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Here’s one for our resident ichnologists. This is far out of my league to id. Found in Branson MO, it’s limestone. Bunch of ripples where I found this. I don’t know Branson strat, so unfortunately that’s the most info I can give you. The trace in question is roughly 1 cm wide. Thanks in advance!
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A short post today, just wanted to upload this interesting Rhizocorallium (?) I found on my most recent fossil hunting trip! It’s still the dead of winter here in Saskatoon, but we had a warm snap recently and I was able to hike out to a local glacial silt exposure and found it. Hoping to return to this site soon and hopefully find more!
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Good morning guys! I really need some advice for one specimen of trace fossil from Triassic, there's here someone experienced in the subject to help me on an identification? I would post here the images but I prefer to have a private conversation about. I apologize in advance if this is not the right section to post this. Thanks to everyone!
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I just found this piece in a parking lot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The stone was taken from some quarry and dumped here, so there is no geographic or temporal control, but I was wondering if it was a trilobite (since that's what it looks like to me). Thanks!
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I saw this potential fossil in the Jurassic age Navajo Sandstone in Zion National Park in Utah. I'm sorry that there is only one picture with no scale. I was hurrying down the precarious Angel's Landing trail with a long line of people behind me, so I only had time for a quick picture. The feature is probably about ~12 inches long, and I believe that it is situated on the plane of a cross-bed in a dune structure (example of the cross-bedded sandstone is also pictured). This feature might just be some sort of iron precipitation, but it looked so similar to an invertebrate trace fossil that I am not sure. Any thoughts on what it could be?
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Help request! I am putting together a tool for judging rock age based on very crude, whole-rock, hand-sample observations of fossil faunas/floras -- the types of observations a child or beginner could successfully make. I view this as a complement to the very fine, species-level identifications commonly employed as index fossils for individual stages, biozones, etc. Attached is what I've got so far, but I can clearly use help with corals, mollusks, plants, vertebrates, ichnofossils, and the post-Paleozoic In the attached file, vibrant orange indicates times in earth history to commonly observe the item of interest; paler orange indicates times in earth history to less commonly observe the item of interest. White indicates very little to no practical probability of observing the item of interest. Please keep in mind that the listed indicators are things like “conspicuous horn corals,” purposefully declining to address rare encounters with groups of low preservation potential, low recognizability, etc. Got additions/amendments, especially for the groups mentioned above? Toss them in the comments below! Thank you..... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tVm_u6v573V4NACrdebb_1OsBEAz60dS1m4pCTckgyA
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Hey everybody, here are some photos of large Diplichnites trails I found in Nova Scotia. These would have been made my a giant millipede like creature known as Arthropluera. The Nova Scotia Museum has been notified of this discovery, as with all the other fossils found at this site (see my previous post of the tetrapod tracks) as the collection of fossils is illegal in the province. These are absolutely outstanding to view in person and to actually walk next to the tracks on the surface they were once imprinted on is outstanding. Expect to see more from this site in upcoming posts, and I hope you find these fossils as fascinating as I do! ps. There are approximately 27 trails on this surface (many are quite faded by the tidal action) - FossilsNS
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Hello everyone, I have been spending a lot of time searching for Carboniferous fossils near my cottage in Nova Scotia. Here are a few photos from my summer "expeditions" in which I found many ichnofossils. However, this post will just be focusing on the tetrapod trackways . I would like to state that the collection of fossils in Nova Scotia is illegal, and all the fossils I found were brought to the attention of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. Hope you enjoy and stay tuned for more! Note: All of these footprints have been preliminary identified as Limnopus, but I would still like to hear your opinions.
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Hey everyone, I am a new member to the TFF community. I have been interested in fossils and paleontology since the age of four, hunting along the shores of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Over the years, I have developed a particular interest in Late Paleozoic ichnology. I look forward to communicating a love of fossils with all of you, and uploading in the future. - FossilsNS
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Rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (Shipworm), Bohol, Philippines
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Lithoredo abatanica, below article, should have left some interesting trace fossils in the rock record. This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast By Laura Geggel, LiveSciecne, June 19, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/65739-newly-discovered-clam-eats-rocks.html It would be a nightmare as an invasive species. The open-access paper is: Shipway, J.R., Altamia, M.A., Rosenberg, G., Concepcion, G.P., Haygood, M.G. and Distel, D.L., 2019. A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1905), p.20190434. – Open Access https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0434 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213180 Yours, Paul H. -
I live in Slovenia. I've been visiting this forum from time to time. Finally, I've decided to join and share my experience and thoughts. My main interest are the Mesozoic tetrapods. Above all: the dinosaurs. I am a paleo illustrator and a dinosaur ichnologist. You can learn more about me here: Mesozoic Mosaic Beri's dinosaur World (BDW)
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Hello all. I stumbled upon this forum as a means of finding some help with idetifying some burrows for a research project I am conducting. I have amanged to idetify some Chondrites from the area however all of the other traces have me stumped. My lack of previous knowledge in ichnology doesn't help either. They are both from the Jan Juc Marl (Oligocene) in south western Victoria, Australia. Here's a couple I'll start with: This first one is approximately 5cm long. It has a coarse grained infill, which is a sandy/shelly hash (calcarous) with a very fine grained clay lining. It's about 1cm wide and is orientated as found in the field, up is towards the top (younging direction) of the cliff face. As seen, infill is the same as the surrounding sediment/matrix. I thought it could possible be Skolithos, however they aren't clumped like other examples I have seen. This second burrow is apprximately the same diameter and is filled with the same sediment. The lining is a Glauconite rich clay and branching is evident. Scale is on the right, the cut Chondrites filled layer is apprximately 2cm thick. I too thought this may be Skolithos, but after finding this photo it is not directly vertical and is brached. If more information is necessary, let me know and I'll provide some more. Hopefully one of you ichno-gurus can shed some light on these. If you feel you are up to the task, let me know and I'll post some photos of the other ones. Cheers, Pete.