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From the album: Ordovician Fossils
Amsassia algae? Taxonomy Phylum: ? Class: ? Subclass: ? Order: ? Family: ? Genus: ? Species: ? Author: ? Geology Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Stratigraphy Series: Upper Ordovician Stage: Katian Series: Cincinnatian Stage: Richmondian Sequence: C5 Unit: ? Provenance Collector: mtz Date: 07/07/023 Location: SW Ohio -
Found this interesting specimen by accident when going for a swim in a lake in Southern NJ. Was found with 2 other similarly sized pieces of coral (one honeycomb). 2cm long, 1.25cm wide, 1cm deep Not sure what I'm looking at here
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Found this specimen along with 2 small pieces of coral while swimming in a lake in Southern NJ. (Also found another piece that I'm trying to have identified here.) 1cm in both directions and about half a cm thick. Appreciate any insight!
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On our recent trip to Cape May Nj we stayed bay side in Villas and I found some pretty cool finds! The first photos I’m pretty sure are coral fossils (based on browsing this site) but the last few photos I am stumped. Any help would be great! My problem may be I have to great an imagination when it comes to rocks!
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Hi all! My daughter has been picking through some sand mounds that were unearthed for a house construction by a lake in Three Rivers - was hoping I could get a few IDs for her and a recommendation for a good book for that purpose. She’s got a good amount so far so I don’t want to post them all. I forgot to tell her to add a ruler for scale but I’m hoping most of these are common and easy to ID Her favorite is this one - it’s matrix has blueish quartz(?) - hard to see in the pictures Thanks for looking! Patrick
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Has an almost electric purple vein running the entire length and was hoping someone could identify it for me.
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I found these two rocks in northern Italy. One seems to me like a coral? But I might be wrong. Please let me know what this is if you know! And the last one is a rock with a black spot on it. I have seen this shape on the bottom of a piece I bought with a lot of ammonite imprints and fragments, so I wanted to see if it is something or if it's just a geological pattern. thank you!
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From the album: Devonian - New York
Favosites hamiltoniae Moscow Formation Middle Devonian Smokes Creek, Blasdell, NY Self Collected - 2020 -
I'm pretty new to fossil hunting, I found this in some landscaping outside my work. I've done some research myself, i live in Ontario which is mostly Devonian era fossils, and I've read coral is pretty common. Could be entirely wrong and just hoping for some clarification!
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Hi! I found these cool shells on Emerald Isle Beach in North Carolina yesterday and was wondering if anyone could help identify them. 1) Orange shell - this one is a super cool shape and also has some rocks trapped inside which is pretty interesting! 2) Purple/white - is this coral or just a cool rock? 3) Brown shell - also another cool shape (although it’s probably just broken) and the layering/colors are super pretty Thanks!
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I found this little guy today walking by a sand wash. small but out of place in Farmington NM. far away from anything bit questionable sushi. anyways he looks like coral. or maybe a dragon talon . Well why not? It's almost as logical as desert ocean coral . Anyways if anyone cares to utilize their respected knowledge . If it helps I've found lots of petrified wood and 150+/- year old navajo Indian pottery fragments in this area
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I was helping my dad do a little landscaping in Middleboro, MA. Very surprised (and confused) to dig this up! I was looking into it after I got home and if I ID'd this right I believe it's hexagonaria? I saw these are often found around Michigan. Don't know what it was doing all the way in Mass but there it was
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I will number the images. If you have an idea or know what one of them are, just put the imagine number in your reply or next to the name. I found these in the western part of middle Tennessee.
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Among the specimens inherited. I am truly grateful for all the help everyone has been even with what little information I have. I understand the importance of the age of the area a potential fossil is found so again thank you for your help.
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Hello, I found this one near a highway crossover to a railroad track outside of Hatch New Mexico. It's dimensions are are as follows 10x7x8 inches roughly. It is very heavy so maybe suggests Bareite? It also has what appears to be deliberate lines carved around it. Could be geologic but have a close look at the darker material and you will hopefully see this. Any ideas are appreciated.
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Really not sure if this even qualifies as a fossil but here it is. It was wrapped very well inside a bin. Any thoughts? pictures may not show it but it has gorgeous color .
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Trying to ID these. Found around Cedar Mountain/Green River, WY. A local guy said they are rugose coral fossils. The pictures I find for rugose coral on Google don't really look like what we have. Anyway, they are usually found in groups on the surface. Many times turtle fossil fragments are in the same area. Any info would be appreciated.
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Hello everyone. I am after the ID of these solitary corals. Location: Eastern Bulgaria, Rhodope Mts, south of Kardzhali Age: Oligocene, did not manage to pinpoint the exact location on the geological map, due to poor quality map. As per a local expert, the horn-shaped coral is a Placosmiliopsis bilobatus and the age is Oligocene. The species is supposed to have polymorphy; some are roundish, while others form slightly the number 8. I found a topic on a Spanish forum but I fail to understand the key elements determining the species. Through the help of Google translate, I understood that I have to create cross sections (vertically? horizontally? I made both) but I do not understand what I should observe. (Spanish text in the end of this post) Additionally, as per minedat, the P. bilobatus is supposed to have gone extinct up to Priabonian. This is the reason I started searching since one fact is against the other. The horn-shaped coral is approx an inch in diameter and 1.25" height. The discoid coral has a diameter of 1.75" and 0.25" thick. Both were cleaned with toothbrush and KOH. @fifbrindacier said that @oyo and @HansTheLoser might be able to help on this topic. I would appreciate your opinion. Thank you! "Placosmiliopsis: columnella laminar profunda / Pattalophyllia: columnilla trabecular. Solo hay que cortarle a un cucurucho su rabito y pulirlo un poco (con una muela de afilar cuesta poco), para ver si tiene una columnilla en lámina continua o una columnilla también lineal pero por una amalgama de trabéculas.... como en las últimas fotos de los links que ha puesto Elotro... ....para mi que es Pattalophyllia." This what it is supposed to be Placosmiliopsis bilobatus. There are some noumoulites or other foraminifera on top of it. Horizontal section Vertical section The other type of coral, found at the same locality.
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I was working today in the Costwolds and came across this sticking out the side if a stram bank. Lots of other stuff nearby an amonite and lots of shells etc. I have no idea what it is, any ideas?
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Last month my dad and I took a four-day weekend trip to Western New York to visit some new fossil sites and to collect in the famous Beecher's Trilobite Beds. We had only once before been out to Western New York to collect fossils - a visit to Penn Dixie Fossil Park - so this time around we wanted to try out some different places that we had never collected in before. The trip was a lot of fun and I enjoyed putting my research skills to work in finding new places to visit. I greatly expanded my collection of Silurian and Devonian fossils and found quite a few things on my fossil bucket list. I am excited to hopefully make another trip out there soon and fortunately still have my list of potential stops to make. Thursday On Thursday we woke early and made the 6.5 hour drive towards Western New York. In preparing for the trip I spoke with @fossilcrazy who was kind enough to invite my dad and me to collect from some of the spoils piles on his property from the various fossil collecting trips he has made. I was really excited to explore his pile of Linton Coal as I have very few fish in my collection and even fewer Pennsylvanian marine fossils - one of the consequences of living near Eastern Pennsylvania is that you end up visiting a lot of Late Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation plant sites. @fossilcrazy is an amazing fossil collector and an even more incredible member of the fossil collecting community. I cannot say enough about his generosity and hospitality. We were all hoping that my dad and I could find an amphibian or complete fish fossil, but no luck. We found a few isolated Orthacanthus teeth and head spines and some isolated coelacanth scales and bones. Fortunately @fossilcrazy kindly gifted me some representative pieces to add to my collection. These fossils are from the Middle Pennsylvanian Upper Freeport Coal from Linton, Ohio. I highly recommend checking out some of the posts @fossilcrazy has made about his finds from the Linton Coal. They are amazing! Rhabdoderma elegans Here are some close-ups of this beautiful coelacanth head and tail Haplolepis sp. Orthocanthus compressus Teeth and Head Spine Conchostracans Death Plate After visiting with @fossilcrazy we made our way into Buffalo to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House. My dad is an architect and he really wanted to see the newly restored interior of the house. It is really a quite stunning home.
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Found this interesting coral fossil in Schoharie County and am hoping someone here can ID it. I am new to this and am still learning. Thank you in advance.
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