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Not sure what these are. I dredge for gold and pull fossils out all of the time. I kept these because they were interesting but am unsure if they are anything at all. Hopefully I can get some feedback here to get some answers.

just started rock/fossil hounding and i think i found something pretty good. rock has one large and one small looking tooth of some sort, one on each side. As well as another round creature of some sort. sorry i'm oblivious as to what these are. if anyone can give a suggestion? found in madison county ny-central area. Bigger tooth is approx. 1 1/2 inches across the top and 1 3/4 inches long. The smaller one is 1 1/4 inch across the top and 1 1/2 inches long.

Found this one and I can’t seem to figure out what it is. Any help would be great!

I found this on a hillside where there are exposed rocks and water runoff into a narrow valley with a creek running thought. I find a lot of crinoid, shell, and coral like fossils in the creek bed, this is a bit different. The valley is located about 25miles southwest of Warrenton, MO. The valley is part of a series that dump into the Missouri River. Curious if anyone has any idea what sort of fossil this may be. The rock is .5" thick and the bottom has an inverted version of the bottom. thank you

Any public locations in central Illinois? Or near Bloomington Illinois

Just wondering if this is a fossil and of it is, what do you think it might be? Sorry I didn't have a ruler when taking pics. My thumb is on the pics and it's about an inch or a little less across. This was found in a limestone riverbed near Justin, Texas (North Central Texas). We have found many other smaller marine fossils (actually casts I think - I am not an expert by any means) that I am pretty sure are from the Cretaceous Period in the same area. I have more pictures that are higher resolution, but I can't upload them here due to the size restrictions. Thanks in advance for any info or ideas that you might have.

Looking for help IDing this one that was donated to Trout Lake Nature Center in Eustis, FL (just about in the very middle of the state). i believe it was found around here. Thank you

I found this in a creek bed in central Illinois and wondering what it is?

Hey everyone! I'm new to the forum, but have been hunting fossils (mostly in Utah/Nevada) for several years now. Most of what I've found are corals or shells, but I'm eager to expand that collection and branch out a little. Is there anyone on here that goes regularly, and is this the place to ask about getting a group together?

Hi, I'm new here and have 2 teeth that I can not identify. Closest thing I can guess to is maybe a giant beaver? However, the ends of the teeth don't look very "chisel-like" to go through wood. 'Hoping that some one here may know what they are?

I found this what I suspect is a tooth this weekend in Burnet, Texas. I was fishing in Lake Buchanan when coming up on shore found this in the water. Now this is a man made lake is fed by the Colorado river. I looked at teeth of local predators in the area and found no match but I'm no expert either. Was looking for help to see if anyone knows what this tooth could belong to. It is just over an inch long.

Sorry I didn't put something in for reference, but the large imprint is approx one foot long. I did not collect this piece, just took a photo. The smaller one is approx 6 inches long. There's an impression and a small hole as well. Strange to me.

Hello yall. Recently moved from Germany to Texas and am fascinated by the local fossil load while walking my dog. Embarrassingly enough, I have a BS in geology and could not even remember common names of what I was seeing. In my defense, that was 30 years ago and most of my paleontology experience was staring down a microscope counting foraminiferia. So I joined the community here in hopes to ID some. I've kept only one textbook from my geology days, "Invertebrate Fossils" by Raymond Moore (copy write 1952). We called it the "treatise" back then, but I don't even know if the taxonomy is correct anymore? Can anyone recommend a more up to date book or is on-line a better resource? Thanks

Picked this up in Central Texas along the Colorado River this afternoon. Its certainly cute enough for a newbie like myself :]

Howdy all, I've had an account before (actually two, but I had to change email addresses), but I wasn't active at all. I'm currently a Geology student in Waco, Tx, so I decided to become active on the forum. My parents were fossil hunters, so I got introduced to paleontology before I could even walk. Other than the Shale Pit, I'm plagued with mostly molluscs. I have found a couple of locations for fossils and minerals, but one in particular has had my direct attention. It's a dried creek bed that has yielded a calcite vein, endless pyrite nodules, enough molluscs to make anyone sick, a couple of large ammonites, echinoid fragments, coral fragments, one annelid, and a strange coiled like structure with a greenish tint (It's not a gastropod! I'll post a picture when I have access to a camera). Far upstream I have found a tooth from a ray in the tumbled pebbles in the stream bed, but I have yet to locate where the vertebrate material came from. Sorry if I'm trailing off, that site has been the scourge of my existence since I arrived in Waco... I've done some hunting in Gatesville and Whiskey Bridge, but that sums up my Texas hunting. Of course, while I was a kid I accumulated a massive collection traveling the midwest, and more recently spent some time on the MCC Geology Field Course. While on the field course I had the opportunity to extract beautifully preserved Phytosaur teeth and other bone fragments from a conglomerate layer in the Redonda Formation. I also did some checking around between Tucumcari, NM and Moab, Utah, but couldn't find many legal locations to hunt. Holbrook, Az had a nice public location for petrified wood (bring a truck if you want the large pieces), but they may run you off despite it being public land. One other location near Springdale, Utah yielded nice dendrite, and supposedly had micro brittle stars. The land owner didn't want us excavating on his property this past year, but up to the bottom of the hill was public. Sadly, I didn't find the brittle stars. Sorry if I trailed off again. Anyway, I look forward to blogging (if that's the right term?)with yall. If anyone is passing through Waco and wants to hunt, let me know! I'm always up for some hunting! Also, I'd love to meet up with some of yall on one of my next excursions! One more thing, I'm currently planning a trip through Llano(gotta get some Llanite) to Mason. I may alter that trip to include San Saba (probably leave out the topaz hunt if I do that) for crinoids, trilobites, and stromatolite biohems sound so appealing. If anyone has any information about that area, advice, or wants to meet up to hit some local spots, it would be greatly welcome and appreciated. I found a couple sites that show locations for Llanite and outcrops for that area (one site was borrowed from an old thread). I'm done haha.