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Found this in a bag of Miocene-Pliocene micro matrix from Aurora Fossil Museum in North Carolina. I apologize for the less than stellar image, but this object is only 2mm long and my microscope cam is at it's limit here. It is hollow. The larger end is circular. The smaller end is obstructed by what looks like a portion of a missing bit at that end. There are no holes in the basket-weave outer texture, so not bryzoan. The surface is somewhat dirty as I was afraid of losing it if I tried to clean it. I can't find any matches in my Miocene library. I don't have much on Pliocene or later. Might also be foram, mollusk, or worm. None of those have cancellated ornament on that shape shell/test. Does this look familiar to anybody?
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Hello out there. I am very new to this collecting. Just a little background and how I started this so late in life. I will keep it short as not to bore anyone. My daughter is turning 30 this month. She is so awesome and I wanted to get her something more personal than some snarge off the shelf. She is a marine biologist and marine engineer. I was looking onto getting her something that would go with her passion. So I started looking into a marine fossil of some type. Being completely new I ended up going down a "rabbit hole". Wow it is complicated. So now the question. What do I get a her for a gift? And how do I not get taken on a price or something that is not real? There is so much out there on the old internet and I am sure as a "noobie" I will get scammed. So here I am looking for information / opinions from the pros. I completely understand I am new here. However, I am a real average "Joe" looking only for direction / information. On a side note, after looking around so much on my own I am now looking to start my own collection. JR
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Tried to find a place where you can supposedly find carboniferous/devonian fauna. I'm either really bad at prospecting or the site has been destroyed since the last reports (probably both). I ended up finding these on a couple of rocks that had been moved next to a house so I don't know their age. Orthoceras are cited from this locality, so maybe?? Could be funny-looking rocks too
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Hi, found this beauty on the coast of Newcastle NSW Australia. I believe it's likely a fish tooth plate, or maybe a crab? Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
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Hello! Recently I was going through old fossils I had from Caspersan Beach and/or Venice Beach FL, when I came across an interesting fossil. I’m not sure whether it’s a dugong bone fragment or a whalebone fragment, so I figured I’d post it here to find out what it is. It’s about 1.5 x 1.5 inches on each side, and fairly thin. I’ve seen things about dugong ribs being found there, although this seems kinda thin and flat to be a rib, so I was curious to know if it could be figured out what part of the skeleton it came from? Thank you!
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I work at a college in Southern California. We've had a lot of donations recently to our science department and some of those donations include fossils. I was able to identify some of them, but there are a few that I am having some trouble with. Some of the other fossils that we received are: Sand dollars, clams, oysters, worm hole casts, a sea cow tooth, a shark tooth, crinoids, brachiopods, scallops, gastropods, and bryozoans. Very few of these fossils included where they were found. The two labels we received said that the sea cow/shark tooth were found in California, as well as some of the sand dollars. Aside from that, I do not know where the fossils were found or what rock layers they were found in. Below are pictures and descriptions of the seven fossils. The above pictures I believe are teeth. In the research that I have done, I think they might be crocodile or alligator teeth. The one on the left is slightly curved, but the one on the right is more straight. Both have four "layers"; a thin outer layer, a second (also thin) layer, a thicker third layer, and then a fourth layer that fills the middle. The surface is bumpy rather than smooth, which is unexpected in regards to teeth. The base (~1cm) is wider than the top (L: ~.5cm, R: ~1cm). Both are about ~2.5cm from base to top. The fossil on the left has a broken tip so it might be longer and more curved than it appears and the base is also broken on a diagonal. I have no real idea what to make of this fossil, but I am thinking that it might be a plant fossil. The top is ~1.5cm in width and the bottom is ~2mm in width. From top to bottom, the fossil is ~3cm. There is a ridge on both of the horizontal "limbs" as well as a half cm ridge starting at the slight dip at the top. What is visible of this fossil appears to be circular and ringed with smaller, inner rings and outer, larger rings. The diameter is ~1.5cm. A few of the other fossils that were donated were crinoids, so I was thinking this might be in the same realm as that, but it is so much larger than all of the crinoids that we were given. I am thinking that these might be clams because we were given an abundance of clams, but I am not certain. The one on the right has small, white crystals (possibly quartz) on the bottom of it. I tried to get a picture of the crystals, but they were far too small. I understand that this is super vague and might not be a lot to go on, but any help would be appreciated!
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Hi everyone, Recently found this oyster shell specimen from an area near Tampa FL amongst dredged limestone where I’ve found agatized coral. 99% sure it’s fossilized (has a very small amount of limestone stuck to the bottom), but something interesting is that there appears to be botryoidal agate coating it. Is this an agatized oyster? Is this a common find around tampa? And can I bleach it to remove algae?
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Hi everyone. I was up in northwest Pennsylvania a few days ago seeing some friends and found this wild thing on their property. It's not my usual hunting grounds and I wasn't particularly looking for fossils at the time, so I never bothered to do research on the area. What I can tell you is that it was found in northern Crawford County, PA, which I believe is Devonian (but may also be Mississippian). Nearby were some brachiopods in sandstone. If extra pictures are needed, just let me know. Please help!
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Hello! I think I've just about tapped out most of my local hunting spots. Yet a week ago I found a couple fossils that look like teeth. Please let me know what you think. They are 1.5 cm wide by 1 cm long, Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous), Glenshaw Formation and from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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What is this Odd Symmetrical Fossil? northern South Carolina Beach
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I found this odd and extremely symmetrical fossil washed up on the northern SC shore. I can best describe it as a rhombohedron (kite shaped, but extended out), about 1.5x1x1cm. It has a straight cut from the top to bottom face, as if it is a nasal structure, but I have no idea. Also the bottom side has 2 circular divots. Any ideas? -
Hello everyone! New to fossil collecting and I have a piece I'm trying to identify. It is roughly 3 inches in length. I found it in gravel from a former marl pit from Aurora, a coastal town in North Carolina know for it's marine fossils. I think it may be wood since there seems to be a bark like texture to the sides though. Please feel free to ask questions or for more pictures!
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Found this recently when grubbing around my San Diego Formation (Pliocene) riverbed that is full of marine fossils. Most bones I have found are from baleen whales, or 'other' marine mammals. This bone fossil seems somewhat different than other whale (or other cetacean?) bones I have found. It is smaller.. which doesn't mean much, but the ratio of inner to outer cortex maybe also seems different. I do not know exactly what distinguishing qualities are that would allow one to differentiate from something like a bird, or dolphin. I previously found a manatee rib, but was only sure of this because a curator at the Nat helped ID that. Two images are of the embedded bone, the next two are of a presumably baleen whale bone that was also found that day.
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I found this shell fossil 6 or so years ago on the fossil walk in Ulladulla, NSW, Australia. What I find strange about it is that it's a common species at this site, only it's deposited in a rock from after the species inhabited the area. The fossil is deposited in a stone transported to the area when glaciers moved though and, to the best of my knowledge, the fossils in Ulladulla are all from far before the glaciers arrived. Does anyone have any ideas how this fossil came to be here? Thanks
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San Diego formation, Pliocene marine fossils. Fairly commonly find invertebrate burrow fossils (polychaete worms? not sure) I typically don't collect them since they are so abundant, but I thought this was maybe a large one? Also a nice marine mammal bone (probably baleen whale).
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Hello, This is probably not the right forum but I am not sure where to ask. I have found these shells in northern Italy. I don't know if they are fossils because they look modern, color wise and everything. But there is something strange, it's not just the outer shells, the inside of them are also filled. I don't know if it will be clear in photos, but it almost looks like their meat to me. I thought meat can't be preserved? It is rock hard and they also feel like rocks and I believe there is also a little bit of matrix involved. Is this some preservation thing that I am not aware about? They are still somewhat purple, like the modern ones I see everywhere here. Any explanation and further info is helpful as I know people on this forum are very knowledgeable! And I really hope my amateur posts are not too annoying! Thank you.
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I found these two rocks in northern Italy. One seems to me like a coral? But I might be wrong. Please let me know what this is if you know! And the last one is a rock with a black spot on it. I have seen this shape on the bottom of a piece I bought with a lot of ammonite imprints and fragments, so I wanted to see if it is something or if it's just a geological pattern. thank you!
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Hello! I found this amazing fossil on my mom’s property in Pueblo, Colorado. I’ve tried to do some extensive research online to see what type of vertebrae animal/marine life this is. Could you please help identify? thank you so much!
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Hello, i´ve been fossil hunting for the last 2 or 3 years here in ibiza, i usually find the tipic marine invertebrate fossils. But the other day i found a cliff only accesible by boat that was literally a whole fossil reef of some kind of plants or coral that covered with petrified branches perfectly preserved some kilometers of the cliff with all kinds of marine fossils of all sizes and shapes. The matter is that i started finding bones, in ibiza this is really rare as even in the university fossil collection and archives there is soooo little information of vertebrate fossils on the island. That day i had no tools with me so i decided left them there, today i will go to the place fully equiped to see what i can find, but for now i just took one bone that was loose and i really want to know what marine vertebrates roamed my beloved waters. Having 0 idea of bone identification just by logic i think it may be from some whale or dolphin creature, maybe a shark or other solid bone big fish? Also on this island although extinct there were sea lions in the past, and maybe some sea reptile? On here there is no evidence of dinosaur presence but being an island with almost only sea creature fossils i´ve been thinking that if the island was submerged probably some dinosaur died on what is now land or coast (in mallorca that is a really close island someone found plesiosaur bones)
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Someone who collects rocks had this among some rocks from Wyoming. When washed of mud striations became visible are there any guess as to what it may represent? ? piece of clamshell? I don’t see dentin/. Enamel pattern of tooth. Coral?
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Hi all - digging in the phosphate piles for the weekend for the Fossil Festival and found this interesting specimen that stumped most of the people I talked to. What is this? (apologies for the hand pictures, only way I could get it to focus properly)
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I will number the images. If you have an idea or know what one of them are, just put the imagine number in your reply or next to the name. I found these in the western part of middle Tennessee.
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Hello! I am a high school science teacher from North Carolina, USA. I recently visited Cape Lookout, NC, which is part of the Outer Banks. I found both of these fossils on the beach and am wondering what they might be. I want to have some kind of ID in mind when I show my students. I have no idea what geologic time period they are from. The first one appears to be a rib or long bone fragment. Possibly from a Sirenian or a Cetacean. It has some weird weathering on one side that almost looks like bite marks. The second one appears to be a fragment either from some large animal's skull or maybe a piece of a large turtle/tortoise shell. These are only guesses, please let me know if you have any idea what these may have belonged to, and if the weird weathering pattern might actually be bite marks. I have several other beach finds that I would love some help identifying if this post goes well. Thank you in advance!
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Hi I am new here. I am using the dating of mostly marine shell material to establish rates of tectonic uplift of marine terraces. The age is likely to be < 2 Ka We came across the attached bone which appears to part of a vertebrae. Can anyone identify what creature this is likely to be? A marine mammal? Thanks - it looks like an interesting forum . Michael C Patikirau vertibrae .pdf