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Hello, I hope this is the appropriate location to post this question, my apologies if it isn't. Does anyone have advice or location suggestions for fossil hunting in the Florida panhandle region? The few locations that have been suggested to me *appear* to not legally allow collecting. I am alright with just observing, but my preference is to have the option to collect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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found this near my house on the kettle river, washington state where a big slide had occurred. are these worm fossils?
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Found this in a Pennsylvanian-era formation. This is my first fossil hunt ever, so I don't even know if a lot of what I found are fossils or not. But this one was the most interesting. Found in some shale in a road cut near Jellico, TN. To me it looks like some type of millipede, or maybe some type of root system. Not too sure!
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I found several fossil while hunting in Vigo County, Indiana, USA. I've identified many fossils I've found in this creek, but I've never found anything like this one. Any ideas out there as to what this is? It's definitely raised off the yellowish rock underneath. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks everyone!
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I recently saw this carnivorous mammal tooth from the Brule Formation for sale. It is labelled as being that of a Hesperocyon gregarius, but what little I know of carnivorous mammal dentition leads me to believe that the tooth could in fact come from a Hyaenodon. As always, I've decided I'm going to play it safe and ask someone of greater expertise to verify this. It is my understanding that @jpc, @Randyw and @ParkerPaleo are all Brule Formation specialists, so I will take the liberty of "@ing" you all in. Thanks in advance for any guidance Othniel
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Had a beautiful day hunting in southern Indiana. Found this large Cordaites and quite a few Calamites of all sizes.
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Found in North Central Texas. I need help Identifying this object, it resembles a small (1-1/2"x2-1/2") reptile head. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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I recently came across this mosasaur tooth from the Ozan Formation for sale, and wondered if it would be possible to identify to a genus or species level. It measures around 1.5cm from the tip of the tooth to its base. It is my understanding that @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon is something of an expert on marine reptiles. What do you make of the tooth? Thanks in advance for any proposals Othniel
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Found several bone like fossil in some stone whilst building a wall. The fence stone was cut from a quarry just north of Austin Texas. It’s a sandy limestone that I was told from a layer just above the Austin chalk formation. Is it plant or animal?
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Hi there! I just found this forum while searching for information on Cervalces scotti fossils, and it looked like a really neat forum, so I wanted to join! I hail from north-central Oklahoma, and I've been a bit of a fossil fiend since I was a little kiddo. I had wanted to become a paleontologist once upon a time, but life had different ideas. Nowadays I'm a farm foreman and a freelance artist with lots of hobbies. Somewhere in my totes I have a couple trilobite fossils and an ammonite fossil I traded for a long time ago. I recently found some crinoid stem fossils near my creek, as well as a teeny-tiny piece of some sort of leg fossil, and it has quickly reignited my love for fossil-finding. I was curious about stag-moose since I seem to be in the southern range for them and, as you can probably tell by my username, I'm a bit obsessed with all things cervine. Megaloceros giganteus is my favorite prehistoric deer but stag-moose are pretty cool too! It would be an absolute dream to find something from a stag-moose one day. Anyway, nice to meet you and I hope to see you all around! -drowsy
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs
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Found both these teeth near the peace river i've never found this kind of tooth shape. Im pretty sure its a type of mako but was wondering if anyone could an ID it or give any type of information.
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Well this was recently gifted to me from a friend whom was told by her late husband it may have been a dinosaur bone. Location of where he obtained this is unknown. It's very smooth not one hundred percent sure if it is even bone. I am wondering if anyone recognizes it. I have read and asked many others who collect historical artifacts and they can't make sense of it
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Found in the Lower Members of the Chinle Formation, Emery County, Utah, USA.
CannonCougar posted a topic in Fossil ID
A family member found this on public land while camping in the San Rafael Swell of Utah. They brought it back to their trailer a short distance away. I told them to take some pictures of it with a ruler and then put it back where they found it just in case it is a vertebrate fossil. I cross referenced the location of the find with the Interactive Geologic Maps on the Utah Geological Survey website and have confirmed that it was found in the Lower Members of the Chinle Formation. The person did put it back where he found it and has since gone home so these are the only photos that were taken. We are really curious as to any thoughts or ideas as to what this might be. Thanks in advance.- 6 replies
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Found this tooth near the peace river it looks like a hastalis tooth but the root is very wide and its much more girther than any other hastalis tooth ive ever found. One of my friends told me it could be a transitional fossil but I was hoping for more opinions on it.
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Was fossil hunting in WV, found this weird fossil with bulb looking things?
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I was searching around the Lost River Quarry in West Virginia when my dad found this weird looking fossil. It has little bulbs and stuff can anybody tell me what this is?- 6 replies
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Fossil identification help please! Peace River Formation Venice, FL area
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Hello fellow paleontology buffs! I have recently returned from a trip to the Venice area where I did some surface/ beach sifting for fossils. I need to get out and dive there next time. I would love to have some help identifying fossils that are tripping me up. I recognize that there are a LOT of them. Sorry!!! I organized them on to a PDF because there were a lot to look at, but please let me know if it does not open up and I will upload them as images instead. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.- 44 replies
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Am new to this forum and hoping you can help me, please. My son found this rock behind our garage. Am not sure if this rock was formed at our home in Maine or was laid down from quarried rock as a base for construction on our property. There are numerous quarries near my home where the rock may have been taken from. I live in the Downeast part of Maine, there was a glacier here , as well as volcanic eruptions. Searched my rock identification book but found nothing like this. Searched the internet and found similar looking rocks that were from Canada and England. They were identified as Chrysanthemum Stone, Fossilized Coral, Fossiliferous Coral, Carboniferous Tabulate Coral. Coral seemed to be the repeating identification, although each identification varied slightly from the others because there were different samples on the internet. Thank you for your time and help with this identification.
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Hello! Found this while digging in our yard. Not sure if it's anything, but my son is convinced it's a dinosaur tooth so I told him I'd try to find out. Anyways, we live in Anne Arundel County in Maryland and this was found only 2-3 feet down in very sandy soil. Any insight is appreciated! Lauren