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Hello, Can someone tell me if this is a fossil? Found on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. Thanks!
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I drive 8 hours with a friend to a location he remembers from his childhood as yielding a lot. Oh boy it did. 100% worth the drive. Lake Huron, among the agates, pyrite, yooperlite, has some extraordinary Devonian fossils. All fossils were collected from the beach of his family’s property except for the fenestelid bryozoan, which was found at a gas station on the way there. please enjoy this collection of gastropods, petoskey stones, various tabulate corals, crinoids, stromatoporoids, bivalves, Brachiopods, tenteculites, horn corals, an unidentified agatized fossil in jasper matrix, and a pudding stone I felt like showing off too. Thanks! I highly recommend the area.
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All Devonian -ish. First is from port Huron, second is from the Milwaukee formation, third is from the Nike missile site in Waukesha WI
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Found two of these fossils now. Both on beaches that are probably Devonian in age. One is from SW Wisconsin on Lake Michigan and the other is in the Lower peninsula of Michigan from the shores of Lake Huron. Organ pipe coral or some sort of burrow trace fossil? Thanks!
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Found on a Devonian beach on Lake Huron in port Huron. Thanks!
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Found in Michigan LP. Devonian age probably? Loads of corals and other agatized fossils wash up on that beach. This is the only one I’ve found like this.
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Found this guy today in northern Illinois, right near Wisconsin border. Any clue on what species it is?
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Hey Everyone! I’m Valerie, I live in central Michigan. I mainly collect fossils from the lake my family lives on… as well as the driveway! Haha. I started collecting crystals a few years ago because I thought they were pretty and mysterious. Then early last spring, I was on the shore in my yard rinsing out a plant pot, and saw something really colorful in the lake. I was convinced it was some something valuable because I had just never looked down and saw a stunning rock like this on the ground. I thought they were boring and dull. Needless to say I posted a picture of it, and a friend told me how his mom loved collecting rocks and would go look for them around the Great Lakes all the time. I started gathering stones by the bucketful from the lake to sort through, and little did I know, there would be more surprises!! FOSSILS!! So now I love collecting all three (crystals, rocks, fossils) as my absolute favorite hobby. I’m getting into trying polishing and working with cleaners like acid too. And I love learning about them just as much! I had taken basic Geography in college, but I couldn’t tell you one thing I’d learned. I joined several social groups for rockhounding, mineral and fossils, etc. to get started on help with identification. Now, I am much more knowledgeable and recently have been doing a lot more in depth research and making my own ID charts and reference notes. I’m super excited to share some of my backyard finds with people who enjoy the same! I’ve always got things I can’t identify, or would like confirmation with, and am looking forward to getting tips and more information from everyone here! Hopefully I can be a great help and support also
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Hi all, I recently found this fossil, and I was hoping I could find some help here identifying it. I found it at Fort Sheridan in Illinois, and wasn’t expecting something that looked like it could be vertebrate. I’m familiar with the fossils with the area, and was surprised to find something like this. Any ID suggestions or suggestions for where to get it ID’d would be appreciated. Someone I talked to said it may be an amphibian/tetrapod fossil (potentially an egg) Description of fossil: small potato shaped rock with skull and thorax of specimen showing. “Feet” protruding from the bottom, and there appears to be a little hand covering the skull on one side. Little hand over face Top view showing little hand over right side of skull Right side view Left side view IMG_7547.MOV
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This fossil was found on the beach of Lake Huron, it seems extremely old, it looks saltwater and is the most complete piece of coral I've ever found
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Hello! My name is Charlie and I am from Chicago. I have found so many cool fossils on the beach near my house, and it is time to learn more about them. Excited to learn from you all! Will post more soon
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Hello everyone! I'm so happy to find such a thriving community here, and I'm especially excited to explore and possibly contribute to the reference museum. Earlier this year I moved really close to Lake Michigan, and now find myself a newly avid beach rockhound and fossil collector. I still don't know a lot but I love learning. So far I do know that a great deal of what I find are stromatoporoids (hence the username), along with some favocites, syringopora, halycites, tetracoral, crinoids, and brachiopods. The area where I live is silurian rock I think, and the composition of most of the fossils I collect is chalcedony rather than limestone. So, "agatized." They're often very colorful, have sharply preserved details contrasting parts that are translucent and opaque, or contain pockets of crystal formations. I don't find a lot of images of similar things online, so like I said, I'm excited to share. Looking forward to future discussions and also learning from people around the world Just for fun, here's a photo of the beach l visit most often for collecting:
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I found this amongst some rocks we gathered for landscaping in Michigan's Thumb. My 5yo daughter thought it was "the coolest rock I've ever seen!!!!" and that we absolutely needed to display it in our aquarium. I am not savvy at all concerning such things. Wanting to know what it was, I Googled 'petrified wasp nest' as a possible first guess. On a different thread, I saw someone had a similar question and was told it was likely a Coral fossil. That person's find was gray, not red/burgundy as mine is. Mine is also quite sparkly. I am ready to learn! My curiosity is piqued! Where do I go to find out about this "coolest rock ever"? I have more photos, including a fascinating closeup taken with my microscope camera.
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I am trying to find information of how fish populations changed in the central USA/Great Lakes region in the last 100,000 years or so and am drawing blanks When did walleye/ Sander vitreus appear and where did it come from?. The same goes for brook trout/ Salvelinus fontinalis. Are there any good collections of fossils through the various periods of glaciation? Are there any regions where these neogene/quatrenary fish fossils are being uncovered? Where is there a literature on the subject?
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So I recently found this one on a beach on Lake Erie in Canada. I was just wondering what it could be... fossil or nah? Thanks!
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I found this rock and others like it. It feels sandy, has a few things like plant stems, leaves and seeds embedded and fossilized in it.
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Hoping to find someone who knows what this is. Obviously, it's some sort of seashell but I was hoping for more specific information and opinion. I found it while snorkeling last week in Lake Huron (Straits of Mackinaw region). Thanks!
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Been carrying this around since i was eight years old. Can someone help identify this?
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Great Lakes: Crinoid? Claw? Marine Arthropod? Bone?
InquisitiveOsteology posted a topic in Fossil ID
Maybe someone can help with a positive ID for a few things I found while walking along Lake Michigan? They are very tiny and nothing too spectacular... but it would be nice to know what I stumbled across. Thanks! 1. Tiny crinoid fossil? The side view is particularly interesting to me, because it resembles an artifact (bead) moreso than other images I found online of crinoid fossils. 2. Claw of some sort? I'm still trying to learn the grooves characteristic of various claws and teeth, so I wouldn't be surprised if I misidentified this. 3. Fossil of a marine arthropod? 4. Bone?
