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My Keokuk Limestone finds from this fall have now been cleaned and identified. I am struggling with a few and am reaching out for any suggestions to identification. Thanks!! 1. First up is a blastoid that can't be matched well with the three species to occur in the Keokuk. It is probably a weathered sample that makes identification tough for me. 2. A crinoid cup that I do not recognize. It is very round and smooth. Maybe it isn't a crinoid cup! 3. A second crinoid cup I can't identify. 4. A large gastropod that spirals backwards to most gastropods. Reminds me of Maclurites if this was Ordovician. Straparolus looks similar but spirals normally. 5. And finally a specimen I thought was a fenstrate bryozoan until I looked closely and saw it lacked the netted appearance. Maybe a dendroid graptolite?
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First up is a large trilobite pygidium I am not accustom to. Next is what I am guessing is a cornulites. My hunting grounds are devoid of these. Or is it a tentaculites??? There were quite a few of these found as I went through the matrix. Finally a complete mystery to me. Sponge or some kind of echinoderm?????? Only one was found.
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We are western New Yorkers but with family in Texas ~2 hours from the North Sulfur river we decided to go fossil hunting. We hired a guide for the first time and fit one more trip in before coming home. The guide was super nice and gave us a number of his finds and we ended up with mosasaur vertebrae, a camel toe bone, fossil wood, exogyra shells, etc. I have some questions. In the 1st and 3rd pics, #1 is an unknown to me. The brown area is shiny like the enamel of 2,3,4. Our guide gave us 2&3 explaining that 2 is mammoth and 3 is mastodon. I found 4 and it is similar to 3. Are there a great differences in how bits of enamel look? Is mastodon enamel always thicker and is 2 a random shape or not. 5,6,7, 10 are unknowns. Does someone know what type of bivalve 8 & 9 might be? In picture #4 do all of the pieces look like fossil wood? There is an end shot of the piece with the pink on top and I wondered if it could be palm wood and is it possible to know what other types of wood are found in this river? I am guessing that the teeth in the next pic are from cows not bison just because they look newer. Is that reasonable to assume and maybe not big enough? in the 2nd pic, the largest bone is mosasaur. It has layers that I wondered about and is that a common presentation? The smaller bones don’t look like the mosasaur bones we have. Can you say by looking at them that they are not? Thank you for taking the time to look at all of these. Patti
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Went out with the Natural History Society of Maryland fossil club to stratford hall 7/17/22. Perfect weather to walk along the beach and in the water. Came back with the standard things and a couple I am much less sure about. The first is a piece of rather flat bone, I hope it is a scapula, but if so whose? Next is a piece-- maybe it is a ray dermal scute; but the underside does not look like bone but I am not sure what it should look like. The last is a really shiny 1 cm bit that I think should be a drum fish tooth. Help, information and opinions will be well appreciated.
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After seeing all of the interesting things people had found in Big Brook NJ i looked through my unknowns and thought I would ask for help. If I had found the fossil in A and B in florida I would have called it worn dugong rib. However I dont recall dugong coming out of NJ therefore I dont really know what it is, ?wood? The next set are a couple of pieces that may be sandstone, or ironstone, or maybe fossil unknowns. they all have a mild c shape, oval shape with layered central depressions. they were similar enough for me to keep them but i dont even know if the all or any are fossils . c and d are off color beleminites to suggest that some fossils coming out of this area can have an odd color and surface texture. There are alot of people on the forum who hunt this area regularly, please take a look and help me understand what I have found. thanks Excel.lnk
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Hi all, I made my first trip out to Ramanessin Brook (NJ cretaceous) today. I found several teeth, and a partial shark vert. I also found what is most likely a rock, but might have some impression in it, and a partial bone(?) with nubs and grooves. If anyone can help with either I appreciate it. I took an overall photo of each, and then close ups using a jeweler's loupe. If the closeup photos are not adequate enough I can try to take better photos. I have a decent mirror-less camera, but I don't have a macro lens for the closeups. The light piece is probably just a rock. But the dark piece appears to be something, fossil or not. Thanks! Steve
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Two weeks ago, I traveled to Central (Devonian) and SE Iowa (Mississippian) for a little fossil hunt. It was very successful and I will complete a trip report soon. In the meantime, it would thrill me to understand a few unknowns from the trip. First of all, the Mississippian, Burlington Formation: 1. and 2. 2. is a brachiopod that I could not find in the lists of brachiopods from the Burlington Formation. 3. There were many of these present in a certain layer of rock. Very circular with longitudinal striations. All roughly an inch in length. 4. Probably my most confusing specimen. It looks just like the little sanddollars I find in Florida. Probably a crinoid piece, but worth the asking!!!! 5. These "trace fossils" were very evident in a certain layer of the Burlington. I am open for suggestions. Now a few Devonian specimens to get your thoughts on. 6. This was found in with many Platyrachella iowensis, a long winged spirifer. This spirifer has SHORT wings. A different species or broken wings?? 7. Finally, I can not find mention of this winged bivalve, Cedar Valley Formation. Thanks for any help you can provide me!!! Mike Sorry!! I forgot a few, all Mississippian. 8. What could the little green discs be that I often find inside the very white crinoidal limestone? 9. This reminds me a bit of a cephalopod but its hollowed out area is on a sharp slant, too much for cephalopod. It does not image well. My apologies. 10. Finally, research pinpoints the fenstrate bryozoan on the left as Hemitrypa. Is the one on the right Archimedes? I am so used to just finding the corkscrew. I promise I am done now!
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I missed these few fossils when trying to ID some unknowns from the Peace River a few days ago. 1. This one really intrigues me. Hopefully not just coral . 2. Very pitted. 3. I am a little unsure of these teeth. They just had a different appearance from the other teeth I could ID with confidence. I will repost a few from an earlier try for identification. 4. Bone of some kind 5. Broken tooth? Of what? A ridge down the length of the tooth visible in the first picture. Break visible in the second pic.
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On my way to Ohio to visit relatives, I was close enough to Paulding Ohio to take an hour or two to check out the Silica Shale piles so graciously put out by the La Farge Quarry. As always, it didn't disappoint! I do have a few fossils that I am a little unsure of. @Peat Burns Hopefully someone can help out. Mike First off, this one is HARD TO SEE. I photographed it 3 times and can't get it's subtle details to come through. I am 90% sure of bivalve. It comes to a point and the striations are along the growth lines, not the ribs. Second up is what I think is a piece of a rostroconch..... But is just a guess.
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I took a short trip to visit my son in Florida. We were to meet up with @jcbshark to do a little fishing. Unfortunately, mother nature had other ideas for us. It poured for 4 straight days, the length of my stay. I believe rain tallies were officially over 14 inches while we visited. Sooooo, what was a person to do??????? GO FOSSIL HUNTING!!!!!! I did have the opportunity to surface hunt for a few hours in a housing development near my son. Yes I was soaked with rain, but it helped to shine up the shark teeth. A picture of my finds: A closer look at a few teeth: But I am here to ID a few things. 1. The first is a tooth that I think is equine in nature. I am confused in that every horse tooth that I have found in Florida is MUCH larger.
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