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Hi Forum, it's me again i was cracking at home some raw stones i collected from the ohmden (DE) quarry (180 million years old) and i found this tooth. At the beginning it was all cover by rock, it was exposed by 20% so i decided to do my very first preparation (with a lot of fear). It took me 3 whole hours but i managed to not break or damage it, so i'm pretty happy of the result, fear defetead! I will not dig more at the moment to avoid to damage it, i'll probably will perfect this preparation when i will gain more experience in the future, for the moment it is way better than the expectation, so i definitively take it story apart, it is very small, 0.6cm long. My 3 guessing based on the location are 1- Ichthyosaurus (i would not bet on it because the tooth look to thin and the stripes look different) 2- Steneosaurus (i prefer this option) 3- Plesiosaurus but all this suppositions come from my no experience mind Thanks a lot for your help Paolo
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A large broken bone...this belonged to a fossil collecting neighbour here in the UK. It is huge but sadly broken into 3 pieces. It is approx. 20 inches long and 7 inches at the widest point. I don't know where it is from. I'd love to know what it is and if I should just leave it as it is or repair it in some way. Someone suggested that it might be a mammoth humerus. Many thanks!
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Some unknowns from a few hours on the river yesterday..I have ideas of what they are but something makes me second guess myself on each of the four finds. First I think I found a piece of whale tooth? This may be one of my new favorites ( @Shellseeker I see where your interest comes from with these if it is indeed a whale tooth - it’s so beautiful inside that I at first thought it was an agatized coral finger). what is the piece protruding from the side? Part of root? Next, I’m pretty sure this is a fish scale, but I’ve found a lot of them in the past and none of them look this symmetrical or are this fat. Is this something else? Or a special/rare one? Or have I just found smaller, thinner ones in the past? This one…I want so badly for it to be a piece of newborn mammoth tooth that I can’t see anything else even though things are telling me it’s not what I want it to be. Break my heart gently please haha. and then there’s this fragment of a tooth…I thought it was a piece of horse tooth when I picked it up but it’s got growth lines (I can’t remember the scientific word) like a beaver or sloth..but it doesn’t resemble my capybara or sloth teeth…hmmm… As always, thanks for taking the time to read my post. I appreciate all of your expertise and guidance
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Found in Kane County, IL. Never seen anything like it before around here, found buried in dirt near the fox river with few other pieces that had broken off.
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I recently found my first unerupted beaver (Holmes capybara) incisor chunk: I hadn’t previously held one. Now that I have, there a couple unidentified things I’ve been saving that may possibly be beaver tooth. This first one - could it be the top of an incisor? Or am I way off and it actually belongs to a tapir? It doesn’t photograph well so I added lots of pics and a video - it matches up with my capybara chuck pretty closely. Piece#1: Piece#1 next to capybara chunk: IMG_6128.MOV The 2nd piece is small but someone may be able to tell what it came from piece#2: IMG_6128.MOV
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Giant beaver upper incisor chunk? Peace River Florida ID help, please and thanks!
Amarykah posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey everyone! I found an exciting array of unusual things in the river today. At first I thought I had a baby sloth tooth, but after some research I believe it’s a giant beaver incisor! @Meganeura you posted something that HAS to be the same as what I found. But can anyone explain why mine has a hole down the center? The shape looks like a sloth tooth to me but the enamel says it’s not sloth, right? Looking for ID confirmation as well as explanation for this hole thank you! …And disregard the sand and dirt still in my nails haha it was a fun day! (Let me know if measurements or better/more pics are needed)
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@RCFossils @stats @connorp @Mark Kmiecik Here are a couple more that I put to the side and do not recall if I looked for ID’s in the past. I just can’t feel comfortable with an id on this worm, what do you think? It is a cutie. 1. 2. This is reminding me of an Octomedusa, but do not recall seeing one with this type of preservation. 3. Here are Three Amigos- any ideas?
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Hello everyone, I posted this before but I decided to make its own post to bring more focus to it. Found on the beach in the Netherlands. Can anyone tell me more about it? Terrestrial Vs marine, what bone segment, etc Thank you!
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My winter has been spent thinning and organizing some of my fossil formation collections. The Platteville Formation has been one of my favorites as it produces that occasional spectacular trilobite. My biggest problem has been with some brachiopod identification. Thankfully, @Tidgy's Dad,s Ordovician post has made it relatively easy with the more common brachiopods. Finding great sources for the Platteville is hard. Many of the specimens shown today are MUCH smaller than the normal brachs from this formation. All are numbered and my measuring device is worn and didn't show through too well, so I added sizes. 1 is Campylorthis like but not the same as my others. 2 is similar to Hesperorthis but the valve appears too round. 3, 4, and 11 are plump Strophomena like brachiopods with the height maximum midway, not toward the back as my other Strophomena are. 5 is a confusing Strophomena like brachiopod. It is deeply concave, not showing up well on this photo. It is opposite of the Oepikina which is convex. But their hinge lines are similar. Rafinesquina was a guess but no listing of it in the Platteville. 9 is very ornate! 12 reminds me of Zygospira but can not find mention of it in the Platteville. I considered Rostricellula but a sulcus is not present. 13 is deeply concave, not captured well in the picture.
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Hi guys, found a big hunk of fossil something this morning on the beach. Flat on one side, porous on the other, eight inch fragment of something. Is it wood, turtle shell, a weird rock? Tried to get some good images of the texture of the flat side. I imagine the textures are totally recognizable to someone in the know.
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Looks can be deceiving. Is this a chunk of sloth tooth? Looks similar to my other chunk but not quite the same. Found in Peace River (FL). TIA!
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Good day on Peace River yesterday…did I find what I think I found? I’m sure I did, but I’ve also been sure before thanks in advance!
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I'm sorry for the blurry pics, I don't have the specimen with me and my mom had to take these pictures. I have this mineral, and am not sure if it's black tourmaline or aegirine. The cross section of aegirine should be square-ish and black tourmaline's should be triangular and bulging. I'm looking at it and I still have no idea. If someone has experience and can separate the two, please let me know. Don't know the location.
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Hello everyone, I recently bought a box set of 50 minerals and I am having a very hard time identifying them. I can't find an active mineral ID forum and the ones that I tried didn't provide an answer. I know this is a fossil forum, and I usually do post about fossils, but I thought I'd try my luck with the minerals here, I thought someone must be knowledgeable about it. If you guys aren't ok with this, just let me know, and I won't post about it again. Or maybe the mods can delete my post. Also, please let me know of a mineral forum you know or if maybe I can message someone in private about this? Either way, here are the minerals. (Most of them come from Namibia, but not all, and I don't know which, so that might be useless info)
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I thought it was a pen cap when I saw it found at peace river. I know it’s a vert, but could you please help me learn which animal it came from? The condition is the best I’ve seen.
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Found in Peace River. Stumped again.
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Found in Peace River. This one has me completely stumped!
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This may be wishful thinking, but is this a chunk of sloth tooth? TIA!
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Found at peace river (FL). It’s ivory but not like the mammoth or mastodon ivory I’ve seen. My novice research says it’s WALRUS?! Looking for those who know to confirm/deny/educate “coo coo cachoo!” (Beatles pun for those who didn’t catch it). It also dried incredibly quickly when I put water on it - vid is for fun because it kinda blew my mind. Thanks!
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Found in the Peace River, FL. Arcadia area. I wasn't too excited about it but a man who was fossiling nearby wanted to see what I had found when I was leaving the spot and he said it was mammoth ivory. I do not think it is and told him that I didn't think so but he insisted quite enthusiastically. I am still learning and am a beginner so I told him he may be right and moved on with my day. But now I cant stop thinking about it haha, if that man is in here, I swear if you were trying me! The texture is hard and sounds quite like ceramic when tapped or dropped. It kind of appears rusty and dusty but it's not dusty and doesnt crumble when touched. I tried to include photos next to a penny and well lit from every angle. Thank you!
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I previously obtained Nobel Prize Winner Roger Sperrys Fossil Collection I'm in PA and need help Identifying some of the fossils
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I've only been shark tooth hunting for about 3 years. I need help identifying teeth.
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Hi I would like some help identifying this PC any idears people found in maquarie river Bathurst 2795 NSW Australia
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This is a fossil from Kem Kem. Does anybody know what it is? I would highly appreciate your opinion. Thanks in advance!
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