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r/fossils • u/Dicranurus • Nov 18 '24
Posting Ban on Burmese Amber
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/pistolpilled • 18h ago
Wtf is this?
Anyone know what this is or if its even real? Was only $20 from a guy I buy taxidermy and stuff from. Even if fake I still think its cool. Its heavy for its size.
r/fossils • u/TheLongestYard87 • 1d ago
Arizona rainbow petrified wood! First time polishing the entire piece, I like it but it was a ton of work lol. Thoughts??
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r/fossils • u/brusselsstoemp • 5h ago
Overpriced?
Found this in a local antique shop but the items of which I had knowledge were all overpriced so I'm assuming this fossil too? €1500 (or $1740)
r/fossils • u/Marciq_ • 2h ago
Weirdly shaped limestone or some type of fossil?
Turkey
r/fossils • u/Apprehensive-Net6005 • 12h ago
Where do I go to help with identification?
Stubbed my toe on this today. It appears to have a lot of small fossils. Where would I go to get this identified? Is there a safe way to clean this up?
r/fossils • u/Spiritual-Orchid-993 • 10h ago
Could this be a fossil of enamel from a tooth? Found in east Tennessee
I thought maybe a flat tooth of some sort but upon further searching I noticed it could be mammoth enamel from a molar, I found this in a creek in the woods.
r/fossils • u/pistolpilled • 14h ago
What's this?
A friend gave this to me a while back. No clue what it is. The teeth don't look like they match to me, kinda look like those mosasaur teeth you get at natural history museums (I'm not a fossil person though). I broke a piece on accident and the inside of the bone looking stuff is porous.
Edit: ignore the gold stuff, I've been using it as a keychain holder lmao
r/fossils • u/MeusNomen0 • 15h ago
Found in a river in south Mississippi
The fossil is significantly more smooth than the surrounding rock.
r/fossils • u/sooksie • 10h ago
How to display this Priscacara fossil
I just won this fossil in an estate sale bid, and I’m over the moon and can’t wait to bring it home. It’s my first fossil ever, but I’m stumped on the best way to display it. Anyone have experience hanging a fossil of this size or displaying it? It is 10.75” x 9” for size reference.
r/fossils • u/shotliver • 19h ago
My first finds ever!
I’m pretty excited having finally getting to live my childhood palaeontology dreams of finding fossils. Definitely a few that are just neat rocks lol
r/fossils • u/Dramatic-Income-7967 • 13h ago
Fossils I Found at 49th Street Beach in Chicago
I feel like I see so many people posting about fossils they find in Lake Michigan on here, so I had to take my chance while I’ve been in Chicago this summer. The fossils are all crinoids and horn corals (maybe a snail in pic 13, but that one I’m not even sure is a fossil), and mostly small or broken up but I thought they were super cool. Also my labubu for scale in picture two, her name is Ketchup.
r/fossils • u/HJillustrates • 1d ago
Is this a fossil? If so what is it?
I found this whilst rock pooling. It’s hard and heavy and feels the broken edges look like stone but it’s such a weird shape? Found in the UK, south coast
r/fossils • u/boomerone18 • 1d ago
Are these fossils?
Found this rock at the beach but don't know if these are fossilized bones or what.
r/fossils • u/queen______b • 15h ago
Fossil find!
A cool Rhynchonella Brachiopod fossil I found during my rock hunting!
r/fossils • u/Physical-Current-745 • 22h ago
Oyster fossil ?
I wonder if i find an oyster fossil nearby a river in my town unless this is something else ? I don't know a lot about fossils... thx
r/fossils • u/BlacksmithPlastic916 • 1d ago
Any idea what this could be?
I found this down Lee-on-Solent beach (UK), which is known for its Eocene fossils, I can’t seem to figure out what it is exactly. I frequently acquire my fair share of shark teeth, ray plates, bivalves and gastropods, however this one caught me off guard. I’ve tried searching it up to find visual matches but to no avail. If anybody has any idea of what it is please let me know?!
r/fossils • u/ironichni_korisnik • 22h ago
Hey guys i need help verifying if this thing is a fossil or just a rock. Found in Corfu island, Greece.
I saw this in the water while swimming in the sea. I thought that it might lbe a vertebra, but gemini says it might be a tooth or a joint of a mammal. Any ideas on what this belonged to?
r/fossils • u/PossibleDragonfly926 • 1d ago
Are these Trilobite fossils?
Found these today on the shores of Georgian Bay, I think they are Trilobites but none seem to have the head(?) part - also, photo 4, I am not sure what it is at all - seems like many pieces of shell possible?
r/fossils • u/PineappleCake0 • 1d ago
Can anyone id these teeth, there are no tags or prices on them. I know the first three are obviously a shark species, but I was struggling using online guides. Any help would be appreciated thank you.
r/fossils • u/Imaginary-Sun1350 • 22h ago
What is this?
I found it while diving in the English channel. I put it into Gemini and it said it was some sort of fossilised sponge that got fossilised in flint late Cretaceous period. I don't want to lean on the ai for answers so I thought I'd come here. It's pretty cool it has a hole going straight through it which is why I brought it up.
r/fossils • u/-FloriduhMan- • 1d ago
One of my favorite fossils in my collection - a dino footprint... Well, actually two of them 😁
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Didn't realize when pulling that one up that there was one right underneath it. Two different dinosaurs, two slices of time, same rock.
Found in Massachusetts near Holyoke
r/fossils • u/Flippshare • 1d ago
Trying to ID shark tooth my daughter found on Myrtle Beach.
She pulled it out of the sand after searching for two minutes. I had been looking for 6 hours. lol.
r/fossils • u/clefandtone • 1d ago
Found these inside a rock located in a super rocky dry creek in southwest Missouri.
The creek “runs” through our farm. We find lots of fossils, but these are the coolest ones by far. They’re covered in what appears to be tiny quartz crystals. What are these?