I found this near the Ladonia fossil park a few months ago, just the very tip was peaking up out of some sand. It's persistently bugged me ever since because, as you can see, there's actually very little area where the bone surface is not preserved, and yet I can't make heads of tails of it.    IT's about 10cm/4inches from corner to corner, I'll treat this as an approximate cube and walk through the 6 sides:   The "top" as I happened to find it has a straited texture and is fairly flat and complete except for a growth that starts on the right-hand side as shown below and is clea ..read more

I found some interesting fossils along Rte 209 in Kingston, NY. It's big high road cut in dark maroon shale mapped as middle Devonian Hamilton Group (others say Marcellus shale). Lots of bivalves that I've been calling Palaeoneilo. But similar ones I've come across on this site people are calling Nuculites or Nuculoidea. I included some pictures of these and others: three brachiopods, a trace fossil or plant fossil, and a possibly different bivalve. Any ideas on ID is greatly appreciated.   Bivalves I've been calling Palaeoneilo. They all have a distinctive notch coming from the umbo and ..read more

Back in 2003 I and my daughters visited Rucks Pit with the Georgia Mineral Society.  They gathered everything, more than I realized. Now years later I am actually trying to identify everything we collected.  Dr. Ed Petuch was there, and I bought one of his books which I hoped would have been more helpful.  I see it does extensively split the various genus and unfortunately the plates are of poor quality.  I have to admit I am very frustrated with the contradictions in scholarly literature that one can find.  I principally used the University of Florida website and ..read more

I recently moved to Florida and have started shark tooth hunting but have no idea what kinds I’ve found! I’ve looked at several identification guides/pictures but am still having a hard time making positive ID. I appreciate any help you can provide! Venice Beach, Florida.  ..read more

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Hello, I found this tooth a while ago and forgot to check what it was. It was found in Beaumaris, Victoria and is about 10-6 mya (I may be wrong ..read more

I found this interesting looking (fossil?) in Decatur , Texas. It was in a creek bed . I will load more pictures when I get back home . I only had the one on my phone . Is this just a really cool rock ? Or maybe something else ..read more

I recently learned that some of my geodes are actually fossils. I've been looking at a lot of pictures and this appears to be a crinoid to me but it is large. The ruler is blurry but it's 12 inches. Any help in understanding the difference between a geode rock and a geodized fossil would be fabulous.  ..read more