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These Vertebrae are from Cretaceous of Morocco, Does anyone know what species these are? Thanks a lot!
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Hi all. Took another trip to our closest site yesterday - a Carboniferous marine deposit on the shores of the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Amongst the usual Bivalves and more familiar shapes (which I may need to ask about on here at some point - as I have only the wildest guess of what they actually are) we found the below. It looks for all the world like a coarsely textured skin of small scales. I'm aware that soft tissue preservation is incredibly rare, so am dubious - but I don't know what else it might be. Anyone able to help? Nb. I haven't done any work on this at all yet - this is exactly as found.
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My wife and I made our way down to North Carolina for the Aurora Fossil Museum's Fossil Festival last weekend. Overall it was a pretty productive trip and we came away with well over 1000 shark teeth, some nice shells, lots of ray teeth, some shark, fish and cetacean verts, small cetacean teeth and a bucket of coral pieces. We heard many of the regulars say that the tailings weren't as productive as other years, but I saw quite a few nice specimens being collected. A few of the larger teeth, most of ours were damaged, but some of the colors are great: Lots of smaller teeth, I will try to take some better pics once I get them sorted and layed out flat: Ray teeth and spines: All the verts were pretty beat up: A good sampling of shells: Crab claws: Sea Urchin spines: I couldn't manage to find a whole cow shark tooth, but I did see a gorgeous little complete one come out of the hole next to me. Here are a few partials we found: A few micro samples, I did grab a few jars of sifted matrix once I realized how many small teeth were falling through And lots and lots of coral my wife wanted for some project she wants to do: Overall it was a good time. We met a lot of friendly and interesting folks and my wife already asked if I wanted to book the place we stayed to come back next year. Thanks for looking, Randy
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Hello! I am a professor teaching at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab this summer. I teach the Marine Mammal Bio Class. I have an extra day available next week to take the students on a field trip. I know that Alabama has a hot bed of marine fossils. I would love to take the students fossil hunting where we might find marine mammals. NOTE: I know the chances would be very low to make such a find, and if we did find anything, we would leave it and contact other scientists to reveal the location. But I wanted to ask if anyone could suggest the following: 1. I know many houses used to use Basilosaurus vertebrae as cornerstones. Are there any examples of this still available to see in the bottom half of the state? We are willing to take them as far north as say Selma, Montgomery, Pratville? Maybe slightly more north. I must drive them from the coast (Dauphin Island). 2. Are there any museums with fossils of marine mammals in the bottom half of the state? Montgomery? Mobile? 3. Can anyone suggest a site where I could take the students to hunt that is available to the public? Where it could be a long shot to find something marine mammal related, but also more likely to find shark teeth or mollusks? Thank you for letting me ask these questions. Jennifer
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Hi all My son found this today at the North Sulphur River. We figure that it is a jaw fragment from a fish but would like help IDing it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Bret
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Anyone planning to go to the Aurora Fossil Fest this month?
RandyB posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Wondering if anyone is planning to attend this years fossil festival in Aurora, NC Memorial weekend or if anyone who has attended previously has any recommendations/advice? I've spoken to the director and know the basics, just looking for any insight a first timer should be aware of. -
Hello: Would like to know if anyone can help identify the attached fossil image? This fossil impression was collected years ago north of Santa Barbara. The impression measures approx. 10.5 mm long. Thank you.
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marine Upper Permian of Svalbard - I can’t even ID it to phylum!
David Cothran posted a topic in Fossil ID
In a typical Permian (I’m fairly sure) marine trash slab with brachiopods and bryozoans. I don’t have a good scale card handy, but the last image shows the slab with a metric ruler. The specimen in the first image is visible at the top of the slab and it is representative size, ie. 0.8-1cm width/diameter and 2-5cm length. Thanks for any help - I’m very curious about this one.
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I need help identifying these fossils I’m not sure what they are I’ve had these since I was 8 so I never got around to finding out
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Found these in southwest South Dakota. Looked at thousands of images online before troubling you fine folks. Found in an arroyo below layers of possible fossilized bone and a layer with a variety of chalcedony/agate
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These were recently found by a close relative of mine on one of the highest points on Crowley’s Ridge in NE Arkansas. Not found in or beside a creek or gravel pit but all were found within close proximity of each other. Thanks for any advice or comments you can add!
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Found a piece of a small bone from the Severn Formation, Late Cretaceous, Maryland. This is an area where I have found abundant turtle shell, shark teeth, enchodus, and occasional mosasaur fossils. Not sure if this piece can be identified. I was thinking turtle but it seems kind of gracile at the broken end. All help will be very welcome.
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Found something new to me in a marine late cretaceous site in Maryland. I would have thought it horn coral but they were long extinct. A friend suggested rudist . All help will be appreciated
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I' m a local photographer in Flagler Beach, FL. I frequent a local beach almost daily. I have come across quite an interesting find. Currently due to stormy weather causing rough waves and some higher than normal tides the rocks have been sliding down into the ocean and breaking apart. Well a wonderful treasure was exposed in one of the rocks. A skull. There is also a tooth and what looks to be bone vertebrate. I am in the process of excavating currently but would love to know who this skull belongs to. Any help is appreciated!!
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MARINE MOLLUSKS aggregation from the Pittsburg Bluff (Oligocene) and perhaps a bone.....
OregonFossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Location: where fossiliferous exposures are found in streambanks and in cuts on highways, logging roads, and railways. The type area of the formation is along the Nehalem River near Pittsburg, Oreg., where a highway cut affords a good exposure of its lower part. Exposures of the Pittsburg Bluff Formation are relatively scarce; they are interrupted by broad areas of thick soil cover and dense vegetation. The formation is cut by minor visible faults, and there may be others that are not visible, so the mapping is uncertain in some places. The Pittsburg Bluff Formation conformably overlies the Keasey Formation (late Eocene and early Oligocene) and is conformably overlain by the Scappoose Formation (late Oligocene and early Miocene). Because parts of all these formations are lithologically similar, the stratigraphic position of a nonfossiliferous exposure is sometimes uncertain. New stratigraphic studies indicate, however, that contrary to the opinion of some previous investigators, the Pittsburg BluffFormation is conformable with the underlying Keasey Formation. In Oregon you can hunt the roadside ditches and talus piles for fossils if you are brave enough to face the traffic:) Last time out I was lucky and found a very large piece of the sea floor (about 38" long, 14" wide, 8" deep) as well as about 10 smaller pieces. Today I was working on a 3' by 8' piece using paint brushes to get some of the lose matrix off (to be scanned for various microfossils). Here is what the piece looked like: The Red "T" marks a small piece of matrix that I removed with dental tools. Lots of shell fragments and casts of Mollusks. Not sure what that brown stain. Under the red "T" was something I have not seen before in this matrix. Here is the item (6.7mm x 6.5mm), do you know what it is?: Here is some more information of what has been found in this formation: The Pittsburg Bluff molluscan fauna contains none of the rock dwellers of the littoral zone with the possible exception of Mytilus, and no snails that are known to be herbivorous. None of the mollusks found in the formation, except the turrids, are considered indicative of deep water. No remains of echinoderms or crabs have been found, and foraminifers are represented by two poorly preserved globigerinids. Some fish remains have been found; the teeth identified are of sharks and rays. Welton (1972, p. 168) makes the following statement concerning the shark teeth: ***the lower sections of the Pittsburg Bluff Formation yield numerous teeth of a small squalid shark Centroscymnus and not uncommonly teeth of Raja, Squatina, Odontaspis, Squalus, Pristiophorus, and Notorhynchus. These genera, plus several additional forms, collectively constitute the most diverse assemblage yet known from the middle Oligocene of Oregon. Otoliths from USGS 15310, in the middle part of the Pittsburg Bluff Formation, were identified by John E. Fitch, California Department of Fish and Game, as belonging to the families Congridae (conger eels) and Macrouridae (rat tails), both bottom-dwelling families that typically inhabit moderate (200 m) to great depths (500 m), and, although found in all oceans of the world, are least common in tropical seas (John E. Fitch, written communs., May 23, 1973, and June 18, 1973). From the preserved molluscan fauna, a picture emerges of an infaunal community of filter feeders, detritus feeders, and carnivores living on or within the sediment of the sea floor.
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Hello, would appreciate help with a fossil ID. Location found - Fergus Falls, MN. All rock pieces are from one larger piece that I broke apart. I removed some matrix with a Dremel tool to reveal more detail, but the "body" of these creatures were left untouched and are smooth in texture. The first six images of larger specimen has unique features on both sides. The smaller additional specimen along with the separate unfinished rocks seem to be the same creature, just more of them.
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Idmidronea traceyi, Taylor and McKinney, 2006 Mount Laurel Formation Reedy Point, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Idmidronea traceyi, Taylor and McKinney, 2006 Mount Laurel Formation Reedy Point, Delaware -
Found this rock at half moon bay in California. It leaks out a black tar substance and I have no idea what it is. It has 4 little prongs that look like tooth roots and it’s shaped like a molar. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello! Found this tiny piece in a mix of coral rocks/ gravel debris near Ft Myers Florida. Corals included diploria, meandrina, siderastrea. This is very small, about a quartersize, and appears to have been surrounded by a shell or edge at some point. All thoughts appreciated
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Hello all, This is another fossil found at Fort Funston a few weeks ago on the beach below the cliffs. It appears to be a bone and I have a few ideas but I'm eagerly looking forward to input. I believe this is the Merced Formation, Pliocene. Thanks again in advance.
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Went hunting my local late cretaceous severn formation marine site. Found a 5 inch piece of bone (which is large for the site. I am guessing it is a rib piece because it is a long and flat oval bone. this is a site that has alot of turtle, enchodus and some croc and mossasaur. Is there anything to distinguish one rib chunk from another
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My son found this in Lost Creek in Russellville, Alabama. I am assuming it is a marine trace fossil but someone locally had another idea that is so far fetched I won't even mention it here, LOL. I figured I would check with the experts to see if they agreed with the simple explanation first. Thanks! Ramona
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Hello all! I found this fossil diving about a mile off the beach in Venice, Florida in around 30 ft of water and was hoping someone here might be able to help me get an ID on it. I initially thought it was a rib bone when I was underwater but the guide we were with said it could be some kind of tusk or tooth due what looks like an enamel layer on the outside and a core running through it. You can see what looks like an outermost enamel layer that has peeled off (especially visible in photos # 2,5,6), as well as a cross hatch pattern on the material underneath (especially visible in photo # 5). The wider end piece looks to have a core running through the middle that has kind of a tear drop shape (photo # 4). The wider end piece seems to have somewhat of a rounded triangle shape to it (photo # 4). The smaller broken end piece has a shimmery surface that looks almost like obsidian (photo # 3). Let me know if anyone would like more pictures or information on this recent addition to my collection. Any thoughts on this fossil are much appreciated, thank you!!! Best, James
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Real or Not Keichousaurus?
DardS8Br posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Is this Keichousaurus real?
