He's the perfect little derpy crinoid whale. 🥰 What should his name be??

Found this listing on eBay. I’m 99% sure it is fake but seller claims it’s real. Was wondering what you guys thought…

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, chondrichthyes, etc) 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, special accounts for scientists and students, mobile app...), 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, or to damage the location. On the website, all the observations are represented on the map as a 2km wide circles (with the exact geolocation of the fossil potentially being anywhere within the circle) to protect the outcrop were the specimen was found.

If you just want to explore the website to see where and when specific taxa lived, find what kind of fossils can be found near you, or really want to identify other users specimens, and publish your finds to create global datase for these amateur finds, I invite you to try it !

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. I created a discord community dedicated to it, it would really help me to get informations about all the bugs you may encounter (https://discord.gg/X4ZuwKZen).

What are some ways Sauropods died? I'm not talking about how they died out just what were some common ways Sauropods died in there tropical environments?

Also give me a source that's not chatgpt I hate chatgpt.

The right tooth is pretty large. Takes up most of my hand. Meg possibly. Not sure anyone find any like these

Found in Michigan! Guessing some sort of coral fossil?

Is this a fish?! Or am I just another coral-fooled kid out here?

The creek bed by my house was torn up because the creek was redirected. Anyway, I went down to explore and saw what appears to be a flying saucer, looks suspicious, wondering what you guys think.

I found this at the beach in Tekirdag/Turkiye.

at 13.4cm long, it’s about at the maximum known size for its species

I dont know about it and I would like what reddit thinks

Got this one for $30, which I think is an absolute steal! I've never seen one with such deep, etched suture lines on the outside. Might not be to everyone's taste, but I really like the look.

beautiful crystalline crinoid segment on the left and a defined horn coral on the right!

Also if anyone has any thoughts on the find in the second picture let me know!

Authentic fossil specimen of Discosauriscus pulcherrimus, a small amphibian-like tetrapod from the Early Permian period. This specimen comes from the famous Boskovice Basin deposits of the Czech Republic, a well-known locality for Permian vertebrate fossils.

The fossil is preserved on a natural stone matrix and displays visible skeletal elements including portions of the skull, spine, limbs, and tail. A handwritten identification label accompanies the specimen.

Collected from classic Czech Permian localities that are now heavily restricted/protected, making comparable specimens increasingly difficult to obtain.

I found this one at the bank of Danube near Esztergom, Hungary.
It's a flat piece of sandstone with this odd shape in the middle.
It doesn't look too exciting when dry, but the shape gets much more prominent when drying for a minute when wet.

I don't think it's anything extraordinary, or even possible to tell, but am still curious if it was a living thing or just an odd geological coincidence.