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Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 4:01:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		I really wasn't expecting my best find of the day to be a fossil while grubbin' around for old bottles. Then again its the unexpected that adds that little bit of spice to the digs. I'm no fossil expert by any means but I can say this is the coolest fossil I've ever owned or seen in person. Maybe one of you can fill me in on this stone critter. At the widest point he's 2&3/4" wide. At first I thought it was a cement souvenir but this thing hasn't got a seam on it anywhere's. While enough talky talky, here's the pics. Swiz






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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 4:08:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Cherry Swiz, I'd be stoked .Looks like a ammonite. 

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 4:53:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, way cool! Fossil collectors pay big bucks for complete examples of finds so if you're interested I bet an archaeology forum would give you information and maybe a few interested buyers as well. It's pretty big from what I can see in the picture. It seems New York is quite popular with fossils too. A lot of people I know that live up that way have a few fossils they've found tilling soil or romping in the creeks.

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 5:03:48 PM   
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ammonite


ya, looks like a cephalopod of some sort.
Did you find it in a creek? Not a bad find.





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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 6:08:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ammonites are first known in the late Silurian and early Devonian periods - about 400 million years ago. All ammonites became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, 65.5 million years ago, so without knowing what sort of ammonite fossil you have, it could be any age between about 400 million years old and 65.5 million years old.
BUT - if you can identify the type (species) of ammonite we can give a much narrower age range as ammonites evolved very quickly and individual species can have an age range of just a few millions of years.

If you have a picture of the ammonite you have, or you know what species it is already, then repost, with a link to a photo, or with the species name It will then be pretty easy to look up the age range for that particular ammonite

If thats real  its crazy
Here are a few pix that look like yours





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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 6:09:31 PM   
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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 6:20:07 PM   
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about 400 million years ago


hey now, everyone knows the earth was created 6000 years ago. That funny shaped rock was put there by Satan to fool you.

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 9:01:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Those are probably the best pics I can get for you. It may look bigger because my 8 year old son is holding it. I can try to get better pics tomorrow in natural light outdoors. How would I go about finding what type of 6,000 year old funny shaped rock that I have?  This was dug under some rusty crusties in the dump I've been digging. I was pulling out solid chunks of rusted junk the size of cantaloupes and volleyballs when this just popped right out. Hopefully there's more in there. Maybe someones personal collection of fossils. Maybe I'll pull out a T-Rex skull, a Mastodon tooth, or another bromo. Swiz

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 10:12:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thats a pooh fossil found in privys and dog parks,and some older dumps...

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 10:28:13 PM   
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ORIGINAL: swizzle

Those are probably the best pics I can get for you. It may look bigger because my 8 year old son is holding it. I can try to get better pics tomorrow in natural light outdoors. How would I go about finding what type of 6,000 year old funny shaped rock that I have?  This was dug under some rusty crusties in the dump I've been digging. I was pulling out solid chunks of rusted junk the size of cantaloupes and volleyballs when this just popped right out. Hopefully there's more in there. Maybe someones personal collection of fossils. Maybe I'll pull out a T-Rex skull, a Mastodon tooth, or another bromo. Swiz


Keep looking on the web I am sure you will find someone.


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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/29/2011 10:32:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Might of been something a person brought home and then threw out in the dump.
I once found a large quartz crystal about 4" long in an 1890s dump.
Obviously from nowhere near where the dump was located.

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 1:32:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Could be an  Ammonite . Where is my blasted fossil book when I need it !

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 1:39:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Didn't know you were a paleontologist. Good investment in higher education, Ricky!

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 1:47:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love paleontology Cord , have hunted trilobites for years . I think I have too many hobbies , have been selling some things off over the past couple of years and trying to stick with bottles .

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 1:58:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Paleontology and mineralogy were my first gigs. Aged eight on. Garnered a masters degree in geology from the University of Utah (1978). Know of a proustite deposit in a primitive area. Haven't gone back after fire assay indicated 26-percent return on short ton. Dug piles of elrathia kingi species trilobites(late precambrian) in the Wheeler formation, some nearly eight inches in length. This knowledge is meaningless in a putrifying civilization. The circus maximus is nonpariel. Gotta love Rossane Barr as the hallmark of civility (alumnus, Utah State Mental Hospital). Go tramps!

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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 2:26:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		You have been blessed with finding some great specimens . Here in Ohio we have the big dog , the Isoteulos Gigas , I have seen them in the twenty inch lengths , one close to thirty inches , but was never lucky enough to find one of them in the prone position . I have a few enrolled ones , but they are not in very good condition . Mostly what I have found are the Flexacalymine and the Retrosa species , not sure if I spelled that right . I have a nice selection of some of them in the prone position , mostly the Retrosa species in a display case in the garage . Again , too many interests and no place to display them all . Here is a container I have in the house where I throw the enrolled ones in when I find them .




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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 5:14:23 AM   
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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 5:31:19 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

Might of been something a person brought home and then threw out in the dump.
I once found a large quartz crystal about 4" long in an 1890s dump.
Obviously from nowhere near where the dump was located.


The "Dump God" probably  lost that


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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 5:37:01 AM   
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Thats a pooh fossil found in privys and dog parks,and some older dumps...


Hahaha  now that you mention it I have found them in crap holes


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RE: Big ol' Swirly Fossil - 6/30/2011 11:28:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like a Nautilus, or something in that family.  I'm going to guess that before I read the other responses.

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