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I hesitate to post this because I know next to nothing and don't know if it is worth posting, but I picked up what I would call a conglomerate one day on a Florida beach near Jensen Florida primarily because of a fossil tooth that was in the conglomerate. I could see a few other bits of bone as well. But I got to looking at the conglomerate with my microscope and saw what I thought were some nice small but interesting things. I suspect that the conglomerate is not very old and don't think there is likely anything much older than the tooth in the conglomerate except possibly some small shells, which I tried to photograph. I was thinking of dissolving this conglomerate but didn't want to destroy the shells, some of which were crystalized. I decided to try dissolving a smaller piece that I had which showed only what looked like bits of bone and had few if any shells. Here is the kind of thing that I saw in the big conglomerate that I've not decided if I would try to dissolve. What do you think? Does it look like anything old or interesting might be in this clump or do you think I would more likely to destroy some of the nicer things (if you think there might be any at all) by dissolving this clump? I'll post photos of some of the things that stuck out to me even though most were .1 cm or less. A few were slightly larger. And a a few a lot smaller. First the conglomerate showing the brown tooth, which is about .75 inches square. Then some of the much smaller things I thought were nice. The last is my favorite. Appears to be maybe a piece of coral or stem. What do you think? Thanks to all. Sorry if this is just waste of space.

Good morning, I’m new on here and to Texas but the wife and I found some cool stuff the other day so I wanted to share. We are total novices so if anyone can identify what these are and their era that would be awesome. We were on a big hill too so it was cool to think how long ago where we were standing was under water. Have a great day!

Hello, I am new here so please bear with me, I have been picking these up over the last decade of walking my dog on the coast of Thyborøn in West Jutland, Denmark. Incidentally, this is where the sea-battle of Jutland took place during the first world war. My questions are very basic: 1) These are all fossils right? And if this is correct, 2) How old are they and by how much would you say their respective age differs, is this even possible to say? 3) Are any of these interesting or considered good quality? These are laid out in a similar pattern. Sorted by color and size and apparent quality. Ask me for better images of any one of these and I will deliver ASAP. Simply ask for the specific shell by number starting from the upper left corner, the upper line will be 1--5 from left to right and the second line will 6-10 from left to right etc. Thank you very much, Dannie

I bet you will not believe me but I when to McDonald's to get an ice cream cone and when I was walking back to the car I looked in a rock bed that they had brought in for decoration. And I picked these three up. There are many more there and I don't know if I should go back for more ?