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Hi everybody! My dad has asked me for some help in identifying this piece of fossilized bone he found years ago. He says he found it on his property in northwestern Colorado and somebody told him it was a skull of some kind. Considering I am just learning how to identify fossils, I figured I should ask for help before telling him yes or no! It was one solid piece, but he says it broke in 2 when he picked it up. One side (slightly convex) is smooth, while the other side (concave) is dimpled like a golf ball. I have no idea where the blue coloration came from. I can provide more pictures if necessary. Can anyone help with an ID? Doesn't have to be super-specific, but if we could narrow it down to at least a class of animals, he would be thrilled. Thank you!
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Can anyone tell me what this is please
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Hello all, seller from a thrift store was selling this on a curiosities fair (including fossils). Now he has out it online I saw it in real and its heavily petrified, 1.8kg and has some calcite crystals inside. Shape and text on it creeped me out a bit but its certainly a fossil bone. Unknown provenance and finding location, strata, its undetermined and its unclear how old it is. based on the text, which google translate recognise as Indonesian, Malaysian or Visayan (Philippines) you get “save the gays” and some gibberish. Probably because it says Homo on the bone. Perhaps human bone? Anyways, assuming its from those areas (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines) it is probably not dinosaur because the strata there are generally not old enough. Ofcourse it could have come from somewhere else entirely. Thats why i decided to pass on it, but now it popped up online. Based on the bone shape, would it be mammalian? Size 26 cm (10.2 inch) weight 1.8 kg (4 pounds) heavily petrified but it wouldnt neccesarily mean its cretaceous or older?
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These two were found on the beach on the East coast of Florida and I'm guessing the first one is a denticle of some sort, but not totally sure. To me, the second one is reminiscent of a very well worn shark tooth, but I cant recall ever seeing a shark tooth like this. In fact, I think I've only found five or six teeth in this area the past couple years. The kind of mineral fragments I notice in this area are usually calcite with the texture of crushed ice, this is waxy. Having found silicified bivalves and what not- this is much more translucent. The last photo is magnified. Has anyone else found these or know what they are? I appreciate any help or ideas.
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Hello all, First of all, thrilled to find this website--I've had this fossil for about a year now after finding it on a lark and I had not been able to make even anything close to an identification/match to any example or description in easily-found online guides to fossils in the MD region. It has this almost chemistry-structural-formula hexagonal pattern that turns into a series of...fine/leafy branches in parallel? It also appears to have some regular hollow cavities on the rim, as if whatever it was was honeycombed/hollow. My guess is some sort of coral but as I said I haven't been able to find any match at all, so any notions would be appreciated! Also please do feel free to let me know what other info/images would be of help, I read the "New Users Please Read" guides for this sort of thing but definitely want to be sure I cover all the steps. Thanks so much--it'd be really cool to put a name to this lil' guy, even if it's qualified with a "we THINK it's a _____"!
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Found this in a Pennsylvanian-era formation. This is my first fossil hunt ever, so I don't even know if a lot of what I found are fossils or not. But this one was the most interesting. Found in some shale in a road cut near Jellico, TN. To me it looks like some type of millipede, or maybe some type of root system. Not too sure!
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Hello fellow fossil hunters! This is my first post here and I came here for some expertise on identifying a tooth I found recently on a trip to Portugal. I found it at a beach in the Algarve region. I read that locally they have mako sharks and blue sharks but I’m not sure what animal it is from. Since this is my first (maybe) fossil find. I appreciate any guesses for ID-ing this tooth, thanks in advance! 🙏😁
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I took my son to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal spoil piles at reedy point a few weeks ago and found these two small pieces. They stood out but I’m not sure if they’re actually anything interesting or not.
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really not sure if these are some kind of foot print or what. there is actually 3 identical imprints, the middle one is difficult to make out because of stone matrix over it. There are 3 imprints on each, the last imprint (shown fully on the left of first pic) looks like it comes to a point. Any ideas?
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Unusual fossil which we belive to be a fish snout. We had at 1st thought potentially ptersoaur but seems more likely to be fish. We have also had the suggestion of a weathered turtle skull.The last picture is a confirmed partial ptersoaur bone we also found today.Found in NW Queensland in the Toolebuc formation which is early Cretaceous marine deposits. Has anyone seen something like this before?
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Found in Missouri close to Illinois Missouri border, among several Indian artifacts, light weight, first 5 are same rock. Second 5 another,
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I know it's hard to identify a bone with an unknown location and no identifying features but you all are super good so I wanted to give it a swing. I purchased this in IN, USA from a flea market for .75c was just curious what it could be if it could be IDed
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I had a nodule that I picked up at pit 11 a couple of weeks ago split open, however basically everything about it has me stumped. There are tiny dark speks that are iridescent, some turn blue, others green and one of them pink with different light angles. Are these bits opalized? I'd like to know before doing anything else to prep it since opal can be sensitive to moisture. I've heard of iridescence in a lingula specimen, but other than that I'm unfamiliar with any mazon material having iridescence, and I'm wondering how that could happen inside a concretion. Furthermore any ideas what it is? random plant matter? coprolite? blank with mineralization?
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I found this today, not sure what it is. Any help please?
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Sorry that I don't have details of this specimen's provenance, but I'm trying to help an older friend remember what exactly this is a fossil of. They've had it for over 20 years, and believe they may have acquired it from online auction site in its early days. All I've been able to determine so far is that it is likely a dinosaur tibia. He's quite a fan of hadrosaurs, but I really have no idea if it's possibly from one. It's a fairly large specimen, about 26 in/66 cm long and 5 in/12.7 cm wide at the widest point: I know this is quite challenging without supporting information, but unfortunately any information related to this is missing, and was likely lost in a house fire that occurred years ago. Just hoping to get lucky and see if anyone has any sort of insight. Other photos attached (sorry that they seem to just be rendered full sized without a smaller preview, though that's more of a form limitation than my doing). Thanks..
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Posts of my trip to Oklahoma this week had some unidentified fossils shown. Hope was that someone would mention the identity of the specimens. Since no one did, today I am attaching photos of unknowns from the Viola Formation, Ordovician found south of Sulphur, OK. Maybe @crinus is knowledgeable! Could they be something like Evactinopora?
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It was difficult to get a good photo. I brushed this untill I could see more. Found by blue river Kansas city. Is it an AMMONITE? It's sort of shaped like one very worn one. Not sure any help would be appreciated. Thx
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Is this a rock or a rock with a fossil in it???
BlueSkySky17 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I found this today while out side on a river bed. The part i found it at is usually not seen & covered by water but the river is unusually dry so i found it on an exposed part. I’ve tried reverse image search & using a rock identifier but can’t find anything that looks similar besides other kinds of fossils. I’m really interested in learning what it is!!! i live in southern minnesota.
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Hello! So I found this back in 2006 while swimming in my local park in Alabama. I felt it under my feet in the mud and could tell it didn’t feel normal, I reached down and pulled this crazy looking thing out, i don’t know if it is wood or bone, the shape on the tip is what sparks my curiosity!!! Thanks in advance!
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I recently inherited my great uncles small fossil collection and rock collection. I spent a lot of time with him and can identify most of what I have because he loved to pull them out and show them to me throughout the years. But I have two that I have never seen before. I’m not sure if they are even fossils. I’ve been to a lot of museums and to dinosaur National park many times with him but I have never seen anything like either of these. Unfortunately, I don’t know where he got them. He traveled all over the world and spent much of his retired years traveling so I wouldn’t even be able to guess where they came from. I apologize for that. The first one is almost like a crystal. You can almost see through it but it has the pattern of reptile skin. The second one I took pictures of both sides and a close up of it because I don’t even know how to describe it. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thank you
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Found at about 6,000 ft above sea level, although the pic appears to stick up, it is an imprint. Each imprint is approximately 1/2” deep (5 holes total), found in a piece of mudflat. You can see my hand in the right side for scale purposes. Any information is appreciated.
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Hello, I wanted to see if anyone would be able to identify this fossil I found in Clarington Ohio. I know it's a coral and I know it's a bryozoan and I'm suspecting it's a Rhombopora however I'm willing to look into any of the species you guys can offer! Thanks for your help. (The fossil in question is roughly an inch long if you're wondering)
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looks like shell or kidney? or big beans?
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