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I received this in small bulk lot owned by a relative of the seller. I am unsure on the location or if the tooth is in fact from a mosasaur. My reasoning for mosasaur is that it lacks serrations and it came with other cretaceous specimens, however the color is off for Morocco which are the specimens I am more familiar with. If it's mosasaur perhaps a location is will be possible as well? Best regards.
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Hey there everyone! I haven't been on in some time but I've just started unpacking my stuff from a move and I came across this fossil that I found in the fall of last year. I found it in an eroding gravel cliff that I frequently find Coleraine formation deposits in. This fossil is one of the handful that I haven't been able to identify. Whatever it is, it's one of the larger fossil/casts that I've found. Any help would be appreciated!
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Is it natural or carved?
Danielle 875 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Found at the beach yesterday and I am obsessed with this ai can't stop looking at it it seems to be a carved picture or something on top of some Flint stone what could this be?
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I found this yesterday on a beach in England it's almost like fairy wings wrapped around a rock any one ever seen anything like this before? And knows what it is
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Hey guys! Mystery fish here. Don’t really know much about it.
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Okay, when I say backyard, actually a creek bed just over the backyard fence. The creek is a main drainage of the Northwest flanks of Mt. Diablo in the SF Bay Area, CA, USA. Every winter rocks and boulders wash down the creek, so I cannot know the specific geological time zone, but we've found other fossils here (future posts coming). Looks like it could be fossil to me, and my imagination leads to thoughts of maybe fish? or mollusk? Figured it'd be worth a shot posting this up to see if anyone sees something identifiable. Thanks in advance! RCD
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Hi Guys, This one had me absolutely stumped. Found in Java, Indonesia.
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I don't really know much about this unfortunately. Not sure where it's from or what it is. Apparently it was collected in the 1940's though which is interesting.
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Greetings, this is my first post on this forum! I can typically identify most of my finds using google, but I found an interesting / poorly formed cast, or maybe concretion?, in a shape I hadn't seen before and I have no idea what it is or how to potentially clean it. It seems pretty fragile, and with no idea what I am looking at, I haven't attempted any cleaning. Hoping to find some ideas here! Found in Hays county, TX, presumably part of the Glen rose limestone formation. Came out of a small cliff made from an old small quarry dug out of the side of a hilltop. The limestone it came out of is yellow / gray and crumbles easily, it frequently breaks apart to reveal poorly formed "clam" cast clusters (the entire hilltop is basically an ancient 'oyster' bed), periodically produces some nice specimens though! Could have come out anywhere from ~5-12 feet (~1.5-3m) beneath the cliff face (I am presuming in the lower range since it was still intact, a higher fall may have split it). Crab? Coral? Cluster of 'clams'? Stingray?? Lol, I am utterly stumped on this one. If I left out any useful information or if any more photos are desired, just ask and I'll do my best to provide it! Thanks!
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Hello i found this fossil on a remote rocky beach near salalah Oman it is near a cliff I found it as it was being washed by the waves. It is a jurrasic fossil does anyone know? thank you for your time
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Hi, I have this mystery piece of what appears to be anomalocarid appendage of sorts. The problem is I did not receive any information with it and it came out of an old collection from Maine, Usa. I'm not to sure what else it could be from the appearance but I am also very uncertain of the exact species. The piece of a very laminated sparkly shale If I had to guess it could've came from either Burgess Shale, Utah, or Nevada but I not sure what locality it could be from so if anyone if familiar with these shales and can tell from the preservation it would be a huge help, thank you and looking forward to seeing peoples opinions, and if anyone can recommend an expert to show that would also help.
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Mystery fossil? Presumably Tooth? (not my image, but can't take photos with my pc)
pliosaurus_stan posted a topic in Fossil ID
I am new at fossil collecting. I found 2-3 of these. What are these? I've searched the forum and cannot find anything on this. sus tooth thingy1.jfif
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I found this bone in my mince ('beef') and I couldn't begin trying to ID it. My best guess was a rat's rib but rat ribs don't look quite like this. It's obviously not from a cow, those are enormous. Unless it's an inner ear bone or something? I realize that this is a fossil hunter's forum but it's the nearest thing to my need that I managed to find.
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So, the fellow who I get some of my China pterosaur teeth from has offered me this fossil among a few other worn/battered/partial teeth. He can't place it--says it is possibly a tooth of some kind. It is Jurassic age, from GuangYian City, SiChuan Province. Unfortunately, he doesn;'t know which of the two formations from there it is from. There are two--Shaximiao which is a terrestrial formation and Zhenzhuchong which is mainly marine but has had prosauropod (Lufengosaurus found there). Unfortunately it is in quite a poor condition--but I am hoping someone may recognise it at least similar to others, so I can get an idea if it is a hadrosaur, prosauropod etc. I am wondering if it could be a worn and battered ornithopod tooth--there are a few from Shaximiao.
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I found a fossil fragment on site the other day unlike anything I have ever come across before. Some ideas that have been suggested by colleagues include a bone fragment, petrified wood, or a bryozoan colony. The fragment is approximately 2.5 cm long and half a cm wide, is Pliocene in age, and comes from the Kaawa Formation for anyone who knows their New Zealand stratigraphy well. Im not looking for an ID as such, more just a general indication of what I'm dealing with from anyone else who has come across something similar. Many thanks!
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Mystery Piece Found Along With Edestus Teeth Illinois Coal Mine Carboniferous
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi all, this strange piece came with a batch of edestus fossils that were found in a coal mine in Illinois. Have no idea what it could be, the front seems to be coated in black coal mostly while the back has what appears to be ridges. All I know about the location is it was found in a coal mine along with some edestus teeth that is Carboniferous in age. Hoping with some help to get to the bottom of this mystery.
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Hello All! Found a pocket of dino in the Moab area of Utah. I'm confident one is a raptor, but I may be wrong. The other I am not sure about. For reference, they were right around the corner from each other in the same pocket. Just a note - these are WAY off the beaten path in an area very few people would be able to get to. Quite frankly I was surprised to find them in this material as opposed to conglomerate like most of my other finds. Thanks in advance for your help! Raptor (?) - The whole thing was there down to the tail, but I am still working on pulling those pics of my other device. ' Mystery-O-Saurs
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Found at Dauphin Island, Alabama. I found both washed up on the ocean’s shore The light gray tooth is 4.6 cm tall,4.5 cm at it’s widest, and 3.8 cm at it’s base. The dark gray tooth is 5.6 cm tall, 3.3 cm at it’s widest, and 3.5 cm at it’s base.
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I found this weird thing a few weeks ago while fossil hunting at Douglas Point in MD, it's clearly not a fossil, but I have no idea what it could be. The grid in the photo is 1x1 inch, and the whole thing looks and feels like metal but it's lighter than you would expect. My best guess is that someone was melting a lightweight metal for some reason (recycling?) and a stray glob landed on some rocks or debris, creating those hollow spaces? This beach is kind of in the middle of nowhere though, I can't imagine why someone would be doing that. Any guesses welcome!
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I've found a fossil in flint during flint knapping. I've exposed as much of it as I could. It's about one centimetre long and one centimetre wide. Cant know how old the flint is. It's from the Negev desert Israel. It was found in a wadi with debris from multiple periods (Triassic-Eocene) cant be sure. I think it might be a crinoid stem but I'm far from being sure. Any help would be appreciated!
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Hi there, I'm not really involved in fossil hunting but my daughter and I found this on a beach in the uk and wondered if you could tell us what it was? It's about 2 inches across and 3/4 inch wide.
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I have been collecting fossils for many years, but this fossil is without a doubt the strangest and most mysterious of the fossils I’ve ever found- I would really appreciate your help in helping solve this mystery of what it is and how old it is! It was found on the rocky shores of Lake Huron in Southampton, Ontario. I initially was interested in it because it looked like a boot and I thought it was a native carving, but realized it must be a fossil of something I’ve never seen before. It’s very interesting to me because it almost seems to be coiled like a spine of an animal, but could also be strange coral- I have no idea. Very curious to hear what you think. Thank you for your help, Christian
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I found this very complete snail/mollusk looking fossil, it’s the first time I’ve seen the shell and body shape of a snail type organism preserved equally well in a fossil I’ve found- can anyone help tell me what organism it is specifically and from what time period? I found it in Southampton, Ontario in my rock garden, so I don’t know whether the rocks from the rock garden are from a quarry or the shores of Lake Huron (I would guess they’re from Lake Huron, but I don’t know). Thanks for your help, I’ve been holding onto this for years and always been curious as to what it is! Christian
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Hello wonderful fossil-people! If you and you're gang enjoy solving a groovy mystery, I have a post for you! This rock was found in an area of Northern Arizona that is very well know for producing lots and lots of bryozoan, brachiopod, and crinoid fossils, as well as crystals and geodes. The bit of rock in question was found in the side of what appears to be a broken geode. There is a triangular fragment of stone that does not match the material surrounding it. There is also a white discoloration encompassing the triangle that I've highlighted in green on one of the photos below. The colors in the 3rd photo are a little more true to what it looks like in real life. The geode is kind of a pink-ish color and the triangle "fossil" is a dark brown/reddish color. Given the abundance of marine fossils found in the same location, I wonder if this is also fossil. It just seems so out of place in this rock. I have oodles of bryozoan, brachiopod, & crinoids that I've found in the same location and I can share pictures of these, if it somehow helps So what do you think, fossil or random bit of stone? If it is a fossil give me your best guess as to what it might be... or even give me your worst guess. I'm not picky lol.
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I know the pics aren't great, but I'm hoping someone can tell me what this is. It is from Florida. It is pretty tiny, but I thought maybe the design of it could help someone identify it.
