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Hi friends. I found a new fossil. What do you think this fossil is?

Hi everybody, i live in France and love fossils of all kind. I've just discovered this fantastic forum.

Happy World turtle day all. In celebration of one of this planets most wonderful and successful creatures. Let’s see your tortoise/turtle family members or your turtle fossils. Have a great day all. Bobby turtle material Pleistocene Alachua county, Dixie county Florida USA .

Hello! is it possible to find shark teeth fossils in Israel from oligocene-Pliocene?

Rambling thought. Recently we were at a dance and in the background there was a big screen TV (sound muted) playing a NHL hockey game. The score was 'Edmonton 2, TB 2'. One of the woman got out her cell phone and texted her grandson in Thunder Bay, Ontario to ask if he was watching the game. Her grandson texted her back and advised the TB was 'Tampa Bay' and not Thunder Bay. She had never heard of Tampa Bay. She asked Di, my partner, and Di said the same and Tampa Bay sounds like a place in Newfoundland. I knew where Tampa was because of folks collecting fossils on the Peace River. However, then I remembered a trip I took to China. There is something like 55 cities in China with over a million in population and I had only heard of 5 of them. The rest could have been names of dishes on a Chinese restaurant menu. I learned a few more cities when there but only because they were jumping off points for fossil locales. The vast majority of the world's population has never heard of or know where Alberta is. However the numbers would rise among fossil collectors. It's dawned on me that I learn most of my geography via fossils. I actually have a messed up view of the world. On a map I can pinpoint the Kem Kem beds in Morocco or Lyme Regis, UK but Calcutta? ...I just know it's in India. I know exactly where Kemmerer, Wyoming or Delta, Utah are but Baltimore is just over on the US east coast 'somewhere'. When I was young I learned geography through stamp collecting. Since then its largely via paleontology. If I was in charge making a globe, it would mostly show fossil sites.