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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
I believe the dark brown may indeed be skin while the blue part is cartilage. -
From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
One of my larger concretions and personal favorites -
From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
This concretion came out in multiple parts and I was able to salvage the tip. I will restore this specimen and prep it in the future! -
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
The second half of the cartilage pterygiophores When breaking the concretion most of the internal structure was unfortunately damaged -
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
My best guess is fish material or crustacean material -
From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
I assume this is some sort of bone either from a fish or some sort of other specimen. It could be a spine of some sort but I am extremely doubtful -
From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
Close up picture, identifications are welcomed! -
From the album: Missouri Plant Fossils
I was recently contacted by a specialist who is studying Neuropteris lindahli and identified this section as most certainly being another piece, I have another section here which he identified as another Neuropteris lindahli mislabeled as Pecopteris sp. -
From the album: Missouri Ammonoids, Nautiloids and Gastropods
Gastropod fossil, (originally misidentified as an ammonite), Gave it to a friend a year ago so I was unable to measure it properly -
My friend found these about 15ft underground in Polaski County Missouri. He said there were quite a few like 68 I think. Each one has something on the inside that rattles when you shake it. He busted the one in top left of main photo open and it looks to be a yolk but not sure. All his eggs are roughly the same size beside the small one on right and I would say they are a little larger than baseball size but can't say for sure what measurements are. Any ideas?
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Hello, been a while since I've been online, but getting back into the fossil world! Here is a specimen that is about 4 inches on a large rock that I would like to try an extract. Does this look like a trilobite to you all? Eastern MO.
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Looking for some info on this specimen from Eastern MO. Is this perhaps some sort of cephalopod impression partially replaced by calcite crystals? Thanks!
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I have a rock feature that I am a bit doubtful, but hopeful about. I have a few "crystalized" fossils and have seen some very nice ones from near my hunting area also posted. This does mean that there are some out there. This little feature measures almost 11mm long and is 6mm wide. In hand, the left side really looks like a head segment of some sort with the line and what does look like two eye spots. The main area has what looks like segment end features going around the sides. The square crystal feature in the center is a totally new one for me. I have found literally hundreds, if not thousands of crystal specimens (mostly in the quartz family) and have never seen anything like this. This rock has several other fossil and fossil imprints in it. There are cephlapod fossils, rugose coral fossils, and other features that I am still researching. Researching and using the state geological map, it was found in a late ordovician period area. It was found outside of Willow Springs, Missouri, USA. My hopes are that it is a trilobite fossil of some sort or an isopod fossil. I am NOT getting my hopes up real high though.
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Found: Northwest Missouri (Nodaway County)
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I am brand new to the site, though I've been using information from it for awhile to help me prepare a Petoskey Stone presentation for my rock and mineral club. I am a novice and have just joined and started collecting. I graduated high school from Petoskey, so I thought I would start with Petoskey Stones. I no longer live in Michigan, so have been collecting specimens online for my presentation. I have a ton of Petoskey Stones. I am now collecting Hexagonaria from other locations and other corals, especially Rugose corals, that may be confused (either intentionally or not) with Petoskey Stones. Here are two I purchased from a woman in Missouri. She said her dad collected them in the 1960s, but she had no other information. (I switched rocks after the inverted picture.) Does anyone have an idea what these are?
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From the album: Chondrichthyan Teeth From The Pennsylvanian Period
hello! I come across these missing teeth every so often, likewise to some of the teeth I have in this album. Hopefully I will be able to find more specimens near in the future! -
Is there enough left of this fish tooth to identify it? ( Missouri )
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member or Raytown limestone member) Hello! I happened to take a trip to my usual fossil hunting spots in search of another tooth that was stuck in a rock I planned to dig out but found this delicate one before it and took it home. Sadly this was missing most of its pieces but I thought it could be identified. I couldn't really think of anything it most resembles as it does not look like my Campodus teeth or Petalodus teeth. That's mostly why I posted it here but it very well could have been from them as they are the most common of the teeth I find there. Sorry in advance I got a new phone recently and it does not take as high quality pictures as my old one. Rotated: rotated again Measurements: -
Hi everybody, I'm a neophyte to the geological realm (especially regarding paleontology), but I thought I'd share some finds on the forum. In Layman's terms, I found some clams, possibly some coral, and (...wait I know this one) Crinoids! Any possible fossil ID would be great, happy to be here, and glad to join a community with similar interests! All items below were found within 100-200 yards of each-other on the Meramec river just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) Artifacts:
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Is this crustacean exoskeleton? If so is there anything to identify it beyond that?
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member) Hello! I have found similar pieces to this nodule below and I was wondering if this was a piece of exoskeleton from some assorted shrimp or some other crustacean/animal. Most of these pieces I find I assumed to be chert or very coprolitic in nature but the more visible "structure" in this specimen leads me to believe otherwise. My best guess is that this is a piece of crustacean and I hope that this piece will be recognizable by someone. I will say shrimp has been found in Muncie creek phosphatic nodules and I have only found assorted pieces such as tails. A post by Missourian from a couple years ago did mention that phyllocarid shrimp can exist within these nodules. This does happen to also have some iridescence but I could not get it to be picked up that well with my camera I can provide more images upon request
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Location: Missouri Period: Pennsylvanian Formation: Iola Limestone (Muncie Creek Shale Member) Hello! I have happened to come across a strange structure while attempting to retrieve a fossil from a limestone rock. While breaking the stone around this nodule the force was enough to separate 2/3rds of the fossil leaving the other section still in a massive slab of limestone that will need more time to dig out Nevertheless here is the structure in question Rotated: 1 of the 2 pieces I was able to retrieve and contains the round "ball structures": I will note I have seen the odd "ball" pattern once before from a post I made over a year ago and I was unable to get it properly identified beyond it possibly being fish ribs/support structures or something else, but I'm hoping this new perspective will help nail down this mystery. I decided to retake some of my original photos since my old device was restricted in file/image size
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New Species of Dinosaur Uncovered in Missouri May Lead to More Fossils Being Found in Area by Ayumi Davis, Newsweek, November 29, 2021 Bryan, J.R., Frederick, D.L., Schwimmer, D.R. and Siesser, W.G., 1991. First dinosaur record from Tennessee: A Campanian hadrosaur. Journal of Paleontology, 65(4), pp.696-697. More papers from David R Schwimmer, Columbus State University Yours, Paul H.
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