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I found a few things at Ramanessin creek in N.J. that I could use some help in identifying. It's a Cretaceous stream.
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I am fairly new to this so I am hoping you can help me. I found these items in Big Brook here in New Jersey. I numbered them so you could use the numbers to comment. I know the hook (#5) isn't a fossil but I was hoping someone could direct me, it is metal but seems old as the other end of the hook has crusted over in something that feels like stone (or maybe it was made this way) I think #4 is an ancient drum fish crusher tooth with a little jaw left on it? #3 is some sort of tooth but not sure what, #2 is also a tooth, you can see the small tooth at bottom coming out of the jaw, it is shiny. and #1 maybe vertebrae? I also put a few teeth that I found that were pretty good size I think for that river to show you. Thank you for any help you can give!
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Hello, first post, so apologies in advance for any unintended transgressions. I found this one in Big Brook, New Jersey among the plethora of trace fossils usually attributed to shrimp, that are usually disregarded by most hunters here. (I personally find them kind of interesting, and have a lot of fun when I bring them home and tell my wife they are "witch's fingers.") Usually the tube is more rounded and longer and yes, "finger-like." This one is tear shaped and flat on one side. I have seen similar shaped fossils online attributed to insects. There is also an old post here of a similar fossil thought to be the work of a clam. I am just wondering if anyone has another opinion before I slap a label on it and put it back with the other witch's fingers...I mean shrimp burrows. (Sorry not a very exciting first post.) I'm also wondering if there is a more definite classification. I've heard they might be something called a ghost shrimp, which also sounds rather spooky. OK I see missed some info here and sorry for the lack of metric measurements I sometimes forget how primitive we are here (and then I watch the news and it all comes rushing back.) Item is approximately 7.5 CM. Big Brook is a stream located in Colt's Neck Township, Middlesex County, NJ. It's a hot spot for Shark's teeth, mosasaur teeth and an occasional cephalopod part. This was pulled from the river bed itself.
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Hi, I’m hoping to get to big brook or ramanessin brook this week and was wondering which I would have a better chance at finding a mosasaur tooth, and, if there are any other places I’d have better chance at finding one?
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I’ve been lurking here has a member for a few months and, for several years before that, I was lurking as a non-member. As such, I think it is about time I formally introduced myself: I was born, raised, and spent a large chunk of my adult life in Southern New Jersey, barely two miles from the Hopkins marl pit in Haddonfield, New Jersey where William Parker Foulke unearthed the world’s first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton. I suppose that history somehow rubbed off because as a kid I was obsessed with fossils. Of course, in those long-ago, pre-internet days, the only way to learn about good fossil collecting sites was through word of mouth and, apparently, I didn’t have any connections. Lol. As a result, even though I now know that New Jersey is a veritable playground for fossil collectors, I never once collected there. Heck, several years ago, I worked on a project that required weekly site visits during which I drove across Big Brook coming and going without realizing I could have pulled over and found some Cretaceous shark teeth and, if I was lucky, maybe even an occasional marine reptile bone with little effort. Instead, as a kid, I went on a couple of field trips with the Scouts to locales in Pennsylvania that seemingly required more time in the van driving there than we spent collecting and, on family vacations to Florida, my dad occasionally managed to unearth information on a nearby collecting site and he’d indulge me for an hour or two while my mom and sisters went shopping. The end result was that, while I was, indeed, an obsessed collector, my personal collection of fossils was very modest with the only interesting pieces being a Green River formation fish that I got for my 10th birthday and a Morracan trilobite that I bought at a rock and mineral show which I now realize was almost certainly a fake. Then, like many, when I hit puberty, I became too obsessed with girls to maintain a fossil obsession, too. My mom eventually “donated my collection”, which although she’s never admitted it, I am pretty sure means she donated it to the guys who picked up our garbage. Fossils remained a subject of interest to me, but in a “if I see an interesting article about dinosaurs or fossils in a magazine or a newspaper, I’d make it a point to read it” kind of way. And that’s where things stood for me for the past few decades until 2015. In 2015, I moved to Central Oklahoma, which among other things, means I began working and living among scores of University of Oklahoma grads. Sure, they lacked the humility of a Rutgers’ grad like myself which I suppose is because they regularly win national championships in major sports and such, but otherwise they were all pretty good folks. (Kidding of course). I don’t know if all OU students take the same geology class or if purely by luck of the draw, I happened to meet a random cross-section of folks who happened to take the class, but it seemed like everybody I met upon moving to Oklahoma had a trilobite fossil prominently displayed in their office or home that they found and prepped themselves on a field trip to the Arbuckles with their geology class while at OU. Now, they say when you beat an addiction and then relapse, even after decades, you instantly pick up where you left off. That is what seems to have happened to me. Being surrounded by all these trilobite fossils and knowing the hills were full of them less than two hours away, jolted my long-suppressed, inner-fossil-nerd back to life and I was almost instantly just as obsessed as I was when I was 12. LOL. Luckily, I found this forum and, for a few years, anonymously lurking here and vicariously enjoying you-all’s experiences was sufficient to “scratch my fossil itch”. But, I’ve learned that, at least when it comes to an unfulfilled fossil obsession that dates back to childhood, it is only a matter of time before reading about it just isn’t enough. For this reason, I recently decided it was time to start getting my hands dirty and finding fossils of my own again. And so it has begun....
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Hello everyone, found this hallowed out bone in Big Brook nj. It is rock solid and when I did the burn test on it, it remain unscathed with no smell so I definitely think its fossilized bone. I'm not to sure if it's identifiable as is, any thoughts on this one will be appreciated.
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Hello everyone, I was in Big Brook nj for a little while today and found this interesting bone. I'm not to sure if it's identifiable but it does remind me of a jaw section like a mosasaur or croc. Any help will appreciated, if I missed an angle or need additional pictures do let me know.
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Alright, last one for today! Picked up this concretion-ish piece and noticed the backbone type impression in it. I know its probably nothing, but danged if every time I look at it I see segmented vertebrae from a tail or something. I know this is wishful thinking, but what do you all think?
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The gumline root on this looked unusually thick from what I usually find in the NJ Cretaceous streams. Any chance this may be a Chub? This is a little over half of a tooth as well.
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Found on a gravel bar in NJ Cretaceous stream. Doesn't appear to have a root hole for a tooth. Its tapered like a claw would be, but I don't really have a good picture showing that. Any idea what it could be and from what?
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·Big Brook, NJ, USA ·Panned fr brook bottom w marl+ ·Miocene form. overlaps Late Cretaceous? .Attach: images of 2 fossils .(found pre-2020) I assume these (3+1) fossils may be from the "same" species, two diff. animals? No outstanding horizontal/diagonal "veins" from the prominent central ridges. Rookie request to ID b4 summer trip to c Dr. Parris, NJ St. Museum, Trenton. Thx
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Hello from New Jersey, I live in Haddon Township near the discovery site of the first Hadrosaur but I am more interested in earlier fossils most notably giant arthropods such as pterygotus and arthropleura. I enjoy hunting some of the Carboniferous formations of Pennsylvania and look forward to posting some of my finds once I figure out how to use the members gallery. If you have info about good spots near philly I’d love to hear it. looking forward to meeting everyone, Noel Hecht.
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Belemnite "squid" with interesting bore hole found in NJ creek
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Hi TFF, I recently was in New Jersey and stopped by a creek where I found this. This is a part of a belemnite, an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that existed from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous (~214-80 mya); these are common to the NJ area and the NE USA (as well as all over the world). The cone (rostrum) you are looking at was inside the animal and served as part of an internal skeleton-like structure; it also served as a counter-weight while moving in the water. On the cross-section (C & D), notice the radial symmetry which sprouts from a central axis outward, these are made of calcite crystals, deposited in concentric layers as the animal grew. The symmetry runs through the entire cylindrical body to the apex. These animals were very abundant in the sea and they had 10 arms that had hooks on them which they used to catch prey (soft body fossils exist). There is extensive literature on them available. Image C is most interesting, because there is a bore hole on it, something quite commonly found on the exterior shells of clams, etc. I found that according to Seilacher (1969), micro barnacles would often bore holes in dead (and possibly live) belemnite rostrums on the horizontal plane just like this. See: Seilacher, A. (1969). Paleoecology of boring barnacles. Am. Zoologist, 9:705-719. Univ. of Tubingen, Germany. Notice the uniform long shape, the sleekness of this evolutionary mini marvel.... as Dawkins has said, "Science is the poetry of life." Hope you find this interesting.- 11 replies
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Looking into going up to the Shawangunk formation near the Delaware River gap, looking for any fossils but would most like to find a eurypterid. My problem is I can’t find exactly where the fossiliferous parts are. I know it’s a long shot but has anyone hunted this formation before.
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Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to identify this bone found years ago at the New Jersey shore. My dad isn't sure of the exact year, but it was found in Wildwood and has been hanging around the house for as long as I can remember. We have always assumed it was a whale bone, but haven't been able to confirm. It's about 20 centimeters long, and it isn't completely flat but curves up at one end. I included a side view to show how it curves. Any input at all would be great! Thanks! Jenn
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I was just wondering if anyone knew of any exposures for the towaco formation in New Jersey. Any information would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Hi everyone! I recently found this strange curled relief on a rock in Monmouth County NJ, due to the prevalence of burrows at this site, my guess is that this curl could be a worm (unlikely due to the whole soft tissue thing) or a worm burrow, or perhaps one of the tricks bog iron likes to play. Anyone got any ideas?
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A 15 minute stop in New Jersey and found these Cretaceous...
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Couple months ago I stopped by the Big Brook Preserve (BBP), a sort of well-known fossil location in New Jersey, about 90 minutes from New York City. It was very muddy so I didn't look around much, but what is great about this place is that it is a road pull off with parking on a nice county road. It was absolutely silent out that misty morning, with deer running about. I found these shells somewhat exposed in the dirt. These are most likely from the Late Cretaceous period (~105-66 MYA), this area was once a shallow marine environment. Today it is rolling hills, and BBP has a small creek where fossil hunters like to search. The shells display bore holes (from other animals) in them. The State of NJ hosts a very interesting paper on such Cretaceous fossils here: https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin61-I.pdf- 3 replies
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Tried the Manasquan River today and came up with this shark tooth which seems a little different than the makos, mackerel and goblin sharks I usually stumble upon. Any idea what species it may be?
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Hello all! Just looking to get some opinions on what I have found. This piece was found in southern New Jersey, almost as far south as you can go, in the Cape May County Area. It was uncovered in some dirt after digging for a new septic system. It’s about an inch and half long and very thin. Any chance that what I found could be a fossil of some sort?
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Gastropod Internal Mold from the Merchantville Formation
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Gyrodes sp. Gastropod Internal Mold Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation Matawan Group Weller's Ravine Matawan, N.J.-
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While on my way fishing today, I stumbled upon a creek that looked shelly, pulled over and lo and behold found these two little sweet treats! They are fully intact with both sides connected. I believe they are Choristothyris plicata @The Jersey Devil
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A few months back I was exploring a new stream in New Jersey and stumbled upon some matrix where I found this Ammonite. I am not too familiar with NJ Ammonites. Can anyone help identify this particular species? I thought it was pretty cool.
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