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A number of Carboniferous fossils from Britain I'm unsure about.
Calum McLennan posted a topic in Fossil ID
I have been trying to identify my fossils finds from over the years. Most I can do at least to class level, sometimes species, but there are just a few that I don't really have any clue on. All the ones shown here are from Carboniferous sediments. These are: 1. From Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. Among the many crinoid fragments, and even Fenestella bryozoans and some articulate brachiopod, I found this small branching structure. The stems are thin, branching into widened cups (roughly 1cm wide, I can get more accurate measurements if needed). It's like a coral, except like none I know of. Seemingly no septa like a Rugose coral, and not exactly the form I though a tabulate would take. Almost wondered if it's a huge bryozoan. No clue. 2. From near Lochranza, just north of the Diplichnite on the Isle or Arran Scotland. Found among some small rugose corals, brachiopods, cylindrical crinoid fragments, and a site where trilobites can in theory be found in the reddish limestone. The shape is coral-like, but texture more sponge-like. A poriferan? Maybe even bryozoa? 3. From in Notts II, a cave near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales. Among many large rugosa similar to Dibunophyllum and Axophyllum, along with some brachiopods. These structures grow large (compare to photo with my hand in) and have no clear structure other than a spongy apearance and seemingly growth rings as it gets larger from an origin. Poriferan? 4. From brittle shale layers in the river Hodder near Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England. From a site known for its unusual Phillipsia trilobite specimens, in the Rad Brook formation, among many tiny cylindrical crinoid fragments and a few barchiopods. Both of these are tiny, the flat pitted object being maybe 3mm across at best, and tge drome maybe 5mm. Perhaps a tiny bryozoan for the pitted thing. Not a clue for the textured dome. Any suggestions with any of these would be very much welcomed. Thank you!
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An amatuer paleontologist, Danielle Milbank, coauthored the below open access paper about a fossil she found between Whitby and Saltwick Bay on the North Yorkshire coast. Martill, D.M., Milbank, D., Romano, M., and Smith, R. E, in press, corrected proof, Enigmatic trace fossil from the Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group of Yorkshire, England, Available online 3 October 2024. Yours, Paul H.-
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Hello, I've just joined this wonderful forum and I was hoping someone might know what this is. I found it in a stoney car park in Southampton, England. The stones were brought there, not naturally there so i don't know for sure where they originally came from. I always check around stoney car parks if I'm there, I found a belemnite, before.
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Ammonite from Middle Jurassic Inferior Oolite Formation in Dorset UK
traveltip1 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I found this ammonite on a beach in Dorset UK. It's from the Middle Jurassic Inferior Oolite Formation. The neat thing is the calcite crystals that grew in the empty chambers. Fossil shop identified it as Parkinsonia.
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Found this in river Tweed in the UK and would like to know what it can be? Yes it looks like a tooth, but new or old, or fossil? Ice age?
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Found these at Port Mulgrave, Yorkshire UK. They seem like tree stumps - soft and fibrous (as you can see in the first pic, I was able to penetrate it with my pick) - but I don't know why they're down here on the bedrock? Thanks in advance
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Today I visited some scrapings of the top layers of strata in wiltshire. Each picture of a scrape is followed by the finds from it. I found pretty much all bivalve fragments and one thing I can't identify. Oddly for this area, no echinoids? The first scrape is lower chalk, the rest are upper.
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Hi friends, I got this UK vert when I was 15. At that time, the seller told me that the location is ‘UK Jurassic Ammonites Beach'. However, when I saw this vert yesterday, I noticed that I can't figure out which formation it's from... looks like Kimmeridge Clay or Oxfordshire. Anyone can help me? Also, I think my vert is like AB in the second pic, anyone know which part of the vert it belongs to? Really thanks!
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From the album: Cretaceous echinoids.
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My friend’s sister found this alongside a Dactylioceras commune specimen and a Belemnite. She believes it is a fossilised twig but I thought it best to check. I don’t have much information on it, other than it was found along Jurassic fossils and it was found in Cambridge.
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Found on Blast Beach in Seaham, County Durham, England
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Hello all, We have recently found this fossil on Ryde Beach (Isle of Wight, UK). We think it could be some Pleistocene horse teeth? The dimensions are 4cm height/5cm length/1cm width. Any information or guesses are welcome, thanks!
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I found this on Blast Beach in Seaham, County Durham, England. Thanks in advance!
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From the album: Cretaceous echinoids.
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Found this in a slate rock. Was part of a rock pool in Staithes, Yorkshire, England. The fossil is thick in parts then shrinks to thin, segmented and the inside looks like brown glass. Really appreciate any help with this as we are total amateurs! Thank you
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I found this near a slow running river in Cumbria, can anyone tell me if it is a fossil please?
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Micro heteromorphic silicified ?gastropod ?microconchid Mississippian, England
TqB posted a topic in Fossil ID
Does anyone recognise this tiny silicified shell? It's about 2mm long. I haven't seen one like it before from the Carboniferous. From the Great Limestone (upper Mississippian, Pendleian Stage) from Weardale, Co. Durham, England. From a piece I've been dissolving in acid, containing silicified brachiopods, gastropods etc. It starts off with an open helical spiral (3rd photo) and then straightens out. It also has clear annular ribs. Although the preservation is imperfect and sugary, I'm sure it's shell replacement rather than internal mould, judging from other fossils in the pece. The various serpulid-like gastropods and microconchids I've come across elsewhere don't have the regular ribbing.
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Can someone help me identify these fossils? I found them in Alston, Cumbria in a river. There are three separate rocks with multiple fossils in each, all taken from different angles.
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Hello, I saw these two, apparently Iguanodon tooth fragments from the Wealden group of the Isle of Wight, for sale today. They absolutely dont look like tooth fragments to me, but they appear to have some bubble like texture on them, wich makes me think that they might be some unidentifiable bone fragments. Thanks for any help ! 2.
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What are the bubbly/pustule-like structures on this flint piece?
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
I picked this piece of flint up on a beach in the UK, either in Dorset or the Isle of Wight (i can't remember exactly where). It has some odd bubbly, pustule-like structures on one side that i haven't seen on flint before. When wet, they turn slightly translucent (see last picture below). All the other sides of the piece are normal looking flint. I'm interested to know if anyone else has seen this and what causes them to form? Wet:
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Hello, I went fossil hunting in Essex with a friend, looking for shark teeth in the London Clay, and came across this red shark tooth. I have searched the internet, but no such thing has been found in the UK, or at least posted online. I have seen red shark teeth from the US, in iron rich zone, which could justify the red colour. Can anyone help me identify this. Also I have found small nodules with various pieces, is this a fossil of something or just a non-fossiliferous nodule? I have found crabs in the phospatic nodules before, but this is the first time I come across these. Just joined the forum although been fossil hunting for year. Looking forward to being part of this community. Thuvi
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Silicified rostroconch, tiny but complete, Mississippian, England
TqB posted a topic in Member Collections
I've always wanted to find a rostroconch in my local Mississippian rocks of N.E. England (or indeed anywhere) but never have. There's a handful of records from the area but they're very sporadic. I've finally struck lucky, very unexpectedly, in a a sample from the Great Limestone (upper Missisippian, Pendleian Stage) that I've been dissolving for silicified fossils. This is full of small brachiopods, gastropods, corals and various other stuff, all interesting but mostly predictable. Anyway, this turned up a few days ago and is instantly recognisable, despite being only 4mm long and preserved in typical sugary silica particles. Presumably Conocardium (like the few records), it has a very long rostrum preserved and the ribbing is apparent in the closeups. 4mm long Long rostrum on left, short main shell on right. With a similar though larger Permian one (photo flipped). Figure from Mazaev, 2015, "Middle Permian rostroconchs of the Kazanian stage of the East European Platform" Ventral view, rostrum pointing upwards, gape below. Posterior (rostrate) end, concentric ribs on shell below. (mm scale) Anterior (gape) end, again showing ribs either side.
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Looks to me like concentric rings with barbs leading to a central maw. My first guess was a heavily eroded Sea Urchin, but now I'm not so sure? Any ideas? Approx. 40x40x20mm Found on Oddicombe Beach, Devon, England
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Does anyone recognise this? It's in a piece of Mississippian Great Limestone (north east England) that I'm acid dissolving for silica replaced fossils. It's about 7mm long and I'm stumped. I don't think it's bryozoan - no sign of branches or zooecia and we don't have Archimedes which it vaguely resembles. Foraminiferan? It has a resemblance to strings of Saccaminopsis (calcareous alga spheres) that also occur but they don't have the twist. Scale in mm In context, with brachiopods, brachiopod spines, corals, gastropods
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