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I live in Richmond, Virginia and recently discovered a bounty of agates in my back yard. Here are pictures of one I found yesterday that is different from all the others. There is still some dirt/mud from the garden in the crevices. I stopped cleaning it after seeing bits of druzy quartz along a seam in the agate and wondered if it could possibly be a fossilized head of some sort? I looks like it spent some time tumbling in a creek or something of that nature (most of the other agates are rounded Patuxent stone types). Also, I apologize for not including a metric ruler, but I've included a picture with a US quarter for scale. Thanks for your help!
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Hello, A while ago I bought this small crinoid piece labeled as "Gilbertocrinus sp." coming from Dent, Ohio. The main crown on the front is small at just over 2cm, and there is also one calyx on the backside. I suspect the genus is a typo for Gilbertsocrinus. However it does not resemble any Gilbertsocrinus I know, lacking tegmenal appendages and calyx spines. Instead I was told by a very knowledgeable collector that it resembles Pycnocrinus, an ordovician genus. More importantly, I was told that the locality of Dent, Ohio is Ordovician-aged, no Mississipian or even Devonian. So it seems the locality and ID I have for this is up in the air. Does the piece seem familiar or identifiable to any one? I'd appreciate any help, thank you.
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Hello, We found this in western Wisconsin in a dry run. We're thinking possibly some kind of coral? Complete N00b here The whole piece is about 5.5" long, the striated part that we believe is fossil piece is approx 1 inch long. Thank you so much for your help!
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Hello, I found this fossil this weekend on the bank of the Wabash River. Anyone have any ideas what it is? It was about the size of a dinner plate. Thank you.
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I found this piece while rock hounding in SE South Dakota. Something embedded in the limestone...unique to say the least!
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I can't really give time frames on these but odd they are. The first 2 items are odd maybe eggs? The last item can't figure out because has black hair in object. The first two are seven centimeters. Last other one is five centimeters. Inputs and of course enjoy. Thanks. The first picture was supposed to be fourth picture ugh.
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Wondering what the smaller impression is that looks like a circle with lines all around it. I am obviously very new to this. Our creek bed and land has fossils on almost any rock you pick up.
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Not sure what i am looking at here, unfortunately unable to provide a location or a time period.
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Hello All, I am hoping someone might be able to tell me what this is, or what it was a part of. A LONG time ago we were traveling the country, we stopped in Nebraska and Kansas and use to backpack everywhere. We found this in the sand one day after a hard rain the night before. We took it home, as we didn't really know what it was. We are thinking it is a fossil of some sort. So the item was found in the north west section of Nebraska. Was found in 1993 and sat in a safe since. I pray someone may be able to shed light on it.
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As I wrapped up my hunting season on the Peace River, FL recently I decided to start going through my unidentified finds and try to figure out what they are. I am posting two of them here in the hopes that someone will recognize what they might be. Both are partials and were found at different sites on the river. First up is a rounded and grooved partial bone that I think could be the distal end of an Equus femur. There is an obvious groove on one side and this could easily be a ligament channel. Measurements seem to fit the Equus distal femur from what I have been able to find in my research. Inches = 3.25" long x 2.50" wide x 2" tall MM =. 80mm x 65mm x 50mm Next is what looks to be a partial limb bone. I have not been able to come up with a possible match and don't know if there is enough of the actual bone to make an ID. Measurements- Inches = 3.50" long x 1.50" wide MM = 90mm long x 40mm wide Any input would be greatly appreciated , Thanks!
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Two bones found in my backyard planter roughly 1ft/12in below the surface. Location: Orange County, Southern California, United States. The larger of the two bones has one side cleanly cut. We have never buried any animals/pets nor placed any bones in our backyard in the 30+ years our family has lived at this property. Perhaps they are from the previous owner. It's a little unsettling not knowing where they came from and what they belonged to. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Hello everyone, While intrigued by them, I'm afraid I have no real knowledge about fossils, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I found this fossil(?) at the Cap-Blanc-Nez cliffs in the north of France. Anyone here have any idea what I'm dealing with? Thank you for any insights you can help me with! Cheers! Michalis
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Hi I live in the UK near the coast in devon and my bro found this. Its strange as its in flint stone and has a strange pattern !?
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From the album: 39 years exploring Texas
Pottery and unknown polished triangle ,square, and perfect oval quartz stones. Anybody have any ideas. Jewelry or shamen stone perhaps? -
Last week, when on an excursion to the Devonian, Cedar Valley Formation, of Iowa, I encountered this fossil. Thinking crinoid, I threw it in my bucket, so that I could examine it closer at home. Now, haven taken a closer look at it, I am unsure..... Crinoid? Cephalopod? Or something else. Your thoughts are very welcome!! Mike
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went hunting in virginia triassic looking through red stones in construction zones. Didnt find much, the one thing I found looks like a trace fossil to me, though I dont recognize it. I am open to suggestions, the trace is 8c m by one cm of a looking like series of circular flat disks on a thread.
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Hello again, another find from my uncles garden (where he put fossils he found everywhere), so sadly no provenance info: Who can tell me what this is? Thanks, J
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Hello, First I would like to say thank you for providing a place for me to attempt to get an answer. I know your time is valuable, so I appreciate anyone who takes a moment to look. I live in South West, Florida and my daughter and I were at a flea market when she found and purchased this fossil. At first glance I thought it might be an aligator scute, but after looking more closely I know it is not. I doubt that I know enough to even be called a novice, but I spent a few hours online last night trying to find anything that it resembles. Even looking for larger examples that looked like something that this could have been broken off of. I couldn’t find any other type of scute or fossil that it matches. The person she bought it from said it was found in Florida. (Along with one other that she purchased at the same time that I was able to identify as a deer astragalus.) unfortunately, that is all the information that I have. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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I took my son to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal spoil piles at reedy point a few weeks ago and found these two small pieces. They stood out but I’m not sure if they’re actually anything interesting or not.
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I have this in my possession over 25 years, I cannot remember where I got it, however I used to make hand crafts and used stones from the beach mainly Killiney Dublin Ireland. I went through a stage looking at stones with a magnifying glass telling people that the stones were fishes and lizards (I could see scales and claws and teeth on some of them) Everyone told me I was crazy so I stopped !!. This feels lighter than I would expect it to be if it was a stone and it absorbs and retains heat quicker that any other stone that I have, I collect stones from all around the world as I travelled. There seems to be Teeth or A tooth on the underside of it, if it is looked at as a snake head. I would appreciate any opinions
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Hey everyone this is my first post to the forum. I hope everyone is doing well. While fossil hunting in Amelia island I came across this fossil. At first I thought it was a Scute but after seeing photos it doesn’t have the craters you see in most scutes. Then I thought it was a Sea Robin Skull but it also looks different from that as well. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what it may be?
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I was cleaning up my Platteville finds from last fall and came across this. It in all likelihood is an ichnofossil but if anyone have additional thoughts about it, please reply!! The Platteville has plenty of trace fossils but I have yet to see one with this appearance. Would love to have an idea of it's maker.
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