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Yesterday I received a 30 pound box of various shell, marine fossils, and some other miscellaneous fossils and a few extant bits as well. I will post in the ID section some as not everything has a label. It is a large overwhelming amount to sort through so this will be a bit at a time kind of thread. Please let me know if anything of the id tags are using outdated names or incorrect, etc. First an overall picture the seller had of the lot. Some Brachiopods from Wutach Germany What appears to be clam steinkerns also from Wutach Germany second picture of hinge point if that is useful. A pair of Glycymeris Americana with matching valves from Virginia Sticking with the Virginia theme a pair of Crucibulum constrictum A crab burrow from another Virginia location. And last but not least for now is some Olivia carolinensis from North Carolina I will try to make additional posts every few days as I unpack and sort this collection out. Stay tuned folks.
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Found these in a dirt heap construction area near Lomita, San Pedro area does anyone know the exact species etc. ? Last photo is a few other finds including the bivalves. Thanks
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I know that I went hunting yesterday. My neck and back muscles are screaming at me. We go to places we have visited before... In this case, some sort of coral reef or shell bed that was laid down , most likely in the Pliocene. Steve, who worked in the Phosphate mines said that there were 3 layers of shell beds in Bone Valley mines where he worked. Land mammal remains between the shell layers. In some locations, the Peace River has brought those layers close to the surface. I call this location wonderland. When ever I go there ... I wonder.. I wonder what layer I am finding.. Pliocene ? Miocene, whatever the 1st layer is... I wonder what process created what I see.... I went back in TFF to find that I have not revisited this location in more than 2 years. Back to the yesterday, A Barnacle.... This is solid rock... or blended silica with sand , mud , shell ..I wonder if the Barnacle "shell" filled with sand or mud and the silica transformed the whole thing to rock, sand mud , everything.. and I always wonder about the process details... Shells..... ..I wonder if we can identify the shells because that might tells us if there were Pliocene or Miocene.... I wonder about the process details... This is not hard fossilized rock like the barnacle... This is like mud rock,, that would break or crumble pretty easily So the shells existed on the bottom of the ocean, the ocean receded, Peace River brings in fresh water, somehow it is making mud-rock (which is common in many forms)... the shell sticks to the mud rock, then the silicification comes along changing the shells ,not the mud-rock., and the whole thing gets worn down until I pick it up.... Shell # 1 2nd Shell ..The rock weighs 40-50 pounds... a heavy item on the trip back in my kayak..Is this whole bivalve there ? Was this one transformed to Silica.... I wonder ... I also find botryoidal chalcedony, some bigger... some smaller. I think this formed in a "cave" in a echinoid sand dollar... Finally for those who appreciate more traditional Florida fossils, I found some of these also. Really like this tooth, it exihibits serrations with feeding damage and those CUSPS !!!... I wonder if if cusps on Megs is only true of Pliocene Megs. I am sad to say that it looks like the chipped the root on recovery. I guess what it comes down to is I am a wondering kind of guy....Enjoy
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Last week my friends and I stopped by Mineral Wells in Texas to do some fossil hunting and it was really fun! However, I'm not familiar with this type of fauna and I was wondering if anybody could help ID them for me. I think I got a decent representation of what is available at the site but there's definitely other fauna there that I didn't spot. The first group are bryozoans and they have this really cool texture on them. How easy is it to identify them to genus or species level? The second one on the first row was also really interesting. It's flatter but I'm not sure if that's the preservation and not what it looked like in life. The first one on the second row was really interesting as a bryozoan colony seemed to wrap around a crinoid stem! The second group are crinoids! I hadn't realized they were so diverse, although they were the most common fossil I encountered by far. This is the cross section of the first row. This is the cross section of the fourth row. The third one has a really neat pattern on it on the outside. And finally, the fifth row has a crinoid base(?) and what might be a small crinoid impression? Not entirely sure. The third group are shells. The variety of shapes was really cool. This first row are flat and rounded. Are these clams? These first two on the second row are extremely flat but have these knobs on the shell. These first two on the third row are very simple with a general slope. The last two on the second row have a really neat shape. They're concave on the inside as well. And the last two on the third row kinda remind me of little hats haha I also managed to find some snails(?). This first one was particularly tiny This larger one is unfortunately crushed. And these last two shells are super thin. The first one is a scallop(?) and one of my favorites shells I recovered because its complete with both halves! This next one is what I think is a nautiloid shell. Sort of reminds me of ones like baculites. Onto other inverts, I found a spine from an echinoderm. Sea urchin? And I was pretty excited to find two pieces of trilobites! I only found the hind parts but one of my friends found a head which was cool. Now to unknowns. This first one reminded me of a hybodont tooth but I wonder if its a crinoid piece. There's some texture on it that looks like the ones on the stem fragments. This second looks like a bryozoan but I wanted to make sure. These third ones have some really interesting shapes and texture and I have no idea what they are. This fourth one is a long fossil with a groove. There's a texture inside the groove but again, not sure what it is.
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Hello everyone, I need you again. Today I bought some fossils, as a gift the seller sent me a shell (I don't know if they are brachiopods or bivalves). I asked him where they were from, and he told me that they were from Costa Rica, from a place called Puntarenas, but I looked up information on PBDB Navigator and there is no fossil site in that specific place (although there are two places nearby that date from the Eocene). . Could someone give me more information? I leave some images
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I’ve hunted the Beaufort and New Hanover County Yorktown and Castle Hayne Formations for years and have never seen this shape. I found a small collection of these close together and can’t tell if they’re from a single animal or several and where the individuals would begin or end. Remotely cephalopod-ish? But don’t track with anything I’ve seen. thanks! - Frank
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Fossils from the middle and upper Santonian of Gelsenkirchen / NW-Germany
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In 1995 (long ago...) a friend of mine and me digged at a highway-constructionsite in nw-germany. It was the Highway Nr. 2 between Gelsenkirchen and Gladbeck in famous Ruhrgebiet-Area. The construction site opens at a lenght of 3 km sandy sediments from middle Santonian, Zone of Uintacrinus socialis. We really found a lot..., beach sediments with everything from plants over echinoderms up to vertebrate fossils (some lang-living ones...), and stored it. Till now. Some weeks ago I started to clean, glue, sort..., to write a paper about it. Hope to finish in 2025, lot of work... I go to show piece by piece fossils from this site, might be one a day, might be one a week. depends. Start is a nice Cretalamna appendiculata, approx. 2 cm long, root is a little bit damaged.
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Hello everyone, I just came back from a short trip to Florida to visit some relatives who recently moved out there. I knew very little about fossil hunting in Florida but with the generous help of a number of forum members got to learn a lot. On one of the days while visiting, we decided to visit Venice. While there I did end up picking up some tiny shark and ray teeth, interesting modern shells but nothing particularly special, once we got off the beach, though, I noticed a pile of shell material in sandy matrix near the parking lot I initially thought it was just the same modern stuff as on the beach but closer inspection showed that these were definitely fossils, they had a different texture, coloration to the modern shells, were more chalky and fragile and we're covered in matrix inside and out. I didn't take any in situ pics as I had no phone on me but here are some photos now that I have them home. Also, I'm trying out a new photography technique using an elevated glass pane I saw here on TFF, and I think it looks quite nice, really makes the fossils pop. I don't remember the name of the topic but if anyone wants to link it below, I would appreciate it as I think people may find it quite useful. Olive shells: Next to a modern lettered olive I found, interesting to see the morphological differences side by side as although they are similar the form of the shells is different Other gastropods: Bivalves: These two were connected when found, but split apart on the way home, revealing some interesting fossils inside. Two oysters, not sure if they're the same species, they look pretty different, the smaller one is complete while the other is only one valve Some tiny gastropods and bivalves, the gastropods were found next to each other in the matrix while the bivalves came from the larger bivalve that opened up finally, this I thought was really cool, it's a tiny barnacle, also from the bivalves that opened up, it's preserved in beautiful detail, you can see some very intricate details of the shell on the top and bottom of the specimen This was my first time in Florida, and my first experience collecting such young fossils, it was very enjoyable and I hope to find more stuff on later adventures. I have pretty much no idea as to the IDs of any of these fossils, so if anyone knowledgeable has any suggestions, I'd be very interested to hear. Thanks for looking! Misha
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Hello fellow members this is all brand new to me this is the first fossil I've ever found and I found it in my yard digging a foundation to put a waterfall in. Anyway if anybody can help me out on what I have here it would deeply be appreciated I'm hooked LOL
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Hi here is a rock from a beach in California. As you see it has lots of fossil shells and something else that is much bigger than shells. What is this something else? It is a microscopic image.
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From time to time, I find these rocks in the river that look like they have many small shells and fragments embedded in them. Unfortunately, mostly what I know is Pleistocene, so it's hard for me to make anything out of them. This one I found a couple of weeks ago seemed particularly busy. Would love it if someone could tell me more. @JohnJ @Jared C
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My husband and I found this guy while searching for shells on our cruise to Mexico. We need help with the ID. TIA.
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Yay or nay? 13mm by 7mm stone, imprint itself is only 6mm by 3mm. Found in Doña Ana county, New Mexico.
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Hello again everyone, I received an old collection from a married couple who weren't interested in it anymore. Some of the items were purchased in 1905! They got them from the man's father who was Dutch. Unfortunately, many of the fossils did not come with their labels, and the labels I do have are written in Dutch, and in cursive... I would be grateful for any useful information you can provide (id's, locations, ages, etc.). If the photos aren't clear enough just tell me the number so that I can send a better image. 1.Lots of these brachiopods 2.This one had a label on it, although it doesn't look too eye catching. 3. 4.Looks like a scallop 5.Small steinkerns with label 6. 7. 8. 9.Devil's Toenail Oyster? 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.Crinoid calyx 17.A lovely little bug 18. 19,Assorted goods. More photos on them below. I'm curious about the concretions. 20.Chalk (with microfossils?) 21.Urchin spine 22.Fish vertebra 23.Ammonites? encrusted in pyrite 24. 25. 26. 27.
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Hi Forum, i'd like to ask you identification of these shells from omhden quarry. I'll try to guess by myself using the Holzmaden Museum speciments photos i took when i visit it as reference, maybe i can get some of them good 1. Pseudomytiloides dubius 2. Pseudomytiloides dubius 3. Pseudomytiloides dubius 4. Plagiostoma punctatum 5. Pseudomytiloides dubius 6. Ammonite apticus (cornaptychus sanguinolarius) Thanks a lot Paolo
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Last weekend I was busy helping my daughter to prepare shells from the pieces of stone that come from the quarry of Eben-Emael (Marnebel). This is the first time prepping for her, I think (but dads are not objective) she succeeded. The aim was to let them rest partly on the stone. Because this is not my area of interest, I gave them to her. Now that they are prepared I regret . But if it sparks her interest in fossils, I'll gladly part with them! Who can help her identify the shells? We took some pictures of her most beautiful pieces together. Number 1
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Found these in Midlothian, TX (North Texas) in 1 small area. #1 and #2 I'm most interested in identifying. Thanks in advance for those smarter than me who can easily identify these.
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I am going to take my 9 years old son to California in mid February for a week. We plan to collect shark tooth at Ernst Quarries and we also want to collect other fossils along the coast from San Francisco to LA. I did many research and found a few sites that we really want to go. Bean Creek at Scotts Valley for sand dollar, Capitola Beach for shells and maybe whale bone, Carmel valley for crab, and Jalama Beach for fish. I did more research and found out that the Bean Creek location is off limit now. I would like to ask if the other places still ok. We will fly to LA and drive up north to San Francisco so I don't want to have to drive all the way up just to know that we can't collect the fossil. Also if you have other locations that you can share, it is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much and I can't wait still February.
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I have had this hunk of rock from Manitoulin Island for quite some time now, but I have never attempted to really clean it before. Does anyone have any tips for cleaning the fossils, but leaving them in the rock? I would just like to be able to analyze them more closely. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Hi was wanting help to know if this thing I found is. An actual shark tooth, found near Austin.
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Hello! I found these shells in a Paleogene area near Khurais, Saudi Arabia and I was wondering if these species could confirm that they are truly Paleogene aged. I was also wondering why they look rusty colored. thank you for your time!
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I found this rock with a shell imprint on the beach in North Carolina. I have searched around on the Internet but I’ve not been able to find anything quite like it. I find it interesting because it appears to not only be the imprint of a conical shell but a cross-section of the shell itself because of the sharp contrasted color and outlines. Although it appears black in the picture the rock is actually a deep brown color and was clearly once very jagged but has been smoothed. Any help identifying the rock and the shell would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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My son and I realized that we hadn’t been fossil hunting nearly as much as last year. Last year we found a quite a few interesting finds in the creeks of central Texas. We decided to jump back into hunting this week with a few expeditions. I hear there's a few super-hunters lurking Austin so Jack and I decided to see if the early bird can get the worm. We headed to a new spot around Austin, Texas at 4pm with a temperature of 104 (40 degrees). (Fortunately I was able to fool my son into carrying the heavy backpack.) I like this spot because it’s cretaceous and I’m always hopeful of finding something special. I’ve posted my finds for this location including some Squalicorax, Ischyrhiza mira, and Plicatoscyllium. As you can see the creek has very nice cliffs. Material usually erodes out as black but is pretty sparse. This location reminds me of the north sulfur river/ ozan. We hunted until the water ran out and can't wait to go there again. I plan on finding a globidens soon (whole). Enjoy the trip!
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