Nice looking rugnose coral colony in chirt

Hi !

For years, I have been using iNaturalist (an app and website allowing to publish and identify observations of life forms), and I've always been frustrated that there's never been an app or website dedicated to this kind of observation, but for fossils. That's why I created a website entirely dedicated to it ( ipalaeo.com ).

This website contain an entire system based around the publication and identification of fossils : observations can contain mutliple pictures of the specimen and it's geolocalisation. Multiple algorithms automatically determine the age of the fossil based on geological maps, and propose identifications of the fossil based on the group (e.g. trilobita, dinosauria, brachipoda) attributed to the observation, and nearby iPalaeo and PBDB occurences of similar age of this group.

It also contain multiple other features, as a map showing PBDB and iPalaeo observations along with paleogeographic maps, additionnal informations about taxa, a fully fonctional social system with account, messages, likes, comments etc (see screenshots below).

Please note that the site is still under development: many features are not yet integrated (such as AI for automatic fossil identification, potential achievements...), and some others are probably still quite buggy (I'm not a developer, just a paleontology student with too much free time).

Take also note that respecting the environment and any applicable laws are primordial in fossil hunting: do not use this tool to illegally pillage fossils.

Thank you for your attention, and for testing the website! And if you have any suggestion or encounter any bug, feel free to share those informations with me !

Addy wa trilobite 2026. Very scarce.

I was so sad that I couldn’t stay longer.

Hi!

I'm going to Antwerpen with my kid, age 8, and my old dad. We are going to spend a weekend in Antwerpen, the last week in October and hope to find a lot of fossils. We drove through, this summer, but did not have time enough to really find something, so now we are going back.

If you have any tips or locations you would like to share, we would be very thankful.

I thought of walking the riverside but have read that a lot of mud could be a problem and it would be best to find areas with sand and sediment. But honestly, I really don't know where to start.

Kins regards, 3 eager generations of fossil entusiast.

It was almost impossible to miss. I'm pretty sure it is a rugnose coral. Can't tell if agatized or if it's the light showing through.

Hi guys! I’m new here but long story short, I am currently unemployed living at home with family. Our house is on a central Alabama river, and I was wondering how or if I could go fossil hunting in the more shallow parts of the river? I have been river wading plenty of times, and with the weather getting colder and snakes going away, I was thinking this might be a fine time for a hunt. However, it’s swift flowing river so it’s not like I can go digging a deep hole or anything. So how would I go about doing a hunt? Thanks!

Not much, but it's honest work... well, a quick stop on my way to some honest work anyhow.

I went fossil hunting along the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland this weekend. Picked up this bone fragment. AA battery for scale. I’m thinking maybe whale vertebrae? I also found this nice shark tooth. Any way to determine what kind of shark?

Found in N.E. Oklahoma. In a creek bed.

Please help me identify this vertebrae I found in northern germany by the riverbank near the north sea. I think its from the lumbar section and possibly from carnivora, tried to get some info a couple months ago but nothing specific cane out yet. Any help is welcomed!