Hi @jess-matuszak I agree with @sadie-mills that this is some sort of oyster.

@sadie-mills thanks for the comment, but it says he hasn’t been on in three months.

@trevor-rempert@mason-hintermeister Usually, for a specimen to be considered research-grade within a repository, it cannot be logged in another collection/repository. In this case, as it is a bought specimen, I’m going to tag in @sadie-mills and @samantha-ocon! Do you know if this specimen has been curated in any other collections? The issue lies…[Read more]

@samantha-ocon or @sadie-mills, since I’m pretty sure you helped found this app, could you help with my group-making question above? I’ve also made a forum post on it in the “Help” forum topic if anyone wants to answer me there. Thank you very much!

Thanks @sadie-mills. I agree with @paul-mclain it looks to be a section through a bryozoan. It could be a small coral fragment too, hard to tell since it’s fragmentary and worn!

Thank you @jbauer and @sadie-mills for helping identify them and for the website. That will definitely come in handy in the future

Thanks for tagging me in, @Sadie-Mills! Hi, @Kyle-Griffiths – I’m seeing fenestrate (windowed) bryozoans here and some crinoid columnals! I am so jealous!!

Thanks for tagging me in @sadie-mills. @chad-bruce – this looks like several different species of brachiopod shells that have been worn down. The Fossil Guy has a good page on Devonian brachs of NY (similar species to MI): https://www.fossilguy.com/sites/18mile/18_col.htm you should see some similar shapes!

No problem, @Dominik-Niehaus. We’re aware of the spam problem and currently trying to wrangle it. I don’t believe there is a report function, but thank you for bringing this up to me. I will mention it to our team for future myFOSSIL updates. If you notice any other suspicious behavior, feel free to reach out to me, @Sadie-Mills, @mjones, or @macke…[Read more]

Absolutely no problem, @Kristen-Cotiaux! Just “Comfort”. I do not believe these to be trace fossils. I think worm burrows are ichnofossils, but since tube worms secrete their calcareous shells, I think they count as body fossils, @Sadie-Mills.

@sadie-mills I’ll ask around.

@sadie-mills I’ve been to Keg Island once for exploring but I’ll definitely have to go back to fossil hunt! What kind of specimens did you find on Keg?

@santino-diaz I would have to agree with @colefossilfinder-blitz that this is just a rock, a cool looking one still! I’d like to verify if we are correct though, so @jbauer and @sadie-mills could you check this picture out? Thank you!

Absolutely, @sadie-mills! @tauno-stark this looks like a very weathered tabulate coral!
https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/cnidaria/anthozoa/tabulata/

You could update your classification to be Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa, Order Favositida.

@sadie-mills I will make a new post.

Hi, @gail-boris – @sadie-mills is right, it’s an echinoid! You can update your classification to be Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Echinodermata, Class Echinodea. It looks to be an irregular form, you can use the echinoid database to look through images and find a similar fossil:…[Read more]

@sadie-mills just an update- it was identified by two other sources as a as-yet-undescribed dolphin species from the eurhinodelphinid group, oligocene era! Apparently the holotype is here in Charleston

@sadie-mills thanks for that! I updated the location, found in Charleston, SC.

Hi @sadie-mills! Looks like you’ve got a section of a dugong rib. The most common one in the Gainesville creeks is in the genus Metaxytherium.

Hi @tok-moon! This looks like the stem of some sort of tree fern, probably in the family Cyatheaceae. This is the family that most modern tree ferns belong to. The large, squiggly, semi-circles are leaf bases – regions on the stem where a leaf would attach. Although not true wood, these parts can be found in association with petrified wood. Most…[Read more]