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This fossil was found by an old friend of mine in maine, and I need some help with the ID on it. All i know is that it is from maine and that it is a brachiopod (the largest fossil present)
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This was found in Maine, but was likely brought in as crushed rock from Quebec by a Canadian railroad company. Dendroid graptolite is my opening guess.
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Interesting gravel pit find in Monticello, Maine (Aroostook county, slightly north of Houlton - NE Maine). This specific area is identified as “Ordoclavian-Silurian marine sandstone and slate“ on the FEMA Simplified Bedrock Geologic Map Of Maine, and the north branch of the Meduxnekeag River passes through this small town. I’d be very appreciative for ANY information anyone can glean about this find from the photos and information I’ve provided. Thanks always for your time and consideration. ~caroline
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My first fossil encounters began here, on a little Maine beach, more than a few years ago. My grandparents lived only a hundred yards away and I lived here every summer as a child. Five generations of my family have cherished these rocks ever since. I don't live here now, at the edge of the sea, but I am still fortunate enough to visit my childhood playground often. I was here this week, wrestling with plumbing and storm windows, and enjoying the opportunity to wander on the sand, explore the tidepools and search among the tumbled cobbles for an increasingly infrequent brachiopod or two. Most of the exposed bedrock is a wonderfully swirly and deformed metamorphic tale of shifting sands, tectonic plates and molten magma. The cobbles on the beach are mostly an Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian potpourri. The dark mudstones which occasionally reveal a few worn brachiopods are probably Silurian. While fossils were fairly common when I first began looking, I now can wander an hour with not a find. I was happy, then, when I uncovered this 7-inch plate. Not too impressive in another setting, but the best I've found here in quite awhile. I was lucky to find this as well. I'll add a few more photos, now, and maybe I'll add to this thread as time goes by. Thanks for looking.
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While clearing rocks out of my garden I found two - this is one. I took these pictures with my phone - I have others taken with a high-end camera, but as I see things in these pictures I don't see in those, I'm going with these to start. They're from Moosebec Reach I think, between Jonesport and Beals Island. Since there were two together, I imagine someone found them and eventually dumped them "out back". That is all I know ... anyone???????
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Found in what I believe to be Emsian marine deposits here in Maine. The most common fossils found there are horn corals, but I've collected a number of other things there. Phosphate nodules are fairly common there as well.
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Hoping someone could provide me with information on this lovely “find” that I came across on the beach of an island in Maine. What is the classification of this type of fossil? Very rare? Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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From the Pragian Tarratine formation of Maine. I collected it as a trace fossil, but as I was unloading it the light hit it at a shallow angle highlighting the unstained portion of what I think is a nautiloid shell.
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This was found in an esker near Bingham, Maine. Most of the rocks in the line of glacial scour are mid Devonian and below, marine formations. It looks like the left side of a cephalon, labeled as a librigenea in the morphology section on Wiki .
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Had to bring this one home from the gravel pit just in case. Typical finds are Devonian marine, but volcanics are in the mix too. Any chance it's red algae ?
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I noticed this in my garage recently, and was diverted from the task at hand by the need to blow the dust out of it and have a look. About all I know is that it's from Maine. Most of the rocks are mid Devonian or lower marine formations. There is a chance it's from up in the county (Aroostook) where I've collected terrestrial plants. Scale in mm
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This is from northern Maine. Devonian marine rocks in the Seboomook group of formations I believe. When I collected it my best guess was that it was a bryozoan, but somehow it didn't seem to fit right. I cleaned some of the dust off it recently for another look. The tube shapes and configuration of the molds have me thinking maybe syringopora ? It's all the same colony, just broken up.
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Hi guys, I joined so I could identify what I found! I was walking on the beach in southern Maine when I stumbled upon this circular disk. I think it’s a vertebra, but I was wondering if someone could tell me the difference between shark and fish vertebra. Any info is helpful!! It’s so interesting. thumb nail for size!
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We will be doing any family vacation trip for couple weeks to Sebago Lake in Maine. Are there any forum members that live near there if you give me any tips on locations and types of fossils that can be found Near Cumberland county? I am introducing my kids to the fun of fossil hunting and would like to make that part of our vacation. We're planing to also stop at Penn Dixie in New York on the way up to Maine. Thank you
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This rock was found in association with blasted rock that was used as rail bed fill. I have reason to believe that it is Ordovician in age based on the distinctive appearance shared with rocks that members have identified a different type of algae in. The strand of honey comb like shapes is about 2 mm long. I suspect it may be part of the net like structure in the rock whose morphology happened to be better preserved.
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Good morning! I probably should have joined here before now, but well, here I am. I’m a medically retired mitigation paleontologist from California, living on the east coast now. I have collected (for funsies and not work) in Australia, Shark Tooth Hill and all over Southern California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, and now Rhode Island! I’m up for adventures sometimes when my health allows, and my 5 year old loves to come with. Husband, not so much but he tolerates my bringing home of bags and boxes
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Found in close association with the Pragian aged Tarratine formation in northwestern Maine. The first shot shows the part and counterpart relationship. It is a bit hard to tell exactly how much is shared with other adjacent molds however. Layers with a dense concentration of the smaller brachiopods are relatively common in the area.
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This is from north(sort of)western Maine. The formation is of Emsian age and is related to a marine delta.The horn measures 4cm x 2cm. Horn corals from this quarry are all full of trace fossils. This one is quite different though. Instead of crossing septa it seems to parallel them. It also is more tube like as opposed to the others that are solid rods. Could it have been a worm that lived commensurately with the coral leaving it's waste in the abandon base of the tube ?
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Found in an Emsian marine formation in northwestern Maine. This nodule, or concretion, is considerably darker than most found nearby. It was also in a layer with an accumulation of shells, where as many of the fossils are horn corals dispersed more randomly in what I think is muddy sandstone. Would this be a phosphate nodule that preserved a Lingulid ?
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