Of course! That’s what is so awesome about geology and paleontology, there are so many cool and unusual events we have to figure out! Happy hunting!

Use a photo not light up for identification

I think it’s just a wacky rock

They aren’t clams, maybe sometimes of concretion or perhaps a fossilized mud ball…

@a-trilobite and @leonardo-miranda cool reads especially the last on zombie fossils, check them out ☺️

So there are some things I want to clarify. First off fossils can definitely be made of original materials. A lot of fossil shells are still the exact same as when they were buried. This means that the colour will not change. Look at:…[Read more]

I have always been completely dumbfounded to know that something can evolve pretty much the same but at different times by didn’t organisms. That is just so wild. Same with wings: think bugs vs birds a bats. So cool!!

I also think it is a piece of sandstone

Sometimes you can’t see the inside of the shell without destroying it. If the you look at the outline of the shell, there will be ribs then it is an ammonite. The ribs encase the chambers that everyone is talking about. Ammonites have these ribs because it increases the integrity for the shell and allows them to live deeper in the ocean where t…[Read more]

No fossils sorry

Closer and clearer photo needed

Please note that corals don’t really have skin

Stony bryozoan, it’s not a full cross section but the edge or ‘skin’ is broken off

There is no one type of weather rind, they can be all different colours and degrees of differences. There are cobbles at a lake near me that are light tan on the outside and black in the center. I still think they’re a weather rind but it could be some funny business with iron

The photo is VERY fuzzy but it looks like Lacey bryozoan

These are called weather rinds, in some areas were research has been done you can tell how old the cobble is by the thickness of the rind ☺️

Haha, well my two cents is that it’s just a chert nodule in some limestone 😂

I have always been told that those are bryozoan marks showing after death preservation (cephalopod died and sat on the bottle of the sea floor for a while before fossilized)…

That is actually from wyoming! The bed is of opalized gastropods (snail), very cool! I have found it around rock springs.

I think it is actually a weird view of a coral