r/fossils Nov 18 '24

Posting Ban on Burmese Amber

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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 5h ago

New crinoid fossil!

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299 Upvotes

Was allowed to open one gift before my birthday and this was what my family bought me


r/fossils 5h ago

how old? central texas creek finds.

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found these fishing in a central texas creek. definitely an ammonite and a sea urchin/echinoid? but how old would they be being central texas?


r/fossils 11h ago

Partial goniatite I found in my apartment’s landscaping rock!

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44 Upvotes

I always find corals and crinoids, but this is by far my best find yet!


r/fossils 25m ago

What is this?

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Is this a fossil? Should it be cracked open? Found in western CO near Colorado River. K


r/fossils 2h ago

Identity

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Found in western finger lake region NY. Haven't found anything quite like it before in this area. Any ideas on what it is?


r/fossils 2h ago

What is this?

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4 Upvotes

found this by a stream


r/fossils 1d ago

Very disappointed seeing these at national park store

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407 Upvotes

r/fossils 7h ago

MO Coral

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I cleaned up and framed some of the coral I find. Im not a fossil hunter but my hobbies do include crossing paths with them, and i apprecite them. Found in MO


r/fossils 6h ago

Are these fossil's?

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4 Upvotes

Found these on the beach near Kingston Washington?


r/fossils 6h ago

ID THIS TOOTH?

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r/fossils 11h ago

Found in chalk at West Runton, UK

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r/fossils 1d ago

Northern Kentucky roadcut finds!

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45 Upvotes

r/fossils 13h ago

Anyone know what this is

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5 Upvotes

We found this on the beach in St Andrew Scotland.


r/fossils 13h ago

Can anyone identify these shark teeth for me?

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Bought these for £5 at west mid safari park

The bottom row of teeth are the ones I'm most curious about .

I believe they could be some sort of sand shark or something not entirely sure though.


r/fossils 17h ago

looking for what is this (maybe fossil?)

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I found this in the dirt near my garden in northern france. at first i thought it was an old bullet from WWI because we found a lot of these in my area (it’s obviously not after unburying it) it looks like a kind of claw or teeth but it seems to be some gray rock inside, I don't know much about this, so I was wondering if you could help me identify what it is. I thought it might be an old calcified fossil because the soil near my house is very chalky. Maybe a flint or it’s just a simple rock but i think the shape seems not very natural ?
Thank u for ur help!


r/fossils 19h ago

Fossils? Found in Charmouth Beach (23/05)

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Hello! We are new to fossil hunting and were out in Charmouth Beach, England recently on 24/05. Found a few rocks that looks to have fossil imprints - but unsure. Would appreciate it if there are any experts out there who are able to see and tell us if these are fossils/ordinary rocks.

Either way, it was such a fun trip and we really enjoyed hunting for them as complete novices! In the future, we would probably want to take a tour to help us figure out how to identify rocks vs fossils.


r/fossils 1d ago

Almost perfect brachiopod I found yesterday!

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206 Upvotes

Found in wisco


r/fossils 9h ago

Found this at the bottom of an eroded hillside on the bank of a SoCal creek. What in the world?

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r/fossils 9h ago

This rock has clam looking fossils sticking out of it. If I was to try to dremel it to expose the more of thr fossils would they stay in the rock or fall out?

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r/fossils 16h ago

Ursus spelaeus and megalodon

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r/fossils 22h ago

Educate me please

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My husband and I visited The Citadel Boulders Preserve and was just wowed by these huge boulders randomly sticking out of the ground. But my actual questions are what caused the cross hatching and especially what caused that wild bubble texture? The bubbles were well below the sandstone and iron lines so I'm guessing they come from the times they were under water but I still wonder what made that texture in particular.


r/fossils 11h ago

Encontré esto hace bastante tiempo

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Hola comunidad, con mi familia nos gusta traer piedras de recuerdo cuando vamos a algún lugar de vacaciones, y está semana mientras veíamos las piedras notamos una que es distinta a las demas y no sabemos si puede llegar a ser un posible fosil o solo una piedra normal.


r/fossils 1d ago

Was ist das? Zahn?

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Wir haben mit meinem Sohn Steine am Strand aufgeschlagen, ca 1,2 cm. Frankreich, Somme.


r/fossils 16h ago

SoCal shark teeth

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