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I am new to this forum or any forum for that matter. I needed to find people I could talk about fossils etc. I have been a (Rock hound) for 10 or so years gradualy getting more serious and interested. I have a collection of minerals and fossils and need help with some of them as I am an amateur. I was more interested in minerals until a year or so ago when I started looking at some of the fossils I had. I purchased a trailer full of fossils and minerals 6-7 years ago and some of them I havent even looked at yet. I just pulled this from one of those boxes a few days ago, cleaned it up and I dont really know what it is??? Is there anyone that can help? The closest thing I can think of is some sort of sea creature? Maybe a trilobite missing its exoskeleton? If that is possible? I could only get 1 pic uploaded for now. The dark spot In the middle left is where it has been chipped. Any help and info would be appreciated. Thanks Frank
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I went through a bag of bits and pieces from a year or two ago last night and found a few I was curious about. Any thoughts? All found in Venice FL. #1
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I was wondering if anyone could tell me what this is. It comes from the south rim of the Grand Canyon (literally 10 feet from the edge) between Moran Point and the Tusayan ruins. The pieces were grouped together on the surface. There didn’t seem to be any associated mines or mining activity, but I do not know. Thanks.
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Having read the new member posting cautions, do not want to waste anyone's time. We're just baffled. Besides splitting shale, once in awhile finding grass or fern ( since we were kids ), spend a fair amount of PA time crawling around Appalachians looking for Native American petroglyphs, etc. They're around, sometimes in odd spots. Fun, poking the camera somewhere promising, one time in a thousand you'll find something interesting ( besides a snake ). Only using ' Fossil ' ID because it looks like it was alive? Found this, last year. Went back several times after going through pics. It's beneath a flat-ish, large rock perched among a ton of others, promising niche, sometimes old carvings survive when protected. It doesn't seem to be one, not any we've come across Tough getting pics, pretty ' in there '. What on earth is it, please?
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I recently went rock collecting in the Calico Mountains just off the 15, 10 miles E of Barstow. Online, I found mention of Celestine and Colemanite in the area. I picked these samples from a small seem. It does not dissolve in vinegar. These pieces have been rinsed in water but in the photos, they are dry. Thank you.
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I recently went rock collecting in the Calico Mountains just off the 15, 10 miles E of Barstow. In the book I have, it mentions petrified wood, specifically date palm or date palm root. Is this it? The pics were taken after I scrubbed these in water with a toothbrush.
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My fossil fascination began about 4 years ago, so I may be a little further along the learning curve than a few of our members. Let me offer this sound advise to all newbies to fossil hunting/ collecting. LABEL your finds with as much detail as one can. I guarantee your memory will NOT be good enough 4 years later and you will end up suffering some of the frustrations that I have experienced with some of my finds. Here are a few items that I am asking identification on simply because I did not label. They were in a very small box and my only written words about them was "tiny fossils". I can not even think of where I collected these at or whether they were gifted to me. I am suspicious that it was Ordovician rock though. So with your help and the confidence I have in our Forum members, I expect the genus, species, and exact road cut that I found these at can be given by 5 pm tonight. Kidding aside, any tidbit of advice is truly appreciated. Mike P.S. For you newbies, ALWAYS include size when posting items for ID, something I always forget. These items are about dime size.
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Now if you’ve seen my previous posts you might know I have shark teeth and while most are probably just modern sharks and aren’t technically fossils yet. One of them not only doesn’t look like many of the others, it’s small and looks fossilized. Although it’s probably from the Cenozoic in my opinion. The point is if you have a idea of species of shark this tooth belonged to. Please tell
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Stellate Hair-Like Fossil In New Jersey Cretaceous Amber
NZ_Fossil_Collecta posted a topic in Fossil ID
today i have found another inclusion from my raw lot of cretaceous NJ amber. it bears resemblance to a stellate fern hair (comparison picture shown below) and also to stellate fern hairs I have found in a piece of (presumably baltic or dominican) amber that is 30 MYO. i'm not sure about this and i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it, have these been documented in NJ amber before? (probably) anyway, here are the pictures: the fossil in NJ amber i found---> comparison picture of another stellate fern hair i found this one on the internet---> another stellate fern hair i found in 30 MYO amber (probably baltic, maybe dominican) -->
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My friend has had this in his collection for a while now and he always thought it was a Megalodon tooth. I started to slowly dought this and now he and I agree it does not look like a Megalodon tooth. Could it be a chubutensis or a Angustiden? Also I have no information on where it is found. All I know is that he bought it from a market where a seller was selling a few fossils for a reasonable price.
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Again, it's small enough that pics are tricky to get with my phone. I've posted the interesting side, the side, and the flip side. What do you think?
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I have no idea, but it's small enough that good pics have been tricky and my curiosity has gotten the better of me so I am posting what I have. Can you give it a guess?
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This is obviously not a seed fern fossil, but the "fossil guy" at the flea market across the river in Jersey told me that it is a fern. My understanding was that it is petrified plant material, a petrified fern. I'm not confident in his identification as he, I now know, missed several identifiable pieces (crinoid columnals and a chunk of perfect rose quartz, for example) or simply wasn't as into looking as he said he was. So, I need another ID! Again, as usual, it was found under the bridge behind my house in Bucks County, PA along the creek not far from the Delaware river.
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So I was going through a box of old items when I came upon these. I found these items on the surface in Wyoming...about 10 miles south of Shell, Wyoming to be exact. As I recall there we more than several around and what caught my eye was the disk shape and that each seemed to have this pinkish X or cross in the center. They are roughly the size of half dollars....maybe a little larger. At first I thought they might be epiphysis disks like these But I'm don't think so because of the strange X or Cross at the center of each of the ones I found. I suppose they might be some unique mineral deposits but have found nothing similar online. Any help in IDing these would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi guys! I've got this from my parents as gift and i'm not quite sure what type of shark is this.I only know that the teeths are from Morocco,but i'm not sure that this is Otodus Obliquus.Help would be nice.
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Hi there everyone new to the forums! I found this item in Christies Beach South Australia in my front yard digging out a hole for plants. Could be a very common item but I would love to know a little more about it! Found it inside what seemed to be a limestone pocket. There was also other types of fossilized coral and a few different varieties of fossilized shells in the pocket/crack.
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Just an ID, please, there's a lot going on in this piece.
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I can't figure out what this might be, I hope you can see it well enough. It was very hard to get good pics of the crushed side. I think it could be a crab shell, it's crushed but firm tho it seems slightly pliable and even breakable. It's not. The "mouth" seems to be more of a dent than an opening since sealed over and the perfect little circle on the top reminds me of a horseshoe crab. Some of the pics are color saturated to enhance the detail as best I could. Please, help, so curious!
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The rock has the imprints of the tissue under the shell of the fossil. Tons of weird bubbling on another rock found in South Georgia
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Hi all, I have a couple of teeth originating from the Kem Kem basin, that I'm thinking may belong to the same species (whatever that may be). Can't quite decide what they are beyond theropod, so thought the lovely folk here might have some clue.... Tooth #1 has some pretty heavy wear and I get an inkling may have some composition on the base of the tooth, as there is a lot of matrix sitting there. The tooth only has a small number of denticles present on the anterior edge, but they appear to be the same size as those on the distal. Tooth #2 is in much better condition and though the same general shape as #1, it seems to have quite a bit more lateral compression in hand; though that may be because of the smaller size? The denticles on the anterior edge run approx 3/4 down the tooth before ending, and appear to actually be noticeably smaller than those on the posterior edge in this case. Apologies for the quality of the photos (and for the fluff on my index finger that seems to have got in on the act).
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I have found this strange very big fossil from the Westphalien of Northern France,i think it's a trunk,an ID ?
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Ok fish friends, I need some help on an ID. This fish is from Ciudad Cerralvo, Mexico (east of Monterrey). Based on the geologic maps, it could be late Maastrichtian. It has an overall feel of Pachyrhizodus minimus to me but I’m hoping for another opinion.
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I received this as part of my TFF secret santa gift. Santa only had the genus name and no other info. Can you help narrow down a species? I am thinking Ductina ductifrons?
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I am wondering if this is a fossil of a crinoid of some type. I found this is a creek in NE Oklahoma. I believe that most stuff is from the Devonian and Carboniferous time. It is in the harder dense material with a conglomerate of shells and other things on top .
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