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Hi I am a newbie.But I always stumble upon some neat fossils while searching for arrow heads.i live in Ashtabula county,Ohio.It seems strange to me I found in a cornfield freshly plowed and right on top this fossil.And no arrowheads.
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Hi, I hope you can help. I found the following object on the North Yorkshire coast along with the other 2 fossils. Wondering if anyone has any idea what it might be? Please let me know if I can provide any further information.
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Found this while walking along North Beach in Seattle Washington at low tide, and it looks similar to dugong rib bones that I found in Florida before, but I'm not sure with this one.
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Before I get stoned to death for posting this here (lame pun intended)…let me just say that I honestly have no clue what I’m looking at here but I am not suggesting, nor am I of the mind—that it’s a fossil, but it was just so strange lookin’ that I couldn’t help my curiosity, so here I am asking for opinions on what caused this to form and what it’s composed of most likely (if anything other than limestone, that is…. (-__-). location- far nw San Antonio, tx , just outside the foothills of the hillcountry (helotes, tx) Again, I do want to apologize if this belongs in a strictly geological forum somewhere, I’d have probably posted it there instead, had I been aware of one existing which was similar to this platform but exclusively for weird ugly rock identification help (lol). Thanks in advance.
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Hey everyone! I found this outside a small kettle hole on the east end of Long Island. Can someone tell me what I’m looking at? And because I’m hopeful for petrified wood, perhaps I can be shown what to look for and what to avoid. I have more photos, but I didn’t want to flood the site with my first post. Thank you!
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Hi all, I’ve been putting in time to working the clay matrix off of this bone/rock from the Lance formation in Weston, Wyoming. In the process, I’ve gone back and forth on whether it’s just a rock and no fossil to now thinking it may be a sizable chunk of ceratopsian frill. Any help would be much appreciated as I hate putting in the time and having to wonder if it’s even a fossil at all. If it is a fossil, how agressive do you think I should be about working matrix off vs leaving it as-is? Thanks!!
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Ive had this what looks to be a fossilized clam in my yard 30+years , my grandfather brought it home one day, he said he found it while they were dredging in some part of Tampa bay, it's really hard my wet saw cut through granite like butter but this not so much, basically I was wondering if anyone knew what it was and if it might have turned into something cool because I want to cut it in half and put of display, I'd appreciate any shared knowledge thanks.
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My daughter found this in a dry creek bed near our house. I was using muriatic acid to clean it up and noticed it was fizzing and pulled it out and saw the formation. There’s a black and red tar on the back that didn’t come off in the acid and it’s 3.5” x 3.25”. We have found a lot of arrowheads, native American artifacts and what we believe are fossils (teeth, bones, coral) but this one stood out the most. Does anyone know if this could possibly be a fossil? And if so, what kind?
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Hello, My fiancé and I were hunting for meteorite fragments and found this very unique 'artifact' at her family ranch in Starr County, Texas. I have no idea what it is and want help identifying it. A very uneducated guess is that it may be a dinosaur egg with ancient carvings - total guess. The lines around the 'eye' are raised.. not carved in. Apologies if I am using incorrect terminology. I just want help in my quest to identify it. There were quite a few arrowheads found near this 'artifact' as well. Any ideas or suggestions welcome in helping identify this! Thank you
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I got a box of sediment from the Morrison Formation. But everything is gray and I am having a lot of trouble determining what's big bone and what's rock. Here is one example. Any advice on this?
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check out these horn corals i removed from a large rock today in the creek
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Hi all, Would be really grateful if anybody could help identify this fossil. The piece was found in South East England. Unfortunately the provenance is a bit murky but I believe it was claimed to have been found on a beach. Attached a series of (compressed sized) pictures showing the specimen from several angles with international scale
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Hey everyone, new here, but hoping I’ve come to the right place! My family just got back from tooth hunting on shark tooth island and found these too and wondered how we could confirm what they are and if they’re just ordinary or could be extraordinary!
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Hey everyone, just joined the forum to ask for opinions on this item. I was out on my Native American Reservation in Parker, Arizona and walking along the beach of the Colorado River outside of our Casino. I stopped to find some cool stones in the water and came across this thing that I immediately thought resembled a shark tooth. I’m no expert, but things like this tend to pop up out in Arizona. I reached out to a department at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, seeing as they are only a 20 minute drive from where I live, but I haven’t heard back from them yet. Any thoughts?
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I found this yesterday, i was thinking maybe whale with a broken tip. It seems to have little to no enamel left, so it could be a lucky rock, any help? Thanks!
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Hi forum, sorry it's me again I was in omhden (DE) about 4 months ago and among the already digged and cracked stones i've found this strange speciment. It's a complete flat surface, very regular with a strange spoon-shaped prominence in the middle. It looks also like it has a scale-shape lucid black piece next to him. I thought this was enough to take it, also considering that i'm not an expert and i know i can ignore a ton of unprepped super pieces also if i grab them by my hands. I don't have any idea if this is just a blank rock or it can hide something good. I need your help to identify it In my unexperienced mind it could be some sort of unprepped .... something? photos are taken in artificial light, i can give you some sunlight photos if you nedd but there is not a lot to see except the shape, i think... there are some ammonite and other small life impressions on the surface, so the layer should have been the correct one to contain fossils Thanks a lot Paolo
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check out this cool ammonite I got from the hamburg fossil and gem show this year in 2023
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Hi everyone this is matt again take a look at this very nice not cheap ammonite fossil from the hamburg fossil and gem show at the hamburg fairgrounds in hamburg N.Y. here is a few photos- 11 replies
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We were digging a trench and came across some fossilized coral while digging around there we found this laying in the side of the bank. Is this just a rock, or maybe even a claw
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Could not identify these little pieces myself. Obviously 1 is more of a weird type of rock formation, but I was wondering if anyone knew why it looked like it was made of all those little capsules. 2 is most interesting to me, I honestly have no idea. 3 seems to maybe be a pieces of sediment that got something pressed into it and it hardened as a print? Not sure.
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