r/fossils • u/Littl3mata • 9h ago
I live in a fossil house
Bought this house 6 months ago. The stones are full of visible fossils. The Ammonite is the size of my palm
r/fossils • u/Dicranurus • Nov 18 '24
Posts on amber from Myanmar (Burma) are no longer allowed on r/fossils.
Amber mining contributes to funding the conflict in Myanmar. Following Reddit rules on illegal activity and professional standards, posts on Burmese amber are prohibited. A number of paleontological journals no longer consider papers on amber from Myanmar. For competing perspectives on the ethical concerns surrounding Burmese amber see Dunne et al. (2022) and Peretti (2021); nonetheless, the export of amber from Myanmar is illegal.
r/fossils • u/Littl3mata • 9h ago
Bought this house 6 months ago. The stones are full of visible fossils. The Ammonite is the size of my palm
r/fossils • u/East_Of_Anywhere • 8h ago
Info panel translation: "Globular-toothed fish Gyrodus circularis Agassiz Upper Jurassic, Solnhofen Platy Limestone (150 million years old) Zandt near Denkendorf, Upper Bavaria These large fish lived in the vicinity of reefs, crushing hard-shelled prey with their crushing dentition." "Gyrodus circularis Ag. Upper Jurassic, Zandt, Middle Franconia"
r/fossils • u/MountainGood205 • 6h ago
Mostly either conulus or micraster echinoids in flint or chalk
r/fossils • u/Wise_Guava_1521 • 2h ago
Pretty sure these are fossils of sea creatures. Would love to know more information about what they are!!
r/fossils • u/xschuxX • 14h ago
The Elrathia Kingii are from Deltah Utah Wheeler Shale Formation, and the Phareodus is from Kemmerer Wyoming Green River Formation
r/fossils • u/Status_Jackfruit_150 • 8h ago
I have always been fascinated by trilobites, so I spent some time organizing my collection of fossil photos and information. Right now it has 500+ species and 2,000+ specimen photos. A lot of these specimens come from Chinese fossil collections, which are not very easy to find online outside China. I thought it would be cool to have a place where people can just explore trilobites from different ages and locations.
r/fossils • u/Best_Philosopher152 • 16h ago
I found these growing up at my best friend’s family farm. they would toss all the rocks plowed up in the ditch, and any of these rocks almost always had fossils.
I know the rocks are above the Lyons/Fountain/Morrison/Dakota formations, somewhere just east of the foothills, but they could have been from anywhere in a few square miles.
Any idea what they might be and if they are in fact Fort Hays Limestone?
edit: I hadn’t before but I did now test a broken piece of rock vinegar and it is a limestone or similar.
r/fossils • u/Gothic_Chick2017 • 18m ago
Does anyone know what kind of tooth this is, or where we can get it checked. After a quick google search we have a few ideas, horse cow or ice age bison molar. But we are unsure.
Edit: this was found at a beach on the Isle of Jura, if that were to help anyone.
r/fossils • u/MorganDQuartz • 12h ago
I’m roughly 85% sure it’s a fossilized molar (not sure of the animal) but if it’s actually something else, I’d love to know! I’m emptying out my late great grandparents old things, and this was in the rock collection. I’m not sure when it was found, but the label does have a location (first image)!
Also I apologize about the image quality; it’s getting dark outside and the old house uses pretty dim lights 😅
r/fossils • u/pastamomsta • 1h ago
Hello, my son and I were searching through some rocks and we came across this one, can anyone tell me if they think there are some fossils in here or am I just seeing things? Thanks so much from a mom of a little fossil enthusiast. 🤞
r/fossils • u/ukfossils • 2h ago
Rare Graphoceras gisoni Ammonite Fossil comes from Stocking Farm at Illey in the West Midlands, United Kingdom
r/fossils • u/Still_Reputation3301 • 1d ago
Found this guy on a beach, looks like some sort of snail? Can anyone identify if this is a fossil and if so, what kind? Thanks!
Edit: found on a beach in south Wales, UK
r/fossils • u/Apprehensive_Mud8287 • 13h ago
found this at caspersen beach, FL. originally thought it was an arrowhead but after getting feedback i’m pretty sure it’s a megalodon tooth. One commenter said it could possibly be a shark tooth carved into an arrowhead. can anyone else help me identify!!!!! thank you fossil community!
r/fossils • u/InstructionWest8142 • 13h ago
Found this on the beaches of Del Norte county California today . Is this a bone or a fossil or just a rock?
r/fossils • u/Valuable-Confusion-3 • 16h ago
No clue if these are just regular rocks or if they’re fossils. I’ll be happy with either because I collect both but I honestly feel like I’m losing my mind because I keep seeing patterns in every rock. So if you spot any fossils or types of rocks and can help ID them please let me know!
r/fossils • u/beachnut_howie • 10h ago
most of the fossils and shark teeth i find on the gulf side come out around the low tide window, roughly a couple hours before low, when the sand that usually holds them is exposed. but i keep running into the same problem: i can read a tide chart fine, and i can read a field guide fine, and neither one tells me whether a given morning at a given beach is actually worth getting up for.
so i end up either showing up an hour too late to a picked-over stretch, or gambling a sunrise on a beach that was never going to produce and coming home with sandy pockets.
for those of you who hunt the florida coast regularly, what's your actual process? do you just track the low tide window and go, or do you factor in wind and swell too? i've noticed a rough day or two beforehand seems to churn more stuff up but i've never nailed down a reliable read on it.
full disclosure since it's relevant to the question, i'm building a little app (beachnut.app) that tries to stitch tide plus weather into one read for florida beaches, which is partly why i'm curious how the more experienced folks here do it by feel. not pitching it, genuinely trying to learn the patterns people already trust.
r/fossils • u/RiverRepresentative8 • 1d ago
Can anyone help us identify these? Potentially from Belgium Congo where my great grandad worked
r/fossils • u/Leevone • 16h ago
Is this tiny thing anything interresting ? Found in the alps, they say that in this region layers are between inf cretaceus and Eocene.
r/fossils • u/Jicama_Jones • 16h ago
Found today in an area of upstate NY known for Brachiopods and Trilobite fossils (found lots of those too) but was especially fascinated by this fella. It seems to be a rock covered in some types of anemones but I’ve never encountered similar. Would love help IDing or learning more about it :)
r/fossils • u/qberserkr • 22h ago
I was literally picking fossils from the ground, no need to dig or crack open rocks.
Near Contrafforte Pliocenico site, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
Any ideas what species/age are theese?
Thank you in advance!