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I found this in Ohio Brush Creek thinking it was horn coral. Its not. Any ideas? Part of a syphuncle maybe?
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I just learned recently about Byne's "Disease" from cases I saw a collection. I was sent an article by a fossil curator I've been working during my internship at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology that I'll link in this post. Why have I never heard of this before?! It's a white powder that looks like mold on a fossil but its not. It occurs in specimens that are made of calcium carbonate and is caused by an acidic environment. it's not very common but when it does occur it can destroy a specimen if left untreated. Byne's Disease.pdf
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Hi everyone. Great forum. Thank you for having me. I am Christo, 48 years old, from Sofia, Bulgaria. I started fossil hunting about five ago. I'm still a beginner, an enthusiast, enjoying every find. I wish you all wonderful fossil hunting trips and great discoveries.
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Hi all, yesterday I met up with @Nautiloid and @Dean Ruocco in Madison County to collect some bugs at DSR and another site nearby. After exchanging some gifts we got to work collecting, you can see some of @Nautiloid’s finds on his post here… Dean and I got to work creating benches in a promising area whilst @Nautiloid checked out an area at the site I had mentioned to him prior to the trip. Straight off the bat we were all finding some decent bugs, here were the only Greenops I found yesterday. I always like to collect some of the weirder associated fauna found at DSR, such as these Hyoliths. This one has both a Hyolith and a cephalopod I didn’t find too much Dipleura wise, only a decent head and some single segments, the latter of which I left at the site. After we finished up at DSR, we decided to move onto another site which I was told not to mention, so I will honor that request.
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I really own the beach, I just let anyone borrow it. I’ve grown up in Florida, collecting shark teeth and such, fossilized conches clams and whatever else I happened to dig up or find. But with covid stealing my plane ticket home, I took it as a sign and decided to stay in Denmark for a while, it’s been two years, now. In that time, I made it my job to pick up trash and collect rocks and fossils and add to my rock garden, I love to grow food in my garden too. Some local pictures, and street art, to enjoy! The blue muscle shell is a symbol of Løgstør and can be found in all the art, and all the shops around town, silver markers on the ground, big painted cement clams, at Christmas, Santa has a huge throne of lit clam shell display!
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So I’ve been doing a lot of fossil hunting lately, and as such, went back to the dry dig site yesterday, hoping to get at least one of my current 2 white whales: A complete Meg over 3”, or a rhino, dire wolf, smilodon, or Dugong tooth. Neither of these things happened, but I did walk away with some great stuff, so without further ado: Starting off with Megs as always: 7 complete Megs. The one in the centre I’m convinced is a Chub - it’s got cusps. Small ones, but they’re definitely there. Here are the better frags I found, including one almost complete, white enamel Meg on the right middle. Found a complete and a partial whale tooth - Kogiopsis Floridana I believe - very happy with the complete one cause it actually has the tip. And the partial is gorgeous cause you can see the banding so well. Found a C Hastalis as well: My THIRD lower, left m1/m2 Nannippus Aztecus tooth (You’d think I’d find a tooth from elsewhere in the mouth by now… I have 4 Nannippus teeth and 3 are left m1/m2 ) A piece of tusk and some chunks of sting ray barb: Dolphin Jaw Bone: Some of the nicer teeth - top left is a Sand Tiger with both cusps, bottom right is a Dolphin tooth without the root: And finally, an obscene amount of turtle shell. I actually left a LOT of pieces behind too cause they weren’t textured. Overall not a bad day, but my 3”+ Meg continues to elude me.
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Anyone know much about locality 34? Not sure if anyone has made expeditions there or how one can access the area. Any input is greatly appreciated!
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Found in North Florida on a beach. 40 x 70 mm
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Hey everyone, I have been looking for more Theropod dinosaur teeth, or good marine/reptile teeth. I have the following things i can give back - 5'35 inch Ashepoo Megalodon tooth with rare bite marks. - 4'13 inch Scaldicetus sp. Tooth from Chile - 3'85 inch Megalodon tooth from Belgium. - 1'84 jnch Blue colored 'hubell' meg from May River. For any interest, please private message me.
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Found on North Florida Beach. 70 x 40 mm
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Hello everyone --I live in Florida and I love hunting fossils and rocks!!!---I love-love the history of everything!!!!!--I metal detect and I'm always finding weird rocks and mineral stones!!--I have a lot of fossil's that I need help identifying!!!--!!!!-So awesome to find this site!!!!--Happy Hunting!!
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Found on beach in North Florida. About 5x1.5 millimeters. Don’t know what it is yet.
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Found on North Florida beach. About 2x1 millimeters.
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About 3x2.5 millimeters, found on beach in North Florida.
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Hello! Help please with identification. Height ~ 1 mm. Age - Middle Miocene. But there is a possibility that this tooth could be from Middle Eocene redeposits. I didnt fond such teeth before, but it resemble me some Rays tooth, but I can be wrong. Maybe someone found something similar... Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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So - I’ve spent the last 3 days hunting in the Peace, to a decent bit of success! But there’s story behind each day. So Friday I go, and maybe an hour before I was planning on leaving, my shovel breaks. Sucked, I left early. Get home, only to realize I left my sifter and probe at the ramp. Get up the next day, head back out, bringing with me my backup PVC sifter… my sifter and probe are gone. Spend the day hunting, come home, build a new sifter, and probe. Wake up today, head out to the river to try out the new sifter. Anyway! Onto the finds! Apologies in advance, there’s a LOT. Starting off, as always, Megs. Did pretty well this time, couple of REALLY small Megs, and one that’s just under 2” that’s really nice. Still nothing over 2”. Next up, a right M1/M2 Equus tooth, this is one of my fav finds from the last 3 days - I’m thinking it’s associated with the left m1/m2 I found a few weeks ago - same spot. Next are fossil deer teeth and one modern one: Then a partial llama molar: Two half tapir teeth, cause I can’t find a full one apparently: Tiny dolphin tooth and a whale tooth tip: Gator and Croc teeth - the bottom left tooth is a HUGE gator tooth, and is pretty much perfect, just a little worn: The nicer shark teeth I found, including 2 C. Hastalis, some huge Hemipristis lowers, a sand tiger with both its cusps, and another sand tiger that’s slightly patho - the blade curves to the left: Fish teeth, gar fish scales, and puffer mouth plates, including one barracuda tooth that’s over an inch: Dolphin jaw bone: Tortoise spur in the top left, antler for the other 3 - bottom right is a piece that would connect to the base of the skull: This gorgeous fossilized snake vert: Ear Bones. I found a LOT: Ray stuff - top row is 2 nearly complete mouth plates - as in, the entire plate, not just a row, followed by a whole BUNCH of denticles, and some barbs: Mammoth tooth frags and one bit of tusk: And finally, Meg frags, and then all the other teeth I found: Can’t wait to do it all again!
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Hello, I just started my fossil collection and am thinking about adding some stuff to it. I found some stuff Im considering buying, but since I’m pretty new to fossils, I need some help to make sure the id are correct and that their the real deal before buying them. I would really appreciate it if someone helps confirm the ids of the fossils. Anyways that’s all I have to say for now, thanks for reading :). Btw I included why I’m skeptical(if I am, for each) item#1 is supposed trex rib, location on image, it measures about 1.65 inches, i only bought dinosaur teeth before, so I’m a bit skeptical that they can id the thing with just a rib bone, since there are many other large dinosaurs in the area. item#2 is a supposed dinosaur bone and I wanted to ask what dinosaur it might’ve came from and what part of the dinosaur it may be, location and size on image. Same thing, I don’t know much about dinosaur bones but it seems pretty cool and real. item#3 is a supposed Carcharodontosaurus tooth, however I’m not sure since the shape looks a little odd. size is 1 inch measured on curve. Location unknown item#4 is a supposed Rugops primes tail vertebrae, location in image, size is 5.5x3.5 cm, and I’m skeptical because I don’t understand how you can I’d with just a tail vertebrae. item#5 is supposed allosaurus toe, found in Morrison formation, measures 2.16 inches. Lots of large theropods, so idk if I’d is correct. Item #6 are raptor teeth from Morocco .5-.7 inches. Don’t know how to tell abelisaurid from raptors item #7 is supposed rib section from trex from lance formation Newcastle, however I’m not sure you can id it with such a small section. size in image item#8 is supposed Abelisaurid , from Morocco kem kem, size in image item#9 is also supposed abelisaurid and is also from kem kem, size is 1.8x.9 cm item#10 is cave bear tooth? Its not in good condition so I’m not sure, location on image and size is 1 and 1/4 item 11 I’m not sure, they think it’s raptor or abelisaurid , size on image and from kem kem item#12 no idea, never seen anything like it it’s from south east Georgia and measures 2 5/8x 3/4 again thanks for reading and hope you can help id a few, sorry for so much text and asking to id so much.
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Hi!!! I found these today on the beach I could use some help identifying. Please let me know your thoughts. There are three sets of teeth and I took pictures of both sides.
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Hi. I often go on here and look at the amazing dinosaur fossil collections many of you have. I live in Wisconsin so I don’t have the opportunity to search for them so I search online but I’m wondering if there are more places to find dinosaur fossils for sale than online sites. Im wondering if anyone has any input on this. If this is a question that goes against forum rules just let me know it can’t be answered here. I don’t want to break any rules. Thanks!
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I found this rock years can’t remember exactly where in Ohio but I know it was in Ohio. I was wondering if anyone help me with what is in the rock I believe the rock is sandstone but there are several spots that have a bone or tooth like look to them. Any help would be appreciated hopefully these pictures are clear enough
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Who knows that's kinds of a fossils? They are in the fars province country of Iran
Mahdi posted a topic in Fossil ID
What name of the fossils?
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Who knows that's kinds of a fossils? This is in the yasouj City of Iran
Mahdi posted a topic in Fossil ID
What is kind of a fossil?
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I know I’ve been making a lot of these lately, so apologies for the trip spam. I’m having lots of time to go hunting, and while the water level remains low enough to hunt, I had to take advantage of it. There’ll be one more on Friday and then I’ll probably be done for August, lol. Anyway! This was another trip to find more spots to hunt, and I definitely came away pretty successful overall. Nothing too crazy, but given most of the day was spent looking for spots I’m not too mad. Now I can go right back to the spots on Friday. So to start off, Megs, as always: The nicer Frags - The big one and the small corner piece actually match. Would’ve been 3” on the dot had it been full. A Gomph or Mastodon milk tooth cusp, horse incisor, tooth from something that I still don’t know, and a very large gator tooth: More dolphin jaw bones + one that may be from something else (The one on the bottom): Various finds including burrfish mouth plates, Ray dermal denticles, catfish spine, ray barbs, antler, shark vert, gar scales, cuda and Sawfish teeth, a sea Robin skull piece, and whatever the vert in the top right is from. I don’t think it’s modern: These next 2 pics are all from the same hole - definitely going to be going back there on Friday if the water allows it: Mammoth tooth frags: Tusk: This is (sadly) modern but I’ve wanted a complete gator osteoderm for a while: Ear bones - periotics are Pomatodelphis I believe, no clue what the bigger one is - sperm whale? Haven’t seen that shape before: And finally the nicer teeth including a half of a C. Hastalis in the bottom left:
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HI all, I have been collecting fossils on and off for 40 years.
