Virginia and West Virginia Fossil Collecting

bryozoa ? not shure though

Please do not add new specimens for the same object just add new pictures to the original under images.

Interesting find! It’s definitely a bryozoan but all the formations in your area are terrestrial. I bet this was reworked and washed down the Ohio river from far away! It’s from the Paleozoic era. Nice find!

@bill-heim that’s a problem with this app, often times it’s faster to post individual pics than add pics, the add pics feature is painfully slow, I’m no tech wiz so I have no solution to offer but he’s not the only one

Not acceptable. When you create a new specimen of the same thing, it creates a lot of extra work for me. I have to go to the new specimen, copy the new image to my computer, open up the old specimen, paste the new image in the specimen. Check that it loaded properly. Go to the new specimen and delete it. So instead of waiting for the slow…[Read more]

@bill-heim they didn’t know, i mean how could they?

There are cases of people creating 5 or 6 new specimens of the same thing. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specimen Definition of specimen: 1a : an individual, item, or part considered typical of a group, class, or whole. The key term here is “an individual item” as in one specimen. It can have as many images of it as you want as…[Read more]

Second photo looks a little Calamite tree looking. Maybe Carboniferous plant material. It’s common in West Virginia.

That photo was the back side of the first pic

The black part looks like it might be petrified wood

@bill-heim definitely wood, @crystal-howerton nice find 👍

I don’t see the crinoids, some nrachiopods, clams..no crinoids. Entire rock seems to be coral.

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ancient sea floor!

All the photos are out of focus

my apologies when I get home from work I will take new pictures

Kind of looks like a board tooth

Boar’s

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wow

duplicate

LUCKY FIND!!