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Ahhhhh! I suspected that! Seems like there are ALOT of them in my area 

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Nice find. :)

A really nice orthocone.  

How big is it, please? 

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It is about 6inches long and 2 inches wide from the top and then tapers down! Do you happen to know an estimate of how old these fossils would be? I have been looking around online and see some estimates at 100 years old and other estimates at 590 million years old ...thats quite the time frame!!! I do not know much about fossils but find it fascinating! 

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Peat Burns Regular Member

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I'm thinking Ordovician Period for this specimen given general location

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Orthocone cephalopod:

 

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Can you be a little more specific as to the fossil's location? 

Probably Ordovician from  about 485 to 444 million years ago. 

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Thats so cool!!! It was found near Orillia Ontario Canada 

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I agree with Peat Burns

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Nice specimen!  Agreed: orthocone nautiloid

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8 hours ago, ShanniElle said:

 Do you happen to know an estimate of how old these fossils would be?

 

8 hours ago, Peat Burns said:

Possibly Bobcaygeon or Verulam Formation (Ordovician)

Which would place it in the late Ordovician late Sandbian or early Katian Stage between approx. 455-450 Mya (Million years ago)

 

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