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I was rock hunting while cleaning up the garbage on the shore of Ohio river and I found this. It resembles a petrified tooth of some sort. Did I find a rock or is it indeed a tooth?
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I've had these fossils for years now, but I never could figure out what they exactly were. The first image is of what looks like a fern and the second I'm not sure of (both found on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Illinois). The 4 following pictures are of 2 fossils found on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky on the Indiana side of the river. One looks very clam like, while the other looks more like what I am assuming is a crinoid? I can make out a small stem and small circular patterns on the opposing end. The last 2 pictures I am the most unsure of. It looks similar to the jellyfish nodule fossils of Mazon creek. I found it in Northern Illinois in Cook County.
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Found out I had fossils down the street from my house and did some searching for a variety of plant fossils. This was found in a road cut along the Ohio river near Ambridge/Aliquippa, PA and the fossil layer is the Mahoning Shale. Most of what we found were tree ferns, calamites and lycopods. We had some great success and it was great to find these right down the street! Most were easy to ID with help from the Fossil Guy site. But we can't find any info on the attached. Any ideas are welcome!
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Today I have some more playground finds. I think these fossils are agatized? They are very shiny and have a striated, yet bumpy texture. The only thing I can think is that they're some kind of inside cast of horn coral, but they almost seem to have had branches due to the knot-hole appearance on two of them. Two of them have hollowed-out ends.
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Hello again, Fossil Forum. I have some actual fossils for you now. My seven-year-old daughter finds these tiny things mixed in with the gravel on her school playground. I don't know if the gravel is local to us in Kentucky, but it might be. The first one has so much contrast it looks like someone painted the white parts of it! I assume it's some kind of coral, but I don't know what kind. The second item is one of the best she's found as it seems to be in very good shape. I don't know if it's plant matter or again, coral. I'd love to be able to label it in her little fossil box.
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Hello, Fossil Forum! I've been lurking here a while to get a feel for the community so I don't make a fool of myself, but I'm wading in here tonight. This stone was found in landscape gravel near Louisville, KY. It was mixed in with multi-color pea gravel and may or may not be local. It has an unusual structure and I wondered if it was a fossil or not? I'm leaning toward "not" because I haven't seen anything that resembles it here on the forum, but I wanted to ask the experts before I took it out of the fossil collection. Thanks in advance!
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Found this inside a rock thinking it was going to be the same silver material i was finding inside all the other rocks i broke open but....... found this ! Any ideas what it once was ? Interested ! Thanks for any help ! Im showing both sides of the rock in the pictures above. In case they look different, they are ! Ha!
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I found this while gardening. Any assistance in identifying would be highly appreciated.
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Found this out while walking the Ohio river bank. looks like a birds head that has been petrified. It is solid, weight is 18 grams, 3 1/2 in long.
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