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A nice Dictyonema flabelliforme dendroid graptolite from Oslo Fields in Norway. It's Tremadoc, Lower Ordovician in age and is thus maybe around 480 mya. Another angle :
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Hello! I am an American paleo grad (Montana State) living in Oslo! I look forward to meeting and talking with you all as I generally use these forums to help me in identifying fossils in a collection I help curate! I finally broke down and made an account after becoming overly frustrated with a few dubious pieces. Cant wait to learn from you all!
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A rangeomorph holdfast trace fossil from the Ediacara formation, Rawnsley quartzite of the Flinders Range, South Australia. This specimen is Medusina mawsoni, so called because it was until recently thought to be a jellyfish, but is now believed to be the attachment point of a fractal rangeomorph as Charniodiscus is the point of anchorage for Charnia sp. This one may have been the holdfast point for some species of Rangea. The diameter of the outer circle is 1.5 cm and the fossil is estimated to be 555 million years old.
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Hello everybody, Just a quick introduction of myself. My name is Max and I am currently in my third years of my Bsc in earth science. My home university is the university of Bordeaux in France and right now I'm studying in Bergen Norway for one semester. Now to my initial question (I hope that is the right place to post). Does anybody know some great places for fossil hunting in Bergen Norway or in the Eifel/Hunsrück area in Germany? I know that in Bergen there are not that many fossils. In the Eifel region of Germany I was hoping somebody might know a spot to search for trilobites, ... I couldn't find any information about good spots in the internet.
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Only two weeks ago, when i was out rock hunting on the south western coast of Norway, I found two rocks with fossils inside them. In Norway, fossils are only found in Oslo, Trondheim and on the northern part of Norway. The only fossils found in the west are in Ritlandskratere, an ancient meteor crater, four hours away from where i found mine. The fossils are some brachiopods and clams, a trilobite tail, a belemnite fragment and a belemnite phragmocone. There could maybe be some new species or sub species. I am waiting for the response of the Natural History Museum in Oslo. I will update on the response I get.
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Found: in the ocean in Holmestrand, Norway. Need help to ID this fascinating stone I found.
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I found this stone at the beach amongst lots of other fossils and stones. I’ve never encountered a stone/fossil/mineral like this one here in Norway, and I’m absolutely fascinated by it. I’m fascinated by rocks, minerals and fossils in general, but I grew up far away up in the Norwegian mountains. These kind of rocks/fossils I found in Holmestrand is not my field of expertise or knowledge, and I couldn’t find anything that resembles this rocks online or in books on the online library. So I figured that it’s faster to just ask you guys what you think? I do believe it’s a fossil of some sort, but it looks like partly mineralization as well? Or like a different mix of different types of rocks? The bottom reminds me of “Skifer” stone, but it doesn’t quite add up and I can’t verbalize why. The top shimmers in the right light, didn’t see it until my kitten didn’t like that the stone received more attention than him and decided he should get my attention by standing between the rock and my light source(amongst other things). I haven’t dared/had capacity to give the stone a proper wash yet. I’m still a newbie.- 3 replies
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I found this fossile last summer at the beach of Randsfjorden in Norway, Kalvsjøen formation, from late Katian, late Ordovician, but cannot figure out what it is. The speciemen is about 3 cm long and geodized in the middle. Does anyone have an idea what it can be? Thanks for any suggestions. Martin
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At the end of August this year I travelled to Larvik in southern Norway to visit "Norges stein og mineralmesse". On my drive from Nässjö in Småland to Strömstad in Bohuslän i took a short detour to visit Taberg. Taberg is a huge iron ore mountain consisting of Titanomagnetite-Ovlivinite which is only found in Taberg, Sweden and Rhode island, U.S.A. The ore body was created 1.2 billion years ago and has survived both a number of ice ages as well as several attempts of mining. Today the mountain is protected by law and during winter the old mine shafts house hundreds of bats. Being Smålands fifth highest peak it makes for a great view of lake Vättern. Further up north I made a short stop at Femstenaberg. This rest area is found just before the exit to Skee and is only accessible if travelling north on the E6 towards Oslo. Right next to the toilets are the subfossil remains of a Balaena mysticetus that was found 72 metres above today's sea level, during the construction of the new E6 highway. The remains are dated through the C14 method to be around 14000 years old. Subfossil vertebrates are quite rare in Sweden, as far as i know you won't find one exhibited outside of a museum anywhere in Sweden except here. As the day was nearing its end I took the ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord and got to enjoy the sun setting over the Oslo fields Syenites and Monzonites.
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Hurum, J.H., Bergan, M., Muller, R., Nystuen, J.P. and Kleina, N., 2006. A Late Triassic dinosaur bone, offshore Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 86(2), p.117. The above paper is cited by: Marzola, M., Mateus, O., Milan, J. and Clemmensen, L.B., 2018. A review of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods from Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 66, pp.21-46. and Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. and Vajda, V., 2016. An introduction to the Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 434(1), pp.1-14. Yours, Paul H.
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lI found this rock in a quarry, at Hadeland in Norway, Katian-Ordovician age, but cannot figure out what is is. Any one have an idea? A piece fell off and then we can see a very smooth surfce inside (black part).
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Last summer I found this big rock in the Kalvsjøen formation, from the Katian period in the Late Ordovician. I wonder what kind of animal it is. The size of the whole rock is about 50 cm long.
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Near the shores of the south-eastern Randsfjorden in Norway is a loaction with an Early Silurian outcrop. Last summer I found some gastropods and this nautiloid in a road-cut on a rock which seems to be sandstone, of very hard material. It seems to be an orthocone, although very slightly bended with the siphuncle visible on the top cross-section, placed in a semi-central position. Could it be possible find out which order and family it belongs to? I guess it is not an endoceras, because the siphuncle is not very large. The lenght of the speciemen is about 12cm. At the same location I found a very beautiful rock with several animals, two nice gastropods, which I not know the order of, and one or two other nautiloids. The rock is about 7cm broad. One big and one very small gastropod:
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I wonder if this fossile is a trilobite or a nautiloid, from Late Ordovician in the Oslo-field, Norway.
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I wonder what the line in this rock could be, to the right of the brachiopod. The line is less than 1 mm in diameter. Also if it is possible ID the genus or family of the braciopod? The age is Mid or Late Ordovician.
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Happy new year to all members! Today I would like to present some of my finds of tabulate corals. I am grateful if anyone can help to identify the family, genus or species. First I will present corals from the Kalvsjøen formation, late Ordovician in Hadeland, Norway. I think rock 3-8 have the same species. Rock 1 and 2 are most puzzling so I present those first. I see several kinds of corals in them and not only corals. Can you also see the nautiloid? Next, some rocks which I believe have the same kind of coral: Rock 3 - the biggest coral I found in the area, more than 50 cm broad (still in situ), worthy to be in a museum: Rock 4, very smooth surface, maybe rounded by the glacier or river: Rock 5 - size is same for the diameter of the coralittes: Rock 6 - same size of coralites Rock 7: Rock 7 Rock 8- in situ:
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I would like to start present some of my coral finds, or what I believe are corals. The first are from Tyrifjord lake area in Norway, I am uncertain of the formation, but I believe it is Ordovician of age. Although one paleontologist told me that the area has Silurian sandstones of Early Silurian age, a geological map I found also includes some Ordovician outcrops. These I presume are favosite corals. Is it possible ID their order, genus or species? Their sizes are about 10-12 cm long. I am not sure these are sandstones or limestones. First rock: Second rock: Thrid rock (this I left in situ): Finally, from same location:
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My father was very found of nature and had an eye for valuable thing which he found in nature. In my home hometown area in Sogn, Norway, near the great Jostedal glacier, is rarely fossiles to find, becauce the glacier came out of this area, called "The home of Glacier" (Breheimen), many times in the past, to cover a great part of Europe during the ice-ages the last 2.3 million years. Here the nature is very much beautifully shaped with by the movement of the glaciers, and more movements than in other places. That is why the ancient sediments are removed and fossils are rare. However, it can be fossils from more recent times, and I have always wondered what this thing is which my father found many years ago . Anyone have an idea? I will also share with you two of the things he found in nature there, to make art of of them: He made several of these chairs, in the tradition of the Viking time, and if you sit down on one of his chairs, the chair will strart to play music from inside it.
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Hi all! I found this rock with many fairly well preserved plant fossils in it. It's from the Kvamshest-basin in western Norway, deposited about 380 ish Mya. Does anyone here know what kind of plants they are?
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Last summer I visited Helgøya, a place north in the Oslo-field, and found this rock at a site I believe is middle or late ordovician. No other well preserved fossils was possible to find at the site. It is very fragile, so didn't break up the whole rock, but some parts fell of which have clear patterns. It seems the whole rock have some kind of bullet forms inside. Anyone have an idea which kind of animal it is? Pic.1 Pic. 1 Pict. 2: Pic.3 Pic. 4 Pic. 5 Pic. 6: Pic. 7:
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In Hadeland, Norway, I found this two fossils, about the same size and in the same rock. Anyone have any idea what it is? The age is Upper Ordovician, in the Kalvsjøen formation. It is dykes in the area, but not exactly where I found the rock. Then here is the other side of the rock:
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Last autom I found two nautiloids in Hadeland, Oslo-field, in another a little older formation than the other nautiloids I have found in the area, but also Katian, Upper Ordovicium; Kjørven formation (a. 447-448 my). I waited until now to present it, because I used some time to identify the right formation. The first one I thought first that it is an orthocerid nautiloid, but it seems (if I am right) to be a discosorid, because it has bullettes and possibly thick connecting rings and relativ broad or oval shaped siphuncle near the ventral margin of the conch. Its shape, although a mature part seems missing (and the apex is not well preserved), is slightly endogastric curved (seen clearly by the overall shape of the sequence of the connecting rings). I have marked where is the apex with arrows in pict. 3. The aperture with the living chamber should be in the opposite direction, because the bullettes are "hanging" down in the direction of the apex (the juvenile part of the conch). Pic. 1 Pic. 2: Pic. 3: Pic.4 - the other side of the rock, shows that is is almost flat, similar to an actinocerid, on that side too, maybe because of erosion?: Pic. 5 - aclose up on the connecting rings: Pic. 6-7 - show the the siphuncle (see arrows): Pic. 8 - cross-section: It is not clear everywhere that the connecting rings here are thick, but in some parts it is so, as shown in the next picture 9. It often happens with discosorids that only the outer layer of the connecting ring are preserved. According to Flower and Teichert “a striking peculiarity” for discosorids is “the unusual thickness of the connecting rings”, composed of a spherulitic–prismatic outer layer and an inner and thinner organic fibrous layer. I wonder if these two layers are seen in my speciemen? In the below picture I mark the two layers indicated by arrows by "I" for the inner layer (which often is not preserved) and "O" for the outer layer. Pic. 9 - close up of layered connecting rings:
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Hi im a mineral hunter, and my whife picked up this little thing, first i was thinking it was some kind of slag, but after closer inspection it seem to have kind of a organic shape and is non magnetic with lots of small pores. Can this be a fossilized thing?
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At the site near Slemmestad where I have found many graptolite, I came over this trilobite. It is a few cm long, a part of the thorax. Is it possible to identify which family it is? It maybe can help me to narrow the id of the formation's age there (Bødalen).
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My friend found this stone on our last fossil hounting tour. Do anyone have an idea what it can be? it is from MIDDLE ORDOVICIUM, Norway. The size is about 3cm long. Could it be a coral? Martin
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