I found a small rock with what appears to be a small fossil embedded. The actual fossil is approx. 25mmX20mm. And, it appears to be a section of vertebrae in the neck region, with either fins near, or else it is some other type of spiny span. The color is stone gray, with what appears to be limestone features. Which makes since, since the area it was found has a lot of limestone.


If anyone's interested, I can post a photo, but my main interest is if anyone knows a good place to put up a photo for identification. I'll probably end up donating it if it has an significance.

I can't give advice on what you would do with a fossil but it would be great to see the pic :)

We have been taking the kids to Fossil Park (http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/hanson/body.htm) every year since my oldest started 1st grade. He finds the best trilobites.
A pic of what you found would be great!

I'd love to see the pic, too.

I googled 'fossil identification forum' and came up with these -
http://www.narg-online.com/forums/index.php?showforum=6
http://www.discussfossils.com/default.asp
http://english.fossiel.net/forums/viewboard.php?BoardID=13
http://www.extinctions.com/

The people at a local museum or university would probably ID it for you if you asked nicely. Might be worth a shot?

Post the photo. There's an outside chance it will be recognisable.

Here you go:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb155/davidb47/fossil.jpg

couldn't get the upload feature of SciForums to work, so used photobucket.

Regretably my company filter system won't let me see it.

It looks like a Brachiopoda in iron ore to me. ???

Here's a smaller file (~614kB) , as I didn't realize I had used such a large one:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb155/davidb47/fossil_1.jpg

At a guess, I'd say you have a Crinoid fossil. An ancestor of modern sea lilies. The two "bull's eye" features look like short sections of crinoid stalk veiwed end on, and the feature you are interested in may be a side veiw of a smaller diameter length of stalk. I'm not a paleontologist, but crinoid fossils are very common in the limestone in my locale, and what you have seems very similar. Crinoids were extremely variable (many different species), so what you have is not exactly what I have seen, but I'm reasonably certain that's what you have.

Any clue who may want it? I don't seek profit, nor do I want anyone else to, either. I'd just like to give it to someone who would like to include it in a display or something of that nature.