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Hi everyone! I found these formations when walking along the banks of the Murrumbidgee river near Wee Jasper in New South Wales, and was chatting with a friend of mine about what they might be. They're circular, and we saw them mostly on two large rock shelves at the waterline, where it looked like the rock around them had eroded preferentially. Some of them were filled with what appeared to be quartz, and I was wondering if they might be trace fossils or e.g. rudist shells? That said, I believe the rocks around here are Devonian so the latter seems unlikely. Thanks in advance for any input !
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Opalised wood the last one the wood is opalised on the top and inside replaced with agate
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A few opalised wood . Opal formation replacement of woods , and opalised wood replaced by Gypsum opalised and petrified wood
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Yesterday I got home from a two week trip to Richmond, QLD where we collected from lots of different Early Cretaceous localities. I still have so much to go through and prep, photograph, etc. but here are a few things that I thought were worth photographing. A jewel beetle(?) from the Allaru Formation east of Richmond. I'm told this is the first Albian insect from Australia and the first from the Eromanga Basin, but there do seem to be a couple of other insects known from here (a dragonfly wing from the Toolebuc Formation and a scorpionfly wing). It was a really unexpected find since this site is known for things like bivalves, ammonites, belemnites, fish and marine reptiles. When viewing the rock it's in from the side it appears to be in between layers of Inoceramus. Will take some better photos with scale at some point but the specimen is about 15mm long. A plate of brittle stars from a property south of Richmond (Mackunda Formatiom) A really pretty shark tooth from the same location as the brittle stars. This is the only specimen I've seen from here with so many cusps. A small section of articulated ichthyosaur (Platypterygius australis) paddle bones from the Allaru Formation east of Richmond. Another from the same site as the previous specimen, a fish skull (Pachyrhizodus?). The other side of this specimen is still encased in limestone so I hope it will prep out well, this side is quite weathered. Will post some more tomorrow!
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1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life. Primitive steroids found in ancient Australian rocks may have been made by the earliest complex cells before they evolved into animals, plants, fungi and algae By Alice Klein, New Scientist, June 7, 2023 The paywalled paper is:: Brocks, J.J., Nettersheim, B.J., Adam, P. et al., 2003. Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown. Nature Barney Creek Formation: Kunzmann, M., and Blaikie, T.N., 2019. The ca 1640 Ma Barney Creek Formation in the McArthur Basin: Targeting diagenetic mineralisation and depocentre shift. In: Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) 2019 Proceedings. Northern Territory Geological Survey, 7680. Yours, Paul H.-
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Lower Cretaceous Pterosaur from Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
107-million-year-old fossil pterosaur bones found at Dinosaur Cove oldest ever discovered in Australia Anna Salleh, ABC Science, May 31, 2023 These magnificent 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones are the oldest ever found in Australia The Conversation, May 30, 2023 The open access paper is: Adele H. Pentland, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, Samantha L. Rigby & Stephen F. Poropat (2023) Oldest pterosaur remains from Australia: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) Eumeralla Formation of Victoria, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2201827 https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2023.2201827 Yours, Paul h.-
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The lady from our local rockhound club that gave me the Arthrophycus piece recently... has given me the rest of her fossils. She is getting on in years and has decided to start passing stuff on, and anyway she is more of a lapidary person I think. This is partly a showoff post and partly a request for more information for the ones that I am lacking detailed info on. She was not able to give me the full info on every piece. I was able to fill in some gaps myself but not all. I don't know if I should post the pertinent ones in the ID section. but if anyone can fill in where details are lacking I'd appreciate it. Most of them come from Canada and the US, but also England, and one from Australia, and they span from Ordovician to Recent. I'll post closer pics of individual pieces below, but here are some overall shots - the collection fits into 3 flats: Paleozoic and Cenozoic:
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Hey there just wondering if anyone can help ID this skull found in Australia NSW on the beach
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Hi all, I recently found this at a local beach and am unsure what it is or how to ID it. Any help or guesses greatly appreciated
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Hey everyone! A few weekends ago I did my second-ever fossil hunting trip at the well known site of Beaumaris Bay in Melbourne. I was hoping to find a shark tooth, and we did bump into a fellow hunter who had found a couple perfect specimens, but they remained elusive - a good reason to go back! We also saw a fair number of families fossil hunting, and it was nice to see lots of people getting into the hobby at such a lovely environment! I myself found too many echinoids to keep [2], specifically specimens of the heart urchin Lovenia woodsii (not to be confused with its cousin, Lovenia forbesii, which is nearly identical to my untrained eye). I saved a few nice specimens, as well as what I hope is a piece of marine mammal bone [3], and some rock with a bit of an unusual pattern in it ([4+5] - I'm suspicious as to whether it's a fossil or not, so I'd love an opinion!) Overall it was a lovely trip, and I'm having a great time getting into this hobby!
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A few days ago we visited Penrose State Forest (south of Sydney, Australia) to look for fossilised leaves. There are a few specimens from this locality in the Australian Museum collection and one of our contacts tracked down the sites many years ago. I'm not sure which species are represented here, there are a few similar described Tertiary sites like this one in Australia but this one hasn't been studied to my understanding. I doubt these can be reliably identified given the poor quality of preservation but they're still really pretty imo, the matrix is gorgeous. Here is the first specimen, I'll post some others as I photograph them
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Trading two small teeth from Protosphyraena of Australia
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Hello, I'm trading two small Protosphyraena teeth. Here are their info: Protosphyraena sp. 84.9 mya | late Cretaceous Molecap Greensand Formation Gingin, Western Australia These two teeth have a value of 20 USD in total. I am trading them away for any other fossil with roughly that value. Thank you for your interest.thumb.jpg.e6b6f2a69ca565c3f7296534ce3641fc.jpg)
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In this video there are two pine cones. The big one is from Argentina, and the small one is an opal from Australia
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Fossil ID - First Time Fossil Hunting at Turimetta Head, Sydney, NSW
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Hi everyone, I'm a first time fossil hunter and I went up to Turimetta head north of Sydney with a friend to try our luck. We found a few things splitting shale, and I was wondering what exactly they were - I understand that they're all probably plant material, if they are fossils, but wasn't sure exactly what type of plant they were from. Hopefully someone can help. Thank you in advance!
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Australia/Emu Bay/Cambrian/Lower Cambrian
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I bought this opal as a boulder wood fossil from Australia. I see that it has a few snails and possible a piece of a bone (the first image). it is a microscopic image. The length of the specimen is about 3 cm. Thank you!
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This opal is from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Could it be a coprolite Thanks!
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Hello All, I have seen a previous topic on FF about Kem Kem Pterosaur teeth vs. fish teeth. Which got me thinking about a tooth that I collected last year from the Toolebuc Formation, Queensland Australia, but just thinking it was a fish tooth, however its quite long, and Im not sure it matches exisiting fish from the Toolebuc. Scale is in CM. Thoughts? thanks Rodney
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This is a boulder opal with some kind of crystals in it. It was sold as “vegetation fossil”. I am attaching a few images that were taken under a microscope. The dimension of the opal is 15.4 x 9 x 4.9mm And the crystals, or whatever it is, take around 1/3 of the length. So, is this a fossil and a fossil of what or these are some minerals? Thanks.
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Hi Everyone, I am a noob to the fossil world but have always loved looking at different shells, rocks, formations and antiquities. On a recent beach holiday to Forster NSW, Australia, I can across this rock on Pebbly Beach. Can anyone clarify if this is a fossil and if so what sort? Thanks in advance for your insight. Stuart
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I recently had a great chat with Ben Francischelli, a paleontologist from Melbourne, Australia, doing an amazing job finding fossils and very involved in scientific outreach. He talked about the fossils he and some citizen scientists found in 2022 across a number of sites. Sooooo many shark teeth, whale teeth, cetacean ear bones and crazy giant marsupials! He is on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_fools_experiment/ Check out his LinkTree for other cool links (YouTube, Patreon, papers etc) https://linktr.ee/a_fools_experiment -
This is an opal from Lightning Ridge. One image is of a complete stone and a few others are microscopic images. what do you think it is?
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