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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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My parents were gifted this piece years ago and now that is has passed to me, I was curious to find out details. I see gastropods and a shell. The piece is almost a foot long with a bright green felt attachment on the back. Unsure if they received it in Australia or in America. Any other information or feedback is greatly appreciated.
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Hello everyone I need help IDing these shells and more importantly the age. I have had these for 25-26 years, I got them when I worked offshore the Gaviota coast California about 7 miles and they came from about 3-4 thousand feet deep into the formation (maybe deeper, I cant remember its been so long ). They have to be millions of years old, the water depth there is 1000 feet and like I mentioned earlier they come up from 3-4 thousand feet deep into the formation., Thank you
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Hi all! Found this fossil in my garden, in northern Illinois. I was also wondering how old it is too. Thanks a ton :)
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They are from Isla Margarita, Venezuela. Anyone know what these are?
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Yorkshire Fossil Finds: Ammonites, Curved (Stone?) Plate, and 'Olympus Mons'
JamieC7696 posted a topic in Fossil ID
These are some finds of mine made on the Yorkshire coastline... It would be truly spectacular to have very specific identifications for all of them - and even the ones that 'just' turn out to be regular stones and rocks! Regarding most, I think they're quite fragmentary... Key: 1-9 = Everything up to the first Ammonite 10-18 = Ammonite material? 19-26 = Alternative shells 27-29 = 'Olympus Mons'/multilayered rocks 30-35 = Other
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Hello from someone who keeps having to buy more jars :)
j pru posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hello, My kid and I had always looked for shark teeth on the beach, only to find few recent teeth and minimal shells. About three years ago we got serious and started researching locations and better hunting options. Now we are both fully hooked. We've hunted in FL, MS, AL, TN, KY with a trip planned to NC and SC this summer. Whether its beach, river or creek, we are likely digging, sifting and exploring, which leads to us having to by more jars to hold our finds. Most near us don't understand why we choose to spend 8 hours of a Saturday waist deep in murky water digging and shifting then show them pictures of teeth and bones. Thanks for having a place where we can see other peoples finds while showing some pictures of our own. Grateful for the help and information found on the fossil forum so far. Best teeth and bone fossils have been from FL and MS. First two pics are finds from the Peace River in FL. Petrified wood weighs 12.5lbs and had 3 shark teeth embedded in grooves. 3rd picture is of our finds around Venice, FL. 6th picture is from near Venice, FL as well 4th & 5th pictures are from MS, with the unidentified bones found in the same area months apart, but seem to fit together like a knee joint. Bones are 7" and 8" inches long.
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If someone knows the common or scientific name of this shell embedded in the rock or the other ones, please let me know. Thanks.
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Would love to know the species of these spirally shell fossils. I think they are from the late Miocene but not sure. I'm also curious if the oblong rock intrusions in the first pic might be fossils as well? The location is the East Bay Hills in between the San Francisco Bay area and the Central Valley of California, USA. Thanks!!!
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On my way to Sanibel today I decided to jog left a bit, and drive thru Sarasota looking for any construction sites that may have fossil shells. I came across one that looked promising. There were a couple workers who allowed me to do a little collecting. I only spent about 20 minutes there since I wanted to get my wife to get to the condo we were staying at. While collecting, I walked around the shoreline of a small retention pond and saw this little guy. This crocodile was only about 5 feet long and was enjoying the water. Here are a couple pics of the area. Here are some of the finds, most will be passed out at an upcoming ESCONI collecting, the participants love Florida fossil shells. Barnacle Continued on next post-
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Took a day trip down to Casey Key, FL near Venice Beach. Found lots of small shark and ray teeth and some really nice shells.
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Hey guys! I headed out in Venice, Florida this weekend for the first time ever and went scuba diving for shark teeth. This was my first real trip looking for shark teeth and it was an amazing time. I went for a 3 dive trip but due to weather we only got two of the three dives for the day unfortunately. Although it was cut kinda short I had an amazing trip. I found 7 full Megalodon teeth and 14 frags of Megalodon teeth. My biggest being exactly 4" which I am still ecstatic for finding. I found a handful of other miscellaneous shark teeth and honestly I could of found hundreds and hundreds but I was really focused on finding the megs so I started passing them up as it was kinda hard to pick them up with the gloves I had on. Also pictured I have 3 pieces of Dugong bone and two pieces of whale bone. These bones where everywhere and I just didn't feel like collecting a hundred pounds of Dugong and whale bone. Also with the bones are a few assorted shells that I picked up while I was finding the teeth. If you have any cool facts about what I found of any identification for the miscellaneous shark teeth and the shells I found that would be amazing! I know the Sand Tiger teeth and the normal Tiger Shark teeth but I'm not sure what any of the other ones are. I think top right is a broken Hemi but I'm not positive. Let me know if you have any questions as I would be happy to answer! Parker
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Would you leave this as is or remove the casts?
OregonFossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I was lucky the last time out and found a 36" piece of a near shore sea floor. Most of it looks like this, a mixture of shells, shell fragments, and casts. Would you remove the good stuff or leave it as is?
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Found this specimen on the beach in Lewes, Delaware (USA). Small iridescent shells and other shell shards throughout. It is about 4cm long at its widest point. Recently read about regurgitates and this looked similar. Anyone know what I have here?
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I own a couple of fossils and have found a couple of shells. Some of the fossils I have that I bought include a small dimetrodon rib section a couple species of trilobites and some other cool things like a crocodile tooth and some ammonite fossils. Came here for help with fake fossil id and to learn more about fossils. Thank you
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Hello all, Last Saturday our geology club went on a field trip to the Breckweg limestone quarry in Rheine, Germany. Although my main interest lies with minerals, I found a nice fossil. I have been trying to identify it, but unfortunately without any succes. I hope you can help me out. According to the information I received, the limestone found at the quarry is from the Cenomanian. Thanks in advance!
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We got back recently from a trip to the Oregon coast. We went fossil hunting a bit north of Newport. Here are a few of our finds. We have never hunted on the coast for fossils. It was in very soft matrix and they were loaded with small concretions. We brought a bunch home and cracked them open and found many had shells.
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Found today in NE Colorado. The bottom 5 are shells, a large petrified wood, not sure if one is a point.
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I have little to no experience with invertebrates so I was hoping to get a little info from the experts here. I recently rescued these and some other items from going into the dumpster. The only information I have on them is that they were from a collection of an avid fossil hunter who lived in the South Dakota Nebraska area and passed away many years ago. I have quite a few more of these shells with a couple of them being encased in some hard matrix that I will post later in another thread. There was also a big chunk of hash plate with them.
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Hello, So after yesterdays unsuccessful hunt and cut short because of rain. Headed south today. Plan was to go looking for crabs, but luck let me down again-- river too dangerous. So went for shells and sea urchins instead. Beautiful place, but I didn't take photos because I left my phone in the car because we had to wade (lucky I did. I slipped and ended up hip deep) Lots of the rocks had various shell fossils. There was one big rock with about a dozen big , almost complete scallop fossils. I left it as is. Would have been nice to have one, but didnt feel right to destroy it to get one. Instead I collected from smaller rocks. Got a few scallops and a partial echinoid. I also found a small, almost complete one but I cant find it now. I hope its buried in my bag, but I fear I must have lost it. Other than on the big rock, most of the shells were partial. Shame I couldn't get a photo of the big rock with scallop fossils and some of the other rocks full of partial shells but with wading to get there, I wasn't gonna risk taking my phone. At the end of the day, I didn't collect a huge amount. Just a few little pieces for my shelf as little examples of what was there. I took back a nice sized scallop fossil (unfortunately not complete) a matrix with a few shells which split but which I have glued, a partial shell and a big partial sea urchin. Also a small bit of coral. Only bit I found there. Hope I find the smaller urchin hiding somewhere, but I fear it is gone. Hope one day can get to the crab place. Rain keeps foiling me by making the river too fast.
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Exploring the siltstones of the Manuherikia Group (NZ)
Osiris09 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Currently away from home on a work trip but that has allowed me to explore the silt stone laid down by Lake Manuherikia in the Otago region of New Zealand. The period is early to mid Miocene (16-19 million years). I have spent the last couple of evenings searching sites for fossil leaves or anything else I can find. FYI the bottle cap is for scale. I have nothing else with me but I figure most bottle caps are the same the world over. The above is part of a large palm frond. Hyridella shells above in matrix. Below are an assortment of the other leaf fossils I collected. Hopefully I get to go out for a bit more fossicking before I head home at the end of the week.
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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