/r/FossilPorn
This is a subreddit for high quality photos of remarkable fossils of any age.
This is a subreddit for high quality pictures of fossils. Please include some context in the title, such as the scientific name or common name of the fossil, its age, discovery location, etc., and include image resolution in brackets. If possible, please include some form of scale in the picture.
Submission Rules
- Include some context about the image in the title (such as the type of fossil, location found, etc).
- Include the resolution in [brackets] in the title
- Please make the effort to CREDIT THE SOURCE
- Only submit static images
- Videos, collections, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
- Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.
- Original source is allowed and preferred over the approved hosts. If your submission is not on the list of approved hosts, but it is an original source, please use the tag [OS] so your submission is not removed in error. If your image is rehosted from another approved host it will be removed.
- If you took the photo yourself, you can signify this by using the tag [OC] (original content) and after 24 hours you will be given special flair. If you don't receive flair after a few days feel free to message the mods.
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Trilobite purchased in San Francisco today
05:00 UTC
Ammolite With Quartz Matrix
16:10 UTC
Another beautiful example of what we find in our creeks. North Texas on Easter Sunday.
02:05 UTC
My Tiny Fossils Collection, the ruler is in centimeters
22:38 UTC
Pretty much my entire collection of amber. Details about each group in image caption.
Top mid is Baltic amber, left is Dominican amber, right is Burmese amber, and bottom is Colombian copal.
Most of them have insect inclusions such as flies, spiders, and termites.
Out of all of them I'd have to say my favorite is the big baltic amber pendant because it is the biggest clear piece ive got.
17:01 UTC
Ammonite from today in our creek. 😊
23:09 UTC
Trying to identify this fossil I found in Oklahoma.
21:11 UTC
Found in Indiana (Please Identify)
It looks similar to this at all angles, maybe it’s upside down. I’m not sure.
23:53 UTC
Heart shaped fossilized vertebrae, turned into a necklace
06:09 UTC
My greatest find so far. A large orthoconic nautiloid fossil I found near my home in Hudson Valley N.Y. Possibly from the Helderberg group but unsure. Found in May 2020 a few weeks after I began hunting for fossils. I’m lucky to live in such a rich area.
The first 23 sections of the fossilized internal shell mold can be removed. They became loose while chiseling matrix from the surface.
21:20 UTC
Pyritized Ammonite, Short One Chamber
23:27 UTC
Chesapecten Jeffersonius I believe. Not sure if this counts
18:06 UTC
Fossil horns, love finding these
00:24 UTC
My Mixed Fossils Collection, all found in Bolivia
21:52 UTC
Trying to Identify...
Hey! Trying to identify a fossil for my Aunt. She has a wonderful collection however the label for this one was lost some time ago. Her collection includes a trilobite and Phylloceras, all which are millions of years old, so I'm curious to identify this more exciting one!
Thanks!
17:20 UTC
My Brachiopod Collection, all found in Bolivia
00:51 UTC
Starfish I picked up yesterday in a shop.
No information other than it was a starfish. Anyone know what period this came from? I’ve not seen one like this before, that’s why I picked it up.
17:04 UTC
My Trilobite Collection, all found in Bolivia
22:47 UTC
Any information would be awesome
18:54 UTC
Nearly complete Belemnite I found today
Found in Møn, Denmark
20:33 UTC
Never seen a crinoid like this. Hearts and rainbows!
13:41 UTC
Young kids from the Tara Redwood School playing in a Santa Cruz Mountains creek found something exciting that turned out to be a fossilised left radius of a Jefferson’s Ground Sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) a large, extinct, plant-eating mammal that had a blunt snout. Link in comments.
19:30 UTC
Today's finds nothing to crazy but, always fun hunting with the wife and kids.
23:19 UTC
Back side of previously posted trace fossils. With another different trace fossil.
20:03 UTC
Lots of different trace fossils on this one. From the Fayetteville Shale area in Arkansas. There are others on the flip side as well.
18:09 UTC
Found on the beach Florida gulf
What is this not so sea shell looking thing I found with my daughter? Part of a backbone I have no idea
08:29 UTC
After 5 years of it sitting around, I Finally got around to finishing this fossil! First carboniferous branch fossil I've ever seen. Usually it's pieces of trunk.
16:36 UTC
Dug this out of a portal/ventilation shaft for a coal mine in south western Pennsylvania. Found at 700 feet in between a coal and sandstone seam.
02:47 UTC
Some Nevada Ammonites
02:11 UTC
Not sure if this is anything or just random markings. Found on the shore of Lake Superior.
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