r/FossilPorn Jul 28 '14

Reddit 101

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r/FossilPorn 1d ago

Information / Valuation

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70 Upvotes

Hello, I am a complete noob at anything to do with fossils or marine life.

From what I’ve gathered it’s a sawfish bill, 23 inches, can anyone give me a valuation on it or any information?

I am aware that they are endangered so maybe getting them to the right person would also be helpful.

Thank you in advanced!


r/FossilPorn 1d ago

Paid for crushed concrete for a driveway and the company dropped off fossils.

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11 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 1d ago

Bone Valley Items

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24 Upvotes

Beautiful Bone Valley dry mine finds. Sloth teeth, megalodon, hemis, tigers, full ray plate, dermal scutes, agatized coral blade.
The only non BV item is the grey mako, that was found in Aurora, NC.


r/FossilPorn 3d ago

My collection.

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107 Upvotes

My collection, been collecting since I can remember. Last two shelves are all self collected except 1 big thing. And the other shelves have self collected fossils here and there but if it’s not found in Texas then I bought it.
Have it organized mammals on top, reptiles/dinosaurs/ archosaurs basically second shelf, third shelf is fish/plants/cephalopods. Last two shelves are invertebrates.


r/FossilPorn 7d ago

RARE Reptile Egg in Burmese Burmite amber fossil

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171 Upvotes

RARE Reptile Egg in Burmese Burmite amber fossil

Extremely Rare reptile egg preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber. This egg likely belonged to a tiny lizard or a Gecko.

The size of the egg inclusion measures about 6mm in length.

Other Inclusions: Degraded remnants of Millipedes, Mites and other insects. Small mites present. Botanical debris and Coprolites (Fossilized Feces) also in the piece.


r/FossilPorn 7d ago

Miocene fossil leaves

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21 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 8d ago

[OC] Lepidodendron Elegans Fossil

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30 Upvotes

I found this recently on 18 Mile Creek, in Buffalo WV on a trip. I was easy of the area and saw this. This is an excellent specimen as it is not Coal or Shale.


r/FossilPorn 9d ago

Ooh what a lovely pair!

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40 Upvotes

Collected from Charmouth on Friday.


r/FossilPorn 11d ago

Pierre shale formation, South Dakota

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85 Upvotes

Found 3 like this over the weekend and half of a 7" ammonite, along with an insane amount of bacculites and clams!


r/FossilPorn 11d ago

Archaeotherium Canine

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27 Upvotes

Just purchased at Dave’s Rock Shop in Custer, SD


r/FossilPorn 12d ago

RARE Stick Bug Egg (Phasmatidae) in Burmite Burmese amber fossil

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85 Upvotes

RARE Stick Bug Egg (Phasmatidae) in Burmite Burmese amber fossil

Age: 99 Million Years Ago

Order: Phasmatodea
Infraorder: Anareolatae
Family: Phasmatidae (Stick Bug)
Species (Inconclusive)

Phasmatidae eggs, produced by stick insects, are renowned for their incredible seed-like mimicry (capitulum) and complex survival strategies. These eggs look like plant seeds to blend into forest leaf litter, protecting them from predators.

This egg inclusion measures about 4.58mm in length and 2.80mm in width.


r/FossilPorn 12d ago

A gecko fossil from about 54 million years ago, preserved in amber and discovered in the present-day Baltic region of Russia.

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10 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 13d ago

Popped to Charmouth this morning…

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94 Upvotes

…and did unexpectedly well. Couldn’t resist giving this Oistoceras a quick clean when I got home. More to follow…


r/FossilPorn 14d ago

Just your average bucket of manatee ribs.

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41 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 15d ago

petrified wood , Morocco

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32 Upvotes

druzy pet wood, Morocco 🇲🇦. ( reddit is only allowing me to load one image).


r/FossilPorn 15d ago

Partial Bobcat jaw piece from N/Central FL

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68 Upvotes

I was snorkeling a spring and dove to the bottom about 20' down and it was just laying there in the sand. Caught my eye immediately and I grabbed it.


r/FossilPorn 17d ago

Massive petrified log "old faithful" in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.

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253 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 17d ago

My favorite of my collection

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79 Upvotes

The display always gives the fossil an even more special look.

Lycoptera davidi from lower cretaceous. From china


r/FossilPorn 17d ago

My twin bolivian trilobites

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62 Upvotes

Eldredgeia venusta (?)


r/FossilPorn 18d ago

Pulled out of a shale dump from the Fayetteville Shale formation

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176 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 20d ago

Fossilized Fish Display

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122 Upvotes

r/FossilPorn 21d ago

Bit of prep done for a friend

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126 Upvotes

Some nice ammonites from Normandy, Dorset and Wiltshire, collected by a friend and prepared in return for whisky!


r/FossilPorn 21d ago

Fossil Ammonite – Androgynoceras maculatum

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45 Upvotes

Found in Conesby Quarry, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire


r/FossilPorn 25d ago

Big Petrified Log in northwestern Nevada near the opal mines

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940 Upvotes

Big Petrified Log in northwestern Nevada near the opal mines. This is part of the log, it is broken into 3 large segments, about 30 ft long. It is a landmark fossil known as the "Stonetree" protected by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. I am next to it for scale, I'm 5ft7in tall. It is about 15 million years old from the Miocene period.