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I found this yesterday at Lost Creek dam, Finis Shale member of the Graham Formation. The darker parts might be shark cartilage. Any ideas?
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Dear All, I found this in Tuscany 2 days ago, being used as a hearth stone for a fire in a field. Given its Tuscany and its odd shape I guess its marine. Please excuse the poor attempt at dyeing it. Very grateful if anyone has a clue what it is, I have looked at a number of sites and drawn a blank. Its approximately 7 cms wide at the base and 7.5 cms tall. Many thanks, Miles.
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Hello everyone, I found this fossil while combing the beach the other day. I am trying to figure out what it could be. At first I thought whale, but it seems small for a whale bone.
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This was found in a dry riverbed north northwest San Antonio Texas. It's obvious marine but I haven't been able to ID Please help
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This might prove very easy for more advanced fossil collectors to answer. In 2004, the floodwaters from Hurricane Gaston swept away a large amount of soil and clay from an existing stream near the backyard of our suburban house near Mechanicsville, Virginia, exposing a clay bed littered with numerous fossils. The turritella you see in the picture occurs the most frequently of all our finds, and the small clam fossils are a close second. We've recently started to find more of the kind of scallop fossil in the image, which we guessed was a chesapecten jeffersonius, Virginia's state fossil. I found one moonsnail fossil in the same clay, but it's the only fossil of that kind that we've found. Anyway, I'm not much of a geologist, so I haven't been able to precisely date these, or identify them with a specific epoch. I have what I think is a reasonable guess, but I'd like to get a specific date on just how many years worth of soil Gaston scrubbed away from our backyard. Thanks!
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Hi all A friend found this on a beach in South Africa. Is it possible to ID to species or genus level? Many thanks
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Beach gravel find.
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Had a blast last weekend visiting The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. There is a ton of stuff there that's really worth checking out and I noticed an assortment of fossils. The first picture is a crinoid head.
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Echinoid from the Mt. Laurel Formation, Reed Point Spoils at C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE Cretaceous Era, approx. 72 myo 3/4 of an inch in diameter© Heather J M Siple
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what is your favorite mosasaur and do you have a fossil or fossils of this mosasaur? im curiose mine is well quite ovious really mines prognathodon saturator and i do have fossil teeth of prognathodon not sure if they are saturator but i have teeth of my favorite mosasaur
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From the album: Ordovician Fossils from Tennessee
Various Brachiopods, Gastropods, Bryozoans - Chickamauga Group / Ordovician - from East Tennessee -
From the album: Ordovician Fossils from Tennessee
Chickamauga Group / Ordovician - from East Tennessee -
From the album: Ordovician Fossils from Tennessee
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From the album: Ordovician Fossils from Tennessee
Brachiopods - Chickamauga Group / Ordovician - from East Tennessee -
From the album: Ordovician Fossils from Tennessee
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My kid and I headed north to see my family and friends in Cincinnati over TG weekend. And as they all have come to expect, I have a habit of slipping away at some point each trip to conduct sorties and surgical strikes on various fossiliferous exposures. This time, I was able to talk my friend Joe into getting up early and coming with me. Joe and I have been through a lot over the years. We've been friends since I let him cheat off my homework in 3rd grade, circa 1978. I stepped in a few times when kids tried to mess with him in grade school. We conspired to torment substitute teachers together. We've served as best man for each other over the years, and I was a pallbearer at his dad's funeral. The decades have a way of binding buddies together through thick and thin. In that spirit, I endeavored to take Joe to a slam dunk site, help him get acclimated to the presentation of fossils, and then turn him loose on the sweetest stretch of the exposure. So at 5 a.m. I kicked his door in and whisked him off to the Mississippian aged Indian Creek Shale of southern Indiana a little west of Louisville. With a bit of a car ride ahead of us, we had fun recounting the various misdeeds of our misspent youth, throwing around horribly inappropriate humor, and somehow, in the end, solving the world's problems. OK, we are there now. Time to grab some tools and start climbing.
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Upon digging a large hole for a pond in Suffolk, Virginia, we came across lots of shells and other Oceanic remains. We've even found a few shark teeth. This little fragment is one of the more unique items we've found so far. We're assuming it's some kind of skull, but I'm not sure. I came here in the hopes someone would recognize what it's from. If the crescent shape formed a complete circle, it would be about the size of a fifty cent coin. I will attach a few photos. A couple of the photos include some other items found in the same pit (crab claw, shells, etc). Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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Hello from Finland! Please help me identify this small (3 cm) limestone fossil from the sea shore. Best regards, Kara
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Hi All, In my excitement to get a photo to the forum, I'm going to try to upload a photo that has several of our recent finds. The one I'm hoping someone can identify for me is the dark one in the lower left corner. It has a very regular chevron or herringbone pattern that will hopefully help with its ID. Next, if possible, any ideas on the white tooth, top right? I'll get better photos to demonstrate the pattern and size and also the top of the dark one. Thanks for indulging my excitement to get photos up!! Ann
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Looking for opinions on this one. Small and unassuming but if my gut feeling is correct very rare. I found this little bone when sieving through some matrix 19-10-16. The matrix is cretaceous albian in age and comes from a marine environment. The length is 5mm and the scale in photos is 1mm squares. the crack seen in the as found photo indicates the bone is hollow thus my assumption of an unknown bird. I have found several what are believed to be enantiornithine bones in the area that I have since donated to a museum for study, but this one was found a kilometer away so not an associated piece. As usual thanks in advance for any input Mike D'Arcy
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Have been unable to identify. Found near Seattle, WA in a residential area so is possible it's non-native. Thinking this is a plant due to the inner patterns? Or could it be burrows? There are so many on this rock! Thank you for any help pointing me in the right direction.
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So tempted with the tile as I have found this little Y shaped oddity. As per the tags this was found in the matrix I collect from the Toolebuc formation from Richmond Queensland Australia and this is cretaceous, albian in age and about 100 million years old. The specimen is 8 mm long and 1 mm thick and broken at all ends so not big or complete. Thanks in advance for all input. Mike D'Arcy
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We made a couple trips to Beltzville State Park in PA this past week. We had heard about brachiopods on the lake's beach from Robert Beard's Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey guide. The park is the site of dam and an artificial lake build by the Army Corps of Engineers with a stony bottom. A small, sandy beach sits along part of the lake with rocks get scattered from water action. The rest of the lake shore is red, orange, brown and gray mississippian sedimentary rock. I wasn't expecting much as it is a well-known spot in a state park that permits collecting and even provides ID sheets. Figured it would be pretty well picked-over. But, we went to investigate. You never know until you look, right? The first time out was a short, spur-of-the-moment trip with my husband to poke around while we waited for something we were planning to do later in the day. We walked over to the beach and found our first crinoid in about 5 minutes. Another hour of poking around revealed crinoid stems, brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, and bits of trilobites scattered along the shore for easy pickings. The water was crystal clear as deep as I dared wade in the sundress I'd worn for the planned, cleaner agenda for the day. I picked up a couple lying at my feet in the warm, still water. I decided then and there that it would be great fun to go snorkeling for fossils here. A week later, over Labor Day weekend, we returned with the kids. We walked as far towards the dam as the beach would allow, and discovered the real spot for fossil finds. Probably one pebble in four had something in it. Not all of it was worth taking home, but there was plenty to examine. My first glance down at the pebbles at land's end, I spotted a beautiful brachiopod. I picked it up and tossed it carefully to my daughter, parked a couple feet away and already holding a fistful. She caught it, admired it and tossed it back. I fumbled it, dropped it on the beach and lost it forever. Doh! So, if you see a lovely, round brachiopod on Beltzville's shore, think of me! There was more where that came from though, and we looked for a couple hours. When my daughter had had enough, I donned my swim suit and snorkel mask and went exploring in the area less traveled: under water! I only swam at a depth of arm's length. The boats and jet skis in the center of the lake that day stirred the water so that any deeper it was impossible to see the bottom. At this depth I could see the texture of the muck-coated rocks. The undersides of the rocks were clean, so turning the stones over carefully made for even better viewing. I turned up a pair of trilobites in only a few minutes! Unfortunately, that was about the only thing I found that way worth taking home. But, the fish were fun to watch. I expect that on a quieter day, when when the water is clearer, I may have better luck. All told, we brought home some nice shell impressions, crinoids, colony and solitary corals, bryozoans, and a couple that I did not recognize and were not on the sheet. The adventure will have to continue on the the ID forum. For now, though, here are a few scenes from the week:
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I picked up this rather flattened partial fish head a while back and when I gave it a bit of a clean noticed some black sections on the surface of the fossil on both sides of the specimen. I suspect it is some type of mineral (ironstone) but have never seen this on any fossils from the area. Opinions ?? Mike D'Arcy
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From the album: General Gallery
