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Greetings from North Alabama! Thank You for the welcome. I have a ton of questions but will do my best not to aggravate. Seriously though, I will probably be here a lot. I look forward to great conversations and solving all my backyard/ riverbed mysteries!
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So I only have the faintest idea of what this could be. I vote for the oyster crassostrea since that's what I was told. But now someone told me it was a rudist and im a bit confused. Could it be cretaceous?
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A friend found this lovely huge fossil (~2.5") tooth (?) at the W. M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park in Baldwyn, Mississippi. What is it???
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It is very heavy. I bought it at a rummage sale in Alliance, NE. Don’t know where it was found. Owner deceased. Nebraska, Panhandle, mystery
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Found this rock in Charmouth beach (south west coast of England) a few months ago. The period is early Jurassic and is generally dated to ~ 190m years ago. I have soaked the rock rock in vinegar solution and gently scrubbed it with a soft toothbrush. I can see the small crustacean imprint in the middle, but I am curious RE the pattern on the top portion and grey rock in the middle. There is nothing on the reverse/I haven't been able to expose anything. Please let me know if you see anything interesting or if it’s just a rock! Thanks, J
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The rock I am posting today does not contain calcium. I does contain agate. It is uniquely formed and is very laminated both on the surface and throughout the agate portion. What do you think, fossil algae or pseudofossil? or
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Hi What is fossil it? Campanian Poland
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Help! Can anyone ID these? For the past few months I have been finding these in the roads of my neighborhood. I walk a 3 mile circuit daily and these have been spotted at various points all along the route. Within the past year the phone Co installed fiber optic cable throughout. Little by little neighbors have had a connection installed. That is the only neighborhood spanning work that has occurred in recent times. However, the mystery pieces are not exclusively found at the site of a new hook-up. Fuel cells from alien spaceships, listening devices installed by Big Brother, parts ejected from modern cars as part of their secret, planned obsolescence program????? The pieces are 1 2/16 X 9/16". The black portion has two female connections at its base. The clear section has two gold colored, rectangular contacts on its end.
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I bought this skull at a bones and brews event. I was told it was a 35 million year old camel skull. However, i noticed thats probably not true. Do any of you guys know what this is?
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My daughter found this at Trussell's creek in Alabama; the site is full of Cretaceous marine fossils (80 MYA). It has gone to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, but I don't know what it is.... anyone recognize it?
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Hello all, I found this a couple weeks back and forgot to post about this. Not sure if it's even a fossil, but any ideas are appreciated. I really cant make anything out. My best guess here is a bryozoan or sponge if it was anything. Found in Henry County, Missouri. Assumed age is Osagean, Mississippian, though I am not 100% certain and it could be older than I think.
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this is a fossil from the Permian marl slate of North East England and I cant figure out what it is, im thinking plant but not completely ssure, if it is plant anyone have an ID on species?
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ID needed: Mystery rocks / minerals in my collection.
ziggycardon posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
Hi, yesterday I did a bit of cleaning in the fossil room and my mineral showcase and I realised that there were 2 stones and 1 stone/mineral which I still don't know what they are. Perhaps someone here can clear things up? The first is a button shaped, with something resembling growth rings in the middle. I've had this thing for as long as I can remember, I got it as a child when it was part of a magazine for kids that included a rock or mineral with each issue. But I lost the magazine and I have no idea what it is. And then the other mystery items are two metallic rocks that were found when we were excavating our swimming pool in the back yard which is in Tongeren, Belgium. They are as said metallic, have some edges that seem like they are molten, they are very magnetic and are extremely heavy for their size. The weird thing is that they were found in a clay soil, which seems to me an odd place to find metallic rocks? So are they geological? Or are they perhaps manmade? The only weird thing is that there has neven been any construction in that part of the garden before and we are the first building there, it was just an empy lot before. Perhaps historical? I live in the oldest city of Belgium, we have archeological remains of the Gauls, Romans, and so forth and according to liguists the name of the village I live in derived from the Latin word for Smithy, so perhaps a remain from an old smithy? Or perhaps even a meteorite, although that seems very unlikely since no meteorite has ever been found near. So I am very curious about what you all think. Thanks in advance!.jpg.132df94937f0b4ea80fb13104865483e.jpg)
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Last one I hope to get some help on is circular and had me thinking it was a ring when I first pulled it up. It is not metal (tried a magnet) and has the bone sound to it when tapped. Inside seems to have some bone material. Vertebra?
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I found this at an Alabama creek recently, among Cretaceous marine fossil deposits. I can't figure out if it is a fossil or not. The scale is in cm. Two pictures of the top, third one of the bottom. What do you think?
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I’ve found two different rocks like this, both remind me of conglomerate. I’ve found a dark blue stone and this orange one. I need help identifying it. They seem pretty plentiful around my house in southeast Washington. Any help works. Thanks!!
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My dad got this from a friend and gave it to me. He has no clue where it came from other than it came somewhere around idaho. Me and him have been trying to identify it for days, and got nowhere. we need help. any hints on ID will help. Thanks!! (P.S. if you know anything about its worth, tell me please!)
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Hi! We live in central Pennsylvania, and found this rock in the woods right around our house. We are very curious as to what the thing sticking out of the rock could be? Any help with this would be great!
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A friend from California gave this to me many years ago (but I'm not 100% sure it's from California). Does anyone know what it is? IMG_3317.HEIC
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Hey all, Can anyone help me ID this fossil? It was found at an antique store with no information. Its density and coloration really reminds me of something from out west, like Hell Creek or Lance Creek. There's also a a semi-circle pattern of holes towards one end that reminds me of a crocodile's bite. Any thoughts on the possible ID or if its something besides a croc bite?
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I found this sticking out of a sand bar while walking the North Sulphur River this past weekend. I literally have zero ideas about what it could be. Any ideas?
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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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Hi, I found another rock in my yard. It's entirely made up of these circle things. Rock is about 9 inches across. Tennessee Thank you in advance, if you know.
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Hey all. On my trip to Lewes, DE for my last breath of summer, I couldn't resist the pull of fossils and searched around in a sand and stone store. The seller had some nice shark teeth, arrowheads, and ammonites. We chatted about fossils for a while and then she asked me if I had any idea what this is. She said she found it on a beach near Lewes. Unfortunately she was unable to provide information on what formation it was found in. It may not even be a fossil at all. But it piqued my curiosity and I thought it would be cool to at least post it and see if it was anything. Maybe you native Delawarians could tell me a thing or two. The fossil was quite light, lighter than an arrowhead for sure, but without the consistency of wood, and has small little circles at the bottom. That may just be an anomaly in the rock, but I thought every little detail would matter in this case. Thanks folks,
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