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This Is my first post. I am a amateur hunter from south Louisiana. I have had a lot of trouble finding fossils. I have found one chrinoid in a creek, but aside from coral,nothing has been found.I have found that the two prominent spots from the days of past have been covered long ago. I also realize I in a area with not a lot of potential for ground or creek fossils. I have done one trip, and found plenty there, but that was a long drive to Texas. I have even emailed people such as LSU and Alabama professors and geologists from Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. Help please!
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Found this in central Louisiana along with what I would assume is the end of a rib bone? How can you tell if it was from a land animal or ocean dwellers of the time. Excuse my lack of knowledge in this area I am new to this hobby. The first picture has clearly a hole through it where I’m assuming was where either nerve/blood vessel ran through. Just not sure what part of bone it is or who it belonged to.
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Found this one and I can’t seem to figure out what it is. Any help would be great!
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This was found either on Timablier Island or Last Island, Louisiana in Terrebonne Parish. I had it with other shells(clam shells, pieces of clam shells) and what looks an oyster shell.
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I think I found an egg with an exposed embryo, a couple of pictures show the size.
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This is from my yard in Central Louisiana. I had a bunch of pea gravel hauled in so I can find “Indian Beads” (lifelong collector) I am unable to identify it thus far in my searches. Can y’all help? Thanks in advance! Wanting to get back in to this
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Looking through my typical pile of gravel I saw this, I thought maybe it was wishful thinking because I see spiral shapes all the time. I picked it up and noticed it had traces of shell like material tracing the spiral. Could it be an ammonite encased in chert like this, or just a worn down snail of some other sort?
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Requesting assistance identifying the dark slug-looking forms, these look like they were once soft-bodied so I'm pretty lost. I haven't the foggiest idea what these are and my fossil reference books don't have anything that looks like this in the photos or illustrations from what I can see. This was a creek find in southeast Louisiana. Your time and expertise are very much appreciated by this fossil newbie, thanks.
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Greetings Guys! I had a question relative to this Oyster shell. It was found on the bank of the Mississippi river, out of New Orleans. Being from Louisiana, I "sho nuff" know an oyster shell when I see one. The curiosity of this one is where it was found. No trash pile, no oyster bed, just simply on the sand on the river bank where the water level is has gone down. I'm trying to figure out if this could be a oyster fossil. At this point in the river, it is 100% fresh water, whereas oysters like salt, or brackish water. Any thoughts from you guys, gals, would be greatly appreciated. Joe
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Sea Shell identification--Could this be a fossilized sea shell?
Joe Salande posted a topic in Fossil ID
I had a question relative to this sea shell. It was found on the bank of the Mississippi river, out of New Orleans. The curiosity of this one is where it was found. just simply on the sand on the river bank where the water level is has gone down. I'm trying to figure out if this could be a sea shell fossil. At this location of the river, it is 100% fresh water, whereas this looks like salt water sea shell. Any thoughts from yawl would be greatly appreciated. Joe Any thoughts from you guys, gals, would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello everyone. I currently live in Bossier City, LA. Although I was raised in Louisiana, the Northwest and Southwest have been my home for the past 30 years. My wife and I moved back to Louisiana 5 years ago so we could help my mom who is getting on in years. My wife and I are rockhounds and have collected all over the west. I also collect fossils, mainly trilobites. I've collected at U-Dig in Utah, as well as other sites as I found them. I would provide pictures, but none of them were very spectacular and I usually ended up giving the fossils to kids as encouragement to get interested in earth science. I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of trilobite collecting areas in the Midwest and East as well as the rockhounding opportunities in general. Well, except for the swamp that is Louisiana I joined mainly for information on collecting sites in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Any information on that would be much appreciated, especially Black Cat Mountain and the Clarita, OK area. Let's see, what else?.....oh yeah, I will be retiring in about 18 months and my wife and I will be full time rv'ers. I would like to learn about fossil preparation between now and then so any info (classes, clubs, forums, etc) would be great. Look forward to corresponding with you all. Cheers! Walt Davis
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I found this one ages ago when i was a kid. I didn't even realize it was a fossil until i picked it up years later and saw that the "dirt" on the inside was solid rock with small shell pieces. Seems relatively recent if anything. Don't know exactly where it came from.
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Hey there! New to the forum and new to fossil hunting. Looking to get some ideas for taking my son and the cub scout pack out to do some novice fossil hunting and maybe teach them some geology while out camping and hiking.
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I have another smaller piece of this black (coral?) with this vivid yellow in it, and it also has those yellow dots around the edge. This specimen has those interesting whorls in the yellow that remind me of beetle wings for some reason. Ideas?
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Hello all. I'm Mike, and I hail from Louisiana. I've lurked for a while, but only joined today. I look forward to the wealth of info offered here. BTW, I'm a counter-terrorism/ emergency procedures instructor to government and VIP aviation crews.
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Here are 3 bizarre agates in my collection, all from the same small creek bed where I regularly find Paleozoic fossils and lovely druzy chunks of agate. These 3 are atypical finds, and I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light as to what type of agates they are, or provide me with the proper descriptive words to be able to learn more about them. I'm also VERY curious as to how these are formed, as the two agates without the quartz seem to bloom in an outwards fashion; all of my other agates appear to all come from geodes. Anything would be helpful, really, I've tried to research them myself and come away with more questions than answers. I think I'd have more luck if I knew the proper way to describe them in a search query. Thanks~caroline The second pic is of the backside of these agates.
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Wondering if this shape is specific enough to identify who might have lived in this. Ideas? ~caroline
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A customer of mine got into a conversation about fossil hunting. The old timer found this antler in a gravel pit in 1960 while working. I assure you it's real plus he has zero sense of humor so I'm sure he's not pulling my leg. I've tried to research what it could possibly be but have had no luck. I told him I would give it the ol college try to ID it for him... any thoughts?
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Photo: top left Found in a small (10ft wide) woodland stream near the LA/MS border, (East Feliciana Parish, LA/Wilkinson County, MS) within the Citronelle Formation; formed during the Pliostene. While the Citronelle is oft noted to contain fewer saltwater fossils than expected for an ancient coastal plain, this stream has provided probably 95% of the marine fossils in my collection. As a longtime rockhounder but fresh off the boat newbie to fossil identification, I've struggled to find a match for this fossil. (The photo is one I had on hand, am preparing to paint and the fossil is buried in chaos right now.) Betting this ID likely is child's play for most of you, any light you can shine on this fossil would be so very much appreciated. -caroline
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Hi! Newb Checking In From The Bayou State, LARGE Tools
MyGodMagma posted a topic in Member Introductions
A casual rockhounder for most of my life, this hobby turned avid about 6 years ago. Oddly, I found and joined this site a few days ago and at dusk YESTERDAY I dug up the strangest collection of very large and chunky American Indian stone tools. (This find is unique for this area, we really don't have rocks of size here in southeast Louisiana. I've never seen a naturally occurring rock here even as large as a football. I grew up in Toronto, Ontario so their absence is notably conspicuous to me even 20 years later.) I'll add more photos taken in natural light soon, I have more digging to do at this site today. Proper photos to follow later. I'd be interested in any thoughts you'd like to share, especially from states in the Deep South. These pieces are HEFTY, that large chunk in pic 2 is 2lbs, easily. Thanks! ~caroline
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One of my finds today in north LA looks like bone but the round top is suspicious. Either way it's cool looking! Anyone seen anything like this?
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