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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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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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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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From the album: Finest Chengjiang
I'm not certain of the species as all the tergites are not present, but whatever it is, it's amazing. The colors are slightly enhanced to reveal details of its limbs and antennae. -
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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Large Interesting Bone New Jersey Cretaceous? Scute? Dinosaur? Turtle?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, had a super quick trip to the cretaceous creeks of new jersey and found this particularly interesting large bone fragment, likely it is a chunk of miscellaneous bone material but it reminds me alot of a scute like ankylosaurus or some sort of other bone scute especially the edge, or from maybe something like a large turtle but I am entirely not sure if it's dinosaur, marine reptile, etc or if there is anyway to tell, looks super suspicious to me anyways so if anyone has any ideas I'd definitely love to hear them. (If more pictures are needed I will definitely be able to get some more angles if necessary)
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Hi all! Dug around whiskey bridge yesterday and found what resembled a geode. The top part came off so I dug the rest out, any ideas?
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I found this partially submerged in the dirt right next to a giant Redwood tree in the Redwood Forest in Northern California. The quarts was sticking out of the top of the ground, so I picked it up and instantly noticed something foreign inside. It is surrounded by quarts and rock but I could see the lines in it going the same direction.
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Hi I recently joined this forum and I need help to identify what type of fish fossil. My dad gave it to me several years ago and don't really know much about it so can someone identify it
