New Members David A K Posted June 19 New Members Share Posted June 19 Can anyone identify this for me? I've been rock hunting my entire life and this is my prized possession. I found it in a creekbed in Kentucky. I'm pretty sure it's a toe but it could be a claw . No idea what species it's from either. Anyone? Buehler?? PXL_20240619_034550491.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorp Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Videos are actually not super helpful for IDs. Pictures are better as they are static. That said, this is not a dinosaur fossil. Most of Kentucky’s rocks are too old for dinosaur fossils. Instead, it appears to be a conulariid. And a very nice one in fact. Without more specific locality information I can’t say for sure what age this is, although I would suspect Mississippian, so ~325 million years old. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB003 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Concur - not a claw or toe. No idea what it actually is so defer to others but my first (very likely incorrect) thought would have been a tool such as spear head. *Frank* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Photos would be helpful, as my browser is not showing the video. When viewed on my phone, though, it looks like a conularid to me. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Screen Shots from my phone: Conulariida Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Welcome to The Forum! That's a very nice fossil conularid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Yep- Nice inflated conularid! A very nice find, I mostly find flattened examples. -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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