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I know it's hard to identify a bone with an unknown location and no identifying features but you all are super good so I wanted to give it a swing. I purchased this in IN, USA from a flea market for .75c was just curious what it could be if it could be IDed
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Hey all. I'm not too familiar with fossils outside of nautiloids and corals which are really common here in Ontario. This is the first time I've ever found something different. Anyone know what it could be? It was found in a dried creek runoff near a shale cliff in the Toronto area. The rock was pretty different from others nearby if that matters, it was powdery and soft compared to the brittle shale all around. I think I might see some early-mid paleozoic fossils on the other side of the rock, though they are very weathered so it's hard to tell. About 10cm from left to right, canadian quarter for scale. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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I had a nodule that I picked up at pit 11 a couple of weeks ago split open, however basically everything about it has me stumped. There are tiny dark speks that are iridescent, some turn blue, others green and one of them pink with different light angles. Are these bits opalized? I'd like to know before doing anything else to prep it since opal can be sensitive to moisture. I've heard of iridescence in a lingula specimen, but other than that I'm unfamiliar with any mazon material having iridescence, and I'm wondering how that could happen inside a concretion. Furthermore any ideas what it is? random plant matter? coprolite? blank with mineralization?
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Sorry that I don't have details of this specimen's provenance, but I'm trying to help an older friend remember what exactly this is a fossil of. They've had it for over 20 years, and believe they may have acquired it from online auction site in its early days. All I've been able to determine so far is that it is likely a dinosaur tibia. He's quite a fan of hadrosaurs, but I really have no idea if it's possibly from one. It's a fairly large specimen, about 26 in/66 cm long and 5 in/12.7 cm wide at the widest point: I know this is quite challenging without supporting information, but unfortunately any information related to this is missing, and was likely lost in a house fire that occurred years ago. Just hoping to get lucky and see if anyone has any sort of insight. Other photos attached (sorry that they seem to just be rendered full sized without a smaller preview, though that's more of a form limitation than my doing). Thanks..
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Posts of my trip to Oklahoma this week had some unidentified fossils shown. Hope was that someone would mention the identity of the specimens. Since no one did, today I am attaching photos of unknowns from the Viola Formation, Ordovician found south of Sulphur, OK. Maybe @crinus is knowledgeable! Could they be something like Evactinopora?
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It was difficult to get a good photo. I brushed this untill I could see more. Found by blue river Kansas city. Is it an AMMONITE? It's sort of shaped like one very worn one. Not sure any help would be appreciated. Thx
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Is this a rock or a rock with a fossil in it???
BlueSkySky17 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I found this today while out side on a river bed. The part i found it at is usually not seen & covered by water but the river is unusually dry so i found it on an exposed part. I’ve tried reverse image search & using a rock identifier but can’t find anything that looks similar besides other kinds of fossils. I’m really interested in learning what it is!!! i live in southern minnesota. -
Hello! So I found this back in 2006 while swimming in my local park in Alabama. I felt it under my feet in the mud and could tell it didn’t feel normal, I reached down and pulled this crazy looking thing out, i don’t know if it is wood or bone, the shape on the tip is what sparks my curiosity!!! Thanks in advance!
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I recently inherited my great uncles small fossil collection and rock collection. I spent a lot of time with him and can identify most of what I have because he loved to pull them out and show them to me throughout the years. But I have two that I have never seen before. I’m not sure if they are even fossils. I’ve been to a lot of museums and to dinosaur National park many times with him but I have never seen anything like either of these. Unfortunately, I don’t know where he got them. He traveled all over the world and spent much of his retired years traveling so I wouldn’t even be able to guess where they came from. I apologize for that. The first one is almost like a crystal. You can almost see through it but it has the pattern of reptile skin. The second one I took pictures of both sides and a close up of it because I don’t even know how to describe it. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thank you
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Found at about 6,000 ft above sea level, although the pic appears to stick up, it is an imprint. Each imprint is approximately 1/2” deep (5 holes total), found in a piece of mudflat. You can see my hand in the right side for scale purposes. Any information is appreciated.
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Hello, I wanted to see if anyone would be able to identify this fossil I found in Clarington Ohio. I know it's a coral and I know it's a bryozoan and I'm suspecting it's a Rhombopora however I'm willing to look into any of the species you guys can offer! Thanks for your help. (The fossil in question is roughly an inch long if you're wondering)
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Going through my bucket of unknowns and no better way to describe this. Found in creek with mix of Cretateous and alluvial deposits. Originally thought it was wood, not so sure now, I've never seen these spots before that look like they're floating. So tiny hard to get clear pics of the white spots that look like a flower opening and some of the spots appear to be holes at the surface. Must be biological in nature I'm thinking but what? It's pretty whatever it is.
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Hello, i saw this absolutely massive tooth for sale today. The finding location is unknown, but it reminds me a bit of Suchomimus, but its way to big. Maybe a sperm whale tooth ? Maybe someone can tell from the pictures which animal this tooth belongs to.
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Hello all! We have these small fossils from the Yorktown Formation that we are not sure what they are. They fizzle under HCl! Any help would be appreciated. BTW, the divisions on the scale bar are 5mm. Thanks so much! Miguel M
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Hello, This is another old collection piece without provenance, and I was hoping someone could tell me if they recognize anything or guess its age. It's a plate of bryozoans, but I think I see a couple starfish peeking out from underneath.
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Hello , I have this Basilosaurus tooth in my collection and found today something very interesting in the surrounding matrix : a tooth ! But from what ? I've prepped it a little bit to have a better Look at it . Can someone identify it maybe ?
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I brought out a bag of Devonian brachiopods from the Cerro Gordo to clean up this week when I noticed this unknown in amongst the shells. At first I thought geologic but if you look close, it appears to have six sided symmetry. So is this some sort of echinoderm??
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If you buy an undescribed fossil do you thing you have donate it to like a museum or something and have the study it and If it is a completely new species you can get it named after you?
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@CabinetOfCuriosities recently posted a Devonian bone for identification. Having just read the post, I headed downstairs and split open a piece of matrix from the fish layer of the upper Burlington, lower Keokuk Formation and a boney looking fossil presented itself. What a coincidence! It vaguely mimics turtle remains I have found in Florida. Thoughts of what this is are welcomed!!!!!! By the way, the size is 2.5 by 2.0 cm.
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