13 fossils of which I'm not sure what they are

[TH1988]

Hello,

 

I've got 13 fossils of which I'm not sure what they are. All fossils are bought, which is why I can't say much about the geological layer and location they're from.  I used a ruler with inches and cm sizing. 

I don't really have to know the 100% exact specimen (please feel free to give the details though if you have them), I would like to have a general idea of what I'm looking at. 

 

1. Sold to me as bamboo, not sure if it is:

 

2. Sold as a waterlily, its a cross-section:

 

3. same story as up. I don't know what it actually is:

 

4. looks like a lizard foot, but it's probably coral.

 

5. Some kind of crazy stain??

 

6. This is obviously a tooth of a carnivore, I would like to know if its mammalian or from a dinosaur. For this one, I would love to know the specifics but shoot away with your ideas on it. 

 

 

7. Looks like bone, mammalian? Is it even bone?

 

 

8. Another piece of supposed to be bone. 

 

9. Bone/wood? who knows?

 

10. looks like its bone, but really don't know..

 

11. Looks like something from the sea...

 

12. Could be a tooth of a herbivore, could also be anything else. 

 

13. The last of the bunch, its sold to me as coprolite but it doesn't really look like it.

 

I would love to know your ideas on this collection. I am an amateur collector and I can identify some fossils/stones but for these, I really need your help.

 

Thanks in advance.

[FossilDAWG]

Welcome to the Forum!

 

Word of advice, 13 is a lot in one post.  Maybe in the future do a few at a time?

 

Anyway here are my attempts at IDs:

1. Could be wood.  You'd need thin sections showing structure to ID for sure.  I doubt it's bamboo, as bamboo has hard wood on the outside and is hollow inside, unlike this specimen.

2. Septarian concretion.  Mineral, not a fossil.

3. Septarian concretion.

4. Hard to say without closer/better focused photos.  It might be a bryozoan, if it is covered in small pores.

5. Crazy stain.

6. Broken base of a sawfish (Onchopristus) rostral tooth.

7. Can't say if this is bone without better photos.  If it is bone, it still would not be identifiable as it would be a piece from the interior without diagnostic surface features.

8. same as 7.

9. same as 7.

10.  Could be a piece of turtle shell, or a fragment of an inoceramid or oyster showing a bit of the hinge.  Or something else altogether.

11. Interesting.  This could possibly be a piece showing the interior of a stromatoporoid such as Aulacera, but I'm not sure.  Some kind of spongish creature seems likely.

12. no idea.  Better lighted/focused photos might help.

13. Lots of elongated irregularly shaped rocks get labeled as "coprolite".  This seems more like an iron concretion or maybe a fulgurite to me.

 

Don

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum.

 

Larger, better lit pictures would be helpful.   

[TH1988]

Thank you for your comments. I will send better pictures soon.

 

FossilDAWG’s comments on identifying them alrdy helped a lot. I would love to hear more ideas on what they are.

[Ludwigia]

Can't do any better than Don until we get some better photos.

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Ludwigia said:

Can't do any better than Don until we get some better photos.

Third that comment.

If you can, natural outside lighting is always best. For some reason, your desk top lighting tends to shadow/ silhouette the items making it real hard to make out any details.