Parking Lot Fossils

[JurassicParkCarnotaurus]

Hey there!

I just thought I’d put some of my “parking lot fossils” here. I call anything that you might find in a place where small ground rocks are, could be a parking lot, or a fire pit, or whatever. Feel free to I.D. any of these too, as I just have a general idea of some of them. Thanks and enjoy!

[JurassicParkCarnotaurus]

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[I_gotta_rock]

Well, those are some pretty finds! I found a bit of fossil coral in the landscaping gravel of a mini golf course on Atlantic City's boardwalk last week.

I'm not sure how how detailed ID you want, but I can tell you:

First Picture: *could be a bivalve, but my money (all two cents?) is on spiriferid brachiopod

Second picture: a couple spiriferid brachiopods

Third Picture: see photo below

Fourth picture: Cave man  Seriously though, probably slots left from cross-sections of shell that dissolved.

Fifth is just too hard to see. 

Sixth is random bits of probably-unidentifiable, broken stuff.

Last picture: Gray one is a brachiopod. White one is a bryozoan. The yellow one is probably the internal mold of the opening to a rugosa (horn) coral, but I'd need a better angle and closer shot for that one.

 

[I_gotta_rock]

By the way, it was slightly easier to see what's in the picture I wrote on when downloaded and enlarged. However, if you can find a close-up lens, that would be helpful, especially for the third and fifth pictures.

[Fossildude19]

 

 

 

[JurassicParkCarnotaurus]

Thanks for all the I.D.s guys! 

Also, I found another parking lot fossil today in my backyard. 

[LabRatKing]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that spends time staring at poles of gravel in the landscaping. I have found all sorts of cool stuff in such environments.

[SMcD]

"Parking lot fossils"! Yes! I know these! Can't pass a pile of gravel without studying it. Once found some dear little diatoms in an excavation pile in a new house construction waste pile in Memphis. My favorite story is that of going to a museum in Yorkshire, and seeing a "devil's toenail" in the parking lot. "Come on! Come ON!" my husband urged. He finally went through the museum himself while I had a lovely time finding gryphea outside.

[middletown]

It is true, I can also relate to your stories of the time spent checking pile of rocks, loose rocks, or shale at roads.