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Found in a ditch near in the western lower peninsula of Michigan. I'm guessing stromatolite. What do you think?
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Hey guys, has anyone here bought a fossil replica? If so does it look like the real thing? Does it feel the same? I’m thinking of buying some replicas because I can’t afford some real fossils.
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I just wanted to share my joy at my first successful hunt! Now I have been picking up and excavating fossils my whole life but its always been quarried stone searching or someone elses established site. For those remember one of my earlier threads, this year I set out to find MY OWN SITE! Oklahoma (especially northwest/central OK) is not known well for fossils. But I set out and began researching and reading and mapping, then I began driving mile after mile of back-roads searching the outcrops and road cuts. 2 months ago I found a site that looked promising, but weather kept me away. A few days ago I went and spoke with the land owner who gave me the green light. Walking, searching, kneeling, scraping, brushing, sunburn (on an abnormally hot day!) without finding anything. Finally, I flipped a large slab and a spot immediately grabbed my attention! It wasnt really a change in color, it was the change in texture that caught my eye. Now this was a small fossil in a BIG slab. Its more than 2ft x 2ft and has to weigh close to 75 lbs. I didnt have a 2-wheel dolly with me and I wasnt about to break the slab, so I had to carry that thing back down the bluff and to my truck. But I'm glad I did! My first thought was that it was a bit of turtle plastron, but after clearing a little bit of matrix I wasnt sure any more. A paleontologist friend told me he thought it was a skull section! Only in my wildest dreams did I imagine finding vertebrate material on my first hunt! I have emailed the local college paleo dept and I'm waiting to hear back on their opinion. Beyond the skull piece, there is another long, thin fossil with the same color and texture as the skull piece but I'm not sure what it is. Its extremely fragile so I've stopped working on it and began working my way through the rest of the matrix to search for more vert material. While prepping today I came across a new first (and big thanks to @Troodon for the ID ). It a 4mm tooth from a fresh/brackish water shark called othacanthus. The biggest problem is with the rock itself. Its some kind of mudstone/conglomerate/limestone/caliche hybrid and the layer is only a few inches thick. I went back yesterday to search for more and didnt find anything visible on the rock surfaces. Unfortunately there is obviously going to be a lot of fossils that cant be seen in the field. So my only option may be to just dig out one slab at a time and work through it for fossils. I have a test chunk in a container with vinegar to see if this is going to be an acceptable way to speed thing up. I feel pretty sure the skull piece is silicified, but its another thing to check.
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I haven't been on for a while. Reason is I'm getting ready for a move. I wanted to tell you all that while I was looking at a house, I found a 4.6 lb piece of petrified wood. The land owner said I could take it, to my surprise. The fossil is already pack with my other fossils. I'll upload a picture when I have a chance. May take a while.
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Happy Easter to everybody and hopefully you can help identify the following: Found a 2 " egg shaped object, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland in a field which has had a small hole previously drilled on one side. The egg object is hollow inside and the shell is about 2mm thick and feels like solid rock and sounding when tapped. The item has various minute cracking across its surface as shown by the attached photographs. I have also tried to show the hole and depth of cavity using a dart inserted into the object. It appears too clean an object to be a fossilized egg, however, how did the cracking and cavity occur if it is indeed a rock? Any help appreciated and stay safe, regards, Paul (newbie)
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Hello! Help with identification, please. What is it? Western Ukraine. The max length no more then 1 cm. Cretaceus-Paleogene. Thanks in advance!
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Found in stream in Eureka, MO. I always find alot of these. Just want to know its name so I can find a picture of it. Thank you!
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Hi, I am a newbie here, but wanted to see if this might be a trilobite. I found it today while walking in a park in St. Petersburg, Florida. The park is next to the water, and it was located in a field where the soil was recently dug up. Thank you!
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I have 8 Cretaceous dinosaur toe bones that I got from Judith river Montana. I was told some were Tyrannosaur and some were struthiomimus. I cannot tell if that is true or not and need your guys help. #1 #4. 1 #3. #2. #7 #6. #5. #8.
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Hello everyone, On this edition of Rex or nano, we have this nice little mailbox score I got earlier this year. The seller and I are reasonably certain that it is a young adult rex. But I wanted to bring it to you folks to get your assessment. It matches the locality of Rex ( hell creek, from a microsite in Carter county) and based on my research from the forum and elsewhere it checks out as tyrannosaurid. (Ie: robustness and seemingly no pinch) Bonus question: I'm also curious on the placement of the tooth in the animals jaw. I have reason to believe it may be a right maxillary tooth.
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Hey guys new member here, hoped to get information if found my first fossil or just a bottle cap imprint:s, found in lithuania, vilnius city region in open field
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Good morning all! Well, I couldn't find my Unklesbay fossils of MIssouri, so bought another on online. In it, the object I thought was a horn coral ( I posted this earlier) looks pretty similar to what he depicts as Cystophyllum. Thoughts? Does this seem more reasonable? Thanks! Bone
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Question about my fossil
acron611 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, half a year ago I bought this Phareodus fossil. I am extremely happy with it and know it’s real, but my question is how much, if any, has been retouched. There is obvious putty in the center of the fish to glue it together. There is a noticeable orange glaze over it which I’m wondering is just to keep it from getting scratched or damage. Thanks
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Once again I slack in posting things on here. last week I decided to dig out a very large ammonite I found last year. It’s a Phylloceras Heterophyllum. Quite rare around here, and to get one as big as this is, is even rarer. It weighed an absolute tonne but worth it. All the prep work is done, all that’s left now is to rebuild some small sections and cracks. It’ll be a stunning piece once’s finished.
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What's the best way to upload photos here, given the 390 Mb limit?
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Hello! I found this triangular piece at the beach in 2019 in North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. It looks like a fossilized bone or bone fragment. I checked my books and the web, but have not been able to identify this piece. Any idea what this could be? Dimensions are approximately 30 mm long, 19 mm wide and 6 mm high. Thank you!
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Anyone know what this could be?
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Hello my friends father who was a surgeon passed away recently and after everything was finalized I inherited you could say a bunch of different fossils and stones. These were in a box I have about a hundred more pieces some big some small of what appear to be bone? Or maybe a tree or plant but I think bone. I cant tell you were he found them but he did dig them up himself and his daughter thought it might be at or around the ocean probably pacific that these were found. However she couldn't be certain. Please help!?
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Hello, Folks! I openly admit I am not educated on fossils or geodes, but I do love rocks and have collected ones that spark my eye for years; however, on a recent walk I found a peculiar one and am interested to learn what (if anything) it might be. Can anyone help? Appreciate it! BLT
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I searched every body of water on Rockd to see any sedimentary deposits that are near me; there is nothing. Everything is metamorphic, but then I came across Lytle Creek. I wen't on the map on Rockd and checked and it said something about sediment deposits. The info was too confusing; I couldn't find any easier info.
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hi this is matt again today in the creek I found a fossil full of worm trails does anyone know what they are ?
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Hello all! I am a new member, and this is my first post. Could I please have some help figuring out if these rocks are petrified wood? Most of them were found in a small Pennsylvanian stream. It looks like they are quartz, crystal quartz, but I am no expert. There should be about two pictures of each rock. Thanks for your help, and I have more pictures of different rocks if needed.
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Hi all this may be a dumb question or too complex for a simple answer, but what factors determine if a bunch of fossils found in very very close proximity are actually the contents of a dinosaurs stomach? Thanks!
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Could someone help me to identify this, I found it in the bank of the north sulfer river in texas
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I recently dug this rock out of a pile I have next to my house near Grand Rapids MI. I know I put it there many years ago but I can't be sure it originated from this area. There are a lot of things I don't know about this thing. I posted it on a rock forum and showed it to some rock hound friends and they all seem mystified. Some of them suggested that it could be a fossil. Maybe a type of sponge? That could have been a wild guess but I'm hoping someone here can confirm or deny that for me. It seems to be all quartz of one sort or another but the interesting thing is that it seems to be made up of pieces like a conglomerate but with almost no material between them. It reminds me of monkey bread, if you know what that is. Also, a lot of the pieces are solid on the outside but porous and sort of grainy on the inside. Enough rambling! Please let me know what you think. And let me know if you need any more photos or other information. Thanks!
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