#fossil id

[echinoid-fossils-on-the-rocks]

Hope this rock is some part of an coral fossil.

Like an first found myself an rugosa coral.

Thanks guys for inform telling me.

[bogmummyfan]

listen i asked those freaks on reddit and they dont know. What is my fossil pleaseeee tumblr users help me please please god x I found it in helmsdale scotland.... it is quite tiny.

[prasemvanguardgerman]

So to beginn the first speciemen of fossil for this post. Found today, not seen found before.

Likely some sort of porifea = sponge.

An with tiny silicat veins Astylospongia praemorsa.

After learning the name i got good reference pictures of it. My first find of this specimen!!

Findings of known deposits from astylospongia are in my area from belgium to middle germany poland to the baltic sea and goes up to north.

Brown like chert- flint near round bulb alike. Complete round underside without stem or breaks. Looking like an dry old fig fruit. 🤨

In wet condition its darker gray, with silica vein like struckture like some sponges have. Chestnut sized.

I leave the rugosa + horn coral species Id image here for the future, to lose quick compare.

# Ordovician sponge Astylospongia praemorsa

Prepare some warning for annoying ads from the Researchgate site of the article on the link.

[spacefinch]

@a-dinosaur-a-day these aren’t dinosaurs, but I thought you would like them. I got them at the gift shop at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

On the left is an opalized ammonite and on the right is something else. (I don’t remember what the label said.)

If you (or some other paleontologist) can tell me what the fossil on the right is, I’d be very grateful.

[luimneach]

do any geologists know what this may be…

[ladybugboots]

distant past

[sofubis]

Fluffy fossil stuffed toy mascot (ikimon)

[sygiandepths]

So that swap au, huh?

More under cut

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Petrifying crawfish! Facebook power!🎵

[literalliterature]

Silly lil ammonite doodle

[ID: A cartoony drawing of Pseudocrioceras, a heteromorph ammonite with a somewhat crescent-shaped shell that forms a spiral near its top. It is colored in shades of pale pinkish orange and yellow, and it is surrounded by five-pointed stars in similar colors. There is also a small white star hanging from a string tied at the top of its shell. Shafts of light shine down on the ammonite through deep blue water, and small text in white along part of its body reads, "Good Ammo-night." End ID.]

[hordemama]

some of my favorite guys!!!! i love bug!!!!!

[lelianaslefthand]

still laughing at this

[prasemvanguardgerman]

Looking for helping answers or hints of this mold in white flint , chert rock. Like an fossil ID.

Please zoom in. The find was in an northern region from middle germany.

Found by me on plain ground surrounded from rich farming ground. Sandy clay ground with an lot of chert flint quarz and other sedimentary rocks here.

Edit: the suggestion here lead to crinoid partial inprints, which here are not common to find.

[thelordofologies]

Fossil Shark Teeth ID Project - Part 8

I am currently working on a shark teeth ID project. It is a personal project I am working on because I got gifted a multitude of fossil shark teeth of various species.

These are shark teeth ID#051 - ID#060. If I misidentified anything, or if anyone has any questions or wants to be tagged in this project, please let me know:)

ID#051

Species - Scientific Name: Striatolamia macrota - Striatolamia macrota

ID#052

Species - Scientific Name: Porbeagle shark - Lamna nasus

ID#053

Species - Scientific Name: Porbeagle shark - Lamna nasus

ID#054

Species - Scientific Name: Porbeagle shark - Lamna nasus

ID#055

Species - Scientific Name: Brachycarcharius lerichei - Brachycarcharius lerichei

ID#056

Species - Scientific Name: Brachycarcharius lerichei - Brachycarcharius lerichei

ID#057

Species - Scientific Name: Porbeagle shark - Lamna nasus

ID#058

Species - Scientific Name: Brachycarcharius lerichei - Brachycarcharius lerichei

ID#059

Species - Scientific Name: N.A. , meaning I was not able to ID the tooth's species.

Family: White sharks - Lamnidae

ID#060

Species - Scientific Name: N.A. , meaning I was not able to ID the tooth's species.

Family: White sharks - Lamnidae

Tags: @darkcybertron @cornerstars @writingraccoon

[glaucophane]

Don't Lick The Science (to see if it's a bone)

Although you can determine whether an object is a rock or a bone, here's an incomplete list of reasons not to do so:

It might be covered in animal urine/dung, if found outside

It's definitely covered in bat guano, if recovered from a cave

Just in general, it might be unsanitary and make you sick

You don't want someone else to handle something covered in your slobber

Human saliva could damage fragile specimens

Students in geology labs will baste hand samples with hydorchloric acid to see if the mineral reacts; these hand samples are not cleaned between lab sessions

There's a nonzero chance that the fossil will be radioactive

[captainbunnysaurusrex]

i think Ellie would love her creations no matter how they came out unlike a certain frootloop

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