Kidney Stone (Urolith)
Calculus renalis (Biogenic mineral aggregate)
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Kidney Stone (Urolith)
Calculus renalis (Biogenic mineral aggregate)
Fossiliferous Sedimentary Rock
Sedimentary Rock with Invertebrate Fossil Imprint
Stromatolite
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (Precambrian Stromatolite fossil)
Banded Chert
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Sea Shell (Fighting Conch Fragment)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) - Strombus alatus fragment
Fossiliferous Limestone (containing Brachiopods)
Biogenic Limestone (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide)
Jasper containing fossilized inclusions
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with trace impurities and biogenic inclusions
Hag Stone (Holey Rock / Fossiliferous Limestone)
Limestone (CaCO3) with natural erosion / fossil cavities
Fossiliferous Limestone (Shell Fragment)
Biogenic Limestone (Calcium Carbonate / CaCO3)
Limitation Concretion
Ironstone Concretion (Goethite/Limonite)
Fossil shell fragment
Indeterminate molluscan bioclast, likely aragonite or calcite
Oyster Shell (Aragonite/Calcite)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Bivalve Fossil (Clam)
Class Bivalvia, likely Mercenaria or similar genus
Hag Stone (Banded Chert or Limestone with Borehole)
Microcrystalline Quartz (Chert) or Calciferous Siltstone (CaCO3/SiO2)
Fossiliferous Rock (Invertebrate Fossil in Matrix)
Fossiliferous limestone or shaly matrix containing skeletal fossil remains
Fossil Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes dentition (Fossilized Tooth)
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) with Bioclasts
Fossil bivalve shell
Likely an internal mold or mineralized shell of a brachiopod or small bivalve; exact taxonomy requires locality and diagnostic details
Banded Chert Pebble
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Microcrystalline Quartz
Fossil Shell in Sedimentary Matrix
Bivalvia (fossil) in Calcium Carbonate Matrix
Sandstone concretion
Arenite sedimentary rock (concretion/nodule)
Tumbled dark stone, possibly chert or basalt
Indeterminate; likely fine-grained basalt (plagioclase–pyroxene) or microcrystalline chert (quartz, SiO₂)
Rounded brown pebble, likely chert or iron-stained quartzite
Chert (microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂) or quartzite (recrystallized quartz, SiO₂)
Fossil Bivalve Shell
Class Bivalvia (e.g., Veneriidae family)
Devil's Toenail
Gryphaea (extinct genus of foam oysters, typically composed of Calcite CaCO3)
Kidney Stone (Calcium Oxalate / Uric Acid)
Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate (Whewellite) / Calcium Oxalate Dihydrate (Weddellite)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Partial) or Coprolite
Elasmobranchii (fossil) or Coprolite (trace fossil)
Flint (chert), likely brown flint
Microcrystalline quartz/chalcedony (SiO₂)
Seashell Fossil
Mollusca (Bivalvia)
Conglomerate
Conglomerate (clastic sedimentary rock)
Polished brown flint/chert (likely)
Microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂ (chalcedonic flint/chert)
Petrified Wood (Agatized/Silicified Wood)
Silicified Wood / Chalcedony (SiO2)
Shell Cameo
Cypraecassis rufa (Bullmouth Queen Helmet Shell)
Polished septarian nodule
Calcite–aragonite–barite septarian concretion, commonly in a claystone or limestone matrix
Fossiliferous Limestone (Gritstone/Marl)
CaCO3 (Calcium Carbonate) with Fossil Inclusions
Petrified Wood with Lichen
Silicified Wood (SiO2) colonized by crustose lichens
Shark Tooth Fossil
Selachii fossil
Weathered flint or chert fragment
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), likely chert/flint
Fossilized shell fragment
Indeterminate fossil mollusk; likely a silicified or mineral-replaced bivalve/gastropod fragment
Botryoidal calcite (likely calcite concretion)
Calcite, calcium carbonate (CaCO₃)