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I bought this from someone at a mineral show and they didn't know what it was. It’s roughly 10 by 10 inches. I honestly know nothing about where it was collected or how old it is. I hope someone might have an idea based on these pictures. Thank you.
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There are 2 very disparate ideas proposed for this specimen from the Late Cretaceous marine sediments of New Jersey. I will keep them hidden for now because I don't want to taint anyone's ideas. I am looking only for justifiable suggestions, not wild guesses. Please only make suggestions that can be backed up, demonstrated as likely, or fleshed-out logically.
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Hi TFF. I hope you can help me with this mystery. I found this unusual fossil at a rock shop in Northern California for only $15, so I figured I would grab it for that price and figure out what it is later. How hard could it be? I had the label and everything. Well, now it is home in New York and I think the label must have gotten switched because it looks like a mispelling of a trilobite. The fossil gives off crinoid or rhinocarid/phyllocarid vibes, but I just can't tell. Any ideas?
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Seller says this Ammonite has a label saying it's from Topanga Canyon California. However the Topanga formation is Miocene and I am unsure if there are Mesozoic formations nearby. Seller couldn't give me a formation as it's from an old collection.
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Awhile back I found something that I believed could had been a fossil. People on the forum said that it was more than likely a concretion. Today after work I found another one, this time it appears to have a partial outer layer still intact. I will add more photos when I get home with a tape measure for size reference.
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Hi again. I have no idea about this rock that I found on the Beach at Lyme Regis. It stood out initially due to the unusual colour. It is rusty brown, whereas all the surrounding material was grey or shale. I thought it was manmade before further inspection showed up fossil rocks embedded into it. Then there are layers that look like wood, but stones would not be in wood. I thought maybe a coprolite, but not like any coprolite I have ever seen. Can anyone help identify this? so I can keep or discard it, as it's quite big. Thanks, Jes.
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I need some assistance identifying this one please. It looks very peculiar. The shape is not like anything else I have found in this area before. It is smoothly shaped with some very small bumps and one main protrusion. Perhaps the most interesting feature is on the underside. There is some material in the center surrounded by calcite. Brings to mind the way a mushroom looks and imagining the inside part filled with calcite surrounding the stem. location of find is within the Santa Ana Mountain range of Southern California, along the Santiago creek near a mixture of fossilferous mudstone and micaceous sandy shale. The area is full of Gastropods, shells, and ammonite.
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Found in or near Ellis County, Kansas. No depth to it. I thought maybe a fish scale but doesn’t match “fish scale fossil” results in a search. thanks for looking
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Hi I’m just wondering if anyone can help identify this bone. Possibly prehistoric or wishful thinking 11cm or 4 1/2 inches long Found: Surrey, England ( uk ) Thanks in advance
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Found at Holden Beach NC, Pee Dee Formation Late Cretaceous. Size of a dime, hole in the bottom. Thank You
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Hello, I found this one deep in the desert near the Organ Mountains outside Las Cruces NM. I am not familiar with the age of the area. This piece is super cool to just look at and let your pareidolia run with it. Looking for help to identify. It's dimensions are 12x6x8 inches
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My son found this in northwest Arkansas. I'm certain it's a common fossil, but multiple Google searches and a reverse image search yielded nothing. He really wants to learn about it, so I thought I'd post here. Thanks, in advance!
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Found this fragment in a Niobrara chalk outcropping in southeast SD. Entire rock is about the length of a pen cap, clip included. It has some indentations on the top edge that I think resemble a crinoid imprint, but I'm obviously not sure. Back isn't pictured, but nondescript. Advice would be appreciated!
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I found this mystery “thing” in a Late Cretaceous formation that preserves original shell material. I have no idea where to begin when it comes to an identification. It appears hollow. My only guess is some type of annelid, but it is much bigger than the usual candidates of Serpula or Hamulus. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The Photos attached are the last of the 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has also been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. I like this fossil a lot, as you can see the exposed bottom of the fossil, as well as the exposed side of the fossil, with the rest trapped in the rock. Any thoughts on what creature this could be? Perhaps a muscle or large barnacle?
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This is number 4 of 5 fossils I have been unable to identify in the last 2 years. This fossil has been found on the shores of Lake Huron, in the Grey Bruce county area in Ontario, Canada. The pictures don’t show it terribly well, but the flat base of this fossil/rock appears to be a large coral like shape that looks like it was circular shape but has been slightly eroded to give this 2/3 of a circle coral type shape. The material is raised slightly on the grey parts within the white part, and the white part is more depressed in/less raised.
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This fossil has many grooves, holes and structures. My only guess is it's a part of a skull of mosasaur or plesiosaur. Any ideas? Or good reference pics of skull parts for comparison? Thanks
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Found on surface of field in Eastern Iowa 15 years ago, guessing it may have been carried on a tire from a gravel road, dropped by a human or deposited by glacier. Hard grey limestone. Fine details suggest to me a digit pulled from a carcass & buried. Apparent rodent-like bite marks in both the nail and flesh. This thing is amazing to me but I am having trouble finding much to help identify via internet. Any ideas? Am I imagining things here?
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Hi I’m new here. Was given this lump of flint-stone with what was presumed to be an arrowhead wedge inside. Obviously this can’t be correct but it has presented a mystery to us. Can anyone enlighten with an identification of the fossil contained? There are lots of details visible on close inspection. Many thanks!
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I’ve had this tiny 1mm shark tooth in my collection for 3 or 4 years and am no closer to knowing what it is than when I got it. The person I got it from had no idea either. I don’t believe it’s batoid, looks shark to me. Again its tiny, roughly 1mm. It stretched the limits on the micro eye it’s so small. It is from the Ampe Clay Pit, Egem. It has some odd asymmetry going on. I have thought perhaps it was an odd Catshark of some sort but I don’t know about that now. Could it be a weird Orectolobiformes of some sort ? I don’t like admitting when I’m clueless but I really have no idea on this one lol Any ideas or suggestions are welcome !
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My partner gave me this Fossil that he found as a child behind his home in Allegany NY in a creek in the early 1990's. No idea what it is or if it is even real.
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Hello! New member here. I’m not much of a fossil collector but I have a few I’ve found myself; mostly petrified wood. At a recent gem/mineral/fossil show I won a silent auction lot that had two pieces in it. The main one was a nice branch segment and the second was an odd shaped rock (pictures below). The lot had a piece of paper that just said “petrified wood”. My bid won. No idea where the rock came from originally as it was donated by someone. The second piece doesn’t look like any petrified wood I’ve ever seen. I’m hoping someone can tell me something about what it might be. Thanks!