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Victor Perez posted a new activity comment 2 years ago
2 years ago2 years agoThis is a dried root mass, but not a fossil.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Did I find my first fossil? in the forum What Is It? 2 years ago
2 years ago2 years agoLooks like a scallop impression in limestone.
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Victor Perez posted a new activity comment 2 years, 1 month ago
2 years, 1 month ago2 years, 1 month ago@bill-heim the image is there, it’s just not showing up in the thumbnail. It can be downloaded to view.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Who can tell what I’ve found? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 1 month ago
2 years, 1 month ago2 years, 1 month agoHonestly, some parts of it look like a limestone or dolomite and other parts of it look like chert. It may not be from the Avon Park Formation, but it could be from a unit that is the same age in Alabama. This website mentions the “Claiborn/Jackson Group” which include “fossiliferous chert and limestone boulders”.…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Who can tell what I’ve found? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 1 month ago
2 years, 1 month ago2 years, 1 month agoI think this is a chunk of dolomite, possibly from the Eocene Avon Park Formation. The molds/impressions seem to mostly be bivalves, but the second photo you posted looks like a partial echinoid (sea urchin). I don’t know the invertebrates well enough to give you any species names.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Ancient wolf? Found in Michigan in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 2 months ago
2 years, 2 months ago2 years, 2 months agoHi David, Rachel is 100% correct. What you are seeing is a calcite vein within the rock.
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Victor Perez joined the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 2 years, 2 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Fossil- Vetebral Body from what? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 3 months ago
2 years, 3 months ago2 years, 3 months agoHi Todd,
My best guess would be that it is either an ichthyosaur or dinosaur vertebra, given that the Cretaceous interior seaway cut through Phillips County, Montana.
There is a small museum you could visit/reach out to for more information: https://mtdinotrail.org/phillips-county-museum/
Best,
Victor
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Are these teeth? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 4 months ago
2 years, 4 months ago2 years, 4 months agoI don’t think they are teeth. It looks like you’ve got a conglomerate, which is a rock composed of rounded grains of varying sizes.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic What kind of Sharks tooth is this?? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 4 months ago
2 years, 4 months ago2 years, 4 months agoHi Nathan,
This tooth is from an extinct mackerel shark, Otodus obliquus. It is likely around 60 million years old and is the ancestor of the popular megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic This is Fake isnt It? Take a Look. in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 7 months ago
2 years, 7 months ago2 years, 7 months agoI don’t really know what you mean by real or fake. It’s a real rock… Specifically it’s chert (a variant of quartz).
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Can some one help identify these from Penarth? in the forum What Is It? 2 years, 8 months ago
2 years, 8 months ago2 years, 8 months agoHi James, thanks for sharing your finds! Unfortunately, these all appear to be rocks rather than fossils. The one you thought is a coprolite is actually a rock called breccia.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Is it a tooth? in the forum What Is It? 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoHi Patricia! This is a Sheepshead fish tooth. The genus is Archosargus.
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Victor Perez posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoHey Jen! Can you send a link to the specimen in question? I don’t recognize the name either, but may be able to recognize the specimen if I saw it. When I search myFOSSIL for Cordula no results come up.
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Cetacean Fossil in Elsmere Canyon: Transverse Process? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoHi Bill,
I know both Jorge and Austin, and I agree with their comments. It seems you’ve found some fossil whale bone, but unfortunately it also seems to be pretty heavily weathered. I cannot confirm which bone(s) you have or the species.
Cetaceans are known from the Towsley Formation. A skull was described in a paper by Barnes in 1977, “Outline…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Found on Hove Beach in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago3 years, 2 months agoMy best guess is that you found some echinoid (sea urchin) impressions in a chert nodule.
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Victor Perez posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago3 years, 2 months agoThanks Bill! I actually posted this tooth a while ago, but I was checking something on the upload process and forgot to delete this one.
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Victor Perez posted a new specimen. 3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago3 years, 2 months agoVictor Perez has contributed specimen mFeM 95233 to myFOSSIL!
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Victor Perez posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoI think this is a partial snail fossil rather than vertebrae. If you could provide more photos with a scale bar, we can probably narrow down what type of snail.
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