Fossil fish impression/cast (likely small ray-finned fish)
Unidentified Actinopterygii; possibly a fish fossil in laminated shale
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Fossil fish impression/cast (likely small ray-finned fish)
Unidentified Actinopterygii; possibly a fish fossil in laminated shale
Fossilized marine shell fragment
Likely a bivalve or gastropod shell preserved as calcite (CaCO₃)
Petrified Tabulate Coral
Favosites (Honeycomb Coral)
Fossil gastropod shell
Spiral marine gastropod fossil; likely a small ammonite-like or gastropod shell, exact taxon indeterminate
Fossilized gastropod shell
Calcitic or aragonitic gastropod fossil; likely Mollusca, Gastropoda
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Otodus obliquus)
Otodus obliquus (Mineralized Apatite / Bio-apatite)
Fossil coral fragment (probable)
Recrystallized fossil coral, commonly scleractinian or tabulate coral; exact identification requires magnification and locality
Fossilized Coral
Rugose Coral / Hexagonaria (Fossilized calcium carbonate)
Fossil ammonite
Ammonoidea; likely a chambered ammonite mold/cast
Weathered fossil shell or crinoid fragment
Likely fossilized echinoderm or bivalve fragment; exact taxon indeterminate from the image
Crinoid Stem Fossil
Crinoid columnal (Class Crinoidea)
Fossilized tooth or tooth fragment
Indeterminate vertebrate tooth; possibly a fossil shark tooth (Carcharodon/Carcharocles)
Fossilized shell or brachiopod
Likely a calcareous brachiopod or bivalve fossil; exact identification requires clearer detail and scale
Fossilized bivalve shell in limestone
Calcitic fossil shell; likely an oyster or other rudist/bivalve (Bivalvia), preserved in carbonate rock
Fossil shark tooth, likely sand tiger shark
Fossilized selachian tooth; possibly *Carcharias* or *Striatolamia*
Fossil ammonite
Ammonoidea (likely a ribbed, involute ammonite; exact genus requires locality and preservation details)
Fossilized gastropod shell
Fossil Mollusca, class Gastropoda; likely a mineral-replaced or partially silicified shell
Rugose Coral Fossil
Order Rugosa
Fossil shell fragment, likely brachiopod or bivalve
Indeterminate bioclast; possible Brachiopoda or Mollusca
Polished fossil tooth, likely shark tooth
Fossilized selachian tooth; possibly Otodus or a related lamniform shark
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Carcharocles/Otodus or Sand Tiger Shark Tooth)
Elasmobranchii (Fossilized Tooth)
Fossil coral limestone
Fossilized colonial coral, commonly tabulate or rugose coral, preserved in calcite (CaCO₃)
Petrified wood (possible fossilized wood fragment)
Silicified fossil wood; commonly quartz or chalcedony replacing wood
Fossil tooth, possibly a shark tooth
Unidentified fossilized vertebrate tooth; species cannot be determined from the image
Fossilized bone or tooth fragment
Indeterminate fossil bone; possibly mammalian or reptilian
Fossilized bone or tooth fragment (indeterminate vertebrate fossil)
Mineralized vertebrate skeletal material; commonly apatite, Ca₅(PO₄)₃(F,Cl,OH), partly replaced by silica or calcite
Likely weathered fossil shell or fossiliferous limestone
Indeterminate molluscan fossil, possibly a bivalve or brachiopod preserved in carbonate rock
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Tumbled fossil coral (often sold as “petoskey stone” or fossil coral)
Fossilized colonial coral; commonly Hexagonaria percarinata in true Petoskey stones, though this specimen’s pattern may represent another fossil coral
Fossilized ammonite
Ammonoidea (likely a ribbed Jurassic–Cretaceous ammonite), replaced mainly by calcite or silica
Fossil ammonite
Ammonoidea; likely a chambered ammonite mold/cast
Fossilized wood (petrified wood)
Silicified wood; commonly quartz or chalcedony replacing wood tissue
Tumbled fossil coral
Fossilized colonial coral, commonly Favositidae or related tabulate coral
Fossilized tooth fragment, likely mammalian
Mineralized dentine and enamel; exact taxon indeterminate from the photograph
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Root Portion)
Selachimorpha (partial specimen)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Fragment)
Elasmobranchii gen. et sp. indet.
Polished fossil tooth, likely shark tooth
Likely fossilized shark tooth; exact taxon cannot be determined from this image
Fossilized oyster or other bivalve shell
Calcitic bioclast, commonly Ostrea spp. or Exogyra spp.
Coral limestone / fossil coral
Calcitic fossil coral, commonly Scleractinia; CaCO₃
Fossil scallop shell
Bivalve mollusk shell, likely family Pectinidae; primarily calcite (CaCO₃)
Mosasaur Tooth Fossil
Mosasauridae (likely Prognathodon or Mosasaurus)
Orthoceras fossil in limestone
Orthoceras regulare (extinct nautiloid cephalopod)