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Fossil identification help please! Peace River Formation Venice, FL area
Newbie77 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello fellow paleontology buffs! I have recently returned from a trip to the Venice area where I did some surface/ beach sifting for fossils. I need to get out and dive there next time. I would love to have some help identifying fossils that are tripping me up. I recognize that there are a LOT of them. Sorry!!! I organized them on to a PDF because there were a lot to look at, but please let me know if it does not open up and I will upload them as images instead. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
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Am new to this forum and hoping you can help me, please. My son found this rock behind our garage. Am not sure if this rock was formed at our home in Maine or was laid down from quarried rock as a base for construction on our property. There are numerous quarries near my home where the rock may have been taken from. I live in the Downeast part of Maine, there was a glacier here , as well as volcanic eruptions. Searched my rock identification book but found nothing like this. Searched the internet and found similar looking rocks that were from Canada and England. They were identified as Chrysanthemum Stone, Fossilized Coral, Fossiliferous Coral, Carboniferous Tabulate Coral. Coral seemed to be the repeating identification, although each identification varied slightly from the others because there were different samples on the internet. Thank you for your time and help with this identification.
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Hello! Found this while digging in our yard. Not sure if it's anything, but my son is convinced it's a dinosaur tooth so I told him I'd try to find out. Anyways, we live in Anne Arundel County in Maryland and this was found only 2-3 feet down in very sandy soil. Any insight is appreciated! Lauren
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I found this buried in the ground about 2-3 feet deep in Pulaski County, Missouri USA
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So I found a few things at Myrtle Beach and I'm looking for some help in ID'ing them. I love looking for fossils but am not sure on things and I love the help I've gotten on this site so far. And any help with these is appreciated. The ruler is in inches. . . . 1: I thought this looked similar to a whale ear bone? Admittedly it could just be a rock but I wanted to post here and get some opinions. Getting photos of something black and shiny can be difficult but I could take more if needed, and maybe find better lighting. 2. At first I though alligator tooth but then I learned that mosasaur teeth have been found in this area also, so now I'm not so sure. Either way I love it. 3. I was thinking dolphin tooth but obviously it's broken so I'm not entirely sure. 4. And I thought I'd throw this one here too. When I saw it in the water I thought I was going to be picking up a cucullaea steinkern, but this is what it was. I thought I remembered seeing something like this online somewhere but I really have no idea, unless it's just a piece of some bone. So there they are. Any information about any of these would be much appreciated. And I could post more photos of any of these.
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Found on the coast of Hilton Head South Carolina USA. I am quite unsure of what this is, it’s very eroded and might ether be unidentifiable, or just a funny looking rock. However, I find it looks very tooth like, with one wide end, and one pointy end, as well as a cavity that is open at the wide end and gently tracks further into the “tooth” My first thought was a premolar of some sort of primitive whale sans the roots. But that seems unlikely. Please share your thoughts! I’d love any sort input and if you would like a better picture of a certain angle, let me know! Here are the pictures 1. Front side 2.Back side 3.Right side 4.left side 5.Top side 6.Bottom side And here is a video of the specimen rotating! (ignore the sparkling putty, it was the only option I had to get it to sand up nice while still being visible at all angles) IMG_0199.mov
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I found this vertebra fossil in North Carolina. I understand that vertebrae can be hard to identify, but if anyone can help me out, I greatly appreciate it! Sara
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I don't have much info on this as I am purchasing it from someone who has no info on it, is this bone? What bone could it be if it is bone? Unknown location and size other than photos. Sorry
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Just curious on how long it takes for things to crystalize such as this little turtle I found in a creek somewhere north of Seneca, KS.
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Hi! I recently found a lot of various items in Peace River in Florida. There are a few of them that I wanted to find help with, so I attached them below and numbered each of them so the pictures would be less confusing. I wasn’t sure if this would be easier than creating separate threads, but if it would be better to split them up I can do so. The first specimen is the main item I would like help identifying. I believe it’s a body of vertebrae but I was hoping to find out what animal it could be from. If there are too many in one, I am content in receiving the identification for the first item alone. All measurements are in centimeters but inches is on the bottom of the ruler. I’m very new to all of this so your help and kindness is greatly appreciated!
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I live across the street from the Middle fork reservoir here in Richmond, Indiana and earlier today I was looking where the poor off is where the reservoir releases the water and it's a waterfall. I found this. I don't know what it is. Trying to get some help to figure it out
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My 14 year old daughter has been on a quest for the last 6 years to try to collect a fossil in every state in the US. Our family is planning a trip to the New England states this summer and I have a plan for most states, but Connecticut has me flummoxed. I've searched this site for any tips and have gathered that there aren't any GOOD fossils in the state. We are just looking for ANY fossils. I'm hoping someone can help me out with a road-cut or beach where we can find anything long-dead to check this one off the map.
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Found in top a hill in the forest last year was far to interesting to leave!! Very Heavy for its size has a small piece of petrified wood sticking out the side. To me resembles a hip bone or shoulder. Found in Higbee, Missouri.
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Hello all. I'm hoping to find out if this is a rock or a fossil. I found this in a creek in western kentucky.
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Not sure if the last picture is anything has lots of layers though looks cool
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I found this tooth in the peace river it seems to just be the Crown since the majority of the root is broken off. Wondering if anyone knows what it is. Looks like some type of cetacean tooth, but im hoping for mammal. If anyone needs additional photos please just ask. Thanks
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Please help ? What is this ?
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I had the fantastic luck to find a 2" Otodus obliquus both of my last two trips out, one of which with a neat little pathology. The 2" striatolamia was another outsatnding find, I can still count on my fingers the number of teeth this size I've found in the Aquia Formation. Thanks for looking and happy hunting! .
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I found this rock on my property in Cherokee Co. (northeastern Oklahoma) and am curious to find out what is is. It seems heavy for it's size.
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Hello! I have been fossil hunting for quite a bit now and this is my first ever (what appears to me at least) fossilized bone! I would love just a general direction on what kind of animal it could’ve been- I know this area is very well-known for marine fossils, so of course my first thought would be some find of fish bone? Or I could be totally wrong, and it could be a more recent mammal! Any insight is so much appreciated- all I want to do is expand my knowledge. Thank you!
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We found this skull in the Peace River in south central FL. Can anyone help to ID? Many of the people I was with who are FL natives, and frequent fossil hunters, seemed to believe it is alligator. But I’m not convinced. It doesn’t resemble any of the crocodilia species. It lacks all teeth (and tooth cavities) and the overall shape is completely different. Based on the fused vertebrae at the base of the skull and the dental formation, I would have suggested either a bird or, more likely, of a marine species? On a not so serious note, I also would have been more inclined to believe it was of Jar Jar Binx. 😅
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Hello! This is my first time posting on this forum. I am hoping that someone can help me identify what I have found on the beach of NC. It is < 1in and hollow in the bulbous part (unsure if long part is hollow). It doesn’t look like a typical shark tooth and it doesn’t look like a typical shell found in Wilmington. I have Google image searched images from all different angles and the closest comparison I’ve received is a dinosaur tooth…. But that doesn’t seem plausible.
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Found in ohio on the Kentucky border in the hillside of a creek system. Dimensions measure 6 inches deep 11 inches wide 46 inches long.
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I found these two teeth in a creek near the peace river pretty close to eachother. Not really sure what they are was hoping someone could ID them. They are listed as find 1 and 2 respectively.
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