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I attended an estate sale last week and the homeowner collected rocks. Sifting through the 50-cent box, I came across this specimen. It's not a complete crinoid, but the size -- and the size variety -- of the stems was particularly enticing. I haven't a clue about where she may have collected it, but the coral, brachiopods and bryozoan fossils in the box look like those I've collected in Michigan.
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I found these rocks at Black River Harbor and Little Girl's Point in Michigan a few days ago. It's driving me crazy not knowing what they are! Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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This was found at Millennium Park near Grand Rapids, MI. I'm thinking Bryozoan?...but does anyone have an idea of species?
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Hello - new here! My 5 year old son has taken an interest in “rock collecting”. We have a cabin on Drummond Island, Michigan - part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We found this in the shallow water of a rock beach of Lake Huron. They look like bones in here to me, but I honestly haven’t a clue! I’m a history teacher, but one geology class in college hasn’t helped me much with this new adventure. I appreciate any thoughts! Thank you!
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Hello! Thanks for allowing me to join. I've always collected fossils and rocks with no idea what I had. I am hoping to learn from this forum. I am from Michigan (USA) and I find a lot of Brachiopods along the shores of Lake Huron. I also find other stuff that I can hopefully ID!
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Hey everyone, so I've done quite a few trips to the Rockport quarry in Alpena and a few road cuts around presque isle, but I was wondering if there aren't any "hidden gems" I'm missing out on in the LP.
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It has become a yearly tradition of mine to visit the upper part of Michigan's lower peninsula, around the Gaylord and Traverse Bay areas, for vacation with my family, and I often spend time looking for fossil in the area, mainly Hexagonaria/Petoskey stones, but for some reason they are far and few between. During my time in the area, I have also found a chunk of limestone containing what appears to be the glabella of a trilobite surrounded by what appears to be large, crystalized corals, possibly a Heliophyllum or similar rugose coral, a smaller piece of the same coral, and what seems to be the calyx and arms of a crinoid. Should I be looking anywhere in particular along the shores of Lake Michigan that aren't as well known as some of the popular tourist destinations? Also, are there any areas more inland that are accessible? (i.e. old quarries, roadcuts, etc.) Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated!
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A family member had this sitting next to their fireplace. I am generally clueless, but I'll try and give you as much information as I can. This was found partially buried in central Michigan in a field. There's a lake in the general area. Useful details: Generally bowling ball sized. About 35lb / 15kg, 12" (300mm) or so in the longer dimension. Concrete like feeling to it. It's non-ferrous. For all I know it was some junk leftover from someone pouring a sidewalk, that happened to take an interesting form. Can anyone point me in a good direction of what this is? Let me know if there's any more details that would help, and I can try to answer your question. Slightly bigger images in the imgur link I put below. https://imgur.com/a/SKTFon2
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I've recently become aware that there has been Pennsylvanian plant material found in the vicinity of Lansing, MI (Saginaw Formation I believe). All academic papers I've found on the subject are quite old, and I've read conflicting reports from here and other websites as to whether these localities are productive at all. Has anyone had experience hunting these areas?
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Hello everyone, My name is Kyle. I am from the central Michigan area and very new to fossil hunting. I've always been interested in paleontology. As I got older the adults around me tried to tell me not to pursue it, but I just can't stay away. I joined the forum to have a solid community from which I can rely on when looking for information. For example, I'm constantly reading and I want to know what are the best books to read and learn terminology and hunting techniques. I want to know what are the best, yet reasonably priced, prep tools to use. I'm beyond excited to join you all here. Thank you
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I found this pretty little chain coral in southwest Michigan glacial drift a couple of days ago. I'm interested in whether it's possible to narrow the ID down between a Halysites species or another genus, like Quepora. My simplistic understanding is that coenenchymal tubules would indicate a Halysites species, so that's what I've been focusing on, although I know there are many other indicators, like size and shape of corallites. size of ranks, shape of luminae, structure of longitudinal tabulae, etc. This piece is probably too silicified to tell without thin sections, anyway, but I thought I'd throw the pics up, in case there's a coral person here who can help me interpret any diagnostic features they see. (The tape measure I tried to hold up in the last photo is cm) Many thanks!
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Hello there. I am quite a beginner to fossil hunting and would like some help on identifying one’s that I found today on the shore of Lake Michigan in New Buffalo, Michigan. I am aware that some could be rocks that I may have mistaken for fossils. Like I said, I’m new to this but would appreciate any of the help that I could get. Thank you.
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I found this amongst some rocks we gathered for landscaping in Michigan's Thumb. My 5yo daughter thought it was "the coolest rock I've ever seen!!!!" and that we absolutely needed to display it in our aquarium. I am not savvy at all concerning such things. Wanting to know what it was, I Googled 'petrified wasp nest' as a possible first guess. On a different thread, I saw someone had a similar question and was told it was likely a Coral fossil. That person's find was gray, not red/burgundy as mine is. Mine is also quite sparkly. I am ready to learn! My curiosity is piqued! Where do I go to find out about this "coolest rock ever"? I have more photos, including a fascinating closeup taken with my microscope camera.
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I found this on partridge point in Alpena MI in Devonian limestone and have been finding crinoids and blastoids. I’m not sure what this is.
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After a bust season in Florida for the Peace River, it has been way too high. I am excited to be planning a trip back to Newberry, Mi. Two years ago when I was there, I was able to collect at a degrading hill side east of the town. There is a quarry of Collingwood Shale south of the town, but I was fortunate to find drift cobbles, and some Collingwood Shale on a friends property. Last time I found several nice impressions of Pseudogygites , mostly just the pygidium. I also found a couple of kinds of graptolites, and brought back a 4 inch thick, 16" long slab of shale with a nice orthoceras impression on the top. As i began salivating about my new trip, I returned to the shale and decided to split it, hoping I would not break the orthoceras impression on top. Well I am glad I did. It was such an interesting afternoon. One of the splits revealed just a fine grain layer of dark mud, with nothing in it. That was the middle split. Then I split each of those halves...in the have below the clean layer, I saw lots of little white dots...ranging from 1/32 of an inch to 1/16...Turns out they are braciapods. I captured a photo of one of the largest, and in it, the hinge even shows. Amazing. On the the half lying between my orthoceras impression on top of the clean grainy mud. Excitement. And drum roll please. I popped open what appears to be a small orthoceras, but perhaps it is a conularid, can't really tell. The exciting thing for me was the preservation. It has a nice decomposition blow ring of color around it, deriving from the decomposition gasses. I learned that from studying my Conasauga trilobites. And then it has some nice detail indicating structure. I was really excited. In the photo of the two halves, one looks larger because it is closer to the camera. On the other side, the top of this piece, my orthoceras was preserved, but a little chip from the side revealed a nice graptolite. A bit more might be revealed, but my previous experience with graptolites. precludes that...I don't plan to touch it. I found so many of them last time, I played around to see if they would be cleaned up....not the ones I have, they just break apart at the slightest touch. So overall, I feel like I am experiencing my trip once again, and I hope to be able to post new photos in June after I return. First photo is the little brachiopod (unknown type). Second photo is the Collingwood shale after splitting. Third photo is the two halves in same photo. Fourth photo is half A - fifth is half B
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Greetings Fossil Forum! I'm a long time lurker who has finally joined the club. I've been a lover of the prehistoric since I could first form memories, starting with dinosaurs, though I am now obsessed with life forms from the Cambrian and Permian. I haven't been able to get out in the field yet, but I'm hoping with forum will give me plenty of resources to get started!
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Hello everyone! My name is Mike. I have been somewhat obsessed with fossils, dinosaurs, and natural history in general from a very young age. I go to beaches on Lake Michigan in Michigan and Indiana during the summer, and like to find crinoid pieces, horn coral, and stuff like that. I also really, really like to take trips to Florida to fish, fossil hunt, catch lizards, etc. While in Michigan, where I live, I like to fish, hunt, fossil hunt, play video games, hang out with family and friends, and get tattoos a couple times a year. I am a senior at Western Michigan University currently. I took a class called Dinosaurs a few semesters ago and it was super cool. I've got a very realistic trilobite tattoo, got it a few months ago. I also have the Jurassic Park Silhouette rex, a realistic velociraptor skull, a realistic triceratops and centrosaurus, the mosasaur from Jurassic World chasing the shark, and a megalodon tooth with a great white swimming, very realistic. I have 11 others as well, but the ones mentioned at least somewhat relate to this site. I have some fossils that I will post for help identifying. My whole family likes to fossil hunt. I went to New York with family last May to find trilobites and other marine fossils at Penn-Dixie Fossil Park. Very cool place, and I highly recommend it. I'm planning on making a trip south sometime in the near future to find shark teeth and anything else around. Well, enough about me. I hope to meet some cool people on here and see some interesting finds!
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I found this small broken pebble across the road from my house. South West Michigan. Looked different. Nikon digital on microscope with a home made adapter. Never decided what all is in it? enjoy, Bob
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RARE SNOWFLAKE "MOHAWKITE" MOHAWK MINE MICHIGAN "Snowflake Mohawkite" in Quartz Mohawk mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan "Mohawkite" is a mixture of copper arsenides, including algodonite and domeykite, of variable composition. It often occurs as irregular masses in the Michigan copper ores of the Keweenaw Peninsula. In this specimen, it fills the spaces between .5 – 1.5 centimeter-sized "snowflakes" made up of radiating quartz crystals--hence the informal name "snowflake mohawkite".
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Just beforehand my exit on the highway, I really needed to use the restroom, and pulled off at a rest area. This was quite lucky, since there was a very large piece of shale sitting in front. The whole thing was a giant hash plate. It was heavily weathered though and there were a bunch of fragments strewn around. I ended up finding quite a few nice pieces in the debris on the ground. Here's the rock and a closeup.
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Hello fossil friends! I am very new to this world, my son and I started looking for geodes a few months ago and that has expanded into an amazing hobby, and a house full of rocks lol. I'm very intrigued with fossils/ bones but I don't know how to identify what we find! I'm pretty positive this is a tooth? Found in southwest Michigan, thanks in advance for any help!
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Hi! I am new to fossil collecting, but I have been obsessed with ancient life my whole life. Until recently I thought you needed all kinds of expensive equipment to collect even small fossils, but now that I know that's not true I can't wait to see what I can find in my area. I am in southeast mid Michigan, which as far as I can tell is one of the worst places to look for fossils. I have one possibly good lead on a location, which is actually really close to me. If I could just find it I could drive there in less than half an hour, probably. The only problem is that the lead is a paper about a paleozoic fossil site that was explored by professionals from the University of Michigan in the mid-late '60s. (I think. They don't go into much detail about who did the excavation of the various sites in the paper, and I haven't read the whole thing yet.) That sounds great and all, which it is, but they provide so few details about it that I am hitting dead ends no matter what lead I pursue. They weren't very specific about the exact location of the site, but they call it "the Fenton lake locality" and on a map they display it as being very near where I live. The discoveries made there are incredible, they list 6 species of fish, a species of turtle, two species of bird (which is almost unheard of for Michigan), a species of muskrat, and a caribou! I will link to the article (it's a PDF) but I will include a few interesting shots of the article itself here. If I can find this place, I could excavate some awesome fossils, some of them from species that are still alive! One of the tables shows that all the species from this locality are from within the last 4000 years, so I would be able to collect some of the most recent fossils on the planet. Here's the link: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48593/ID455.pdf?sequence=2 If anybody has any ideas about what I can do to find it, please tell me! And anybody who lives near enough to check it out for themselves is welcome to, just let me know where it is if you find it since I tipped you off. Other than that I can't find any sites I can go to except in Alpena, which is 3 hours away from me. Does anybody know any good spots in my area? Thanks!
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Cool Michigan Horn Coral/Personal Collection
The007Fossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
The big horn coral embedded in the rock is about 1.5 inches long, for scale. I really like the colors! Anyone have any idea what species it could be? Whenever I find em' I just call em' "horn corals", but if you ask me, they look more like barnacles or something (even if they're unrelated -__-) Good hunting!
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I live in southern Michigan in the Oakland County area. There are a lot of gravel pits in the area that are full of fossils from up north and the Canadian Shield that were brought over by the glaciers in previous times. Most of my fossil collection from the area consists of red limestone rocks with corals, pieces of crinoids, and brachiopods. This rock, however, is different. A few years ago I found a neat rock in my backyard. Took a few more pictures of the matrix itself, but there's a limit to the number of pictures I can post at once. I'm not an expert in geology, so I'm not sure what kind of rock this is exactly, but it's certainly not limestone or some sedimentary shale. The rock is quite hard, difficult to chip with a hammer, and appears to have many silicate inclusions. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it's granite. On the edge of the rock there is an interesting black protrusion of material that looks decidedly different from the rest of the stone. Since the rock looks like an igneous rock, I don't think the black mark could be a fossil, but at the same time, maybe the rock once was a sedimentary stone that metamorphosed into what I'm looking at.... Like I said, I know nothing about rocks, so I'm just guessing. Is it possible this is a fossil? Good Hunting, Brian
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Is it a bone? Found near the other one that looks like bone in Cheboygan Michigan.
