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Matthew Gramling

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Matthew Gramling

@matthew-gramling
Atlanta, GA
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    Matthew Gramling joined the group Group logo of University of Michigan Museum of PaleontologyUniversity of Michigan Museum of Paleontology 1 day, 3 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 1 day, 22 hours ago

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    Greetings all! This one puzzles me. I’ve seen chert deposits like this in similar looking matrix which was part of the Fort Payne Chert. Perhaps it is from an invertebrate, but I can’t tell. @chloe-geddes might be the better judge for this specimen.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 2 days, 4 hours ago

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    Thank you @bill-heim !

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 2 days, 4 hours ago

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    Greetings @deidra-floyd ! I believe your specimen is another piece of sandstone. I don’t see any fossils preserved in it unfortunately.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 2 days, 21 hours ago

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    Greetings @soroush-welayati ! I believe you’re specimen is more mineral than animal. I don’t see any diagnostic features that would suggest an organic composition.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 days ago

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    Greetings @alex-stone ! These were given to me as a gift years ago, but I believe they might have been collected near Lancaster, PA.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 days, 18 hours ago

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    Greetings @melissa-nel ! The strata around Big Bay is Quaternary, so only around 2.5 million years old at most. The rest of the local strata is Neoproterozoic, so exceptionally unlikely to have fossils. I’m having a hard time deciding if this is a tooth, a shell, or something else entirely. @bill-heim might have an idea.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 4 days, 20 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96262 to myFOSSIL!

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      Alex Stone replied 3 days ago

      Beautiful specimen! Can you give the approximate location?

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      Matthew Gramling replied 3 days ago

      Greetings @alex-stone ! These were given to me as a gift years ago, but I believe they might have been collected near Lancaster, PA.

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      Avery perez replied 2 days, 19 hours ago

      kinda looks like a fern

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 4 days, 20 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96259 to myFOSSIL!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 4 days, 20 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96254 to myFOSSIL!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 days, 20 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96247 to myFOSSIL!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 4 days, 21 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96242 to myFOSSIL!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 days, 21 hours ago

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    Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 96237 to myFOSSIL!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 days, 22 hours ago

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    Thank you once again @bill-heim !

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 days, 22 hours ago

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    Greetings @melissa-nel ! If possible could you provide some location data of where you found the specimen city and or county would suffice. The best would be the precise beach you found it on. That would help narrow down an ID.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 5 days, 14 hours ago

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    Greetings @haley-hudson ! I believe this is another piece of quartz or calcite. Do you think you might be able to provide some location data on where you found it? County or town will do just fine. Location data could also can help me direct you to some really fossiliferous areas.

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 5 days, 17 hours ago

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    Most welcome @haley-hudson! Welcome to the journey (and addiction lol) of rock and fossil collecting. Happy collecting!!!

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    Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 5 days, 17 hours ago

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    Greeting @haley-hudson! Welcome to myFossil! From your specimen photos, I believe what you have is more mineral than animal. It’s hard to examine the grain from the photos, but I believe it is a crystalline rock like quartzite, a calcite-infused sedimentary rock, or a cryptocrystalline rock like chert. Hope this helps! If it’s chert , then it’s…[Read more]

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