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Hi everyone. I was up in northwest Pennsylvania a few days ago seeing some friends and found this wild thing on their property. It's not my usual hunting grounds and I wasn't particularly looking for fossils at the time, so I never bothered to do research on the area. What I can tell you is that it was found in northern Crawford County, PA, which I believe is Devonian (but may also be Mississippian). Nearby were some brachiopods in sandstone. If extra pictures are needed, just let me know. Please help!
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Hello! I think I've just about tapped out most of my local hunting spots. Yet a week ago I found a couple fossils that look like teeth. Please let me know what you think. They are 1.5 cm wide by 1 cm long, Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous), Glenshaw Formation and from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Found this recently when grubbing around my San Diego Formation (Pliocene) riverbed that is full of marine fossils. Most bones I have found are from baleen whales, or 'other' marine mammals. This bone fossil seems somewhat different than other whale (or other cetacean?) bones I have found. It is smaller.. which doesn't mean much, but the ratio of inner to outer cortex maybe also seems different. I do not know exactly what distinguishing qualities are that would allow one to differentiate from something like a bird, or dolphin. I previously found a manatee rib, but was only sure of this because a curator at the Nat helped ID that. Two images are of the embedded bone, the next two are of a presumably baleen whale bone that was also found that day.
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San Diego formation, Pliocene marine fossils. Fairly commonly find invertebrate burrow fossils (polychaete worms? not sure) I typically don't collect them since they are so abundant, but I thought this was maybe a large one? Also a nice marine mammal bone (probably baleen whale).
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Hello, This is probably not the right forum but I am not sure where to ask. I have found these shells in northern Italy. I don't know if they are fossils because they look modern, color wise and everything. But there is something strange, it's not just the outer shells, the inside of them are also filled. I don't know if it will be clear in photos, but it almost looks like their meat to me. I thought meat can't be preserved? It is rock hard and they also feel like rocks and I believe there is also a little bit of matrix involved. Is this some preservation thing that I am not aware about? They are still somewhat purple, like the modern ones I see everywhere here. Any explanation and further info is helpful as I know people on this forum are very knowledgeable! And I really hope my amateur posts are not too annoying! Thank you.
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I found these two rocks in northern Italy. One seems to me like a coral? But I might be wrong. Please let me know what this is if you know! And the last one is a rock with a black spot on it. I have seen this shape on the bottom of a piece I bought with a lot of ammonite imprints and fragments, so I wanted to see if it is something or if it's just a geological pattern. thank you!
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Hello everyone! New to fossil collecting and I have a piece I'm trying to identify. It is roughly 3 inches in length. I found it in gravel from a former marl pit from Aurora, a coastal town in North Carolina know for it's marine fossils. I think it may be wood since there seems to be a bark like texture to the sides though. Please feel free to ask questions or for more pictures!
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What is this Odd Symmetrical Fossil? northern South Carolina Beach
TheSuddenFox posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this odd and extremely symmetrical fossil washed up on the northern SC shore. I can best describe it as a rhombohedron (kite shaped, but extended out), about 1.5x1x1cm. It has a straight cut from the top to bottom face, as if it is a nasal structure, but I have no idea. Also the bottom side has 2 circular divots. Any ideas?
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Hello! I found this amazing fossil on my mom’s property in Pueblo, Colorado. I’ve tried to do some extensive research online to see what type of vertebrae animal/marine life this is. Could you please help identify? thank you so much!
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Hello, i´ve been fossil hunting for the last 2 or 3 years here in ibiza, i usually find the tipic marine invertebrate fossils. But the other day i found a cliff only accesible by boat that was literally a whole fossil reef of some kind of plants or coral that covered with petrified branches perfectly preserved some kilometers of the cliff with all kinds of marine fossils of all sizes and shapes. The matter is that i started finding bones, in ibiza this is really rare as even in the university fossil collection and archives there is soooo little information of vertebrate fossils on the island. That day i had no tools with me so i decided left them there, today i will go to the place fully equiped to see what i can find, but for now i just took one bone that was loose and i really want to know what marine vertebrates roamed my beloved waters. Having 0 idea of bone identification just by logic i think it may be from some whale or dolphin creature, maybe a shark or other solid bone big fish? Also on this island although extinct there were sea lions in the past, and maybe some sea reptile? On here there is no evidence of dinosaur presence but being an island with almost only sea creature fossils i´ve been thinking that if the island was submerged probably some dinosaur died on what is now land or coast (in mallorca that is a really close island someone found plesiosaur bones)
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Are these just weathered rocks or fossils? There are 4 different rocks shown. The fourth one is a more random one, I don't quite know what it is. Thank you.
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Someone who collects rocks had this among some rocks from Wyoming. When washed of mud striations became visible are there any guess as to what it may represent? ? piece of clamshell? I don’t see dentin/. Enamel pattern of tooth. Coral?
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Hi all - digging in the phosphate piles for the weekend for the Fossil Festival and found this interesting specimen that stumped most of the people I talked to. What is this? (apologies for the hand pictures, only way I could get it to focus properly)
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I will number the images. If you have an idea or know what one of them are, just put the imagine number in your reply or next to the name. I found these in the western part of middle Tennessee.
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Hello! I am a high school science teacher from North Carolina, USA. I recently visited Cape Lookout, NC, which is part of the Outer Banks. I found both of these fossils on the beach and am wondering what they might be. I want to have some kind of ID in mind when I show my students. I have no idea what geologic time period they are from. The first one appears to be a rib or long bone fragment. Possibly from a Sirenian or a Cetacean. It has some weird weathering on one side that almost looks like bite marks. The second one appears to be a fragment either from some large animal's skull or maybe a piece of a large turtle/tortoise shell. These are only guesses, please let me know if you have any idea what these may have belonged to, and if the weird weathering pattern might actually be bite marks. I have several other beach finds that I would love some help identifying if this post goes well. Thank you in advance!
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Hi I am new here. I am using the dating of mostly marine shell material to establish rates of tectonic uplift of marine terraces. The age is likely to be < 2 Ka We came across the attached bone which appears to part of a vertebrae. Can anyone identify what creature this is likely to be? A marine mammal? Thanks - it looks like an interesting forum . Michael C Patikirau vertibrae .pdf
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Went looking for dinosaurs in a new area today and found something I wasn't looking for. The area seemed to be a marine deposit.
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So I’m at a point where I think it’d be best to just show you the entire thing that I’m currently looking at, aside from the tons of pieces that I’ve set aside all around this pit I’ve got now. I don’t expect this to sway anyones opinions but it’s very likely the last post I’m going to leave until I can finish cleaning around the edges of it—whatever it is, or isn’t, potentially. So I guess I’m asking now, is this also typical for limestone? Again, I’m on the far northwest edge of San Antonio, pretty much on the helotes hill country city limit—just a couple of miles east from government canyon state park. This is in my backyard, about 3 feet or so deep, though I’m unsure of the elevation, my house is right at the top of a small hill…for whatever that’s worth. I found that piece I posted earlier, the one which is decidedly (not) a skull section—near where the orange spade is sitting just further outwards, where the dirt ledge is in the picture (these pictures aren’t the very most recent, since the rains have made a proper mess of everything for the past couple of weeks). Once it finishes drying out again I’ll get pics of the result after I’ve cleaned it all back up again, since I’ve uncovered quite a bit more since these were taken. So… let me have it lol what y’all thinking? Am I just the most hardheaded limestone farmer you’ve ever seen or is it at least apparent where my current predicament…conundrum…stems from? By the way, I suspect it won’t matter but for the record, what I keep seeing or believe I am seeing, is a partially if not mostly still-fleshy fossil form…as if it were preserved while in a mostly intact or possibly a partially decomposed state…so what I continue to believe that I’m finding aren’t just bones, in fact the only real bones I’ve been thinking I have seen have been the ones visible in these photos, sticking out of the central section. Apart from those, I’ve been finding what I believe could be scutes, that partial beak looking rock, possible toe or tail bones, and possible teeth or teeth fragments. The rest of the pieces I have found which do not look like normal rock to me has looked to me on the surface like almost preserved ‘skin’ or “outer” laying tissues, with the form resembling muscular and bony shapes. Since those were in my opinion even less pronounced and even more difficult to adequately present through photos, I’d been singling out the more defined pieces, though there are dozens of others which I feel suggest something fossil in nature which I’ve not yet photographed properly and likely won’t for the purpose of posting them here depending on the overall consensus of this last inquiry. That being said, I did throw in a few I’d taken of one such piece that I thought displayed some of that type of texture I just mentioned, so that’s what those last few of the single rock are doing there. So I’d love to hear your thoughts once more and as always I’m incredibly grateful for your time and each one of your responses and feedback. Thank you all so much again.
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Found this little gem, amongst some gar scales. And ideas? Alberta Badlands
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I have no idea what this is. It's unlike anything I have found. I split it out of Brush Creek Limestone today. Pennsylvanian Period, Glenshaw Formation. It's about 25 cm in circumference at the base. I would guess cephalopod, but it's much bigger than one's I've previously found. Help is appreciated, thanks!
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This came from the Deese Group of central Oklahoma. It seems a little long for a conodont at 7 mm but it doesn't look familiar to me. Any ideas?
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I found these in a creek in Summerville SC. I’m still new at this and not sure what they are exactly. Any help I’d appreciated.
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Greetings all, As we approach the third anniversary of the loss of Doren "caldigger" Strane (RIP, my friend.), I am looking over some fossil pieces he gave me while standing in the Denny's parking lot at Merle Haggard Blvd in Bakersfield. For some reason this one struck me as looking more land mammal, like an equus of some sort. Or perhaps it is from a marine mammal and I just don't recognize the shape of the bone, which wouldn't be a big surprise. I do think that it's got a good shot at an ID other than "chunkosaurus", which was the ultimate ID of the fossil I asked about in my first post here 4-5 years ago. I'm pretty sure that it came from Bakersfield's Temblor formation, as that's where Doren got most of what he had. But I have not seen much, if any, land mammal fossils from there. I do know that Doren once found a little rodent skull that he donated to a university or museum for study. But I'm pretty sure that this bone isn't from a rodent of any type. At least of any type I'd want to run into in the flesh. Any ID ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Found this in the rocks used to repair our road. Larger and narrower than any of the brachiopods I've found so far. Is it even a brachiopod at all? I assume the rock originated in the same formation as what I've found around the railroad tracks and in my driveway gravel, which I've been told came from the Slade Formation (Mississippian).
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Is there any way to identify what animals these mini marine fossils from the hell creek formation belong to? 1.
