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Found on a beach, pacific ocean,Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Small, smooth, pretty circular colour on flat surface underneath. It has a bump on top and splitting around the base of the bump. I don’t want to split it open unless I’m pretty sure that it’s worth it- a good friend found it along with some other pretty beach stones and gave them to me as a gift. It is probably 3 or 4 cm long.
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Was up at Lake St. Clair, NSW looking for late(?) Carboniferous marine fossils and came across this thing. I am thinking that its a fish tooth but not too sure as no vertebrate material has been reported from the site to my knowledge. Please let me know if clearer photos are needed This specimen is aprox. 7 mm long Thanks,
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Most people yawn at the mention of graptolites (myself included), but as far as they go these ones are quite cool! We recently set out in search of a site we visited years ago, but had since lost. The site was a roadside in the vicinity of Mt. Canobolas in central western NSW with road base that yielded nice graptolites and one weathered trilobite. On the way to where we thought our original site was, we stopped in at a large roadside quarry with similar looking yellowish shale. After breaking just a couple of rocks we were already finding the same dendroid graptolites as the original spot, so it seemed to be the source of the road base we were looking for. Unfortunately, we only found one trilobite pygidium, they seem to be very rare at this site. Additionally, we found sponges with soft tissue preservation and plentiful large conulariids. The dendroid graptolites from this unit are described here for anyone interested. Photos of some of the graptolites for now, more to come!
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Just returned from Coolah, NSW and the family and I discovered the joys of fossil hunting. We spent hours fossicking around a soft white stone quarry at Narangarie Rd. We are now hooked and what to learn more.
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Where should I look for fossils near me? (Australian coast)
Rhysand4rch posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi! I'm brand new to the world of fossils and was wondering if anyone had any pointers on where/how to look for fossils? I live on the central coast, which is about 1.5 hours north of Sydney. I've been trying to do research and looking at geology maps, but just cant seem to understand where the best places would be. I found this Geoscience Australia interactive geology map that seems useful but there's so much in it, it's a little overwhelming. From what i have gathered, I live on triassic sedimentary rocks that as far as i can tell haven't yielded very many fossils, though I might be mistaken. However, further north in Newcastle there are permian age rocks that are known the yield abundant plant fossils. I have tried to just google fossil hunting sites in NSW, but that has proved unhelpful, with most being very far away. I've hit a bit of a dead end with figuring out where to go, does anyone have any tips? Where should I be looking for this kind of information? Also, what kind of fossils would be easiest for me to find as a beginner? Thankyou for any help -
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Could anyone help with identifying these fossils found at Turimetta Beach NSW?
ParasauroLoafers posted a topic in Fossil ID
My partner randomly suggested we go fossil hunting at Turimetta. I've never been fossil hunting and I was surprised by how much we actually found. I haven't uploaded pictures of everything we found bc it's mostly just plant matter that I've managed to find similar pictures of in other forums. I'm curious to know if the rusty-orange coloured ones are anything. Was really exciting to find them when carefully splitting rocks in half! There's also a tiny ball shape I found when I split open a rock and it almost looked like a tiny soccer ball or pine cone because of the lines in it. It didn't show up quite as clearly on camera sadly. And there's another rock with a cylindrical shape in the side of it. I thought that was very interesting so I took lots of angles. Thanks in advance for your help!
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A few weeks ago some friends and I visited a site near Braidwood in southern NSW (3 hours south of Sydney) for middle-late Devonian fish. The site was first published in Ritchie (1984) with the description of Placolepis budawangensis, a phyllolepid known only from this locality. This species is one of the two most common here, with the other being Bothriolepis longi (see Johanson 1999). So far, only these two species have been described from this locality but acanthodian spines and sarcopterygian scales are also known. All fish fossils from this locality occur in within a 75cm band of red siltsone and are mostly just disarticulated plates, but the P. budawangensis holotype is still fairly well articulated. The plates of both species are very recognisable, the Placolepis usually have lovely parallel ridges whereas the Bothriolepis are covered in tiny bumps. Some photos of the siltsone band with some fish plates exposed on top. Peter did a great job on this hole, it's not easy work! The specimens from this locality are quite weathered, so the bone is usually quite poor and doesn't split well. They still look nice, but I chose to dissolve away the bone in hydrochloric acid to latex the cavity for photography. Here are some as found: Placolepis: Bothriolepis: Some bone in cross section (the horizontal black dotted lines): Here are some latex casts of specimens after acid preparation. The latex is blackened with ink, then whitened with ammonium chloride for high contrast photos. Much easier to make out features in these than the unprepared specimens! Bothriolepis longi plates and pectoral fins (compare with figures in Johanson 1999): Placolepis budawangensis: Sarcopterygian scale(?): No idea on this one! After the fish site, we quickly stopped in at a road cutting which yields occasional Devonian plant fossils. Nothing too exciting, but still nice to find some Devonian plants! That's all for now, I might post more ammonium chloride photos when I take the next batch. Hope you enjoyed!
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Hi all, posting some of the photos of fossils I found at Turimetta Beach in NSW. Can anyone recognise any plants or animals in any of these? Would love to know some more about them! Thanks # 1 #2 # 3 # 4 # 5
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i found these polyp corals but i have no idea how old they are or if they are even fossils, found in wollongong
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found this at Wollongong i do not know if its an ammonite or gastropod or some other shelled creature
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found this clam fossil around black head reserve, Gerroa near kiama any idea what species
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Where to get permission into Mulbring Quarry NSW?
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Hi everyone! I found these formations when walking along the banks of the Murrumbidgee river near Wee Jasper in New South Wales, and was chatting with a friend of mine about what they might be. They're circular, and we saw them mostly on two large rock shelves at the waterline, where it looked like the rock around them had eroded preferentially. Some of them were filled with what appeared to be quartz, and I was wondering if they might be trace fossils or e.g. rudist shells? That said, I believe the rocks around here are Devonian so the latter seems unlikely. Thanks in advance for any input !
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Hey there just wondering if anyone can help ID this skull found in Australia NSW on the beach
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Hi all, I recently found this at a local beach and am unsure what it is or how to ID it. Any help or guesses greatly appreciated
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G'day TFF, I thought i'd share with you all the results of my recent trilobite hunting trip in country NSW, Australia. This is only the second time i have been able to collect trilobites and i am very pleased with the results! My family and i went out to a spot near Forbes that is part of the Silurian-aged Cotton Formation. The rocks are marine and date back about 435 million years old! It's crazy to think that at the time these animals were alive in the sea, there was very little life yet on land at all! The most common find here is the trilobite Odontopleura markhami, but you can also find graptolites and rare brachiopods and gastropods. We got to the site around about 11 am and quickly started splitting as many rocks as we could looking for the trilobites, and after being there for only about a minute i managed to split a beautiful near-complete Odontopleura markhami with both the positive and negative sides. It was only about the second or third rock i cracked open too! For the next few hours my family and i continued to whack away at the rocks and we managed to find at least 5 other complete trilobites during that time, in addition to lots and lots of disarticulated body parts (isolated heads, tails, sections of thorax etc). Mum and i got the best examples, but it really does tend to come down to luck (and persistence)! It was a great little trip and the specimens below are already proudly displayed in one of my bedroom glass cabinets. Now for the pictures! The Location: The Days Best Finds (complete or near-complete trilobites only) First of all i thought i'd include a picture of what the seafloor might have looked like in this part of Australia 435 million years ago. This was the Odontopleura markhami i found barely a minute after arriving at the site! My other favourite example that i found I love this Odontopleura markhami that mum found! The detail of the spines is amazing! Other great examples. All are again Odontopleura markhami. Thanks for checking this report out and happy hunting to all! Cheers, Nathan
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Hi there everyone. I would really appreciate your skills/opinions about if my little ''treasure'' is actually a coprolite or not. I have always believed it to be, just because it looks like a poo with something in it to me. I have forgotten where i found it, but most likely it was in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. It is ovalish in shape and appears to have a ''skin' wrapped around some sort of internal content. As I know zero about fossils, your time and expertise is gratefully appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from someone with excitement and thanks. Photos hopefully attached! Many cheers, Kazza
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Will upload a scale picture in a minute. Found this at the bottom of a waterfall. It is metal of some description (not magnetic). NSW, Australia These are the best images I can get, sorry. Anyone have any ideas?
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Hi guys, great to be part of the forum I am from NSW Australia and my kids and I love fossils!
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Hi guys I’m from NSW Australia and have been finding teeth for the last couple years and just wondering if someone can help identify a tooth and two vertebrae. Thanks!
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Hello Everyone In June last year I went on a trip with my parents to the Late Ordovician / Early Silurian-aged Cotton Formation at the Cotton Hill quarry in Forbes. All relevant permission was obtained from the local council prior to attending. I have heard that the Fossil Club of Australia (formerly NSW) do trips here as a group as well, that's probably the easiest way to attend. I planned to post this in August, however due to Covid I didn’t have access to the fossils to take pictures. Also, I only just recently bought some macro equipment to take photos of the fossils which is why my post took so long. Be sure to zoom in on each photo as they are all highly detailed. (open in a new tab) For useful previous expeditions and information by others see: For those unaware, the fauna is dominated by Sinespinaspis markhami, a small odontopleurid trilobite. Unfortunately, I found no specimens with their free cheeks attached, nor did I find any specimens of the rarer Aulacopleura pogsoni or the even rarer Raphiophorus sandfordi. We had two days of digging, and the temperature was a cool 14-15C on both days, but once the sun came out and with long-sleeve shirt and pants on, we definitely started sweating. As soon as we got out of the car, I found a partial trilobite negative lying on the ground. It was 8mm long and looked like it was left behind by another fossicker. Once we realised where the designated fossicking area was (back near the road entrance, and not in front of the parking area) we could start properly searching for fossils. The first ones we found were on the surface on the westernmost boundary. It’s amazing how big the actual site is. Considering how deep the hole in the ground is, there probably would’ve been thousands or millions of fossils unearthed and used in road material over the years. Both the plates seem to be death assemblages, with hundreds of “trilo-bits” on them along with what looks like tiny shells. When I got home, I wanted to split the L-shaped to expose more of the second layer (you can see one set of cold chisel marks) but the matrix must have been unstable as it cracked into five pieces and exploded. It did set free a new trilobite though, which is cool.
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Found this in near a cliff side in NSW, Australia in shale rock, have tried to identify it but have had trouble, so was seeing if anyone could help in anyway. Thanks.
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One of the common coniferous plant fossils found at the Talbragar site is Agathis jurassica. The genus Agathis is extant, representing a small group of some 21 species mainly distributed in Australasia, belonging to the same family (Araucariaceae) as Wollemia. Together with a fishtail. Key references: White. M.E., 1981a. Fish beds reveal lush fossil forest. Australian Natural History 20 (7), 227-230. White. M.E., 1981b. Revision of the Talbragar Fish Bed Flora (Jurassic) of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 33 (15), 695-721. Woodward, A.S., David, T.W.E. and Pittman, E.F., 1895. The fossil fishes of the Talbragar Beds (Jurassic?), with a note on their stratigraphical relations. Memoir Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology 9, 1-27. Frese M, Gloy G, Oberprieler RG, Gore DB (2017) Imaging of Jurassic fossils from the Talbragar Fish Bed using fluorescence, photoluminescence, and elemental and mineralogical mapping. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179029. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0179029
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Hey guys and girls. I’m so sorry if this is a common thing, I don’t hit the beaches often. but I just couldn’t wrap my head around what this is. first I assumed coral, then thought maybe the inner part of a sea snail shell? sorry for sounding silly. Just curious and it’s late and this seems to be the only thing I can focus on, hahaha
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Planning trip to Lismore. Any fossils near there?
FrostbyteFossils posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello, I might be going on a week long trip to Lismore, NSW soon. Are there any fossil sites/places to look within an hour (any direction) from Lismore?
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