Lake Michigan to do a short search before the weather turned bad. The previous day had strong winds with large waves and I thought we might find some interesting things. We found plenty of Favosites, Halysites, and Rugose corrals as well as some of the other usual finds. The one unusual find was what I believe to be an internal mold of a Pentamerus oblongus brachiopod. I don't find many brachiopods and as such I'm not 100% sure on my ID. Please confirm or correct. Thanks in advance. Jim
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We are interested in what the long skinny fossil with the flanges or fiber things are that look like a swimming thing. This fossil was found on the beach in Milwaukee Wisconsin United States on the shores of Lake Michigan. It was found on October 27, 2020.This fossil was found on the beach in Milwaukee Wisconsin United States on the shores of Lake Michigan. It was found on October 27, 2020.
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Found on lake michigan. Im not sure how to tell the difference between fossil and a piece of pottery. Any advice?
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My new find of the week was located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Glenn Michigan after some rain and high storms. I am needing help in correctly identifying this, i have some ideas but yall know more than i. And really wanting to clean this up. Was going to soak in vinegar but thought id ask before i touched it with anything other than dish water. Thank u
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We found the following in Harbor Springs, MI in July. Initially thought it might be petosky, but it’s a lot lighter in color and smaller markings. Thanks in advance!
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Found on the beach of Lake Michigan in Sturgeon Bay, WI this past week. Approx 1" w x 3/4" h x 1/4" deep. Thank you!
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Hi all, Is this a trace fossil, worm holes? If yes, that would be the first I've found. The holes measure about 1mm to 2mm in diameter. I think it's odd that all of the larger diameter holes are perfectly parallel to each other, while the smaller diameter holes seem to run perpendicular to the larger ones. Also, what are the dark thread-like shapes all over this rock. I've never seen those on my finds either. Rock measures 2cm tall, 1.5cm wide. Lake Michigan beach find, WI, this could be either ordovician, silurian or devonian. TIA! front:
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Found this rock on the shore of Lake Michigan near the beach canal entry to Lake Macatawa. Looks like the inside of a walnut. Thanks
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This rock has me puzzled. The sides look like they might be the laminae of a stromatoporoid. The top of the rock though, lacks any trace of mamelons and the wavy lines between them that I typically see on stromatoporoids. Instead the rock is full of Cheerios ;-). So I'm wondering if this is something totally different. Maybe geological? Oddly preserved oolites? But then, what are the layers visible on all the rock's sides? Dimension: 1.5" long. TIA to all! Detail of top: Side:
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I found all the crinoids below at Lake Michigan beaches in Illinois. (Silurian, Racine formation) I have to admit, I used to not pay too much attention to the ubiquitous crinoids on my hash rocks. That is, until I started to look at them with a clip-onto-the-phone microscope. I quickly found that crinoid disks aren't all the same and are actually quite beautiful and intriguing. Also, finding a pretty little crinoid calyx at the beach got me to look for more like it and low and behold, a short time later, I did find another one. I do believe they are very rarely found at Lake Michig
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I found this stone along the shore of Lake Michigan. I would appreciate any feedback as to what it might be? Thank you!
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Hi all,I'd appreciate your help with this Silurian Lake Michigan fossil from the Racine formation. I've done some research and found a family of Silurian colonial horn corals that have members which do look very much like my find. It's the Arachnophyllidae family. I'm not sure if they occur in the Racine formation though. Are these badly preserved stromatoporoid mamelons next to the horn coral? The rugose coral is growing on a stromatoporoid reef? Calyce detail: Here is a North American Silurian colonial coral that looks similar. It's Arachnophyll
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Picked up this stone a few years back while visiting the area north of Traverse City on Lake Michigan. Lots of Petosky stones on this beach, but this really looked unusual. I’ve had some time to look at it while at home lately and wondered if anyone had any ideas? So curious because of the triangular shapes and line patterns.
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Hello everyone. As usual, I need your help with one of my finds. It seems this small rugose coral has a buddy. At first I thought the the tiny "bump" was just a bit of debris sitting on top of the coral. But now that it's enlarged, it looks to me somewhat similar to a crinoid. I'm not really sure though, I've never seen a crinoid preserved anything like this. Surely it's not part of the horn coral itself, or is it? Thanks to all for your input. Detail:
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Please help me to identify these two fossils. When I picked up these rocks, I thought I had found corals, but now, looking at them from all sides, I'm stumped. What throws me, is that the pattern on each of the two fossils looks the same all around the rock. No vertical structure or growth pattern, anywhere. So even if these are just broken off pieces of a much larger fossil, corals still would show vertical structures on the sides, right? But no "sides" are visible here. Confusing. Thanks so much in advance for taking the time to share your knowledge. #1: Dimens
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I picked up this jasper for its banding. Only later, when checking the rock through my hand lense did I discover what I think are a bunch of little rugose colonial corallites at the top and bottom of this rock. If these are indeed corals, all but one lack most detail in the center. If septa are faintly visible, they look differently preserved than on any of my other coral specimens. Mostly it's just circle after circle here, and areas full of "pores". Now that I'm looking at them on my larger screen, the "pores" themselves seem to be corallites - microscopic ones. The black
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Microscopic horn coral, or ruins of ancient walled miniature city? ;-)
Pippa posted a topic in Fossil ID
Can anyone confirm that this to be a tiny horn coral at the top of this little pebble? Its diameter is about 3mm. It's not at all perfectly preserved, but what a surprise I had when I discovered it through my clip-on phone microscope. Sorry about the grainy quality of the close-up image, it's as good as it gets using a $4.50 clip-on toy microscope Also, I assume those are beekite lined shell bits on the sides of the pebble? TIA!- 7 replies
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My daughter found this nice little brach at a Racine, Wisconsin beach, with silurian bedrock. Milwaukee with devonian bedrock is not that far north. So the shell may very well be devonian. Can anyone help with identifying the species? Thanks in advance.
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I went fossilling last Sunday (in the 50sF, in Chicago, in the middle of Winter!) and found some cool fossil rocks. I assume this one is either a orthocone nautiloid or a gastropod. Either one will be a first for me, so that's pretty exciting. No matter what it turns out to be, am I looking at a Steinkern here? Second photo: I think that #1 might be a nautiloid? The apparent crushed "spine" is confusing though. Could it be that the siphuncle does run in a siphuncle "deposit channel"? And here it was crushed and flattened? I
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Normally Winter in Wisconsin isn't the prime time to look for fossils. Today we had record high temps. and decided to take the chance and drive 2 hours to the lake. My concern was ice piles on the shore line and they were well founded as many areas were not accessible. We found a spot which was accessible but the waves were washing up to the ice piles. Good enough. We were wearing knee high boots but still left a bit wet from some of the larger rollers. Our efforts were rewarded with numerous corals and a few other possible fossils as well as many interesting rocks. Here are some of those we f
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My daughter and I took advantage of the unseasonably warm temperatures over Christmas to go rockhounding at a nearby beach. She found what looks like a colonial corals. At first I thought they might be rugose, but they're smooth, not wrinkled and each corallite has this round "cap" on. So then I thought of syringopora, but I think for that the corallites are too large. Also, the individual corals grow/point into all different directions. That made me think that they might not have grown together, but were just deposited into a heap. What do you all think? detail
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This rock was found in the shallow water off the South East shore of Lake Michigan about 20 years ago. No idea what it could be. Any help would be appreciated.
