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I found this in mid Colorado springs I believe it's maybe Coral or a sponge and on top there is a mixture of pink and purple it's really pretty. 3 cm by 3cm
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August Micro (and a few Macro!) Finds - Tx Cretaceous
JamieLynn posted a topic in Member Collections
It's been HOT in Texas, as it usually is during the summer, so it's no real surprise there....but I am definitely finding myself not enthused about going hunting! So I spend a little time in the heat, maybe make a few finds, fill a bucket, and then go home and enjoy my A/C and find the tiny stuff! We had a couple of respites from the heat (a couple of days with storms, so it kept the temps down) and I try to take advantage of those days! Hit up a couple of my favorite Upper and Lower Glen Rose Formation spots and was rewarded with a few nice things.. Fish Pycnodonte teeth are not common finds, and finding associated teeth is fairly unusual. These were some really pretty little purply blue grey ones: 1/2 inch I didn't collect any micro matrix from that site, but did stop at an Upper Glen Rose site and found a nice little echie Loriolia rosana and then collected some micro matrix from another Lower Glen Rose spot and found a couple of nice little things: A tiny Leptosalenia sp. A little Comatulid Crinoid (probably Solanocrintes) 1/16 inch And a new type of crab claw I've not found in the Glen Rose before. Have seen it in the younger Walnut formation but not Glen Rose. A friend from the Austin Paleo Society invited me to join them at an Austin Chalk Formation site they had been hunting for a while and while I didn't find much "macro" except this really cool LARGE echinoid Spine (likely a Cidarid - 1 1/2 inch) the micro stuff yielded a lovely variety. Micro stuff, all around 1/4- 1/8 inch Lots of these little tiny coral Micrabacia sp. a really nice Foramanifiera Dentalina mutabilis A surprisingly intact tiny crinoid segment - I find many single sections of crinoids in many of the upper Cretaceous Texas formations, but this is the best example of a branching section. And this pretty little gastropod which might be a Semineritina although it is not listed as being found in the Austin Chalk Form. My friend was on a shark finding bonanza and found multiple shark teeth, including two beautiful BIG ptychodus teeth, but I was skunked. Ah well. Another day! I also hit up some North Texas sites on my way to Arkansas for a little four day getaway to Eureka Springs! But I'll save that for another post....
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Hello, I have been finding all sorts of neat rocks and marine fossils in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona where the Colorado river had once flowed into a large ocean. Are these fossilized coral or sponges? I would appreciate an ID on the specimens, or speculations as to what they are? Thank you.
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Can you please help me id these stones? Are those holes an indicador for a bone? I caught them in figueira da foz Portugal. Thanks u
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Found these in a parking lot, but they came from a lake. I’m pretty sure they are some type of coral, but I’m not completely sure.
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Hello, I found this in Indiana and was wondering what it was. I just found it in a pile of decorative rocks used for landscaping. Thank you
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I found this in lake michigan and it is quite small.
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Hi All. This was sold to me as a Stromatolite. But I think it’s a coral ? Is the label correct ??
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Any ideas on this? Figured it was coral when I first popped it out of the shale but now something seems off. Found in a river bed near Tully NY. I tried adding pictures from as many angles as possible. Thanks for any help!
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Howdy, I was wondering if anybody could tell me what they think about these rare coral fossils that I find on the Oregon Coast. They are agatized and take a nice polish. Thank You
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Could I have some help identifying these coral pieces which I found in Arkona? Any help would be appreciated.
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What I collected from my recent trip to the North Yorkshire Coast (Saltwick Bay)
EntomoloJosh posted a topic in Member Collections
Hello, I recently went on holiday with my girlfriend to the North Yorkshire Moors, and of course while we were there we went to a couple of beaches to look for fossils (specifically along Robin Hood's Bay and Saltwick Bay), and I've finished making reference collages for them, and I just wanted to share them. I IDed them to the best of my ability (along with some help from members of this forum), but as I only became interested in fossils earlier this year, it is quite likely that some IDs may be wrong, or could be taken further. If that is the case, please let me know! I don't want this post to be ridiculously long so I'll only post what we found from Saltwick Bay. The find from Robin Hood's Bay are in a separate post. Anyway, I hope you enjoy what we found! 5.1 - Cylindroteuthis sp. (?) - This is my first proper big belemnite, and I'm really happy that it's mostly complete! I'm almost certain that when I extracted it from its rock that it was complete, so I think I misplaced the other bit which is a bit of a shame, but I've still got most of it! 5.2 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.3 - (Extremely crushed!) gastropod? 5.4 - Dactylioceras sp. (?) whorl and bivalve 5.5 - (Pyritised?) brachiopod? 5.6 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.7 - Dacryomya sp. (?) - This is the biggest and most complete bivalve I've found, so quite happy with it! 5.8 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.9 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.10 - Dactylioceras sp. (?) 5.11 - Acrocoelites sp. (?) - Also really happy with this belemnite because its so big and chunky! 5.12 - (teeny tiny pyritised (?)) brachiopod 5.13 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.14 - Clyindroteuthis sp. (?) 5.15 - Dacryomya sp. (?) 5.16 - (very worn) fossilised wood? 5.17 - I don't even know if this a fossil, but I like it anyway 5.18 - Hispidocrinus scalaris 5.19 - Brachiopod 5.20 - Hispidocrinus scalaris 5.21 - Clyindroteuthis sp. (?) 5.22 - Interior of ammonite - Found by my girlfriend! I love the sutures and how they're like fractals. I tried to ID this using the suture graphs in the Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils but I didn't get very far. 5.23 - (Pyritised?) Ammonite/shell bed - This is possibly my favourite find because it is two halves of a fossil that go together, and the golden colour (whether its pyritisation or not) looks really cool! Also I think its always cool to have fossils with various taxa! Thanks for having a look, and I hope you enjoyed!
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Hi everyone. This is out of a box of rocks I bought at an auction in Butte County California, which is near the Sacramento River and a hundred miles from Mt Lassen. I don't believe all of them were found here, but I don't know. Thank you all in advance.
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The Second post in my series of Texas Micros! If you missed the Texas Cretaceous Micros- here it is! https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/143543-texas-cretaceous-micros/ Now for Pennsylvanian period micro matrix fossil finds- primarily from Lake Jacksboro, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto, Marathon and Bridgeport TX. 1. Brachiopods and Rostroconch 2. Brachiopods 3. Corals and Bryozoans 4. Crinoids 5. Echinoids 6. Cephalopods and Scaphopods 7. Foraminifera 8. Gastropods 9. Goniatites 10. Sponges 11. Trilobites
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What is this fossil??? (Northern Michigan) Never seen anything like it
A.Stuntz posted a topic in Fossil ID
Anybody know what this is??? I found this fossil on a limestone (possibly glacial deposit) cliff in northern Michigan in the UP, it’s on Bois Blanc Island (right next to Mackinac island). I’ve been fossil hunting in this region for years and have never seen anything like it. Coral??? Anyone know??? (Btw it’s probably from the Devonian or Silurian). Thanks so much!!!!
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous Ireland
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Does anyone know what this is and maybe why I found it where I did? I found it in what would be the Parkwood Formation, buried in the sand and gravels alongside a creek (Central Alabama).
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From the album: Holden Beach, NC • Cretaceous - Pleistocene
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This was found in the Carboniferous limestone of the Malahide formation , east coast Dublin Ireland,
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Due to a long term interest in 19th century Devonshire Devonian coral specimens, I've been looking for an example of this local marble ware to analyse for quite a while. (It's not quite a true marble but a limestone that has undergone low grade metamorphism.) Made probably circa 1860-1870, it shows a good selection of corals and stromatoporoids that were typically sourced from S. Devon beach pebbles. These in turn are largely derived from Permo-Triassic conglomerate that contains large quantities of Middle Devonian fossiliferous pebbles. Pieces 3 & 24 are intriguing as they seem to be Carboniferous Lithostrotion which I haven't come across before in any similar pieces. The malachite was imported from the Urals (at high expense). There are a few plain sediment slices, probably local although no. 8 may be Italian marble. There's some damage (which made it affordable!) mainly to the black Belgian? marble base but the all-important coral and stromatoporoid plaquettes are fine. The original glass ink bottle is missing and has been replaced by a mosaic lid which is probably from a separate matching ink stand. (The three other trays I've seen have original glass ink bottles with metal lids.) Technically it's more damage but a bonus for the palaeontologist. Numbered for IDs below. 1 stromatoporoid ? Dendrostroma 2 solitary rugose Acanthophyllum 3 rugose, apparently Lithostrotion (L. decipiens?)Mississippian . I don't know of a Devonian coral like this, with thin septa and a columella. It's possibly from the Bristol area - they sometimes used Carboniferous oolite from there. Or more intriguingly it may have come from the Permian conglomerate - though I can't find any mention of non-Devonian corals from it. 4 probable stromatoporoid - very recrystallised and needing photographic enhancement to show even this much 5 sediment 6 tabulate Thamnopora (see the similar no. 11 for photo). 7 stromatoporoid 8 unknown marble (?Yellow Petitor or Italian) 9 tabulate Alveolites 10 stromatoporoid (similar to no. 1) 11 tabulate Thamnopora. This preservation has been widely used as "Feather Stone" and much larger pieces were sourced from quarries. 12 stromatoporoid 13 stromatoporoid 14 rugose Hexagonaria 15 tabulate Favosites 16 tabulate Thamnopora (similar to no. 11) 17 sediment 18 tabulate Pericephalopora (lower centre), stromatoporoids inc. Amphipora 19 rugose Frechastraea (one of my favourites) 20 tabulate Favosites Here's the list for the lid, all the same types as the main piece except for no. 25 (Haplothecia). 21 rugose Frechastraea 22 tabulate Alveolites 23 tabulate Favosites 24 rugose ? Lithostrotion 25 rugose Haplothecia 26 sediment 27 stromatoporoid 28 tabulate Thamnopora 29 tabulate Favosites 24 & 25, Lithostrotion (same as no. 3) and Haplothecia (unique to lid) 21 Frechastraea (below) and 22 Alveolites (middle), same as nos. 19 & 9 but rather nice.
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Interesting unidentified possible fossils found in the Aegean Sea
AnnaNova posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, Earlier this summer, I was diving at a beach in the Aegean Sea, and I found some very interesting things under the water that I was hoping you could help me identify. I know nothing of fossils, so please forgive me if these are just some random fish bones. However, they are odd in appearance and appear to be made entirely of stone; they are extremely hard and do not feel like bones at all. I am adding some pictures and will be grateful if you can help me identify them. This beach is a big treasure trove, and I have also found some very interesting rocks there that I am also trying to identify. I've posted these in the Rocks and Minerals section. I am adding photos; at the bottom, you will also see pictures with the three items and references in centimeters and inches. Thanks a lot for any advice you can give here.
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I didn’t put this one with sample 4 because the projections are different and there is no view of stacked columns, but it could be the same. The toothy “face” in the first pic is pretty cool looking even though it’s not a real critter’s face! Like the others, these come out of a layer of glacial till found near the top of the Ohio Valley Knobs (~920’ elev.), Indiana side, near Louisville. I’m sorry I don’t have layers to date any of these. If you’d like different angles or magnification, please ask.
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I’m 99% sure these two odd rocks are the same species. My guess is some kind of Rugosa coral based on the size of the mouth opening, but that’s just a noob’s guess. Like the others, these come out of a layer of glacial till found near the top of the Ohio Valley Knobs (~920’ elev.), Indiana side, near Louisville. I’m sorry I don’t have layers to date any of these. If you’d like different angles or magnification, please ask.
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Found this in my yard today while installing fence posts in suspect coral of some sort bay county, michigan thanks
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Found in glacial till on top of Ohio Valley knobs in southern Indiana.
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