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Hello, Thanks so much everyone @Troodon @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon @Praefectus for your help with the mosasaur jaws last time. I was wondering if you could help ID the following teeth crowns? They're said to be from the Atlas mountains of northern Africa. I feel like there's quite some variation but I can't tell if that's just due to heterodonty or a difference in genus/species. Or perhaps as I found out last time, some of these are "throat teeth"? Lot 1. Lot 2. Lot 3. Thank you!
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Fossilized bone or weird rocks? Found in the same place in Central Turkey.
LauraT posted a topic in Fossil ID
Just wondering if these are weird rocks or some thing else. I found them in the middle of a field in the plains of Central Turkey.
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Hi there, I am brand new here and brand new to the whole Rockhounding and Fossil Hunting arena. My first fossil find was a piece of silicated wood which happen to look identical to the picture on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida Rocks site. So that was both exciting and an easy ID. My second find is this one that I found on the same site a couple of hours apart. I am at a stuck point now and would love some guidance to ID this. Here is the information that I think you might need to help me with this quest. 1. Location – Belleview, Marion County Florida (southern central part of Marion County) 2. Geology – Upon looking up USGS maps of the area It looks to possibly be on the border between Undifferentied Sediments from the Pliocene/Pleistocene Epoch and Ocala Limestone from the Eocene Epoch, with nearby Hawthorne Group from the Miocene Epoch. (I’m still trying to figure out the maps) 3. Formation – I am not sure what this means yet, but if someone explain what is being asked here I can probably give a guestimate. 4. Assemblage – none known of other than shells and I also found a piece of silicated wood. 5. Discovery – It was found in a recently cleared forest/field for a housing development. Which revealed a limestone pit (with connecting cavern/cave). I found it along a bulldozed collection pile of rocks so I am not sure exactly where it was dug up at. Near the pit or further away. I am still trying to ID the different rocks I brought home but with the little knowledge I have so far these include Chert, limestone and sandstone at least. 6. At first sight the shape resembled some of the fossils I have seen some youTubers pulling out of rivers here in Florida. So I took it home and began researching it. Trying to find what they called it. Based on the videos I saw it’s shape looked like possibly a dugong rib or perhaps a Giant sloth tooth (I think is what he called it). However, I noticed that it wasn’t dark in color like they were pulling out of the river beds and calling fossils… but it did feel and look just like the piece of silicate wood that I found on location that I mentioned above. So I did a little research on what is a fossil and understood that maybe it could be a fossil cast. I also did a little research on the epochs of the giant sloth and the dugong and found the Florida Museum of Natural history pages for each of them and although they do come close to the 3 epochs mentioned above the maps on those sites are not showing Marion County as locations for them being found. So now I am stuck as to what else to research to find out what I might have here. (If not just a really cool shaped rock which is good enough for me but would be even cooler if it was something more) Thank you so much for your help, Tad
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Hi Folks, I've made two trips to the river in the last week and most of what I have found was the usual stuff. This mammal tooth is eluding me when it comes to ID. It's a little banged up, but I think enough of the crown is intact to facilitate an ID, but I can't find anything that looks close. Anyone know what critter this is? It does appear to be fossil and not recent. Thanks! MikeG PS - a proper trip report and more photos coming later.
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These shark teeth were found in the Lower Cretaceous Del Rio Clay. I have seen posts on here that have identified Cretodus semiplicatus and Cretalamna appendiculata as the common shark teeth of the Del Rio Clay; however, none of these teeth seem to match up with photos I have seen of those teeth. Could these teeth simply be from a different position in the mouth than the ones in the photos I have seen? The measurements listed below are from the top of the root to the tip of the crown. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! #1- 9mm #2- 7mm #3- 5mm
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Im thinking this is probably a deer tooth since it doesn't look too fossilized. I was also thinking possibly camel or rhino since they look similar but im pretty bad at ID’ing mammal teeth. The other item is fossilized and looks like a broken piece of bone, but im not sure.
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Many months ago I visited the famed Whiskey Bridge locality. Perhaps due to laziness or a desire to collect other fossils in Texas I have only now gotten around to cleaning, consolidating, and identifying my finds. Using the Emerson book I have largely been successful in identifying my finds. However, I have been stumped on the last dozen or so gastropods. Most of them are tiny, and likely juveniles, which has made identification even tougher. I was wondering if anyone recognized these gastropods. They are Middle Eocene in age, from the Stone City. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12
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Hi there everyone! I’ve recently been looking for a tyrannosaur tooth to add to my collection and I came in contact with a very nice seller who’s in possession of two theropod teeth. The main tooth I have questions about is the “Albertosaurus” tooth as that one seems to be the one which would be easiest to ID. I was wondering if it was truly an Albertosaurus tooth or if there was any other identification that could be given to it. The other tooth, the “Tyrannosaurus Rex” tooth, only has one picture and seems to be in two pieces. I’m aware that the single picture makes it near impossible to properly identify, but I’d greatly appreciate it if you guys could still give it a shot and give a rough guess. Since it’s somewhat small I reckon it could be a Nanotyrannus specimen, though I’m aware that a view of the bottom of the tooth would be somewhat necessary to identify it as such. Thank you everyone for your help. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time here in this forum and I can’t wait to keep learning and sharing!
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Hey guys, just saw this dimetrodon vertebrae for sale. Not really familiar with reptilian material and tried checking in the forum for similar threads for reference but cant seem to find one I could use. Also tried looking fkr similar ones for sale online but just not really familiar with reptilian material to positively ID mine. Was hoping if you guys may be able to help me with this one though and if it was possible to ID them to a species level? Cheers! PS. Currently asking for more specific locality but atm, all I have is that it is from Texas. Age Location Formation
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Saw this one listed as a tully monster online, but I'm decently sure that its been misidentified. Am I correct on this?
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Fossil ID possibly tooth fragment found NE Florida Vilano Beach 02 09 2022
NFLfinder posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Over the winter holidays I visited a couple of exposures of the Mississippian (Chesterian) Bangor Limestone in Alabama. I found a ton of really cool fossils, including a number of brachiopods. I was able to identify the vast majority of the brachiopods I found, but I struggled to identify the following. Does anyone recognize them? #3 and #4 look to me to be Composita sp. but the only species of Composita from the Bangor Limestone that I saw is Composita subquadrata and these did not seem to match. Any help would be greatly appreciated! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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A fossil crab which was given by a friend long time ago. I am just wondering if anyone knows any more details about its ID (possibly from Australia). Any information would be much appreciated There is a shell attached on the claw, which I find cute.
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I found this tiny coral (~8mm) during a recent trip to an exposure of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ripley Formation in Mississippi. I am familiar with the two common Late Cretaceous solitary corals- Micrabacia and Trochocyathus- and this seemed distinct from those two. Does anyone recognize this coral or know of a publication where I might be able to figure it out? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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So I went to Lost River, WV (Needmore formation) during the fall. I just recently found time to go through the material some more, set up photos, edit, etc. Brachiopod impression? As with the other brachiopods, I’m hoping for genus-level identification. Brachiopod. Any ID’s on its genus? This… Thing. I’m guessing its a brachiopod. But I could also see it being the eye of a trilobite. This brachiopod flaked right off the matrix! Any ideas as to what genus it belongs to? Hmmmm this was clearer before I uploaded it. Any idea how to fix it? Not like its too important because it looks like its just some brachiopod hash. I’m guessing this is the glabella of a Phacops rana. Trilobite pygidium. Hoping for a species-level identification, but genus is probably the best I’m going to get.
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Hello, So I've very recently learned about bone valley shark teeth, and thinking I might get a nice BV hemipristis serra tooth for my collection. Knowledgable members on this sub have been kind enough to show me examples and inform me that the classic, uniquely identifiable bone valley color is "solid white root + solid dark blade". As I'm still an amateur though, I wanted to ask TFF members to see if these following specimens that I found are indeed distinctively BV hemis, and which one is the nicest example of such? I've posted both lingual and labial surfaces of each. Here they are: 1. Few chips and missing serration, dark blade 2. Bigger chip off, lighter blade 3. Sections of enamel chipped off near the root 4. Lighter blade, a few missing serrations 5. One edge of blade a bit worn, root seems not quite white 6. Enamel a bit light, root not quite white 7. Enamel light, root not quite white Thanks.
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Hello, Can anyone help with identifying this supposed crinoid plate? It's from Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast of UK and measures 95mmx85mm, but no further info. It looks like a mangled mess of arm plates and stem, but I'm not even sure if there's quite any crinoid in there.
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Hello all, I feel like this is a stretch but I'm wondering if anyone can help ID this petrified wood slab based on its appearance? I got this back when I wasn't keen on age/locality so unfortunately don't have any other information. Its diameter is about 100-120mm across. I know some types of petrified wood such as the Arizona rainbow petrified wood or Palm wood have characteristic appearances so perhaps this one looks like something?
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This fossil was found in Malta's southeastern coast. I found a pretty nice maltese website: https://continentalshelf.gov.mt/en/Pages/Geological-Map-of-the-Maltese-Islands.aspx According to which the fossil was found in "upper globulina limestone (miocene , burdigalian to early langhian)": Limestone ID The ruler is in centimeters. Any ideas on what exact type of echinoid could this be? Thank you so much!
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Fossil Identification Help - Find Location Stump Pass Beach State Park - Englewood FL
jeltonk posted a topic in Fossil ID
Was at Stump State Park yesterday searching for sharks teeth and stumbled upon this item, which appears to be a fossil of some sort? I'm a novice regarding this and found this forum and thought maybe someone could help me identify. To me it looks like some kind of tooth. Can anyone assist - I'm just curious as to what it might me. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide!.thumb.JPG.7ce2c1dc17312e631ba36b31b02b4cb6.JPG)
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I recieved a new bunch of mixed minerals and fossils from an old collection,is it possible to confirm the ID for these/ Hemimorphite ON limonite Durango, Mexico Gypse fish tail Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexique Dioptase - Renéville, Congo And the unknow ID
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Upper Paleocene Lamniforms (Mitsukurinidae and Odontaspididae) ID from Chile
terminatordiego posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello to all guys!!!, I would like to ask again for help in the ID of some teeth. I´ve been searching in a local university's museum for teeth of the original strata (Upper Paleocene), and I have found a very interesting set of boxes containing a bunch of different teeth, all labeled as "Scapanorhynchus sp.", maybe existing a missidentification. The question would be if any of you guys can ID the pieces and how to differentiate the Scapanorhynchus sp. from Striatolamia striata or Sylvestrilamia teretidens, the options I´m leaning for the ID of the teeth. I would also like to check if you guys @will stevenson , @MarcoSr or @bthemoose have any info about it. You guys are awesome!! The ruler is a 1mm step grid, and I'll try to order them from anterior to posterior (I am aware that each one can be of different taxa), all of them have a stronger or weaker folded surface in lingual side. Any help or info is welcome, thanks guys!!! and greetings from Chile. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Finally, this one has the weakest folding:
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Hi there everyone! I recently acquired these fossil shark teeth and was wondering if I could get a definitive identification on them. The top one in the group photo seems to have a cusp on the left side of the root which leads me to believe it’s an Angustiden tooth. The middle one has a very slim shape but no cusp (probably due to damage) so I’m assuming that this one is also Angustiden. Finally, the bottom one has me a bit perplexed. It’s small but is wide and is missing the defining cusps of an Angustiden tooth. Could this one be a Megalodon tooth? Thank you all for your help!
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Have zero ideas for this one … unless Paleolithic dental caps were a thing
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