r/fossilid

My nephew found this in landscaping gravel. Any idea what it might be?

Hey folks, found this embedded in a (large) rock on a beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. I don't have the tools to try to get it out or expose a bit more, but wonder if it's worth sending across to a museum?

Sorry, I didn't think to put an item next to it for scale, but you can see some barnacles next to it so hopefully that gives some indication?

Nothing really with me for scale sorry, just the room key card.

My 7 year old found it while swimming looking at fish in the sea.

Any help appreciated, thanks!

Found in Tennessee. Thought maybe it's a talon or horn of some kind, but not sure.

Found this in a creek in Mountain View Arkansas. Its very heavy. It had a lot of moss on it and I gave it a quick rinse, but i didn't want to use a cleaner and damage it. Whatever it is.

I purchased this fossil for under $40 online. It was sold as heavily restored. It looks like the front part is some sort of plaster.

I know little to nothing about fossils but im wondering if my daughter might have found one.

She likes to bring rocks home from daycare and today's she handed me this one.

A nearby river is well known for its tribolite fossils but I have never seen one in nature myself.

Back half of a what I assume is a fish found in a canyon in northern New Mexico, near Abiquiu. Approximately 3 inches long.

I appreciate any help

Mazon creek fern fossil????

Found in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA on the beach. I originally thought it was coal or petrified wood but the two ventricular looking spots make me wonder.

I believe I found this fossil somewhere on the coast of the North Island of New Zealand. Although I honestly can not remember. Many of the noticeable structures look almost like fish vertebrae; conical on both ends. But not sure if they are vertebrae or just some kind of ancient mollusc or coral. Any help would be much appreciated!

I found this in my backyard while doing some yard clean up. I’m not sure if it was originally found on this plot of land. My assumption is the previous owners found it, brought it home to CO, and made a yard decoration with it.

Any help would be awesome, it’s an interesting find regardless!

Hi everyone,

I’d like some help identifying this small fish fossil.

It came from a German collector with an old label saying:

Rhacolepis sp.
Upper Cretaceous
Lagoa-Secca, Ceará, Brazil

But I’m skeptical. The fossil is on a thin, light-colored platy limestone slab, with flat preservation and some dendritic markings on the matrix. To me it does not really look like typical Rhacolepis from the Araripe/Santana region.

Since it came from a German collection I’m wondering whether the label may have been mixed up. My suspicion is that it could instead be a small Solnhofen/Eichstätt-type fish, possibly cf. Leptolepides sprattiformis or another small teleost from lithographic limestone.

The tail appears small and forked, and the flat preservation, platy limestone matrix and dendritic markings (last picture) on the slab seem more “Solnhofen-type” to me than Brazilian Santana/Romualdo.

Would you consider this plausible?
Or could it still be a Brazilian Crato/Santana fish?

Any opinions on ID and provenance would be very appreciated.

Found in the Willamette River in Oregon!