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Friend of mine found this near Agate Beach, Oregon on the Pacific coast. Looks like some kind of bone to me but no idea what. Measures approximately 10cm in all 3 dimensions
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Hello, I'm brand new and know little, but this looks like a piece of petrified wood that was once maybe part of a tool. Does anyone know? Thank you
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Anyone have any ideas on what these are. I know one is some type of snail. They were given to me by an elderly man. He appreciated my love of nature. I am in Texas West of Ft Worth
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I am fortunate enough to have such a huge amount of Middle Devonian Givetian material that I thought it best to put the older Middle Devonian stage, the Eifelian, in its own thread. There are some spectacular fossils here as well though! I thought a good place to start would be in the Formosa Reef, which I believe is quite early Eifelian. This tabulate coral and stromatoporoid reef continues similar complexes found from the Middle Silurian, see my: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/84678-adams-silurian/page/3/ thread from page three onwards for details. All these Formosa Reef specimens come from a delightful gift from my good friend @Monica who is a tad busy with life at the moment but is fine and still thinking of the forum. This outcrop can be found on Route 12 near Formosa/Amherstburg, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. This beautiful-looking specimen came to me with only a third of it revealed but I managed to get it this far after nine days of painful pin prepping. Monica found another one and posted it for ID here: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/105528-weird-circular-imprints-formosa-reef-lower-devonian/#comment-1172285 The specimen was identified by another Canny Canadian @Kane to be the little stromatoporoid sponge Syringostroma cylindricum. Hardly a reef-builder, but gorgeous nonetheless. It does have a little thickness to it, but not much. Beautiful! Pretty thin, actually. I love this Monica, thank you!
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Hey all! Requesting your help identifying an interesting selection of teeth found by @jcor246 and me down on the ol’ Peace River, FL. (For brevity, separate ID posts featuring the non-toothy specimens collected on this outing will follow shortly.🆔🆘) Thanks, Jena and Josh
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Hey everyone just wondering what this is…I found this in my back yard in Minneapolis MN. I don’t know if it came from this spot or if it’s from some flagstone I hauled in. But I noticed the large small shell cluster one first and said well, let’s have a look. I’m pretty sure I know when and what the small shells are but the other one I’m not sure at all. It from a split clump that I picked up. after submitting and trying to zoom in the pictures weren’t very good. You have to look closely all over anyway. It’s easy to gloss over. But there is stuff going on all over this thing. I’ll upload some better picture later when I can arrange a better setup
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After being closed to the public for the last four years for renovations and expansion, Yale University's Peabody Museum recently reopened to the public. I was able to revisit the refreshed museum and took several photos of the paleontology exhibits. Hope you enjoy the photos! Captions below are from the labels at the museum. Ammonite: Placenticeras sp., 84 to 66 mya, Alberta, Canada Ammonite: Placenticeras sp., 84 to 66 mya, Alberta, Canada Ediacaran organisms (cast), 635 to 539 mya, Newfoundland, Canada Radiodont arthropod: Anomalocaris canadensis, 3x life size model Radiodont arthropod: Anomalocaris canadensis, 508 mya, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada Early arthropod: Opabinia regalis (2.5x life size model and fossil), 508 mya, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada Heteromorph ammonite (I forgot to photograph the label) Trilobites (I forgot to photograph the labels) Trilobites (I forgot to photograph the labels) Sea scorpions: clockwise from top-left: Eurypterus lacustris (Ontario, Canada), E. remipes (New York, USA), E. dekayi (Ontario, Canada), all 427 to 419 mya Sea scorpions: The specimen on the right is Acutiramus macrophthalmus (New York, USA) and has the label: "This is the largest complete eurypterid ever discovered." The specimen on the bottom (Ontario, Canada), from the same species, is "from the trunk of a sea scorpion that would have been at least 8 feet (2.5 meters) long." Both 427 to 419 mya. Placoderm: Bothriolepis canadensis (life-size model and fossil), 419 to 359 mya, Quebec, Canada Mosasaur: Platecarpus tympaniticus, 90 to 66 mya, Kansas, USA Mosasaur: close-up of the skull from the above X-Fish: Xiphactinus audax, 94 to 72 mya, Kansas, USA X-Fish: close-up of the head from the above C Ceratopsians: left: Torosaurus latus, 68 to 66 mya, Wyoming, USA; right: Torosaurus prorsus, 72 to 66 mya, Wyoming, USA Tyrannosaurus rex (cast), 72 to 66 mya, Montana, USA Brontosaurus excelsus, 164 to 152 mya, Wyoming, USA Stegosaurus ungulatus (composite specimen) Part of The Age of Reptiles mural by Rudolph F. Zallinger Additional photos to be added shortly below...
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I found this on my property (in Missouri), in a hunk of clay about a week ago. I spent up until now searching the area for other pieces, however, alas... nothing. Any information you may have is appreciated. This last image (below), I enhanced a bit to bring out details. Thanks for looking!
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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 in the peace. Im not sure. Part of gator tail?
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We found this while shell hunting in Newport Beach, CA. Can anyone tell me what we found. Please!
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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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