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Unidentified Teeth From the Bond Formation of Illinois
westcoast replied to Umbo's topic in Fossil ID
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Hey yall, first time posting. While I was visiting up in Wisconsin, I decided to take a couple fellow geo students out to an outcrop of the Bond Formation in Northern Illinois. One if my friends managed to find two small teeth in limestone, and after we prepared them, they came to look like this. Pictured above is 1. This is two, with a scale bar. It was a storm heavy day, but we still managed to cause a ton of material and come back with approximately 15 teeth in total. These were the only ones I couldn't identify, so I would appreciate and ideas.
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Thank you all for your comments. Here are two photos of the requested area. Any idea of approximate age?
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@Shellseeker, no cigar for me either! But I was close.
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I found this yesterday in a creek here in Adams County, MS. It is encased in oxidized blue-clay. It was carved out of a bed of oxidized Blue-Clay, and has tumbled since. Can someone identify it for me?
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@dries85 very cool. Definitely want to learn the range. Started looking at the paper but gotta go to work. Jack, hers the age graphic Harry posted. I will tag you when I post the most recent one I found. It’s the shape of a 12 year olds wear but completely hollow. Just the outer enamel left.
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Starfish is it real?
Yoda replied to Hisairness45's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Conchoidal fracture. Not a fossil.
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Hi all! The weather out here on the East Coast of the U.S. has finally started to warm up (sorta…) and for my husband and I (+ the occasional friends) that means a day trip out to Big Brook Preserve for a day of sifting and picnicking. The most major change we noticed was the new erosion. We had a stormy winter out here, with a lot of rainfall, winds, and flooding. There’s newly exposed strata throughout the brook, but about 5 minutes into the main trailhead there’s been a massive mudslide along the far bank. Several trees have fallen across the brook and those that were able to keep their grip on the bank have exposed roots. The bank will resettle and stabilize back up soon enough, but in the meantime please exercise caution when exploring/hunting in this area, especially during storms or high winds. Of course, with these changes comes newly exposed fossils along the creek bed ripe for the sifting! Here’s a collection of what my group and I found out on our first trip of the season. An overview We didn’t find as many teeth as we expected to with all the new collapsed strata and no particularly large ones - but we did find some with a beautiful pale coloring, including the stunning white one in the center there! I was able to find some of my first trace fossils! Two lovely pebbles, with possibly some sort of belemnite/shellfish/burrow imprints on the left side there, and some amazing shell imprints on the one on the right (both include imprints on both sides of the stones). And speaking of shells - we have some lovely marine fossils! The 4 scallops(?) in the foreground are fully closed, with both top and bottom shells intact - a first for us at Big Brook! And these guys range from tiny to itty-bitty. In the newly exposed strata within the major mudslide area there seemed to be a layer close to shoreline containing a MASSIVE amount of shells, and I’m assuming these baby scallops came from that layer. My hunch says it’s a layer from a period of local/mass extinction, but if anyone knows more about what that layer could be please let me know! Top image includes the finds that I think could be either fossilized wood or bone….then again they could just be your everyday rock! I’ll be posting in the Fossil ID topic soon with clearer images, so any help would be appreciated! Bottom image includes our first two vertebrae! The one on the right is about the size of a dime and so the one on the left is absolutely minuscule! I’m just amazed we were able to spot it in our sifters. And these…are our unknowns. Coral? Concretions? Fossilized bone? Or maybe just a rock? (But I am crossing my fingers for pure Gold on that one at that top…) And finally, here’s a bonus image of some of the beautiful stones we picked up along the way!
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If I refer to the point on the left under the arrow, it makes me think more of a bovine. Coco
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Yes, that's mostly slag, along with what looks like bits of limestone and sandstone.
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Welcome to the Forum from Germany, I hope you have a great time with all the other members here
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Welcome to the forum! And don’t forget if you’re in the panhandle of Nebraska you’re close to the white river formation and the oreodont beds!
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4 Day trips to Charmouth/Lyme Regis - so many vertebrae!
rocket replied to Fenguin1999's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
so when you thinks you have used your luck for a while check out how long this is. If it´s two week, go out in three For me it was always a highlight in my UK-tours to find ichthyosaur-remains.- 3 replies
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Starfish is it real?
Coco replied to Hisairness45's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, This wants to represent brittle stars and not starfish (but same family). For me, I doubt that it is real, even with the arm over the others, because they are constantly improving to make them look more like real fossils. I think that when they run aground and die, they often have their arms in the same direction, because of the movement of the water, but I can be wrong. That said, the photos are not good enough to be able to say more for me. Coco- 3 replies
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Pile of Gold! Fossil shells & more that is! One shiny piece started my hunting!
Kane replied to Kimber's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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Mixosaurus I bought.
rocket replied to JJ Lavoie's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
good luck in prep, love to see the result one day When I was a younger collector it was nearly incredible to see or get triassic ichthyos. Now there are...., wow -
Bradford bedrock will be Ordovician in age. All of the bedrock in southern Ontario antedates the Mesozoic, so no dinosaurs.
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4 Day trips to Charmouth/Lyme Regis - so many vertebrae!
Fenguin1999 replied to Fenguin1999's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Thank you! I think I have definitely used up my luck for a while. They days that I went there were also very few other people on the beach - so that probably had something to do with it too -
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Mixosaurus I bought.
Crazyhen replied to JJ Lavoie's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
It's 26cm in length. The hatchling is unprepped but I would say the snout is complete. A type of ichthysaur found there has very short snout, look at the skull of another specimen below.
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