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From the album: Fossil Finds
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Even though we live and work during the week on the coast, our main home is a villa in the mountain range of Sierra de Los Filabres, and our property is 18km inland and around 900m above current sea level. Part of the Sorbas basin, the foothills of this mountain range was the coastline until the Upper Tortonian around 8mya. This was found on our property at the weekend and I am wondering, as I believe this area was one of the last on the planet to emerge from the ancient sea, if this is a partial trilobite, or just a weathered piece of rock. Sorry for the long winded intro but I am trying to learn from this forum as their is no club to join nearby. Many thanks in advance for your time.
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a list or a paper explaining prehistoric mountain ranges and then if it is possible to calculate height or approximate height. Just trying to learn all I can about mountains that used to exist. Again thanks for any and all help.
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Attached are photos of a fossil rock my son found in the eastern TN mountains in May 2017. We had stopped near the top of amountain in the Clinch Mountain range and this was sitting in small wash pile on the side of the road (it had recently rained; I had been told by a UTK Paleobiology professor that the mountains around Bean Station and road cuts along highway 25E in that area might yield Ordovician fossils, as many would weather out and could be found lying on the ground). I believe that these are mostly trace fossils - fossil burrows or thalassinoides, along with some corals and brachiopods, but I can’t seem to find much information about marine trace fossils in that area, other than this is the Benholt Formation, and the spot has a lot of echinoderms and brachiopods. I believe that this would date from late Devonian or early Mississippian periods, but this is merely a guess, based on the few small fossil shell impressions in the rock. Any thoughts or insights are appreciated, thanks! Betsy
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Hi all, is this piece a fossil in quartz? It was found in the Andes region, I don´t have it myself, sorry for the pictures. Thanks a lot for your help!!!
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Hello, I found this rock in a creek in the mountains of Tennessee and I kinda think its a fossil of a bone or tooth (?) But I'm not sure, could use help identifying,thanks.
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Hi everyone. I am completely inexperienced in this. I dont even know if I have actually found a fossil. I live in the Karoo and found the attached rocks on one of my mountain climbs. There seems to be a layer of this rock about halfway up and I am sure there are plenty more. If you can advise me. I apologise for the quality of the pictures and hope you can make them out. Thank you so much
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This is the third of the rocks. They all came from the same area of the mountain. Look forward to hearing from you.