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The first three photos are what I've always thought were fossils, they were given to me by my great grandmother. She had a farm in Kansas and collected them, but she didn't know what any of them were. Anyone here know what they are? Any help would be appreciated. I've held onto these for years and always wondered what they were.
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Hi all, Recently my brother and I were on the Republican River in NE Kansas after the water went down a little and found a bunch of bones and bottles. I am having trouble determining some of the bones as bison or cow, so I need your help here. And also, we found what I think is a claw, measuring about an inch in length. Thanks for the help, and let me know if you need more pics. Cow or Bison lower leg? I think its bison; it is pretty heavy and seems to be well mineralized, but not completely fossilized. And the mystery claw-like object
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Hi all, This was found in NE Kansas among a bunch of other deer, cow and bison bones on a sandbar. Any idea what it is from?
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Found these in NE Kansas, I cannot tell if they are bison or cow, assuming they are bovid.
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Hi all, I recently found a bunch of vertebrae on a river in NE Kansas. I have found parts from deer, cow and bison here. I do not know how to distinguish bovid vertebrae as well as some of you all do, so I need your help. I will follow up with more pics.
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Hey guys, I'm kinda new in fossil hunting, but even from my limited experience I like it a lot. Does any one know of any spots in NE Kansas that are worth visiting? I'll probably visit a couple road cut outs and some spots near Tuttle Creek this weekend and post my findings, if anyone would be interested.
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Hi all, I've been collecting a lot of late Pennsylvanian invertebrates (mostly from the Virgilian Series) in the area surrounding where I live (Manhattan, KS), which is in the NE part of the state. I was wondering if any of you have found plant fossils in Eastern Kansas, as I want to start collecting some of those as well. I read that Clinton Reservoir's outlet does have some shale and limestone layers that have insect and plant fossils, but I am sure that area has been picked through thoroughly. Do any of you all have suggestions? Thanks a ton!!!
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Hi all, A few months ago I was fossil hunting by the Republican River in NE Kansas when I found part of an upper jaw washed up on a sandbar. From it I got 3 teeth, and I am trying to determine weather they are bison or cow. Two of these exhibit a separate, distinct stylid. However the third, which is by far the most worn down, seems to have an integrated stylid. I've seen a few pictures of bison teeth whose stylists are not completely separate from the rest of the tooth, but I don't know if that's truly indicative of not being a bison tooth. Any help is appreciated, thanks all!
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Hey again, I'm still going through the backlog of undentified stuff from the local cliff site in the south of Manhattan, Kansas so I can sort and pack them away. 1. Here's a rock containing a productid brach (Hystriculina?) and some sort of spine, which I initially assumed to be echinoid but am having trouble matching to anything. It has two exposed parallel rows of projections. The vaguely star shaped cross section suggests there are more around the circumference but I'm not sure. 2. I found two pieces of matrix that were adjacent to each other, both have this long, hollow tube apparently passing all the way through them. On one end of each piece the tube appears to have partially collapsed. There might be some shell pieces inside but I'm not sure. 3. Embedded adjacent to the hollow tube is this object which has an odd surface texture:
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I found this odd triangular thing on a shale hash plate along with the typical Permian brachiopods and bryozoans.
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Hi all, found this vertebra in the Kansas River today on a sandbar. I've found everything from Pleistocene bone fragments to half-mineralized cow bone here before, but nothing of this size. It could have belonged to a cow, but I think it's a bison considering the amount of mineralization and general shape. I could use your help identifying this one! PS it is about 6 inches high, the spinous process is about 3 inches high and has been chipped across the top. It has also not been cleaned too well, hence some of the brown dirt color. Other side view
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Shell piece from Lower Permian marine i̶n̶v̶e̶r̶t̶e̶b̶r̶a̶t̶e̶, Kansas
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Found this amongst some loose pieces from our favourite cliffside in Manhattan, Kansas. Age is probably Lower Permian. There's a faint series of ridges on the concave side. Maybe part of a valve?
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I've been finding hundreds of these tiny spiral shells in the same matrix as some larger, pointed shells. Curious what both of them are. There's also one specimen of what appears to be a small brachiopod with "flaps" at the hinge, like a scallop. Also these much larger spiral shells which were found in loose sediment.
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My granddaughter is in 4-H Geology and has found these two items and no one has been able to ID either one. She found both items at a local sand pit. The first one was in one piece until she accidently dropped it. When it landed it broke open and the white areas were inside. One side feels kind of chalky and the other is feels pretty smooth but has ridges. Any help would be greatly appreciated as she is trying to get her exhibit box ready for the Fair. Thank you, Mari
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Found by a friend in a creek near KC, Kansas. Never seen anything like this. Also, I'm new to all of this so I don't have the slightest clue what I'm looking at... Is it even real????
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These are two rocks / fossils I found in the smokey hill chalk of Kansas they may or may not be fossils.
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I bet you will not believe me but I when to McDonald's to get an ice cream cone and when I was walking back to the car I looked in a rock bed that they had brought in for decoration. And I picked these three up. There are many more there and I don't know if I should go back for more ?
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Hi all, I was walking around NE Kansas when I started finding a bunch of coral pieces, neospirifers, neochonetes, derbyia, chinois stems and various other parts and pieces when I found this. I was wondering if it is some kind of plant or what? I initially thought they were small fusulinid imprints but I could be wrong. Any help is welcome. PS the pictured piece is approx 6 inches wide
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First, I am clueless as to what this is. I am guessing whale because the vertebral body is concave on one end and convex on the other. It is pure stone, and I am wondering if it could be hadrosaur based on some pictures I saw. Cretaceous is just a guess as most of what I found was from that period. I bought it from the son of a fisherman who found it on the banks of the Kansas River in the Kansas City area. Any help is really appreciated. My dream as a child was to be a paleontologist so this is specially cool to me.
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I found this tooth and about 4 outlets like it in the chalk of Kansas today. It almost feels square and like a bone .
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I found this jaw bone in the chalk of Kansas and I have no idea what it came from .i am pretty Shure it's a fish as I only really find fish bones out where I hunt. Let me know what you think. It is hard to see but there are about 8 tooth studs in the bone.
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Can anyone tell me if this is a mosisaur tooth or if not what time of tooth it is it was found in the smokey hill chalk of Kansas
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I found these jaw pieces with tooth stubs in them ,I can't tell what they are from (I think mosasaur)
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I think this is a vertebrae but of what I do not know I have no clue on this one.
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I have stumbled upon a mosasaur skeleton (or at least I assume so ) it is in pieces and I have so far found 3 ribs and 3 vertebrae and it keeps going back into the chalk that it is in . It is in the Smokey Hill Chalk formations in Kansas. It is in many pieces each rib is in about 5-12 pieces and vertebrae are mostly intact
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