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Hi, I found a unique sort of rock containing several fossils, some sort of protrusion and it is two toned. A bit of some type of crystal is also present Please see pics. I was hoping someone could tell me a bit about the type of fossils, what the two tone exterior is about and what the protrusion is. Kinda cool. Thanks for your time.
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I found a lot of cool things at Lake Michigan and wanted to know if any of these could get an ID. Thanks!!! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Found this gem in Northern Michigan. It was on some property of a family member that had many interesting rocks I brought home. Any ideas on its identy? Thank you so much in advance!
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Inch and a half circular crystalized "thing" found is Oscoda County, MI - would LOVE to know what I've found. Newbie here. Thank you so much for any suggestions!
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Hey guys and gals, found what might be a fossil here in the thumb of Michigan, could any of you humor me as to what it might be a fossil of if it is even a fossil? Thank you for your time!
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Hoping to determine species and exact structure in pic. This was found in Eaton county in 2021. It came out of material from the Pennsylvanian era, where other club moss casings and fossils have been found. First “cone” or “flower” I’ve come across. Will post more pics later today of this as well as some other pieces of other mosses I’ve collected over the years. Couple pics included without ruler just as teasers…
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I collected this bivalve cast a couple years ago in the Silica Shale (Middle Devonian) of Michigan. I'm not super positive on an ID and was hoping someone here might have some thoughts. @Peat Burns @Misha @Tidgy's Dad? Thanks for any help.
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I found this fossils in a northern Michigan riverbed. It is 3 grams. I don’t know what it is but there is clearly a lizard like animal with visible head and limbs and torso. There is also a spiral fetus like fossil visible on it’s surface. I would say 60% of this rock is preserved biomass of what looks like about 3 different specimens. I uploaded images of it dry, wet, and exposed to steam in a bathroom…
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What do you think this is? It was found in south central Michigan, in a low muddy spot in a field while they were excavating a drain. I’ve had it for quite a number of years. A couple of the tubes look like they have texture on them, like little dots, and it almost looks like there are tubes inside the tubes.
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I'm a collector from michigan and have a large amount of specimens to prep. I am starting this topic to help others and myself on the ID'S of criniods and blastoids I commonly find in michigan. I'll start this with a worn, but otherwise nice criniod my sister found last summer up in partridge point. I believe it is one of 3 species of Megistocrinus. Im waiting for my sister to send me the specimen so I can get a better look at it and add photos to this post. I'm leaning towards an M. regularis due to its shorter height than the other two examples. Just under 6cm in length and width and a little over 3cm in height. Please share your thoughts on which one you might think it is. Any additional papers or resources on echinoderms is appreciated! Classification Common: criniod Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Class: Criniodia Order: Camerata Family: Reteocrinidae? Genus: Megistocrinus LOCATION Country: U.S.A. State: Michigan County: Alpena township City: Alpena Latitude: 45.0056405 Longitude: -83.4332667 Geochronology Eon: Phanerezoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian Lithostratigraphy Group: Traverse group Formation: Partridge point Member: Thunderbay limestone Dimensions Length (cm) 6 Width (cm) 6 Height (cm) 3.7 Notes Identifier Kyle Eichhorn Collector Kyle Eichhorn Event Date 02/01/2021 Field Notes: exposed by tides at partridge point park.
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I found this mysterious fossil in Richland, Michigan, and don't know what to make of it. It appears to have a fish scale and lots of bone fragments, as well as a piece of coral, in smoothed (Devonian?) sandstone. I don't know my fish very well; can anyone help?
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I found this in with a bunch of Petoskey Stones from the Alpena area, but I'm not quite sure it is one too. It seems like the calyxes are further apart than they are in Hexagonaria. Does anyone have an idea what this is? I'll go ahead and tag @TqB myself. Thank you for the help.
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I need help identifying these white fossils in this pale green rock. It was found in the northern Michigan Gravel Pit near Charlevoix.
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Found this in a dirt road ditch washout in Northern Lower Michigan. Appears to have fossilized bone on the right side of the "footprint".
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I found these three fossils I’m pretty sure one of them is a coral but the other two I have no idea. Thanks in advance! Found in Grand Marais MI.
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I just found this piece in a parking lot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The stone was taken from some quarry and dumped here, so there is no geographic or temporal control, but I was wondering if it was a trilobite (since that's what it looks like to me). Thanks!
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While doing security rounds at work, I stumbled across a nice slab chocked full of brachiopods, tucked in dock-side rip-rap from Northern Michigan. It's pretty dark outside, so the pictures aren't the best, but I do see several types in it. Better pictures will follow once I get it home.
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Found this stone awhile back, very smooth and round, and perfectly shaped like an egg! I live in the Thumb of Michigan, and found this in the rocks by some shrubs. All the other rocks were definitely not like this. Any ideas what it actually could be?
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Mastodon tooth found in Michigan creek by 6-year-old boy
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Mastodon tooth found by 6-year-old on a hike. He’s donating it to the University of Michigan Michigan Live, September 30, 2021 Rare mastodon tooth found in Michigan creek by 6-year-old boy By Megan Woods, WDIV, October 4, 2021 4:06AM Six-year-old boy discovers rare 12,000-year-old Mastodon tooth in Michigan creek Firstpost News, October 06, 2021 6-year-old boy finds historic mastodon tooth in Rochester Hills creek Tooth will be donated to University of Michigan’s Museum of Paleontology for research Yours, Paul H.- 2 replies
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Hi From Michigan! I had a great time finding fossils along the Northeast shoreline of Lake Michigan (in the Leelanau Bay, just outside of Charlevoix) this summer. Along with my usual haul of horn corals and crinoids (and two intact bivalves!!), I found these two pieces interesting. Fossil A is a real soup, and I'd like help identifying pretty much anything you see in the picture, especially the thing that looks like an insect. I'm not sure if Fossil B is actually a fossil or a geological formation; otherwise, my best guess is a type of coral? Thanks in advance!
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Hello, everyone! This is my first post here (and I actually joined this forum for help with this, though you all seem like a fun bunch and I'd like to stick around). So, I found this thing on a Lake Michigan beach last Thursday (near the Point Betsie Lighthouse). I have never found anything like it, yet it seems so familiar... it's just asymmetrical enough to be throwing my guesses off. It has a little hole and was once hollow, and is now filled with tiny sand-grain-sized crystals. Honestly it reminds me of part of a crab claw, but I have no idea. Please share your knowledge!
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Any ideas what type of fossil/mineral this may be? Found on the beach just south of charlavoix Michigan.
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Interesting Find from the Lake Michigan Shore, Northern Michigan
bockryan posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone - I have a (hopefully) interesting find from the Lake Michigan shoreline around the Leelanau peninsula in Northern Michigan, which I think is likely Devonian in age. It might be difficult to see from the pictures, but there are some small crystals within some of the gaps. Coral? Crinoid? Mollusk/brachiopod internal mold? Geologic? None of the above?
