MagicHasArrived
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1: I’m starting with one that has really stumped me. The distinct blockier material is incredibly smooth to the touch.
2: A piece of the material that broke off from photo 1. I’m including it separately because I found the wavy pattern I discovered after brushing it off to be interesting. It made me wonder if this was actually a fossil instead of just a mineral like I initially assumed.
3: Okay, this one I have a guess at: Lepidodendron twig with attached lepidophylloides?
4: Some kind of gastropods?
5: Lepidophylloides?
6: Lepidostrobophyllum? I think these 3 are all the same thing, but I’m not sure.
7: Neuropteris stem? I pulled this out of what I’m almost certain was a fossilized tree trunk. (Too heavy to want to lug back, but it was still there as of my last visit.)
8: Lepidophylloides?
9: No clue. Shame it’s broken, though.
10: Various plants. I won’t even try here. Perhaps some of the same from photo 9?
11: Seems to be a thicker / more solid fossil than many of the other black imprints. Cyclopteris?
12: Very curious about these as they stood out distinctly among the other rocks due to their red coloration. They washed in after a large rainstorm.
13: Various gastropods? Same species as photo 4? A mix?
14: Neuropteris scheuchzeri?
15: Stumped on this one.
16: Curious as to what might cause this coloration (if possible to tell.)
17: Solid little tube broke off from the piece beside it.
18: A little leaf? A seed? Shown with it’s reverse.
19: Various clams?
20: Trilobite, just no idea what kind.
21: Another trilobite. Same as photo 20 or different species?
22: Nothing to go on here. Only curious because it’s right below where I live.
23: Larger Lepidodendron twig with attached lepidophylloides?
24: Reverse of photo 23.
25: Probably the rock I’m most curious about. I don’t even know where to begin here. This thing has a lot going on… I just wish I knew what.
26: Reverse side of the rock from photo 25.
27: Bonus photo of some horn corals and a larger slab of the ancient ocean floor I found and polished up myself that I’m quite proud of (:
(Separate, out of state locality.)
In an effort to condense the silly amount of space rocks are taking up inside my home, I mixed these finds together on a shelf (rookie move, I know...)
But to the best of my knowledge:
Photos 1-16 were taken at the same locality. (Wayne Co, WV)
Photos 17-21 at a separate locality. (Hardy Co, WV)
Photo 22 at a third locality. (Cabell Co, WV)
Photo’s 23-26 taken from same locality as 1-15. (Wayne Co, WV)
KingMCG
Trilobites. Every one is a trilobite. 20,000 different species of them. Leaf? Nope, trilobite. Claw? Nope, trilobite again. Archaeopteryx feather? Nope…another damned trilobite.
ParallelParkingInABurka
#9 I was like "I know what that is, it's a fern! 😎" - but then I remembered that you're having this conversation on the level of "Neuropteris scheuchzeri" et.al., so yeah, I got nothing.
NVGoddesscottage
25 hit by lightening?
ioncewBaroness
#1 looks like you've dried aged your steak a bit too much
drduffer
Is that 1st one a mastodon tooth? Or a tooth of some other herbivore dinosaur? Looks like a grinding molar to me.
2fligh2high
RichardHardley
+1 Great collection! need a banana.
Kyzyl
Jesus, Marie. They're minerals.
technicallycorrect
Oh I can identify these. They're fossils. You're welcome
Bystandr
Beat me to it
MagicHasArrived
spontaneous9
Yes. These are all clearly fossils. But, OP, you neglected to include scale information in these pics. If you want to ask for help I.D.-ing these, do us all a favor & place something for size reference, ANYTHING that has a given size, in each pic (a banana is too variable). A ruler or an open tape measure (hopefully one that shows both inch & metric) would give a lot of scale information, or a hammer, or even a copper penny.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Geologist and concur @op scale is important. Hard to be definite from just photos. Looks like #1 may be a fossil, but can't make out what.
MagicHasArrived
Well… shit. Good advice. Wish I knew before the photo shoot, but will remember for the next one! Thanks!
spontaneous9
No worries, friend. It was the least I could do, noting your predicament and all. I grew up in Jurassic Lowlands territory myself, so I've paged through countless old library books (such was our "internet" lol) with photos like yours in them in bad black-and-white, poor lighting, etc, but they all would include a little ruler if medium-sized, a penny if they were tiny, or if they were too big to remove from the hillside, they'd be pictured in place with a geologist's hammer leaned up against it.