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So I went fossil hunting today in Sangeorgiu de Meses, Romania. There is a cretaceous fossil site at the outskirts of the village full of marine fossilized life. I found a lot of bone fragments that seem to belong to marine reptiles, although I'm not quite sure about them. What are your thoughts?

I stumbled on an area rich in these types of fossils, some pieces where I found these are a couple feet wide and the whole area is stacked with various types of marine life fossils so I would like to know what they are. Thank you!

Hey guys! I'm new to the forum and have something neat to share that came from Hockley Valley Ontario. I found a descent sized piece of what I believe is fossiliferous limestone. This was in a clearing on my property near Hockley Village! I had posted it on mindat.org which some kind people had directed me here to help further identify the fossils in it and maybe learn more about this specimen. We deduced that it was likely limestone but with some hard silica in it as it was able to mark glass. The rocks dimensions are 17 × 12.5 × 4.3cm and it weighs roughly a pound (I don't have a precise scale). That last picture shows translucency within some of the fossils when lit. Pretty incredible could there perhaps be mineralization happening here? I can disclose any specific fossils' dimensions if required but the largest is 3.5cm long and also my favorite on the piece. It is the one with a one inch nail in its picture. I'm looking forward to learning more about this beauty!

Hello All, I'm new to this forum and I'm new to fossil hunting and identification. Just moved to the North Carolina coast in September and I live on Jarrett Bay/Core Sound which is the southern end of the Outer Banks. About every day we go across the bay to a beach that is only accessible by private boat. We pretty much get the pick of the litter every single day because typically the only people that go to this beach are fishermen and they care nothing about beach combing. I've found quite a few dolphin vertebrae, a couple of fulgurites, a hand hewn wooden pegged beam from a shipwreck, a pottery shard dating to the KangXI (Qing Dynasty) presumably from a sunken merchant vessel and after Hurricane Matthew blew through here I found what I believe to be a petrified whale bone. I am hoping someone can help identify this bone if it is indeed, a bone. The circumference is 12 1/2 inches.