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What is this magnificent thing? Found beneath my own house, in Southern BC
GullyGolly posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi everyone! This was found in British Columbia, Canada, specifically in the South Similkameen region. It was *not* near the well-known sites around Princeton (which is the most famous area in the region for fossils), nor was it in chert or shale (where most fossils in the Princeton area are found). This was found an hour south of there. I don't know much about the geologic or paleontological history of the region, though I believe we're classified as being part of the Quesnelia terrane, and in very ancient times there was a volcano - we still find volcanic rocks very frequently. Anyway, some of my family members have been digging beneath my house, working on expanding the basement. They've been digging out all sorts of rocks and dirt from beneath the house, and dumping the rocks and dirt in a big pile in the yard. I often look through the big pile of rocks and dirt they've removed, looking for neat rocks, and yesterday I found this! It was probably dug out from anywhere between 2-8 feet below the surface of the regular ground (since the floor of the basement is probably 8 feet down). I do know that the area around our house was once a creek/river bed and drainage area, over a century ago. Like, my house is located on what was once the "bank", and farther off in the yard there is a gully that used to be the creek/river bed. There's a local river where we sometimes walk along the riverbank and find impressions of plants on shale, but I've never seen *anything* like this. The fossilised area of the stone is raised up from the surface of the red stone, and when you look at it under a magnifying glass the fossilised area also seems to have some shiny, crystal-like speckles. The fossil seems like it might be a different kind of rock than the main, red stone? Besides the main fossil areas, there are streaks and spots that seem to be made of the same substance as the fossil. The white outline around the fossils is is very noticeable, as well. I can't find anything online of any similar fossils from this area. I'd love to know what you think this might be! I'm elated, as I've never really found a fossil before, and I'm astounded it was in my own yard. My family can no longer tease me for digging through rocks all the time Thank you 😊
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Hi, I recently bought this tooth from a friend, but I am uncertain which species it belongs to. The root is very thin with great white characteristics, but the lack of serrations on the blade is more like a mako. My best guess is that it is a Giant White Shark (Charcharodon plicatitis). It measure 2.75 inches. The last 2 photos show the tooth in comparison to a Great White tooth on the right side and a Mako Shark tooth on the left side of the tooth in question. What do you believe it is? Thank you for helping me out.
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Found in Big Brook last week. Wanted to see what you guys thought about this? It does stick by the way....I found another that is si.ilar in color but smaller. They are the last 3 photos. This sticks also. Thanks for your help! Jaime
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I spent some time "playing in the woods" at Fort Knox, KY recently, and came across some interesting fossils and minerals while I was there. I was wondering if you kind people could help me identify these! This first one stumped me the most. It almost looks like a skin imprint, but I am thinking it is probably some sort of plant fossil. Here is my first brachiopod find, just to show it off. This one is probably just a mineral formation, but it looks really wacky with its octopus-like shapes and extrusions. Definitely crystalline, and dirty. Any tips on how to clean it? E753F58C-BD26-4036-A832-C73EF31A52AE.heic 513E2D04-D0EC-4CC1-AA9A-BB3FBFBEB4FB.heic 70141ABC-0875-40A8-ADC9-CD7E19F3D1A1.heic B136C533-7D49-43D3-95F1-AA85EA046270.heic 5F83A947-0857-4F6A-B17A-2C96115D24C3.heic 2855B27B-9D5A-41A4-87EE-BBC58514DB87.heic More brachiopods? 3A755518-1842-4DEC-B838-4D1EAC22B3AD.heic 0F4DAC30-1211-46B5-9B6F-AAA59077D0AA.heic Very round, smooth on one side, detailed on other. Maybe it should be broken open? B0D25F46-B5A3-4281-9913-318A166AE3BA.heic DAB4DF40-FE7F-4F6B-917C-319CBF8DE464.heic 3305ADE0-BD49-49C0-982B-A86511AE63A5.heic 3750C26A-97C9-4071-8BE8-27C377588891.heic Warped brachiopod? And crystal cavity. Coral maybe? 63F025E3-8A75-421B-8569-12FFA54AD6E9.heic Notice the white outline on this one. It looks like the outline of a brachiopod but it could just be a coincidence. 7BEC98C6-1AD0-47C9-8F4D-3F8CF6CBA280.heic 12086889-2A8A-456C-8712-43E270BBEB21.heic E167D3B2-0F8A-4335-9E92-5D7716C53BBF.heic 1E6F26D6-9A06-4BF7-A2A8-7A57BCCB8D06.heic Bark-like formation? 412E299D-9483-4050-8A5A-66DDCD146495.heic E55A83C4-FDB6-48FC-8020-E9C98EB2D862.heic 0C9FC50F-BEE4-4716-BD38-3E36E8E482FF.heic 5AD197DD-6105-48D8-B0A4-E55411F2686B.heic Another interesting tentacle-like shape. Maybe Chalcedony or Bryazoan? 37A76FDE-76EA-484E-9711-D10B9F1475F3.heic F3C571B6-98DD-4B84-80C0-77E8B0A900A1.heic 28CC39DF-6BCE-4E7B-ABF6-2734061F64C3.heic 546F0425-9812-45EA-A2AE-B634EB164508.heic Cool rock pattern, but I don't know what it is. 73D8696A-C8F4-4315-AF36-4DD5ED24F08B.heic 95933FD0-B107-4014-98D9-48F090AA43A4.heic Those were all the most interesting things, besides some geodes, crinoids, and more brachiopods. Thank you for all of your help and time trying to figure out what some of these might be. Please let me know if there are any other questions. An aspiring geo-collector, Gabe
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I recently purchased this trilobite plate at a fossil show. I was told it was from Morocco but I couldnt really under stand what species the seller said, english wasnt his first language. Does anyone recognize what species they are. The plate has broken in half and repaired
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Was curious if this might be a fossilized snake? Also curious about the age and type of rock this is. Any help is appreciated.
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Hello, I was handed a pile of rocks found on a trip to Lake Michigan. My husband’s coworker passed on a box of rocks from Lake Michigan. I think there are a few fossils but am not sure. May I have some assistance with confirmation and/or identification please? Some of the pictures are the rocks rotated for more detail. Thank you for lending me your knowledge.
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Hello folks, I was out on a pet wood adventure and ran across these unusually shaped objects. Like a lot of things in this river, they are coated in a brittle brown substance that oxidizes when exposed to air, indicating iron content, i believe. (please correct me if i’m wrong.) Could they be coprolites? they definitely have a taper and one has a flat spot on the bottom. I slabbed and polished the larger one to take a peek inside. Immediately under the shell is a soft white clay-like material. beneath that everything is hard like glass, with quartz veins and some other interesting colored areas with pink and yellow. there’s also tiny white fragments in pockets so, can anyone tell me if i polished a turd?😂
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I found this unique fossil/rock specimen part way up a mountain in Jasper National Park, Alberta. Any idea what this could be?
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Found this at Beaumaris bay in Melbourne Australia, not sure what it is but it looks like it could be a thing? It’s my first time fossil hunting so apologies if this is just a random rock
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We found this at Fossil Beach in Yorktown, VA in the shallows. This beach his known for its shell fossils, but the ranger I spoke to said she’d never seen anything like this pulled from that area before.
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Hi there. I've been trying to find some iron pyrite, but don't really know exactly what I'm looking for. I found these on a river shore in East Anglia, UK, and wonder if any of them could be pyrite, or am I just weighing down my pockets with brown pebbles...? There is a lot of flint in this area. Any help much appreciated!! Thanks
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Hey all! I went out last week and still cannot identify this. Please help end the madness of “what is this???” Thanks!
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Hello again! I've got one that is really puzzling me. I went on a walk in city limits of Pittsburg, KS, and on the ground in the middle of the deer trail was a shell. No matrix or anything on it that I could see at first. The deer trail is on top of a rise that has trees and old house sites. The path is constantly showing black shale debris working up from the ground. In my recent experience, dark shale and light colored limestone are the alternating surface layers here. Local rocks and fossils are all Carboniferous or older, unless there are undocumented Cretaceous outcrops that extend from Cherokee county to the south somehow (Kansas Geological Survey publication on my local stratiography.) My first thoughts were that this is local and dropped here by a predator, as we have lots of water nearby. I ruled this out as: 1) it was still over a mile to the nearest body of water that could support bivalves this size, 2) I've spent a lot of time grabbing bivalves from Kansas water and I've never seen this shell. I've seen lots of mussels and clams but nothing like an oyster (I checked The Great Plains Nature Website guide on bivalves,) this has a golden-Ratio bend to it, is longer than it is wide, and has an oyster shape of the cup and has the landmarks on the edges of the shell. I need help confirming it's an oyster and not a weird clam or something native I don't know. I thought it also could be a castoff from someone's dinner, since I was in town limits near abandoned house sites. This is Kansas so getting Oysters here would be a relatively decent thing since refrigerated shipping. If it was farmed it probably wouldn't have the parasite marks, am I correct there? Could it be a souvenir from Florida or something? (Image 1) Above: back of the shell showing two points that look like attachments or borings of another creature into the shell. The central bore has material fused into the bore. (Image 2, image 3) Below 2: On the right of these images is some material that might be matrix or something else. I haven't been able to tell under my loupe because I don't know what I'm looking for with shell surfaces . (Image 4) Below: hinge of the shell and a small damaged point of the interior showing layers of shell msterial. (Image 5) below: muscle scar. Can anyone help me determine if this was cut with a tool? (Image 6) below: close up of bore holes. Centered hole shows light brown remains of something next to the deepest part of the bore . I didn't find a perfectly released fossil oyster shell, right? I'm struggling with finding online identification for modern oysters that don't depend on taste and texture of the flesh. My brief research only indicated oysters from the Cretaceous on but that's probably just for the examples used, right? Any suggestions for how to go about this appreciated as well as actual IDs! Also open to suggestions of how to take better pictures. I currently only have my smartphone but I have been trying to improve the lighting and getting closer with good focus. Open to input on all of this! Thank you all and have a great day!
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Thrifted amber ring?
mushroomuniversity posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi! Utter newbie here, nice to meet you. Hope I’m posting in the right place. I’d like better trained eyes than mine to tell me more about this piece, please. I’m familiar enough with sterling silver to believe the 925 hallmark but don’t know all that much about amber beyond a 15-minute google crash course! I found this at a tiny thrift shop in rural Maine a good decade ago and then forgot about it. It is mildly electrostatic and does fluoresce, strongly but unevenly, under UV light. Any tests to do with smelling are out of the question because my sense of smell has all but packed its bags and checked out thanks to covid. I’m most curious about the appearance of it under UV—does amber fluoresce unevenly like this? Those patches that don’t fluoresce fascinate me. Is that a dye? Heat treatment? Or is it just a pretty fake? That wouldn’t trouble me too much, honestly. This ring is more about the emotional value for me, all I am is extremely curious. Please excuse any formatting weirdness, I’ll try my best to fix any blunders. Whatever y’all can teach me about this ring, if anything, I’ll be really grateful. Thanks in advance!
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Good day - while on a lakeside walk I came across this rock. Of course, my eyes sees "bones" so I figure I had better come and get some assistance to better understanding what I do see. Can you assist? South Western Ontario, Canada.
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Hi all, I found this on a hike the other day and thought it looks interesting. The rock formation in the area is The peninsula formation in South Africa. New to fossils so any help identifying would be great.
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Good morning, we found this fossil yesterday on the beach, I’d just like any input as to weather it is indeed a fossil as we are very new to fossil hunting, any help would be very much appreciated.
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Location unknown - Found this a long time ago but I have no idea what it is. As the title says, I found this as a ten-year-old, nearly 30 years ago, when cleaving some iron-rich rocks that were laying on a pile at an old farmhouse in Heist op den Berg, near Mechelen (Malines, Belgium). I'm not sure if these rock came from this region and to date, I have not being able to identify this fossil. Can anyone help?
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This was retrieved after it was observed protruding from the dirt sidewall along a small creek in Quinlan, Kaufman County, TX. It appears to be fully intact with all its layers although it is "flattened" in appearance. The detached pieces came off when removing it from the dirt. It's pulled apart easily when trying to wash away the mud exposing the center "section". It measures ~ 3.5" x 2" Anything of interest?
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Can anyone help me identify this jaw, it's from Morocco. I'm presuming it's either crocodile or a juvenile mosasaurus
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Hi there, New to the site and complete novice when it comes to fossils. I found this fossil on the beach at Hunmanby Gap near Filey in the UK. Does anyone have any idea what it is and from what period please? Thanks
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I discovered this in some open space near my neighborhood. They appear to be bone but not sure what type? The open space where the fossils were found was formed during the Arapahoe formation.
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Hi y'all! Found this in Northern Phoenix area and was hoping for a potential ID. It is about 5-6in long, 3in wide, and 1.5-2in tall. Took it for a cool rock until I began seeing patterns within the pits and thought maybe it is a cool fossil instead? Also, not until I began taking photos of it did I notice it resembles a snake's head. Obviously it is most likely not that, but does really look just like one from the right angle. I can't even seem to get my brain to unsee it now that I saw it. lol!! Thanks for any thoughts or ideas you may have on this one!
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I bought this fish, the seller lost the label but believe it comes from the Green River, is this possible?
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