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Hello all! Found some nice Cretaceous fossils from early early Maastichtian age (and/or late late Campanian). These are around 70-67 million or 70-68 million years old (the exact age is difficult to determine but around the mentioned 70-67 mya, possibly including the late late Maastrichtian). Mainly belemnites from the Belemnitella and Belemnella (Pachybelemnella) species and sea urchins (two 5-7 cm Echinocorys sp. Possibly E. scutata (Leske, 1778). Some belemnites are black and/or brown coloured. All the fossils are found in sediments of Cretaceous age (Formatie van Gulpen, Kalksteen van Vijlen, The Netherlands). Also found two bones and one horse tooth (Holocene age and/or Pleistocene).

So went out with @Done Drillin yesterday to a spot on the Peace, near to where I had last found some tiny C. Hastalis and a single tiny Great White tooth recently, hoping for a larger Hastalis, or Great White, or even a Meg. Instead I walked away with an even better find! My first ever Cow Shark (Notorynchus, I believe?) - made even better by the fact that this past Monday I had commented on @Rowboater’s post saying how much I’d love to have one… and this one is only missing a bit of its root, too! @Done Drillin Also found one actually too. For some of my other finds: More tiny Hastalis: Tigers, a big Hemi lower, and 2 pathological Carcharhinus teeth: Sand Tigers, including one with a double cusp on one side: A bunch of pretty Carcharhinus teeth: And finally, 2 almost complete sand dollars, and 2 Glyptodon osteoderms, including one which is 1.5” thick, far thicker than any of my others:

I found these two fragments at Horse Thief Canyon amongst numerous hadrosaur limb fragments and I am just curious to see if anyone can help identify them. Thanks very much.

This weekend I went to 'PaleoTime-NL 2023 International Fossil Event' in Houten (The Netherlands) . It was a super fun fair with a very variable offer. There were of course (a fair cannot do without ) some tables with Moroccan offerings. But what makes this local Dutch fair so attractive is the range of local material. For example, a lot of Pleistocene material from the North Sea was also offered. To my great surprise, I came across beautiful Trias material from the quarry of Winterswijk. But I also found Cretaceous material from the Dutch / Belgian quarries. I therefore had far too little cash with me and had to collect money several times at a local ATM . Here's a small impression! Inevitably Moroccan material: Some nice Pleistocene material: Scottish Devonian fishes in 3D list with hand drawn models: Demonstration of the preparation of a Nothosaurus fossil from Winterswijk (The Netherlands): Some of my Dutch and Belgian Cretaceous shark teeth which I couldn't resist : Thanks to all those nice people I spoke to that made the day extra fun. It was a long but satisfying day

This thread, is created in the spirit; of thanking those who have in one way or another, contributed to our enjoyment of fossils and paleontology. My story may seem simple; but I have a feeling that others, may take this thread far beyond my story. First, I would like to thank my father; who tried to instill an interest in me as a child, and who gifted me fossils as an adult. Thank you. Second, I would like to thank a stranger, who upon seeing my pitiful find at a well known collection site; told me about another site, which has produced some finds for me. Her words were, "do you know about the x x spot?"; to which I answered as best I could. She then said, "I used to date an archaeologist, and he took me to xxxxxxxxx. Go past xxxxxxxxx. It's on xxxxxxxxxxx road." Thank you. Please add to this thank you / recognition thread, as you see fit. Thank you all.

This week-end, during the easter feast with my club we organised our annual exhibition of fossils and minerals. Note the opalised belemnites and the huge Phacops rana africana. Each year we give pride of place to a subject. This time that was the pyrite. It was the occasion for the non-initiated people, and, particularly for the children, to discover the gold of the fools. We make ourselves the sandwiches and cakes, this year, one of our member made special cakes for kids.

Yesterday another fossil hunt in Late Cretaceous sediments (early early Maastrichtian, perhaps some fossils from the late late Campanian are also present but possibly only early early Maastrichtian (earliest Maastrichtian). These sediments and the Formation itself is around 70-68 and/or 71-67 million years old. Found some black, brown and light coloured belemnites (often broken parts of the rostrum and one broken one embedded in chalk), some very small shark teeth (1mm-1 cm), and one big sea urchin in chalk (Cardiaster granulosus (Goldfuss, 1829). My girlfriend found the sea urchin and was very happy because it is the first Cardiaster sp. she found. All of these organisms lived in the Cretaceous sea that covered Europe between 70 and 66 million years ago (including during the end of the Cretaceous, the late late Maastrichtian).

Hello, I have read Fossil Forum posts for a year now, and am just getting around to joining. I love to fossil hunt wherever I travel and look forward to being able to ask what the heck I found. Thank you in advance for any replies to my inquiries!

Hi y'all! A few little things that I would appreciate some help figuring out what they are! 1. Eagle Ford Formation Size aprox 1/4 inch. It looks like a tiny jaw? But I've not seen anything like this: 2. Another from the Eagle Ford Formation Size Aprox 1/8 inch 3. Aguja Formation Size Aprox 1/8 inch Seems fishy to me... 4. Wolfe City Formation Pretty sure is a fish tooth based on it being flattened, not round. But any ID of genus would be great. Size aprox 1/4 inch

Unidentified finds in northeast Arkansas on Crowley‘s Ridge.

Howdy all, I'm a pretty new fossil collector (but experienced GIS user) who has been doing some remote scouting of Mazon Creek locales based on some internet scrubbing. I will be heading to Pit 11 on Thursday. Would any of you more experienced collectors be willing to critique my marked spots via DM? I want to make sure I make the most of the trip!

Hello! Help please with identification. Height - 3 mm. Age - uncertain: Early Eocene or Middle Miocene. Location - Ukraine. Thanks in advance!

Went up near Calvert for a couple days hoping to strike some gold and find a big Meg but the water wasn't cooperating and I didn't have the right gear for the water temps to get into the good rock beds. But a storm rolled in over night so the next morning or was teeth galore washed up. Nothing big but some good makos and a bunch of smaller teeth. Did find one strange fossil if anyone can't figure out what this is let me know? Looks like tooth enamel on top(two rounded sections)? Girlfriend found a rock in the shape of a heart along with that strange fossil below. Anyhow we found over 400 teeth so it was a very good adventure. Still no big Megs.

Found around the yard. I had thought it was some old concrete they had dug up. I hadn't really noticed the one out front till tonight, and then I noticed the pebbles? sitting on top of it and I remembered reading about them eating pebbles. What does anyone else think?

I'll start it off, with South Carolina. Left to Right: Otodus Megalodon Isurus Hastalis Isurus Desori Hemipristis Serra As a bonus; the day after I started this thread, I received some new specimens, and could have shown a representation of North Carolina fossils too. So just as a bonus:

So not too much was found this past weekend, but those trips happen every so often! Still found a couple cool things - almost compete Hubbell Meg, a gorgeous large hammerhead tooth, a pathological tiger shark tooth that’s in beautiful condition, and a thresher shark tooth. Also found a couple Holemsina osteoderms, and a small 3-toed horse tooth. Hopefully this weekend results in better finds!

Anyone know if the fossil dealer Bernard Stürtz (1845-1928) from Bonn, Germany had a fossil catalogue.

This was found in the mountains on the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. My research leads me to believe it is horn coral that lived over 400 million years ago when Tennessee was under the sea. What do you think?

At least 415 individual shark teeth; although many are very small and / or broken. None are pristine; but they are fossils, and all were found in a few hours, by little ol' me. I hunted until I was worn out, from walking and bending over to pick them up. A few tiny pieces of ray plates, too.

The Photos attached are the last of the 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has also been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. I like this fossil a lot, as you can see the exposed bottom of the fossil, as well as the exposed side of the fossil, with the rest trapped in the rock. Any thoughts on what creature this could be? Perhaps a muscle or large barnacle?

This is number 4 of 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. The pictures don’t show it terribly well, but the flat base of this fossil/rock appears to be a large coral like shape that looks like it was circular shape but has been slightly eroded to give this 2/3 of a circle coral type shape. The material is raised slightly on the grey parts within the white part, and the white part is more depressed in/less raised.

Hi. New to forum. I am new to fossil hunting. Have been to Peace River and to Calvert Cliffs. Planning trip to Big Brook this weekend. My question to this group... Where do you park? Access points? (I'm am not asking for secret locations or the such). I'm generally fascinated by the fossils...the hunt, the find, and then the identification. Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to access the brook and any tips. Thanks I'm advance! Candace

I found these on the beach in The Netherlands. I would appreciate if someone would tell me if they are fossils or just rocks and what they are, if fossils. In the case of the sand dollars, I don't know if they are skeletons or fossils. They are hard and I can't break them. Thank you so much!

Perhaps the most definitive, lasting project I've had during my short time in paleo is the excavation and study of a basal mosasaur skeleton my step brother and I found in September of 2021 (If you missed it, it's in my blogs on my profile). The site is on a fairly inconspicuous outcrop of the Eagle Ford formation, in a zone that's atypical for the upper eagle ford, as the rock itself is very condensed compared to what is usual for the upper kef. Notably, while Mosasaur material is very, very rare in the kef (kef is an abbreviation for the Eagle Ford formation), it pokes out with greater frequency here - I have found two other Isolated Mosasaur teeth there before. Both @LSCHNELLE, a geologist who is very familiar with the Eagle Ford, and a paleontologist that I'm working with have made this observation about this atypical site. Between the three of us, we weren't sure there was another exposure like it elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over spring break, I was in need of some good luck (after losing the transmission in my new car ), so, finding myself back using my parents car, I made a drive to spot I had scouted a year ago, expecting to see the massively steep Ozan exposure I had spotted from a distance before. Upon arrival, I was greeted with those gorgeous grey shales in all their glory. Upon closer inspection though, I was surprised to realize that things weren't as they seemed. The shales were lighter than the Ozan, and physically much harder. I was suppressing exciting pangs of recognition for a few seconds, but it soon became very clear that this massive vertical exposure was an outcrop of that same lithologically atypical zone of the Eagle Ford that produced our Mosasaur. What's more, this site is many miles away, and mapped as a completely different geologic group. It appears that through upfaulting, a cross section of this zone shot through the layers of earth above it, standing as an Island of the Turonian in a sea of much younger rocks. One feature of the Eagle Ford (or any formation for that matter) is that the bulk of the rock is barren, only interrupted by small intervals of great fossiliferous accumulation. This stood to be true at this site as well, so I set about chasing those shelly lenses that caught my eye and changed my path of life over a year ago. It didn't take long before I came to a shell lens a couple inches thick. One con of this site being a vertical cliff is that I can't peel slabs up as I can at its sister site, so I had to slowly chip into the lens, one piece at a time. Here are some finds that resulted: Small shark vertebra Fish vertebra An oddity, insitu in the middle of the shelly lens. Try your guess first Upon removal: A really lovely Ptychodus tooth that I suspect is the unpublished species also found at our mosasaur site. Since the species has not been described yet, I can't fairly quote any exact morphological features to cement my ID, but I've seen enough by now to "know the look", and have had several of these teeth confirmed by Shawn Hamm. This tooth was one of the best fossils I could find to confirm the comparison to the atypical kef mosasaur site. Here's another view: Shortly after, I distracted myself from hammering out small chunks of the lens and took a peak under the one tiny 3D protrusion of the lens that there was. Under a ledge only a few inches wide sat a fossil that made my heart skip a beat: The tip had fallen off, likely from hammer vibrations since I chiseling not far away. But, undeterred, I extracted the slab and was met with an imperfect, though still beautiful sight. To find a mosasaur tooth after removing what was in total less than a gallon bag of slabs made for an exciting day. Though broken, a basal mosasaur is a basal mosasaur, who can complain? I was especially excited that this lightning fast find came from a new site - meaning there might just be what I'll happily nickname a "Kef mosasaur lens" that transcends beyond the boundaries of our original site. Any trip where you walk away pondering those things is a good one