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This is a tusk I recovered from a river sand bar in Iowa 24 hours ago. The tusk was in somewhat damp sand. It started to degrade right away once it was unearthed. I wrapped the tusk in a towel but it did dry out a bit. I got it home about 5 hours later and re-wrapped it in damp towels. I am writing this post to spell out my plan based only on reading some other posts but not based on any experience. I would appreciate any advise. What am I missing or doing wrong? -Add many zip ties to hold tusk together. Leave crusted-on sand for now. -Wrap with damp towels and wrap that with plastic trash bags, NOT completely airtight. -Store in dry basement for several months to gradually dry out. -After drying period, carefully clean and "baste" with paraloid b-72 50:1 -Use more concentrated paraloid b-72 to glue loose parts. Lots of small crumbled pieces to deal with somehow. -Cure for several days and then fill voids with PaleoSculp (or equal) a little bit at a time. -Sand and buff -Make a stand and show off! Thank you for looking!
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I found this today in the yard while doing some light soil work. No idea where it may have come from. Thinking it might have come up from the frost over the years. Look like sinew or even fat tissue when I saw it buried. After bringing it up and cleaning it up thought it looked like a giant arrow head. Then it even appeared to look as though in the pointed portion on the item it had what looked almost like growth plate lines like we have in our bones. The stub end looks a lot like a joint or knuckle of some point. We are located near the Iowa and English river basin's In Iowa. Any help would be great in identification of this item. And maybe it's just a black rock. I have other photos but it won't let me upload them. It is about 12" long and about 9"'s wide and about 3" 's tall.
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Another post regarding a specimen I found posted on a Facebook fossil ID page - which no one in the group can ID. This was found in a river in Iowa. Most of what is found in the area is Pleistocene to modern. My first though was part of a turtle shell attachment point? But I am stuck.
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This was found on a rock bar on the Des Moines River near Boone, Iowa, USA. The piece is approximately 4.2x6x4
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This piece was found while surface hunting in a field near Boone, Iowa, USA, It measures approx. 6x3x2 cm
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Hi, I found this in Pensylvannian glacial till around a reservoir. It’s about 12” long by 5” in diameter. There are coal seams nearby. I think it’s a lycopod part of some kind but it doesn’t match most of the pics I’ve seen. Can anyone tell me more? I’m curious about the layered appearance. I don’t think it was in its original location as it was stacked on a big rock with other specimens. I left it in place due to regulations. Would have liked to keep it! Thanks!
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I recently bought this jaw and was wondering if someone can shed some light on it. Seller gave some info on it, but when I received it it’s a little different than expected. Seller states it was found in Iowa. It also seems very light if it’s fossilized, I have no experience with fossil bone so I’m not sure what to expect. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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I found this fossil in Devonian rock in Johnson County, Iowa. I think it is a fossil of a placoderm fish, and I think it has a "fin" next to the quarter in the photo. The fin would be coming out of the placoderm plate at a perpendicular angle, which would make sense, but I have never found a fin before. I will attach a close-up photo of the "fin" below. Am I on the right track or is this something else? Thank you! Ben
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A few weeks ago, just when we were inundated with the spring muddy season, I stopped at a site that features Decorah Shale with a little Platteville mixed in. If you haven't collected in the Decorah Shale, let me say it stays MUDDY even in a drought!! The site had been worked over for a finish grade. This means the site will soon be lost to vegetative overgrowth. So I proceeded to collect a 5 gallon bucket of mucky matrix to clean and examine at home, in case the weeds invade quickly. Here are some select finds from that bucket.
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I discovered these two rollers in Fayette County , Iowa in the lower Maquoketa, Ordovician. This location is well known for Anatophrus borreaus trilobites. Though the next lower formation changes abruptly to almost 100% Isotelus. Did I find one of each? Rollers make IDs tough on me. Then as long as you "trilo" experts are looking, can you ID the trilo-bits 1,2 and 3 in the next picture? Thanks for helping!!
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Due to an upcoming order from our Governor to stay at home, I took the opportunity to fossil hunt last Sunday afternoon before it begins. The ground was white with an unexpected snowfall overnight when I left the house but soon melted. My goal was to look at road cuts for rock slides from the winter's freeze thaw cycle. Digging and splitting would be tough with frost still in the ground. The first spots searched were Ordovician, Galena. Here are a few representative fossils from the Galena of SE Minnesota: From there, I slipped over the border into Iowa to look at Ordovician, Maquoketa. A sluffed hillside provided me with some rock that I wasn't that familiar with. Here are some finds: The first picture is almost clay like, different than the normal Maquoketa that I am used to.
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My wife found this jaw bone on a river sand bar in central Iowa last fall. I think it is a sloth jaw but not certain. The smallish size is what gives me a little bit of doubt. I have not found anything else other than a sloth that fits. Am I missing something? Thank you!
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Collected in northeast Iowa which is part of the Driftless, very rugged with lots of streams and flooding that cut away the earth. Most fossils here are Ordovician. Most are limestone of the Galena Formation. HOWEVER, this area is a hotbed for mammoth and mastodon teeth and bone finds that the locals call "dinosaur bones". That said, there is an area recently rumored to have a lot of "dinosaur bones" just 30 miles southeast east of Spring Valley, MN on the edge of Iowa. No one wants to talk about it for fear the government is going to come and confiscate their finds. Posting for a friend, so not my find. This is truly an intriguing rock. Spherical, I want to say "cherty" like a possible internal mold, the straight line and the way it is cracking almost like shell on the outside is also interesting. This could just be a very cool rock or...??? He sent me pictures and I am posting it in hopes that someone has seen something like this before. Since I am not very familiar with fossilized bone except for the real dino bones I have from the Hell Creek Formation, I would appreciate any sharing of knowledge that you guys and gals may have in what to look for in that area - @old dead things 1 2 3 4 5
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Hello fossil folks! I am going through my bone collection from last season and would like to identify the five bones pictured. The most interesting one to me is #5 as I believe it is too long to be a horse. Perhaps camel? All of these bones were collected from a river in central Iowa. So far, my wife and I have found prehistoric bison, horse, sloth, mastodon and mammoth bones from the pleistocene period. I am pretty sure these are either Metacarpal or Metatarsal bones. Sorry but I do not have a metric scale for the pictures. I have labeled the bones 1 thru 5 and noted each bone length. Thank you!
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"Maple Mill Formation near Kalona, Iowa." came up in a topic about Devonian Shark's teeth. It is a micro matrix type of material that I am interested in collecting next summer. I hunt just north of Kalona anyways!!! Has anyone ever collected this matrix or knows the location of the Kalona Clay Pit?? All of my research reveals only vague references and looking at google maps shows little exposure of rock around Kalona. All help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike
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This fossil was found on a recent collecting trip to a quarry near Iowa City. It is from the Devonian. As you can see, it is quite small with relatively large spines. My best guess is some type of brachiopod. I am hoping someone on the forum might know what it is.
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Hey group. I hope you're not getting tired of answering all my questions. Because...... I am requesting your expertise in a few more crinoid identifications. The information (as listed) I have on this specimen is it a Devonian Crinoid Flower from an estate sale collection from the early 1960's. It's listed(?) find location is Iowa, USA. It was originally purchased from Ralph E, Mueller and Son Phoenix, AZ in the early 1960's and was displayed in their store for several years until being sold. Help please!
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Here is a piece I saved on a recent excursion to the Devonian Cedar Valley Formation of Iowa. It looks like a thumbtack!!! I am guessing a tentaculites abutting an ostrocod, but would like other opinions. Thanks, Mike
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Any known sites near Davenport Iowa or Buffalo Iowa?
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Need help identifying what appears to be a tooth or bone of some sort. Found in the far northeastern part of Iowa (almost South Dakota) about 8 inches deep in the sandy shore of the Big Sioux River. The left and right side appear to be very slightly broken off, as well as what I would assume to be the bottom.
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When I picked up this bone and pieces my thought was bison. Reviewing it I’m not so sure, so will I defer to the experts! I was disappointed though to see this had been run over by an ATV on the sand bar... also sad to see really how polluted our water ways are...
