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This little shell is the size of a pencil eraser. It came out of a larger fossil shell I found. Best photos I could get so far.
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Can anyone id this shell for me? I found in pile of dried muddy fossils. Palmetto. Ironically a lady on my shell group found the broken one this week too.
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Hey TFF! First post! Not making my appearance with a bang, but had a decent quick trip to the Potomac, about an hour and 15 minutes. Nice handful of sea glass, decent amounts of ray plates and turritella. A few solid sand tigers. And what I believe to be a small, busted otodus in the palm of my hand. I usually always come away with at least one small complete otodus, so when I don’t, it makes a great day fossil hunting turn into merely a very good day 🤷🏻♂️. Let me know what you think!
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Found these hiking in Orange County, California after some rain yesterday, near some fossilized scallop shells. Maybe Bryozoa covering a shell? They seem very fragile. It looks like there are uniformly spaced holes along the edges, as if there were parts protruding outward originally, or maybe those are features of the Bryozoa.
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Found in blue River in Kansas city.
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Hi everyone! This is my first post on here and I made an account just to ID this because this has been puzzling me for years. I found this in a vase of seashells that I bought down in Daytona, Florida in 2014. That’s pretty much all I remember about it. Ever since I’ve been wondering what it is. It has a very smooth and polished feel to it, like ceramic. There aren’t any ridges except for a very faint shell imprint near one of the edges, which I included in the photos. I think it is a shell fossil as well but I’d like to know what kind? It just looks pretty weird but cool to me. It’s a little over two inches, as pictured. I hope the photos provided are enough and thank you to anyone who helps out!
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Please help us settle a debate! Is this a fossilized olive shell or not??
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Hi everyone, I found this fossil at the beach in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland. It looks like a shell but I would like to know more about it! Thanks!
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Found this little guy in a rock in Southerndown, Wales. Anyone able to id please? Thanks!
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This piece was advertised as an oyster Fossil I would really appreciate any input on whether or not this is a genuine fossil, and would anyone know from what region it might have come from. It is being sent from Texas. Thank you so much everyone for your help and expertise. The piece is 10 inches long. The entire piece feels like stone.
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I would really appreciate advice on whether or not this matrix of shells or fossilized. It is being advertised as fossilized shells, but I want to make sure before I would purchase it. Thank you so much everyone for your expert advice.
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Found around or near Siskiyou County Far Northern California. The largest looks like fossilized crystals, the next largest seems like fossilized shells and even a fuzzy thing growing in it, the rock definitely has what looks like the shell of something and then there is a white brown rock. Im not a collector just want to know what these are and if people would be interested in them. thanks for any information.
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Just posting some pics of some finds from Chivo Canyon from 2020 and 2024. Would really appreciate any ID inputs on the Unknown Fossils especially the roundish one with many circles in it. It was roughly 4-5" in diameter in the center of a roughly 1 foot diameter rock. Guessing Sponge, Coral, or may an Echinoderm like an Urchin. The Chivo Canyon area is known to have fossils from the Eocene, and Oligocene periods. There are also a couple other unknown fossils which could be bones but not sure. The Tower Snails or Turritellas are probably mostly Turritella Uvasana. I don't know what the other Gastropods are. Thanks in advance for any ID ideas! -Chris.
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Turtle Carapace Fragment With Pathological Damage
Jaybot posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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Hi. In this rock from Swatara in PA (ordovician), I see three fossils: (1) Looks like a leaf, about 1" across (2) round stone-like object about 1/2" across, and (3) small rippled shell about 1/4" across. Any IDs would be much appreciated! Thanks!
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Hello all! I’ve had the chance to get out a few times this year, collecting has been good! So far 3 trips, my daughter has a Tully, a friend found a half of one (hopefully posts it!) and we’ve had numerous random open fossils of various species. And LOTS of full concretions to freeze-thaw open. Here’s a few I was hoping to get confirmation on - I found some good clues in Jack Wittry’s book. 1) My daughter’s Tully - found open, covered in mineral deposits. 2) A large shrimp - weathered and probably open for a long time 3) Maybe an Orbiculoidea sp.? Pretty weathered but looks close to the books Lastly maybe an indeterminate discoidal cephalopod? I only have half of the fossil but it’s quite a deep concretion & shell shaped. Thanks for stopping by! Pat
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Hello, my name is Lance. I stumbled across this forum today because earlier, I found a shell fossil and I just had to know what it was. Haven't gotten my answer just yet, considering my post is fairly new, but I can't wait to find out what it is (I think it might be a mold fossil of something)
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2 cm shell fossil found in Normandy chalk cliff. Any ideas?
Philip Ogley posted a topic in Fossil ID
I recently came across a fossilised shell in a chalk cliff in Normandy, France, near the town of Livarot. There were other shells and invertebrates, but this was very clear and beautiful. It's only about 2 cm wide, and I was wondering if anyone could advise me what it might be? In advance, thanks.
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looks like shell or kidney? or big beans?
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Greetings, I am working on my next display and am trying to sort through the various pieces of turtle shell. I have attempted to divide and label them as much as I can, using references I will post. This is my first attempt at turtle shell and have relied entirely on examples and available resources, so any correction/confirmation/explanation would be most appreciated. On my paper (in case it's unreadable - tendonitis flaring up so handwriting quality going down), the upper half of the page is carapace, the lower half is plastron, the left half is softshell and the right half is hard shell. I included a composite image which has better focus on each quadrant (terrible lighting today), and a larger image on which I wrote my attempts at further identification. References: This whole thread: This image (location directly on image): This image was very helpful: And these hand-drawn diagrams I found to be most accessible:
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Can someone help to identify these fossils and the possible date of age?
PatriciaL posted a topic in Fossil ID
I've found this mollusc fossils in the Saudi Arabia desert, one hour away from Riyadh city. It seems all this area was ocean during the the early cretaceous period. Meaning that these fossils can have around 77 million years old? They are bigger than a tennis ball! Can someone help to identify these exactly and the possible date of age? Thank you! IMG_1704.MOV IMG_1703.MOV IMG_1698.MOV -
Hi All! Whilst in southern Spain I came across these three very interesting fossils (at least I know one of them is) please could you help identify the other two? #1 This shell like fossil was full of rock, which I managed to remove without damaging the shell. #2 I'm not so sure about this one, it has some interesting mineral going through it and the markings which looks like an arrow with a circle at the base are what caught my eye. #3 And the ammonite, correct me if this is wrong. Thanks in advance for any help that can be given 😁
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Hello all! We have these small fossils from the Yorktown Formation that we are not sure what they are. They fizzle under HCl! Any help would be appreciated. BTW, the divisions on the scale bar are 5mm. Thanks so much! Miguel M
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