Fossilized Coral and Fish

[IntrinsicReef]

I love collecting fossilized sea creatures and was wondering who else has this passion. Especially since I live on an ancient shallow sea ( central Texas.) I hunt mostly, but buy a few here and there. I'll start with with a piece that I found in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. This was limestone matrix with some silicate fossils. I believe it to be coral, but it might be something else. I find quite of few infilled burrows ( rudists) around me. Let me know what y'all collect, and do you add any to your aquariums?

 

[IntrinsicReef]

This is one that I bought on the coast in Oregon. It is agatized and weirdly similar to the one found in Arkansas

 

[smitten with ocean life]

love it!! i also love looking for fossils! my husband finally asked me if i was going to pave the driveway with them! :squinting-face-with-tongue: ive bought a couple but mostly just look around the river here. i dont have any pics but ill try to grab some

 

[RockRash]

I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole a few years ago of watching people fossil hunting on the beach. I won't lie it made me want to take a hammer and chisel out to the beach and start looking for rocks lol. I might just do it next time we take the the kids. I've also considered buying a metal detector after watching those videos my wife said no to the purchase but I already have a hammer lol.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

love it!! i also love looking for fossils! my husband finally asked me if i was going to pave the driveway with them! :squinting-face-with-tongue: ive bought a couple but mostly just look around the river here. i dont have any pics but ill try to grab some

I wanna see 'em! Here is a picture of a pile in my garden. Gastropods and bivalves from the cretatous period. I found all near me in Central Texas

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole a few years ago of watching people fossil hunting on the beach. I won't lie it made me want to take a hammer and chisel out to the beach and start looking for rocks lol. I might just do it next time we take the the kids. I've also considered buying a metal detector after watching those videos my wife said no to the purchase but I already have a hammer lol.

People make me jealous of what they find on the beach. Especially arrowheads. I have found some chert flakes in the Bay, but I am 4.5 hours from the beach, so I have spent limited hours combing.

 

[RockRash]

People make me jealous of what they find on the beach. Especially arrowheads. I have found some chert flakes in the Bay, but I am 4.5 hours from the beach, so I have spent limited hours combing.

I have found a few arrowheads in the riverbed by my parents house when I was a kid. I was obsessed with finding gold ( never found any lol) after a 4th grade field trip to Sutter's mill and paining for gold. My parents bought me a gold pan and I would spend hours out there after school and weekends trying to hit the motherlode! Never any gold but I did find some arrowheads most were broken but I did find one intact. I haven't seen them in years I need to ask my mom if she knows where they are.

 

[RockRash]

I wanna see 'em! Here is a picture of a pile in my garden. Gastropods and bivalves from the cretatous period. I found all near me in Central Texas

Those are awesome. I'd have them on display somewhere in the house. Maybe on a shelf over the tank.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

Those are awesome. I'd have them on display somewhere in the house. Maybe on a shelf over the tank.

Maybe throw the broken ones into a calcium reactor and build a reef tank with ancient reef!

 

[fish farmer]

I used to live in Florida...

Here's an arrow head preform with small circular fossil impressions from Utah.

I live in Vermont, close enough to the ancient inland sea. I bought this piece, but it is similar to what you can see around here.

Recent beach find in Rhode Island, NOT a fossil, but a northern variety of coral.

 

[PharmrJohn]

My daughter is very much into fossils. I was when I was a kid, but didn't have too many. I'll post pics of my daughter's budding collection when she wakes up.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I used to live in Florida...

Here's an arrow head preform with small circular fossil impressions from Utah.

I live in Vermont, close enough to the ancient inland sea. I bought this piece, but it is similar to what you can see around here.

Recent beach find in Rhode Island, NOT a fossil, but a northern variety of coral.

That is a super nice tooth collection! I have always wanted to find a fossilized shark's tooth. They are found sporadically in Texas, but not nearly in the quantity of Florida or the East Coast from what I understand.
Finding an arrowhead with a fossil inclusion is the ultimate dream. I have found flakes with fossil imprints, but maybe one day I will hit it lucky.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I bought these from a friend who personally excavated them from Wyoming in the 70s. He has a garage full of them and does all the air scribe preparation himself.

 

[fish farmer]

I bought these from a friend who personally excavated them from Wyoming in the 70s. He has a garage full of them and does all the air scribe preparation himself.

I wanted to dig fossil fish when I was hanging around that area of the country.

I bought a few on ebay and incorporated some into my kitchen backslash.

 

[Reef_Freak720]

My dad got me this for Christmas one year. I lost the little paper that said what it was :<

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I wanted to dig fossil fish when I was hanging around that area of the country.

I bought a few on ebay and incorporated some into my kitchen backslash.

That is really cool! I have always wanted fossil laden limestone incorporated into some part of my house.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

My dad got me this for Christmas one year. I lost the little paper that said what it was :<

That's a unique looking skeleton. I don't think I have seen that species before

 

[fish farmer]

I found this floor tile at Home Depot of all places. Around the same time they had black tile with coral fossils like your first picture. I used this tile for a counter top.

I bought a couple of boxes of these river fossil tiles I'm using for another counter project.

 

[PharmrJohn]

So here are a few from my collection and my daughter's as well. LOL, I guess my collection is hers now that I think about it! I slowly gave her mine over the last few years. And now she's TOTALLY hooked! I just purchased one today, in fact, that'll stay mine for the time being. A Paly/Zoa from millions of years past.

Here is the fossil I purchased today. Looks to be a Zoa or a Paly

An Ammonite

A Megalodon Tooth. In Latin.....Biggus Shark's!

An Eocene Epoch Fish Fossil (33.9 to 59 Ma)

An Eocene Period Insect

A Trilobite (I think these ruled the seas from 200 to 400 Ma). Too lazy to look it up, lol!

A Mosasaur Tooth

I have a few more.....Will get photos later!

 

[PharmrJohn]

I have a few more.....Will get photos later!

And yes, that carpet is from the 70's Epoch. Even the Megalodon was terrified of that color!!!!