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The seller said it is a complete unhatched egg from China. 5.5 inches long. It looks weird to me. A fake or something else? Thanks

Hey, my name is Nathan Stevens and I live in Independence, Oregon. I found this - what looks to be a Rishi fossil, or some type of Gandederma mushroom fossil. The second I laid eyes on this rock I said that's a bracket fungi. I would like to get a second opinion, please.

Choosing a layout for my Obliquus "artificial" set, and wanted to see what you guys think. Largest tooth about 8cm, need some more small ones, but Im pretty stoked with this, now to build a box.

Worked out of a very larger piece of material. The same that surrounds it's bottom half. Excavated from backfill dirt used in building a farmhouse approx 1800 in Bleckley co. Ga. U.S.A. The actual mold is 100% some type crystallized formation or fossil. Curious on what it actually is and how old it is. Thank you for any help!

I've thought about doing this for some time, but only now during all this down time we're getting have I gotten around to seeing how many of the stages in the geologic timescale (the global version, at least) are represented by fossils in my collection. If a fossil collection can ever be said to be 'complete', this is one way of doing it - to try and get at least one specimen from every stage. Another would be to try and get a least one specimen from each group (phylum, class, order, etc) but I could see that quickly becoming difficult. I figure this one is within reach (at least relatively so). I guess some of you more serious collectors out there are ahead of me and it would be fun to compare notes. Of course it's complicated by factors such as knowing which stage your fossil is from. Some fossils come to you with a North American or European stage such as Stephanian or Richmondian, and if that stage overlaps two or more one of the Global ones then I can't be sure which one it is, without more research. Also an even greater number of fossils come to you that only say, eg. "Lower Devonian" or even just "Permian", and again, more research could enable me to fill in some more gaps with fossils already in my collection. I have already tried to research some of these and came up blank. Some of the entries here are educated guesses but if I'm really uncertain I'll leave it out until I've done more research (or question-asking). Turns out I've got just over half of the stages already (barring any mistakes. If I have made any mistakes, please let me know). The only Series that I am still missing are the Terreneuvian (Cambrian), Middle Permian and Lower Triassic. First, here is my timescale with the ones I have already, and I will follow that with pictures of the representative fossils I have chosen from my collection. Some of these are the only fossil I have from that stage so far. Others I have tons, especially the Santonian as that is what I have available to collect locally. I have marked off some of the North American stages where I have a North American fossil that is stated to be from a particular NA stage, or stated to be from a Global stage that I can confidently correlate with a NA stage. Maybe someday I'll have a fossil from all the NA stages as well as all the Global ones (or maybe not), but for now I'm going to focus on the Global. I have also marked off Pliocene and Pleistocene even though those are series (epochs) because I know I have fossils from those but not sure which stage exactly.

Special thanks to Ptychodus04 for his help completing this beauty.

I am wanting to put together a complete spine of a whale. I have found many vertebrae, but unable to find a diagram of a spine. I'm starting at point A so anything could help. Even different species of whale. I'm have collected most of them from Sarasota County, Florida. Any links or suggestions would be great Thank you! Brandon

Found this trilobite this morning. At first, I thought it was only half of the trilobite but then I noticed that it was just folded over. Other than a bit of damage to one side, it is almost entirely intact and a pretty nice specimen. The attached pics show exactly what it looked like when I found it. If stretched out flat, it would measure 4.5 inches long. It is inflated, and is about 1/2 inch in height. The other trilobites I have found around this location have been Isotelus and I think this one is as well. Thoughts?

Good evening I just now found this tooth so I begin digging around and have discovered the maxilla in the mandible including a whole bunch of teeth! But they are falling apart! I have pieces parts of everything else besides this one tooth! Does anybody happen to know what animal would have A tooth like this?

We found this in the creek in Southern Ohio, trying to identify it.

Hi Everyone! I need help identifying a fish concretion from the Cretaceous of Brazil. I think it's a species of Rhacolepis but I don't know for certain. The thing is, I was given this by an elderly friend of my dad's over 10 years ago after this fellow heard I like fossils. He told me he got this at a flea market several decades ago and that it was from the Brazilian Cretaceous but he didn't remember what species it was. Then he moved away and passed a couple months later. Definitely one of the stranger ways I've acquired a specimen, but it's the best fish I have (it came with both halves and is pretty three dimensional) and I'd love to know what exactly it is. Hopefully the pictures are decent.

So, this find is why I created my account on the Fossil Forum. I was out looking for agates and jasper on the Pawnee National Grasslands when I discovered two mandibles and a complete skull. I will post pictures of the jaw bones at a later date, I think that the skull alone is worthy of a discussion. Because of the hefty fines and potential jail time for removing vertebrate fossils from the Pawnee National Grasslands, I left it where it was, which was very difficult for me to do. Now, on to the fossil itself, I first thought it was a prairie dog skull. I soon realized that it was indeed a fossil, completely mineralized and partially incased in rock. Just with the way the front teeth look I do think it is some kind of rodent or relative thereof, but I am very interested to see what you all think of it. To the extent of my knowledge finding full skulls like this with little damage is uncommon, to say the least. It is right around 2 inches long, and maybe an inch wide. The size of the eye sockets led me to think it may have belonged to a nocturnal critter, but that is pure guess work on my part. Ps. I don't know how well I did posting these pictures, I had to resize them quite a bit to be able to upload them. Let me know if they look decent and are proportioned properly