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I found this bone fragment while hunting for shells on San José Island, Texas (near Port Aransas). There is a history of cattle ranching on the island and there was once a herd of wild horses (thus Mustang Island, just south of San José). When I found it, it was wet and a little darker — I expected that when it dried out, it would be a recent bone. After a month, it is still dark and heavy, so I am thinking it might be mineralized/fossilized. I heated a nail to see if it would burn or emits an odor, but it did not. I then used a butane torch and the result was the same. In my mind, it would be really strange to find a bone fossil on a Texas beach. Thus, I am turning to this group to help figure out what this bone is.
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Good morning all! I've had this potential fossil for a number of years, but am uncertain of it's origin as it was sold to me by a roommate for pizza money. He didn't remember the exact location he found it, but said it was from a beach in the south east. Potentially Alabama, Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas. He gave me a long bone and what appears to be a flat bone chunk that were found in the same area, but that may not be from the same creature. I had these pictures already with a lighter for scale, but can take pictures with a ruler when I get home from work. I've done a lot of googling, but as I'm an amateur I don't know that I can draw any real conclusions. Excited to hear what others think and if it confirms what I suspect!
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Ok, grandson found some cool stuff here in eastern North Carolina. I'm pretty sure the tooth is an extinct giant white shark. The other a trilobite.
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I found this half floating half not floating in the pacific ocean. Oregon midwest beach area. It feels lightweight but dense towards the back where the curvatures are. I have yet to wash or wet it at all as i am unsure if that would have any negative effects. The rock identification sites I used weren't sure, so I am hoping maybe someone might know here. I can take different images or clean it once someone with expirience tells me how to do so safely.
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Can anyone identify this shark tooth? (a quiz, I know what it is)
easterncarolinahunta posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey, I want to quiz y’all and see y’all’s knowledge on sharks! This tooth came from the east coast of North Carolina! (That’s all I’ll give you) it’s not a common find!- 4 replies
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Found this heavily mineralized rock on the California Coast (Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County). Looks like petrified wood, but I’m not sure if the “growth rings” are actually indicative of past tree growth, or if the lines are from some metamorphosed, sedimentary geologic origin. There appears to be some grain-like structure mixed in with the heavily silicated rock which leads me to lean towards an ID of petrified wood. Let me know your thoughts!
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Would love some education on type as anyone has some extra time. I know there’s a lot! All found on Ponte Vedra beaches.
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I found this very tooth shaped fossil on the coast of Noosa in QLD. Not sure if this actually is anything as I don't know much about dossils at all. Would be very interested to know if anyone has seen anything similar!
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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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I started a post about my first Pleistocene Texas Coast finds and was going to add to that anything I found over the subsequent week I was at the Texas Coast in Port Aransas, but I decided they needed their OWN post because wow...I had some great finds over the next 5 days of beachcombing! I had heard there could be shark teeth found in this particular spot, so that was really what I was looing for, but quickly realized, the bone material was surprisingly abundant! As I mentioned previously, I have tried finding fossils in various spots on the Texas Coast but had not had any luck but apparently 2022 is my year for Pleistocene finds! Maybe a mammoth or mastodon is in my near future...fingers crossed! I started off finding a couple of nice turtle pieces, then a few other little random bone bits. Happily I found a really nice largish vertebra and my Dad found a really lovely small vertebra - I think I got him hooked on fossil hunting! But on the fourth day I found my "best find" - a bit of skull of either fish or turtle. If anyone can give me a positive ID, I'd greatly appreciate it! I did a major Happy Fossil Dance with this find! 1 inch And on the final day, I FINALLY found the shark tooth I was looking for! Just the one, but it's a nice big one. 1 inch The Big Vertebra - 3/4 inch the little vertebra 1/2 inch The two turtle pieces Both are 1 1/4 inch My mom found this nice little fish spine on the last morning. She loves fossil hunting too and fortunately, she is happy to let me "keep" them in my collection for her! 1 inch A couple of the interesting "boney" bits. I am fairly sure this is turtle also. It looks like maybe the final vertebral plate on the shell? 1 1/4 inch And this really lovely patterned something: 1 inch SO needless to say, it was an AWESOME week of fossil hunting. Oh and we also got to see Dolphins surfing the waves in front of a big tanker coming through the channel, so I got a couple of great dolphin pics too: Zoomed in: Full Picture: And pink waves at sunset our last day: And some beach art I did:
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Help Identifying Several Fossil Impressions on Small Slab Collected North of Santa Barbara
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Hello: Would like to know if anyone can help identify the several impressions on the rock in the attached photos? I am guessing that the roundish impression could have been made by a crab shell, but the other one is a mystery. There are also numerous tiny white all over the rock surface and wonder if these were left by small creatures. The "crab shell" measures 1.5 mm across. The other impression measures approx. 4 mm in length and approx. 2 mm tall. It was collected years ago just north of Santa Barbara. Thank you.- 5 replies
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Hello: Would like to know if anyone can help identify the attached fossil image? This fossil impression was collected years ago north of Santa Barbara. The impression measures approx. 10.5 mm long. Thank you.
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Found at Bucks Mills in Devon, UK. This rock is about 2 feet length and width, the back is smooth and this is on the other side. The cliffface is made up of limestone and slate - seems to be some sort of shrimp/trilobite (top right) or is this just a rock?
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Hi all! I've been really busy creating all these watercolour illustrations based on fossils from the Jurassic Coast. Here we have an Ichthyosaur, a Plesiosaur, an Ammonite, a Scelidosaurus and a Belemnite. There will be a few more to come soon...
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Hello, I am Tina and i found my first fossil Would be sooo thankful if someone would help me with the ID. Really have tried but haven't found anything similar. I found it on the hill 45 km from the sea (close) i was at aboout 300 meters high. It was on Slovenian coastside. All three pictures are taken from stones at that place. I'm sorry there is not a scale but i hope you can at least tell me if those are tree branches or some animal... I will try better next time. THANK YOU im so excited
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