Show us your fossils!

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My very first fossil. An amniote I purchased from the Museum of Natural History, here in Helsinki. Unfortunately it is stone dead.
 
My first one? Oh dear, I'm not sure where it is anymore, I gave it to my Jr. High school science teacher. It was some plants in shale.

Lots more where that one came from, though, if you live around Hubbard, Oh.
 
Honest reply now: I have a few local fossils at home and will try to get pictures of them. Although Sydney is mostly sandstone country, there are many shale beds interspersed that yield plenty of really beautiful but fairly "modern" fossils, mostly flora - ancient gum leaves and stuff!

PS. Would you believe - I did geology as part of my Science degree.
 
Paraschwagerina kansasensis My second favorite fusulinid. Collected from a Permian inlier in the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas. 10x longitudinal cross section.
 
Gods. That takes me back. Had to identify Triticites arcticus (Schellweini) from Spitzbergen once. Acetate peels and all that.

My first fossils (I suspect like jj's) would be Coal Measures plants- (Read "Pennsylvanian" )-probably Calamites or the like. I grew up and still live on the Central Scottish coalfields.

Never was a great fossil hunter though. I just like rocks: Igneous or metamorphic for preference.
 
I had a few fossils. Parts of Trilobites mostly, a clam or two... can't remember if I had anything else of interest. The coolest were the ones where I had both sides, the fossil 'itself' and the imprint in the layer above.

They might still be in a box somewhere back on the farm, but it wasn't something I bothered carting with me when I moved out.
 
I have roughly two dozen fossils, ranging from Invertibrates, crustaceans, and small fish (1"- 5").

My two prized possessions though, are 2 megalodon teeth. One is 2"x2" (approx. great white size), but the other is 5"X4"!

I have digital photos of everything, but no way to provide them here, unless someone has a suggestion.
 
A heavy four foot ball of hundreds of fossilzed clams in a matrix, dug out of a canyon in San Diego. I spent weeks seperating them, sawing some in half to check the insides.

Fossils Rock!
 
Oleneothyris harlani, Paleocene, New Jersey. Quintessential lamp shell.

Arrgh, the Wedge Conspiracy is coming after me!
 
pupdog said:
Oleneothyris harlani, Paleocene, New Jersey. Quintessential lamp shell.

Arrgh, the Wedge Conspiracy is coming after me!
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Considering it is from Australia, I'd contest your source. But otherwise; yeah, probably!
 
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