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Ha de ha! Yeah, funny that. Thanks for looking and commenting. Thanks, Mike. If you do get around to getting some of this marvelous matrix, it would be nice if you posted some of your finds here. Yeah, I started off with a particularly nice one that was perhaps a bit easier to identify. A lot of them are just like this one: Nice enough but not too thrilling Maybe one of several genera. @Anomotodon, hello,old chap, could this be Anomotodon novus, a goblin shark? Thanks, mate, nice that you found the thread. And, yes, enormously generous and a lot of fun!. Thanks, Jamie, lots more weird and wonderful stuff to come, it's very productive matrix, you'd love it. And I'm sure your super photography skills would do the specimens far more justice than my shoddy snaps. Very kind of you to say so. But I'm mostly relying on elasmo.com for the ids and it's making my head spin. I have no idea what I am doing, really. As usual. Thanks, Waynesville Formation, I expect somebody will be along who knows the material sooner or later. in the meantime I shall have to read a bit more
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My vote: not a meteorite. Iron meteorites as their name suggests are >90% iron, are extremely dense and will absolutely stick to a magnet.
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Fossils in FL panhandle(?)
Shellseeker replied to OverCaffeinated's topic in General Fossil Discussion
I have lived in Florida for 30 years and hunted extensively for the last 30 years.. in Southwest Florida. Fossil hunting is not as easy in the Panhandle. That seems to always be true. Someone asking for help and getting no answers. So this is going to be hard... Nothing easy like just asking. Depends on whether you can do hard things over time. Do you live in the panhandle ? That is a good start... Florida is full of fossils and has tons of rivers and creeks. On your weekends or free time, start investigate those rivers and creeks. The state of Florida owns 95% of all creek or river bottoms and grants you the right to walk on those creek/river bottoms. Here is an OLD , OLD OLD map that was prepared by the University of Florida to tell people where they believed there were fossil locations in the State. Who knows.. there might be a fossil or 2 left at those old sites... on the map in the panhandle. https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/UF90000378/00001/1x If you want to find fossils in the Peace River, it is pretty easy.. but in the panhandle, it is not. -
Welcome to the Forum. Not sure on 1 and 2. 2 does look like a brachiopod on the upper left, but then maybe the inside of the shell is below that? Not sure. 3 could be a crinoid stem, or an orthocone nautiloid/cephalopod. 4, 5, 7, 8 are all crinoid stem/columnal pieces. There are some bivalves and brachiopods mixed in with them. 9 looks like the imprints of crinoid calices, or crinoid "crowns" . 6 looks like counter septarian structures, to me.
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Welcome to the Forum. Give us a better, more specific locality and we may be able to determine the age of the oyster and what rock layer it came from.
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This what I collected at Tipple on my very first trip to Mazonia that day, all of which are in the freezer now:
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Rock, for me.
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Can you take a photo from directly above the object?
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New to fossils/geology - excited to be here
Darktooth replied to OverCaffeinated's topic in Member Introductions
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Looks more like some kind of oyster to me.
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This was found in a dry river bed inland from the west coast of California. Would appreciate some help IDing it. Could it be a scallop shell fossil? Thanks for the assist.
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Rocks fossils missouri Hello I am new was wondering if anyone can help me identify these fossils ? PLEASE AND THANK YOU 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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Went out for a couple of hours, and need help!
FossilNerd replied to Newbie_1971's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I think you are on the right track and of course agree with you. I know he usually hunts in areas similar in age (if not exactly the same) as St. Leon, so I think your assumption is right with Richmondian in age. I’d even venture a further guess and say he typically hunts the Liberty Formation looking for the flexi rollers found in the “butter shale” there, but that is only an educated guess from his previous finds and these might possibly have come from other Richmondian Formations like Whitewater, or Myville…errr… I mean Waynesville…- 5 replies
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I believe it's geological, but can you tell us the general location where it was found?
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Unfortunately I can’t help with the IDs. Like you Adam, these are well out of my comfort zone. Still, I think I’ll hang around and enjoy the show.
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Went out for a couple of hours, and need help!
Tidgy's Dad replied to Newbie_1971's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Yes, not quite what I meant. The Ordovician is split into Early, Middle, and Late and in North America, the upper parts of the Late Ordovician are known as the Cincinnatian Series. This is broken into stages and I think you were likely in the Richmondian Stage. But these describe the age of the rock. Each of the actual sequences of rock is differentiated into Formations which each have a distinctive appearance. If we know which formation we are in, we can often find a faunal list and narrow down the species found there. Anyway, that could be Monticulipora as mentioned above.- 5 replies
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Hi . Any idea what this fossil is? Ordovician from Morocco.
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Nice, almost like a flint-agate
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Thanks for any help! Love this forum!
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Im not an expert in geology or Indian material but I think you guys are right here are the photos after I sawed in it half. Pretty cool looking colors
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Good eye!! Great update. Saving pics to the teeth library. Jp
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I don't think its true shape can be determined.
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Nice! Now I have Pink Floyd’s song Time stuck in my head, which isn’t a bad earworm to have.
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